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Show GREAT 1IRITAI.Y. The Christian Convention Auuihi r ticrmuu Aote. Loudon, 5. The Christian convention conven-tion met to day in Sayiuark theatre, Moody wa chosen ciiairman. Canon Batttrshy, of the See of Carlisle, Canon Freemantle, chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord CiuilmoiiUley, Rev. Mr. Aiken, and many hundreds of other delegates re-preaenting re-preaenting llie principal towns in the kingdom, were present. Rev. Kel-, man, of Edinburgh, in an address, slated that the resulU of the work of Moody and Sankey in that city were truly marvelous. Three thousand persons bad keen converted, and the number of drunkards and theatregoers theatre-goers who had been reclaimed was remarkable. A delegate from Rome gave an interesting account of the progress there. Addresses were delivered de-livered by other delegates from the continent. The Pall Mall Gazette says that a fresh note Irom Germany has arrived in Brussels in connection with the extremely violent pastoral recently itsued by the biabop of Namur. |