THE SUEZ MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 130, 3 February 1874, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

Her Majesty the Queen took the communion in the parish church at Craithe — an unparalled event in the history of the National Church. Cardinal Cullen lias issued a new pastoral favoring Roman Catholic education. The Archbishop of York lias pointed out that 50 per cent, of the London Southwark entries for the Oxford examinations were plucked. The Archbishop of Canterbury denies that the Church is in danger, believing that the people in England really love it. The revisers of the New Testament have revised to the twenty-fifth chapter of the Ads of the Apostles, The vexed question of opening School Board meetings with prayer has been revived. Lord Coventry complains of the rapid increase of short races. The Lancet recommends doctors to raise their fees. Sir Henry Thompson insists upon full particulars in regard to the operation on Napoleon being published. Janet Hamilton Coalridge, poetess, the most remarkable Scotch woman of tho present century is dead. MacMahon’s message to the French Assembly declares that Europe may be assured of the resolution of France to maintain peace. The Administration acted in a conservative spirit, from which it would never depart; but he affirmed that they were insufficiently armed by law to discourage factions. M. Magne, the Deputy Minister of Finance, has made a financial statement in the French Assembly. He referred to the estimates received by him from his predecessor, and showed a deficit for the year 1874 of 178,OCX),(MX) francs. By retrenchment and by augmenting the taxes, he hoped to realize 180,000,000 francs. The Parliament of Germany will be disolved shortly, and a new Parliament will be convoked about the beginning of February.