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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4667, 28 October 1876, Page 3

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I EARL BEACONSFIELD'S ADDRESS. The Earl of Beaconsfield (Mr. Disraeli) has issued the following address to his late constituents, the electors of the County of Buckingham :—" Gentlemen, — The Queen having been graciously pleased to summon me to the Mouse of Peers, I return to you the trust which for so many years you have confided to me a3 your member # in the House of Commons; an assembly in which I have passed the greater part of my life. It has been a period of trying occasions and memorable eveuts, and if 1 have been permitted to take some part in their management and control, next to the favour of our Sovereign, I am deeply conscious I am indebted for that opportunity to the fidelity of your feelings. Throughout my public life I have aimed at two chief results. Not insensible to the principle of progress, 7 have endeavoured to reconcile change with that respect for tradition which is one of the main elements of our social etrength ; and, in external affairs, I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire, believing that combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people. It is not without emotion that I terminate a connection endeared to me by many memories and many ties; but I have the consolation of recollecting that, though I cease to be your Member, T shall still have the happiness of living among you ; and that, though not directly your representative, I may yet, in another House of Parliament, have the privilege of guarding over your interests and your honour. Your deeply obliged and ever faithful servant."

THE NEW LAW ON " CROSSED CHEQUES."

The last A ct of the session was to amend the law relating to "crossed cheques." It is now in operation, repealing two former Acts and declaring the law on the subject. There are general and special crossings. A "general croesing" means where a cheque bears across its face an addition of the words "and company," or an abbreviation thereof between two parallel transverse lines or two parallel transverse lines simply, and with or without the words " not negotiable." A " special crossing " is where the name of a banker is pnt. The public are now informed " that where a cheque is uncrossed a lawful holder may cross it generally or specially. Where a cheque is crossed generally, a lawful holder niay cross it specially. Where a cheque is crossed generally or specially, a lawful owner may add the words ' not negotiable.' Where a cheque is crossed specially, the biuker to whom it is crossed may again cross it, to another banker, his agent, for collection." A crossing authorised by this Act is to be deemed a material part of the cheque, and it is not lawful for any person to obliterate, or, except as authorised by the' Act, to add or alter the crossing. There are twelve sections in the Act in reference to •' crossed cheques." THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. : The papers are discussing the qualifications of the candidates for the Presidency. The election is to come off in November next. Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, is a Republican, and there is absolutely ho fault to be found with him. Two or three years ago he was almost unknown outside his own State, but he has since come into note as an advocate: of specie currency. He is a lawyer by profession, and a politician of the best class by practice. Mr. Tilden represents the best feature of the Democratic interest. Personally, Mr. Tilden is all that one need demand. He is not only a reformer by instinct, but he has carried bis principles into practice, recovered stolen money from the - State Treasury, and put public thieves in gaol. Like Mr. Hayes, he is a lawyer, and he has accumulated a fortune by his profession. The qualifications of the gentlemen referred to, make it absolutely certain that whichever party wine, the United States will secure a good President.

THE LrVPTOSTONE STATUE. - 1 'J?Fa s '. ltne * tlii !»*■» Dp: livingrtorie, KM-nK ■■ \f East Eri »»ce's-street GaVdene, Edinburgh, was recently unveiled in presence or tbe members of the Corporation and a large assemblage of the.general public. Among .those present were Mrs. Alexander L. Bruce and Miss. Anna Mary Livingstone, the Rev. M ?f at ' fa ther-in-law, and Miss MoflFat, j™ 18, Charles Livingstone, sister-in.law of JJr. Livingstone, and her son, Mr. Charles Uvingstone and two daughters, the Misses Livingstone, sisters of Dr. Livingstone, two grandsons of Dr. MoEfat, and Mr. A. L. ro ° e . son-in-law of Dr. Livingstone. The JLord Provost presided on the occasion. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Josiah Livingstono, Dr. Moffat, and Mr. Duncan M'Laren, M. P. (who formally handed over the statue to the city). The Lord Provost thenunveiled the statue amid loud cheers, and intimated the acceptance of it by the Corporation. Mrs. Bruce and Miss Livingstone, daughters of Vr. Livingstone, placed two floral wreaths on the pedestal, which was also festooned with evergreens by a number of young ladies. Ihe ngure of Livingstone, which was designed by Mrs. D. 0. Hill, of Edinbnrgh, is in bronze. He is represented in travelling costume, his right hand holding out a Bible, and his left resting on the handle of an axe.

