English Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 37, 25 March 1875, Page 6

English Intelligence.

;We have English intelligence to the 12th inst.:—. :;

The Archbishop and 24 bishops have issued an address to the clergy and laity concerning the course taken by the Government in relation to the Church. They urge discipline, charity, and forbearance.

The New Zealand loan has been allotted, and there have been dealings at a quarter per cent, premium. In the wool market there has not been any perceptible change since the opening sales. Competition is keen. Scoured in good demand.

Archbishop Manning has been summoned to Rome to receive the Cardinalate.

A Bill relating to the State, and introduced by Government into the Prussian Parliament, withdraws State endowments from the clergy who refuse to acknowledge the supremacy of the State. The endowment is to be restored whenever the supremacy of the State is acknowledged. The Government have prohibited the exportation of horses from Germany. [ Sir James Hope Grant and Sir I Arthur Helps are dead. The mails via San Francisco were delivered on the Bth. The mails by Torres Straits were delivered on the Ist instant. Lord Cairns' Judicature Bill has been withdrawn. A new French Ministry has been formed : Buffet/ Minister of Interior ; Dufaure, Minister of Justice; Say,. Finance Minister j Walloon, Minister j of — . Other offices unchanged. | The Lord Chancellor has promised to introduce a measure next session of Parliament for the amendment of the Patent Laws, The aggregate number of visitors to the five great International Exhibitions of the world is 32,959,097/ and the aggregate value of the sums received from them L 1,588,164 10s lOd. The revenue returns for the current financial year show receipts amounting to L 48,661,442, as compared with L 49,406,182 ; and expenditure 1 amounting to L 50,571,463, as compared with L 53,164,965.

Bishop Colenso was prohibited by the Bishop of London from preaching on Sunday in St. James' Chapel, of which the Rev. Stopford Brooke is clergyman. He was also expected to preach at Westminster Abbey, but he aid not make his appearance there. Glasgow once more heads the mortality list. The rate reported by the Registrar-General for the week is 45, while the average of the large towns is 33. Newcastle is also credited with a rate of 40 ; but Liverpool, which has for some time suffered severely from scarlet fever, witnesses a decline from 41 to 39,

The River Pollution Commissioners fifth report has been published. It contains a statement of the kind of chemical and Other impurities which the commissioners consider should be kept out of w^ter courses, and recommends the appointment by Government of inspectors whose duty it should be to detect and prove offences against the' law, and procure the' conviction of offenders.

A Parliamentary return has just been published showing that, at the instigation of an anonymous correspondent who seemed to be a working man,, and sighed himself "A Lover of Justice/ Mr 'Plim.soli had called the attention of the Board , of Trade to the overloaded state of the La Plata before she sailed oh her last- voyage, and that the Board of Trade declined : totakeany action- in the matter^ because the ; original complainant had, hot ''communicated his name and address. / :; '■'.''• '•' ■"■'

Another- call: under the/ Mutual Eligibility Act isto be promoted. The* United Presbyterian .congregation of Cbllejgerstreet, Edingburgh/bhe of the ; most influential cbhgregatiohs : of the denomination in the eqsft Resolved to in-[ vjfte She Rey. ! Patrick Wmi Robertson, of • the/Free' Churohl'llathiltoh^ttf become 1 th'eirpastbif ivrooip of ihe'Revv Mitchell ; Harvey, ! recently ! transferred : to r 11086-" ''Stree^'coh^e^ationV^rnhburgh.^' - iMT i / The ' EtacatioriaT flnstitiitf /of Scofc' land had ah ihtfervieiy 7 with :; th.e J Lprd ,a '' \ Aa^ocate^dn4 isxplaihttid' to'lhim : seyei&li iamendrnVhts which" they deemed 11 dlesiri l able !; shb^ Education ! ' A ct. ° ; ; Among. the' 'amende mohts-^^secl bbafd ; of education' in ! Eflfnhurgu tb form a r court" of apbeal 1 fym; v tn3 local ooards^ anfl 3 jthe paf meW ! By; ! lh'e u foclal D b6ards>of• the ! present? system 0 of 3 'bayihen^ J W "the 3 ; : MarW f;i;lho m *'™ .'>p™uO ■i p -'3^^^e^^i^d^\ > befwe-A'' > y&siers' 1 ahd^meh'^fr^he 1 SbutlF Whleg^anoV MWhmWth toe? ; W&\ilg : *mM™ l }fifcti l fa^,'W rr tf asters having jjeelifiecl %$ arbiwatidniafioTtfiS nWOiavirig ~rlr_slea f tp : submit ft <a p rebMbti# { untiles ufebfeniP regsbtfis^^hdWh^ri^^ Tt wa^fEter^ pKc^o&New o^^ l on 1 sfdrwcmrfih¥e^ fostiv#go/5 merHly bn/ H cre^t amount oras&M 2^- i-^enc¥,ralP#e«tf cau-ed-^thMghee the lf feouhfe'"^h# Ih-S'&fem^^ 0n ol a^ft%*4§< ®4h ? *&V< whieß' l 10TO8I imiisiz s, wiohyq oi G77011M aSy*

