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OTE GUABDIAN, DECEMBER 16, lSftl. 2021 rently absolute unconsciousness on tbe part of the clerical electors of Wafcerford that their selected candidate was Mr. Eeane. This gentleman, the prottgd of Archbishop Croke and the nephew of another Bishop, who has been urged vehemently to champion the clerical party, found himself Bnddenly, within fire minutes of a stone striking Mr. Davitt, relegated to the political obscurity from which he had been momentarily dragged.

And he received his quietus at the hands of Mr. W. O'Brien with effusive gratitude. It is alleged by the National Press that legal proceedings are being taken, at the instance of the Parnellitea, both in England and in Paris, to seoure the Paris fonds either for the National League or for Mrs. Parnell in the interests of her late husband's party.

The argument in the French suit is not likely to be heard before Easter, and the proceedings in the English Chancery Court would not come on for a still longer period. Mr. Justin M'Carthy, M.P., the defendant in these proceedings, is within the jurisdiction of the English oourts, but Messrs. Munroe and who hold the funds, are subjeot only to the jurisdiction of the French conrts, and could not be affeotod by any proceedings in England. Conventions or meetings of the clerical party have been held during the last few days at Kildare, Mr.

Sexton, M.P., being the principal speaker; at Tralee, where Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., presided; and on Sunday, at Ballinasloe, in Galway, where Mr. Dillon made two or three speeches. At the last-named places considerable hostility was by the Parnellitea Mr.

John Dillon asked his What has been the result of division in our ranks? Why every andlord has become quite impudent and insolent again. No reduction, no civil landlord, nothing but pay down on the nail or take an ejectment. When we had the Flan the landlords were very civil and very much obliged if the tenants paid their rents even with a reduotion; but now they are beginning not to he afraid of empty farms, because a certain individual, whom we thought we had got nd of for well-known appeared on the scene." Mrs. Parnell and Mr. John Parnell, the mother and brother of the late Mr.

Parnell, have arrived in Ireland. The latter is said to be very like the late Irish leader, but, in answer to an interviewer, he refused to talk politics, and advocated instead fruit-growing in Ireland. It seems certain that Mr. Dunbar Barton, Q.C., who ia nephew of Mr. David Plunket, the First Commissioner of Works, will be elected for Mid-Armagh without opposition.

The Parnellite paper, the Daily Independent, which was to have appeared on Saturday, was not published owing to some defect in the maohinery of the printing-press. The Carogh Orphanage case, in which the Rev. S. G. Cotton was charged with manslaughter and his wife with cruelty, ended last week, after several days' hearing at Carlow AssizeB, in a disagreement of the jury as to the male defendant, Mrs.

Cotton having been acquitted at an early stage of the case, the Judge holding that there was no evidenoe against her. The evidence for the prosecution failed to connect Mr. Cotton with the alleged negligence and cruelty to the orphans who had died, but it appeared that, during his absence and while Mrs. Cotton was ill, the matron in charge neglected her duties and caused Buffering to the children. This lady had been dismissed in con sequence by Mr.

and Mrs. Cotton. Mr. Justice Murphy charged the jury in favour of an acquittal, but after two and a half hours' deliberation they stated that they were eleven to one but could not agree. The case will, therefore, stand over till the next assizes at Kildare.

A bad case of manslaughter was tried at the Nonagh Assizes, on Friday, arising out of the faction fights amongst the Nationalists of Kanturk in the autumn. Two farmers' sons, named Delbury and Power, waylaid a man named Connell and broke his skull by the blow of a bludgeon. The jury convicted them both, and Mr. Justice Holmes sentenced Delbury to twenty years' penal servitude and Power to five. The winter show of the Royal Dublin Sooiety took place last week at Ballsbridge in fine weather and under successful conditions, it being regarded as the best winter show ever held by the sooiety.

It was visited by the Lord-Lieutenant, who watched with much interest experiments made in the working dairy. The judges reported very highly on the quality of the cattle and sheep exhibited. A further discreditable instance of religious intolerance is reported to have taken place on Sunday at St. Mary's Protestant Church, Newry. The rector had insisted for some time past in using, against the wish of the vestry, an altar-oloth which had been presented to him, bearing the letters I.H.S.

On Sunday morning eleven vestrymen walked up to the chancel railB, and one of them proceeded to pull the cloth from the altar, when the rector interfered and seized the other end of it. A struggle followed, which ended in the cloth being dragged into the vestry, where the vestrymen cut off the letters to which they objected. The rector gave information, to the police, who took the names of tbe vestrymen implicated, and legal proceedings are expected to follow. An extraordinary incident also is reported to have happened at Bessbrook, near Newry, where the rectpr, Mr. Ford, on opening his door on Sunday morning, found on hiB doorstep the coffin of Patrick Kenny, a parishioner, who had been buried ten days ago in Mullaglass graveyard, seven miles distant.

