The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-22 00:00:00

Oar ( Daily Nem) Now York correspondent writes:—We bear little said now about spiritual rap , piece ad revelatine. The humbug lee bad its day is this snaky, although we whales an mensal bright Maeda' fa the Bonet of this fatal mad die : pada, delsoka. Jodie idierack, who fee may yeas has enjoyed the regulates el befog ea* of the fleet jurists la the anntry, dispeadag law from the eapreine bean Mtn state of New Ink, and distinguished for hie eshelership, taken end legal keratin, became a I waver% some two paw eso, to spiritualism, sad psblishsd . a bask as the ablest Mb be did while he was ea the boa*. No allegation were made against him for any nightie& if the dignity, the propriety, or the parity of the len& ; but knowing tie feeling excited against kite, be vg withdrew his name when the next election ggitN SA • nwseesee was chosen Ia hie place. Honest and ggelibt se all ean believed him to be, sad charged, as he =Mood himself to be, with a mines trent above to dans goal light ammo sin he presented hie philosophy, eaelametber year of laves/diadem sad Weitzel rapping has • NNW Is the =dainties eta mend book on the subject, he slab be introduce is the following manner a mist • MOMS MA inempreheasible account of the spiritual allakillfthlibilit his own daughter has reached oa this Milt NA M klasticissa and • madness. He stye of lON Uses Sin& "At fret the was violsutly agitated in her pesos. She ten wrote mechanically ; that is, without any volition ea bar part, and without any consciousness of what she was • psalm. Having a strong will, she was able at any me inlet, by ezereidag it, to arrest the manifestation. She ant begun a speaking medium. She was not eatraated, as some are, into a state of unconseiumaess, bat was fully • swore of all she was saying, and of ell that occurred around her She, however, had act ednneed far enough to know the non enure ISM the thoughts which she was utter ing, and sn imagined they night be the product of her own mind. To convince bee apes that subject she was shown, gnomish the isitzeseatality of her own mind, aU the par enthood the week of the steamer Sao Francieco—that her lipr desk hod been swept off, and a certain number had au poking 1 that the residue of those on board had boo Won of Is three vessels, and were thee on their wog Ice Allbeaot disunion. for different ports, and that the .cleric bad been abandoned on the see. AU this MO Omni days before any news had =ached the - of the accident to that vessel, sad she woe tam la wait and see if the information whisk bad been Ann her, and which was man mese detailed than I have gym, was not strictly acturste, and then determine for . bank abeam it was Meows med. A few days brought OWN modolootkos se every incident which had been ale • Ibiod to bor. " Sine the. this faculty of knowing things at a distance basireatly intioned. She saw the wreck of the Arctic whoa :Swag oloosolog. libo sow, sod detailed with great accuracy, -to taboosetat _oloooolo slowed, th e resent collision on the Minsk itoloosse owl shat a few lomat, after it happened, Ithhildlo Ole dui and weaned were being lifted out of lbe Moo. No his sopa aid described the state of things • Ilaboolopst sad he eishdry ; and she has frequently de moiselle" mom sod eoneentioa goieg on at the moment at lbollsoasao of several hushed miles from her ; and all this aNehea she was is a Haas, bat in a state of mental cm , allsomess to all armed her. wlbs seat beano developed to speak different languages. .SW knows ataloosa but her own, and a little smattering -oirbssrildarobod Proset. Yet she has spoken la nine or teadfilA toosoes, sometimes for an hour at a time, with Abe NM MI Homey of a native. It is not enfrequeat that Sereiguers IDOSIAMS with their spirit friends through her In . their own language. A resent instance oesurred where a Aiwa goat Wass hod several interview, and for several ilimmo at a time carried on the conversation on his part in desk, owl received hie semen sometimes in that leagues, • Ohl masellimes In English; yet until then she had never 'on a word of modern Greek spoken. "About the same tines her mined powers became dove loped. She has repeatedly snug in foreiga languages, snob se Italian, ladies, German, and Polish, and it is now not unfreqeetit that she slogs in her own language, improvising both words ad tune as she proceeds—Us melody being very unique and perfect, and sentiments in the hig h est de gree elevating and ennobling. " Her neat advance was to sea spirits and spiritual scenes, and now scarcely a day passes that she does not describe the spirits who are present, entire strangers to her, yet very readily recognised and identified by thew inquiring friends. This has, of late, bean witnessed by very many persons, and sass 7 an unbeliever is spirituel Intersperse has been over. Shelnied with the evidence of identity which thus by sight andby eminent has been presented." • Oar Sean asylums In every part of the United States new number one or more, and in many instances a madder able number of persons who have butt craned by this delu des. I call it delusion, because not &single =steno oat of the thousands of cases alleged to be clear has yet NM to the knowledge of the public, in which a partial* of good has been done, or any testimony adduced that was ekes and irrefrigible These people relate all their wonderful vision after they have bad an opportunity to read the historic details of event' in the daily newspapers. The editor of a New York daily journal offers to put the matter to • fair test in the following language, where he proposes to get nee information about the present position of Dr. Kane sad his heroic party, who, we fear, aro already suffering the terrible fats of Sir John Franklin and his expedition: "Now, be it far from us to speak of such Manifestations' with levity or stubborn iueredulity. If each prevision, or whatever it may be termed, as is here attributed to Miss Edmonds, actually exists, wn want to know it, end that the world should know and profit by it. When a shallow-paled ignoramus reels off nonsense by the yard, and tells as it is philosophy, or poetry, or metaphysics, commits*** throu, t h him by Pythsgoriis or Plato, Shakopee, or Wei. Swedenborg or Franklin , we have tolan=wfie Tan it t—but this is a different matter. saw the wreck of the Aretie while it maii ieeurriag, sad tie Canada Railway collision, and the oinks in ad, around Sebastopol, she can likewise see where the gallant Hammond his heroic party are sow battling thewatch' against Fuse frost and darkens, and it Ia her duty to onligateatbeir many friends with regard to their position and fortune► then, she will send as a statement showing their latitude and longitude, how they are sheltered, and employed, and whatever else may be is to rem se as a true report of them—as if a traveller in slighted among them yesterday and brought away Nob tidings as they could send—we will give 100 dole. tel eaib charitable institution or benevolent enterprise as she may desigoate, payable whenever her statement shall have boos endemic! by ordinary human testimony. "Is not this fair ? Ought net OW offer to be accepted If not, why not ?" A NORWEGIAN MORMON. The following edifying document is a translation of as entree , from s letter addressed by a Norwegian Ma/- awaits in Utab, to a friend in Norway, which appeared in the Aftew Warta of the 22nd alt. : _ As regerds myself, I have, as yet. alas I only two wine. , Thu is a triaing sommenammet. However, I eosafor= ' self with the thought that, though the number is my condition is far better than if I had only one partner. You can easily emotive that I, who have but two wins, whilst others who live round about me have " lots " of them, very often and very bitterly must feel my own life riority ; but wait awhile ! Your woman worshippers, in the land of sin sad wretebednels, as I am entitled to desig. seta it, would hardly be willing (eves if they had permisidon to do w ) to choose a wife No. 2, who should Man her km band's time, anon, affestim, ae. Here, on he other head, it frequently happen that the fair make love to the opposite .