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According to a statement which appears in yesterday's papers, Mr 000 RUSSELL, our representative at Rome, lias telegraphed to say that the idea of propounding the ■ "dogma of papal infallibility at the Ecumenical Council has been abandoned. If this is true, much of the interest of the proceedings will be lost, for there is no ■ other point that the bishops will care to fight so deter- minedly. Some of the more honest and sensible, H however, will have a good deal to say, we should think, -against the doctrine of the bodily assumption of the ■ Virgin. At present the Council is not sitting in session, M but the committee*, aw we should can them, are dis- -^cossing the deere38 which are to be brought before the H fall Council. There are about 900 members of the Council-From' France ascertain reports continue to ■ arrive, and it is not known yet whether the present ■ mndBtrv will resign after all-Of the new King of SPAJN ■ !1i'J; Jefinrte is yet known; bat it is stated that k ■ -iiances havo been made. without nudcess, to Prince ■ ■ Louis VICTOR, brother of the Emperor of AUSTRIA.— I Stgnor LANZA has succeeded in forming a ministry at H Morence.-The Bishop of LONDON, we see, has written to ■ • say that he shall take part in the consecration of Dr ■ TEMPLE, not only with a clear conscience, but with a conviction that his- eminent gifts will enable him to do ■■ great service to the Church.—A deputation, representing I a great proportion of the learning and influence of Oxford H -and Cambridge, has waited upon Mr GLADSTONE, urging I liim to throw the universities open to the nation free of tests. ■ His reply was, that the question ought to be settled by I a compulsory Government measure, but that he could not I yet promise its introduction next session.—The OVEREND- I GTJRNKY case has been brought before the Court of I Queen's Bench this week, and the trial has lasted several I days. The result is not yet known, but a verdict of I acquittal" is anticipated. -Another interesting case has ■ been heard in the Central Criminal Court, and has I', -resulted in the sentencing of Dr SHORTHOUSE, the pro- I prietor of the Sporting Timet, to three months' im- I prisonment and a fine of jB50 for libeling Sir JOSEPH I HAWLEY in matters connected with the turf. An apology I had been inserted, but the case was pressed nevertheless.

I We regret to- find a want of public spirit—we are afraid I we must use the word&at Corwen. The inhabitants I have an opportunity of getting a market hall and assembly I room-both much needed-in conjunction with the magis- ■ trates, who want a police court and they hesitate about 1 spending the necessary money. We hope they will Ir remember before it is too late that there is such a thing I as being penny wise and pound foolish. We publish a letter to-day from the Rev. A. OLIVER, I who denies that even a prayer book was burnt at Llan- I dewi. It was a newspaper—perhaps the scurrilous I London Sftndzrd-that was committed to the flames. We hope Mr JONES will frankly apologize, for he really seems to hvae made some unfortunate blunders. The Cambria Daily Leader, we see, is giving names, places, and particulars, of the cases of alleged political eviction in Carmarthenshire. Here, then, is an oppor- tunity for the accused landlords to defend themselves. The first communication in the Leader enumerates several instances: we extract two, in both of which the landlord is Mr H. D. EVANS, of Highmead— David Lewis, Factory. Built a house on land of lb Kvaas, -and occupied it as yearly tenant—no lease having been granted —until iMt year, when he received notice to quit. He has left the house, which cost him between M and £ 100, after occupying it only nine years. He plumped for Hr Sartoris. There is no other known cause. Evan Thomas, of Glantrenfawr, has held his farm for the last ten years, his wife having lived there over twenty, and her family had been on the estate for upwards of eighty years. Is considered an excellent fanner, and always ready to oblige his landlord in every possible wav, except politically. He plumped lor Mr Sartoris; was evicted by hi» landlord, and is now without house or home tor his wife and family, having been to obtain a farm. 'Since the foregoing was written letters have appeared trom some of the landlords referred to in the Leader, utterly denying that the tenants were evicted for political reasons. Here is what one of the landlords says— "H I am called on to now why I gave Evan Beynon, of Blaancwm (who voted for Sartoris), and EHas Davies, of Blaen- swchddn (who voted for Jones and Poxley), notice to quit their respective farms last Lady-day, I unhesitatingly state that the r JMtonoMftr slovenly and minoiuit bad farming of each of them repaired that I should seek a change of tenants before the whole of the land they held (about 300 acres) had become a waste the teaee8 levelled, and the fields overran with gone. Had your T reporter visited the locality he eould have anticipated the reasons "}.for the two evictions, but this, I presume, would not have served i" h lis end, oth why ia the case of the two adjoining farms '■/ w 5? deemed it right to refer to (or, as he may consider it, expose) T «re<w»and withhold the other, both being identical in circum- -stances? SURETY it is possible to make some sort of satisfactory II enquiry into these conflicting statements? The "Welsh Fasting Girl" is exciting much attention in the English Press. When the girl had been watched -lor five days she was reported to be very weak. The pulse has increased from 66 to 112. The Daily News suggests that if she dies the watchers may find a verdict of "manslaughter" returned against them by the coroner's jury The Vicaar of WEEXHA* will trundle the mop and keep hack the tide of religious equality as long as he can. A vestry meeting was held last week to consider a proposal for enlarging the churchyard, and one daring individual asked whether, any of the ground would be left unconse- crated, to bury Dissenters in. Certainly not," replied the rev. gentleman. "Would Dissenters be allowed to have their own ministers to conduct the service," asked Mr BRADLBY, persisting in thus exposing the charity of the vicar. His reply was full of significance-" We have not come to that yet." The Dissenters can preach, and teach, and come to vestry meetings to ask impertinent questions; but in death, thank heaven, we are still divided. No, we have not come to tha-although I am afraid we shall -Only the first sentence is reported as having fallen from the rev. idcaes lips, but we can imagine how much more wae in his valiant heart. Poor man It is impossible not to be touched. at the sight of that mop which he and Mrs PARTINGTON and all the rest of them trundle so bravely up to the last. But we hope, for all that, that Liberal Churchmen as well as Dissenters will refuse to contribute even one brick for the wall which is needed to enclose the consecrated ground." If people cant be buried together, what will they do when they heeve to live together-but we do not wish to hint to the VICAR for a moment that any Dissenters can possibly pass through their unconsecrated ground to heaven. sr:r "There is a clergyman also at Llanfyllin who has been -talking about burial grounds during the week; but Mr WILLIAMS, the vicar of Wrexham will be surprised to hear, "thinks it quite reasonable" that Dissenters should like to have their own ministers to read the service. •. Which servant of the Church, we wonder, serves her best e valiant vicar or the charitable rector? OddfellowBhip is such an excellent institution that we rverr gladly do all we can to expose the faults which weaken it and hiDdw its even more speedy progress- amongst the people. Let HA chief men, then, mark the following, extracted from a contemporary— Oddfellows' fetes are said to be jolly affairs, but they have inst presented thamselves in an nngenial aspect in the Ormakirk -County Court. It seems that a Southport lodg<»—vhieh we hove ia exceptional in its custOms-hail a rule that all members who do not give seven days' notice to the contrary, are assumed to be • fiesta at the anniversary festivities, and the money ia deducted In the shape of a fine from those who neglect to attend without notice of absence. Philip Hooton found 3s. deducted from hia atek money as his share of the cost of the fete he did not eiyoy, 4 bQi he refused to allow the deduction, and brought an action against the officers for the recovery of the fall amount of bene- ?