The Warrington Examiner. — 1875-03-06 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

PERSONAL, LITERARY, & VARIOUS.  Mr. Mundella, M.P., is confined to bed by an attack  of bronchitis.  The cost of relieving the suffering from the late 'amine in India is cfficially estimated at £6,500,000.  Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins sailed for Ameriza last Saturday, in the Cunard steamer Cuba. The Rev. J. B. Heard, late of All Saints', Pinner, has left the Church of England, and joined the Congregational body. A. -reward of £5OO has just been offered for the recovery of the will of the late Lard St. Leopards. It is stated to have been written on old quarto white letter paper, by his lordship. Mr. Ewing, sculptor, Glasgow, is engaged upon the long-expected statue of Burns, which is now rapidly nearing completion. The head is said to be magnificently moulded. The Rev. dames Martinean's analysis of Professor fyndall's religious ideas will shortly be issued in New York, entitled " Religion as Affected by Modern Materialism."  At the annual meeting of the Church Association, on Friday, it was urged that the first shot under the Public Worship Act should be fired against Canons Gregory and Liddon. Mr. Sep:Lour Haden is going to lecture on the best modes of interment, before the Society of Arts. A noble Duke has lent him, for the purposes of his lecture, . two coffins of wicker work, lined with moss.— A thenieum. M. Rajon, who is at present engaged in preparing an etching of Mr. Watts' admirable portrait of the Rev. James Martineau, has just issued a second edition (with letters) of his etching of the same artists' portrait of John Stuart Mill.  Mr. Gladstone, in reply to a request made to him by Mr. R. J. Price, of Bangor, for permission to publish a Welsh translation of his pamphlet on " Vaticanism," states that, taking a warm interest in Wales, he most cheerfully gives his consent.  • Mr. William Ernest Keates, an undergraduate of University College, Oxford, was killed on Monday Afternoon, on the London and North-Western Railway, near Oxford. It is stated that he committed suicide, and over study assigned as the cause for the act.  The three richest men in the House of Commons aro Conservatives, but they are all three self-made men, with no family arms. They are Sir George Elliott, who made £750,000 last year, Mr. Fielden and Mr. Hermon, the two latter being worth about £300,000 a year apiece. D ispatch. It is understood that the Right Rev. Bishop Pier Claughton, late Bishop of Ceylon, will succeed the Reverend George Robert Gleig as chaplain.gener al to the forces. Dr. Gleig has held the office of chaplaingeneral since 1E46, and his resignation will be received with great regret. A London correspondent is credibly informed that an examination of the books of the late Mr. Benjamin Attwood shows that he has given away anonymously £l,OOO cheques to the value of £475,000, so that the £353,0(,0 which he was said to have distributed in this way was considerably under the mark. From the same source he learns that Mr. Attwood gave away to his poor relations and dependents no less a sum than £400,000.  Mr. J. B. Philip, the eminent sculptor, and vice 'president of the Savage Club, died on Monday, of bronchitis, after little more than two days' illness. Mr. Philip will probably be best remembered as an artist for his share of the podium of the Albert Memorial and the allegorical figures which he executed for that work. He had just completed his arrangements for proceeding with a large statute for Halifax, the sketch for which will probably be pronounced one of his finest cfforts in that line of art. Dean Stanley in a recent sermon said, in reference to the late Sterndale Bennett and his Art:—" Of all the branches of art or letters none revealed so fully the hidden capacities of the human soul as music, and heathens as well as Christians in all ages had not scrupled to call it Divine. As an eminent living writer had said, seven notes in the musical scale—call them thirteen if they would—was indeed a poor outfit  for so vast an enterprise as the genius of the great masters of that glorious art had succeeded in completjog. And to illustrate its marvels was the mission of the gentle musician who, three weeks ago, was laid to his rest w 'thin the walls of that venerable abbey.