THE GIBBON WAKEPIELD BUST.

The Gibbon Wakefield bust, sculptured by Mr. Joseph Durham, A.R.A., has, during the last week, been placed in the corridor of the Colonial Office on a bracket bearing the following inscription:—"Edward Gibbon Wakefield, author of the ' Art of Colonisation.' Born in London March 20, 1796. Died at Wellington (N.Z.) May 16, 1562. To commemorate the statesmanlike qualities and disinterested efforts for the improvement of the Empire, his friends and admirers havepresented this bust to the Colonial Office." THE CHURCH OP. ENGLAND AND THE WESLEYANS.

The Bishop of Lincoln, who, it will be remembered, refused the title of "Reverend" to a Wesleyan minister, has published a pamphlet, in which, according to the Guardian, he formulates his plan for the readmiseion of the Wesleyan body into the Church of England. He would admit such of the clergy as desired it, after a " hypothetical form of ordination," to the priesthood, and license the remainder to

catechise and preach ; make the Wesleyan chapels district churches, and allow Anglican clergy to preach in them, "reserving, however, all vested rights of the Conference." The plan would not be a bad one, if the Wesleyans were anxiously praying for admission into the Church, but as matters stand there would seem to be just three fatal objections to it. The Wesleyan clergy would not submit to reordination; the VVesleyan lay teachers would not submit to episcopal supervision ; and the Wesleyan congregations would not agree to give up the great power of control in their Church which they have just obtained by the admission of the laity into Conference. The -project has been formally submitted to the President of Conference, who is not likely to read it in a more conciliatory spirit because it comes from a Kishop who affirms that a Wealeyan minister is a layman.

AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE. One of the moat remarkable voyages ever undertaken came to a close, at Liverpool, on August the 21. The voyage was a trip across the Atlantic in a vessel by one man. The Centennial left Gloucester, Massachusetts, on June loth last, having on board Alfred Johnson, a Dane, for Liverpool. Tho sole object of the voyage was to show what American citizens dare do. The boat is ouly 16J feet in length at the bottom, by 2J feet deep and 5J feet wide, but she is decked > over, with the exception of space for standing. She has three water tight compartments. Her sailing gear is a simple mast, carrying a mainsaii, two jibs, and a square sail. Captain Johnson has not kept a log in the ordinary sense of the term, and considering the frailty of his craft, it does not appear that he has had much to record. He had fair weather the entire voyage, except on one or two days, but had oue or two narrow escapes. He had to sleep during the day, as being the safest time to depend upon going without a look-out. Ou one occasion his boat was capsized, but lie succeeded in righting her and again boarding her. Eventually he came to anchorage in the Sloyne with leas of adventure to relate than might have been expected. Captain Johnson, however, says that he has no wish to repeat his adventurous trip.