Kenny had been a Roman Catholic, who became a Protestant after marrying a Protestant wife. The police buried the remains in Camlough churchyard, but have discovered no traces of those implicated in the affair. Canon Joseph S. Bell, who has just died in Dublin, occupied a foremost position in the affection and esteem of the clergy and laity of the Church of Ireland. More than a twelvemonth back he became attacked with a serious illness, under which his strength, though naturally of robust constitution, eventually sank.

From his ordination the late Dr. Bell gave indications of future energy, usefulness, and fidelity to his charge. From his first incumbency of the beautiful church of Holy Trinity, Killoney, co. Dublin, to his final pastorate at Kells, in the county of Meath, he won all hearts by an amiable disposition, practical oapacity in parochial management, and JaBt, not least, his services were always most acceptable in the sanctuary on the occasions of divine worship. When Lord Plunket was translated from Meath to the Metropolitan see Canon Bell's name, which stood at the head of the list, was sent forward to the Board of Bishopa with Dr.

Reichel's, the present Diocesan. Dr. Bell was after this appointed, assistant-secretary of the Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Dublin and, as evidence of the manner in which his duties were discharged to the entire satisfaction of the board, a distinguished dignitary of the Church, with a busy city parish on his hands, Dr. Hercules Dickinson, Dean of the Chapel Royal and vicar of St. Anne's, took Canon Bell 's place during the latter 's sickness.

The service held in St. Patrick 's Cathedral over the lamented clergy man 's remains was a fitting tribute to the deceased, and the sweet strains of the Funeral Office, as chanted by the famous Dublin choir, reminded one of the eloquence, like music, of those striking sermons the deceased Canon had preached, in his turn, in the pulpit of the national minster. M. WEDNESDAY MORNING. Prince George of Wales is still improving, and only one bulletin a day is issued.

Although the Duke of Devonshire rallied on Monday night, he ha8 made no progress since, but remains very feeble, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. The remains of Mrs. Kingsley were yesterday interred by the side of her husband's in Evereley churchyard. The Warden and FellowB of Wadham College, Oxford, have elected Richard Congreve, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor, as an Honorary Fellow. The Jeremie Septuagint prizes at Cambridge have been awarded to W.

E. Jordan, B.A., scholar of King's, and Smith, scholar of St. John's, who are declared to he of equal merit. A. P.

Bender, B.A., scholar of St. John's, and G. W. Crook, B.A., scholar of Emmanuel. The Sheepshanks' Astronomical Exhibition has been awarded'to P.

H. Cowell, scholar of Trinity. Convocation was held in the Castlo Hall at Durham, yesterday afternoon, when the degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred by diploma on the Archbishop of York. The Archbishop was welcomed by Dr. Pearce, the Sub-Warden, who said that the energy which his Grace had shown in promoting the interests of the Church and people of this land was in all men's mouths, and they felt greatly honoured in being permitted to include him in the list of their graduates.

The honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred on Chancellor Espin, Prolocutor of the Convocation of York, and on Sir Owen Roberts. The S.P.C.K. has voted 1.000Z. to the council of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, to be held in trust for the see of British Honduras. The total of the grants made by the society during the present month amounts to At a meeting of the correspondence oommittee of the Church Missionary Society yesterday, Mr.

E. Millar, of Trinity College, Cambridge, was accepted for the Victoria Nyansja Mission, he offering to go out at his own charges. The resignation of the Rev. F. N.

Eden was accepted. At the Manchester Reform Club last night Sir Q. Trevelyan denied that the Liberate set class against class. They regarded the nation as a whole, of which each individual had equal rights. The working classes ought to make at the next election a great effort to return, where they could, members of their own class.

As to the Home Rule Bill they had one negative and two positive facts The Irish members were not to be banished from Westminster the administration of Irish affairs was to be placed in the hands of the majority of the Irish people, and that in purely Irish mutters Irishmen Bhould pass their own laws, instead of having to submit thosclaws first to the House of Commons, in which they werea very small minority, and secondly, to the House of Lords, in which no representative of tho popular party in Ireland sat. There was a large Liberal 'Unionist demonstration in Edinburgh yesterday to hear an address from Mr. Chamberlain. In taking the chair, the Marquis of Lome said the Gladstonian leaders had had to listen in last week's conference while it was announced by several persons that henceforth the squire and parson were to be abolished. That was a rather unkind announcement, considering that their leader was wholly a squire, and, greatly to his credit, might be considered more than half a parson.

