'THe payers now to hand announce the death of an eminent man who may be said to have belouyed to a bygone veneration. We refer to Mouifat the ary. His name is associated in one's mind with those of Carey and Juhu Wiliams, and has now indeed almost passed into oblivion, We take the following short obituary notice from the Pall Mall Guzett Kent, on Fe eighty-eight years of age, and tad Leen ailing for the past month, Dr. Moffat, who was born at Iuverkeithing, Scotland, went out in 1816 to South Africa, ander the auspices of the Tandon Mivsiquary Sosiety, and laboured first. at Erromange, then Rumaqualand and Iaetly returned to thi the author of. vane labours, and. transi Scriptures into the Bechuana language. One of big danghtera was the wife of Dr, Livingstone, His son, the Rev. J. S, Moffat, is a magistrate in, Buutoland. The last letter on any public question which Dr. Moffat wrote before death was addressed to Sir Henry Pook, M.P, Is expressed the strong sympathy he felt for the Bechuanas in the attack made upon them by fre fromthe Transvaal His Las public app The telephone has at-last actually come operation asa help to sermon-preaching, or rather sermon-hearing. The Pall, Mall states that the National 'l'elephone Ca. have lately put. up a wire between their. offices and a Unitarian Chapel in Bradford: and on a certain Sunday evening M Crossley, at his house in Halifax, and a number of subscribers in Bradford and the neighbourhood, lad the pleasure of hear-. ing through their telephones the sermon preached by the Rev. Juhu Cuckson. 'The, transmitter was.fixed. in an inconspicuous, position on the bookrest of the pulpit at, some distance from the mouth of. the prericher, and the result was in every way, most satisfactory, "As, avy number of, subscribers can' be connected, with. the clrarel oF chapel teloplious at th moment, no doubt. th telephonic communication will be a g boon. to invalids and persons who are, forced by inclement weather or temporary indisposition to remain at home." The Saturday has an article upon the relation between the Home Government and. the which, it considers, a The. writer remarks upon independent tone assumed by the Australians in the state-paper addressed to Lord Derby dealing with the Annexation, Question, On this point he says The Australian Agente."
conscious. that they endeut and equal Pow irely to acknowledge that on " question, of this sort the Home Government can be the best authority. Aw far as the language goes the Memorandum is perfectly courteous bat the four gentlemen who sign it have'no mind that Lord Derby should be allowed to think he has the last word, and they are obviously confident that they will ported by their Governments. Whil acknowledge that th i discharge of which rely by the advice of the oolong fe concludes with an expression of belief that if the Australian Coloniate insist on their demands, and. the Home Government does serious kind may' very possibly arise, and the fact that a atatosman of Lord Derby's views is at the head of the Colonial Ottice does nut for their peaceful or dignified ment. The Saturday has alto a. hi graphical article on Li Hung-chang, in which Jays the he accusation against him of having, in his Memorials to the Thro fact the assertion is made that th ion achieved by Li was i the result of accrediting him:
successes which were in. reality achieved by the British officer; and a contrast is drawn between the conduct of Gordon and that of Li in that while the former saved China, declining all reward, Li FHung-chang, who lad played. but a minor part, accepted the highest honours and became a power in the Empire, The following is a decidedly striking wind-up j-".
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