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TIMI svisrtia, JACC WI/400, MI LONDON WWI BOY. Mr. Raynekb Yansold. Mr. G. W. Jester; Mr. F. Evans & Mies Amy Rosalind ; Mr. C. Brown ; Miss Lydia Loaner ; Maxim R. ikuidars.—And DIOGENNA -- - - LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24. Tat Bishop of OXFORD'S vacation speeches, though at times disfigured by patches of soma what tawdry rhetoric, are for the mast part interesting and agreeable, and have an incidental significance which relieves them from the charge of being simply musical wind. He possesses in an eminent degree the ready insight, facile enthu siasm, and command of effective address, which enable him to seize quickly the general drift of current opinions, to reflect their more superacial phases in the most popular forms of speech, and dextrously apply them to Mind:rate the particular subject in band. Such attractive gifts, no doubt, expose their possessor to peculiar temptations, and may at times, perhaps in the ease even of the right reverend prelate himself, have proved a snare. As a favourite and celebrated speaker he naturally likes to be for the moment in sympathy with his audience, and almost instinctively trim his sails to catch the passing breeze of opinion —social, eccle siastical, or political. bToman ever understoodbe.ter the theory and practice des accommodentents. In the presence of his clerical brethren, leavened to a considerable extent by enthusiastic ritualism, he exalts the priestly order, raises the Church above the Bible, and looks with a friendly eye on even the most extreme innovations of Anglo- Catholicism. On the other hand, when brought into contact with the evangelical section of the Church, he speaks so fervently of what they have in common, that single-minded low Churchmen amongst his hearers cannot help thinking that his sympathies are wholly with them. When sur rounded by the active laity, merchants, farmers, and men of business, be takes a practical utilita rian view of life, and impresses the topic in hand on their attention by appeals to their com mercial experience and material interests. But if this flexibility of mind has its draw backs, it has also its advantages. It enables the Bishop of Oxroan to realise the strength of popular convictions, and appreciate the true bearing of established facts more readily than many of his episcopal brethren; and this in itself gives at times a surprising directness to his discussion of vexed questions. If as a sympathetic overseer he gratifies alternately the sentiment of rival parties in the Church, as a man of the world he quietly acquiesces in the logic of events, and accepts the doctrine of accomplished facts in a manner that must be almost revolting to Churchmen made of sterner stuff. His refe rence to the crisis in the Colonial Church at a recent meeting at Salisbury, for example, well illustrates this delightful versatility of the Bishop's mind and character. Omnia omnibus. While fully acknowledging the difficulties and perplexi ties connected with the position to which the Colonial Church has been legally reduced, he said boldly that if the Church looked the diffi culty in the face, it need not be afraid of it : "He would not enter into the question " whether it was better or worse that the " Chunh in the Colonies should not be established. " It was a fact, and Englishmen in their wisdom " accepted facts, instead of speculating how things " might have been if such and such an event had " not occurred. They knew that the sun gave " light by day and the moon by night, and if a " man were to speculate on what the result would "be if the order was reversed he would not get " many listeners. What they wanted to know " was the fact, and then to deal with the fact." The Bishop's speech at Lewes " On the Spiri " tual Destitution existing in many parts of Eng " land " is marked by much of the same sort of ingenious frankness and obtrusive simplicity. In urging the claims of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in Popu lous Places, he had to deal with the position of the working clergy in the present day, and the means of their increased support, and in both parts of the subject he displayed the same kind of astute humility in accepting current doctrines and utilising established opinions which usually marks his addresses to the laity. In both the same order of treatment ia apparent. While indulging the sentiment belonging to a different order of things—to the past or the ideal—he accepts the present and the actual, and deals with the facts as they are. In discussing the position of the working clergy he acknowledges that we live in a levelling utilitarian age, when the tendency is to estimate religious teachers not by their spiritual attainments, but by their influence on society—the practical results of their instruction. Do they materially further the ends of society by diffusing a spirit of order and content ment amongst the people t " What was wanted " every where was that spiritual teachers should be " a sort of spiritual police. The policeman is " looked to because he wears a blue coat and was " to be found on the right side in times of dis " turbance ; and the tendency of the age was to " deal in much the same way with the re " ligious teacher." In dealing with the question of increased means for the sup port of the humbler clergy, the Bishop is equally practical. While referring to mediaeval times, the times of munificent endowments when those who had wealth " built great churches, en " dewed those churches with rich endowments, " and left them here and there, until the whole " land was bespangled with such stars," he frankly confesses that the age of endowments has paased y . J~ 1, I► Tirg EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVE' 'I AUGUST 24, 1866• sway, that the temper of the present tint. is ad- ' verse to religious