*• Mr Sergeant Wheeler, the judge of the County Court, has IPveii th« Southgort Oddfellows a wholesome lesson. In the partic«fcr ease Hooton had called at the secretary's house to J*1*? he would not attend the dinner, but the officer does not appear to have received tbe .message. But the learned judge declared that this incident did not alter liia view of the case, which was that the lodge had no right, with or without notice, to deduct money for their fetes. Apart from law, this is a comittonsense decision, and one cal- culated to check undue festivity among the Oddfellows. The verdict of a coroner's jury at Llahbrynmair has caused considerable dissatisfaction. A man who had been ill for some time, and was evidently in a state of mental depression, committed suicide, and a verdict of "Tem- porary insanity would have met the case exactly, ac- cording to the general custom of coroner's juries. The coroner, however, thought otherwise, and under his direc- tion the case was declared to be one of felo de se. The coroner, no doubt, acted conscientiously; but, especially as long as the barbarous fashion of burying suicides like dogs is retained, we hope, in matters of this kind, juries will stick to their old-fashioned verdict. The innkeepers of Welshpool deserve to be prominently mentioned for the honourable way in which they have almost unanimously agreed to close their houses on Sun- day. A few days ago the MAYOR and other gentlemen waited upon them, with a request that they would close, and only one has refused. We see that at Welshpool, Wrexham, and other places, resolutions have been passed by Boards of Guardians and Local Boards in favour of Sunday closing; and if the feeling of the Welshpool publi- cans is at all representatiye, and the publicans can be in- duced to support the proposed measure, there will be little difficulty, we should imagine, in carrying it. We believe Mr T. B. Jones, of Adwy'r Clawdd, Wrexham, will give any information as to the movement in favour of Sunday closing.

THE LATE MR D. WILLIAMS, M.P. It is with much regret that we record to-day the death of Mr DAVID WILLIAMS, of Castle Deudraeth, M.P. for the county of Merioneth. The hon. gentleman had been unwell for some time, in fact ever since his triumphant return in the winter of 1868, and was not able to vote more than once during his first and only session in parlia- ment. That vote, it is a satisfaction to think, was re- corded on behalf of the third reading of the Irish Church L Bill, and Mr WILLIAMS was thus enabled, for himself and the constituency which he represented, to take part in ) wnat may almost be considered the greatest legislative act of recent years. Of Mr WILLIAMS'S courageous fight I for the seat which he won at last it is hardly necessary to speak at any length; our readers remember it all so well. It was in 1859 that Mr WILLIAMS was first induced to offer himself for the county and only those who know its previous history can appreciate the nature of the contest or the "pluck" that was required to enter into a strug- gle against such tremendous odds. For generations Merionethshire had been held by the Tories, held almost without dispute, except that once, in 1836, when Sir RoBERT VAUGHAN, of Nannau, "handed over" the seat to the late Mr RICHARDS, of Caerynwch, Sir WILLIAM WYNNE, of Maesyneuadd, venturing to dispute the pleasant little transaction, was defeated by more than three to one. At that time only seven individuals at Dolgelley, five at Bala, and three at Corwen ventured to support the Liberal candidate, who polled altogether 150, to his opponent's 501. In the year 1859, however, the Liberals courageously determined to try again for the otat which the Conser- vatives had leamt to regard as theirs by prescriptive right; and Mr DAVTD WILLIAMS, a veteran in the cause, was chosen as the champion of the attacking party. The odds, as we have said, were fearful. Immemorial posses- sion was something, but it was, little compared with the weight of wealth, and territorial influence, and excellent organization, which the Conservatives threw into the scale in favour of Mr WYNNE, of Peniarth, to whom, by this time, the seat had been transferred. The Liberals, how- ever, had on their side courage, the good wishes of the constituency, a' body of able workers, and an indomitable determination to win and the result of the first struggle was extremely credita- ble; Mr WYNNE made 389, and Mr WILLIAMS, 351. In 1865 there was another election, and Mr WILLIAMS again came forward to oppose the Conservative candidate, Mr W. R. M. WYNNE, son of the former member, who had re- tired. Again the struggle was severe; and again the wealth and territorial influence of the Conservatives were too much for the wishes of the constituency, and Mr. WYNNE won the seat by the slightly diminished majority of thirty-one. After this second defeat many thought that, though the Liberals were certain to fight again, it would have to be with another leader than Mr WILLIAMS, who was now feeling the infirmities of advancing age; but when, in 1868, there was another chance, with an enlarged constituency, the contest was renewed, with the same candidate, and renewed so successfully that before the day of nomination Mr WYNNE gracefully retired from the field. This was in November,and in December the Liberals of Merionethshire had the great satisfaction of seeing Mr WILLIAMS taking his seat in the House as their member, after fighting their battles with so much spirit for many years. Seme weeks after the re-opening of the session Mr WILLIAMS was again in London, but he was seldora able to take part in the proceedings of the House, and only once, as we have add, to record his vote. Before the session closed he gave notice of a motion of considerablè importance to the mining interest in North Wales; but his friends were afraid, even then, that he might never again take his seat in Parliament. All through the sum- mer and autumn Mr WILLIAMS'S health has continued to cawte anxiety ;*and on Wednesday his long illness termi- nated in death, the deceased gentleman being then in his seventy-first year. Although chiefly known in the political world, Mr WILLIAMS did great service to North Wales by his energetic support of railway communication, and for some years he had acted as a director of the Cam brian and Carnarvonshire Railways. Thedevelopraeutoithe mineral wealth of the country also owed much to his exer. tions; and in many other ways he proved himself a public benefactor. His death removes from amongst us one of the most prominent public men in North Wales; and long after he has gone, Mr WILLIAMS will be grate- fully remembered by the whole Principality as the man under whose gallant leadership not only Merionethshire was wrested from the grasp of the Conservatives, but Welsh- men everywhere were encouraged to strike for political liberty and a real and useful representation in Parliament. On this head we can hardly say too much for the example of Merionethshire has been so well followed that the political aspect of Welsh representation has become com- pletely changed, and at the. present moment, thanks in great part to the stand which Mr WILLIAMS and his friends made, onty two Conservative members sit for North Wales and five for South Wales. It was Mr WILLIAMS a, thief glory, that he was principally instrumental in restoring his country to political freedom and political representation, and raising it socially as well as politically, mairing it respected in Parliament and in the country, and giving it some weight in the council of the nation.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN MERIONETHSHIRE. Nothing is yet decided as to the new liberal candidate for this county, and the leaders of the liberal party will do nothing till after the last tribute of respect has been paid to the late lamented member. Rumours are afloat, however, and it is necessary to mention them, and to caution our Liberal readers against giving any promise tilLthe authorized liberal programme is issued. In this way only can union and success be insured. The candi- dates named are Mr Holland, Mr Charles Edwards, Mr Morgan Lloyd, and Mr Sorton Parry on the libeiral aide. Mr Oakley, "Mr Meredyth Richards, Col. Tottenham, the Hon. C. Wynn, and his brother, the defeated candidate for the Carnarvon Boroughs, on the oth4 the conserva- tives have not the slightest chance unless the liberal ranks should be divided.

