Miscellaneous.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2833, 14 March 1878, Page 2

Miscellaneous.

It it laid tbat the Episcopalians of Scotland, not to be outdone by the ilomau Catholics, are resolvd to hare an Arch: b".shop of their own. Bishop Eden has been selected as the first recipient of this high honour, and three wealthy merchants of Glasgow hare already came forward and promised between them £60,000 towards the endowment of the'archbishopric. The last Archbishop of Scotland was Smeaton, who succrsded Archbishop Sharp after the murder of the latter in 1679. ' v .-,

.Spurgeon in a recent sermon, assailing Ritualism, said: "Our Episcopalian neighbours at first dislik d the Papist revival, then tolerated it, next excused it, and now to A large extent admire it. If within the next ten years the Church should re»unite with tbat «f Borne, we should not be one whit astonished. Nothing but the secular interests invoked and the dread of disestablishment appsar to its to prevent it." On January 11th a Mr T. W. Stevens, of Peckham, a man of about thirty years of age, committed, suicide by. throwing himself from the whispering gallery on to tbo floor of St. Paul's Cathedral. He had paid for admission to the crypt and galleries, and a few minutes before hi« suicidal act was seen kneeling in. the clock tower. From this it is inferred that he was suffering from religion! ; mania. He fell on some ohairs, breaking i two of them in pieces, and injuring him- ! self in a frightful manner. Some vergers had him conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was found to be dead. The sum of £13 in gold and a silver watch and chain were found in his possession. - : Russian newspapers affirm a miracle hat occurred at Moscow, which is supposed to have some connection with the. "Holy War," and which is compared to the appearance of St. Sergious in the study of the late Czar Nicholas at the time of the Crimean War. St. Sergious was then reported to have presented a small wooden cross to the Imperial crusader. There is a pond just outside' Moscow which is at this season frozen over. About a week age, or a little longer, one morning the ice was found cracked and broken in a particular place, leaving a gap in the shape of a St. Andrew's Cross. The orthodox Muscovites have proclaimed this a sign from Heave*), and hundreds and thousands crowd to see it daily, rich people in private carriages, as well as poor and simple folk.