The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-30 00:00:00

THE FENIAN OITTRAGE IN BLOOMSBURY. At Bow-street on Saturday evening Mr. Serle, Superintendent of the E division, waited on the sitting magistrates, in reference to the case. It ap peared that M'Donald's life was considered to be in danger, and the surgeon had suggested that the magistrate should be consulted as to the necessity of his depositions being taken. Mr. Flowers would not wish to do so if it were not necessary, or if the excitement would increase his danger. But he should be glad to take his deposi tion if his evidence was material, and it could be done safely. Mr. Serle slid the surgeon was of opinion that it would not accelerate death. The dying man could only speak to the same facts as his two companions, but his description of the assailants might be mate rial for the purpose of identification. Mr. Flowers decided upon taking the depositions, and proceeded in a cab to the University College Hospital, in Gower-street. The patient appeared very faint, and spoke so low that his voice could with difficulty be heard. The oath was adminis tered to him by Mr. Flowers. He said, " I entered a publichouse in Southampton-row about 1 o'clock this morning and asked for something to drink, which was refused to be served. I then left and saw some persons having words outside. Neither I nor those with me said anything to those persons. My friends and I walked up Southampton-row to Vernon-place, and passed the two men who were outside the publichouse at the time of the noise. While passing by they made a noise at me and my friends, and they crossed the road to the right. They came back again, and one of them knocked a man named Furber's bat off. Furber was with me, and the man who knocked off his hat fired at me. I am quite certain that I saw the two men outside the publichouse." (Here followed a description of the two men). In reply to Mr. Flowers, the witness added that he lived at 12, William-street, Regent's Park, and is a musician in the 2d Life (;wards. He could not sign his deposition, and requested his mark to be put to it. Mr. Flowers having read the deposition over, held it before him so that he could see it distinctly, and made a cross in the usual place of the signature, M'Donald watching the operation, and nodding with an air of satisfaction when it was done, but not speaking.' The magistrate and clerk then withdrew. MONDAY MORNING, 2 o'Clock. A man suspected to be the murderer has been apprehended. It appears that some time after the crime was committed a parcel was picked up in the road near Vernon-place, containing a quantity of bullets and cartridges for Tranter's medium sized revolvers. Several cabmen and other persons affirm that they saw two men, whom they can identify, near Mrs. Byrne's publichouse, the Turk's Head. Between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, after the attack on M'Donald, a man named Buzzer, who was driving a cart in Broad-street, St. Giles's, was stopped by a number of young men, respect ably dressed, and assaulted, without any reason being assigned, and they are supposed to be part of the party who were at Byrne's, and of whom the two who stopped M'Donald, formed part. Subse quently from information which the police received, they arrested a young man named John Groves, a sergeant in the London Irish Volunteers. Mr. Thomson, of Scotland-yard detective force, ordered him to be searched, when a large dagger was found upon him, on the blade of which were marked the words, " A sure friend." Groves was charged with having been concerned in the attack on Buzzer. He asked to be admitted to bail, and gave the names of two persons notorious as having taken part in the Fenian movement. Bail was refused. Shortly after another Irishman was arrested, having in his pos session a loaded Tranter revolver, which he says he found in Broad-street, Bloomsbury. From investi gations following upon the apprehension of Groves it appears that he is well known as having for some time past been mixed up with various well known Fenians. At the time when the notorious Colonel Kelly was living in Rupert-street, Haymarket, Groves was with another person at the London Pavilion watching two well known informers, whom they followed till an appeal was made to the police to be freed from molestation. After the apprehen sion of Colonel Kelly it appears that it was decided among the Fenians that one of the informers above referred to should be shot, and that a large reward would be paid to the Fenian who shot him. It fur ther appeared that Groves and another person were together at the Turk's Head on Saturday morning, and left shortly before the murder was attempted. Furber very closely resembles the informer above referred to, and there is little doubt he was taken for that person, and his two friends probably for de tective officers. After the three young men left the Turk's Head they were followed by two men, who passed them in Southampton-row. On getting to the corner of Vernon-place the men who had passed them suddenly confronted them, knocked off Furber's hat, with a view, undoubtedly, to obtain a good sight of his face, but Furber was picking up his hat the shot meant for him struck his companion. The man who fired the shot was, it is believed, wear ing false hair. Groves was seen by the two in formers already referred to and the police-sergeant to whom the application was made on the night they were at the London Pavilion, and those per sons have identified him. One of the informers also identified Groves as the man who threatened to shoot him some time ago, and also as being an active Fenian agent in Dublin in 1865. After