The double^murderer Frederick Hinson, 'who it will be remembered killed a woman named Death, with whom he had long lived as his wife, and a neighbour named Boyd, of whom he was jealous, underwent the extreme Sentence of the law on Monday. The following appear amongst the ecclesiastical ap- pointments andprefermentaRev. Thomas Evans, rector of Llandegla; Rev. Thomas Langshaw, curate of Hodnet; Rev. Thomas Hardy Richards, rector of Rhiw, Carnarvon- shire. v. THE OPPOSITION IH THE ECUMENICAL &OUNCI £ .A letter-from Rome in the Pesther Lloyd gives us the follow- ing particulars on the subject of the Ecumenical Council: "The Vatican hopes to see the resolutions which it will lay before the Council adopted by an immense majority. It is confidently expected that the American, Dutch, Belgian, and Italian Bishops, with the entire body of apostolical vicars, will follow the Curia blindly. Some doubt is felt about the German and French prelates, but it is believed that a considerable number of them; at least, may be trusted. # The Hungarian bishops are, suspected of a decided leaning to the German and French 'Liberal Catholics,' as the supporters of the views announced by Monsignor Maret in his latest work on the Council are called, and are believed to have been for a long time past in private communication with the leaders of that party in France. The opposition in the Episcopacy is as vet not numerously represented here, but its members display considerable activity, and deliberations are continually being held. The Vatican is making all the use it can of the adage divide et impera, and affects to distinguish among the recalcitrants a Gallican, an Imperialist, and a Liberal Catholic party; but, at least, all these elements of opposition appear to be perfectly unanimous in their resolution to combat the absolutist aspirations of the Jesuits. The opposition party have already completed the plan of the campaign, and are now waiting for a sufficient accession of strength to enable them to attempt its realization."

Local and District News. BANKRUPTS.—The following announcements appear in the Gazette Hugh, Llanfair, innkeeper, December 28, at 12: soL, Mr Jones (Welshpool), off. assig., the registrar; Jones, John, Llanrug, Carnarvonshire, hotel- keeper, December 21, at 10: sol., Mr Webb (Bangor), off. assig., Mr Williams; Hughes, Owen, Elwysfach, slate agent, Dec. 29, at 10 sol., Mr Pugh, Dolgelley off. assig., the Registrar. LIBERATION SOCIETY.—NORTH WALES AGENCIES.—The death of the Rev. Milton Davies, the society's North Wales agent, has obliged the committee to revise their ar- rangements for working that part of the Principality, and the result has been the appointment of two agents, instead of one, who will divide the work between them. For this purpose, an eastern and western district will be created; the Rev. J. Jones, of Brymbo, near Wrexham, taking the eastern, and Mr John Evans, of Llansaintffraid, near Conway, the western district. The first of these districts will comprise Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Radnorshire, and the second Carnarvonshire, Anglesey, and Merionethshire; but the exact boundary lines will be determined by railway and other considerations, rather than the exact county limits. We hope that the new agents will receive all the supports which they require from the society's friends to enable them effectively to organize their districts, and render them a means of strength to the society. They commence the work at a favourable time, seeing that there never was so much political life in the Principality as at the present moment; and one of the tests of their success will be the extent to which they secure harmonious, and especially the perse- vering, action of Welsh voluntaries for practical purposes. South Wales will, as heretofore, be worked by the Rev. T. Levi, of Morriston, near Swansea. -Liberator.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. ( the Idris-side Harriers meet on Monday, Dec. 20th Kennels Friday, Dec. 24th. Corsygamedd Monday, Dec. 27th. Cambrian Mines Friday, Dec. 31st. Cefncreuanissaf Monday, Jan. 3rd.. Llanelltyd Bridge Friday, Jan. 7th. Rhydymaen Bridge Monday, Jan. 10th Cefnrowen Friday, Dec. 14th Cwmblaenglyn At 10. The Vale of Ayron (Capt. Vaughan,s) Hounds meet Qn Tuesday, Dec. 21. Bwlch Dehewydd Friday, December 24th.Maenygwynion At 10.30.

ABERYSTWYTH. OPENING OF SILOAM CHAPEL.—Special services, in con- nection with the opening of the Siloam Welsh Wesleyan chapel, have been held during the past week. On Sunday sermons were preached in Siloam chapel at eleven a.m. by the Rev. William Davies, andt at six o'clock p.m. by the Rev. Isaac Jenkins. Special sermons were also preached in Queen's-stieet chapel during the day by the Revs. Isaac Jenkins and William Davies. Meetings were held on Tuesday and Wednesday in both Moor-street and Queen's-street chapels. Collections in aid of the building fund were made after each of the above services, and the appeal was most liberally responded to.

