Irvine Express. — 1883-03-23 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE REV. N. Y. Bntxmvuz, the new vicar of St. Simon's, Bristol, having refused to allow the church bell to be tolled at the funeral of a Dissenting parishioner, gives the following reasons: —First, it is his firm conviction that the tolling of the bell,being a very solemn thing,and an important part of the Church service, no Dissenter has any claim to it; and secondly, as a Church of England clerg3 man he can have no sympathy with any Dissenters, and it is plainly his duty not to recognize them, as he believes they are morally wrong in the sight of God. The Rev. N. Y. Birkmyre's heaven ought to be as select as the great Sahara.  ACCORDING to the Rev. Dr Morgan Dix, who has been delivering some ferocious lectures at Trinity Chapel, New York, concerning the shocking depravity of the American girl, that a luckless female has "brought contempt upon her name, and cast a blight on her condition." "The deference paid her is less, homage is turned to mere civility, the public invade her privacy, the newspapers print her name in full, she is treated with no more ceremony than if she were a man." This is terrible news—if it is true. It is not surprising to learn that Dr Dix's strictures have provoked a storm of indignation among the fair sex on the other aide of the Atlantic.  OTHER two suicides are reported from Monte Carlo, one that of a Tyronese commercial traveller who had gambled away 8000 fr. of his employer's money; the other that of a Count Martini, whose htavy losses drove him to the last resort. If it is possible to add an additional horror to suicide, the feat has been accomplished by the proprietors of a great waxwork exhibition in Paris, who intend to procure photographs of Monte Carlo victims, and to show wax representations of them. Barbarous as the intention is, it may have some effect in raising public opinion against the gambling hell ; and intending suicides may think twice ere they condemn themselves to statuesque history, to be stared at by gaping crowds of the curious.  TEE trial of six men,charged with being members and organisers of the Patriotic Brotherhood, formed avowedly for the purpose of murdering all persons who were obnoxious to it and opposed to the liberation of Ireland from British rule, began at Belfast on Wednesday. According to the statement of the Crown prosecutor, and the evidence of a man named Duffy, who had been admitted approver, an association named the "Patriotic Brotherhood" had been formed at Crossmaglen two years :igo, by a man named Burns, with the obi,.ct of setting up an "Irish Rtriblic," and ammasi rating persons obnoxious to the society. Alemings were held at which as many as thirty persons assembled, an oath was administered binding members to commit murder when so directed by their superiors, the death of two landlords, Mr M‘Geough and Mr Brooke was decreed, and parties told off for the purpose of shooting them, the designs, however, being frustrated by accident and the vigilance of the police.  THE excitement over the so-called attempted assassination of Lady Florence Dixie has almost died out. Her ladyship is indignant at the way in which a portion of the press have cast doubt upon her statement ; but what disgust' her most is that the members of the House of Commons should hare laughed as they did without being reproved for their unreasonable levity by the Prime Minister. "On quiet reflection," she is inclined to believe "that the attempt was more one of intimidation than of actual intent to kill; and if this be so," she adds, "the attempt has been futile in rw•ults." The Briti.4 Medical Journal, in evident allusion to the case of Lady Dixie, cites soon: remarkable cases of hallucinations, where females laboured under the belief that they have been forty+ or stabbed by others, even after having infl.cted blows and wound!' wen themselves, and oir,rves, "The constant fear of assassination, especially if based on reasonable grounds, is particularly liable to predispose nervous or excitable subjects to extraordinary delusions of the kind."  Mr A. M. Eiti!lavas has addressed a very sensible communication to his dynamite-affecting compatriots in America, warning them of the moral recklessness and political stupidity of their conduct. He points out that the firing of arty lime English city would be the virtual win of its Trish population. "Apart from every other  —esCa—Pe the fire and the dynamite, what, he asks, would be their fate next day? "Better for them that they too had perished in the flames. They would be hunted down like wolves and slain without mercy." Even as the result of what he designates "mere vapourings," Irish homes in this country have been subjected to suffering and destitution, while all the time England remains tranquil, and is not in the least frightened. The advocates of "cowardice and atrocity" in America are "doing horrible injury to Irishmen and to Ireland. They are evicting honest Irishmen from good employments and comfortable homes, and casting them into cruel poverty. They are hurling Irish girls upon the streets of English cities. They are, before my eyes, driving Irish children of tender years to mendicancy and crime in the gutters and slums of London."