bequests. Se is, however, ' quite prepared to sevidoese in the istavi table, and adapt the efforts and agencies of the Church to the new order of things. As the ages of implicit faith and posthumous piety have given place to an age of critical inquiry, material enterprise, and personal effort, he very wisely urges that the Church, adapting herself to the times, should rely on voluntary effort, and appeal for support to the modern principle of co-operation.. As en dowments are not to be looked for, the Church should bestir herself to secure ample subscriptions for meeting the spiritual destitution of populous places. All this is practical and sensible enough. Unfortunately, however, it does not go to the root of the matter, or meet the real difficulty of the case. The main difficulty the Church has to con tend with is not the want of means for the em ployment of more curates, but the want of curates. And unless this more serious difficulty is met, the spiritual destitution of populous places, so far as it depends on the want of working clergy, will be likely to increase, no matter how munificent the subscriptions to particular societies ' may be. wiliouk oaring whiffler be evfik sees jd again, co the candi date wife pays shill MI 2,3ool.mithouldetecting the trifling addition of a paltuji 1,0001. Nappy emit be the borough thin remises suds a pair of trimly • If the circumstances of the Jams* rising were to occur again, there is not a gentleman in England who would not endeavour to act as Mr. Eyre did, says the Herald, though few would carry out their intentions with his discus ion and ability. It is the almost unanimous opinion inJamaica that his firmness saved the white inhabitant of the island from destruction, and the people on the spot must sorely be better judges of what was necessary in the emergency than any of us over here can be. The company which met at Southampton to welcome the ex-governor were of opinion that his conduct, under these circumstances, yrs& such as to do him honour, and it is to Insult them to call in question their right to give expression to their opinion. Commenting on Mr. Laing's address to his Wick consti tuents, the Star says the people of Kirkwall appear to have shown mound discretion in their manner of witncss jug this peculiar exhibition. They treated it and Mr. Laing with calm contempt. Ins rejection by the Wick Burghs at the next election being a foregone conclusion, the shrewd electors were willing enough to hear anythin g in bar of the penalty that ass in store for the represents , Eve who had betrayed them. Finding that his apologies were as meaningless as they were servile, and his decima tions of opinion even more offensive than those he made I in parliament, they relapsed into cool ind'fference, and with the merest show of courtesy allowed the matter and the man to drop. Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Amur: 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prints Leopold, drove in the Home Park this morning. The Mayor of Windsor, attended by the Town Clerk, had the honour of presenting to the Queen, this afternoon, an address of congratulation from the Mayor and Corp; ration of Windsor, upon the marriage of the Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Churchill, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, and the Master of the House hold. Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Windsor Castle this evening' at a quarter before 7 o'elock, for BalmoraL The suite in attendance consisted of Lady Churchill, the Honourable Emily Cathcart, Major-General Sir T. M. Biddelph, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Dr. Jenner, Mr. Said, and Mr. Legg. Princess Victoria sad Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, left the Castle this morning for the Continent. The Honourable Emily Cathcart has succeeded the Honourable Flora Macdonald, as Maid of Honour. Lord Charles Fitzroy has succeeded as Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. A deputation consisting of Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P., Mr. George Craikahank, Mr. Henry Weatherby, Mr. J. Widdicombe, Mr. Charles Whyte, Mr. G. F. Wilson, and Mr. W. Beare, bad an interview with Lord John Manners at the odic* of her Majesty's works, Ito, yesterday, on the subject of bathing in the Regent's-park. Mr. J. L. Godfrey, Mr. T. B. Tanqueray Willaurne, and Mr. Preston ' Kerslake, ;residents of the Regent's-park, had an interview with Lord John Manners, at the aloe of her Majesty's works, lac., yesterday. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND. Yesterday evening, at a quarter to 7 o'clock, Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by Major-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, tbe Master of the Household, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lady Churchill, the Hon. Miss Calm ;, Mr. Sahl, Dr. Jenner, and Mr. Legg, left Windsor Castle for Scotland. _ The royal party drove in several carriages to the Windsor terminus of the Great Western Railway, where a large crowd of spectators had gathered for the purpose of sit nesting the Queen's departure. The special train,consist in.s of several saloon and other carriages, fitted with Mr. Martin's system of electric communication, was provided by the directors of the London and North Western Rail way. Her Majesty and the royal family, on alighting from the carriages which had broulht them from the castle, were received by Captain Bulkeley, one of the directors, Mr. J. Grierson, general manager, Mr. A. Higgins and Mr. Spag. noletti, of the Great Western line, and Mr. Neal. and Mr. Mason of the London and North Western Railway. Mr. J. Jones, the mayor of Windsor, who wore his official gold badge and chain, was also in attendance. The special train left the Windsor station at 6.50 p.m., under the charge of of Mr. (Merlon, and