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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 20 October 1874, Page 2

The libel case of Fraserv. Reed and Brett will apparently be brought to a close earlier than was f expected, the evidence -havirg been concluded before the Court adjourned yesterday. We give elsewhere a full report [oE yesterday's proceedings.

Mr T. E. Shaw writes a letter asserting that he acts for himself, and denying that Mr Honiss knew nothing of him till informed by Mr Mcllhone.

We are requested to call the attention of Good Templars to the speciai meeting called for this afternoon, for the purpose of attending the funeral of the late Bra, Rev S. Wilson.

The brig 1 Drover,' piloted by Mc P. Bonfield, went up tp (Jibbons's mill on the Thames river on Sunday last, She started from the Goods Wharf at 11 a.m, and went into the main channel of the Thames. She went int° the passage about 4 p.m. the same afternoon, and arrived at Gibbons's wharf at half-past 8. It was quarter ebb when the vessel started up the cliannel, anjl she arrived at her destination exactly at low wateiywithoutouce touching the bottom or either bank of the river,

A sample of the coal seam at the Mata Creek • has been tested in town, and found to be of most excellent quality. Captain Goldsmith went down to the Mata yesterday to iuspect the seam, and the line for the proposed tramway. The seam is at about two miles bacic from the sea, but we believe the tramway could be constructed at an easy gradient.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year at the meeting ofj Associated Engineers:— Bro. J. Clarkson, Past President; J. Coutts, President; Bro. W. Carriok, VicePresident ; Bro. D. McKay, Treasurer; Bro. It. W. ltiithby, Secretary; Bro. C. Morton, S.V.; Bro. Newport, J. V.; Bro. Kay, Guard;. Bro. Thompson, Assistant Guard; Bros Davis, sen,, Davin, juu., Craig,"and Edwards, Members of the Investigation Committee.

The Daily Southern Gross says Sir Donald McLean, Native Minister, is expected to arrive in Auckland within the uext fe.v days.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Miners' Accident ltelief Fund was held last evening at the Governor Bowen Hotel. Present—Messrs Richards (chairman), Lowe, Donnelly, Watson, Goldsworthy, and bay. Several applications for relief were considered. Two were, favourably received, and orders for weekly payment made, A third, which had been under consideration from tho previous week, was disallowed, as tho applicant had been iu arrears with his contributions. Tho Secretary was instructed to call a special meeting to consider the report and balance-sheet which was to be prepared for the half-yearly geueral meeting. Messrs Power and Chapman were appointed auditors

A new friendly society, entitled " The Independent Order of Free tfardeuors," has- been established iu Auckland, says the Herald.. It has been enrolled under the Friendly Societies' Act of New Zealand. The new aociety offers a most liberal scale of benefits to its members; the sick allowance being 21s weekly, and the sum payable at death, being £!£.

The cabin of thcps, ' L:illa Hookh' was forcibly entered on Saturday night; the door of (lie captain's room appears to have been • forced open with a crowbar, and a parcel of cargo for the Hot Springs was abstracted. It is thought that the same party must have visited the ps. ' Hauraki,' as the cook of ' that vessel found two men trying the doors' about 10 p.m. the same night; wheir asked what they required, they gave an evasive auswer, and left hurriedly. The cook says the night was so dark that he was unable to identify them, but thinks that one of the intruders was a man at least 6 feet in height.— Cross,

The Bishop of Waiapu, in his address to the Diocesan Synod, spoke against the use of "Hymns, Ancient and Modern' 1 in Episcopalian Churches on account of their tendency "in a Homeward direction." He said There is a covert attempt to bring in 'doctrines novel o the Church of England, aud which promote a restoration of practices which were removed at the Reformation. I shall only notice a few lea iint; points. . . But-the most serious objection against this book is its tendency to Mariolatry. i n ' Hymns, Ancient and Modern we find that the name of the Virgin is put forward with s i„ gular prominence. There we have the terms' Virgin fall of grace,' 'Mary undefilel,' 'Mother mild, 'Mother blest,- 'Mother dear,- 1 Virgin born,' 'The 7irgin's Holy Son.' We look to the Romish Breviary, and we see tnat these are the terms there recognisedand, in fact, no less than 123 °o£ the hymns of this work are borrowed from the llonian, Sarum, aud Paris Breviaries; but these expressions would have sounded strange to the ears of members of the Church of Bugland at the beginning of this century. The object of introducing them now seems to be that those who use the book may be insensibly reconciled to uuaccustomed words and phrases, which are the symbols of superstition and idolatry." The following account of the dismasting of the s.s.'Emu' is furnished by the Hawks my limes: —lbe auxiliary screw steamer Kinu left Oamaru for Auckland on Friday the 9th October, with a brisk breeze from the S.S.W. Made Banks's Peninsula at 5 a.m. on the 10th. Light variable winds were experienced all day, and during the night strong southerly winds with rain and low barometer. The next day, Sunday, the 11th, a hard gale sprung upfromfheN.W.; took in all fore-and-aft canvas and ran under squaresails at the rate of 10 knots an hour. During the afternoon the wiud fell light, and at 4 p.m; again set sail, Cape Palliser bearing N. E.° 30 miles, In the course of the night the wind freshened up from the N.W., and at 4 a.m. on the 12th was blowing a gala from that quarter, with heavy squalls, Shortened sail, and at 8 a.m. was under lower top- r sail, fore-trysail, and jib, with a heavy sea ruaniug. At _ 10.10 a.m. called watch to take in lower topsail, and, while clewiag it up, the port fore rigging carried away. The foremast broke off by the deck, taking the mainmast, wizzentopmast, and jib-boom with it, the mainmast breaking off about 16ft from the deck. Had to cut away everything to save the' vessel; lay-to under close-reefed mizzen, it being the only sail that could be set; Got'' up steam immediately, in case of -leakage. At 9 p.m. the wind shifted to the S.W., with rain,, the weather being thick and dirty all night. Steamed for the land, and at 6 a.m. on the 13th sighted Gape Turnagain. Ringed up a jury foremist, set all possible sail, and ran along the land, shaping our course for Napier. Anchored in the roadstead at 2.30 a.m. on the 14th, and lay there rolling about in a heavy sea till 5 p m., when, the pilot having arrived on board, she steamed into the Pot, andisaotv moored alongside the Western Spit. ;

