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Evening Star, Issue 7156, 9 March 1887, Page 2

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HOME AND FOBEIQt,! ; i hj . •. —-T-. I [BVEleotbio Tbleobaph,— Copyright,] j I- [Reuter’s Telegrams,J • ‘ MONETARY AND*COMMERCIAL.* ■ LONDON, MabS? ; |( Consols to-day are - quoted at advance of J. New Zealand seouritie’aN#main as follow; Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 101$ (ex. div.); 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 95. : Colonial breadstuff's are Adelaide wheat (ex store) is at 36s ; New Zealand do, 33s to 37s 6d (according to •quality) ; Adelaide flour (ex store)'is at 25s 6d.

Australian tallow. Beef of j average quality is at 24s 6d, and mutton do 295.

THE MAILS.

LONDON, March 7.

The mails per Messageries steamship Caledonien (Melbourne, January 26) were delivered to-day.

OBITUARY. LONDON, March 8. (Received March 9,1887, at II a.iri.)

The death is announced of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. He has been ailing since Saturday, when he had a severe apoplectic attack. Henry Ward Beecher, fourth son of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 24, 1818. He studied in public Latin schools in Boston, graduated at Amherst College, Mass., 1834, and studied theology under his father at the Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He first settled as a Presbyterian minster at Laurenoebnrg, Indiana, in 1837, removing'm 1839 to IncUanopolis, and became pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church at Brooklyn, Hew York, in 1847. His church edifice, which has seating capacity for nearly 3,000 persons, has not only always been full when it was known thathe would preach, but the aisles pnd vestibules are also filled, His church has a membership of over 2,000. During his whole career he has mingled to a greaterextentthan almost any other preacher and pastor of his denomination in matters not directly professional. Forhearly a year, during his theological course, he edited the Cincinnati Journal,’ a religious weekly. In Indiana he was editor of the ‘Farmer and Gardener.’ In Brooklyn he was soon known as an earnest opponent of slavery, and an advocate of temperance, peace, and other reforms, and very early beoame prominent as a platform orator and lecturer. From the date of the establishment of the ‘lndependent’newspaper to 1858 he was a constant contributor to its columns, and from 1861 to 1863 its chief editor. He has been since 1870 the editor-in-chief of the ‘ Christian Union ’ a weekly religious paper. He has collected a very fine gallery of paintings and of choice engravings, and at bis country seat at Peekskill, New York, has one of the finest and best regulated farms and flower gardens in the United States. Mr Beecher has twice visited Europe, and the last time (in 1863) addressed large audiences in the principal cities of Great Britain on the questions evolved by the Civil War then raging in the United States. In 1871 Henry W. Sage, a parishioner of Mr Beecher’s, founded a Lectureship of Preaching, called the “Lyman Beecher Lectureship,” in the Yale College Di.inity School, and the first three annual courses were delivered by Mr Beecher. His regular weekly sermons, as taken down by stenographic reporters, have been printed since 1869. Besides these be has published “Lectures to Young Men,” 1860; “Star Papers,” 1855; “Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes,” 1855; “Life Thoughts,”lßsß; “Pleasant Talks about Fruits, Flowers, and Farming,” 1859; “ Eyes and Ears,” 1862; “ Freedom and War,” 1863; "Royal Truths,” 1864; “Aids to Prayer,” 1864; “Pulpit Pungencies,” 1866; “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit,” 1867; “ Norwood,” a novel, 1867; “ Overture of Angels,” 1869; “Lecture-room Talks;” 1870; “Morning and Evening Exercises, 1870; “Life of Christ” (of which only the first volume has ever been issued), 1871; “Yale Lectures on Preaching,’’jihree volumes, 1872-74; and “A Summer Parish,” 1874. In the summer of 1874 Mr Theodore Tilton, formerly his associate, and afterwards his successor, in the editorship of the ' Independent,’ charged him with criminality with Mrs Tilton. A committee of the Plymouth congregation reported that this charge was without any foundation; but meanwhile Mr Tilton commenced a civil suit against Mr Beecher, laying his damages at 100,000dol. The trial was protracted during six months; and at,its close the mry, a'ter being locked up for more than a week, failed to agree upon a verdict, nine being for acquittal of defendant and three for conviction. In 1878 Mr Beecher announced that he did not believe in the eternity of punishment, believing that all punishments are cautionary and remedial, and that no greater cruelty could, be imagined than the continuance of suffering eternally, after all hope of reformation is gone. - He is understood to bold both to the annihilation of the miserable and the restoration of all others. In 1882 he formally withdrew from the Association of Congregational Churches on account of this change m belief, —“Men of the Time.”

THE SEPTENATE BILL. BERLIN, March 7. The Bill for the increase of thje German army during the next seven years’ was read a first time in the Reichstag to-day, THE PONTIFICAL SECRETARY. ROME, MXroh 8. Monsignor Rampolla del Tindars, Papal Nuncio at Madrid, is to replace the late Cardinal Jacobin as Pontifical Secretary. [< Arous 1 Special to Press Association.] LONDON, March 8. (Received March 9,1887, at 11.66 a.m.) > The efforts recently made by prominent members of the Liberal party to heal the breach caused by the division of opinion over the Irish question have been revived, with some prospect of success. The communications between the chiefs of the various sections show that reunion is not far distant. Westgarth and Co. state that; the cool reception of the Queensland loan , ought to be a wholesome check upon the tendency of the Australian colonies t9 run into debt. They, however, add that the eolbnies have very large resources,) which their railways are rapidly developing.