ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 64, 15 March 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The Attorney -General, speaking at Preston, anticipated ne;st session an attack on tbe I Government by the extreme Radical party; [ but he said the consequences would be that 1 the Government would be assisted by many who, though nominally in opposition, entertained moderate views. Miich excitement has been occasioned on apcount of the ritualistic practices of the Rev. Mr Tooth, vicar of Hatcham. Lord Penzance inhibited him, but he paid no attention, and services much resembling tfyose

<■• ;* -. \ '•■ . -*. v.v ~~ in tho Rpmaux Cathie Church were performed on / twoLrsijccessiye Sundays with closed doors. He jvasYad judged guilty of jcontjmpt^ and a warrant was issued, Several •thou/land roughs assembled iia f rout of the J Church pn'the following day, and four hundred poJj.cen_en wero:iaf;atfeadance. On the 1 sixteenth a meeting of Ihe English Church Union passed resolutions in favor of supporting Mr Tooth, whose father and brother it is stated are well-known squatters in Queensland and New South Wales. /} At Dorchester near Walliugfprd, a ritualistic demonstration was raijda against the rector, the Rev. Blake" Concandbn, who was lecturing on the Reformation. The meeting .nearly degenerated into a free fight, several ritualistic clergymen who Were present being unable to calm theirsupporters. Admiral <H<j(rnby ihas hoisted his flag as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterraneany-,...... An extraordinary hoax was perpetrated on the gunboat Goshawk. A telegram was sent directing her to proceed to Gibraltar from Queanstown. She left before it was discovered, but on putting in at Vigo, was re- , called. No clue tp, the offender has been -discovered. ! ,'^~ j '•• A floating akating-Tink, with artiflciafice, covering an area of 3090 ft., has! been opened ,a. Charing Cross. ./ lz ; •-! .. A purse of i -SSOff'has heen Ipresented to Draft, the cripketer. .__ Lord Fitehhrdinge lias" initiated a testi- • monial to G. W. Grace. V J. \ -» r> M i- ; IVilliai^i L.ggott,;lporkj butcher^ at Cowle, in Lincolnshire, sold hisjwife for. £40 .to a local publicah, : :*-•'■ | ?-* A strike of j barristers took place at Carlisle ■sepsipne iv consequence of the {Treasury reducing; the feb f rom t*oguineas to one. The Treasury gave way, and the 6trike ended. ; Sir Titue Salt left £30,000 for the benefit of tha iick,| aged, and poor at Saltere. 100,000 persons lined the streela of Bradford at hie funeral. & j . The commission for determining the best routs for cutting through the Isthmus of Danen has arrived at OPanank, under the command of Lucien BYWyse, ;of the French Nayy f ; . j ■-:■■ Mri JSmith,jM.P. for (Tynemcluth, referring to thdelamentary schools in JAmerica, said we ahpiild not arrive ati satisfactory educational positioh in England until we had elementary schools to winch-all cltisses of society would their children. ' . .. : Obituary: Lord Boston, Lord Milton, Lieut-Ceneral Wesleyj Lord Neaves, one of the Judges of the Court of Session; Sir Richard Cobden^ author of "Margaret Catchpole;" aged"eighty; Mr" Lewis, barrister; Alfred Spec, inventor of the present ; mode of printing Bank, of Englank notes; Robert Landells, artist, of the Illustrated London News; Prince Charles of Prussia.