proceeded via Blongh, Reading, Ox ford, and Leamington, to Rnahbury Junction, where the North Western system commences. It was arranged that on reaching Perth this morning at 8.25, the Queen and royal family were to breakfast in the station, 55 minutes being allowed for the repast. From Aboyne, where the train will an:vc at 1 o'clock to-day, the royal family will post by road to Balmoral, which sill be reached about 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Earl and Counteaa of Derby left tosa yes terday for Knowsley Park, near LiverpooL The Earl and Counteaa of Carnarvon have arrived at Buxton. _ . The Countess of Cork and her infant son are programing favourably. Lord and Lady Londesborough are entertaining a large party at Grimston Park, near Tadcaster, for the York moss. Among the guests of the noble lord and lady are—The Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis Conyngham, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, Colonel Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, Colonel Hon. B. W. and Mrs. Curzon, Hon. Frederick Oalthorpe, Captain and Hon. Mn. Egerton, Captain Little, Mr. C. Sykes, and Mr. Chaplin. Lord Stanley, M.P., as Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, remains in town dating the absence of his colleagues. - The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., arrived at Westwood Park, near Droitnlch, on Monday last. Sir James and Lady Chatterton have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Mrs. Gladstone has gone on a visit to the Dowager lady Wenlock, at Iroadatairs. The Right Hon. W. K Gladstone has returned home from visiting Mr. R. Neville Grenville, M.P. • Tau BISHOP Or OXFORD AT MAIDENHEAD. —Yes terday the Bishop of Oxford consecrated the new district church of St. Luke, at Maidenhead, and the occasion was one of great rejoining in that neighbourhood. The town of Maidenhead is situated partly in the parish of Bray and p..rtly in the parish of Cookham, and as both churches are some distance outside the borough, and there ia only a chapel of ease in the town the erection of St. Luke's was much needed, and the greatest possible interest was mani fested in the consecration ceremony. The bishop, accom panied by the Archdeacon of Berke, the Rev. J. R. Wood ford, one of her Majesty's chaplains ; the Rev. Austen Leigh, rural dean and vicar of Bray ; Rev. Dr. Proctor, and • large number of the local eleri,J, assem bled at one of the villas near the church, and, being robed, were joined by the choir, the whole walking in procession to the church, which was crowded by • congregation including the principal families in the neighbourhood. His lordship preached an eloquent and impressive sermon from the 13th verse of the 16th chapter of the Ards, and during the reading of the offertory sentences a collection of nearly 1501. was made towards defraying the debt of 6001. which remains upon the building, so far as it has already proceeded. The western portion of the church, with the tower, besides considerable carved work, will be completed as funds will permit. At the conclusion of the service • large party partook of a luncheon, provided by the generosity of several of the tradespeople in the district, at the National schoolroom. The bishop presided, and proposed several toasts, and his lordship's health was drunk with much enthusiasm. The site was given by Mr. W. Brooks, of Cranford Villa, and there have been several munificent gifts presented in connexion with the work. The incum bent of the new church is the Rev. W. B. Hole. The church is built in the early English style of architecture, from • design by Mr. G. R. Clarke, of Loudon. 'LATEST INTELLI 'CE. ADDRESS OF THE ARCHDUKE ALBERT TO THE ARMY. The Archduke Albert has issued the following address to the Austrian army : Soldiers,—The conclusion of an armistice in the north end in the south has I probably put an end to military operations. In the first period of this war you have bad occasion to give proofs of your de votion and heroic courage in great battles and in small combats, On the theatre of war in the south the success of our arms by land and sea against valiant and more numerous foes speak]. abundantly on this point. In the north, likewise, where the fortune of our arms has not been favourable, the whole world agrees in acknowledging the courage with which you opposed the superior numbers of the enemy, • more perfect arm of war, and untoward circumstances which put the perseverance of the soldier to the severest test. Flying from north and south to the protection of the menaced capital, the army assembled on the banks of the Danube has by its imposing position arrested the march of the enemy. When Italy, taking advantage of the departure of the army of the south inundated with her troops the exposed parte of Venetia, and passed the fron tiers of the German provinces, an army advanced from the north with unexampled rapidity, and, uniting with the brave soldiers left in defence of the Tyrol, compelled the enemy to retreat at all points, and to ask for an armistice. The Austrian army, attacked at ones on two rides by the armies of two powerful States, and abandoned by fortune on the decisive theatre of the war, did all that could be expected under such circumstances. The war has imposed heavy burdens on the empire, but the blood which has been shed has not Bowed in vain. It has won for Austria and her army glorious souvenirs and valuable lemons, the grateful sympathy of the nation, the esteem of her adver saries, and the respect of the whole world. Rich in the experience which it has gained the army may look to the future with unshaken confidence. We shall always joy fully respond to the call of our august Emperor, repeating the cry with which we began and ended the war—" Long live Austria ! long live the Emperor !" ARCHDUKE Smarr. Headquarters, Vienna, August 17. THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE DETHRONED PRINCES. The Kreutz Zeitung reports that when the depu tation of the members of the Upper Chamber pre sented the address to the King, he asked, " whether any one of them believed five weeks ago that such results would have been obtained in so short a time. As for himself, he did not believe it. Everyone did his duty, but it was to God that thanks were due for the great things which had been aceomplished, and every one should in entire humility rejoice in the divine benediction." The King requested the depu tation to give his thanks to the upper house for their conduct in supporting the new organi sation which is in course of preparation in spite of the efforts made in other quarters to impede this movement. The son of a prince, it was easy to understand how reluctant he was to deprive princes of their possessions. A painful struggle took place in his own mind on this subject, and the conviction alone that such a measure was necessary for the welfare of the country dictated his decision. ONE OF THE DESPOILED GERMAN PRINCSS. The Oder Gazette contains the following : From the moment the decree for the annexation of Electoral Hesse arrived a change took place in the Prince's mode of life. Since Sunday he has separated himself en tirely from his most intimate friends, and he does not commu nicate with any one. The general table to which,in addition to the Countess Idenburg, the court lords, and sometimes even foreign guests,were daily invited, has been done away with. Promenades and pleasure parties have also ceased. On the 20th of August, the anniversary of his birth, the Prince Elector received no one except his daughter. The same day be sent Major Eachwegs, one of his aides-de camp, on an extraordinary mission to Berlin. (sztrria's Tristmuus.) GERMANY. FRANKFORT, Araver 24. The Legislative Assembly of the free town of Frankfort sanctioned yesterday the conclusion of a loan of 12,000,000 of florins. . . MAYENCE, Auouer 24. The state of siege in this town was raised yester day. The Prussians will march in the day after to- MIMI,. SPAIN. MADRID, Accurr u. A royal decree has been issued, suspending for six months the levy of export duties at all the ports of Cuba, without distinction of flag. AUSTRALIA. FALMOUTH, AUGUST _24, The William Duthie, of Aberdeen, from Sydney, 92 days, was off this port this morning with gold to the value of 14,3841. OVERLAND MAILS. MALTA, Auctsr 23. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Syria left at midnight on the 21st, and the Ceylon at 4 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 24th inst., and the latter at Southampton about the Ist September. OCPRESS FROM PARIS. (vacs[ ova ows comuzsrownerr.) PAWS. THURSDAY Enema. The Empress Charlotte left Paris this morning. She was conducted in court assuages to the Eastern railway station and is going direct to Miramar. The Libert4 takes this opportunity to advance some very sound and much called for arguments against the doctrine that France is " morally " bound to see the Mexican bondhold ers paid their interest. Journals of all politics, from the Pays to the Temps, have been maintaining this thesis with great energy and perseverance. There is r o "legal " claim they admit, but they say there is an " equity," because the French government officially encouraged French subjects to subscribe, and they might well have " thought " that France was a surety for the loans. I can conceive no doctrine more " immoral " or " inequitable " than this. It amounts, as the Libert6 justly points out, to saying that the executive undertook by a side wind to give a guarantee which it did not dare to ask parliament for, and that the taxpayer is now to come to the rescue of unsuccessful speculators. If the loan had been as successful as the prospectus promised the share holders would have kept all the profits to them selves. Many of them have already received large sums as lottery prizes, of which they moat assuredly pay no portion into the public treasury. What shows conclusively that the bondholders have no ground for saying they relied upon a French guarantee is that they were seduced into subscribing by the bait of high interest, a periodical lottery, and a capitalisation of a suffi cient fraction of the loan to ensure payment of the capital at the end of 50 years. The case of the Mexican government becoming insolvent and unable to pay the interest was therefore distinctly contemplated. That the bonds issued at 340 fr. should have now fallen to 172 fr. is in itself evidence that the monied public never supposed France to be liable. Baron David, when put up in the Corps Legislatif to make the best apology he could for the Mexican expedition after M. Jules Favre's crushing speech, threw the bondholders overboard altogether, and said they were mere speculators, who ought to have calculated the risk they were running. It would be a very bad precedent indeed if in any indirect way the executive should be allowed to pledge the nation's credit to loans because they happen to turn out unfortunate. The stolidity of the French journals on the sub ject of the extradition bill lately passed in Eng land induces M. Prevost Paradol to explain fully in the Debats what it really amounts to. Some of the government organs boast, and the liberal &Zeit laments, that, in deference to the demands of France England has changed the whole economy of her criminal legislation with respect to foreign refugees. Now the shouts of victory and the cries of alarm are equally unfounded. English magis trates will, as heretofore, refuse to give up an ac cused Frenchman for trial in France, unless they are satisfied that a prima facie case is made out against him, such as would justify his committal for trial in England. The only innovation made by the bill is that the depositions taken in France will