THE FIJI WAR AND ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOCIETY. Governor Gordon's little war in Fiji has been variously commented upon. Those who have in their minds the meddling propensities of tho " friends " of the Aborigines think it is as well for the Governor that the Pence Society and the Aborigines Protection Society have their hands full in watching the progress of the war in Servia, aud in exclaim-

ing against the atrocities in. Bulgaria, or else he would assuredly have had to answer a strong bill of indictment for hanging so many of their pets, their cannibal propensities notwithstanding. Others view the punishment meted out to these people as hardly bad enough for them, and all sensible people are agreed that the Governor acquitted himself in a statesmanlike mauner at a juncture which was certainly fraught with peril and disaster. The native question ia very imperfectly understood here, and there are few—even amongst the best informed—that can realise the danger which was averted by the prompt action of Sir Arthur Gordon. Had the cannibals been left to themselves for

a week, the "friendlies" might have been converted to their old practices, and Her Majesty's representative himself i. ight have been selected as bon bouche for break

fast. It will be remembered that I pointed out some time ago tho danger which would be certain to crop up from the source to which I have referred. Since, therefore, it has presented itself in an alarming state, it is clear it is a question that must be handled with much caution. We muet not only "scotch the snake," but "kill it," and to do this needs a clear insight into the native character.

MARRIAGE OF TRE BISHOP OF EXETER. The marriage of a Bishop after his appointment is an unusual occurrence. That

of the Bishop of lixuter was celebrated on the 24th ult., at St. Michael's, Chester Square, the bride being Mies Beatrice Lascelles, niece of the latu Earl of Carlisle. The Bishop, who has never before been married, is 56 years of age. STRYCHNINE.—TESTING A FILTER, We learn that the Silicated Carbon Filter Company have just completed a contract for filters for use on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. It was with a filter of this make that Professor Wanklyn. astonished the British Medical Association,, assembled at Sheffield a few days ago, when ho placed in the top of one of the filters a qnantity of water containing nearly nine grains of Btrychnine to the gallon, and after allowing it to filter through in the ordinary manner, drank off sufficient of the once deadly decoction to have very quickly elided his mortalcareer had the filter failed to have done its work. We think this should eilence any who may doubt Professor Wanklyn's good faith when he expresses his belief in the efficacy of the Silicated Carbon Filters

, THE BRAVO CASE. The correspondent of the New York Orapliic, writes :— I have already told you that Mrs. Bravo is a young woman of wealth, beauty, and high family. She possesses in her own right a fortune of 15,000 dollars a-year at present; she will be still 'richer in time. She married.'her first hueband, Captain Ricardo.wbenshe was nineteen, he being twenty-one. He settled 200,000 dollars on her, and her father settled the interest of 100,000 dollars on her, the principal to come to her at his death. She had also had 2000 dollars a year from her grandfather. Captain Ricardo was in the Grenadier Guards, and their associates were always persons of the highest social standing, and none other. They visited at the country seat of titled people, and received

i euch'gu&ste-at iheir own 'beautiful hoiie. But a blight was fc't the core of the flow."of ibis life ; Captain Rjcardo fell into drinking j , habits, and : died in.' 'tUjirhim tremens.: --And /with this dreadful: misery before her eycjs, , will, you believe that, thia poor, : weak wife, instead of being.terrified into the total abstinence theory, , actually feli to drinking herself? After her husband's ! death she formed a fc'cwonjwith a renowned hydropathic and spiritualistic' doctor, Dr.' Gully, and every detail of that intimacy they are wringing from her shame-blanched lips in the court-room now. She went abroad" with this man, travelling in Italy with hinr and a retinue of servants, and on her return she cut a great dash at that brilliant watering place, Brighton. She had. bright "cauarycoloured" hair, and even the paltry detail of that little toilet secret they have exposed at this merciless inquiry. At Brighton, Charles Bravo fell madly in love with hei\ She was a young widow, very lively and fascinating, drove a pair of " cobs," and had dark eyes and yellow hair. Bravo was mad to marry her, and she also had fallen ia love with him. She confessed to him her intimacy with Dr. Gully, and he promised to overlook it. It was to be 'as a sealed book' between them. But he seems to have been goaded to frenzy constantly about the matter after the marriage, by the receipt of anonymous letters emanating, probably, from Dr. Gully, who, somewhat naturally, was furious at having lost his young, beautiful, aud wealthy chere amie. A man of his age—about sixty-three—does not often succeed in getting on that footing with a beautiful woman of twenty-five. But Gully himself is pictured by those who know him as an extremely attractive man. He is remarkably well-preserved as to his person, and his mind is a store of erudition, wit, grace, repartee, and his manners are polished in the extreme. THE LATE ANGLICAN BISHOP QF HEATH.

