Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-01-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHURCH PATRONAGE IN YORKSIIIRE.—A curious case of church patronage has occurred in York&lire. Early in June last the rectory of Thorpe Bassett became vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Hale, M.A. The living is worth about £4OO a year, and is , in the gift of Earl Fitzwilliana. The uoble lord having allowed the legal six months to run out without presenting a clergyman. the Archbi,hop of York claimed the living, and nominated the Rev. C. Greusida,:vicar of Old Mahon. This benefice is also in the gift of Etrl Fit zwilliam, but is of much smaller value, being worth only about iitio a year. CURE FOR SNA4E BITE —Two fresh instances have recurred in Victoria of the successful application of Professor Halford's remedy for snake bite. In the first case, which occurred at M.Callum's Creek, an hour and a half occurred before the application of the remedy—the inje,tion of ammonia; but by perseverance and attention the patient was restored to consciousness in about fourteen hours, and in thirty-six his recovery was complete. The second case was that of a woman at Tarraville, who was not treated until thirteen or fourteen hours after the bite had been given. All ordinary means of cure had failed, and the woman appeared to be sinking, but two injections of the diluted ammonia completely restored her.  A terrible instance of railway decapitation occurred on the Midland Railway on Thursday night 'week near Leicester. On the express train arriving at Trent Station, a man's cap, "full of brains," was found on one of the steps of a carriage. About the same hour the driver of a Peterborough train, arriving at Leices• ter Station, noticed a dead body lying oil the "six. foot." An alarm having been given, the body was removed, when it was found that the flinges of thp carriages hacl decapitated the man at the chin. The deceased was a scarf weaver ont of employment, and it is presumed that he committed suicide, as there was no public approach to the place where the body was found. Writing on the state of Ireland,the Standard considers that the main cause to which the present disorganised condition of Ireland may be fairly attri• buted is the pernicious social and political teachings of ' the Roman Catholic priesthood, which have produced a ceaseless agitation under one designation or another for the attainment of impracticable otjects, and kept that country in a state of chroilic discontent during years of unexampled prosperity. The ill•employed ii.fluence of the Catholic c'ergy has been a gigantic evil, which no legialation could reach, and which can only be remedied by the rovolt of the peasantry against a moral servitude to which they have long patiently submitted. The results of the Tipperary and Longford elections lead our cont. mporary to hope that a remarkable change in the feelings of the Irish electors as regards clericii dictation ia being quickly but quietly effected.  The rumour gains ground that Mr Gladstone will comply with the request made to him to appoint a Welshman to the see of St Asapb, rendered vacant by the resignation of the present bishop. Several clergymen have been named as likely to he appointed, and among the rest the Ven. Dr. Basil Tones, Archdeacqn of York.  The discussion concerning the Head-Mastership of Rugby School has, according to the Scotsman, tranquilly ended. The masters will remain at their posts, sod do their best, in conjauctiou with Mr Hayman, to maintain the traditions of the school. There is reason to believe that the good feeling which previously existed has been restored, and this great institution will now enter upon a new career of prosperity.  . • The half-yearly report of the Brighton Railway Company has been ismed. It appears that the New Cross nonillion cost the company £lll.OOO, ad redaced the dividend front 22s 6d to 10. 6.1 per cent. The directors consider the accident unavoi able, the Mmtpensation exorbitant, and the law unjust. Apart front this unfavourable item, the report biIOWS a cooaiderable recovery in the value of the company's prop•-rty,  Unionisn seems to prevail not only in Sheffield, the head-quarters of rattening, but in Ilallamshire as well. On Friday a mob, composed, it is said, of at least a thousand colliers;frona the pits of South Yorkshire, asks.mbled at a place called Toorneliffe, near Sheffield, and demolished thirty houses, as well as utterly destroying the furniture and fixings, belonging to non-unionists. The police were found to be utterly powerless in the face of an organised body of unusually powerful and desperate men, and the military have been called out.