In the course of his address, Mr. Chamberlain remarked on the folly of Gladstonians, on having referred thoir opponents to Mr. Parnell's assurauces as a guarantee of the Home Rule Bill being accepted as a final settlement of the Irish question. All the time Mr. Parnell had accepted what ho called the "trumpery Bill" merely as an ment.

The result of the Unionist policy was that at this moment Ireland is peaceable, orderly, and prosperous; and it did not block the way in legislation. Mr. Chamberlain then protested against the policy of evasion and concealment as to what was intended to be proposed respecting Home Rule. It was, he considered, perfectly well known what was meant when Mr. Gladstone addressed "the stage troop of agricultural labourers." As to the "one man one vote" Mr.

Chamberlain agreed with him. Still, it would be disfranchising those the grcator part of whom were opposed to Mr. Gladstone. And yet Mr. Gladstone refused absolutely to deal with the gigantic anomaly which gives Ireland a dispi'oportionate representation.

As to voluntary schools, Mr. Gladstone would abolish them, "although some of us find it difficult to see how rural life is to be improved and elevated by doubling or trebling rural rates." Mr. Chamberlain 's point, however, was that on these eecoudary questions which must come after Home Rule there was plenty of light, but on Home Rule itself absolute darkness. In 1870 Mr. Gladstone had said that the authority of the Imperial Parliament must not be weakened or compromised.

But both sections of Irish members now insisted that the Irish Homo Rule was to bp free from the out- sido interference of anybody. Which of these views was Mr. Gladstone willing to give up? After insisting at some length that domination of Roman Catholic priests is strong in Ireland, Mr. Chamberlain said he did not wonder that tho people of Ulster should say that they would "fight rather than sacrifice" what they have secured "to the greed of Irish agitators or the bigotry of Roman Catholic priests." If Ulster were cut out of the Bill, the Irish allies would not bo thankful for a Dublin Parliament which was not accompanied with right of taxing rich Ulster. After saying that he was a Briton before ho was a Radical, but that he was a Radical also, Mr.

Chamberlain spoke of the desirability of providing a scheme of local government for Ireland, involving as far as possible the liberties enjoyed by England and Scotland. However, it would be right for the Government to take precautions, as far as that is possible, and having done so, to leave the Irish, in the matter of local govorriment, to work out their own salvation. He wished to extend the Allotments Act to Scotland, and likewise to have a Small Holdings Bill. With both these latter questions the Government were pledged to deal. Mr.

Chamberlain concluded with a discussion of the subject of pensions for old age, in the course of which he Of every man and woman who is to-day living at the age of twenty-five, one out of two will live, according to the tables, to the age of sixty-five. The second this is that out of those who live to be sixty-five under present conditions, 40 per two out of five, will bo pnupors, will' to depend for their subsistence on Poor-law relief. Of all those who come upon the Poor-law eight-ninths, that is nearly the whole, como at sixty-five, and have never received Poor-law roliof before they were sixty. But it is said, Oh, how many of these are drunkards? I am speaking, now, only of old-age pauperism, not of pauperism when a man is able-bodied, but old-age do not believe that any large proportion is di'e to drunkenness. But, even if it were, I say to you that, even then, these poor people are not unworthy of your sympathy and your care.

Drunkenness, forsooth, is the cause of poverty, but poverty is also the caueo of drunkenness. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Atcoci, Rev. John Christopher, M.A., Head Master of Salisbury School; Licensed Preacher in the Diocese of Salisbury. ABMITAGE, ROY.

Allan, M.A.; Vicar of Ford End, Cholmsford. BiCKMOaB, 0. Vicar of Hnsborne Crawley, Beds. BISSETT, Rev. William, Curate; Vicar of Kenilwortb.

Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. Bnfce, M.A., Onrote of Bebbington, Cheshire; Vicar of Lilleshall, Salop. CHASE, Rev. Charles Henry, M.A.; Vicar of St.

Minver. Patron, the Rev. E. A. Sanford, of St.

Minver, Cornwall. CLARKSON, Rev. C. Rector of Ampton, Suffolk. CURTOIS, ROT.

M.A.; Vicar of Fen Drayton, Cambridge. CUTDBERT, Rev. Robert Howard, B.A., late Curate of St. Andrew'8, Worcester; English Chaplain for the town of Mandalay, Upper Bnrmah. Dtxoir, Rev.

J. M. Rector of Steeple Gidding, Hunts. DURNO, Rev. George, M.A.; Vicar of Egloshayle, Cornwall, Patron, the Bishop of Truro.

