... TE; VATICA . DEOREES. ROME AND OXFORD. The Times publishes the subjoied'ecorreapoudence, whioh has a signiflcant bearing on the controversy raised'by Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet Birmingham,'Oot. 26, 1874. My Lord-'-One of my ions who has been a member of New College, Oxford for the last two years, and, having passed in honours at Moderations, was 'reading for honours in the final schools, has ...

... TELEGRAPHIC DEWT I ITALy., Signor Minghetti will submit theestimate 1876 to the Chamber of Deputies to.mora for A bill bearing 106 signatres of meibe w Left has been laid before the Chambe of thO to bestow upon Garibaldi a national ?? £4,000 a year. otat0 of The House will receive the reporb ...

... fg :i~hforSeedleywa.dinp lace I init: betv at t Wei 'ft. WiL slyI tielt etan tee, Eles bi Lib ten da3 ted iond :on. rds Wt w Aiv~d, Mt ulin I L'hyAdo tol5odufjh has been 0,'-'ectL r 0ddwtha Wedalesday,,tht 'P0l- tio is 0 con I 3, adlet0,°det~onte. t rhcotslY IlN .Brougm~hiiht, ~oan t R fi rc 60csrva vatve). Mr. Johnson, s o Rodwowasthe Liberae caui-ea soni. u whichwascontested ontext day, daI ...

... THE NEW DOCK AT FLEEWOOD. I Just wben the mev dock at Eleetwood had been com- menced, there appeared in this paper an article descriptive ef its site, and of the work done, with a copious reference to what was intended, and to the general position and prospects of the town whose trade this dock was intended to increase, and whose inhabitants it seemed likely to benefit. M1any months have ...

... MR. GLADSTONE AND THE VATICAN- DECREES. Lord Acton has addressed to the imes a long letter in substantiation of the statements made by him in his letter to Mr. Gladstone. Taking first his statement that the Vatican Decrees assin to the Papacy no power over temporal concerns greater then that which it had claimed and exercised before, Lord Acton recounts the facts of the controversy between ...

... The following is the text of a new canon against Ritualism adopted on the 27th of Ootober, after a long debate, by the General Convention of the Protestant I Episcopal Church of the United States:- Resolved (the House of Bishops concnrrinr) That the following additional section be added to Canon 20, Title I., Of the use of the Book of Common Prayer. See. 2. (1). If any bishop have reason to ...

... AN ADMIRAL FINED FOR'LIBEL. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the case of the Queen v. Burton was tried, before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Blackburn, Quain, and Archibald. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Collins, appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and prayed judgment on Admiral James Ryder Burton, aged 82, who was convicted in June last of a series of libels on Sir ...

... MIANCHESTER ANDJ SALrpORD SAN ASSO, jIATIQN. ~ The inaugural lecture of thewinter lie, by ?? and Selford Sanif~~ eV ?? evenii b Da o 'Asi in the Memorial Hall, Albyr. llor *nat th~n8- fgd ItgtheP ~ berta a qae r o t h~ed Manchester, the Presidenofltie aofhisto The ChaeRMAz expressed his lleas ture Ing over a meeting of that association during the quarter of a cutecry of its had done very ...

... CAPTURED BY PIRLTES. I irk i - A . _ Mr. Walter William Mundy, who was the only English passenger on board the Spark, sends the following interesting account of the piratical oat- rage on the Canton River:- I embarked on board the Spark on the 22nd of August to proceed on business to Macao. We left Cantn at half-past seven in the morning, and were due at X5acaaW between four and five the ...

... IHORRORS OF NEAPOLITAN I I 3R . BRIGAND AGE. I The monstertrial at Potenza, the capitaI of the largest province of the south, continues, and the enormities which the evidence reveals are (says the Times' corre- spondent) almost incredible. Yet one year only has elapsed since the chief criminal was arrested. As in- stances of the savage acts committed in this boautiful land, take the work of a ...

... MR. FAWCETT, M.P., ON DISESTABLIS]E\NT I 'AND TEE LIBERAL LEADERSHIfp it $ Profeso 3 LL th bI~ in Poesor FAWCETT, in the course of his addres to )d te electors of Hackney, on Wednesda nih oh served that nothing was so remarkal as thei ciA0, )a whih hadcome over the Disestablishment que~stio`a )y Twelve months ago the disestablishment of the Ensieii a. Church was spoken of as the distant dream ...

... STRAY-NOTES. I There is some dismal talk again about the orivate affairs of royalty. It seems that when the Duke of Edinburgh went into Buckingham Palace he was told that he would be expected to provide for his own household, and the Queen's servants were withdrawn. As he does not re- quire extensive attendance he has not a porter at every window. The omission causes a lot of .grum'nbling. Why ...