TOWYN. RENT AUDIT.—The half-yearly rent audit of the Ynys- ymaengwyn estate was held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, in last week. The usual dinner took place at the Town Hall, where about ninety of the tenantry sat down to a very bountiful repast, served up in host Parry's excellent style. Mr Spackman, the respected agent, presided. The usual toasts followed, and a very pleasant meeting terminated at an early hour. OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—At Bryncrug, on the 10th instant, William Edwards, sailor, 40, was brought up in custody charged with obtaining Is. under false pretences from Mary Jones, a widow.—Mary Jones said: I live at Bryncrug. On the 10th instant the Erisoner came to my house and wanted lodging, and said e was the mate of a large ship loaded with timber, and arrived at Aberdovey on Friday from America. He said he would pay me 16s. a week for his lodgings, and £ 1 for washing his sea clothes. I said that I had onlv one bed in the house, and if he consented to sleep with my son that I would ask my son's consent. He said that he would rather Bleep alone. He said that he was going to meet the captain at Towyn, and if he was not paid he would get k2; that would do till Monday. I gave him his dinner on the understanding that he was becoming my lodger. I also gave- him his tea. c He told me he had to meet the captain at half-past five at Towyn; that the captain was coming from Aberdovey to meet him. He said that the ship brought timber for Jones and Griffiths to Aberdovey. Before going out he asked me for 2s. 6d. to get his cheat out of the station, and he was contriving how he could get his chest from the station to my house. My son volunteered to go with him to fetch it. I gave him one shilliog to get his chest from the station, and he went off at four o'clock to Towyn to meet his captain and for his chest, but I did not see him from then till now.— Morris Jones said: I am the- son of Mary Jones. The prisoner came to our house on Saturday, saying he came from Aberdovey, and that ha was the chief mate of a large ship belonging to Briggs and Co., Liverpool, which arrived at Aberdovey from America. I saw my mother give the prisoner some money, and I went with him to Towyn to assist him to bring his chest. When at Towyn the prisoner said he was going to Mr Party's to the captain, and produced this card. Very soon after he gave me the slip and I did not see him till this day.—P.S. Thomas Roberts proved charging prisoner with the offence, and stated that prisoner. said that all he had said was false.—Prisoner had no question to ask any of the witneew. I He said that all he said was false, and he was sorry for it.-Committed for trial—The prisoner had been to Aberdovey on Sunday and obtained his dinner and tea from a captain's wife, pretending to take lodgings with her for a month, and it is supposed that he had some- thing worse in view as he had found a lonely house with only one woman in it; but he was just found out in time. I

Births, Marriages, and Deaths. t BIRTHS. •13th, the wife of Mr J. SMITH, National Schools, Llan- fair-Caereinion, of a daughter. MARRIAGES 10th, at Llawrbettws Church, by the Rev. R. Davies, Mr HENRY JOKES, Alwen Saw Mills, to Miss MABY ANN, daughter of Mr JOHlf JoNES, wheelwright, Druid, Corwen. 14th, at Llanaber Church, by the Rev. John Jones, rector, assisted by the Rev. OwBn Jones, curate of Llan- aber, the Rev.' OWEN WYNN JONES, Glasynys, to Mrs JONES, Barmouth. 16th, at the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Mach- ynlleth, by the Rev. J. Foulkes Jones, B.A., assisted by the Rev. T. J. Wheldon, M.A., Newtown, Mr DAVID HUGHES, flannel merchant, Newtown, to ANNnr, third daughter of the late Mr DAVID Owø, builder, Mach- ynlleth. DEATHS.. 9th, aged 22, JoHN, eldest son of Mr JOHtt JONES, car- penter j Llan<hillo.' 9th, aged 85, Mrs LLOYD, mother of MrD. Lloyd, draper, of Aberystwyth. draper, of Aberystwyth. 9th, aged 29, at Carmarthen, the Rev. J. HUGHES, curate of Meifod, youngest son of the late Rev. Isaac Hughes, Vicar of Llandyfriog and Blaenporth, Cardigan- shire. 15th, aged 70, at Castle-Dettdraeth, DAVID WILLIAMS, Esq., M.P. for Merionethshire. 16th, aged 18, EDWARD, youngest son of Mr RICHARD JONES, 10, Marine-terrace, Aberystwyth.

TIDE TABLE FOR ABERYSTWYTH, ABERDOVEY, AND BARMOUTH. Dec. Aberystwyth. Aberdovey. Barmouth. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. plmT Sat. 18 6 52 7 12 7 21 7 41 7 1 7 21 Sun. 19 7 31 7 50 8 0 8 19 740 7 59 Mon. 20 8 10 8 29 8 39 8 58 8 19 8 38 Tues. 21 847 9 1 9 16 9 36 8 56 9 16 Wed. 22 927 9 47 9 56 10 16 9 36 9 56 Thur. 23 10 9 1030 1038 10 59 1018 1039 Fri. 24 10 53 11 17 11 22 11 2 1126

Shipping Intelligence,a PORTMADOC. ARRIVED. —Princea« Royal, Owen,1 and*Ellen Beatrice, OwenThree Janea, Roberta; Love, Elite; Energy, Thomas; Letitia, Morgan; Severn, Owen; Williams, Roberts; CaDdace, Evans: Stranger, Parry; John Williams, Jones; Kate, Lewis; Petit Louise, Owen: Star, Ellis; Prince of Wales, Roberts; Rebecca (s.s.), Williams. {\ < SAILED.—Edith, Jones Rebecca (s.s.) icJ:i ABERDOVEY. 0 c ARRIVED.—Jane Jones and Jane Sophia from New- port Ellen Williams and Elizabeth Richards, Loiidon; Rosin a and Ala Charles, Dublin; Midas, Swansea; Primrose, Aberystwyth. SAILED.—Catherine, for Swansea; Gleaner, Belfast; Jane Owen, Aberdeen; Samuel Dickson, Wexford; Ellen Williams, Bangor. ABERYSTWYTH. ARRIVED.—Fume, Williams; from Liverpool; Ann and Betsey, James, Swansea Two Brothers, Jones, Youghal; Bee, Hughes, Milford Truant, Jones, Skonwick, Sweden. SAILED. Henry E. Taylor (s.s.), Lewis; for Bristol; Express (s.s.), Jones, LiverpooL

General. Broadhead has sailed for America. The 1st Dragoon Guards and the 80th and 40th Regi- ments of Foot left on Friday week for Ireland. n- It is reported that Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell is established in London with a view to the practice of medicine. Col. Wilson-Patten, M.P., ia giving a recreation ground of eleven or twelve acres to the town of Warrington. Oanon Kingsley has left Southampton, in a West India mail steamer, for Trinidad. It is understood that the taking over of the telegraph system by the Government is now not likely to be effected before the end of January. Count Bismark's son Herbert, who is a student at the Bonn University, has received a dangerous sabre wound in the head in a duel. The reduction of the charge for telegrams in Switzer- land to about 5d. has led to a great increase of business, and twenty-two new lines are to be constructed. At the Limerick police-court a woman has been sen- tenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, with hard labour, on a charge of blasphemy. A butcher at Dundee is in custody for the murder of his wife. He throw a steel at her, which inflicted such a wound upon her head as brought about her death. There appears to be a probability that a petition will be presented by the Liberals of Lynn against the return of Lord C. J. Hamilton. In the Spanish Cortes the report on the disappearance of the Crown jewels has been read. It recommends that a commission of inquiry should be appointed to bring the offenders to justice, and recover the jewels. There are two interesting items of political news-one is that Parliament meets on the 8th of February; the other that the Earl of Derby has accepted an invitation to spend a few days with Mr Disraeli, at Hughenden. Lord Kinnaird will, it is said, introduce a Bill next ses- sion for the better security of miners. It will have regard to the ventilation of mines, and the means of ingress and egress. A gentleman has received damages in the Liverpool County Court against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail- way Company for expenses incurred in stopping at an hotel in consequence of the delay of a train. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, which opened its meeting in Dublin on Wednesday, passed a resolution expelling all members of the socioty connected with the Liberal press. Mr Peabody has bequested 22,000 to the Rev, J. Conyngham M'Causland, rector of Clonmore, author of The Hope of Israel," in consideration of the pleasure derived from a perusal of that book. Mr Denman, Q.C., and Mr Charles Pollock, Q,C., the arbitrators in the dispute between the Crown and Mr Leonard Edmunds, have made their award. They find that a sum of 27,142 is still due from Mr Edmunds to the Crowi4 and that no recommendation can be made to the Government in respect of claims advanced by Mr Edmunds. Dr. Lankester has just held a series of inquests on the bodies of infant paupers whose death had been accelerated by the close atmosphere of the St. Pancras Workhouse nursery. In one of the verdicts returned the jury ex- pressed their disgust at the iniquitous conduct of the guardians in dismissing witnesses who had given evidence before the coroner's court." A Fenian night procession is reported from the district of Cromartin, Castleblayney. The police patrol met 200 men marching out, who, on being challenged, dispersed. They had two drums and several muskets. A dealer and lodging-house keeper in the town of Wicklow has been punished by the magistrates for shouting in the street Hurrah for the Fenians." Eight young men, whose ages varied from eighteen to twenty-nine, were convicted of garotte robberies, at the Leeds assizes, and were sentenced to terms of imprison- ment varying from twelve months to seven years. But the sting of the sentences was literally in the "tail." Each of these ruffians has received two dozen lashes with the "cat-o'-nine-tails." There is a cruel practice-amongst unscrupulous emigra- tion agents on the continent, of inducing women and others to expend all their money in traveling to Liverpool under tbe impression that they will readily find means of reaching America. No fewer than fifty-five women have thus arrived from Poland alone, to find themselves penni- less and friendless in a strange land. A publican appealed against a conviction for keeping open at illegal hours, at the Liverpool sessions last week, on the ground that his house was not open after twelve by the national time, but only by that of Greenwich. The Recorder allowed the appeal on this ground, and the con- viction was quashed. The prosecution of the Messrs Mozley upon the charge of putting forth a false prospectus in connection with Barned'sBank has broken down. The evidence of Mr Harwood Banner, who gave the sanction of his name to the accounts of the bank when it passed into the hands of a company, was of a character most favourable to Messrs Mozley. He believes that they acted in the most honourable and straightforward manner." I Further reductions in the army will forthwith take place. The whole of the depdt battalions will, it is believed, be abolished; and it is stated that at the same time fifty field officers will be placed on half-pay. Rumour also has it that it has been settled that, at the commence- ment of the financial year, the infantry will be reduced to the extent of two companies in each battalion. u The Workman's Emigration Society for the Consoli- dation of the British Empire" has been formed to raise funds to assist those who are still above pauperism to emi- grate to the most desirable colonies. Mr George Potter is secretary; and Sir George Grey, ex-Governor of New Zealand, Mr Torrens, M.P., and other well-known gen- tlemen form part of the Committee of Management. A point in etymology was raised at the South Lanca- shire assizes. A policeman, who was examined as a wit- ness, said that one term by which the members of the force were known was that of copper." Sometimes (he said) we hear a person at the street corner use the expres- sion, The copper is coming." Mr Justice Willes asked what the word meant, and after sundry attempts to settle its derivation, his lordship decided that it came from capio, I take. The French Minister of Jilstice is said to have forwarded to the Imperial Ambassador at Rome a note of ominous import. In this document it is stated that the proclama- tion by the Ecumenical Council of the infallibility of the Pope will be regarded at the Tuileries as inopportune from a religious point of view; while politically, such a pro- clamation would relieve France from the obligation she has undertaken by the Concordat with the Holy See." The other day at the Northam shipbuilding works a man of sixty, who had been in the employ of the firm for many years as engine tenter, by some means got his head cut off as he was oiling a largf, wheel attached to an engine in the machinery department. He was seen by some workmen to go up a ladder to reach the bearings of the wheel, and the attention ot one was called by a noise. On looking up the body of the poor fellow was discovered revolving with the wheel, his head being found on the other side. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death. From Ireland we learn that, in anticipation of the ap- proaching Apprentice Boys' celebration at Derry, the authorities at Dublin Castle have proclaimed a portion of the county of Londonderry. The name of Mr John Mar- tin has been withdrawn in connection with the representa- tion of Longford, and it is not anticipated that any opposition will now be offered to the return of the Liberal candidate. It is stated by a Tipperary paper that Mr Heron will decline to claim the seat nominally held by O'Donovan Rosea. An adjourned meeting of the West Lancashire Coal Association was held on the 8th at the Angel Hotel, Liverpool. There was a good attendance of members, all the principal colliery proprietors in the district being present. The recent demand by the colliers for an increase of wages was considered, and the following resolution was passed unanimously :—" That the rate of wages paid to the colliers in the West Lancashire district be advanced 10 per cent. from the first making-up day in January next, I and that the price of coals be raised Is. per ton, and of engine fuel and slack 6d. per ton, from the 15th inst." At the Clerkenwell sessions, last week, two men named Sayer and Havergill were Charged with attempting to obtain £ 3 10s. from the town housemaid of Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, M.P., by means of a fictitious telegram. The housemaid received a telegram purporting to come from her master, directing her