... Further correspondence appeared in the London journals on Monday morning between the Bishop of Salisbury and his recalcitrant clergy on the subject of his lordship's recent charge. The Bishop, having re- ceived an indignant protest against the doctrines asserted by him, replies that, having asked for a patient and dutiful consideration of his views, he did not expect that they would have been ...

... An inquiry has been held in London by Dr. Lan- kester at University College Hospital, relative to the death of Florence Lennox, aged nine, while under the influence of chloroform, administered for the purpose of performing an operation on the eye for the cure of squinting. Sarah Lennox, widow of a gardener, of Burling-on-tlie-IIill, Okeham, Rutlandshire, identified the body of her daughter, ...

... It will be seen from our Parliamentary intelligence that the Government have decided to recommend her Majesty to commute the sentence upon Burke, the Fenian, whose execution was fixed for last Wednesday, the 29th. Public feeling was being strongly manifested in favour of this step not only in Ireland, but in Lon- don and the provinces. A large annual gathering of Quakers from all parts of the ...

... RITUALISM. The following reply from his Grace the Archbishop of York has been received in answer to a memorial, adopted and numerously signed at a public meeting recently held at Birkenhead, by lay members of the Church of England, to protest against the practices and innovations of the Ritualists :— (Copy.) Bishopthorpe, York, May 15. Gentlemen,—I have to thank you sincerely for the memo- ...

... The New York correspondent of the Standard gives the following particulars of a frightful tragedy recently enacted in the state of New Jersey :— On the night of Feb. 25 the wife of a physician named Coriell was brutally murdered. Suspicion fell upon the one servant of the family, Bridget Durgan, whose conduct, both at the time of the discovery of the murder and afterwards, was of the most ...

... ^°nday ni&ht, Mr. Young, who is to command the Livingstone search expedition, reported that the steel boat is finished, and that he will leave England in the mail steamer on the 8th of this month for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he will proceed to the mouth of the ZambesL There the boat will be put together, and the party will go up the river to the Murchison Falls. Here the boat will be ...

... The inhabitants of Woburn-square, Bloomsbury, were annoyed during last week by largo numbers of the ragged and noisy population of St. Giles in quest of a ghost said to be a denizen of the square garden. So great and increasing has been the crowd that police have been told off for the special service of maintaining order and making the populace move on. The excitement appears to date from tho ...

... principal railways on Saturday, the excuse of the di- rectors being that the change is rendered necessary by the advantages recently given to guards and drivers. The increase, which only affects return tickets, is equal to an addition of about one-ninth of the former rates. Communications from Vienna say that a letter ad- ...

... The Queen is about to perform an act of great muni- ficence. During the five years that she has remained in retirement she has necessarily accumulated a large portion of her privy purse allowance, which, under happier circumstances, would have been spent in Royal hospitality both to her own subjects and to foreign Princes. Her Majesty, desiring it should not be sup- posed that she had saved ...

... Scarcely a day passes but in the columns of the papers may be seen these two ominous words— Missing Ships—heading a short paragraph an- nouncing the sailing of some vessel from one port for another, and concluding with the words has not been heard of since. Each disappearing vessel adds another to the vast list of the untold tales of the sea. A valuable ship, loaded with a rich cargo, sud ...

... A TEA MEETING in connection with the re-opening of James's street Wesleyan chapel, was held at the Wesleyau chapel on Monday last, when about 400 per- sons partook of the social cup; after which the meeting was ably addressed by the Revs — Green, C. Smith, and others The chair was occupied by the Rev J. Puddicombe. We believe the proceeds will be equally divided between the two chapels. THE ...

... ,°ld cry against the Queen's seclusion and retire- again been raised, but this time the reason TJijj* ed for her return to public life is somewhat from that given on previous occasions. It !>et stated that the private manner in which 14iit lesty chose to live was something very like an *Peeii the nation now the great plea is that the ''Utieg D?Us': return to the full performance of regal ...