The death by his own hand of Dr. Butcher at his residence, Ardbraum, near Cavau, has caused a painful sensation. The Bishop had been under medical treatment for about ten days for bronchitis and congestion of the lungs, and with. every hope of speedy recovery. On Saturday morning he left his bedroom, where he had been with Mrs. 'Batcher, and proceeded to his dressing-room, and staying there some time, his youngest son on going there in search of him, found the door fastened, when he broke an entrance through a glass panel, and found his father in an easy chair with his throat cut from ear to ear, the windpipe being severed. He was still alive. The biahop made signs for writing materials, when he wrote the word ' mad,' on a piece of paper, making at the same time signs of satisfaction on learning that his family understood that the i deed was done unconsciously. Dr. Butcher, was born in 1811, was brother Of the eminent Dublin surgeon, and son of the late Vice Admiral Butcher. The late prelate was highly respected by the entire community. THE OUTRAGE IN THE CONVENT. An application was made for the postponement till next assizes of the trial of the pedlar, Eageny, for the murder of the nun in the presentation Convent, Maryborough, and for the outrage on the nnn in the Convent, Portarlington. On the ground of the four days' interval between his arrest and the assizes, the judge (Sergeant Armstrong) granted the application made by Mr. Conetaatine Molloy. It appears that the man has been confined for some time in a district Lunatic Asylum.

FAMOUS RUINS.

The famous ruins of the Isle of lona, Scotland, are being very carefully restored by the owner, the Duke of Argyle. These remains of Catholic times are exceedingly remarkable, and consist of a Cathedral and famous monastery, built in the year 735, in honour of St. Columba. The Isles of lona, Stafia and Mull, are among the greatest curiosities of the world, and have been held sacred for thousands of years : for long before the Christiane held possession of them, the Druids solemnly worshipped tlieir gods before stone altars, which still exist mingled with the remains of the Scotch, Irish, and Norwegian Kings. The Isle of Staffa contains the celebrated Kingal Cave. The undertaking of the Duke of Argyle is of great value to archalology, for the Monasteries of lona, have occupied a very interesting and important position in the history of the Christian Church. The accumulation of dirt, stones, and rubbish, which has been gathering in the nave of the old Cathedral for centuries, has been swept away, and the fine vista 18 now clear to where the altar once stood. The cloisters, although much ruined, have been swept clean, and a number of tombs have been laid bare.

HYDROPHOBIA FROM THE SCRATCH OF A CAT. On August 19th a young man named Wilson was admitted to the Leeds Infirmary suffering from hydrophobia. About eight weeks ago he took a strange cat into his house, and it scratched his hand with one of its claws. The wound soon healed, and nothing appeared to be wrong until August 18, when he felt a peculiar pain in the hand which had been scratched. As the pain continued to increase, he went to tho infirmary, where the case was pronounced to be one of hydrophobia. Every attention was there paid to him, but the unfortunate man died in great agony about ten hours after his admission. Deoeased, who was married, was only 22 years of age. This is the fourth case of hydrophobia which has occurred in Leeds during the paat eix months-

UN VEILING OF THE PRINCR CONSORT MEMORIAL OF EDINBURGH.