now be sufficiently proved by French official seals instead of as formerly by a witness, who had to swear that he had compared the copies with the originals. It was this that annoyed French judges, who fancied their dignity was hurt by it, and it is from this indignity that the bill relieve.; them. It does nothing more. The depositions which were always received "as evidence " will be no more conclusive and binding upon the English, magistrate than they were before. He a ill still exercise his own judgment upon the contents of them, and consider whether they, together with any other evidence that may be laid before him, make out a fit case for a committal. The extradi• tion bill about which so much noise has been made simply dispenses with a formality, and a useless formality ; for, however much French rules of evi dence may shock our notions, nobody thinks the French judges likely to forge depositions for ex portation to England. The mayor of Biarritz has published a contradic tion of the report that five people were lately drowned there while bathing. He is happy to say that the efficient organisation of the Humane Society at Biarritz has prevented all such accidents on its coast. But it is true that four persons, " victims of economy and imprudence," i. e., rashly bathing without machines, were lately drowned at a place c alled Angelet, a long way off from Biarritz. General Cabrera Count de Morella, with his wife (a daughter of the late R. Vaughan Richards, Q.C.), is now at the Grand Hotel. The Bourse was almost deserted. The news, whatever it may have been, mysteriously hinted at yesterday, turning out to be fabulous, there was a slight rise. Rents improved 15c. for cash, and 7ic. for account, closing at 69fr. Sc. and 69fr. 10c. Italian rose sc. and Mobilier lfr. 25c. The varia tions in other securities were extremely slight. In justice to the clerk of the weather, of whose administration I have twice lately echoed com plaints, I ought to notice that we are now, at last, getting some summer. A change for the better began on Monday, and to-day has been delightful. WuLB AND BZQUZSTS.—The will of Sir Walter pinto Farquhar, Bart., 11. P., formerly of Gloucester. square, but late of Berkeley-street, Berkeley-square, was proved in the Loudon Court on the 14th inst., by the acting executors, namely, Dame Erica Celserine Farquhar, the relict ; Sir Walter Rockcliff Farquhar , Bart. ; and Martin T. Smith, Esq. of Lombard - street , power being reserved to the testato r's son, Sir Eric Robert Townsend Farquhar, Bart. The personalty was sworn under 25,0001. The will is dated Feb. 8, 1860, and the testator died June 18, 1866, at the age of 57. Sir Walter, after making some small pecuniary bequests to his • nth and younger children, leaves the silver centre-piece and salvers presented to his late father by the inhabitants of the Mauritius to be held by his wife for her life, and after her ladyship's decease, bequeaths the same to his eldest son, Sir Eric, and knew to his relict, Lady Farquhar, all the remainder of the plate, together with the jewels, furniture, and carriages. All the residue of his estate, real and personal, he leave' to his eldest son. Sir Rile, paid attache to her Majesty's Legation at Rio de Janeiro. The will of Lieutenant. General S . TWilliam Cater, K.C.8., Colonel-Commandant 15th Brigade Royal Artillery, of Eaton-plaos, Belgmve square, was proved in the London Court on the 18th ult., the executors appointed being his ions, Lieutenant-Colonel John Farnaby Leonard (heretofore Cater), and the Rev. W. A. B. Cater, rector of Cershalton, Surrey ; and Peter Cater, Req. (the broiber), of Becken ham, Kent, to whom a power is reserved. The personalty was sworn under 10,0001. The gallant general a'ed May U, 1866, at the age of 81, having executed his wri Feb. 18, 1858, wiLli three codicils, the two last dated h December, 186/ After leaving some spec;fie and pecuuiai; beque:ts amongst his chqdren, he bequeals the residue, real and personal to his two daughters, and son, the Rev. William Cater, flare and tare alike. The will of Dr. Benjamin Guy Babingtou, M.D., F.R.S., of George street, Hanover-square, was proved in the London court by by son Stephen Peill Bthington, Esq., the sole executor, mid to whom he has becineathed the whole of his property, real and personal, for his own absolute use. The personalty was sworn under 8,0001. The will is dated Oot. 10, 1865, mad he died April 6, 1866, at the age of 72.—R/enraged London News. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST APPOINTMENTS. -- Naval Cadet F. C. Garvey, to the Caledonia. On Wednesday morning an explosion occurred in i the lYsoock colliery, in the Rhondda Valley, near** . Taff Vale Railway, by which Mr. Bedlington, the wea -1 known mining engineer, and the overman, named Snook 1 Francis, bat their lives. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Y L °PAM% ADDIERS. It exhibits, says the Time with striking vigour sad e ff ect the victories at physic:a science upon the Sad oL observation and experiment. Is the latter part of it, Mr. Grove approaches a subject upon which science has not been, and is not capable of being, so sucoessful. Science discovers facts, and it discovers immediate causes which ere simply facts, but when it comes to ultimate muses and the origination of things, then science has to take . • more halting step. Mr. Grove, however, courage ously ventures into these unfathomable waters ; he makes • transition from the experimental field of science to the speculative, and enters upon the much-debated question of the origin of species. Upon this question, the president decides in favour of the hypothesis of • gradual growth of every species by a natural law out of some pre-existent organism, or in favour of the Darwinian theory. He arrives at this =elusion upon the ground of facility of conception and apparent