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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 11, 13 January 1870, Page 2

The recievers of telegrams will be disagreeably surprised to hear they have no remedy against telegraph companies for mistakes made ia the substance of messages during transmission. The law reports of this month contain a decision to that effect of the Court of Queen's Bench on the following facts. An ice merchant who had a cargo of ice for sale, received an offer by telegram for it at the rate of twenty-seven shillings a ton, whilst in fact only twenty-three shillings had beea offered. The error, which arose from the wrong reading of the dots and lines which represent the figure three in telegraphic language, cost the ice merchant some forty pounds, which he sought to recover by action against the company. But the judge at the trial, and the court in banco, both negatived the claim, on the ground that the company only contracted with the sender, and thus the receiver who was alone iujured, remained without remedy. Pall Mall Gazette. Proposed Changes in the Book of Common Prater. — The Guardian says : — The Archbishop of Canterbury, at a recent conference of Clergy, said that the changes which the Ritual Commission think desirable may be summed up as follows: — 1. A new Lectionary. Many chapters have been added as suited to edfications ; some have been omitted. A greater elasticity has been given to the Lectionary. The principal changes are in the daily lessons. 2 Alterations in the ordinary daily service. Evidently to men busily engaged, the service as it stands at present does not commend itself. A shorter service will therefore be proposed — shorter, but strictly based upon the existing materials. 3. Every facility for dividing services, and using different services at different times, according to the exigencies of different congregations. 4. In the Burial Service some solution of a difficulty commonly felt will be offered. St. Petersburg is being threatened with total inundation. At the last advices the Neva had already overflowed its banks, and guns were being fired to warn the tenants of ground floors to remove themselves and their families to higher stories, or else to abandon the city. In the lower quarters tho inhabitants were rapidly deserting.