• gad you hem that they are " masters " is art, sad that they an, samesepeatly, lovariably messia h!! All that we men haven do isle smart them the seed tat for their maisteamsee. Weald yea believe it? Our young ladle., lovely, fascinating. mil slept, very etas prefer a man who is already is et ten, twenty, or my thirty wives, and tern ly from a young seedier, poseemiag, it may be, *my bodily Weenies, but blessed with any me partner. la this giabeveetby meaner they (the yonsi ladies) show their psi Omer, sad their regard sad esteem tee age ead espdea. es. Busk% sae ef your meet sad seductive young ass take the nailed's if settling hem (halt lAke City), he would, I desle eon &signs ail his at treetiveame, lad It a dilisalt melte le Game a wife; but skald he be so " leaky," it maid, k al geseabigty, only be on the 'sprees mantis. that be mows* lasissif se pre sets her plenty of sompasy. With regard to Brigham YOSW, be 1.11111115 his family, numerous Maack it a smear that lissareas le be ems- Mud by every one. He is ear petard ef Arne kOnas In every other uspeet ; sad great that die ?Mb veal Wald leak upon his ia the same ligbl,,_aed ia all Blimp imitate his example sad cantons ft bh Mosel! lUs virtue adorned (dvatirmit) wives de so Ihsy plane, osemisesil ala Bloomer, sod task of them sajoystbagragard and es Ilea to 'bin she is entitled, Imams hypesrisy er par PAIRS. SIB JOSHUA WALKOLIT'S MOTION. 104 •041701 r. Mr. Ketchum Kr. (kora. Kr. Poulos Swops. Mr. TvsW. Kr. Zoobook. Kr. O. A. Boniloos. Mr. D °Town. Mr. M. Notarday. Yr. Ballow. Cwwrl Marosort. Kr. Osbitt. Mr. Lord Shoibirso. Ooldoolilairas.oolor. Tom RUSSIAN Vwn.s AT 011N0h.—It WU stated s to. we ege Ilea lbws Relies easels luid bus ceellei iiitsl at Gestef 14' lot us hen 011 INS is the Opie*isti WO. Se Ow . It diet times wet blefle be Is put. ste ilon Ifs ,isee lime r i test in g suram - 717A - " -- . ...;, 4111 gIr s ' , elate 116011 . 6 . 1 . 10 ~ 1 7 a bs s =sl set et pert, bet bee te the le *II Se pat wbessm *l7 Wihisii it ssia FINE ARTS. THB ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY'S (raou Tin 00111SPONDIXT OP TDB DULY 11111WO.) The present, the 29th annual exhibition of the Sottish Academy, beyond all comparison the finest 'that Edinburgh has witnessed for a very long time. Some enthusiastic patriots declare it to be finer than anything of the kind produced in London, and others magnify the hyperbole by adding that it is the finest exhibition that has ever been in Europe. The complacency of our northern cousins may be ex- eased,: as the collection of pictures is really good, depends even lees than usual on extraneous ocatribu time, and is thus twice worthy of the occasion. It inaugurates the National Gallery newly erected on the Mound—a• most unsightly building, by the way, although, on the other hand, its internal arrangements are most effective. On the outside, it has the appearance of a great neervoir or gas-tank, built on the principle of a Greek temple, with the pipes does into lonic pillars for the sake of ornament ; so that thinl y tolerable view of it is from the North Bridge, where' it is seen half concealed in shrubbery. Ones within, however, there is everything to praise and nothing to blame, unless, indeed, the peculiar earthenware red of the walls, which, aithoegh gene rally unobservable, is, at least in the sculpture-room, very unhappy, and suggests what our pale ghosts would look like in the hot ball of Ebli.. Otherwise the rooms- a series of six octagons—are admirable, and approach as nearly to the perfection of a well lighted gallery as it is possible for mortal building to reach. We have maid that the present exhibition is even more than usually Scottish. The oontributions of English and foreign artists, however, deserve a pass ing acknowledgment. Landseer sends two pictures, one (107) "The Stag at Bay," with all that concen tration of interest which he knows so well how to heighten by the Twain of the solitude around. Stanfield sends (31) " Portsmouth Harbour," with sash a tumbling sea as only himself and Turner could paint. Millais sends (353) "The Wedding-Cards" —a girl's face fall of sad meanings as she looks at the cards : (558) Sketch of the " Order of Release;" and (557), a Landsespe and Figures—the landscape, as usual, a foreground, with (unusual for Millais) the figures in the middle distance, el singularly lifelike. Poole sends (189)a Scene from the Tempest, so suc cessful in colour that one is tempted to forget the in adequacy of his treatment of the subject. The names of Creswick, Pyne, Cooke, Dyce, and John Phillip can only be mentioned. Linnell sends se veral of his yellowing, autumnal scenes—one (296) " A Thunder Storm " that .calls for re mark, as earth and air seem to have no possible relation to each other. It is very difficult to understand how that lurid thunder cloud which fills the upper part of the canvas should have so little effect on the landscape beneath; although the remembrance of others of his pictures in which earth and sky are thus at variance, and truthfully so, teach one to abstain from absolute condemnation. We recollect the picture of a potato field, in which the sky is all bright without a cloud, and the field below nosenonntably enveloped in shadow; no coll ection between the two, and yet all true to the life. Besides these English pictures there is a goodly sprinkling of foreign ones, chiefly French, and of these the two contributed by Rasa Booheur deserve particu lar mention. "Dog of LaVendis" (530) is very sp . trited; (403), " Chalk Waggons in the Limousin," is also spirited, although it must be added that the vague ' noes of expression here and there, and the prevalent haziness of touch, suggest the ide a of trickery. most natural, and delicately rendered—body stoop ing, feet gout, and knees timidly drawn to gether. Of Harvey's "Columbus* (113) we had better not speak. Full of thought and noble in sentiment, it is hideous in drawing—the models having appa rently been selected free the surgeon's hospital. Perhaps the most satistastory figure subject (motel bated by a &sottish artist is (313) " The Porteous Mete by James Drummond. Abounding in en treats, it is well toned throeghout ; and the super fluity of detail does not destroy the unity of effect. We have seldom seen a picture with so many epi sodes, all so well told, and each--from the blind piper flying away to the beads peering out of impos sible attics round the corner—with an interest of ite own, and yet bearing directly on the main incident. In landscape tip exhibition is less rich than usual. And here we have especially to notice the increased influence of pre-Raphaelite ideas. Even in Horatio Maculloch, a sworn foe to the pre-Raphaelites i ! e a:_d_l i z the way he contributes moral capital leader* somewhat sharp and cool—one • beautiful view of Edinburgh from Daleseny)—even in Maculloch we trace this influence in the minuteness with which he has painted some of his foregrounds, especia lly the pebbles on fife beach in (13) " Knock Castle. " It is curious also to observe in how many landscapes— nine out of ten—the artists have set themselves to paint pebbles—pebbles dry, pebbles wet, pebbles rough, pebbles smooth, pebbles round, pebbles flat— all the minuteness and anxiety being expended on the pebbles, as if