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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2086, 10 September 1875, Page 3

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The Queen's Prize at Wimbledon has been won by Captain Pearse, 18th Devon, with a score of 73; 7 shots at 800, 900, and 1000 yards, using the Henry Martini rifle.

It is proposed to found a n*w University at Bristol; the estimated cost is £40,000, of which sum £17,000 has been already subscribed. Balliol and Few Colleges, Oxford, have each promised to contribute £300 a-year, for five years. The players of the Forth have beaten the gentlemen of the South by an innings and 94 runs. The gentlemen were a wretchedly weak lot. Messrs Whalley and Bright are still at loggerheads on the merits or demerits of the Tichborne case. The sum received by the Lord Mayor of London for the French sufferers has reached over £10,000. Subsequent rains and snows have caused inundations in other parts, and the Standard's correspondent says such wholesale physical disturbance has not been known in France for eSturies. Ata meeting of bishops at Westminster, the present crisis in the Church was discussed. There was a general agreement as to the necessity of acting.promptly in restraining excessive Ritualistic practices. It is announced that the bt. Petersburgh Conference on the usages of war is postponed till next spring. Russia has abandoned all hope of England's taking part in the Conference. Referring to the Prince of Wales' journey to India, the Times remarks that, going thither, as the Prince does, as the most exalted representative of England who could ever be sent to India, it is inconceivable that any considerable body of Englishmen would be unwilling to bear their part in insuring in the Prince's person a liberal display of English dignity. During the four months stay of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in London, one millien copies of their hymn-books have been sold every week. An important Act has just received th% royal assent by which any clerk, officer, servant, or other person employed, who shall alter, or falsify an account, book, or paper, with intent to defraud,, shall.be Cable to penal servitude for seven years, or to imprisonment not exceeding two years. v At &fete in aid of the Dramatic College, held in the Alexandra Palace, Signor Salvini recited the Songs of David from AlfieriVSaul."

. A discovery of hidden treasure has just been made at Buckingham Palace. During some alterations, and while the workmen were engaged in pulling down a wall, a large quantity of valuable gold and silver plate of about the time of George 111., and supposed to be worth several thousand pounds, was discovered in a place of concealment. Lord "Walter Campbell, son of the Duke of Argyll, was on Thursday admitted a member of the stockbrobing firm of Helberfc, Wagg, and Co. The name of the firm will now'be Helberfc, Wagg, and Canfpbell. Another of the Duke's sons is a member of a firm of corn-dealers; and a third is now studying for the Bar in the Middle Temple.— Globe.

; Dr Ferguson, of Bplton, has given evidence before the Factory Acts Commissioners, and speaking from forty years' experience as a certifying surgeon, he states that the Factory population of Lancashire was physically deteriorating. He said the number of children rejected on account of being physically unfit for work had gone on increasing for several years. Abmy Pubchase Commission .—Among the Parliamentary papers issued recently was an estimate of the amount required, for the year ending 31st March, 1876, for the establishment of, and expenditure incurred by, the Army Purchase Commissioners. The total amount is £636,000, the principal items being £600,000 for compensation for sale of commissions, and £30,000 for compensation to the Itoyal (late Indian) Artillery and Engineers. > The Daily Telegraph understands that it is the intention of Captain "WeVb, who swam from Blackwall to Gravesend, to attempt to swim across the Channel in August. He is now training for the feat, and his success has encouraged the belief that he will accomplish it. He purposes to start from Dover, and estimates that the journey will occupy him fourteen hours. Recently the Earl of Carnarvon, the Pro.-Grand Master of English Freemasons presided at the annual festival of the Masonic Institution for Boys, which was held at the Alexandra Palace. It was not only the largest assemblage of the craft ever held, with the exception of the recent muster at the Eoyal Albert Hall, but was remarkable from the fact that ladies were present at the dinner, table. The proceedings were conducted in_ a most cordial manlier, and Masonic charity was well exemplified by the total amount of the subscriptions announced, namely, £12,709. ."^^^The Judicatttbe Act.—The Court of Queen's Bench closed its term on Monday last, (July 5) when it terminated its career, the Judicature Act coming into operation in November next, after the long vacation. The Court of Queen's Bench, properly so called, unless some fresh change is made in the law, will never sit again, and has closed its long existence —of at least 1,000 years, for it is curious that just that period has elapsed since the time when the King, in the person of Alfred^first exercised its high jurisdiction over all magistrates and superior judges. This special jurisdiction, indeed, constitutes the exclusive .jurisdiction of the King's Benoh, which • preserves the memory of its origin in its peculiar title "the Court of the King before the King himself." Its. jurisdiction is, indeed, under the Judicature Act transferred to tha High Court, but it ceases to exist as a separate Court, and whenever its judges sit again it will be not as:judges of this court, but as members of-a division of the •High Court And so this high court, with all its memories and traditions, has ■ passed away into history, and become a thing of the past. The Good* Templabs.—The sixth annual session of the Grand £p,dge of §ood Templarg-pommenped on Tuesday Hapriiiagj $vtiy 0» $ Hengler's Cirque, Regent street, Xondoh. About 1,500 members were present. The report showed a decrease of 40,000 adults, attributed to emigration, and an inbreqse of 23,000 juvenile^; The expenditure was 434,400, considerably more than the income. The head of the concern, the «' Grand Worthy Chief Templar," has enjoyed a salary of £500 a year up to this time, but it has novr been reduced to £400. After a long and animated debate oa Wedacsday it was decided to establish

the system of collecting the capitation tax by the .district lodges. The salary of the Grand Worthy Secretary was, by a majority of 1&2 to 123, fixed at £800 for the ensuing year. The Ritualists.—The congregation of St. Alban's, Holborn, again went to St. Vedast's on Sunday, and took part in the eucharistic celebration. No change was made in the ritual. The Rev Pelham Dale, ia his sermon, stated the determination of the congregation to resist the supressionof their ceremonials under the Public Worship Act. At St. Alban's on Sunday evening it was stated that the Bishop of London had inhibited two curates of that church from officiating at any church in the diocese. Proceedings have been commenced against Mr .Dale, rector of St. Vedast's, for ritualistic practices.

The Public Worship AcT.—-It is stated that in addition to the case of the Rev. Pelham Dale, the rector of St. Vedast, proceedings against whom have been formally commenced, the Church Association has also determined to bring before the new Public Worship Court .the proceedings of the incumbenT^f-Sft, Peter's, Folkestone, who it i 3 alleged, indulged in ritualistic practices, contrary to the law, as laid down in the Purchas judgment. The proceedings against the Rev. Mr Parnell, of St. Margaret's, Liverpool, are to be continued, and the celebrated Prestbury case will be reopened. The Church Association is engaged in no other eases.