EVANS, Rev. Canon Daniel Silvan, B.D., Rector of Llanwrin, shire; Prebendary of Llanfair in Bangor Cathedral. EYAMS, Rev. John, Curate of Llanddulas; Rector of Llangower, Merioneth shire. Patron, the Bishop of St.

Asaph. FULLERTON, Rev. Samuel Hewitt, B.A.; Licensed to Officiate in the Diocese of Liverpool. GAI.LOWAT, Rev. James M.A., Cnrato of Christ Church, Heaton Norris; Vicar of Over, St.

Ives. Patrons, Trinity College, Cambridge. HALL, Rev. Henry Arthur, M.A., Senior Mathematical and Science Master, St. Edward's School, Oxford; Head Master of Totnes Grammar-school.

HA WORTH, Rev. Robert, Curato-in-Charge of St. Matthias's, District Cuurctt in All Saints' parish, Ohorlton-upon-Medlock; Clerical Superintendent of the First Manchester Labour Home in connection with tho Church Army. HILL, Rev. Geoffry, M.A.; Vicar of Harnham, Wilts.

Patron, the Rev. A. P. Morros. HoLiJEOOit, Rev.

Percy, M.A., Vicar of St. Mark's, Huddersftold; Vicar of Holy Triulty, Nottingham. HUTCHINS, Rev. Arthur George, B.A., Curate-in-Ohargo of St. Mary's, Broughton; Organising Secretary of the A.C.S.

for the North-eastorn District. ISARELL, Rev. John, Rector of St. Sennen, Cornwall; Organising Secretary C.K.T.S. for the Diocese of Canterbury.

JELLICOE, F. J. Diocesan Seorotary in the Diocese of Canterbury of the Men's Help Society. KILLAM-KILLAM, Rev. M.A.; Vicar of St.

Mark's, Huddersfiold. LAWSON, Rev. B.A., Curate of Coxhoej Vicar of LyneBack, Cockfield, Durham. LKAK, ROT. E.

Vicar of Blackmoor, Hants; Rector of Mells, Frome, Somerset. Patron, Mr. J. F. F.

Horner, of Mells Park. LONG, Rev. F. C. M.A., Ciiratfi-in-Oharge of Barton and Chetwode; Rector of Latimer and Vicar of Flaundeu, Herts, and Domestic Chaplain to Lord Ottesham.

Patron, Lord Ohesham. MARSHALL, Rev. Hannath Michael Blake; Rector of Hossett, Suffolk. MIDULKTOK, Rev. M.

B.A.; Chaplain and Assistant-Minister of the Parish Church of St. Mary, Warwick. MILLS, Rev. W. M.A., Second Master of tho Louth Grammar-school; Vicar of Kclstern, Louth.

MORLET, Rev. Georgo, M.A.; Vicar of Astwood, Bucks. Patron, the Crown. MORRIS, Rev. Riohard, Hon.

M.A., LL.D.; Vicar of Arundel, Sussex. Patrons, Oxford University. PLATT, Rev. Noel, B.A.; Roctor of Great Parndon, Essex. POWELL, Rev.

J. H. Curate of Llantillio; Rector of Llanvihangel- yestern-Llewern, Monmouth. PRICE, Rev. Edwin, Rural Dean of Auckland.

PULMAN, Rev. Prockter M.A., B.C.L.; Vicar of South Petherwin-with- Trowen, Cornwall. Patrons, Oxford University. ROBINSON, Rev. E.

M.A., Vicar of St. Laurence's, Catford; Rural Donn of Lewisham. Ross, Rev. J. Trelawny, D.D., Senior Curate of St.

Peter's, Bournemouth; Vicar of Paignton, with Marldon, South Devon. Patron, Captain Templer. RUMPF, Rev. John, M.At, Rector of Bluntisham; Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral. TERRY, Rev.

William Edward, B.A., AssiBtant-Curato of St. George's, Leicester; Curato-in-Charge of ElliBtown, Leicestershire. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. TIMINB, Rev. F.

B.A.; Curato-in-Charge of the Bank-stroot Mission, Warrington. LICENCES TO CURACIES. By the Bishop of Albert SpafEord, M.A., to Holy Trinity, Birkenhead. By the Bishop of Revs. Tom Ainsworth Brode, B.A., to Leighton Buzzard; Georgo James Audomar d'Arcy, B.A., Christ Church, Luton.