we were a set of boys looking out for stones to play at " duck and drake. Pebbles and leaves: these are the two items of the landscapes. The pains bestowed on the elaboration of foliage is marvellous; a pains that is exerted in utter oblivion at times of every other consideration. For example (520), "Among the Brambles" is beau tifully, lovingly painted—the leaves leaf-like, the robin robin-like, and the little girl with her chubby face and snub nose staring at the red-breast with such a delightfully stupid interest; but Mr. Douglas, in his zeal to render the bramble leaves suooessfully, has forgotten that they are in size not to be com pared with a girl's head —he has rendered them half the size of the girl's head. And it is not merely in minuteness that we trace the influence of the pre- Haphaelites, but even in their accidental peculiarities. In landscape, the contrast they are most fond of is a very decided green with spots of red or pink flowers. It is such • contrast as we find eternally in Gerald Massey and some of the younger poets, green gemmed with red, its complementary colour. In the land scapes of the present exhibition we have this contrast continually. There are the landscapes of Waller Paton, in some respects the most remarkable in the rooms, none else so laborious, none else so microscopic is detail, and yet always br oad in effect. He has made a great stride in advance. And, apart from these, we can only pretend to mention, without criti cising, the river scenes of Mr. Crawford—remarkable for the lustrous effect of the water ; and the trees of Winton—one of whose pictures reminded us of Cov etable. In the soulpture room the most striking pieces are a statue of Corinna, by Brodie—very beautiful. although not sufficiently inspired; and " Ajax pray ing for light," by Calder Marshall—a hero in a heroic mood. ROYAL rON. Dr. Tyndall resumed, on Tuesday, the oonsidsra dos of the action of the Leyden jar, and adopting the theory of two distinct electricities, he explained the retention of the charge on one Bide of the glass to be owing to the attraction of the oppoeite kind of electricity on the other side. That the charge is held in the glass and not in the me_ tallic eoatings was shown by rem•niog the metallic surfaces from the inside and from the outside of a conical glass vessel that had been charged with electricity, end the glace being then placed over some pith belle, they danced about with great activity. The glass still retained a large portion of the electricity, as was indicated whoa the metallic coatings were replaced by a strong spark when the outside and inside were connected by a discharge. Dr. Tyndall neat noticed the pecu liarity in the passage of sleet mity through wires coated with gotta pereha and immersed in water, whisk wee first made' known at t►e beginning of last year, la cassequence of which the velocity of discharge is impeded. This effect was perceived when the submarine electric telegraph was completed, and it was at first a source of greet annoyance in the transmission Bat now passing to the Scottish artists themselves, the first thing that calls our attention is the portrait painting; and here it is the excellence rather than lb number of the portraits that attracts novice. The s.etch at present seem to have a peculiar aptitude for portraiture. In the more imaginative style= sre outstript by English competitors; in agape they are far behind English artists; but in portraiture they are pre-eminent. There is Grant— Scotchman ; Thorburn—a Scotch man ; Sir William Rose, Swinton, Watson Gordon, Graham Gilbert—all Sootchmen : not to speak otthe medallion portraits of Munro, and the busts of Steil, Park, and Brodie. It is characteristic of the Scottish mind, and is to be regarded in connexion with the biographical tendencies of the Scottish literature. There is Boswell—the Columbus of biographers; Lockhart—whose life of Scott is only second to that of Johnson; and Carlyle—the very genius of biography. In the present exhibition the finest portrait by far is (293) that of Sir John Watson Gordon, the Prosideat of the Academy, by Graham Gilbert, an artist but slightly known in London, from his not ch=to t exhibit out of Scotland. The head of the is a marvel of fine colouring and noble expremion— quite Titianseque; while the court dress in whisk he is represented is not suited to so spare a frame, and gives one the ides rather of a muter of ceremonies than a master of art. There is not one of Gilbert's pictures which is not worth looking at for the purity and delicacy of treatment, although the only other which it is at present possible to particularise is (477) "A Beggar Girl," whose sweet ex pression of countenance, hand half-consciously open for bounty, threadbare cloak, and torn straw bat, display perhaps more conspicuously than any ether of his pictures his sense of colour and mastery et touch. The most ambitions portrait contributed by Sir John Watson Gordon (188), that of the Lord Amite General, is, we venture to think, not equal to his powers. In point of colour it is admirable, as he bad a splendid opportunity with the scarlet robe and white ermine of the judge; but, what is very unusual is portraits painted by the President, the countenance is bewildered and the attitude uneasy. The Dean of Faculty (428) is also disappointing. Miss Eleanor Malcolm (88) is admirable; so also that of (217) Robert Paul, Req. Thorburn sends two lovely mistime, sad a portrait (684) of Lord William Thynne, fungi *wester. Of the two contributed by Grant, the is uninteresting, and the lady is livid, fasilaisa as sbsil ben drugged with nitrate of silver. We lOW nut hqpt Archer's crayon drawing of Pro /swiss Aye's (626)—a first-rate likeness by a artist who seems to have a special faculty yesag portraits, and is yet destined to great eminence in the higher walks of art. Park sends his noble bast of Louis Napolson(747), and one of Sheriff Gordos (761), which, while weeerving the likeness of the sheriff, represents him ass cog Apollo, who has all his life fed on the virgin el liymettus, and drunk only the pure wave of the Hippocrene. Brodie's bast of Lord Cockburn (762) is one of the finest portraits we have ever seen. _ . _ _ of menages by nuke forms of telegraphic instrumenu. Dr. Tyndall stated that the effect is attributable to the wife when coated with gotta perch', and afterwards surrounded by water, becoming an elongated Leyden jar,:and he com pared the action to that of a lake into which a rapid stream enters. Us said that sapposiog the lake to be empty, the water as it entered would be detained till it arrived at a height sufficient to allow it to flow with equal velocity through a channel oa the other side, and in like me the icterposition of a Leyden jar in the circuit of an en tended wire would retard the passage of electricity. This was illustrated by placing a Loyd*n jar in such al position, sad when an electric charge was passed through the wire so circumstanced the intensity of it was perceptibly diminished. The instantaneous duration of an electric spark, and the means ingeniously contrived by Professor Wheatstone to measure it, were illestrated by the original apparatus employed by the professor; from which it was ascertained that the duration of the spark does not @cooed t►e twenty-five-thousandth part of a second. A cannon ball, if Illuminated in its flight by a flash of lightning would, in consequence of the momentary dura. don of the light, appear to be stationary; and even the wings den insect that mots ten thousand Wass in a wend would seem at net. The means by which Profeesor Wheat stone also ascertained that electricity is transmitted along a wire at the rate of 288,000 miles in a mood were also ex plained