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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3828, 5 April 1881, Page 2

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The Archbishop of Dublin assails the Land League in his Lenten Pasl oral, and also the ladies who are associated in the movement. The ladies intend to reply.

Lord Derby denies that he is to en'er the Ministry.

Mahomet Jan, Affghan leader, is murdered.

It is rumoured in Paris that Herbert Yon* Bismarck, eon of the Chancellor, has eloped to Italy with a German Princess, the wife of a high dignitary of the Court of Berlin.

Mr Ashmead Bartlett, the husband of Baroness Burdett Coutts, is threatened with a breach of promise suit.

Lord Roseberry has given an order to Boehm to execute a statue of Carlyle in marble.

Mr Eaton, Conservative, has been elected to Parliament for Coventry.

A Fenian Lodge has been discovered in Lancashire, and arms were found secreted.

In Lenten Pastorals, issued by the Irish Catholic- Bishops, the people are earnestly warned against joining illegal secret combinations, while the strongest sympathy is expressed for their trials.

An attempt to hold a Home Rule meeting at Coventry, under the auspices of Arthur O'Connor and Finnigan, led to a free fight.

The entries for the pigeon shooting match, London, for the championship of the world and challenge cup, include, so far, Dr Carver, Messrs Paine and Scott.

The scare about American pork has reduced the trade in England to almost nothing. The same clique of speculators who caused the mischief are now attacking American canned meats generally.

The Standard speaks as follows of the severe weather in England :—From aJ.I parts of the couutry accounts arrive testifying alike to the force and extent of the hurricane. In most of the large towns it is reported that business is almost entirely suspended. In Scotland, of course, the storm has been, as. might have been anticipated, exceptionally severe. Roads and railway lines are blocked. The Caledonian Canal is frozen over. The inhabitants of Inverness and Forfar have been deprived of their water supply. In many districts in France railway and telegraphic communication has been stopped. At Nimes the wolves have been driven to haunt the villages in the neighbourhood, and even in sunny Spain important towns have been cut off from communication with the rest of Europe for three days. London, as regards telegraphic and postal communication, may be said to be in nearly as bad a plight. The cold yesterday was perhaps a, little less intense than On former days, but every here and there the streets were blocked with deep snow drifts ; the river traffic was almost entirely stopped; and at one period of the day so violent was the gale that two men were positively lifted off their feet by the wind, blown into the Albert Docks and drowned. Railway trains have been abnormally delayed, and for once in a while the abject dependence of the Londoner on railways, tramways, and omnibuses has been painfully impressed upon his mind. On the coast, of course, the fury of the gale is described as unparalleled— vessels are reported as being driven ashore, and the life boats are busy with the heroic work of rescue. It may be days yet before we know fully what disasters have there been wrought, but it needs no effort of the imagination to picture the sufferings of men exposed at once to the fury of the snow-laden gale and the force of the angry breakers. Scarcely less terrible than the work of steering a vessel in such weather as this is the task of the railway engine-driver who has to keep a look-out ahead for signals when steaming at the rate of forty miles an hour in the teeth of the hurricane.

Revision oe the New Testament.— Some of the more important alterations to be made ia the revised edition of the New Testament have been printed in the Record. The alteration of the greatest general interest is perhaps that of the Lord's Prayer, as it appears in the Sermon on the Mount, Matt. vi. 9-13, and in Luke xi. 2, 3, 4. In the former case it is altered to " Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the eviH one." The Do»ology is omitted. la

St. Luke the wording is changed to, '•When ye pray, say, '"Our Father, hallowed be Thy name ; Thy kingdom come. Give us day by day our daily bread ; and forgive us our sms, for we ourselves also forgive everyone that is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation." Among other important changes in the more frequently quoted passages are, Matthew xix. 17 : " Why askest thou Me concerning that which is good? One there is Who is good; but if thou wouldest enter into' life, keep the commandments;" and Mark viii. 36, 37.—" For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what should a man give in exchange for his life?" In Luke ix. 35 the voice coming out of the cloud says, "This is My Son, my chosen," in place of the passage as ifc at present stands, " This is my bsloved Son; hear Him." Finally, in the Acts, some considerable alterations have been made in the text of the declaration of Paul before Agrippa, Acts xxvi. 24 to 29, the text now reading :— and as he thus made his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad ; thy much learning doth turn thee to madness. But Paul saith, I ani not mad, most excellent Festus, but speak forth words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom also I speak freely : for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him; for this hath not been done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets ? I know that thou believest. And Agrippa said unto Paul, With but little persuasion thou wouldst fain make me a Christain. And Paul said, I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear mo this day, might become such as I am, except the bonds."