News by the Mail.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1780, 16 September 1874, Page 2

News by the Mail.

The sale of tlie Tichborne Claimant's jewelry and other effects for the benefit of creditors brought a largo price. Bourke, in the House of Commons, said Great Britain had no intention of taking part in an armed interventr n in Spain, and had ho reason to suppof|that other European powers had. The House of Lords threw out an important amendment made by the House of Commons to the Public Worship Regulation Bill, granting parishoners the right of appeal to the Archbishop in. case a Bishop refuses to,authorise the prosecution of clergymen for ritualistic practices. The Housa of Lords coincides with, the views of Gladstone, who i« an earnest opponent of the amendment. The accusation against Johnston in the Mordaunt case has been withdrawn. The Attempt to Assassinate Bismarck. A letter from Berlin on the attempted assassination of Bismarck by Kullman contains the following:—" The very first step wkich the Government takes is to open an attack on the Catholic party. The private dwelling of Christopher Joseph Cremer, acting editor of tho Berlin Germania, was searched by the police, who confiscated letters, manuscripts, and some, pamphlets. The next visit of the police—seven in numberwas to the house of the Councillor Van Kekler, Secretary of the Mayenc© Catholic Union, and their.booty was considerable—about eighty documents, letters and circulars with the names of the members of the society. On the same evening Herr Van Kehler's work-room: was searched, and again on the following morning. The place, of meeting of the German member* of the Gesslyn Verain Dniou, and house of the Vic»r and. Spiritual Councillor, Muller, father of Catholic societies •: in Berlin, , were searched. These police inquisitions have been followed by the temporary doling of the Catholic socities of Berlin. One authority states that the memberg of the Catholic Gesslyn Unions in-Germany aggregate £0,000. Besides these % there are a hundred otber societies, such as the Catholic Adult Societies, the Catholic Young Men's Societies, University Societies, and societies of women and children."