and illustrated by the original apparatus. The fact that the detention occurs in the middle of the circuit, and not at either end, Dr. Tyndall adduced as confirmatory evidence that there are two distinct eleetricities, which more is opposite directions. The transmission of elec. trieity in a luminous form through highly rarefied air wee exhibited by Mr. Cavendish's apparatus of a double barometer tribe, through the upper portion of which there was a beautiful etch of purple-tinted light. The same effect was shown in larger tubes ezhausted of air, and Dr. Tyndall said that when the light thus transmitted is elonly observed, it appears to be full of stream. The peculiar trans- mission of electricity through a vacuum he said cannot be attributed to the coadacting power of rarefied air, because an exhausted electrometer continues to act, which it would not do it the interior space conducted electricity. He said be was disposed to attribute it to en effect similar to that produced on heated water when the meson of the atmosphere is removed, the escape of electricity being ana logous to the rapid escape of the steam in a venues. Of the more imaginative write, that which de mands the first attention is (294) "The Pursuit of Plessrue—a Vision of Hoarse Life," by Noel Paton. The women mean to like it ; and u they crowd round it three deep, it is somewhat diMeult to get a viewofit. Like the pleasure which it depicts, it is very attractive l and very unsatisfying. One gases and gases, does sot like to leave the picture, and wonders, after all, that one is so little impressed by the infinite pains of the artist. Admirable in many of its details, with a salty of design apparent at a glean, one in anonished that it conveys so little unity of effect. Confusion is the besetting sin of allegsey, and it is the besetting sin of Mr. Noel Paten lan details it is imposeilie to eater, ablesagh ohjestiew might be made again and again he Sr. gratin of the Igkess, and one is weary et dna eternal appiesresn skies. Only this gamma 'mark may be handed—that if it be aqsseties him* the painter eight to realise is his Weider, semi attempt tedmat the eye, there sea be no queatio!_ that in the isgsetmamt stallegoey this mmeenation is a peat bleaker. So that whet Mr. Paten paints the suet arson, with blood es it, so faithfully that it leeks the real thing, he emus, the limits of allegory, the treatment of whisk ought to be much mss symbolic. The same esseeek applies to Mr. John Fee4Te allegory (401) of Rosso and Faith." Beaatiful as a composition, such minutemen in a symbolic picture is trite oat of place. We admire far more his two cabinet p laters (422) of "Newton blowing Babbles, and (408) " The PhiMeopher." The are exquisite, and yet do not interfere with eels air of contemplation that pervades the semetmas of the two philoeophem Hie brother. Thomas Feed, sends three very sperklict Piatranst one of which (638), the " Slunk of Olivia ant Sophia," is even finer than the finished picture that attracted so much notice in:London. The Viola, in Mr. R, tisett Lender's (223) ‘ 4 Olivia, 04 VAR," is SOCIETY OF LETS. An adjourned discussion on "The value and use of the sewage of Loudon" took place on Monday evening at the rooms of the society. It may be mentioned that the views of the speakers were ea divergent es at the previous Menace. At the same time it was felt that in the multi tude of feet* brought forward by the 'peahen there were Sufficient grounds for conclusion that at present there Le no prospect of employing profitably solidified sewage on a eery large scale, and that the application of liquid sewage to renal steps is making great progress. Mr. Scott poised out many of the disadvantages aura& ins the employment of liquid manure. He observed that five sixths of the fertilising properties of snob manure were held la solution, while wily one-siath was held la suspension, and that it was only this latter quantity that could be de pended an in irrigation. In Italy, whore there was little rain-fall, irrigation might be employed properly, whereu is Ragland, on account of the greater rata-fall, such a process was not so much ended. He enlarged apes the nuisante which was generated by the employment of liquid manure in Edinburgh. He stated also that irrigated gram had been foaad to be prejedioial to the sows who fed upon it, and supported his sediment by some statistics from the Skittish lararaLes Company. He smarted that the milk from stows fed on the irrigated meadows was very prejudicial. Mr. Caird questiseed the validity of Mr. Settee Neale. slam es to the umbeelthiesss of the gram es food for cattle. • Mr. Medd brewed forward fasts to skew that the milk fromeseissisd os irrigated meadows we* of the Asset d* scrip**. Mr. Law's, Professor Way, Mr. Wed, Mr. Haywood, Mr. Papaw, sod se m,. alteeessd the easstiag he speeches Vied witb statism, ad hetarestiag to aarisaltariste,' blet tattle diffeeK tee `widalp to /Haw et a dedactioa of .6114!IICE# Qt` fah itiOtaluvalsk Otos to the two di maces we staled tis &Fe* Celestl, Ohffilloser Win la limo el*. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1855. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE: PreG•sor Christmas pee on Monday Diu second Inters on The Domestic Life of our Ancestors." Sir John Boileau waifs the chair. The subject of the lactate was the aseestral Maim. The lecturer remarked that much light was thrown apes the 'iodides of $ people at any period by • kaowledge of the food on which they ted, and their manner of preparing it. He adverted to the fast that the Angle• Saxons lived chiefly on perk, as a proof that cattle bushel:dry was not mach undentecd. The monasteries wore establislimeuts in while& the art of agriculture was first carried to mach perfection. In this respect the monastic orders were of imalculable advantage to the nation. But not only was egriceltare sunteesfally rinsed by the monks; horticulture silo reeeived a great share of their anemias. The gardens of the monasteries were models of the horticultural skill of the time. Notice was then taken of the Improved state of the arts in the reign of Alfred. Examples of the manners of the times were then given from the graphic pages of Peter of Blois and Fite Stephen. The lecturer then pro- °ceded to illustrate, from numerous swum, the nature and promos of cooking of the viands in use amongst our fore fathers. Bread, wine, fruit, beer, fish, and other articles of diet, came suconsively under consideration. The mode of cookery of the several articles of Maury was profusely Was trued by easy apt and occasionally humorous quotations. The eustams of the dinner table wens then niteutely de scribed, and the descriptions verified by apt quotations. The lecture, which occupied an hour and a half in the delivery, gave great delight to a crowded anateace. !THE DAY OF HUMILIATION. ABBEY.