A RECREANT RECTOR,

Otago Witness, Issue 1778, 19 December 1885, Page 9

A RECREANT RECTOR,

In Plymouth England, on November 5, the ( Rev. Stewart Ross,' formerly rector of a church at Belfast, Ireland, was addr3ss!ng the Plymouth - Young Men's Christian Association, when Charles Jaye, Canadian immigration _. .commissioner, burst into the room, and shouted, "You hypo- ' orite, you eloped with my wife." Ross turned pale and fled from the room. The audience was wild with suppressed excitement. The moment ' they realised what was the matter they became a'how'ling mob, and pursued their lecturer for a mile, yelling all the time. ■ At this point Ross, who was , breathless, was driven to bay, and turned suddenly and stabbed one of the most active of his pursuers. Others coming up at the time seised and disarmed him. The police then put in an appearance and arrested him. He was taken before the magistrate, when charges ■were laid against him, and he was remanded for a week without bail. It has transpired that Ross disappeared from Belfast two years ago, leaving a wife. Mrs Jaye was found in the prisoner's lodgings. She gloried in her connection with the " Lord's annointed," as she called him. She attended the Court, and sat in brazen manner throughout the whole proceedings.

TYNDALL'S DENUNCIATION QF GLAD,

S.TONE.

Professor John Tyndall, scientist, declined by letter to stand as a candidate for Renfrewshire in the Liberal interests. The letter was published on November 6, and the Conservatives distributed copias. Professor Tyndall said the permanent atmosphere of the House would not suit him. He belongs to no party, but if the House permits its members to speak by special knowledge when they had anything profitable to

say, he would willingly accept an election to that class. He proceeds to denounce the Gladstone Cabinet, which he says was headed by unstable rulers, who had caused five years of humiliation abroad and confusion at home. Recalling events in the Transvaaraud Soudan, Professor Tyndall says : "If there be a day of retribution for the misdeeds of men, I would not willingly accompany to the judgment-seat the unpurged spirits of those who are responsible for the blood shed in the Soudan. It was a damning and a damnable business from end to end. Yet the man who is responsible above all others for this waste of blood — who sent Gordon to the wilds, and there abandoned him to death — now dares to talk to- people of Midlothian as if no fleck rested upon his workmanship."