being duly cautioned by Inspector Thomson, the prisoner adMitted he was near Vernon-place at 1 o'clock ou Saturday morning, and that be had been at the Turk's Head. His lodgings were subsequently searched, and there was found a number of papers relating to Fenianism, a form of the Fenian oath in the prisoner's handwriting, a large quantity of bullets and cartridges fitting Tranter's middle sized revolvers, and also a patent revolver loaded and capped, and in the bore of which the bullet that was shot through M'Donald exactly fitted. The pistol that was picked up by the Irishman previously referred to also carried the bullets found in Groves' lodgings. The prisoner was taken last night to the Univer sity Hospital to the bedside of the injured man, and M'Donald, after carefully scrutinising him, said his features were exactly like those of the man who shot him, but that he hardly seemed so tall. The pri soner, at the time he was taken into custody, wore a Fenian hat. His eyes are of a light colour ; he has fair hair, cut close, and a fair moustache, but no beard or whiskers. The prisoner, who is charged by Inspector Thomp son " with shooting at and wounding Edwin 'Donald, with intent to kill and murder him," 11 be brought before the sitting magistrate at Bow street this day, at 12 o'clock, and most stringent precautions have been taken by the police for the safe custody of their prisoner. The latest information from the hospital is that M'Donald has not passed so favourable a day as could be wished. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MURDER. At half-past twelve .yesterday morning a diabo lical attempt at murder was made on Mr. Rearden, Church-lane, off George-street, Bloomsbury. Just as he Vi 3,3 about to shut shop a notorious returned convict, named Patrick Corrigan, with live other well-known thieves, passed in front of the shop. Corrigan turned into Carrier's-c.mrt, where one of the shop windows is placed. He took aim and fired, but as Mr. Rearden had just stepped a little to the left the ball missed entering his head, but struck a Mrs. Rearden, beerhouse-keeper in the same locality, who was being served with goods. The ball struck the steel of her stays, which, no doubt, saved her life. She staggered from the blow. No trace of the men could be found until the afternoon, when Mr. Rearden noticed them enter Church-lane. He courageously seized Corrigan with the revolver in his hand, and dragged him out to the street, where he had the aid of a police-constable in taking him to the station. The revolver had five shots in it. The object of the gang is supposed to have been, first to disable Bearden and then to seize the till. Social Science Congress The sections of the Social Science Congress commenced their sittings on the 19th inst., at Bel fast. The business of the day was opened by an address from Mr. Justice O'Hagan, president of the Section of Jurisprudence. An illustration of the really Catholic spirit which pervades the mem bers of the association is afforded in the fact that the address was delivered in the Elmwood Pres byterian Church. The rigid Puritans entertained not the slightest scruple about appropriating the sacred edifice for this occasion to the benevolent purposes of science, nor did the learned judge and his co-religionists feel any prejudice against assembling in a place set apart for the propagation of a different faith. The church, we are told, was densely crowded by a fashionable assemblage. Lord Dufferin occupied the chair. The address was a learned and eloquent prelec tion on " jurisprudence, and the amendment of the law." Mr. O'Hagan pointed out the signal service rendered by the Association in making the recog nition of the importance of jurisprudence promi nent and impressive. He noticed the defective system of study which until recently was pursued by professional men, who thought it work enough for a laborious life to approach a mastery of our own laws and procedure, and so had their faculties as pleaders or conveyancers sharpened to preterna tural acuteness, and were varied and profound in their case learning, but had no care for the learning which elsewhere was deemed essential. He re ferred to the examinations and lectures which have been established in England and Ireland to supply this want, and observed that though we have made progress there is still a startling difference in this respect between these kingdoms and the con tinent of Europe. It behoves us, then, to go on with the work which we have well begun. After citing the example of illustrious lawyers whose labours should stir to honourable rivalry, and tracing the connexion of the laws of England with the Roman jurisprudence, and the action of the Roman code in Courts of Equity and Admiralty, Ecclesiastical Courts, and Courts-Martial, and quoting the eulogies by learned authorities of the method and precision which distinguished the _writings of Roman jurists, he proceeded to notice the value of such habits even in the department of Parliamentary conduct which has to do with the preparation of our Statutes to urge the necessity of codifying our laws. He made an eloquent appeal to the young students to exalt and adorn their portion of the profession by enriching their intellects and improving their moral culture. He then alluded to the question of the assimilation of the laws of England and Ireland, expressing his approval of the principle, but observing that we should not assimilate merely for the purpose of assimilation. He noticed the remarkable fact that Ireland possesses a register of deeds since the sixth year of the reign of Queen Anne, while Eng land remains without any such general register. He