"the "traffic both by faii^"andriveris ver^y T much impeded. Trains, having to feel fchjeir way, are aJbjapstmYariably behind tirhe ; while steamers are delayed for days* The coal traffic oh the railways was prohibited until the fog clear: away, and in the Hamilton district, on Monday 200 men engaged in the construction of the Ferniegair line were obliged; by the frost to: desist their labors. With the continuance of frost, the ice is everywhere thick and strong, so that; comparatively few fatal accidents have as yet been reported. One little girl has been drowned on the canal near Linlithgow by falling through a weak part of the ice while slicing. Our Kirkcaldy correspondent, chronicles thesingular fact that, notwithstanding the severe weather experienced in his part of the country, a beautiful butterfly was captured at Pathhead. Probably the : wayward creaturej belonged to. the " deil's " species. Information from Buenos Ayres states that the insurgent leader Arredondo has been defeated, and that tranquility now prevails. The Govern-? ment have proclaimed an amnesty. The insurrection in Uruguay has also; been suppressed. The Italian Budget was discussed in the Chamber of Deputies at Rome. Signor Minghetti said his financial expectations had, been fulfilledv A pro- , posal to. establish! postal savings banks throughout the country was submitted. The winter storms have been workinghavoc in the Chinese seas. Several melancholy disasters have already been; reported; and it is announced by telegraph from Hong 1 Kong that . ; tne steamer Mongol, ah a voyage fromHong Kong to Yokohama, has. beeii completely wrecked, and that her captain, with 15 men of the crew, has been drov/ned. The Mongol, which belonged to the New York, London-, and ''China/ ;■ Steamship Qompany was built, at the? Clyde last year. ' A Brussels paper has published a telegram from Paris, affirming that Marshal MacMahon has had an interview with M. Casimir Perier, the leader' pf the Moderate Liberal party ih'^e .; National Assembly, and that a Government alliance with the Left .Centre! ia ! extremely ; probable. The"' 1 M£r]sh'al-: President used frankly to avow, that he was a Conservative^ and thai '! hishfate; , was linked to that of the Coriseryatiya party ; but, according to the informant of the Brussels paper, he is now. begins r ning to understand,. that the country has set its face decidedly against the Monarchy. .■..;■,:■■..■< , ..., I , In their misfortunes the French have. always thought the Czar, their friencL/ and now that His Majesty has bestowed on Marshal MacMahon the Grand Gordon of the Order of St Andrew/ they are sure of it. His Majesty has. done a graceful act in a graceful way. In his note he says he had long desired to confer on the Marshal some special mark of his regard, . and the passage of the Empress through Prance, and the* touching attentions 1 lavished on her. 'on! its soil, have given him a happy op«---iportunity of realising that desire. : The religious affairs of Mexico were f wont to be regulated under a Cbncor-! j dat someWhat similar to that which /Mf.: I ; Laveleye; has shown to have been ! cbh- 1 ' : eluded with the i ReJHiblio of Ecuador, and;whifch_proyided "there can ./never ■ be permitted within the: Republic ;. the; : exercise of any ; ,ar the " exis-» : tence of any society, condemned by.ttye Church." But; some time ago Protes-, : tant missionaries from the United States crossedtbe frontier, Church and; State: ; came into collision, and Congress , i.eom^ mitted itself to a p^Hcy which seeks /to-' tjermihate the.domination of the Romish : Church, and^^ secure : tblerati6h for .;o]th]^j i Comnifunions.', r In n * pursuance of' this | policy, Congress '• has piassed/^ Act/for.the:rsupprei|ioh,' of religibjus ' or-' irlprs .->■:.■!'. t'A. A" .' .'■■ .-A"- I } )•■'')'- -"' c ' I The trial of Count Am . was: :i con^ jtinue.d,.6ayi£ac^ s Evidence! i was;^ven^s : t.oj 1 the ; statements .in '!$& | 'i Echo dv Payiement,^a^m iTheph.arges on which the; Ooiint;;nla ; jbeen tried expose him, if convicted, W lliaoitity to degradation fjroid litis rank* ja> a noblemajVand deprivation of oryfli j rights; but the'! public prosecutor hfcaf abstained frqmpressing these conclu^ Isions^ and contended himself with orijy] , asking that imprisonment for /two ~ and f |af-h[al|yearß should be the penalty _§»' [ffictect If the/cotirt, therefore, decfifcfj |tio convict, the -probability is "-that tfiex jJ3ounj will escapeiwith a sh'6r|perio#o/ff (imprisonment; -bit tof cojirse : ;exbneria*i !t£oi^ gad not;, OjMJyictionj?; may be w&t [decision whidh will be pronounced. \t The trea|y|: r recently]' /negotiated?! [between China and Japan has btfjsAr [executed, the tropps hate 1 ey'agu&ted Fdr^iosa. China havingx foundgherselfluuable either jjpij fright^] b$ $ri|re her ihojje Mgorous -aftd enteral pristog neighbor: out of tne island, wM t at last obliged to bnyjier ouV and the* 1 (Japanese retire frdm-theifc enterprise in bira^s?and*oPofers m§MyfcVffifik. f M& regard* sti^ded^vessels* '/o^i^tevjfg their reach as their legitimate pray£