EXTRACTS FROM LAST MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 282, 28 November 1868, Page 2

EXTRACTS FROM LAST MAIL.

The Rev Mr Jackson, Wesleyan minister, has written a letter, referriug to an address delivered by him many. years before upon the relations of Methodism to the Church of England. He coraHered that these had passed into a new stage in consequence of the ritualism and rationalism found within the establishment, .which had rendered it unworthy of the friendly support which Methodists had previously given :t. He declared that amalgamation with, , the Church of Englaod was legally, morally, and religiously impossible *to Methodism, and therefore was not worth discussion. The Saturday Review pays the following compliment to the honorable conduct and high moral worth of the medical profession in England; we trust that -the medical men of the colonies are not behindhand in this respect with their brethren at ; home. The extract is taken from an article

on Female Morality of the Upper Classes: — : The favorite physician has a hard time of it with these ladies; and the more popular he ie the harder his work. It is Well For his generation when he is a man of honor and integrity, and knows how to add self-respect and moral power to the qualities which have made him the general favorite. For his influence over that idle woman is for the time almost unlimited — like nothiug so much as lhat of the handsome abbe and the fascinating director of catholic countries; and if he chooses to abuse it, and turn it to evil issues, he can. And, however great the merit in him that he does not, it does not lessen the demerit of the woman that he could. Up to September 17 between 11,000 and 12,000 dogs have been apprehended by the police under the orders of Sir R. Mayne. Of these between 8000 and 9000 have been destroyed, the greater portion at a place a few miles horn Berkhainpstead. The survivors have either been claimed or sold. In the year 1867, in which 471,102 persons died in England and Wales (probably half of them minors aud about half the ■others women), 37,497 probates of wills or grants of letters of administration were issued, 14,623 in London, and 22,874 in 'the English and Welsh provincial registries. The number is, of course, ever increasing. The increase in 1867 over 1866 was only 285, but 1867 was a, year of lower mortality than 1866. The personal property of these 37,497 deceased persons was sworn under £92,302,570 — viz., £54,111,975 in the cases disposed of iu the Londou Court of Probate, or jegistry, ■and £38,190,595 in the cases in the country registries. In the year 1866 the property happened to be rather larger, reaching £93,184,794. The sums under which the propeity was sworn iu 1867 were equal to" £196 for every death in the year, reckoning the deaths of men, .women, and children.