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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2826, 6 March 1878, Page 2

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The Convocation meeting of the University of Londcn, held on the 16th of January, decided by 242 to 132 to grant degrees to women. . - •..:.!. Mr John Freeland, who died lately at Nice, bequeathed £4,000 to the Glasgow Western Infirmary. The Pan-Anglican Synod will open in Lambeth.on July 2nd, and will last four weeks. Chief Inspector Clark, having been reinstated on full pay, at once retired on a pension of £185. It in understood that the Detective Commission will recom* . mend the employment of- a superior class of men, at greatly increased pay. . Lord Shaftesbury, Canou Miller, and a couple of other leading men. hare retired | from the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, on the ground that two of its publications — " Bonney's Geology," and the Her. Bron-nlow Maitland's ." Argument from Prophecy "—are heterodoxAt a meeting of the Home Rule Con* ference held in Dublin (his week, it was resolved that the Home Rule party should take counsel together, and deefde on their line of actiou as a party respecting the Eastern Questiou. Mr Butt omphatieally

declared he would engage tv no war upon the House of Commons, and asked if the House imprisoned the members would the Conference come orer and release them. Mr Bigger advocated war with Russia in the interest of Irish farmers. The" projected establishment of • Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland if attracting attention there, nnd meetings hare been held in favor of taking legal action to prevent its being effected. l)r Eyer, of Glasgow, and Dr Arian, of St. Andrews, will be created Archbishops. A report that Cardinal Manning had been authorised to come to arrangements with the English Government on the subject has been denied. The four liberated Feniau .prisoners arrired at Dublin on the evening of tbe 13th. The streets were crowded, aud ten bands, with a numerous procession, escorted them to the European Hotel. Several Irish MP.'i took part in the proceedings. - ' , Great depression exists in the iron trade. The Consett Co. are blowing out' their furnaces. , „ . . There have been several railway aocU dents during the month, but none attended with serious consequences. Through a collision . between .the steamer Xema, plying between Cork and Bristol, and the Italian barque Pensiro, on the night of the Bth instant, the latter foundered with ten of her crew of eleven. . - -: " - A daring attempt at murder was made^on a Mr Hamburger^ a diamond w3£ chant, in some chambers at the Hoi bora Viaduct, on Tuesday. He had a b*f containing £1000 worth of diamonds with him, aud the would-be murderers tried to kill him with revolvers. Mr Hambdrker was seriously wounded. The robber made off, but without the diamonds. '.'..' An explosion of dj namite destroyed a factery at Gerona, on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The daughters of the late Mr Richard Cobden, M.Pij are now collecting Mnd ar. ' ranging his correspondence with a view to its immediate publication.