Edinburgh, August 17.—The Scotch National memorial to tho late Prince Consort, wae unveiled thia afternoon by her Majesty the Queen. MOODY AND SANKEY TO TACKLE CHICAGO. Chicago, August 29.—it is now definitely settled that Moody and Saiikey will open a series of revival meetings iu this city, continuing them day aud evening for a month or two. A large hall ie being erected in the central part of the city especially for the purpose. A CATHOLIC AUTHORITY ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. Cincinnati, August 10th.—The Catholic Telegraph this morning contains an article from Archbishop Purcell, detiuiug the attitude of the Catholic Church towards the public school system of the United States. It declares that the Church has no disposition to interfere with the system, and saya : JNo doubt justice and'equality would entitle the Catholic people of this country to exemption from taxation for the support .of other schools, or to a share of the public school funds in proportion to the number oL pupils in the schools, but even this calm we are disposed to waive in your favor. THE SIOUX WAR. Variouß reports, official and unofficial, from the Sioux ; expedition indicate that the In- j dians have eluded both Terry aud Crook,and that the campaign is practically closed. A few skirmishes may take place, but a general battle is not probable. The special correspondent of the Bulletin, at the front, telegraphs the folio wing :—" General Terry's Camp, near the Yellowstone, Aug. 30, via Bismarck, D. T., Sept: 4. — No Indians yet, and no prospect of finding'any. Ou" the 27 th we marched five miles inland irom the ferrying point, making au almost dry camp. Next day we got , away with 21 miles, and on the next 17 miles were all we could manage, and one more has been added, leaving now about 20 miles from Glendive Creek; the objective points Notwithstanding the marvellous accounts of Sioux to be found by the thousands on this aide of the river, we have not come across the track of even one, and consider it a foregone conclusion that further attempts to catch the wily savage will be useless for this year. Teriy is considerably annoyed about some dispatches received from Sheridan, concerning the new posts, on account of the peremptory tone aud style that is used toward a BrigadierGeneral. In one of them he is ordered to J

lilkf 8 f? commenced at tJ;fe earThere j, not a wottTf^m kngat the settlements. The health of the troops ,3 fair, but the grambUug fever ha! become epidemic no on£ appearing «£twt with the snmmer'e work. What our nixt move will be, after reaching Glendiveis shrouded; m mystery, and is really of little importance, as it cannot result in much

PRESBYTERIAN PROGEESS.

The Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of New York, thus moralises .--"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. So marvellously has He helped us that the Presbyterian is to-day the most powerful Protestant denomination in numbers, wealth and spiritual interest on the round globe ! She is larger than the Lutheran in potency" and equal to it in numbers. She rates more forces than the Wesleyan Methodism, or Episcopacy, or Baptist independence, and is fully three times as numerous as Congregationalism. From the old oaken chair of Calvin in Geneva, to the Dutch University at Leyden, and thence to Coligny the Huguenot s tomb, and to John Knox's pulpit in thence to George Walker's monument in Londonderry; from Ireland across the seas and over the United States and Canada and Australia, to the Mission fields ot- China, Syria, India, and South Africa, stretches the electric chord which thrills the watchword of Presbyterianisin, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. . We love our sister denominations none the less because we love our dear old mother in the blue mantle all the more. Her garments may be dyed blue, and fools may make mock of the hue. But it is the same colour with f j s sky, ana it is a fast colour which never j ! ,, Presb yterianism rings a college bell under Mount Lebanon. She scatters Arabic Bibles on the track of Moses and Mohammed ! bhe nghts Confucius in China, and Buddha in Hindoostan JLJnder one of her pulpits lie the bones of Whitfield. In her Machpelah as Princetown, sleep Jonathan' Edwards, J'avies, and the Alexanders. Her memorial Svonea are graven over with namea of the nretbom written in heaven. This is a year ,*?* *?°" nfan nee d be ashamed to float the old blue banner over his roof tree or from hie Church spire !"

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. J. F. Lewie, R.A., the distinguished artist, has died at the age of 70. The Rev. Dr. Halley, a leading Congregationalist, died last week. Hβ was bornin 1796.

