... ITEE ChURUCH OF ENGLAND i I ~ AND ITS SYSTEM. SERMON BY THE BI8OP OF CHESTR.L Yesteiday emorninr, an ordination servicewan held in the.'Clsster Cathedral, after whieh a, sermon, specially addressed to the newly-ordained: miniateroi was delivered by the Right lReversrd the Bishop of the dicoese.,' His Lordship took for his text eailm cxliv. 15-Happy are tha people thatare in such a case; yea, ...

... PBOGRESS OF THE WAR IN AMERICA. The war news brought by the steamer Moravian is very vague and uncertain, and there is nothing that can be relied upon either from the army of Grant or that of Sherman. IThe report of a battle het*een- Sheridan and Early, in which the latter is said to have been defeated, was again current, but its magni- tude was very much diminished, and nothing was said about ...

... (From tik New York Tribuw.m) we are indebted to Mr. Henry C; Parke, of the 16th Word, who was returning from Watihington, where he had been participating in the Inang- uration ceremonies, for the following statement of a cad disaster, on Monday night, on the Caluden and Amboy railroad. The train which left Wash- ington at 11 o'clock on Monday morning reached Philadelphia in safety at 9 a.m., ...

... THE TELEGRLAPH TO INDIA. Tho direct line of telegraphic ommunication hi between England and her vast posBeesione in the far East hae at length been oponed to the public, no and mesmages are now hourly passing between AI London and the moat distant portion of our Indianr A empire, even to the very borders of China itself. That thia great undertaking has at length been e brought to a successful ...

... I . - . .. _ = .= [BY TZLErOILpH. The Prince of Wale8 will leavo town this week in order to be present at theOPeeuingogf the Dablin Exhibtlion. THE NEW PORTUGUSE MINISTRY. tREtU 'S T CLORAM.] Ansew ministry has been forated, composed as follow0:-President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Duke de Lould; Mini;te of the Interior, the Marquis of zialugosa; Miniuter of Justice, ...

... RAILWAY RIVALRY IN THE IHOUNE OF COMMONS. I The influence of the railway interest in the House of Commons is very strongly shown by the extraordinary muster of members which took place in the house on Tuesday last, on: the occasion of the division on the second reading of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and Great Eastern Junction Railway Bill. The question involved in that bill was the forming ...

... LATEST SD COMMERCIAL. LONDON. MONDAY. The following were the sales raported on the tock eoxhange up to one o'clook tboday :- BRITISH AND FOfINIGN RAILWAYS. areat htsru ,.. . 47i Gnat Northern .. .18. 1d Gioat Western . 72j 3 Ditto South Wales es lncahira and Yorkshire . 118 Xd Ldon and Blhckwaidi .. - - - 88 xd | Lcndon. Brighton, and South Comat,..- . 103 London and Nrt4 ...

... THE ~ FINANCIAL B I SOOA T - IO1 0 I he anaual'culngat of thifs asoolation was held 'by huat t-hing in the Hoert a, Lord Nelson. o,. street. Mbi. Charles Holland presided, and' the 'npo following gentlemen were also amongst those on esea the ~atform: 'Siir John Bowring, E. 0. Green. deti ing,V.I Coaossham, J. & Partridge, J. H. RBaper, gres 0. T. Bowring, J. B. Jeffery, Owen Williams, poil W. ...

... LATEST AD TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. A despatch from her Majeety's chargd d'affairen tl * Japan notices twvo additional instances of,, buaans and hoapitable treatment, by the Japanese uthoritiiao and people of shipwreced crews, and i painsl taken by them to preserve or recover property or gear belonging to etranded vsasale.- ge COMMERCIAL. w LONDON. TUESDAY. i; The following were the sales reported on ...

... /•» pnUitalitm, M for (As information Editor. (krmpomdmJt set wsy tpteiml upon iAttr tornmunicationt mm* i*q> topia of item, mmaiundm J. 5., Stafford.—We cannot find room for the letter. are obliged One who has been an Observer, , for his very interesting letter. Several letters and other communications are necessarily held over until morrow. A Lover Fair Play, Wednesbury.—We think the ...

... The leading lronmaklng dlstrlcta of the United King dctn presented yesterday a ▼ery gloomy appearance, and the tone ol the converatlon of inhabitants A straggle begun, the end of which la not easy to foresee If the masters and the men respectively remain In the same humour aa they were yesterday, It will a long time before the then locked against tho are again unbarred. way showing some little ...

... I| ULL -BOARD OF, GUARDIANS.) :STORMY PROCEEDINGS. On Wednesday a special meeting of the guardians :was held at the workhouse Anlaby road, when Governor Fountain presided. Messrs Hart, Tapp, and Kidd were ulnanimously re-appointed rate collectors. -Mr Ellis then moved a resolution of which notice had been given, to the effect that any guardian intending to become a candidate for an offieo of ...