By the Bishop of Revs. Henry Hearlo Cole, B.A., to Folke; Charles Henry Cook, B.A., to Dinton and Teffout Magna; Arthur Wonder Smyth, M.A., to North Bradley and Southwick; William Harvie Weokes, to St. Peter's, Devizes. By the Bishop of Revs. William John Hogarth, to Mowah Georgo Martin, M.A., to Marhamehurch; Charles Percy Shipton, B.A., to St.

Neot. Jiy the Bishop of Revs. H. A. Bull, M.A.,to St.

Silas's, Lozells; T. Dury, M.A., to Strensham; G. 0. Grist, B.A., to Ncwland; 0. B.

R. Robinson, B.A., to Holt-with-Littlo Witlay. We are requested by Canon Newbolt, 3, Amen-court, Canon-in- Residence at St. Paul's, to state that on the occasion of the Bishop of London's ordination on Sunday next at St. Paul's, all who wish to communicate, beside the ordination candidates and their immediate friends in the choir, are requested to send notice of their intention at least some time on the day before to tho Canon-in-Residfiuce.

Tho latest accounts from Iuvcrary Castle concerning the health of Bishop Claughton state that he is now able, in favourable weather, to take outdoor carriage exercise, although it is at present impossible for him to journey homo to Dan bury Palace, Chelmsford. A large and influential meeting of clergy and laity was held on Friday in the State -room of the Mansion -house, York, for the purpose of testifying their appreciation of tho services rendered to tho diocese by the Bishop of Beverley during the past twelve period in which two Archbishops were removed by death, and tho Suffragan-Bishop was called upon during two interregnums to discharge the Episcopal duties. The Loid Mayor of York presided. The presentation took the form of full robes of a Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge, handsome silver candelabra, and an illuminated copy of resolutions passed at a public meetiug held in York ou tho 28th October, which were bound in dark morocco. The illumination of Prince Bismarck has expressed his disapproval of tho new commercial policy, not iu tho Reichstag, but to a deputation, who presented him with the freedom of the town of Siegen.

He said that it was not only Italy and Germany which would profit by the new treaties, but also England, France, and America. Officials who had no interests to be damaged had bound their couutry in a way which would affect manufacturers and agriculturists for the next twelve years. Ho regretted for the sake of the influence of the Reichstag that all parties had already committed themselves to the support of tho Bill. According to a Dalsuel telegram from Rome the Pope at the Secret Consistory, on Monday, said the attacks of the open and secret enemies of the Church are increasing. The former denounce tbe Pope as an enemy and try to attribute as many faults to him as they can.

Last October some of these were so exasperated by the imposing pilgrimages that they made shameless attacks on unoffending foreigners led to Rome by filial Not content with this, they go from place to place all over the Italian Peninsula striving to incite multitudes against the Vicar of Christ by depriving him of any other power except that given by law to the ordinary citizen. Not even satisfied with that, since they openly declare that their object is to inflict a death-blow upoD the Papacy itself, they have resolved to bring about their purpose by force, should the opportunity be afforded to them. They are constantly endeavouring to make the Pontiff appear in the guise of an enemy of Italy. Fever sham read a letter from Dr. Butler, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, informing him that the Council of the Senate had conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon the Bishop of Beverley.

He then proceeded to make the presentation, and said that the subscribers wished to evince how much they appreciated tho ability, activity, and zeal with which the Bishop of Beverley had performed all the high functions which fell to his lot. The Dean of York said it gave him great pleasure to take part iu that presentation because, apart from all personal feelings, he felt that, as representing the Dean and Chapter, they really owed a very great debt of obligation to the Bishop of Beverley for the admirable way in which he had discharged the duties during the past year. The Bishop of Beverley, in acknowledging the testimonial, spoke of the kindneBs shown to him by both clergy and laity throughout the diocese during the last twelve mouths, and said ho' would ever look back to that chapter of his life with the greatest satisfaction. Although the confirmation centres had been reduced from seventy- six to sixty during the year the number of confirmations was larger, which showed that the clergy did not allow the reduction of centres: to interfere with their promoting the work of the diocese. He expressed his gratitude to the late Archbishop Thomson, who, he Baid, taught him to work, and he felt-bound to say he owed much to tbe influence of his example and to his great abilities, which were ever before him.

Dr. Francis Pigou, lately Dean of Chichester, was instituted to the deanery of Bristol by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and installed by the sub-Dean, Canon Ainger, and the other tiary Canons on Wednesday afternoon at the four o'clock evensong. The choir and nave were filled to overflowing. A long procession entered from the cloisters, singing The Church's one Foundation." First came the Mayor and a large number of the Corporation in their scarlet robes, attended by several civic functionaries. Then followed the boys of the cathedral school, the choir.