News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 4, 1872

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

NEW YORK, May 27.—Capt. Allston, of the Retriever, a steamer lost during the terrible storms which prevailed during the Newfoundland seal fishery this spring, reports the total wreck of 42 vessels, including several steam ships. The number of lives imperiled by these disasters amounts to nearly 4,000, of which very few have yet been accounted for.

THE Eternal City seems to be the wickedest place in the world, if the following statistics are to be believed: It is said that in Rome there are 237 times as many chances of being murdered as in England, and 333½ times more than Prussia. In England, it is shown that one murder occurs yearly for 178,000 inhabitants; in Holland, one for 163,000; in Prussia, one for 200,000; in Austria, one for 57,000; in Spain, one for 4,113; and in Naples, one for 2,750; but at Rome there is one homicide for every 750 of the inhabitants.

THE pope has caused a letter to be addressed to the “College of Theologians” at Rome, “forbidding hereafter any of its members, or any other member of the Church of Rome, publicly to confute Protestant preachers;” which looks as if the recent discussion between three Protestant ministers and three Roman ecclesiastics, in that city on the question whether St. Peter was ever in the city of Rome, did not result as the pope anticipated.—American Protestant.