glanced at Lord Cairns's Record of Titles Act, the effect of which he said he was not at present in a position to judge. Another legal institution in which Ireland had anticipated England was that of the County Courts. He suggested that the equitable jurisdiction given to the English County Courts should be extended to this country. Another remarkable instance of Ireland outstrip ping England was in the matter of public prose cutions. Upon this subject he observed : I was surprised, when I had the pleasure of meeting the Association in Dublin, in 1861, to hear that a very distinguished visitor from England—a man equally eminent in law and letters—declared he had never known of our possession of a system of public prosecution in Ireland. It was an illus tration of the truth, that some of the people of these kingdoms are better acquainted with the customs of ancient tribes and the doings of foreign nations, than with the condition of their own fel low-subjects, to whom, though divided from them by a narrow channel, they are bound by identity of language, intelligence, and interest, making it their common duty and manifest advantage to cul tivate that knowledge of each other, which, among civilized men, breeds kindly feeling and stimulates to mutual service. We have, in fact, had a public prosecutor for a very lengthened period. The Attorney-General of the time discharges the duties of the office ; and he is assisted by a large staff of counsel and attorneys, who act under his direction and control, at the Commission Court in Dublin, the Assize Courts, and the Courts of Quarter Ses sions. The more important criminal cases are all submitted to him, in the first instance, that he may consider as to the propriety of proceeding with them, and give such directions as he may deem proper. And only when he declines to prosecute are private persons allowed to intervene. Even so, he retains his right to prevent them from pro ceeding, by entering, at his discretion, a nolle pro sequi or any indictment they may be permitted to prefer. These are the general outlines of our system, on the details of which, of course, I do not enter. It is capable of much improvement ; but, upon the whole, it works efficiently for the accom plishment of impartial justice, and to the general satisfaction of the community. England has no public prosecutor. The Attorney-General, save in cases in which he is specially engaged, has no thing to do with the management of criminal trials. The duty of prosecution is cast upon the injured; and the Executive Government does not charge itself with the responsibility of prompting them to activity, restraining their excesses, or assisting them to just and reasonable conviction. " The most exalted functions of the Crown and the most sacred rights of the subjects, are left to the discre tion of attorneys and policemen." These strong words are not mine. They were spoken by Mr. Phillimore, when he introduced into Parliament a Bill to supply the want which he earnestly deplored. And this condition of things is allowed to continue although the appointment of a public prosecutor has been urged for many years by the best and wisest men in England—including her last three Chief Justices—and has had the emphatic sanction of a Royal Commission in 1844, and a Parliamen tary Committee in 1856. I know that the prin ciple of action involved in such an appointment has been, more or less, the subject of controversy. I have myself been obliged, in the House of Commons, to defend the Irish practice against an able Anglo-Irish friend of mine ; but it seems to me very plain that that practice, at least, and its general scheme and operation, is worthy the best attention of jurists in England, with a view to its absolute or modified adoption there. The supreme law of social safety is the warrant, as it should be the bounding measure, of the infliction of punish ment, by man on man. That infliction is not de signed to compensate for individual wrong, or satisfy individual vengeance. The " lex talionis "of the Hebrews is obsolete ; and we hold in horror the " vendetta "of the south. We punish crime only that we may prevent the repetition of it, and work the amendment of the criminal. Vindictive justice does not belong to human law. It cannot penetrate the depths of the soul, and gauge the worth of human actions by reaching their hidden springs, in the tangled motives and the various training which make men what they are. It must be guided, in its conflict with fraud and violence, by a regard for the results to the community which requires pro tection, and to the offender who needs reform. Such are the principles which, in my judgment, should govern all penal jurisprudence. They are recognized by our ancient law, which institutes prosecutions universally in the name of the Sove reign, as the representative of outraged society, and makes the accused responsible, not to his accuser, but to the State. The course of our criminal pro cedure, pursued in the light of these principles, should be stately, calm, and passionless. The prosecutor should act in a judicial spirit. He should be impregnable to any influence of fear or favour. He should labour to discover truth and do justice, without any wavering from the clear line of duty, to undue pressure on the one side, or imbecile tenderness on the other. He should be conscious of his great responsibility in dealing with the interests of liberty and life, and beware, while he deals with them, of displaying temper, or in dulging self-will, or making those sacred interests the subject of an unseemly wrangle for forensic victory. Such conduct of criminal causes the public prosecutor can secure ; but, if