J The Scotsman states that the inventory of the personal effects of the late Mr. James Baird has been registered, and gives a porsonalty of £1,190,000. At the meeting of the shareholders in the Bank of Australasia, held on August 14, the report was adopted, and a dividend of £2 10s per share declared. A retiring pension of £1500 per annum was voted to Mr. l>. C. M'Arthur, who resigned his post au superintendent of branches. The chairman said that business was reviving. _ The Bill to legalise in Great Britain marriages with a deceased wife's sister consummated in colonies where such unions are now legal, is amongst the slaughtered innocents of the Imperial Parliamentary session. Sir Thomas Chambers, however, has given notice of his intention to re-introduce the bill -nest session. > Vl-

Profeesor Tyndall's work on "Sound" has been translated and published by order of the Chinese Government.

A series of conferences on South African affairs took place at the Colonial Office previous to the rising of Parliament, and were adjourned till after the holidays. All the delegates, including Sir Garuet Wolseley were entertained by Lord Carnarvon at Highclerc, liis country seat. There is a very excited state of feeling among the Zulus and Caffres, and a combined outbreak against the settlers is feared. News from Kimberly to August 4 states that fighting had commenced, and 150 Boors had defeated 2000 Caffres, and many head men and petty chiefs had in consequence submitted.

The Bight Rev. Dr. Abraham, formerly Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand, has been appointed to a canonry and precentorship in Lichfield Cathedral. Another ex New Zealand bishop, Dr. Hobhouae, of Kelson, is to be arohdeacon of Staffordshire, in the same diocec e.

The Wolverine, 17 guns, under orders for Australia, will be commanded by Captain Lindsay Brine, who has Seen 28 years' service.

The iron barque Baldovan, which left New Zealand in ballast for Valparaiso ou the 7th of April, has not since been heard from.

James Ward, a merchant, who was brought from Fiji by a detective, has been committed at Hull, on a charge of forging bills of lading and an insurance policy, on which he ob tained £14,000.

Earl Russell ig circulating privately a printed pamphlet, entitled " The Foreign Policy of Great Britain in 1876," in which he discusses the question—" Is the Turkish empire worth preserving ?" and answers it negatively.

A few months ago Dr. B. "W. Richardson drew up a sketch specification of the imaginary city of Hygeia, wherein all sanitary precautions for the health of the residents ■were provided for, and the death rate was to be leduced to a point which some cruel mathematically-minded critic proved would be equivalent to an average age as loug as that of the antediluvian patriarchs. But that was only a •slip of the slate pencil, and did not effect the substantial merits of the doctor's tscheme. Some practically-minded speculators have asked the question, why, if the suggestion be really good, a. city should not be built on the plans set forth. The houses would not be a great deal more ex pensive than those now run up, and where is the man who would not be willing to pay an increased rent for a renewal of a lease of life ? The speculators have answered the question favorably for themselves, and it is now announced that a site has been obtained on the coast of Sussex whereon the city id to bt» built. ■

The announcement now pnblicly made that the Rev. Dr. Wallace, Professor of Divinity aud Church History in the University of Edinburgh, and Minister of Old Groyfriars' Church in that city, has resigned both church and chair, and become a layman, in order to take the place of the late Mr. Alexander Kussel as conductor of the leading Liberal newspaper of Scotland, is au event of considerable importance in the ecclesiastical history of that country. Aβ pastor to a congregation containing the elite of the intellect, if not the wealth of Edinburgh, as professor, and consequently coming directly in contact with the future ministers of the Church of Scotland, as leader of the Broad Church party in its Assembly—a party increasing yearly in courage, and even numbers, —and as incomparably its first debater, if not its soundest scholar, Dr. Wallace exercised great influence;- aud that he should have given up such a position for the impersonal and anonymous power with which every journalist of honor and of good sense is content, ie a clear) proof that hie Church ie not comprehensive enough, and ie otherwise too weak to , overtake the spiritual aud, which-ie far more serious at the present time, the intellectual necessity of his country. A Church in which a Lee and.a Macleod could scarcely breathe, and which a Wallace has to leave for a position of greater freedom, cannot be the Church of the Future, —certainly not of the Future perfect.— Spectator.