-ROUSE OF LORDS. A special entice, commencing at half-past eleven, was celebrated In Westminster Abbey, yesterday, and agreeably to the relegation passed by the House of Lords an Fridley, woe attended by a numbs' of Peers. The Lord Chasm Hoe, Earl Granville, Earl Wa'degree., Earl Grey, Lard Hedge&*and the Bishops of Chichester, Winchester, St. David's, and St. Aseph, were among those who attended the envies, having walked across Palace-yard in procession from the House to the Abbey. There was also a full, though not crowded, general congregation. The Bishop of Salisbury, by special retinae, preached a sermon from the text (taken from the Gospel of the day), 81. Luke, chapter 18th, part of the l ath verse ; " God be merciful to me, a sinner." His lordship began by saying that, although we were told by an apostle whence came wars and fighting' amongst men, even from the lasts that warred in our members, no ' vertheiess the judgment that the war is a just and Deem er, sae was very unanimous, and, on the whole, correct ; MI& put this remark on the very front of his discourse bemuse a different judgment would introduce into the sub jests of humiliation oa that day other elements than those which now belonged to It. One effect of such a judgment should be to increase, quicken, and confirm our endeavours te obtain gnomes, and immure the restoration of peace. Whatever skill and genius, and prudence and forethought, and manly energy could de to bring the struggle to a ere medal issue should be done ; but perhaps his °Mee was not so much to deal with these secondary causes as to bring our minds to that point in the chain of causation when we should cents into the presence of the ordaining will of God, and to remind us that the most powerful instruments we could use when in that presence were prayer and fasting, and resolutions of amendment of life, and alssigivieg. There could be no question, said his lordship, that God bad been pleased to entrust to man, in prayer, a most powerful instrument of attaining a righteous object, whether that object were to frustrate or alter some evil design of another, OT to plead for the reversal of some temporary providential affliction. No wonder, then, that in this hour of our dis tress the nation was now engaged in that great function of prayer, having wisely refused to give heed to those who cavilled against it. After citing a scriptural examples of the efficacy of such en ordinance, his lordship proceeded thus :—But as this meats of grace may be used well or ill —in the spirit of the publican or the spirit of the Pharisee— we must take care how we engage in it ; that we present werselves to God in the same garb and character in which we have commonly appeared before His all-seeing eye. We should maims the plague-spots which .mark our present audition as a nation, and which are, for example, such as these : the great want of provision of the ordinances of our holy religion for our increasing population, and the scanty maintenance given in new endowments for those who minister God's word and sacraments; the neglect of education, and of reforming criminals, and of reclaiming Magdalene. ; the im perfect condition of our hospitals, as places where not only the gift of our wealth, but our personal ministrations are required. Again, the warnings of the word of God against Intemperate use of " the wine, and of the new ;wine," are often repeated ; and our sins in that matter have become very grievous. Again there are no sins in.ce emphatically denounced by the apostles, then the sins of the tongue, such se slander, evil speaking, and bearing fact witness ; which sins are too frequent among us. Again, the sin of the Flux date was his proud and boastful temper, which is, in a great degree, also our own. There is another sin, to which David refers, when he says of himself, " I rejoiced not at the de struction of bin that hated me, nor at the stumbling of mine enemy." I mention it now, In order that if we have iately fallen into the condemnation of this sin, we may to- day confess and abandon it. We have also to regret, amidst the success of ear industrial enterprises, that sin of the I idolatry of wealth, which is the peculiar danger of such s condition. One of its consequences is that men are found indulging themselves with lavish prodigality in all that pampers the last of the flesh, the last of the eyes, and the pride of life ; and yet, at the same time, they seem to axe,. eise a stricter economy that their fathers in everything which concerns the external circumstances of the church, and the ministrations of religion; and this, although jus tice, economy, and the reform of abuses, are most praiss• worthy, is a very strange coincidence. I may observe, too, that, having enjoyed so long the blessings of peace, and having devised so many means of excluding the troubles et war from our own shores, we are in danger of forgetting that If the time shall come when nation shell not lift up the sword against nation, that will be only by the decree of the Lord of Hosts. I would also mention one other circumstance winoh must M dtip mow to Qod ; I mean the division o f 1 Christians, who ought to be one fold, under one shepherd. Snob are a few of the national eine for which we should bumble °unitive'. But national humiliation, to be any thing better than the profession of the Pharisee, must be based on personal humiliation—on a deep sense oithose sins which mark oar characters as individuals. And we must add to those confessioos—to this acknowledgment of sin, hearty resolutions and vows of amendment—t; do our utmost to lessen the evil that has happened, and to compass all those great objects which are yet unattained. We must resolve to give our poorer brethren a good education, to reform our criminals, to reclaim the publicans and harlots, to enlist religious sympathy in the are of the sick poor, to renounce carnal indulgences, to bridle our tongues, and mortily our pride and vain glory. With regard to the fiat object, the education of the people, I admit that in its ad justment there are many diliculties, to any one who considers that the truth of God he the first claim to his; consideration. Every enlightened friend of education seeks to find the middle ground between secular and denominational education. The only 5010... ... tion of these difficulties will be found by prayerful meditation in the spirit of love end active sympathy. I would remind you, in relation to all these duties, that your good example and good carriage will have the greatest influence on the national character—l confess, end I thoroughly believe, have a larger share of the guilt of all these derelictions than the laity, and that the burden of put neglect and present duty presses with more fearful responsibility on the bishops of the church than on an other men in this kingdom ; but, having owned this, I would give a caution against harsh and rough judgments about the church and its ministers, and I would plead in their behalf that they are but men, of like passions with yourselves. If this human society fora divine object, which is called the church, be supposed to require, in its external relations, any correction, amendment, or reorganisation, let each changes be carried out with the oar Zion. Having then announced that the alms to be given en that occasion would be consecrated to the purpose of erecting in the Turkish dominions a church of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the right reverend prelate concluded as follows: And now I would hope that besides any direst blender; which God may grant to as, in answer to oar prayers and other sacrifices, the moral influence of this day may be good, in steadying, calming, and giving decision to the national mind—in helping to keep it clear of wrath and bitterness, and in fixing it on the one legitimate object, a right and lasting peace. War may thus be not an unmixed evil. Indeed, it has already been profitable to us in many ways; our army mangey have given proofs of the noblest devotion to their country's cause ; the self denial and gen tleness', and patience and aerie of those Cnris tiaa women who have ministered to the wants of the sick and wounded, have set us at home a noble example, and I trust that we shall so learn that lesson, that whenever God, in his mercy, restores to us the blessing of peace, we shall find that the storm of war has cleared away many clouds which were darkening our horizon. Let us hope that those hearts which are being now practised in expressions of strong yet tender sympathy, will cot, when the present demand upon them ceases, draw