BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1921, 11 December 1890, Page 23

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Peb Peess Association.) London, December 9. The statement of the Daily News that Sir Henry James was to be created a life peer and a judge of the Appeal Court is denied. The Very Rev. Eichard William Oh arch, Dean of St. Paul's, aged 75.

[Church, the Very Hey. Richard William, M.A , was born in 1815. After a distinguished career at the University of Oxford, he took his degree with firstclass honours in 1836, and shortly afterwards became a Fellow of Uriel College. In 1851 he published a volume of essays, which stamped him at once as one of the most cultivated scholars and most graceful writers of the day. Two of the essays in the volume are a review of St. Anselm's life, and have since been expanded iuto a '■ Life of St. Aueelm," and published aa a separate volume. In 1869 Mr Church published a volume of university sermons on the relations between'Chrlstlanityaudcivilisafcion, which attracted a good deal of attention. He was appointed Dean of St. Paulls. September 6, 1871. Since then he has published a large number of theological and other works, including essays on Dante, Spenser, aud Bacon.]

Mr Perkins, secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club, referring to the complaints made by the late Australian Eleven, advocates the employment of only thoroughly capable umpires. The vessels of the boycotted companies are being manned l»y free labour, and it is hoped that their sailing will not now be delayed.

A large number of Nihilists are now on trial at St. Petersburg, and those convicted are being sentenced in batches.

The Premier is reticent respecting the disturbances in East Africa at Matacas.