SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2552, 12 March 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

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Bgxjfi?., Sunday. The Attorney-Gener?l./ speaking at ! Presi m, anticipated that next session an ettack would be made on the Government by the extreme Radical party, but he said the consequence would be that; the .Government would be assisted by many who though nominally in Opposition entertained moderate views. • At the annual dinner of the Oxford Liberal Association Sir Wm. Harcourt said everything pointed to a waning con"? fidence in .the administration, and that foreign affairs had been more mismanaged during the last eighteen months than . during 4 any former pericd. Addressing a crowded audience at Leeds Mr Chamberlain, M.P., Contended that the Church was the greatest obstacle to the national system of educatibti. ';:.'':':'; C The dioceses of Chester, Durham, Lincoln, and Lichfield are to be divided, i The new sees will be Liverpool, Newcastle, Southwel 1, and Derby. ' : Much excitement has been occasioned on account of the ritualistic practices of the Rev. Mr Tooth, yiear of Hatckam. Lord Penzance inhibited him, but -he paidyno attention to it. Services much resembling .those in the. Roman Catholic Church were performed on two successive Sundays with closed doors. He was adjudged guijiy of contempt, and a warrant was issued. Several thousand roughs assembled in front of the church on the following day, and 400! police were in attendance. Oni the 16th a meeting of tho English Church Union passed resolutions in favor of supporting the Rev. Mr Tooth, whose father and brother, it stated, are well-known squatters in Queensland and New South Wales. At Dorchester, near Wallingford, a ritualistic demonstration was made against the Hector, the Rev.. Mr Blake, who was lecturing on the Reformation. The meeting nearly decelerated into»a J'ree fight,, several ritualistic clergymen who were present being unable to calm their supporters. The Rev. Dr Cumming, lecturing at Leamington, said Turkey was about to be "swept out of Europe, and the Jews were preparing to take possession of their own land of Jerusalem. Soon the latter would cross the Euphrates, which, acording to the Apocalypse, would be one of the last things of Time. : Admiral Hornsby has hoisted^ his fiag as new Commander-in-Chief of the Mcdi- , terranean. A new and powerful ironclad for the Turkish Government has just been completed, and will be ready for sea shortly/ She is one of the most powerful vessels afloat. A Royal Commission, composed partly of civilians and. partly military, is to be appointed to inquire into recruiting. Last year there were 7,759 desertions. A floating skating rink, with artificial ice, covering an area of 2,090 feet, has been opened at Charing Cross. A purse of £500 has been presented to Daft, the cricketer. Lord Filzhardinge has initiated a testimonial to W..G-. Grace., Liggotfc, a pork butcher at Crowle, Lincolnshire, sold his wife for £40 to a local publican. A strike of bau'isters took place r at the Carlisle sessions, consequent upon the Treasury reducing fees from two guineas to one. The Treasury gave way, and the strike has ended. Sir Tiias Salt-left £30,000 for the benefit of the sick and aged poor at Saltaire. One hundred thousand persons lined the streets of Bradford at his funeral. The question of Sunday amusements is attracting attention. . Several clergymen have spoken or written in their favor. A commission for determining the best route for cutting through the Isthmus of Darien has arrived at Panama under the command of Lucien Bonaparte Wyse, of the French Navy. A lady in Rome, occupying a high position, has claimed a share of the inheritance left by Cardinal Antonelli, on the ground that she is his illegitimate daughter. She is married, and received a handsome marriage portion "from" the late Cardinal. • Captain King Harman has been returned unopposed for Sligo. Mr Smith, M.P. for Tynemouth, referring to elementary schools in America, said we should not arrive at a satisfactory educational position in England .until we had elementary schools to which a)l classes of society could send their children. At a meeting, presided over by Lord Carnarvon, held at the Newbury Corn Exchange, it was. resolved to raise funds for the erection of a.mom-nent to Lord Falkland. Obituary.—Lord Boston, Lord Milton, Lieut.-General Wesley, Ward Neaves, one of fhe Judges.of the Court of Session ;' Rev. Richard Cobbold, author of " Margaret Catchpole," aged eighty; Mr Lewis, barrister; Alfred Smee, inventor of the present mode of printing Bank of England notes; Robert LandeHs, artist of the IHusw*at2d London News; Princess Charlesses, of Russia.