New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-25

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most Interesting portion OF the ancient manor
house escaped the ravages of the recent hre.
a great deal was lost, but much that was IN
valuable was preserved. 1t Is not generally
known that Thackeray visited Clevedon shortly
before he wrote "Esmond,n and the whole
idea OF the house at CastlewcOd was taken from
ClevedOn Court; but since that time 1t has been
restored and enlarged
DARWIN on MIssIoNs.-Nr. Darwin was not
regarded as "A Christian I; but he had the great
est respect for all that was good in Christian
ity and was great enough to acknowledge 1t.
| This il the way in which he answered some
shallow critics of foreign missionaries They
forget, or will not remember, that human sac
Iiiices, and the power OF an ldOlatrous priest
hood system of proiilgacy unparalleled III
any other part of the world infanticide, con-
sequence of that system bloody wars, where
the cOnquerOrs spared neither women nor chill
dren,-tnat all TN 1se have been abolished and
that dishonesty, intemperance and llcentlous-
ness have been greatly reduced by the INTRO
ducti0n of Christianity. In a yoyager TO forget
these things is base ingratltude for should lie
chance to be mt the point of shlpwreck on some
unknown coast, he will most devOutly pray that
the lesson of the missionary may have extended
thus far"
INDIAN CHRIsTIANs.-The number of Chris
tan believers connected with the ODgoie
churches of the American Baptist mission at Tel
ugu, India, is nearly u 900; and the nominal
Christian community Is estimated at from
| 10000 to 100000. The baptismS, In 1ooZ,
| from January to October, averaged not less than
| 200 q month. Thus work that was begun
| few years ago, when Thousands renounced
| heathenism and became Christians, has not
| suddenly stopped as it began, but Is gong on
| steadily. Those who are received are SUD
| jected to n careful examination, and although
some of them may be expected to fall away,
! most of them will continue steadtast to the end.
ARCHBISHOP BENsoN-It is said that the
! arrangements for the enforcement OF the
| Archbishop of Canterbury will be OF a
more complete character than on any
| previous occasion, and already the demand
| for tickets is very great. All the Bishops who
hold provincial Offices, such as Dean Chan
cellor and Precentor of the province, are ex-
pected to be present Mendelssohn's Hymn of
| Praise" is to be sung in he cathedral IN the
evening. The new Archbishop of Canterbury
will make his first State appearance in that
character on Palm Sunday, March Is,
when he is 10 preach ut The Chapel Royal, St.
Jamcss Palace.
BrsuoP HARE.-Bishop Hare. OF Niobrara
| who was sued for libel in this. city last spring
! by the Rev. :. ID. Human, one OF his mission
| aries, has been spending some time III Phlladel-
| pha, where his father, the Rev. DIR. George T..
! Hare, lives. II is stated that the PhIladeiphla
| friends of Bishop Hare Will raise the amount OF
! the damages awarded 10 Mr. liinman, IN case
! th3 Supreme Court of tins Stale confirms the
| decision Of the lower Court. Bishop Hare has
uniformly declined to say anything about the
matter since the trial.
| TYvDALE's SrNTUE.--The memorial statue
| of the martyr William Tyuddle, the first
| translator of the New Testament into Ing
| lsh, is about 10 be placed on the
! Thames Embankmcnt, London. On the ped
estal will be inscribed the names of about
twenty counties, towns. universities and socie-
ties i'm Great Britain, the colonies and the United
States, contributing to the expense. The
statue. designed 10y Mr.. J. L. BOehm, represents
Tvudale in his Doctors robes, with his right
hand on an open New Testament.
There is n rrlmor that the Bishop Of Man
chester and Sir Percival Haywood will come to
a COMPROMISE, so rs 10 AVOID ruinOus and
| lengthy litigation IA to the vcarage of St.
John. Miles Plating. Ii has been said that Alr.
Cowgirl Will ask the patron to withdraw his
nomination. and that the Bishop Will not be
too curious in examining into the opinions OF
| strange nominee.
The Pan Man Gazette arraigns the authorities
of London for failing 10 protect the Salvation
| Army from the attacks of the " Skele Teton
| Army" which. il says is composed OF a a" beg
| CARLY array of hobbledeboys led by prentice
| hoy. lust out of his teens, who but the other
day left the ranks OF the Salvation Army to head
the rahblc of its assuilants.'
There is much speculation in regard TO the
election of bishop to succeed bishop Talbot
of Indiana, recently deceased. The Rev. DIR.
! Clinton Locke. rector of Grace Episcopal
| Church, Chicago, is prominently mentioned rs
Il candidate.
The proposed memorials of tho late Arch
bishop of Canterbury are mOnumentsln Canter-
bury Cathedral and st. Pauls Cathedral, me-
mofia IN Westminster Abbey, and the rcStora-
ton OF the chapel of Lambeth Palace.
Principal Tulloch has written n vigorous
letter to The Pal Mall Gazette in which he COM
/ 81, flI.tTf llf
soon be disestabshcd.
Mare than cl50OO have hecu raised 10 en-
dow the lew Diocese of SOuthwall which Is to
hc erected out Of the Diocese OF Lltchlied in
England.
The Wesleyan Nethodi,ts Of England have
expended nearly f3,OOc'o 600 in the erection OF
chapels dulins the last twenty five years.
II is stated THAT Mr.. Moody has been very sue
ce~~iul in his eyAnsulistic work IN UAiord and
Cambridge.