The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-03-27 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

EVANGELISATION IN THE FAR WEST.  - -The London Telegraph writes :—" Evangelisation or proselytism - for these are generally convertable terms—is carried on under widely different conditions in various quarters of the world, aad there are many zealous missionaries who would be only too thankful if the pieces where they laboured Were as plessant as those on which Messrs. Moody and Sankey's lines have fallen. Mexico is not likely for many a year to be a country in which the preacher of faith and morality will want occupation. A Protestant congregation has, it appears, been established in Acapulco, and it lately met for worship in a building once used as a Roman Catholic chapel, but more reeently as a store room. It was entirely composed ef converts., amere handful in point of numbers—about fifty in all—but including several persons- in good position, tong them Senor Dias, the editor of a local:paper, who was also a member of the State Congress. On the 26th of January last, after the evening service bad begun, a few strangers came quietly in ; one of them, a young Indian, who had his left arm carefully concealed under a blanket, holding a machete, or hatchet, walked up the aisle towards the reading desk where Senor Dias stood, and assaulted him, wounding him repeatedly in the head, and cutting off two fingers of his right hand. The bravo's companions then joined in the fray, laying about them like madmen among,the terrified worshippers. However, the congregation resisted gallantly. An American lady was the first to vindicate her faith by her works; she drew a revolver, shot down the Indian, and continued, we are told, 'throughout the melee to fight like' a tiger.• Filer husband, an old resident, who had gone outside to quiet the mob, was killed, and another member of the loongregation was also murdered. After the battle had raged inside the chapel for some time with varying fortune, the city garrison, tOO strong, arrived'and quelled the disturbance, carrying off some fifty of the assailants to prison. The killed and wounded in this engagement made a formidable total. Cf the congregation, five were killed outright, and ten seriously wounded, one dying next day: of the assailants, three, among them the murderous Indian who opened the fray, perished, and many wounded escaped to the mountains, where it-was believed five more died from exposure and lack of surgical aid. From this specimen of the dangers attending evangdisation in Mexico it is clear that only the utmost prudence and Sl.ljoas care to avoid offence will aysrt the revival of a wholesale persecution; and, unfortunately, the zeal of Protestant missionaries in Popish countries is not always tempered with discretion. It is to be hoped the New York board, to whom the particulars of the outrage have' been referred, will persevere, if only out of regard to the heroic American lady to whom regenerated Mexico Will one day, we hope, erect a monument more lasting than brass."  RICHARD Coates, the Purfleet murderer, has made a full confeeeion of his guilt to the gaol chap lain. WE have reason to believe that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales contemplates a visit to India in the ensuing cold season.— Times. MB Alexander Baird, of Urie, Kincardineshire, has, it is stated. been definitely selected as the Conservative candidate for Bridport. Mr. Baird is the son-in-law of Sir Lawrence Palk. Timm men, named respectively Wm. Henry Thornley, James Carney, and Edward Spencer, were on Saturday senticed by Justice Field, at the Manchester Assizes, to twenty years' penal servitude each for having kieked to death two men at Ancoats, under circumstances of great brutality.