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London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

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THE KNIGHTSEtRIDOE CHURCH CASE will be dis-
posed of next week. Sir John Dodson, Dean of the
Court of Arches, has named Tuesday next as the day
on which he will give judgment, at his court in
Doctors' Commons, on the appeal from Dr. Lushing-
ton's decision in the case of " Wcsterton v. Liddell.'
Upon his decision will depend the manner in which'
the services of a large number of churches through-
out the country shall be performed, as there nre many,
particularly in the dioceses of London, Exeter, and
Oxford, where the Knightsbridge model is followed.
A RESOLUTION unanimously passed by the Society
for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge at its
last general meeting, recorded the grateful sense of
the society of the late Lord Bishop of London's
energetic furtherance " of the objects of the society.
Dr. Blomfield, to whom the resolution was formally
presented, returned a suitable answer.
THE MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DEPUTY
sent to represent the Chamber at the Free-Trade
Congress, recently held in Brussels, made his report
to the board of directors last week. He represents
the spirit which animated the proceedings to have
been admirable, and nothing seemed to be wanting to
a successful diffusion of the principles of free trade
throughout Europe if the resolutions adopted at the
close of the congress be enforced with energy. The
term assigned for the duration of the congress was
found to be too short to admit of a full development
of the benefits believed as certain to attend a
universal adoption of free trade ; but the speeches
made by gentlemen from various countries asserted
that the principle had taken root extensively, and
only needed cultivation. The written communications
made to the congress were so numerous that it Was

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impossible to read them in detail, and it was there-
fore resolved that a history of the proceedings of the
congress, and to contain these documents, should he

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forthwith prepared.
A STONE was thrown at the nine a.m. Southampton
train on Tuesday, as it passed Woking-common. It
struck a window in a first-class compartment,
smashed in the glass, and hit a Mr. Johnson so
severely in the head that he was stunned for some
minutes.

" TOO BAD To DE TRUE," is the heading of the
following paragraph in the Times this week, taken
from the Newcastle Guardian:—"lt is believed that
the dismissal from her Majesty's service of that mis-
guided young man, Lord Ernest Vane Tempest, is of
more serious consequence as far as he himself is con-
cerned than is generally supposed ; it not only entirely
precludes him from ever again entering the army,
but will, it is understood, be a total bar to his em-
ployment in any civil capacity, whether iu this
country or the colonies. This, it is now said, his
lordship—freed henceforward from the evil examples
which in their results have proved so injurious to his
prospects—feels both deeply and acutely. In fact, it
is whispered that his more matured and chastened
inclinations now incline towards the Church, a field
in which be may be employed as honestly, as honour-
ably, and as usefully, both to himself and others, as in
that of Mars. As the noble family to which he may
still prove an ornament have more than one living in
their gift, it is not improbable that this may be his
ultimate and not ungraceful destination, however
distressing may have been the events which led to it."
DR. KANE, the distinguished American Arctic
navigator, had interviews on Tuesday with the Lords
of the Admiralty, and also with Captain Washington,
the head of the Hydrographical Department. Dr.
Kane is in very indifferent health. His exertions and
exposure in his expeditions in search of the late Sir
John Franklin have materially injured his constitu-
tional powers, but the gallant traveller has neverthe-
less offered his services to complete the search for
any further remains of Franklin's expedition.
A NEW ENGLANDER, this we"k, takes up the
"railway and revolvers" letter of Mr. Arrowsmith in
the Times. The New Englander enters intc certain
details of the railway regulations, showing that Mr.
Arrowsmith's statements are inconsistent with the
known arrangements of the line, and asking
"whether, among men known to each other (as
several, at least, of the disputants were), the long
and angry debate and subsequent fighting could
have taken place without any use of names, or how
even the deaths of these respective individuals
could have been announced with any clearness of
identification' Or is it credible that men would
fight formal and deliberate duels without the ' names '
of both principals and seconds being mutually made
known "
In truth ( concludes the New Englander), the comic
gravity of this general proposition on the subject of names
" in that country " is the one point in the narrative which
inclines me to adopt the belief (which I must tell yon is
very general among my countrymen in London) that the
writer of this story has sought to test the extent of Eng-
lish credulity as to " American atrocities" by penning a
deliberate " hoax," and obtaining its insertion in your
columns by a solemn asseveration of its truth. There re-
mains only the monstrous climax of impossibility involved
in Mr. Arrowsn;ith's declaration, that he was " assured by
a friend in Augusta that such occurrences were by no
means uncommon, and that scarcely a day passed without
some fatal encounter on that road !" What ! Does the
man know what his words really mean? He actually says
that five fatal duels and the murder of a child are by no
means uncommon occurrences in that region, and that
some one is killed on that line almost daily ! Here, at
least, is al assertion to which a direct denial can be op-
posed. This is no statement of a specific fact against
which any " general " denial is comparatively inefficient,
but a broad allegation as to a condition of things said to be
permanent and notorious ; and I say peremptorily and un-
hesitatingly that this assertion alone is so rash, so mon-
strous, and so devoid of even the shadow of foundation,
that, according to all general principles of testimony, it
should invalidate the whole of the narrative ; and It at
least shows a readiness of credulity most likely to have
been seized upon by persons seeking a victim for mystifi-
cation ; and the charitable conjecture in the matter is, that
Mr. Arrowsmith has himself been made the victim of a
carefully-elaborated hoax.
TnE LIVERPOOL COTTON-BROKERS' ASSOCIATION has
issued a protest against the prevalence of the system
of false packing :
The evil complained of (says the document) has, from
carelessness or otherwise, increased to such an extent that,
in a large proportion of shipments arriving in Liverpool,
instances of false or irregular packing are discovered, and
occasionally whole parcels, consisting of twenty, fifty, and
even 100 bales, are found mixed in the bale, and some-
times plated ; in other words, the outer layer, from which
the sample is taken, is more or less superior in quality to
the interior of the bale. It is hoped that all parties will
see the urgent necessity of promptly co operating to stop
and remove this serious and increasing evil, which will
otherwise disorganise the trade, and destroy that mutual
trust and confidence without which such an extensive and
important branch of commerce cannot be carried on.
COAL-NINES within thirty or forty Tees of London
have long been supposed to exist. Mr. Burnell, a