to pay the above sum to a tradesman named Gibson. Sayer afterwards came and represented himself to be the person to whom the money was due. He was told to call the next day, when the housemaid having telegraphed to Sir H. F. Davie, and ascertained that he knew nothing of the telegram, a de- tective was in attendance, and Sayer was on his arrival taken into custody. Havergill was waiting outside, and and was also captured. The jury found both .prisoners guilty. Havergill was also convicted of stealing some silver salt-cellars. He was sentenced to five years penal servitude, and Sayer to eighteen months' hard labour. Nearly five years ago a man named Cox was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for an indecent assault, and although two policemen and another witness testified against he was acquitted. One of the policemen, Teehan by name, was dismissed the force, ana not long ago died in a state of destitution; while Mother of the witnesses, was prosecuted for perjury, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Cox has again been chafgttd with an offence similar to that for which he took his trial itr February, 1865, and this time has not escaped conviction, having been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment." Mr Selfe made reference to these facts at the Westminster Police Court the other day, and in giving £ 5 from the poor-box to Teehan's wife, assured her that her late husband's character had been completely cleared from the stain cast upon it through his dismissal. The following, on the Motto of the Ecumenical Council," i3 taken from the Pall Mall Gazette:—Over the door of the Council Chamber in St: Peter's has been written, as a correspondent of the Times a few days ago told us, the following inscription :— Docete omnes gentes: j Ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebns Usque ad consummationem stecull. This; we presume, has been taken from St. Matthew, chap. 28, verses 19 and 20. But in that place the whole passage reads thus Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world." Protestants will be apt to see in the omitted passage pre- cisely the restraint on .infallibility which the Pope wishes wi throw off. He claims authority to teach all nations onthout restriction as:to his doctrine or dogma; the gospel wly gives anthority to teach what Christ commanded, in Chich the Immaculate Conception and other points of iatholic faith are certainly not to be found. A garbled nscription over the door is a bad- omen for the fate of truth inside the Chamber. -> Father Hycinthe sailed from New York on Saturday for France. A Nottingham paper records the death of a working man who had brought up eighteen orphans with his own family. The Queen has just paid a visit to an old woman of 101, an agricultural labourer's widow, who had expressed a desire to see her Majesty. The Standard says the committee formed for the pur- pose of honouring the late Lord Derby's memory have abandoned their original design, and have determined that the memorial shall be a national one, raised by a general subscription, and erected on a public site. Three years on Sunday 360 men and boys lost their lives by the terrible Oaks Colliery accident, and 160 bodies are still buried in the workings. The total sub- scriptions for the widows and children amounted to the large sum of PA6,884, and last year the total payments were 24,677. A few days ago a Britith sailor, invalided home from China, and who had manifested great anxiety to reach England, to die on his own native shores, was being car- ned ashore at Woolwich Dockyard, and, on being placed on a stretcher on the ground, said, I have arrived home at last," and immediately expired. A deputation from the Provincial Newspaper Society waited upon the Lord Chancellor last week to represent the disqualification to which the proprietors of provincial papers were liable, in being excluded from the com- mission of the peace. The Lord Chancellor thanked the deputation for the information afforded him, and prom- ised to give the subject his most careful consideration. In Sir W. Bodkin's Court, last week, a jury acquitted a prisoner after very conclusive evidence had, m the Judge's opinion, been offered for the prosecution. He therefore told the jury to exercise their common sense, and reconsider their verdict. The jury did so, and adhered to it, whereat the judge transferred them to Mr Payne's Court, and tried the remainder of the cases with a fresh jury. At Ingatestone, Essex, a girl, 17 years of age, has been shot dead in the presence of her lather by a neighbour who had taken up a gun and pointed it at the girl in fun. No sooner had the gun gone off than the man, throwing up his hands, exclaimed to the father of the girl, Oh, Bob, what have I done? I've shot poor Ann." Mr Hiram A. Briggs, a well-known merchant of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested in that place on the 19th ult., on the charge of attempting to poison his entire family, consisting of his wife, his son (who is in partnership with him), two daughters, and a little grand- child, by putting arsenic in flour for the bread of the family, of which he did not partake himself. The family were made sick, but no one died. The popular demonstrations in Italy against the Ecu- menical Council have not been of a vigorous character. Meetings have been held at Verona, Pisa, and Loretto, and resolutions adopted proclaiming religious liberty and asserting the right of the Italian nation to Rome; but the, attendance was small, and the audiences undemonstrative. The reconciliation between the Sultan and the Egyptian Viceroy is complete. At Cairo, on the 9th, amid salvoes of artillery, the firman, newly received from Constantinople and accepted by Ismail Pasha, was formally read; and the misunderstanding has thus termi- nated apparently to the perfect satisfaction of suzerain and vassal. Our usually well-informed contemporary, the Observer, understands that the conclusion arrived at by the mem- beta of the Cabinet is that "there is nothing in the present state of affairs" in Ireland to require the hurried suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act." Infor- mation of some contemplated sensational exploit" has been received by the Government, but no serious outbreak is apprehended. As a matter of precaution, however, the Government has increased the military strength at the disposal of the Lord-Lieutenant. One of the reasons which the Duke of Abercorn gave at the Ulster banquet for the rarity of the Prince of Wales's visits to Ireland will probably be heard of again. The Prince has told the Duke that the sister island would see him oftener, if "pecuniary reasons did not stand in the way." His income, said the Duke, is not sufficient for the duties he has to perform in London, where he often has to replace the Sovereign. He has to take her place in London, and that causes him to have a greater expenditure than was contemplated when his income was originally fixed." At Blackburn, on Saturday, a boy ten years of age, named John Waring, was charged with maliciously injuring a child under four years of age, named Edward Smith, by