The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-12-31 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

TRONDASTER.—Mr. Henry Lancaster, an ironmaster, carrying on business at the Fleck, Walsall, committed suicide on Monday by placing himself in front of a railway train near to the bridge that crosses the line at Newton road. The driver did : what he could to avoid running over the deceased; I but as the latter had remained hidden by the bridge , until the engine was close to it. no effective means could be taken. Tin deceased laid himself down on the six-foot and placed his head upon the rails. He was struck by the guard of the locomotive across the middle of his face, anti the head was crushed in, producing deal h instantaneously.  A Dublin correspondent statesthat Mr.lsaaeßutthas proposed the organisation in that city of a new Tenants' Defence Commitiee, to he constituted of persons chosen from farmers' clubs in different localities in such a way as not to transgress the Convention Act. •'The local members of the coinnlittee," he says, "and all persons interested in the cause of the tenant, should be invited to send to the central office information of all cases in which notices to quitare served or attempts made to.force upon the tenants tither new agreements or increased rents." Means should be taken," Mr. Butt adds, "to preserve a full and complete record of this information. and to place an abstract of it from time to time before the public i 0 a clear, true, and authentic form."  A Brussels correspondent writer —An interesting question of international law has been recently decided by the Superior Tribunal of the Prussian Rhenish Province. A young man of Prussian origin, but living on the neutral portion of the Moresnet territory, which is administered conjointly by Prussia and Belgium, claimed exemption from the German military service on the round that the neutral Moreenet terri'tory does not belong to the German Empire. The Superior Tribunal decided that the subjects both of Belgium and of Prnseia are, while living on the neutral Moresnet territory, not deemed to live in a foreign country, and remain, [betel uve, subject to all the civic and military obligations and laws of their respective countries.  On. PCSET AND THE UNION OF THE CHURCHE,.—Dr. Pusey announces his disapproval of any scheme for union with the Orthodox Church of the East, for various reasons, and, among others, because the abandonment of the " Moque" would be a virtual " abandonment of the expression of our belief in the mode of existence of Almighty God—i.c., in God as He is." And the Doctor fears that the abandonment of the expression of belief would soon be followed "in the practical English mind by the aharidettment of the belief. itself." "I do not niean," says Or. Posey, "to throw any slur on the pacific endeavours of the theologians assembled at Bonn, although, in regard to this great doctrine, I think that the results are unhappy, and that it would have been much better simply to claim, in case of reunion, the possession of our hereditary creed (wills which our faith is practically bound up), while dimlaiMing any error which the Greeks have erroneoualy imputed to it, or any with t hat they should adopt it. I think it also a misstatement that 'the words "and the Son" have for so Im.g a -woe divided the East from owns the West.' Writers on the Greet side have said that Printed by the Proprietors, 111.71,„ce5, the flilatte Wall not about the Cteed, but about the ALEXANDER JEFFEET, .at 'Se.H3 the absolute authority ...hinted by the See I Street, WOLTER 1311'10H, of Rome over the astern patriarchates, so dirm ffe. t i them at Blakeney, Gloucestapershire. E from the relations of earlier times."