... ECCLESIASTIOAL INTELLIGENCE. A SCENE IN A CHuRCR.-On Sunday last, a Mr J. O'Connell, from Dublin. who has been lecturing at Newton, entered the church of St. James the Great, at Haydock, and made himself couspicuous by count- ing the fifteen candles and numerous crossea in the church. The churchwarden asked him to conduct himself properly, by standing up at the chanting. This he publcly ...

... EARL RUSSELL ON THFfl IRISH CHURCH. A corrected report of Earl Russell's speech on the Irish Church, on the 2-ith tlt., published in a pam- phlet form, has the following preface by the noble earl:- In publishing a corrected report of my speech on the Church of Ireland. I wish to call the serious at tention of thoughtful men to the present state of af- fairs. If we say at once that all Roman ...

... NEWCASTLE. JULY 19. 1ihe parliamentary Reform Bill having pass- ed the House of Commons, and been read a first time in the House of Lords, there is time, arind not nmore than barely. time, for the mea- sure to obtain the Royal assent during the pre'sent session. This, however, can only be accomplished in case the debates which have already taken place, at such great length, in the House of ...

... The Viceroy was magnificently entertained by the Lord Mayor of London on Thursday evening. There was a brilliant gathering, including the Prince Teck, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, most of the foreign ministers, several members of the government, &c. On the health of the Viceroy being given, his High- ness responded in Turkish, which was subsequently translated into French by his Minister. He ...

... NAVAL REVIEW AT SP1ITHhAD. The great naval review at Spithsnd on Wednesday resulted in a comparative failure, on account of the unfavourable weather during most part of the day. The wind blew a gale, and rain poured down in tor- rents at intervals. Tens of thousands lined the beaches, and the decorations were profuse on the arrival of the Sultan. The Mayor of Portsmouth (Mr Alderman Emanuel), ...

... MSETING AT BURY ST. EDMUNDS. * Of the implements at the Bury St. Ed- The tri5e oing of this society were proceeded with anurde mit t a openedonthepreviousday. The 0o Thersda; F. J. nramwell, Mr W. Owen, and Mr jadges tcsh portable agricultural engines; Mr H. B. J V. 0*o l;ir J Coleman, Mir J. Brassnett, and Mr 0518 WvJ'ejrshlcing machilies; Mr J. Martin and Mr Qo. Scn machines moved by steam; ...

... ARCHDEACON Pti.EST'S CHARGE. The following correspondence has been forwarded for publication:- East Brent, July 4, 1867. M My dear Sir,-The Newcastle Journal of June 28 has been sent to me, with a report of your charge at Durham, on June 27. In that report I read as fol- lows, in reference to the prosecution promoted against me on the subject of the Doctrine of the Holy Eacha- rist, 1854 ...

... The Gloucestershire Agricultural Society has come to a decision that it is expedient to give up the exhi- bition of cattle for this season. Ma MEcai OG ScwAGE.-In his Farm Notes of the past month, Mr. Mechi mentions that on June 10, he cut his Italian rye grass, four feet high, for hay, and calculates on 3J tons per acre. In 1866 he out it 1;5 days earlier, and carted 1.5 tons off five ...

... [In selecting the Spirit of the Press,, we are guided solely by a wish to place before our readers the opinions of all parties, without any regard to the relation such opinions may sustain to this journal.] EFFECTS OF THfE REFORM BILL. (Fromt the Times. ) We do not share the apprehensioni of demo- cratio violence which is not uncommonly enter- tained. It is plain that the mere fact of a ...

... THE BISHOP OF DURHAM AND HIS: RURAL DEANS. A, long correspondence has passed between the Bishop of Durham and the Hon. andRev. F. R. Grey, brother of Earl Grey and brother-in-law of the Earl of Carlisle, and rector of MoWiprii ini oonsequenceof the Bishop erasing the Rev. Mr Grey's naine from the list of his rural deans. The Bishop, after a visit he paid to Morpeth parish church last month, ...

... THE SULTAN'S VISIT TO EN(LAND. His Imperial Majesty, the Sultafn Abdul-Aziz, with his heir, and his two sons, attended by a numerous retinue, left Paris on Thursdaynight at seven o'clock, arrived at Boulogne between eleven and twelve, and embarked for Dover on Friday morning, in the Reine Hortense, escorted by her Majesty's steam-frigates Liverpool and Phoebe. At a quarter to eleven the Reine ...

... The arrival of the Belgian volunteers to the number about 2,400, to take part in the competitions at Wim- bledon was briefly mentioned in last week's Courant. They arrived at Gravesend on Thursday, and pro. ceeded to London the same evening. According to all accounts, their voyage was sadly mismanaged, and the entertainment given to them by the Lord Mayor of London at the Guildball, on Friday, ...