5 JANUARY 1884, page 2

The Church Association Have Put Forth A Petition To The

Crown against the Report of the Ecclesiastical Courts Com- mission, which appears to be as much distinguished by erroneous history as it is by sectarian bigotry. For example,......

On The Following Day, The First Of The New Year,

the Positivists celebrated, in the same place, the Festival of Humanity, Mr. Frederic Harrison delivering another address, in which he maintained that all other believers feed......

Lord Coleridge Has Published A Memorial On The Subject Of

the tribunals to which ritual and doctrinal questions should be submitted, with the general drift of which we heartily agree, though we do not think that it touches either the......

Mr. Mackonochie Has Resigned His Benefice Of St. Peter's,...

Docks, owing to the refusal of the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners to pay the £320 allotted to that parish, to a clergy- man deprived by Lord Penzance. The Bishop of London,—who-......

The Reactionary Parties In Germany Complain Bitterly That...

of Alsace-Lorraine by Marshal Manteuffel is not a success. He is, it is said, too lenient. He has founded a University in Strasburg, and the young Alsatians living at home......

London Has Been Startled By An Unusual Murder. A Clerk,

named J. B. Tower, well-dressed, weakly, and with £7 in his pocket, attended a Watch-night service on December 31st, and at 12.30 p.m. quitted a friend who had accompanied him,......

The Russian Nihilists Have Again Become Active. They...

is said, recently deputed a lady, who is named, to assassinate the Emperor, but she was arrested at the railway-station. The secret is supposed to have been discovered by......

The Rumours From Spain Grow Serious. The Idea Seems To

be that the Herrera Government is unpopular, that the Liberals have grown much stronger, and that either a new Liberal Ministry will take power and try to impose impossible......