The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-04-26 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

CIIRISTISON-I am not aware. The Rev. J. HANsoN asked the lecturer to repeat an extract from Dr. Pye Smith which he read in the course of his lecture. Mr. Christison did so.  Dr. PYE SMITH, speaking of the Church property, said some would recommend the resumption, or rather it would be the assumption (for the State could not resume what it never gave) of the property of the Church by the Government. That, to his apprehension, would be downright robbery. The Rev. J. HANSON said that was just the doctrine that Mr. Williams preached in that room. He then asked whether the property which was left to the Church during the time the Romanists were in power in this,, country did not belong by right to the Roman Catholics. Mr. CHRISTISON replied that the control which the Pope exercised over the British Church was an unlawful supremacy, and that the property given to the Church during that time was given to the British Church, and never to the Church of Rome. (Cheers.) After a few questions from a young man, who gave the name of Blakey, and which the lecturer declined to answer, on the ground that they were not pertinent, Mr. H. BEAUMONT TAYLOR moved, and Mr. J. WILKINSON seconded, a vote of thanks to the lecturer. After it had been carried, Mr. EDWARDS moved an amendment, which the chairman held to be out of order, as it came too late. N0.,;withstanding this rctnonstrance, Mr. Edwards persisted in his amendment, and Mr. Councillor Porritt then vacated the chair. Upon this the audience abruptly dispersed.  A novel claim has been made in connection with an inquest on the body of a drowned woman, at Cobridge, near Hanley, by a man named Wayne. He had claimed the body as that of his mother, and soon after it had been taken to his house his mother alive entered, whereupon be desired to get rid of the body, and this was not allowed. He now claims two guineas, which he is scarcely likely to get. Great fears are entertained at Cambridge that Earl De la Warr has committed suicide. It seems that on Tues day evening his lordship left the Bull Hotel, Cambridge, where he had been staying, leaving behind two letters, in one of which he intimates an intention to drown himself. The river Cam is being dragged, but no body ha% yet been found. Lord De la Warr has an estate at Bourne, Cambridge.  The Atlantic telegraph lines have given notice that from the Ist of May their tariff will be raised from 4s. to 69. per word. The Daily News says the proposed new charge is a most prohibitive one, and will inflict serious injury on many mercantile houses. The Atlantic telegraph proprietors are making a most odious use of their mouopoly, but it expresses a hope that the directors will reconsider their decision.  The Times, in summing up the debate on Tuesday night on the Central Asian question, which it describes as perhaps the most learned discussion on Asiatic affairs that has ever been heard within the walls of Parliament, says it is only confirmed in the opinions it lately expressed, which are for the most part similar to those enunciated and acted upon by the Government for the present. The nation cannot do better than leave the conduct of affairs in the hands of the Indian Government, now fully warned of its duties.