probability, accompanied with minor evidence from the rudimental features occasionally shown in embryos and from the metamorphosis of plants There can be no doubt, proceeds the Times, that Mr. Grove is right upon the fact of the greater facility ; the question, however, is rare to be raised on the other side whether fa cility of conception is a perfectly infallible test of truth. It is so impossible to conceive the beginning of anything that, unless we deny a beginning of things in bto, that im possibility cannot, argumentatively, count for much. The ' beginning of the smallest and moat rudimental organism is as difficult to conceive as the beginning of an elephant. Such an argument, therefore, to be logical, involves the rejection of any beginning of things at all, and this rejec tion implicates us immediately in the most insoluble meta physical and religious difficulties. The inaugural address of Mr. Grove, the Daily News remarks, is an exercise on the old theme Natant non kohl sadtunt. To show the correlation of forces reflected in the sciences which expound them, to trace the conservation of an identical energy, under manifestations the most dis similar, to display the gradual ascent of the sciences, the more complex growing out of the more simple, and de pending on it, was • suitable introduction to the sectional labours of an association which deals with every department of nature, and was a task which Mr. Grove's I genius and pursuits fitted him beyond most other men to discharge. Whether that continuity which he exhibited is destined to receive more complete illustration in the final establishment of the speculations with which the illustrious names of Darwin and Lyell are more especially associated—an opinion to which Mr. Grove apparently in clines—or whether further knowledge will prove that the continuity, while general, is not universal—is a point on which the bigotry of science and the bigotry of theology are equally inadmissible. Only one thing is certain, that between • true science and a true theology there can be no conflict. To seek the traces of the Divine will in the Divine operations, and not in our own pre. possessions, is to unite the true humility of science with the true humility of religion. In the application of his scientific doctrine to politics, the Daily News considers the reproach which Mr. Grove addresses to " our philo sophical writers" somewhat hasty and ill-considered. In the writings of Mr. Mill, for example, the theory of human experience as the basis of leg;slation re ceives the most peifect shape it has yet assumed. If we are "to follow the law of nature, and to avoid cataclysms " in politics, we must guard rather against the narrowness of vested interests and reactionary fears than against the " revolutionary ideas " of which Mr. Grove "freaky and which are foreign to the English character and very rare in English speculation. " Continuity " is the key note of Mr. Grove's inaugural addressbefore the British Association at Nottingham. The continuity signified is evidently that of a gradual and un ceasing progress, unbroken by miracles, convulsions, or cataclysms. Mr. Grove's continuity is, in fact, much the same as Mr. Darwin's " development." To these philosophers the universe is not so much an elaborate and perfected mechanism in ceaseless action, as • vast and complex organism, perpetually advancing towards some higher stage of existence. Step by step, and never per sultan, all things advance, and man himself is no exception to the law of continuity. Yet, observes the Herald, there are some things in which continuity seems to have failed, and it should rather like Mr. Grove to tell why it has. He himself says that "in ethics, in politics, in poetry, in sculpture, in painting, we have scarcely, if at all, advanced beyond the highest intellects of ancient Greece or Italy." If continuity be a law, how comes it thus broken? Science is not everything, and philosophers are fallible. The history of philosophy is a history of repudiated errors as well ass record of accepted truths. Into every department of human effort the spirit of un trammeled, fearless inquiry has forced its way ; and what has been the result ?—asks the Telegraph. Mr. Greve sums it up in one word, when he says that our elution' see all tending to show that throughout the universe there exists the element of " continuity "—that everywhere we witness the presence of one pervading law. The investi gations into the correlation of forces or the conservation of energy, all distinctly point to the existence of one central agency; and so, without indulging in any chimerical specu lations, we may believe with Mr. Grove, that the day is approaching when to the conception of matter we shall have but to add that of motion, in order to explain all physical phenomena. lISCELLA!IIOUS St'BJECTI. In the opinion of the T i mes Prussia has caused no ma- I I terial loss to Austria. She has simply exclueed her from ' Germany. Ousted from Germany and Italy, Austria will find herself in a position analogous to that of Turkey. As in Turkey the Turkish, so in Austria the German element is still the most powerful, and by strengthening that ele ment, the Times thinks, the•itel principle of the monarchy would be strengthened, whereas the establishment of a dualism between the German and the Magyar would lead to anarchy and dissolution. Increase, invasion, and colonisation have been the destiny of the Teuton from time immemorial, and the Times sees uo reason why Austria should not still cultivate the German alliance by giving an outlet for the expansiveness of the German people down the stream of the Danube. In another article the Times continues to complain of the want of proper organisation in the military depart ments, and should wish to see less of the vast sum s annually contributed spent on establishments, officers, and experiments, and