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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4307, 9 January 1875, Page 3

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The Wellington, which received the November English and American mail at Onehunga, brought to Auckland by the Macgregor, reached Wellington soon after noon yesterday, and proceeded south with the mails for Canterbury and Otago at a late hour last night*. From the journals to hand we make the following extracts ; ENGLISH, Archbishop Manning, who leaves for Rome in November, is pretty certain, a London correspondent says, to receive the long talked of Cardinal’s hat from the Pope at the Consistory to be held next month. The Master of the Rolls has decided that all enclosures in Epping Forest made within the last twenty years are illegal, and ordered all the defendants to pay costs. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are about to proceed to their seat at Eastweli, in Kent, and it is determined to make up as far as possible for the disappointment of the people at Ashford, caused by the inability of their Royal Highnesses to visit the town on the X3th ultimo. The Mormons of England held their half- ■ yearly conference in London on Sunday, Nov. 8, under the presidency of Mr., Joseph Smith, One of the twelve Mormon apostles, who stated that the saints in London district number 1146, and that 170 had emigrated to Salt Lake City during the half year. Captain Boyton, attired in life-preserving costume, crossed Dublin Bay on Monday, from Howth Head to Dalkey Island, a distance of nearly nine miles, in two hours and fifty minutes. He lay on his back, and used a canoe paddle to propel himself, feet forward. He fired off rockets and smoked cigars while in the water. A serious explosion took place on the Medway on Monday morning. The crew of the Lady Derby (screw collier) were getting ready to discharge her cargo of gas coals when some of them descended into the hold with lights, and a terrible explosion was the result, caused by the accumulation of gas during the time tho vessel had been loaded. Six men were much burned. The Bishop of St. Asaph refused some time ago to consecrate a new parish church at Denbigh, because he objected to certain sculptured figures on the reredos. The rector and his committee declined to remove the objectionable work, and on Sunday evening last opened the church for service. It is expected that the Bishop will take legal proceedings for the enforcement of his monition. A horrible murder has been committed at Sherborne. James Senior, a com chandler, had lost five of his children, and on the only surviving one, a little girl, aged nine years, being taken ill with scarlet fever, he seemed afraid he would lose her as well. About mid-day he went to a room where the child was lying ill in bed, and stabbed her with a large carving-knife. Death was instantaneous. When apprehended the prisoner said the cause was poverty, -and ho could not let her suffer through want, A> verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Senior.

Philip Burdy, an Irish miner, residing fit Dipton, near Oonsctt, in the County of Durham, was murdered on a Saturday night by another Irish miner named Hugh Daley. The murderer had returned home to his house in the evening intoxicated, and been put to bed. Bunly entering soon after, Daley jumped out of bed, seized a poker, chased him out of the house, struck him down insensible, and left him, .but returned afterwards and battered his head to a jelly. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the murder. A fatal accident has occurred on the North-Eastern Railway, near Pelaw Main Station. Charles Williams, pitman, employed at Wardley Colliery, arrived at Pelaw Main Station from Felling, and after leaving got on the railway for the purpose of walking to Wardley. Two trains—one. passenger and the other goods—approached him in opposite directions, and before he could get out of the way he was knocked down and run over by the goods train, and decapitated. Ho was forty years of age and unmarried. The. revisers of the Authorised Version of the New Testament met lately at the Jerusalem Chamber for then* 44th session, and sat for seven hours. There were present the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (who presided),

the Archbishop of Dublin, the Dean of Rochester, tho Master of the Temple, Archdeacon Bickersteth ; Canons Kennedy and Lighfoot; Professors Radio, Moulton, Newth, and Edwin Palmer ; Drs, Scrivener and Vance Smith ; and Mr. Hort—in all 1-1 members—and Mr. Troutheck, the secretary. The company completed the second revision of St. Luke’s Gospel to the middle of the sth chapter. On Friday night, November 0, as the brig Sirhowey, of- Newport, timber-laden from the Baltic for Gloucester, was lying at anchor in Bristol Channel, off Nash Point, sho was run into by a barque, apparently in ballast, bound down channel. The jibboom of the barque pierced through the forecastle of the brig, literally impaling a seaman, Thomas Bradshaw, of Gloucester. The unfortunate man was in this horrible position for several minutes until the vessels were separated, I he barque kept on her course and did not offer any assistance. Her name could not be ascertained, but she had dark painted hull and light painted carved work on her stern. The anchor light