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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 29, 4 February 1870, Page 2

Don't throw away dirty water till you have got clean ; keep on scraping the roads till you can get better work, for the poorest pay is better than none, aud the humblest office is better than being out of employment. The Weekly Register publishes a curious statement. It is to the effect that .a petition, signed by "a very large body" •of clergymen of the Church of England, will be presented to the Council of the Vatican, praying thai in the event of the Council deciding against the validity of Anglican orders the petitioners --should be received into the Catholic; Church, ordained as priests, employed as such, and allowed, if married, to continue so until the death of tbeir present wives — those married not to be employed as confessors." Many of the English Catolic bishops are .said to be favorable to the petition ; aud the Weekly Register assumes that a favorable decision on the part of the Council would be followed by the secession ,*f "an immense body of the very best jaea atpougst tho Anglican clergy."