more on men, the real essence and strength of an army. On the subject of the Yarmouth election, the Daily New says, bow beautifully is Mr. Nightingale's incliner. ince about 5,0001. matched by his partner's unconscious ness! Sir E. Lacon, notwithstanding that he "is not very fond of paying these things," expressed no sur prise at the amount of his solicitor's bill in 1859. He never even looked at it. He " was not aware that a farthing had been spent in bribery, and there fore he had no occasion to look at it." Indeed be did act even think it worth keeping. " I destroyed the bill ; I was so disgusted with the animus shown against me." The Dail, New scarcely knows which of these seltdenying heroes to admire most, the supporter who advanced 4,000 i. New BIG . Amos AT THU JIIDORS' CHAMBERS. Chiefßaron Kelly disposed of a number of summonses at chambers yesterday, which he was unable to hear on Wed nesday, when be presided for the first time, and sat to a' late hour. His lordship ham made a new regulation . as to his attendance in town as the "lon e vacation " mfte. Hitherto the day* of atteadmice were Tuesday and Friy in each week, they have now been altered to Weds**. day and Friday. Hu ter Walton was in attendance rater ' day on his lordship. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The China, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived at 7 p.m. on the 20th, and left at 0 the next morning for Alexandria. The Tanjore, from Marseilles on the 20th inst., arrived at 6 p.m. on the 22nd, and left at 6 p.m. to-day for Alexandria. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY. PaIDLY, AID2C - IT 24, 8 LAIL I 1 if. I Berrie Bia. 1 8. I & W. finis. 112 . D. .., W. I L 1:0 ---.-- I Noire 20.26 60 &W. 1 1 N.& co I 1 Aberdare 131.00 57 8.&11 1 1 8. mo 0.01 1 Leith Avdrosase. Greemisiels ,20.611 S.W 1 3 S.Z. re till 1 Valente. 12.81 03 S.W. 4 6 8. el , 0.12 2 62 \ Cope Cissi I —r - - -I— I - Li vaipool 1119.06 62 8.8.11. 2 di 8. 8 . 8 . m ,0.04, $ Ad I MOD 8.8. W. 2 1 8.8. E. co 011 2 Paessees 30.02 20 Z. 0 6 8.8. E ~ —l 2 Brest .. Wiest , OlOO 63 N.W. 1 4 B.& e— I 2 Rochefort .10.01 0 4 :1 &W. 1 1 B. ro '0.06 2 Plymorith Werleouth . 19.98 65 W. 1 0 Z. is 0.00 11 Portwoouth 29.90 as &&11 2 I as 4 816 eo 2 Lemke _ 30.00 65 8.11.11. 2 4 B.& —I - Yarmouth .„. 10.06 12 Ba l 1 N.W. be —i 1 Scutoreagh. 30.0666 8.& 1 1 N.N.I. tea —1 1 Shields 20.06 IS 8.1. 2 2 &L oo 1— , 1 Bolder ItEILUtILIL The winds have veered to south-west on the western and south-western coast - . with hilher temperatures. Barometric Is d'minishing over the greater portion of the British =b e lt It her I icreai.sel fa the west of Ireland and over the Bay of Biscay. Various currents of 11:1d are much intermingled, and strong"' detections" e7l. sled last night and this morning on the eastern lines of telegraph. A serious accident occurred two evenings back at the Theatre Francais. Verdelet was acting in the A rare when, coming hastily on the stage, his foot caught in a trap and he fell, breaking his leg above the ankle. He is going on favourably. )(LAMS DISAIATL6B.—We learn from the Bureau retied/ that daring the month of July last 148 vessels were totally lost, eomprising 76 English, 21 Americans, 9 French, 9 Dutch, 3 H.amburg, S Dsn'sh, 3 Prussian, and 94 of various flags. 13 vessels are supposed to be lost together with their crews, no information concerning them having been received. The total number of vessels that have been lest ones the beginning of the year to July 31, la 1,659. LAW INTELLIGiiaI. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTcy. (Before Mr. Registrar Rocks.) 111 B! PORTUGAL. =4 ru n otcy i. o W f aa JOSCl an Uitll adioWa lLar:t i d ar Alm m e a r ti da lidsr t h hek. as late of 32, Ideorgste:strest and lami s t agent, trading a. ' Almeida triVIIIIII46I of the Brazils, anp_arintending th e w slaps for the • BrazP'uin government. 111 rapt attributes h's failure to hem/ egp suu in the Divorce Court in a suit brought soi l " late wife ; defalcations by his clerks; s a d hi s h having sold his effecta, worth about 6001. Asa 11 the Brazils. The debta are returned at abed i Two proofs of debts were now tendered • and Mr. W. W. Wright, of 61, Londusapea , Ina appointed creditors' assignee. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL ROBBING • AIND EMPLOYIL ' 44 Charles M'Careey. U years of age, e s 3 Golden-lane, was brought up on renamed, having in hie possession some alpaca sotto„, other material, supposed to hive bees s id ai ll' . o l employer, Mr. John Patrick Tw i ny, a t London-well. This was • case in which the prosecutor b a w.., very kindly to the prisoner, who, h a vi a4 matches in the 'treats some months A s o , *v ieg ! self into the service of the preseentm. %f r u' first by .:opening and closing the re He won then engaged as • p or tr at a February to April, during his enipkyert Asia, " I 10_011 . 30n se a trustwoi thy man. Dm* if f i f a , he abstracted several porticos of th e sr., -- of elapses, linen, doeskin, he. • with various pawnbrokers. At last Mr. Celan, Mr. Remelt, el 37, Fore-street, bad same dada sn iff* honesty of the poisoner, and on his preset* a h sent for a constable and gave him into picion. Other pawnbrokers appeared with had been pledged either by prisoner or some nexion with him, and which was identified bj p i cutor. Police-sergeant Casey, No. 19, deposed to • charge of the prisoner at Mr. Russells wifie ssi t and cotton ia possession, which he af ffil, bought from • Mr. Lemiere, of Houndsditdt. 