in those sym pathies from daily ezercise—but that the poor, the igno rant, the publican, and the harlot—the prisoner, the orphan, and the widnw, and the sick and the feeble, will all experi ence the (mita bath of that unselfish obesity which the perils of war have so fostered and savigoratel, and of this humiliation of ourselves before God. This confession of our sins—these resolutions to amend oar ways, have been prompted by our earnest desires for a success ful issue of the calamities of the present war, and fur lb. restoration of peace. MR. MELVILLE'S SERMON BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker, accompanied by the whole of °Horn of the House, and about 160 members, proceeded in procession at twelve o'clock to St. Margaret's, Weetminner. There were present, among others, Lord Palmerston, Sir James Graham, Mr. Disraeli, Lord Ebrington, Sir Stafford Northooto, Lord Hue, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Henley, Mr. Wilma, Kr. Spooner, Mr. Cross ley, Sir H. Willoughby, Mr. Oliveira, Mr. lionkton Manse, Mr. B. Ellice, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Grogan, Sir C. Wood, Lord Duncan, Lord Hotham, Sir J. Hogg, Mr. G. I Benkes, Lord Loraine, Mr. Cayley, Mr. Mulkey, Mr. Trinity Parker, Mr. Honk% Sir W. Verner, Mr. C. Men, Lord Alfred Paget, Mr. B. Ball, itc. The prayers were read by the Bev. W. Cureton, the Rector of St. Margaret's; the Communion Service, by the Bey. H. Melville; and the Epistle by the Bev. Mr. Davies., The sermon was preached by the Bee. Henry Melville,' who took for kis text the following :—The Bth chapter let l Kings, 44th and 46th TOTIIINI-" It thy people go out to battle against their enemy wkithenoever thou 'belt send then, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hut chosen, and towardethe house which I have built fee thy name ; then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their maw" The preacher covenanted by reference to instances re corded in Scripture of the success which had attended acts of national humiliation. From then he argued that such tots were acceptable to Clod, though it could not be denied that it was their sincerity, and that slope, whisk caused them to Bed favour. He then thus alluded to titt timmastaacce of the pniellt kamili&Oxis THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY. DISCUSSION ON LOANS RAISED BY MR. PITT. On Monday evening thefl i th ordinary meeting of the Statistical Society for the session 1864-66 was held at the rooms of the society in St. Janses's-square ; W. Tooke, Esq., F.R.S., to the chair. The attendance, which was un usually numerous, included Lord Ouretone, Lord Mar rowby, Lord CIMISTVOS Lord Ebrington, M.P., Sir C. Luau, Sir J. Boileau, bin., &o. After the transaction of some routine business, a ditmission took plans on " the loans raised by Mr. Pitt during the first French war,1793-1801." The paper treating of this subject read by Mr. Nomura at a late meeting of the society, has appeared in the Daily News. Dr. Future, who sow opened the discussion, took saioppo. site line of argument to that adopted by Mr. Newmarch, maintaining in brief, that Mr. Pitt did not make the beet bargain on the part of the nation possible to hiss at the dins, and that the system of landing which he carried out was highly injurious. This view was combatted by the Berl of fierrowby and Mr. Hill. Mr. Hodge, Mr. Daneoo, sad Mr. Nelson also spoke, the discussion extending over • wide range of topics, and betokening wide ditterences of opinion amongst the members of the society, on matters of lame.. Late in the evening Lord Overstates rose. Lied OVIESTONI, after observing that he had not given Os subject the attention it was entitled to receive, eon issed—l have seen but a portion of Mr. Newinuotes pamphlet, having been interrupted during the parasol, but I read that portion with the greatest interest, and certainly felt that, to • great extent, I agreed with him. I have superficial view of the subject which would, from the mere fact that the nemisol amount of debt exceeds the amount of money received, bring at once a charge of grime ignorance or neglect of duty, or indiffer ence towards national interests, to one of the greatest states men that hes ever flourished in Europe, and who was characterised by an order of intellect stleismescountered in oar history. (Hear, hear.) Those who hastily attribute all this to Mr. Pitt are speaking without sufficient study, and their opinions must undergo • severe examination before they eon be entertained by superior and seriously reflecting men. It seems to me, sir, that the qpestion before us this evening can be approached in a very simple form. It is, as I think, merely this: Was the money borrowed by Mr. Pitt on behalf of the nation, borrowed upon the best terms which the circumstances of the times permitted, or from blameable waste or ignorance, was it borrowed on less favourable terms than he could have obtained ? To answer i that, we have to ascertain the rate of isterest at which the loans were borrowed. That is a branch of the subject to which Mr. Newmarch has well addrersed himself; and you will find upon reference to the figures that the absolute rate of interest which we contracted to pay, was below, and not above the market rate of interest at that period. (Hear.) Another question is,— did Mr. Pitt, in borrowing that money, give to the lender a security which indirectly involved an injury to the nation and a benefit to the lender beyond what the nation paid for ? That again must be to • considerable extent a matter of positive calculation; and if calculated, it will prove, I thick. that the advantage to the lender and disadvantage to the borrower was not so great as is ordinarily &apposed. But we must remember also that these loans were the object of public oompetitios. If the advantages were so extraordi narily great to the leader, bow some* it that the lenders did not raise their terms, and by the ordinary principles which regulate the market price, give higher and better terms to the borrower? We have been dealing with this question to-night too much in an abstract or philosophical light. You must show that it was in Mr. Pitt's power to do otherwise. Some gentleman objected to the argument that the borrower was in the hands of the lender, and con tended that the lender was in the hands of the borrower - - How was it in the saw in point ? Mr. Pitt wee the person coming on behalf of the nation at • moment of great difficulty, when the national safety was at stake, and he was therefore • borrower of absolute necessity, and an immediate borrower by necessity. (Hear, hear.) What were the circumstances of the lenders. They were perfectly free to lend or not to lend ; to lend now or to wait another year. Under such circumstances, the borrower I say was in the hands of the lender. He must come forward and borrow not only on such terms as the lender of but mot offer securities of each a form, character, and duration, no will be most popular with the lenders. (Hear, bear.) Mr. Pitt was necessarily tied up moreover by the actual state of the money market at the time. At that period the stock market was loaded with • largeness of floating stock—stock that is in the hands of dealers and speculators. Mr. Pitt could not wait, be must raise millitcis and tens of mil lions at once, for the defence of England was at stake. His alternative was either to bonus In the stock in which he did borrow, or not to borrow at all. And that he was alive to these considerations and conscious of the ultimate advantages of borrowing on higher stocks, and involvieg termination at so distant period, we have evidsace in the fact that • portion of many of his lean. were borrowed in those stocks. He