Glasgow Courier. — 1864-09-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BISHOP COLENSO.—A number of clergy ministering in the Church of South Africa, -having understood that there is a probability that Bishop Colenso willaeturn to Natal, and attempt to resume the exercise of episcopal functions in that'diacese, notwithstanding his deposition from his office by the Metropolitan, acting in concurrence with the suffragans of the province—time also having been allowed for appeal to the See of Canterbury —protest against any such attempt on the part of Bishop Colenso, and declare that they cannot recognise him as a Bishop of this Church, or hold communion with him, should he return.  A gang of several hundred malefactors—says the Daily News—had ravaged the Romagna, robbed a bank at Genoa, in mid-day, and made Bologna almost uninhabitable. The Papal Government had allowed these malefactors to pursue their depredations with impunity, and there was reason to suspect the complicity of the Papal police. It is to the credit of the Italian Government to have at length brought these ruffians to justice. At present what may be truly called a monster trial is going on at -Bologna. One hundred prisoners are on trial. In order to secure this formidable body of desperadoes, an iron cage has been constructed in the court, through the bars of which the counsel for.the defence communicate with the prisoner, like keepers in the Zoological Gardens with wild beasts. When this first batch of scoundrels is disposed of, some 600 more remain to be tried on the same charges. The affair of the recent terrible catastrophe at Lyons has just come before the Tribunal of Correctional Police of that town. 11. Boyer, the captain, and MU. Chaize and Plasson, the proprietors of the Monello No. 4 steamboat, were charged with homicide by imprudence in having caused the death of twenty-seven persons on the 10th of July. Thirty witnesses for the prosecution were heard, and ten for the defence. No new facts were, however, elicited. The steamer, which was forbidden to embark more than 100 persons, had from 120 to 130 on board. The accident was caused by a false mancgtivre, which caused the vessel to deviate from the navigable channel and touch on a sandbank. The judgment of the tribunal condemned Boyer to a month's imprisonment, M., Chaize, the principal partner and acting manager of the company, to three months of the same punishment, and M. Plasson, a sleeping partner, to a fine of 500 f., and all three conjointly to pay the cost of the trials.  The Opinion Nationale, the organ of the ultra-Democratic and violent anti - Catholic party in France, publishes with great satisfaction, a pamphlet, entitled "A Brief Exposition of the Wrongs of Ireland," which, it states, has been communicated to it by persons calling themselves "The Irish National League." It is signed "by the honourable Messrs. Martin and O'Donoghue, members of Parliament." The Opinion Nationale declares that, faithful to its name and its principles, it considers it a duty to publish the document. It, moreover, declares that the Irish are far from being the blind soldiers of the temporal Papacy, but the victims of an oligarchy which, "under the mask of a lying liberalism, turns to its own profit and reduces to despair a people of six millions." The document contains a long list of what it calls the "wrongs of Ireland ;" and after recounting many curious things touching the tyrranny and oppression exercised by England over Ireland, it concludes with "congratulating the French people on not being subjected to the oppression and misery as just mentioned," and prays that "Divine Providence may ever' preserve to France its liberty and its national power, and save it for ever from what Ireland suffers under a regime adorned with AP ROO eta free megWie*"..-Xionef .1410 r.