80 % also lb duplicates found upon him, en d Is. ti. fa owl Prosecutor said the dup lic ates rotated to esel as that which be had lost, to what entail list say. He (prosecutor) hoped that sobs was 11l health the magistrate would not send the ass ma T The prisoner pleaded guilty. Aldei man Gab' iel and Alderman Law reaps f the prisoner had behaved most ungratefully to I, n ester, and ought to be sent for trial ; but,* sew the ill-health of Mr. Torpay, they would idiot lien prisoner the full term of imprisonment, viz, tiro months, with hard labour. The prisoner lad fo o, himself fortunate that the law did not permit**, him • heavier punishment. The prisoner was then removed. BOW-STREET. GI "71rE MODZIN JACK lIHIPPAID. ^ -one. John Norman, the little fellow wbo was.blify here with • pea'', theft, on which musks itemised( he went toy the soubriquet of "Jerk Nome , brought before Sir Thomas Henry for alealiagi*. Polionoonstable Cooper, F 74, said that st ah half-past 10 o'clock at night, he saw the phew' another boy together. The prisoner was mil* whip. Witness stopped him and asked him Arnie it.. The other boy ran away. The poisoner IWO; be. had taken it from &mob and had given it to*, WillianiColeman, a lad of about 13, said In Ws at the time, and sew the other boy take the vinyl the cab , area it to the prisoner. Wines Anil was "An • t" and the prisoner said, " Yu." The driver here came forward and . al whip. He said—l went into • publimb, two other cabmen, to have a pot of beer snag Int of us. (A laugh.) I had not left my cab beim when in comes this little boy (Coleman) JP' one has stolen my whip." Says I, it. Bless you, nobody would be a laugh.) Why it is not worth of gin. (Leu4hter.) Not bat what ful to me as if it cost me half-a-poem The worst of it was your worship that I a drop of the pot of beer, nor even saw it! In answer to Sir Thomas Henry, the of of stated what had been the career of the Kinn last in custody he was remanded with aup committal to Walthamstow, but a' that tion was full, he was often a shot discharged. The prisoner taken grist dsli'bt i over his various exploits, and even is destribint , pointments, as when, for inatanoe, be to butcher's shop, expecting to get " a lot of . found the toll empty, and was obliged to with a piece of steak, of which, however, good stopper. He seems to have been in , habit of breaking into the ill-secured little sa. the neighbourhood of St. Giles's, carryiag or, cases, but pain y booty. Sir Thomas Henry remanded him, observing might perhaps be room in the reform atory atm must go to prison this time. WORSHIP-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CARR OF ALLEGED Al Martha Read, a neatly-dressed ani girl, between 13 and 14 years of age, was t. pinion of setting fire to a dwelling.boam is of James Judge, a parchment and paper dohs street, Horton. Prosecutor said—The prisoner is • servant' This morning about 7 o'clock she came to m 7 told me that the house was fall of smoke. stairs and found smoke coming from the eel'. the door and called " fire!" I then went up stn my face and dressed myself, and went down. fire had been extinguished, but presently t. another cry of fire, and the fireman cad' stairs, where I found two dresses of my I lies on a door partly burned. I should nits .. the prisoner came to me and spoke about 11l heard the oil cloth in the passage moved. Sergeant Watts, N Division—Last Friday beck part of the same house was dimmed ter and therefore a fireman wee present or this man in charge of the premises, taking care of the Ws* former fire was at the rear of the premien Mr. Cooke—ls it known how that tire arigneleu Watts—No, sir. Mr. Cooke—Wu the house insured ? Watts—reseal; in the " World." Prosecutor recalled—The prisoner had cellar. A whole sack of sbarinp was alight the gets up every morning to light the kitties ir• bode. My wife and family sleep in the home. II longing on the door were quite safe wine I WI room. I sent the prisoner up there to fink ' suckling bottle. All the family were, I balleve,k, then. At that time she denied all kno o We have not had any quarrel, and I hoe lest complaint than this. • go" The fireman in charge of the premises a • room at the rear of the house for my 0. seeses.. while taking care of the salvage. About 7 • morning I beard an alarm of fire from hued _ . ,.. 4 1 001 . found it in the teller and put it out. Alined afterwards there was a cry of fire on 'bolo:0.Z, ran up and extinguished that. Two dreams described were alight, a piece of brown ire been lit was lying on the floor. I taw no had left the prisoner clearing up my rem- Watts—She told me that on going on for found the room full of smoke. She gave the mother is present. The mother Mine forward and said-1 her her, but, sir, she denies all knowledge of never complained of either her raster or a. Prosecutor—lt's very suspicious matter. I found some staff burning where the been, and helped to rake it out. 1 1 " "7; served then that there had been 000. poured on that part ; and yesterday inceel",7; was a Are in another piece. I have no seepiro, as to the fire on Friday fortnight , bu t ifs sn,, Fireman—The matter is so suspicious thst# belonging to the fire office are, I belies, full investigation. Mr. Cooke—Well, it is certainly ' matter. Do you, prisoner, wish to sok say anything ? Prieoner—No, Sir. remand an e .r i d eo* mco h o i c r ibe: 7 g— Whe etHabail y re ou isdire i p s:if i t it y r r o e r h r bu f u t s . . i l E for u, d ,„ T b is mit t ela : try _without. o u r p T 12X r A , one rr kisie .B C A e iti c r i E l b r on be ru.rsAMOKAßLßOWisell'itlrl,teaWisoonoortlultai.kGFfiDe tisn;:edasegireti.:6o"ll.o::ll' Albert Griffith and Alfred Stow, two . ' Alhambra, were brought before Mr. Ty rwbon, by Pain, 72 C, one of the warrant offeret., assaulting Henry Nathan, en offioer ,s Middlesex, be, the said genry Nmh.a , there in the lawful execution of hisa: Mr. t u be p ro of Great lion, end Mr. L t Les:l:leaberiffibiaMemder.tedfeadiarlarl4.l4alsasAseaecuialnionghlmbra Palace, and ~ w tl: i~pklo "cos gmmede should ii P retrestta lis s : ug theme sad' oi:Pbyto-da se dcwilleir; nto with tified $01:04 bj 1 : ?end to • with halt he addt aditsk. 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