of the Sirhowey was burning brilliantly at the time,’ and her watcli on dock hailed the stranger several times before the collision. Bradshaw died shortly after he was extricated. Another seaman was injured. Sir Stafford Northcote has told the chairman of the United States Direct Telegraph Company that his Government has no intention of purchasing the Atlantic telegraph lines. Her Majesty’s Ministers dined with the new Lord Mayor of London at tlm Guildhall on November 9, and were present in unusual force. Tho speeches, however, wore more of an occasional than a political character. While a party of workmen were engaged in the Marple tunnel, on tho Midland Railway, 40 feot of the roof fell in, lulling one man, injuring two others, and burying a fourth, who is not expected to live. An iron screw steamer, named tho_ King Leopold and belonging to Newcastle, is supposed to have foundered in the severe gale of the 20th ult. and gone down with all hands. She was bound for Pillau, and the voyage is usually made in -four days. As no news of her has been received, it is supposed that this terrible fate has befallen her, .hut there is no direct evidence that she has gone down. Shortly before midnight on November 8, the Free Church in Portoheilo (Mr. Ireland’s) was burned to the ground. It is' supposed the fire originated in the roof from a sunlight. Tho loss is about £4OOO, half of which is insured. At one o’clock next morning the flames were got under. Nothing remains but the bare walls. The collection of antiquities, &c., belonging to the late Mr. Joseph N. Paton, Wooers’ Alley, Dunfermline, was sold in Edinburgh in November. The following were some of the principal prices obtained : —Antique carved mock crystal tazza, £SS 165.; Gothic offertory coffer, in iron, found in the ruins of Cambuskenneth Abbey, engraved in tho Cartulary of Cambuskennet'h, £47 55.; old Scotch oak cabinet, anno 1621, formerly tho property of Archbishop Sharpe, £SB 165.; hall settle, from Falkland Palace, £4B Gs.; antique oak cabinet, with four doors, from Stirling Palace, obtained in Stirling, where it had long been known as Queen Anne’s press (Anne of Denmark), £99 155.; old oak ebony cabinet, £63 ; Italian cabinet, inlaid with mother of pear], engraved ivory, and ebony, from Falkland Palace, £75 12s.;'carved oak bedstead, from Dunfermline, King James the Sixth’s bed, £2l ; antique oak buffet of elegant design, from Dunfermline Palace, the cupboard on top having a carved shield of the Scottish arms, £SB ss. 6.; old Scotch table, in dark oak, from Dunfermline Palace, £22 Is.; oak door, carved with the Royal arms of Scotland, and bearing the initials of King James Vi. and the date 1576, £47 55.; portrait of King James VI. at the age of seventeen, dated 1583, from Dunfermline Palace, in the original oak frame,. £22 Is.; view of CTookston Castle, by Waller H. Paton, £52 10s.; portrait of the Marquis of Montrose, long preserved as such in an old Scotch family, hy Jameson, £42. The Queen Anne (s.), Butler, master, on entering Valetta harbor, on November 10, cut down the steamer John Dixon, Preston, master, coal-laden, which was leaving for Alexandria. The latter foundered in the port shortly afterwards. The second mate, boatswain, and steward were'drowned, and the damage is estimated at £28;400. Th o' Church Herald . states that the Right Hon, W. E. Gladstone read the Lessons in Hawarden Church on Sunday, October 25. FOREIGN. Lieutenant Zubowitz, of the Hungarian Honved Corps, arrived in Paris at eleven o’clock on Monday, November 9, after having ridden from Vienna in 15 days, for a wager of 15,000 florins. The conditions were that he should ride the same horse the entire distance, and arrive in Paris within a fortnight. Herr von Zubowitz reached ■ Strasbourg at noon on Tuesday last week in good time, and fully expecting to win his wager, though his horse appeared a little lamo from treading on a nail in one of the earliest stages. The distance apportioned to each day is just double what the German cavalry accomplished in the war of 1870-71 in forced marches, and not without loss, nearly 14 German (664 English) miles in lieu of seven. The horse was allowed one day’s rest in every five. A singular case of murder was tried recently before the Court of Assize in the Allier, In that department a man named Hippolyte Caillot was charged with the murder of his wife and sister-in-law. He had lately obtained a recommendation to the Bishop of Moulins for admission to tho Last Supper, .where twelve indigent persons represented the "twelve apostles. Caillot represented Judas Iscariot, and for enacting the part of that apostle received ten francs; -with this money he bought a goose, and, after regaling himself on tho bird, he returned home and committed the double crime for which he has now been sentenced to death. The defence he set up was that he suspected his wife and sister-in law wished to poison him, and one doctor declared that the accused was not responsible for his actions, as he suffered from delirium tremens. The Bavarians have followed the example of brother Germans in other places by founding a Liberal Association, tho avowed object of which is the maintenance of German unity. A great meeting was held in Munich, at which the association was founded, and Herr Vechiana was appointed president. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. Tho proposed reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States has not been received with the favor which its promoters expected. Its professed object is to improve and extend the commercial relations of tho two countries on terms fair and favorable to both ; but while its Canadian opponents maintain that it will confer more advantages on their southern neighbors than it will upon the people of the Dominion, many representative citizens of the States, regarding it as a revival of Lord Elgin’s commercial treaty, which came to an untimely termination during the civil war, refuse to have anything to do with it. And now the English merchants have lifted up their testimony against it. A conference of - the Chambers of Commerce in Yorkshire, which has been held at Bradford, resolved to present a memorial to tho Imperial Government, condemning the measure, and urging that no commercial convention should bo authorised which permitted in Canada or any other British colony tho levying of lower duties on articles the produce or manufacture of the United States or any foreign country than those imposed on articles the produce or manufacture of Great Britain. THE PORE ON MR. GLADSTONE. (From the Glasgow Herald, Nov. 14.) Mr. Gladstone, according to Mr. Baxter, has long been in secret heartily hated at the Vatican; and tho publication of this “Remonstrance ” has now eHcited a public proclamation of this detestation. On Tuesday, tho Pope received the homage of a number of English Catholics; and, in the speech delivered to them, opened fire at once upon the British ex-Premicr, whom ho denounced as “ a viper,” Some Catholics at home, such as Dr. Manning, attribute tho production of Mr. Gladstone’s pamphlet to tho influence of Dr. Dollinger ; but the Pope, who must know

better, blames Prince Bismarck, for he told his English .visitors that the Liberal chief had been tempted to make an assault on the barque of St. Peter, because he had been weak enough to let himself become “intoxicated by the proceedings of another Minister in another State.” Naturally enough, in this “other State” the essay has received a very different welcome. , The Berlin correspondent of The Times states that it has elicited “bursts of applause from the whole German Press, the Ultramontane organs alone excepted” ; and, according to the Telegraph's representative, “ the leader's of the National party deplore that such a pamphlet was not published before the English general elections, as it would in their opinion have secured a majority for the Liberal Government, which, with Mr. Gladstone at its head, they would have rejoiced to have seen continued in power.” NEW QUARREL WITH THE POPE. In the midst of the discussion which Mr. Gladstone has begun regarding the bearing of the decrees of the Vatican on civil allegiance, it seems a new quarrel with the Pope, in which Great Britain is interested, is browing. The Italian Government having got rid of the .Trench frigate, the Orcnoquo—the symbol of Trance’s protest against the occupation of the Papal States—now wish that the representatives of foreign nations at the Vatican should also receive notice to depart. They plead that the Pope’s Court is the centre of an active and unceasing intrigue against Victor Emmanuel’s, and hint that one ambassador in Home is quite sufficient for any foreign power to maintain. Obviously as the result of these representations, Mr. Jervois, the British representative at the Vatican, who is understood to have had considerable influence with his Holiness, some time ago was informed by Lord Derby that the mission with which he was entrusted was shortly to bo discontinued. But when this report reached Rome its accuracy was immediately challenged, and the Pope was credited with a declaration that ho would never consent to hold intercourse with the British Ambassador at the Court of the King of Italy. This denial has now been in turn denied; Mr. Jervois, it is said, has given up his residence, and will leave Rome immediately in conformity with his instructions from the British Foreign Office. FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES. The United States Chancellor of the Exchequer has had the misfortune to present an unsatisfactory Budget. As the result of the commercial panic which prevailed towards the close of last year, the Customs, the principal source of the national revenue, which in 187273 produced 188,089,523 dollars, or £37,017,905, have during the past financial year realised 25 million dollars less ; while, “ owing to recent legislative changes,” the internal revenue exhibits a falling off to the extent of 11 million dollars, or more than two millions sterling. But if the receipts have not boeu so favorable as could have been desired, he can claim to have exercised care and caution in their distribution, for the expenditure shows a decrease of two million dollars. The return does not contrast well with that for the financial year ended June 30, 1873. The revenue for that year was 333,733,201 dollars, or £66,747,010, while the expenditure was 290,315,245, oi--15,392,959 dollars less ; and one result of this haudsome surplus of fully eight and a half millions sterling, .was that the national debt, which in 1866 —at the close of the war—was £579.880,391, and iu 1872 was £150,650,205, was further reduced to £410,890,598. .