Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-05-01 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

CARDINAL MANNING.  MANCHESTER, Wednesday evening.—Cardinal Manning took part in opening the new Church of St. James', Pendleton, near Manchester, today, and afterwards presided at a luncheon which followed the dedication ceremony. In proposing the health of Pope Pius IX. (the first toast), he said he had left him three weeks ago in perfect health, great courage, and perfect calm.—ln next proposing the health of "The Queen," Cardinal Manning said there was not one present who did not bear a loyal heart, and who was not affectionately attached to the person of Her Majesty. (Hear, hear.) Her long reign would be recognised in the history of England as a time in which our broad and solid institutions had been made broader and more solid by a reign of equity. She received the English Monarchy after a thousand years in its full power, and she would transmit it to her heirs more solid, more full in power, and more widely extended and more deeply rooted in the hearts of her British subjects. (Cheers.) It was no light thing in a time when kingdoms and empires fleet like clouds along the sky, that there should stand a Monarchy which nothing could shake, and he prayed God that nothing might shake it.—Replying to the toast of his own health, the Chairman said-1 am very glad to read in the addresses presented me the words, " Struggle with the powers of the world," and not "Struggle with pue of ti. e Governments," or with tiny of the "civil powiis." The "powers of the world' I understand to be those which are always and irremediably hostile to God and His revelation. The civil powers of the world or powers of government I understand to be those lawful and legitimate authorities against which no Christian, no Catholic, can Contend. He went on to contradict reports which had obtained currency, and said that never at any time had he laid any scheme before any tribunal of any sort whatever relating to any struggle, present or coming, with the British Government. (Cheers.)  The Crown Prince of Gerrnany is at present the guest of the King of Italy at Naples. The Princess remains at Florence.  The Queen has appointed the Rev. Brooke Foss Westcott, D.C., canon of Peterboro', and Regina Pro. fessor of Divinity at Cambridge University, to be an honorary chaplain to Her Majeaty. At a large meeting held ott Monday night in Leeds. under the presidency of the Mayor, resolutions in favour of the entire suppression of the sale of liquor on Sundays were passed.  Mr Boveker has recently visitod Lymington, and made a_settlement of the outstanding debts of the late Sir Alfred Doughty Tichborne to the creditors residing in that locality. A gentleman named J. Cumming has committed suicide by shooting himself in the Euston Hotel, London. A Committee of the Prussian House of Lords has reported in favour of the concession of Corporate rights to the Baptists. M. Leon Say, French Minister of Finance, is of opinion that only 2,700,000 f. are due to Napoleon's heirs, instead of 4,000,000 f.  The Emperor of Germany, in conversation with the French Ambassador in Berlin, expressed pleasure that the endeavours to sow discord between France and Germany have failed. At Aldershot on Tuesday, Colonel Mit!er, earnbanding the 79th Highlanders, presented to about 100 men who served with the 42nd, the medals for the Ashantee war.  A deputation had an onterview with Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., on Tuesday, on the subject of thuvlis• allowance of costs on criminal cases by the Treasury. Mr Smith said the subject would have most serious consideration.  Letters from Klriva report that the regular contributions are now paid with punctuality, and that the general condition of affairs is peaceful and promising. The Khan was to make an excursion early in March among the Tareeman settlements, accompanied by a considerable guard of troops and some artillery. BAPTIST UnteN.—The annual meeting of the Baptist Union commenced in Bloomsbury Chapel, London, on Monday. The Rev. A. Maclaren, of Manchester, delivered an inaugural addre.,-, in which he stated that there had been an =wale% Qf 63 young ministers during the year, 25 new eimrches had arisen, 38 now ch els built, and £259,000 raised for the direct promotion ,f (Thristiauity. Several of the sails of Lord Nelson's flag-ship, the Victory, have just been discovered at Chatha Dockyard. They were taken from that vessel immediately after the battle of Trafalgar, and have since lain unthought of in the sail-loft at Chatham The most interesting of the relics disoovered is the foretop sail, which is in a good state of preservation. The sail is riddled with shot holes, there being as many as ninety holes made by the shot.