The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-10-03 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CAMBERWELL. nation; disgraceful most of all to that mech. At the Lambeth Police Court, on Monday, before ?sun ed religious tantiment of the English publia Mr. Chance, John Amos, engine litter, eas brought which in impenetrable somnolence endured it, sue op on remand charged on suspicion of having resented all interference with it. Within the melt- caused the death of his wife by pushing her into nary English Parish Church of town or country, the Surrey canal. Mr. Ody appeared for the prithere were no redeeming features in the action wine, who, on the last occasion, was admitted to of the living, though the inanimate treasure of tbe The Clerk, on the prisoner's surrendering, Prayer Book yet remained. Its warmth was Stored, 'asked if there was any further evidence.—The like the material of fire in our coal seams, for insptor said very little beyond that of the doctor. better days. It was still the bed or mould, in —Thomas Edward Mill, 26, Commercial road, which higher forms of religious thought and feel- Peckham, surgeon, said he made a post-mortars ing were some day to be cast. But the actual state examination of the body of deoesesed, on the 12th of of things was bad beyond all parallel known to 11111 September, and found it, as a whole, in a kn experience or reading." perfectly healthy condition. There were no marks Mr. Gladstone's views az the question of Popery of violence, and he believed that death may be not obscurely gathered from the following WBB caused by asphyxia from drowning.— sentences— Ur. Chance : Could you judge how the woman came " But there is a question which it is the specie, into the water F—Witness : No, it would be the eurpose of this paper to suggest for consideration same if she had fallen into the canal.—if she had by my fellow-Christians generally, which is more committed suicide.—Mary Jane Whey said: Be. practical and of greater importance, as it seems to tweet two and three o'clock in the morning of the ins, and has far stronger claim's on the attention of Sth September she was in bed, and hosed piercing the nation and of the rulers of the Church, than shrieks of "police." on going to the window with the question whether a handful of the clergy are or her lamp she saw a splash in the water. She saw not engaged in an utterly hopeless and visionary foam on the water, and heard afterwards the re. effort to Bemanise the Church and people of Eng, peated cry of " police " two or three times. The land. At no time since the bloody reign of Mary sounds seemed to come from under the bridge.— has such a scheme been possible. But if it lind Mr. Chance: Wore the cries from the person in lie been possible in the seventeenth or eighteenth con- water, do you think ?—Witness: Yea—Mr. taries, it would still have beeome impossible in the Chance: How far is your house from the canal?— nineteenth , when Rome has 'substituted for the Witness: About two or three yards.—Mr. Chance : proud boast of semper cadent a policy of violence How many times did you hear cries of" Police" and change in faith; when she has refurbished and before you heard the splashing.—Witness : Twenty paraded anew every rusty tool she was fondly at least—Mr. Chance: Were there any other ens. thought to have disused; when no one can become but that of police Fe-Witness : None other.—Cron.. ' her convert without renouncing his moral and examined by Mr. Ody: Did you see the prisoner mental freelom, and placing his civil loyalty and there on the spot ? Witness: No—Mr. Ody : duty at the mer, yof another; and when she has As usual, the police were not there at the equally repudiated modern thought and ancient time they were :wanted.—Mr. Chances, That history. I cannot persuade myself to feel alarm as seems like a charge against the pollee; to the final issue of her crusades in Englard, and but if the police had been there something might this although I do not undervalue her great powers have been happening at some other place F—Mr. of mischief. But there are questions of our own Ody.: Yea; I don't want to make any charge religious well-being that lie nearer home. And against the police, but screams for police were one of them is whether, as individuals, we can heard to the extent of thirty or forty times before - justly and truly say that 'the toresent movement in she got into the water, according to the present DOMESTIC FELICIT Y v.