The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-26 00:00:00

On the subject of Sicily the Pope said:—

"You know the serious evils which religion and its
ministers suffered lately in Sicily; through the acts of
abandoned men, who have disturbed the authority of
the rightful Prince. Among other things, two religious
orders that had deserved well of the Christian religiOn,
were dissolved, and their members exiled. And what
is most to be lamented, venerable brethren, is that there
were many of the clergy who, forgetful of the Lord and
their duty as priests, did not blesh to favour the enemies
of the Church and of justice, to the ;immense scandal
and wrath of the righteous."
His Holiness then adverts to the constancy
and faith of the Bishops under these trials, and
exhorts them to pray for the cessation of all these
evils, and concludes as follows :
"We doubt not that the
.same venerable brethren,
animated with their usual zeal, piety, and spirit of
religion, will endeavour, with increasing alacrity, toge-
ther with the faithful committed to their care, to defend
the cause of the Church and of this Apostolic See, and
will, full of confidence, approach with us the Thrune of
Grace, and implore the powerful protection of the irtitua-
culate and holy Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, in
order that, this great and dark tempest being laid, the
Catholic Church may obtain the desired peace and
enjoy its liberty, and that all those who have deviated
from the path of truth and justice may return to consci-
ousness and be converted to God, and, by abandoning
evil and doing pod, may walk in the path of the Lord."

Sir Cursetjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, of limbo', has
orwarded a liberal donation to the Royal nition&-1

Life-boat Institution.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF
SCIENCE AND ART.—The Irish Times says--Master
Joseph Crawford Withers, a bov only in. his fourteenth
year, has borne away a first-class prize—the " Queen's
prize"—in the department of chemistry connected with
the Royal Society for. the Prowtion of Science and
Art. Six prizes were set apart for the Glasgow
students ; and, though Master Withers was axe yogigest
but two or three of about seventy students; he ,pore
away everything before him. What renders this cir-
cumstance the more extraordinary is, that the boy had
attended the sessional lectures but a single session,
while some of the other competitors, as we understand,
had been studying three and even four sessions. Master
Withers is, we believe, sou of James Withers, Esci,
long known by his connection with the peg of this and

the sister country.
Tun PEACE PRESERVATION ACT.—Copies of the pro-
chmation issued by the Privy Council have been received
and. posted at tine various police stations in the city and
county of Armagh, ordering all those parts of the county
not hitherto proclaimed to be placed under the' provi-
sions of the Peace Preservation (fre4nd) Act, 1856.

Previously to this order in Council the Act vas in
operation in the baronies of Upper Fews and Upper
Orior since the 2nd of August, 1848, and in the parishes
of Derrynoose and Keady since the Bth of DedAmber,
1851. The proclamation is signed- by "Maziere Brady,
C.," "Frederick elzw," and "A. Brewster," and has
appended to it a summary of the Act, one clause of
which makes it a misdemeanour, liable to imprisonment
for any period
n.owingly not exceeding two years, wilfully or
to have possession of any gun, pistol, sword
or other tyre-arm, or part of a fire-arm, after this date.
A NovT.I. MODE 7 OF COMMITTING ROBBERY.--On
Tuesday, at Worship-stna police-court, London, a man
about 40 years of age, uncouth an appearance, and who
stated that he was a maltster, but without any fixed
residence, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with st.'eal-
estate agent, residing in Suffolk-place,
ing a clock, value £2 ss. Mr. William Crawley, a
, ;aid—During a heavy shower of rain
house ,pd
Hackney-road
that occurred yesterday gt3rnoon my wife observed the
opening it prisoner lying at the butin vain ; aubseqtmoy
street 491.,
ttnti.
she
came to me and proposed to drag him in,
en-
deavoured to arouse him,
as he was very
wet. With the assistance of a gentleman passing we
CI so, and he aroused from what appeared to be a deep
sleep ; he had a small bundle with him containing
books, and told its that lte had travelled twenty-eight
miles. Sympathising with his apparently helpless con-
dition, my wife ordered a cup of hot beverageto b e
prepared, and shortly afterwards, havingnara
been
e to me left in
and
the apartment alone, my grandson came
left
his parcel."
said, ." iria poor man has gone an
anything of
I ran into the gFeet, but could not see
was
him, and, and, on retyping, was told that be
F
ade search
posed to be still in the house. F fand him
proceeded up stairs, and on the binding (
lying apparently again asleep, but a clock that hung
in the
upwards of seven feet high on the wall opposite
morning was now close by his side; the fact, of course,
became ingifest. I this time gave him such a shaking
that he could no Ramer simulate sleep, and then
gave him into custody for tl4 Foi?beyy.—
Prisoner : I
beg your pardon, sir ; J was drunk.—.Propcutor About
as much as you were asleep. I must not be so charitable
t
and confiding any
more.—Mr. Mansfield 7 Thq height
from which so large an article as this clock was deta..a"
required both sobriety and dexterity. Therefore your
assertion of inebriety is negatived. I suspect that you
are an old offender in this way. Nothing appears tp
be known, howeyer ; at present therefore I shall remand
you, and most probahlygyentpally you, will be it, ter
trial.—Prisoner gave the name 9f ",C gorge Jones."