A correspondent of the Otago Ouardiu,' < writing from Vienna, siysThere are a. great number o£ Jews in Pesth, and they have, a magnificent synagogue. Hearing it called the' handsomest in Kurope, I visited it, but think it by no means to be compared with the;new' synagogue in Bsrliu, nor yet with that in Frank- ~ fort. It was on a Friday evening, for I wishedto witness their public worship. The Jews'-; Sabbath begins on Friday at sunset. The singing was very good—men's and boys' voices un> accompanied—for it was a mourufal festival, The congregation consisted of a few old Jewesses iu the galleries, whilst the body of the church was filled with ragged- bays, who came to hear the music. I wondered what the Jews wauted of so magnificent a temple, for inPesth as in Vienna, they are quite careless about their religion; indeed, I think in some instances ashamed of it. You are sure to offend it you say to a Jewish lady you knew her to be Jewish,, She wi'l indignantly ask you, "How?" And in some families here and there you see a child which has none of the characteristics. A Jew • said to me, the other day, that in less than a , century the Jew will be quite fused with other nations. Vienna, which contains so many magnificent churches, has only one shabby little synagogue, in an unfrequented street. Still, one may say the aristocracy of wealth is almost entirely composed of-Jews. The attempt to assassinate Prince Bismark, at Eiissingen, is prevailing topic. The German papers declare it to be an act of the Ultramontane party to get rid of their arch-enemy. The English amuse me, calling Bismarck " the great champion of Protestantism." He is no such thing; he is (as almost all Prussians are) a materialist, and wishes to keep all creeds under. He is harder with the Catholics, because there is no doubt the Oitholic clergy, when in power, take a more prominent political part than the Protestant. However, this attempt was : the act of an ignorant, fanatical youth, whose mother is an incurable lunatic. It is said hi was instigated thereto by an Austrian priest; and, even if so, . it is hard to attribute the act of a couple of fanatics to any party. Io Prussia the Catholics • are a very small minority; still any religion, I may say any faith, is to be found with them. Here the Catholics are very cireless about religion; still'they have not yet arrived at the same pitch as the Protestants of Berlin, for there Protestantism means protesting against all revealed religion. The middle classes are, almost universally materialists, includiog both sexes and all ages. A few of the high nobility make a great profession of religion, and the Court tries to set a good example of going to church, &c.' The old Emperor William is said to be very pious, and his faithful subjects amuse themselves at the idea. •.

As compensation for thelo33of Ms sinecure office as "Patentee of Bankrupts," which was abolished in 1832, the Bev. Mr Thurlow (says the Liverpool Reformer) received up to tlia 11th of January last, £308,814 193. Ia compensation for the ios3 of another sinecure that of " Hamper (i.e., hamper of ™'epaper basket) Keeper"—he has received £4,028 par annum from 1852, which, for 22 years, would be £88,616; and for a third sinecure, that of Prothouotary of the ham, £398 10s lid, £23 738 18s Gd—in all £421,169 7s 6J. Ihe reverend gentleman had the luck to be bom son of a Bishop of Durham, by fir the richest see iu the kingdom at thit time, .and nephew to Lord Chancellor Thurlow, who was eminently Christian in at least one reject, that of taking very good care of those of nis own household. . The nephew was appointed to these offices in his boyhood, to one of them it is said, when in hi 3 cradle; and as he was boru in 17S8, lie must have been in receipt 0 £ his "Patentee and Prothonotary" for twenty or thirty- years previous to the ... abolition of the offices, and of hi 3 Hamper ® Keeping pay for thirty, or forty • Take the lesser numbers, and assume the comuensation to have been measured by fee 3 and pay and we have £147,054 10a more for the Patentee, £80,560 more for Hamper Keeper, aud £11,956 7s 6d for. the making a grand total of £660,740 5s for the " three gentlemen in one,'' all because he had the luck to have a Bishop for his father and a Lard Chancellor for his uncle.

A papa in Greenville, Kentucky, has a daughter Kate,, and Kate has a lover distasteful to . papa. On tho lover's: birthday Kate bought a uice gilt-edged box of perfumery for a gift, and put into it " The contents are as delicious and innocent as your love.'' Papa got hold of the bos before it was sent, and changed the contJnts for bottles of soothing syrup. is ; no^ absence of he? loy^v,