The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.

THE BISHOP OF ELY ON UNBELIEF.

The Bishop of Ely presided at a meeting of the Church
Missionary Society at Cambridge, this afternoon. He
traced the apparent decay of missionary effort to the
active unbelief which existed in the University and else-
wgere, and to the stupid, passive indifference which was
spreading amongst the people of the large towns. The
unbelief of the present day, was developing into pure
materialism and the most thorough Atheism. He con-
sidered this state of things was only temporary, and
believed it would soon pass away.

COLLISION WITH A LOCOMOTIVE.

A spring cart, driven by Mr. William Hambler, farmer,
West Melton, and containing three women and a boy,
came in collision with a locomotive on the highway at
Parngate, near Rotherham, this morning. The locomotive
belongs to the Parngate Iron Company. and was used to
draw waggon loads of material from one portion of the
works to another, crossing the road at the point where the
collision occurred. The cart was upset, and, with the
horse, dragged some distance. All the occupants were
injured to some extent, particularly a married woman,
named Hunter, who was near her confinement, and who
was pitched upon her head, her knee-cap being also
dislocated. Dr. Shirley, Parkgate, was soon in atten-
dance. Hamber was unable to stop his horse when the
signal was given that the engine was approaching the
crossing.

The coroner's jury at Liverpool to-day returned a ver-
dict of suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity,
in the case of Captain Cutting, formerly commander of
the royal mail steamer Idaho, who shot himself dead on
Friday evening last.

The man Chesters, who murdered his wife in Liver-
pool yesterday, was brought up at the police-court to-day
and remanded.

The Town Council of Beverley resolved yesterday to
petition the House of Lords against the passing in that
House of the bill for the disfranchisement of the borough.
The Vice-Chancellor of the Cambridge University has
announced that Mr. Henry Bradshaw, the University
Librarian, has presented a valuable collection of books to
the libryry, consisting of about one thousand bound
volumes, and five thousand other printed papers, relating
chiefly to Ireland.
At about nine o'clock ,this morning a fatal accident
occurred on the London and North-Western Railway, at
Great Bridge Station, Staffordshire, to a man named
James Peach, 56 years of age, a platelayer. He was cross-
ing the line when he was accidentally knocked down by
some trucks which were being shunted, and killed imme-
diately.
A confectioner named Hawkins was brought before the
magistrates at Banbury this morning charged with using
abusive language to Mr. Pain solicitor and clerk to the
Local Board of Health. It appeared that on several
occasions defendant had called Mr. Pain a thief and a
rough in the street. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was
fined £l.

REPUBLICAN DISTURBANCES IN ITALY.
Fresh disturbances are reported in Italy. On Friday
some bands, numbering about 300 persons, dressed in red
uniforms,. made their appearance in the province of
Catanzaro. Their object, it is believed, is to attempt
a Republican movement. They are being pursued by the
troops, and the authorities have taken measures to prevent
any disturbance. In this (a telegram says) they are sup-
ported by the population, 300 persons having voluntarily
offered to assist in maintaining order. Fresh troops have
been despatched from Florence as a precautionary measure.
The Official Gazette of Saturday confirms the news real-
tive to the appearance of bands of insurgents in the pro-
vince of Catanzaro, Southern Italy, and announces that
they were formed at Maida. The movement is at present
confined to Filadelfia, in the territory of Nicastro. The
mayor of that town, with the inhabitants, has offered to
assist the Government.