placing his bare body on the fire. On the previous Mon- day Smith and Waring, and two other children were play- ing, when Smith began to sing the election song, Hornby for ever." Waring said if he sang it again he would put him on the fire. Smith, not to be intimidated, replied that he would box" Waring, and again sang the song j whereupon Waring lifted him upon a chair, turned up his clothing, and seated him on the top-bar of the fire grate, where he held him for some time. It is already known that great dissatisfaction exists in consequence of the choice which has been made of a suc- cessor to Dr Temple in the head-mastership of Rugby, the appointment, it is alleged, having been made on grounds other than those of academical distinction or per- sonal fitness. Nowhere, we believe, is this feeling stronger than at Rugby itself, especially amongst those who are intimately connected with the reputation and prosperity of the school. We hear that practical shape is about to be given to the opposition which the appointment of Mr Hayman has evoked; and that the under-masters have decided upon presenting a memorial to the trustees of the school, requesting them to re-consider the recent nomina- tion to the head-mastership. On Friday weekatsix o'clock a.m. 120 colliers went down one of Lord Dudley's pits near Wolverhampton, for their day's work. At noon their dinners, in the ordinary course of things, would have been sent down to them, but an hour previously the wheel of the drawing engine, about two tons in weight, suddenly snapped. The skips, one ascending, and the other descending, were thus fixed about midway in the shafts, and the circulation of air be- came greatly impeded in the more distant workings. The r men then congregated near the bottoms of the shafts, where they got air enough, but no food could be passed to them. The difficulty was not surmounted until eleven o'clock on Friday night, when after an enforced abstinence of seventeen hours the hungry band was brought to the surface. The Rev. George Milne, an Independent minister living at Southport, has obtained a verdict for 22,000 against the London and North-Western Railway Company, for injuries sustained in an accident near Leeds. On the 12th November, 1868, thirteen months after the accident, he had a paralytic attack which rendered him so complete a wreck that his evidence had to be taken by commission. The question in dispute was whether the paralysis resulted from the accident. The defendants contended that it was too remote from the time of the collision to have been caused by it, and the fact that the plaintiff had been able after the accident to travel about the country and deliver addresses, night after night, in favour of the British and Foreign Bible Society, was relied on in proof of this. On the other side it was maintained that from the time of the accident the plaintiff gradually became woiife, until his final seizure, and that were was a contiguity of symptoms throughout. It is not generally known that, besides her large con- valescent home at Woodford, Mrs Gladstone has organized at Brook-road, Clapton, a convalescent home for relapsing fever patients, taken from home or hospital indifferently. The home has been opened only a fortnight, during which time twelve convalescents have been admitted, one of whom has been discharged quite cured, and the remaining eleven are all improving. There are thirty beds in the two houses which jointly constitute the home-one house being assigned to the male, the other to the female patients; but it is a singular fact that few sufferers from thin relapsing, or, more properly speaking, famine fever, are yet sufficiently recovered to be deemed convalescent; the sudden outbreak, han been too recent, save in the oldest cases. The business of the home is conducted by some of the gentlemen who have interested themselves in the Woodford Home, and the house is superintended by a lady of position, who gives herself to the work of doing good so that the whole management is gratuitous, ana the names, if it were not an impertinence to give them, would be sufficient guarantee for its efficiency.

MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—The next mails for Australia will be despatched from London- Viâ Southampton on the morning of Saturday, the 25th December. Via Marseilles, on the .evening of Friday, the 31st December. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—A frightful suicide took place on the Neath and-Brecon line on the 6th. It appears that the train leaving Brecon at 11,55 a.m. proceeded at its usual speed towards Neath, calling at the intermediate stations, when after rounding the curve near Penwylt a man dressed in a white smock and the ordinary attire of a labourer emerged from behind the buttress of the road bridge, and, unseen by the driver, placed himself at full length on the near rail. The whole of the train passed over his body, cutting it completely into fragments, part of the flesh adhering to the engine wheels. The frightful mutilation was witnessed by the guard, who also saw parts of the body on the line move, by muscular contraction, into the channel by the rails after the train had gone over them. The driver was not aware of the terrible disaster till after the train had arrived at the station. The frag- ments of the body were subsequently gathered up to await t'ae coroner's inquest. NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE.—The following monthly statement has been issued: "The officers have to record important progress since a previous statement was issued on the 6th of November. At that date only ten branches had been formed and arrangements were in progress for the formation of forty others. At the present date there are forty-two branches formed in operation; and sixty-four others are in course of formation. Upwards of twenty public meetings, open to all persons, whether agreeing with or dissenting from the league, have been held in the course of the month, and at all of them resolutions ap- proving of the programme of the league have been almost unanimously carried. Most of these meetings have been attended by deputations from the executive committee. Several new publications have been issued during the month. Numerous additions of members have taken place—the names of 561 having been received at the cen- tral office, including many prominent friends of education, amongst whom may be specially mentioned Mr R. W. Dale (Birmingham), and the Rev. E. Mellor (Halifax), as representing the Congregational body. The number of mem- bers now enrolled at the central office is 3,836, as against 3,275 last month. Of these 410 are clergymen of the Church of England or ministers of Nonconformist churches. Large additions have been made to the number of members by enrolments in the several branches, to which, as a matter of course, new names may be expected to go. In regard to funds, an equally satisfactory report has to be made. Up to November 6th, the total amount promised was" £ 21,236, payable by annual instalments of ten per cent. The amount promised up to November 30th, is 233,350, shew- ing an increase of P,12,114, during the month.

