The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-02-11 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

LOSING GAME. The Bin !get of the Italian ninistry of Finance catta.ns soave inter,sting par: ieulars with referel the lottery (ii lotto.), which is a fruitful source of revenue throtwhout the kingdom. In 1874 the Treasury rectved a sum of three i-tuillipts sterling from different speeuhitors of whicli cri.arly one-tisifd was contr:buted by the !Neapolitans. Tile PietitillontrPe and filo Lombards furnished nearly half a million cacti; the Sicilians, £4tlit,ooo-; lei '.l.llFetnP, £340,910 ; the Vane ians, ; kbRontans, Itfif;hl/04. anzitrthii iiihabitants hi the pecitices of Bari', .E. 260014 i amount won in prizes-Was £1,1100,0(10,eo :hat; the Trea.-urt derived e proflttif more than aiinillirtn Oterl:n,r, It•rs the coihmh,siOn paid to the persons who -twoeiv the investliientit 'he pu'Aie. Bottle profinees were it ire fertunitte their speculatitiors than others • for, a hi as the Sicilians won C 300,000 out of the ..1:44,4.14 ay invested. the :Pied-. montese, andtheimiiitde,wbo ha i,-taked lia,f a million each, received trick but .441,01 U.- The Nevatam won book .£600,t)90 out of the ..tOrzit,ollo,.eixl the I 11 imans more than 'FA per cont. of- the quarter of .a iiililn which they had invest:cit.—Pali Mail Gazette.  THE RITUALISTS AND THE CHURCH OF The Rey. A. H. Mackonoobie has sent for publication the subkined di-iclaimer of complicity in the recent. tette. of "Presbyter Auglicanis" to Cardinal Manning, signed by 100 representative men, including neer/all those who have, been subjected to ecclesiastital prosecution, actual or threatened :—"We, the undersigned clergymen of the Church-of England belonging to the school current 4 known as High Churchmen, hereby disavow and repudiate all share in and sympathy-with an. anonymont letter recently addressed to Cardinal Maiming, ostettsibly in the nalllo • of part of 'that school, petitioning for the establishment in thfli 'country of a church in‘suhorclination to the Papacy; and- oe further declare that, apart from other numerous and serious obstacles, we do not believe that so much 1115 n basis of negotiation with the Church of-Rome is possible until the Vatican decrees have been retracted and repealed with a° niubh lormality as they were promulgn ed." Allffilta the signatures are the Rev. S. Baring Gould, Rev. W. Bennett, of Fronce; Rev. T. Dale; of St. Vedast ;Rev. F. Gregory, of Southampton; Rev. F. Gurney, of Plymouth; Rey. Dr. Liddell, of Knightsheidge ; Rev. A. Mackonocbie, Rev. G. R. Prynne, of 'Plymouth ; Be,. 0. itidsdale, of Fo•kestOne Rev. A. Stanton, of liikdborn; and the Rev. R. T. West, of. Paddington. The signatures were collected in three dens. Rome, Feb. 3.—lt is asserted that Cardinal Manning supports a scheme which has been submitted to hie, and upon which he has been eng igrd for the last two years, for the union of the extreme ritualistic elergy with the Rennin Catholic Church, but that the Sacred Congregations are opposed to it. The Pope, however, is represented to view the scheme with t neour, hoping that its realisation may be found possible, and that the Anglicans may gradually unite with the Church, as was the ease with the Gallicans. It is added that Cardinal Manning and other personages are endeavouring to remove the difficulties in the way, and that the former will come to Rothe to defend the scheme before the Congregations.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY s-r..t.rtvAi.i. . . About ten o'clock on the 4th inst., a young woman was found in a state of gretx exhaustion in Raikes Clough, Great Lever, near Bolton. On removal to the workhouse she related the fohowing: sad storz was a Welsh woman, named Mary Edwards, and Wse twenty-four years of age. Wilde living iii service in Liverpool she wise seduced by a man named Williams; and, not w shing her mistress to know her 'condition, she left, and hat .;no been tranipmg about the country. After a brief stay in Stanch o'er she determined to return to Liverpool. She arr:ved at Great Le .er on the previous day, and en'ered the dough with the intention of drowning herself in the river Croat. ILer heart failed her, however, at the sight of the water, and , she resolved to starve herself to death. When found she had been in the clough for thir y hours; and she told the medical (Aker of he workhouse that She had I not tasted food of any kind for three days. She is said to be-very near confinentent.