was as sagacious in these matters as we are ; but the public safety was his first con suieratioo, and that provided for, he took the portions of the debt then required in other securities. The issuing of ex chequer beads by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late ministry was analogous in principle to that adopted by Mr. Pitt. It was with Mr. Pitt est mousiest. rerun►. His lordship then expressed the alarm with which he had heard the propositioa to raise money for the state by mortgage, sad ooncladed with expressing the hope that the country would not be desirous to augment the debt, from the idea that because the property of the country was augmented, an augmented debt would not expose us and posterity to very many dangers. - - - - - - - The CHAIRIMN observed that he had a perigee recollec tion of the circumstances under which Mr. Pitt had effected 'the loses, sad no one at that time b. that a diffaeat mode mold be adopted. _ _ Mr. tiswstuaci then made an able reply to the various objeetions which hie paper had united, end with his remarks the discussion wu brought to a aloes. Ms. LAW'S COLLECTION Or Ai small eollection of autographs, which was brought to the bummer by Messrs. Penick and Simpson, of Piccadilly. on I Monday sad Tuesday last, contained some 'samples of more thee usual interest. In some departments the collection was .very meagre ; in autographs of royal personages, for instance), but of men who, net bens born to greatness, or ' having it thrust upon them, have achieved it fur themselves, the catalogue prrsented an array of illustrious names of all periods, from Praline Bacon to the present day. The fol lowing brief Het will show the measure of appreciation awarded to sash matters in these, as some choose to term them. times of depressioe. Lot 4,a letter of Joseph Addi son, 21. Be. Lot 21, &letter of Lord Bacon, enlarging on the happinem of bevies a good wife, 161. Lot 42, - a litter of Junes Boswell, 81. Lot 60, a letter of Hobert Barns, 41. 166. Lot 86, a letter of the reformer, Jolla Calvin, 92.95. Lot 78, a letter of the great Lord Chatham, ealieseug verses ad dressed to David Garrick, 131.105. USDA &MAW of Fredetie Prises of Wales and the Prisesse /reyssta, on one sheet, 61. 16s. Lot 147, a letter of David Geeriek, 41.45. Lots 164 and 166, two letters of Oliver Moldierisith, 161. 12s. Lot. 272 and 273, two letters of Mary, Crew et William 111., 71. 18,. Lot 317, a short letter of Ille Isom Newton, as Muter alba Mint, deoliaing to reesememd to saw a oon- Tired counterfeiter of the coin, this under sasesses of death, 41. Lots 404 to 408, three letters of Sir nieltard Steele, 81. ls. Lot 444, a letter of George Washington, 61. Lot 480, a letter of John Wesley, 81.8.. Lot 478, a letter of Sir Christopher Wren, 31. Lot 490, the draft letter book of 8. Pep's, connected with the drain of Christ'. Hospital, 64. 179.84. There were several letters of Nelson I. the col lection, in ens of which he lemur of his arm as being " in a fair way of healing ;" these letter sold for about 41. each. It was enreelind that all the mineral lots sold foe more than dry Imo Plealbeed a previous 'actions. Surely here is centre dee "adlosesea." LORDS ELDON AND STOWELL. The White Horse Inn, retterslase, wee formerly the great Oxford house : here Lord Rides when he kft school and ohne to London, in 1776, met'his brother, Lord Stowell. "Be took me," lays Lord Elden, " to me the play at Drury-lane. Love played Jams in the farce, and Ms Pop , played N.U. When we came oat of the hones it rained hard. Then were then few lasokasromehes, sad we both got Into see sedan-chair. Turning out of Floinownt law Fit ter-lane, there was a sort of contest between oar dualism. sad soma persons who win comics op Flat-street, whether they Afraid first pass Fleet stress, or we in our chair first get oat of Fleet-sine% into Fetter -laps. In the straggle the sedan-chair was overact, with as in it." (Lord Eldgfee Awake Book.)—Tiasos'a CwienNe 01 Looden. lvcl if It la o id fo d b rwe e e s o l i f li t ni a os obe.ea t d a. ul laillaft in w tvi e n saw m ars pbe llealliel4l , Isad as ma tim tail inW ed s on hwamar na bir si lebkh o elin9 olllllllllo. ' I dis asters , and bemuse it rested with the Almighty &lose s who was emphatically and repeatedly in Barlptsre Galled the 8 1 " the victory which we desired to Sur fiesta and armies. We entered fate this war with no NUM Purim': WI Mr that Europe was already darkened by the shadow of • colossal power, whisk was ever pushing forward its boundary; sad it was not for England to sit tamely by whilst country after mangey lost its independence. If we had no fears for ourealves—if we could net contemplate the probability that the advancing lid* would break on our own shores, at least it was in our charter not to suffer the weak to be borne down by the strong. Therefore did we give oareelves to tke war. It was no war of ambition, no war of aggrandisement. Ws took up the championship of the oppressed, and if WI looked beyond the immediate case it Wan that we saw the world's liberties in peril, and resolved ere too late to make a stand for civilisation, enlightenment, human progress, and human happiness. And if we had unsheathed the sword only to maintain rights which ought not to have been in veded,and to prevent aggressions which threatened even worse disasters then themselves, we might the better hope that God would look favourably on our humiliation, and that be would not turn a deaf ear when, falling low at his footstool, the ashes in our hearts, sod the sackcloth on our souls, we exclaimed in the words of the test," Hear thou in Heaven our prayer and supplication, and maintain our cause." TOO preacher then, pointed out the peculiarity of the terms " that it is is Heaven we desire our prayers to be heard." The peculiarity belonged also to the Lord's Prayer, which was addressed to " our Father in Heaven." Of course the Divine omnipresence must always be assumed and taken for granted in prayer. We could have no confi dence in prayer if we knew nothing of God but that be dwelt M some far-off depth of infinite space. Admitting this, however, there ware two reasons explanatory of the desire to be heard in H . The first was that it gave great solemnity and also great esenuesgement to prayer losuppose it to be offered in Heaven, where God manifests his Splen dours. If it were a comforting thing that God wee ever pre sent to receive our prayers, it was an elevating and eonobling thing, that through some mysterious translation he received those prayers above. There was not the inhabitant of any of those bright worlds with which immensity was thronged, who was admitted to a nobler presence chamber than our selves. Tbssoldier who, amid the furies of toe battle, or by his lone'y wateh•fire, breathed from the heart a petition unto God, hie utterenoe was on high, fat away from the tented field and the er.sh of war, in that tranquil abode where there could be no strife, because there could be no Sill and this, whilst it should check presumption, should also give confidence. The second remain why we should desire that prayer be heard in II , was drawn from the fact that Heaven was the residence of the glorified humanity of the Redeemer, in and through whom alone would prayer be beard with acceptance. We bad seat foyth our armies to the war. In spite of all their courage, all their constancy, and all their cohquest, they were wasted and worn—hardship and dimities had sapped their strength, and the nation had met this day to entreat the Lord God Almighty that they might be upheld in the struggle, mad might yet, if indeed it were for giod— plant their colours on the proud forte' walls which they were now besieging. And our hope sad com