LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6251, 29 November 1881, Page 6

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

♦ By the s.s. Riugarooma, yesterday, we have English papers to October 7. We make the following extracts : — THE CHURCH CONGRESS. On the resumption of the Congress on October 7, invitations for the next place of meeting were requested, aud it was announced that the Consultative Committee would decide in November next. Archdeacon Watkins stated thut tho subscriptions tc. the new bishopric of North•jimbarlr.nil amounted to £1900, of which at least H'MO be regarded as the result of tLi Bishop of Manchester's appeal on the previous day. Papers were then read "On the helps and hindrances to spiritual life which arise from the religious ' J secular activities of the day." The Bis' of Durham, tho president, forbade applause, in accordance with the custom of Congress when discussing this subject. The Bishop of Bedford counted among helps to a religious life the intellectual and the moral 1 virt of our being. Tho former wii,h truth sifted and tested, was infinitely more precious than truth lightly accepted and loosely held. Tho second help lay in depth of self-knowledge, which w.i a great assistance to honesty of fecliijg and clearness of moral conception. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGEE 33. At the meeting of the Social Science Congress in Dublin on October 7, Professor Goldwin Smith, president of the Economy and Trade Department, delivered his address, which was listened to by a large audience, presided over by Lord O'ii.ii;an. The learn. :1 professor dealt cinerlv with wh it lie had seen and heir;! ou the other"side of the Atlantic. He said that ~f th-. v. rious economical questions, that whit', lL.tuntlly presented itself first to the mini! of one in Ireland "'as the laud question. 1., America th,-y had notMny "hich deserved the iwinc of an agr;\t:an niuvement, although there h..'l been from 'imc to time local disturbances. With them the tiller was also the owner of the soil, the landlord and tenant system, as :>. general rule, did not yet exist. There was, therefore, no analogy between the disturbances in America and in Irelami, either ii; character or extent. Agrarianisui in a <p;c-il.uive form had found its way from Europe to America, aud had been stimulated by the Irish agitation. It w.is alleged that pauperism arose from the manner in which land •■v,is hold, anil that private property in Hnd should be abolished ; but this was not the real cause of pauperism, which sprang from a, vaiiety of sources, such as idle"ne3s, intem-pi.-r.iuce, iii>e.ise, change in the course of trade, as well si_-s fiii.n sheer over-ri-nutation. Ffc depreca'.oil court:": ition of Inmio ! n-operty, t. <■ pecially without; fompo.j.'J.ti.:!, bfcaiv.iaa to con,'Nc.\t« one. kind of propn'j" w.is to deuiroy all. If the system of piivate property in laud was wioni.'. tho en or was '.hat of the community as a whok'. ai.d if a c: inge was to be made, it should be done at the expense oi the comluuni'y and not of a particular class. .MISCELLANEOUS. The Anglo-Australian in London writes : — " As everyone knows, Sir Gaorgo Grey has done the State some service in his diy ; but though flacky, crotchety, and enthusiastic, it is no offence tn him to say that his views are getting a little wild and Utopian specially anont provincialism- and that if he would retire upon his U.urels and leave the li-lil to younger and more i,M(tical iiß'ii, he vould confer a boon upon the cifcfi!" «hic!.i it is juld be impossible to overestimate/' Mr. Ib s*ill suffering from erysipelas in the foot, aud has been obliged to cancel all his engagements. His physicians h iv... advised him to go abroad, but this ha dec'.iiif- loin_-, .is he wishes to be present in Court to con In.-'. !.. : .s action against Mr. Xuwdegate, M.l*., for tiv.'! danviges for maintenance. Messrs. Moody and 3-uikcy, who .re now both in London, l:.-.\ t - -iefinitely arranged to commence their inc.'.j'i'.ug and services at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Sunday " following the concln-ion of the Church Congress." They will probably suhfp.-iuentlj- proceed to Scothiul, and theiicti to Irel..i:d, vinititig the Kuglish southern towns later on.

The Postiuiistnr-Geuenil has under consideration the introduction of reply-paid post cards, which, it carried out, will prove a great boon to tlio public ; they h.ivj been tried in Switzerland and found to answer well. The Sp inish papers state that a discovery hiis been in uie in the Colonial OHice at Madrid of a small picture in oils of Columbus, in a perfect state of preservation. It represents him as about forty years of age, with thick, dark hair, and a hooked noss. It bears the inscription, "Columbus Lygur, novi orbis reportor," and is conjeetined to be a contemporary portrait. Sir Goorco Airy, late Astronomer Royal, is to bo aw.nded fie highest possible pension, in consideration ci his lengthened and valuable services to science while kolditig office at the Koyul Observatory. At Salford, on October 0, two butchers were charged with sellins bad meat. In their shopE horseflesh dressed (or sale was found, and beef which was so congested as to be unfit for food. The :>.;iimal3 had evidently died a natural death. Both prisoners wore committed to prison for two months.