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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 19, 26 February 1892, Page 7

Sixteen persons lost their lives during the recent fogs in London by falling into tbe riverside docks. Mr John Morrogh, M. P. for South-Hast Cork, one of the directors of the National Presx, has returned to Ireland from the Cape of Good Hope, where he owns great diamond interests. He has been abaeut about four months.

Efforts are being made to induce Mr Michael Davitt to allow himself to be nominated for the vacant seat at Wexford. The writ will not be issued till after Parliament meets.

While 200 labourers were returning lately from work upon a railway line in Italy they were overtaken by a terrific snow-storm. Many were suffocated in drifts and others were frozen to death. Fifteen bodies bava been recovered and twenty are still missing.

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy contributes to the January number of the Contemporary Review a nnmber of hitherto unpublished letters of Carlyle. Sir Cnarles during the years of bis political career in Australia was in frequent correspondence with toe sage of Chelsea. Prince Bismarck was crossing a railway track in his carriage a a few days ago. When half over the rails tbe coachman heard a train coming. He whipped up his horse and cleared the track just as it dashed up and iuto a waggon which was following the caniage and smaßbed it to atoms, killing the driver aDd horses.

The Rev. W. H. Webb-Peploe a day or two ago in addressing the Central Young Men's Christian Absociation at Exeter Hall, treated bis audience to a threnody over the fate of the Church of England. That institution is, he confetseo, fairly going to smash. Between the advance of Ritualism on the one hand, aad the growth of rationalism on the other, the prospect is hopelets even to despair. " It was an awful day, a day ot blasphemy upon which tbey might well look with sorrow." What Mr Webc-Peploe has been saying is entirely true. The Church of England is decidedly going to pieces. Wany of its members are on the down grade to agnosticism, whilst others are endeavouring to save their Christianity by imitating Borne. But if this be sj, is it not a palpable proof that the Church of .England is not the Church of Christ ? He promised that the Spirit of Truth would be always with His Church, and that it would never fail.— Liverpool Cmtholic Times.