fort should be, that we present this petition where the captain of our salvation, he who, as seen in the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, "seated on a white hone clothed in a vesture dipped in blood," is ri:hteousnesa cloth judge and make war, where he ever beet,' as the advocate of his church. Yea, it should give heart to the national humiliation that we could say with Solomon, "Hear thou in Heaven our prayer and supplication and maintain our cause." The preacher then recurred in the following terms to topics suggested by the occasitn:—We were assembled to confess the hand of the Almighty in the *amities with which we had been visited, and to beseech of film that in his own good time he would vouchsafe us &secure and prosperous peace. We were not in that place at least to look at second causes, but meekly and submissively to own that whether or not wo had done all which might have been dons towards procuring success, we hid be en smitten by God, to whom human errors as well as human triumphs ' were but as instrument+, for furthering his will. But at the same time we ought thankfully to acknowledge many bright points in an otherwise dark picture. The war, for example, bad set before the world the noble spectacle of two great endow, lung separated by jealousies and rivalries, laying aside ancestral enmities, and combining in the mum of eivilisation and freedom. All honour to our brave allies! It was • fine augury for the interacts of our race that Prance was one with England in festering opp Then the valour of our troops, then patient en durance of frightful privations, their undaunted bearing not merely is the face of hostile battalions, but of far worse foes, the biting hunger, the pitiless frost, the sweeping storm; who could sufficiently admire, sufficiently be thankful fur this. Our brave fellows had won other laurels besides those which were stained with blood, nod we gave them in their midnight wetchings, in their suit. rings (borne without a murmur), in their cold, heuger, and sick ness, as high, nay, • higher admiration than when they climbed the perilous steep, or beat back a host numbering hundreds to their tens. Then the evidence of a better educa tion, of a wider diffusion of enlarged and religious sentiment than one had ventured to leek for. Why, many of the published letters of private soldiers would do credit to the head and heart of men trained by all the processes of a refined and Christian education. Moreover, the war bad given occasion to the display of tin e:emoted generosity. The rich and pour alike, the inha bitarts of palaces and inmates of ragged reboots, had eagerly oontvilmted to the relief of the widow and the orphan. Nay more, we had seen the most touching and graceful 'peva des : royalty itself had bent from its high estate, end the wounded soldier had been gladdened and dignified by the visit of his Queen. Above all, the war had brought out one fine and noble trait. It had shown that iiumben of the weaker sex, though born to wealth and bred in luxury, were ready to renounce every comfm t and breve every hardship, that they might minister to the suffering, tend the wounded in their agony, and soothe the last struggles of the dying. God bleu them in that the it heroic miesein— he had almost said their heroic martyrdom—and he might have said it, for he did thick that in walking those long lines of sick beds, in giving themselves to all the ghastly duties of a hospital, they were doing a harder thing than was allotted to many woo bad mounted the scaffold or dared the stake. Passing from these cheering cimunatencer, the preacher dwelt on national sin as producing national cala mity. He showed in general that we had not acted up to our high calling as a people specially entrusted with the " oracles of God," and that with regard to the present war in particular, we had entered on it in too boastful and con fident a spirit. He called on all classes to do their part in the great work of national ameedment. Legielators, by the countenance they could give to true relieion, by the exten sion of the machinery of a sound and Mignon education, and by the enactment of measures for ropressitig vice and ungodliness ; others by self-examination, by repentance, by holiness of thought, and word, and deed. He concluded as follows; " Yes, it most be done at once. Who will reckon on tomorrow w wlispe Th re e d re th c e sm n one e sud to den so t o id th in e r t‘hVey seemed ithbated breath m almost incredible; and yet it was so. The potentate who had been foremost in this war, the man who stood out from e t - the rest of his race, the most conspicuous, perhaps, in power, in energy, in the strength of will, in the firmness of purpose, in the sweep of enterprise—he was dead ! Dead, with count less squadrons waiting his bidding; deed, with coavolsed kingdoms watching his movements ; dead, whilst a whale world, I might almost say, was being shaken by his tread. Then, I again ask, who will reckon on to-morrow 1 At once, lest death overtake us, let each resolve to be a better patriot by being a better Christian. Thus may all be in strumental towards obtaining those bleuings for which the nation has now humbled itself in prayer. Better and brighter times may break upon the land. We may live to welcome back victorious armies. If thousands lie buried on a foreign strand, they lie burled in no ignoble grave; for their resting place shill be a spot at which, (or ages to come, Valour shall gain fresh life, aid Freedom trim her torc h. We may live to rejoice that they have nut died In vain—that their death has procured for us a peace Se wing the rights of nations, and throwing on a rampart against future aggression. Then, in the beautiful imagery of prophecy, we may " sit every man under his vine and under his B g -tree, and none shall make us afraid." There shall be " no decay, no leading into captivity, and no com plaining in ear streets;' but we shell experience all the emphasis all the richness of the saying— . Atm is that people th ati is in snob • case ; yea, happy is that people Mines God is the Lord." ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Yesterday afternoon some thousands of persons were attracted to St. Paul's Cathedral by sn announcement that the Corporation would atteod, and that a sermon would be preached by the Bishop of London on the subject of the humiliation for which the day was especially set sport. A rafilcient number of people congregated inside and outside of the cathedral to fill the whole of the nave and aisles, and yet the Dean and Chapter determined that the service should be performed in the choir, which will hold only a few hundred persons. Fully an hour and a quarter before the service commenced the very small space allotted to the general public wu filled, by far the larger portion hoist railed off for the members of the corporation and their friends, whilst the galleries were reserved for persona aro wb w o d b . ri t hed bat th ro e pvieergeosnuldformado,miese neitherion. b, B . :t a d w e arde nse n w o a r s i t o a r e . wards, and the open violation of ell dc.ency on the part of the *Soloist who lowolgod Money for admission, called down upon them loud orb: of Shame," which mutt have been audible is the chair. By mem of a little precaution all the centurion aP dleappoiatment created yesterday might bare bees avoided. The Dean and Chapter frequently a n t h t Sun da ydhaw a hi T e h i lal l ei l l e n b cd tiF d iain e n in wo l tlwien h ed poroyestenu agan os ill yid en tl e l i t o : o !ti mi ng ira :: teat e m procee d in g sre t hemselvesn otraanrc arnale wpi person o t 'a o h r b'' n e t ea ao c nt d b u dy ntw o t ed ; 114 Bled* el Ueda was Easseat, and preached, bat I I.