■"—" 1" -i I Ecclesiastical. The Rev. Dr Brock has been presented with a purse of 21000 by his emg-tegation. The well-known pamphlet, "The Pope and the Council by Janus," has been condemned by the Roman Index. The Weekly Register says that the Bishop of London has lately refused to ordain two candidates for Anglican orderø because they believe in the Real Presence. # On the 8th the Bishop of Ely presided over a meeting the Anglo-Continental Society at Willis's Rooms, at Wio" resolutions were passed, declaring that the unity of Christian Church could not be obtained by declaring infallibility of the head of one Church, and union amongst all Christians, in order to oppose aggressions of Rome. A conference of Wesleyans on education has just beejj held in London. No resolutions were passed; but the P™* Mall Gazette is told that the strength of the opposite" shown to the denominational system "appeared to surpn09 alL" Recent American advices state that the churches Boston are endeavouring to do away with pew-rents reserved seats, and that the experiment, as far as it goeSt pays well. A church in Cambridge which last ^jit* received 1,400 dollars from rented pews, this year 3,000 dollars by the voluntary contributions of those occupied its free seats and other churches who have the experiment find that they raise more money in way than by renting their pews. The consecration of Dr Temple to the Bishopric of Exete* will take place in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, 21st inst., being St. Thomas's Day. In the event of tb*j Archbishop of Canterbury not being sufficiently recovered by that time, the ceremony will be performed by Archbishop of York, who will, in all probability, be by the Bishops of London, Chester, Worcester, and 9»i David's. Lord Arthur Hervey, Bishop-elect of Bath Wells, will be consecrated at the same time, and probably on the same day the Venerable Henry Mackenzie, M.All Archdeacon of Nottingham, will be admitted suffrage" Bishop of Lincoln. The Lancet says that the Archbishop of Ca,nterbury iO gaining strength, and is now removed daily to a room joining his bedroom. Motion is now compiete in the 1eft and sensibility is returning to the left arm. The appetite and spirits are good, an the pulse is becoming steady* the variableness of range before noticed being no longe* observable. An attempt made on Thursday to stand upon the the affected leg, and to move the foot etf that side forwards, was not altogether unsuccessful. On the wholes, his grace proceeds favourably, and the fact that there half been no recurrence of the more important symptoms since the 23rd of last month furnishes his medical attendants with a reasonable hope that his amendment may now proceed without interruption. Dr Pusey, who does not appear to be distinguished by accuracy of statementr recently asserted that Professor Baden Powell, one of the least abused of the and Reviewers died "without the consolations of religion. Mr Flower writes to say that the allegation is utterly untrue. Up to within a few days of his fatal illness, tile Professor, we are informed regularly attended Divine service and the Holy Communion, and at home react every night from the Liturgy to his family and servants. IliO physical sufferings on his death, bed were great, but neve* did "one single expression escape him that did notteU of peace, of resignation to God's will, and of faith iD, the religion in which he had been brought up, in which he ha» always lived, and in which hewas then dying." The Bishop of Lincoln has addressed another letter to Dr Temple, pointing out that "the lawful authority-of Convocation will be set at naught if Dr Temple come to consecration with a condemned volume in his hand. lpt Wordsworth, after again imploring the bishop elect to disavow his responsibifity for Essays and Reviews," Greatly should I then be gladdened in being with you such an occasion in that great and glorious minster with which it was my privilege and happiness to be connected for twenty-four years. Btrt if this cannot be—if, bj persisting in that refusal, you exclude me from it—then I feel myself bound not to keep silence, and, in the name of the Great Head of the Church (with deep sorrow I say it!), I must disclaim all responsibility in. your corisecratioOf and solemnly rtcord my dissent from it, and my protest against it." Steps are being taken to organise a counterdemonstrs,, tion to that held at St. John's College, Cambridge, favour of the abolition of University Tests. On the 29th ult. Messrs E. H. Perowne, of Corpus, H. J. Hothoa (Trinity), and Arthur Holmes fot Clare), acting so secretaries to an association for opposing the abolitiono have circulated a protest for signature among the resident heads, fellows, or ex-fellows of colleges, professors, an& officers or ex-officers of the University, or of some college^ wherein they declare their opinion that the abolition oE tests will seriously imperil the Christian character of the university and colleges," and deprecate any legislation which will place the government and teaching of universities- "in the hands of persons,who are not member of the Established Church." A Lancashire clergyman publicly makes the amend* honorable to Mr Gladstone. In a letter addressed to 'Premier, and which has been puNished, the Writer be by saying that he cannot refrain from expressing his hèárt" felt gratitude for the appointment of Dr Temple to the se& of Exeter; and the next paragraph is as follows:—"At tbdl last election for South Lancashire I opposed you on account of your intended measure for the Irish Church. With sorrow of heart I have arrived at the conclusion, from the foolish and impudent attitude of my brother clergy towards yourself and your distinguished nominee, that* before many years have passed, the highest intellect of country will be driven beyond the pale of the Churchy and that the educated laymen, conscious of being mentally jj1 advance of their nationally appointed teachers, witt demand its disestablishment and disendowment." The Record discusses with much indignation and evident alarm, the "revolutionary" meeting at Cambridge-(th* Oxford meeting is not mentioned) for the unchurching^ that noble University and its various Colleges. M* Gladstone is warned that if "the monstrous request ot these agitators" (elsewhere described as, i< th- malcontents" and "thesepolitical busybodies") i% complied with, in a few years "we may see Unitarians, Secularists* Jews, and even Mahometans and Parsees, filling t^e ^bair of University Professors. But even Mr Gladstone^ ii hoped, will have grace given him to pause before he con* sents to the wild proposal," the antichristian project" of taking the very extremest measure of m Sir John Coleridge's Permissive Bill compulsoryand; meanwhile, all who value Scriptural and Protestant truth, are earnest- ly exhorted to rally rouud both the Universities at this crisis, and do all they can to avert the threatened calamity." Canon Girdlestone was asked to sign a. memorial agaitft Dr Temple's consecration. In his reply the canon aaid r I can come to no other conclusion than that which I have all along felt to be the right one, namely, that the sooner Dr Temple is consecrated the better it will be for the Church at large and the diocese of Exeter in particular. I feel also that, though no doubt they are acting from the most conscientious, but I think mistaken motives, Bishop Trower, and his associates deserve anything but rtmnlrg, at least from those who are. like-minded with me. My belief is that the Word of God has much more to fear from the trammels of revived priestcraft than from intelligent inquiry, however free, and the Church of England more to hope from union with Protestant Dissenters than with the Church of Rome. The Bishop of Llandaff writes to Archdeacon Denison- I cannot but think, with all possible respect for Dr Temple's high eharacter and personal feelings, that before his consecration the Church has a right to expect that he will make such a declaration of his sentiments as will allay the existing agitation, restore peace and comfort to the Church, and enable the consecrating bishops to per- form this most solemn and responsible of ther functions jj1 this instance, not only with satisfaction to themelves-OA their known convictions of Dr Temple's faith and eX. cellence might oherwise enable them to do-but also with the assurance that they will not at the same time wound the feelings, and perhaps unsettle the faith of of their brethren, and expose both themselves and the Church, and, I may add, the acknowledged Supremacy of the Crown, to the scoffs and derision of her enemies."

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We (Pall Mall Gazette) learn from Ireland that in con- sequence of certain information which reached the Govern- ment through private sources last week, it has been found necessary to take precautionary measures against possible attempts at insurrection in certain districts. Lord Strath- nairn received instructions to prepare seven flying columns, under picked officers, ready to move at an hours warning on any parts of the country threatened by Fenian dis- affection.