General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4479, 14 May 1883, Page 2

General News.

The " Monde," writing on the Affirmation Bill brought into the House ot Commons to enable Mr Bradlaugh to take his seat, says:—"This ancient Constitution has not hitherto made it possible fora citizen to take any part in State affairs without believing; in God. . .* To jote with enlightenment requires a conscience. A conscience involves a belief that one is under the eye of the Eternal Judge. Nations which cease' to # believe ia God labour only for their own destruction.k Those who have charge of the^nafcioa must not hand it over to Atheists. , This. „ pretended Liberalism paraded by so many ' people now-adays is simply treason to the nation and to mankind."

The Langtrys are again before the public by the fact that Miss Agnes Langtry, sister of the Lilly's husband, and sent from England to chaperone her -through."the United States, when Mrs Labouohere ' gave up the task, eloped on the 31st March with a Toronto young man, named Stone, . and was married at the Church of All " Saints, in Drummondville, Canada. The happy couple are now living in Toronto. The •' Lily, 1' once more desolete, is verj angry with her sister in law, and shocked at what she calls her want of propriety. But the fact is, Agnes was sensible in not passing the opportunity to get a good husband. ■■;.■.■

In one of the dry districts of New South Wales the baptism of a baby was of necessity postponed on the late occasion, because there was no water where* '* with to perform the ceremony. This may ' appear extravagant, but it is an exaggerated fact. The parents, the godfathers, and godmothers were duly in attendance, with a square bottle of water from the Bluegrass Creek. The precious \ fluid was left in the oimroh porch, and wben * he christening period in the servica arrived the water was sought. Alas! Some thirsty soul, beguiled perhaps by the squareness of the flask, had drawn .the cork, and the contents were missing. Thia christeninMjhfA^W postponed, for there* ■ wasn't a five milea q£ the churcj^K^^B