... THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE REV. W. BUTLER, From the Natal Witness of the 9th of April, just received, we take the following letter from Members of the United Church of England and Ireland in this Diocese, addressed to the new Bishop Butler designate, which is in course of signa. ture, and will be forwarded by an early opportunity: To thle Rev. W. Butler, Wantage, Berks. Rev. Sir,-We have ...

... Friday, 2 o'clock. chid C-bmilyflIq orb)d. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. PARIS, Mlay 24.-M. Brasseur, formerly Professor of French at King's College, London, has been appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Prince Napoleon and Princess Clotilde left Paris yesterday for Turin, to be present at the marriage of Prince Amadeus with the Princess della Cisterna. The Prussian Government have ...

... THIE FE NIA N CONVICTS. WE made some observations on Saturday on this subject to the effect that treason was morally as well as legally a great crime, and that the moral objections which many people appear to feel to the infliction of capital punishment upon those who are convicted of it was a weakness. We abstained from discussing on that occasion the question whether it was politically ...

... I EXTR&O1DINAILY SCENE. The Bishop of Salisbury recently held his triennial visitation at Bridport, where there was a large attendance of clergy and church-wardens. The charge consists prin- cipally of a vindication of these doctrines:-1. That cer- tain man have had entrusted to them by God, as fellow- workers with Him, supernatural powers and prerogatives. 2. That God had bee* pleased to give ...

... CASES IN THE DrvoxcS COuRT.-From the list of causes in the Divorce Court for next term it appears that there, are 165, of which 128 are. to be tried without juries. THE OwNER. or THE DERBY WINNER.-YeSterdsy e Mr. Ohaptin, the owner or Hermit, transmitted 250 d guineas to the almshouses of Epsom, which shelter twelve X poor widows. E PARIS RAOEs THIs DAY -The following horses that il ran in the ...

... By the arrival of the above mails we have ad- vices from Bombay to May 4; Madras, April 27; Calcutta, April 27; Colombo, April 30 ; Hong Kong, April 15; Shanghai, April 8; Singapore, April 23, &c. INDIA. His Excellency the Viceroy and suite left Calcutta for Simla on April 24th, after having transmitted to England the report of the Famine Commission. It was believed that his excellency's ...

... %Ial? llu 'A polift Ilrajo, '3 liffilt I S4'TUBDAY, MAY 25. -H fas the poorert' says, it is only the first step ta ilat csts. 7;10 Hail of Arts and Scioncos at Ken- ;aglolw will ?? in successiul history. It -wts in- a aenrated on SMonclay with a brilliant orom nil and ..a p d llar excitement; whilo it had the still steatler distinioell of reciving the countenance and ativoe ssistlance if ...

... I COLLISON VPITE AN ICEBERG. I The L istward Ho, from Nwv Yorlr. met with a mnst re serions rmisfortune ou her passage, of sne h P. nature that of it seeme almost iteredible thatt the vess I with her ill entiro ce.w wore not lost, leavinir no ror-d of their fate. ho The ?? left NWw York on the 27i II of 0 tobpr. with a 2g cargo of geiriial merchandise, for Sdnoey. When off 3x tte Cape of Good ...

... TES, NATIONA DE= T WORKING CLASSES T_ PLUS. To TH3 HDITOI J O L DyIq Sm,-A rahPrroakaeOr' in the House of COM~noons a fow, ?? 2 neither more nor lees than Mr a 1 Gladstone, and hir. Gladstone rcp ae- pra it. with compound interest -X., e ro I with the mutual relationship of t over- 0 legislators will admit t'tat ts i 9 twa i' l.ars high degree. Mr. ldtn n ?? 155 The one is the leader of th oe ...

... THE NEWS FROM THE RIVER PLAT TO TE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-It has at length become absolutely r.r. sary in the cause of truth to notice the utterly ittcc-O: accounts which for many months past have been :t. mitted by telegram from Lisbon, on the arrival the:- the bimonthly packets, purporting to come from Beua: Ayres and Brazil, and evidently dictated by Paragon_. agency, ...

... TEE Charge delivered by the Bishop of SALISBURY, and the incidents to which it has given rise in the way of an ebullition of feeling by Mr. TEMPLER and of a formal remonstrance through the columns of the Times by S. G. O., are incidents of which it is very easy to exaggerate the importance, although they are no doubt illustrations of a state of things which will probably produce, and that ...

... The bill for the assumption of a portion of the Pontifical Debt came on for- discussion in the Italian Senate yesterday. Signor Farini pointed out the unsatisfactory condition of the finances, and urged the Government to devise a plan for the conversion of the public debt. Signor Scialoja, the late Finance Minister, argued that such conversion was impossible in the present state of the ...