they be committed to the management of individuals—who may be poor, or corrupt, or revengeful—it will be sought in vain. The poor man may not have the time or the means to prosecute effectually. The corrupt man will compromise with his adversary. The revengeful man will violate honour and falsify fact to glut his malignant hatred. And so, the law will not be enforced at all, or enforced unjustly. Surely the system under which such results are possible is a reproach to the great country which has so long endured it if it deserves the condemnation pro- flounced on it in the speech to which I have already adverted as " unwise, preposterous, and indecent." I have ventured to invite notice to our Irish prac- tice in this respect as furnishing a safe and well tried model for imitation ; and it is not less worthy of that notice because a practice in many respects similar has long prevailed in Scotland with great public advantage. Ours may, perhaps, have more adaptation to England from the substantial identity of the English and Irish criminal law; but it might profitably be modified by the adoption of some thing like the Scotch machinery of the Procurator Fiscal's office for the conduct of the early stages of penal procedure. We rely too much upon the coroner ; he is an ancient and venerable officer, but " crowner's quest law " has been ever in disre pute, and my experience is that the preliminary investigations which he institutes in this country tend often and in various ways to the ultimate defeat of justice. I have no time to discuss the grounds of this opinion. Ido not mean to extend it to the disparagement of many of the functions of the coroner, with which I have nothing here to do ; but, lauding our Irish practice, I think it right to qualify my commendation by indicating the improvement which it may usefully derive from the example of Scotland. Having adverted to the Landed Estates Court, the Irish Bankruptcy code, and the resident magis- : - tracy as suggestive of beneficial assimilation, he expressed his regret that, while the revision of the English Statute Law proceeds with vigour and success, this needful work has not yet been effectu ally begun in Ireland. On the other hand, he congratulated them upon the successful commence ment of the publication of the ancient laws of Ire land. He observed : The Brehon law had prevailed in Ireland for ages before the coming of St. Patrick. Like our common law, it was not composed of written statutes, but of the decisions of the Brehons— the judges of the land at that remote period. My friend, Dr. Ferguson, has published :an admi rable paper, full of ingenuity and suggestiveness, " On the Rudiments of the Common Law, discover able in the Published Portions of the Senchus Mor ;" and I have no doubt that speculations and researches such as his, in reference to the entire body of the Brehon Code, will be productive of very rich results. To the study of that ancient system, which for so many years held sway in Ire land, some of us, children of the soil, will be at tracted, as by " ancestral voices" from the buried past. When the Queen's Colleges were established each of them had a small endowment for a pro fessorship of Iris!). In two of them that endow ment has been diverted to other purposes, and the professorships are abolished. As to the third, the same course is contemplated. The time was strangely chosen for such a questionable act, when Englishmen such as Mathew Arnold and Pro fessor Morley are labouring with generous enthu siasm to assert the dignity and celebrate the achievements of the Celtic race ; when Germany produces an unmatched Irish grammar, and Con tinental scholars, recognizing the wisdom of the Council of Liebnitz (Op. iv., 131), who urged the cultivation of the Irish language—lingua; Hiber nicx—for the general purposes of European lite rature, found in the pursuit of Celtic studies the necessary and efficient means of advancing ethno logical and philological inquiry. Irishmen have been justly reproached as " incuriosi sitorunz," but that reproach would not have found confirmation in a change so needless, so injurious, so little in harmony with the spirit of a self-respecting people and the tendency of cultivated thought throughout the world. I trust that the publication of the Brehon laws, and the attention it must attract to Celtic literature and jurisprudence, may contri bute to make plain and undo quickly the mischief of this retrogressive step. We may labour, in all proper cases, to assimilate the laws of the three kingdoms, giving for that purpose from every dis trict what light and help we can reciprocally fur nish ; but we should maintain for all the integrity of their independent judicatures, in the assurance that they will not less enjoy the benefits of a com mon code, if it do not aim to subordinate any one to any other of them, or unduly exalt a part, at the expense of exhaustion and depression, to the rest. On this matter I can speak freely, as I speak without personal interest. In my position men bid farewell, not always joyously, to hope and fortune, and my warning counsel has no taint of self-seeking or indirectness when I say that, for Ireland at least, it is essential to maintain a high judiciary and an educated bar, if she would pre serve anything of the informed opinion, the pro ductive energy, and the public spirit, without which a people stagnates and sinks into contempt. The sections assembled after the delivery of the address and discussed numerous topics. SPEECH OF THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS AT MALINES. After congratulating his hearers on the zeal which the Congress has excited among its members, Mgr. Dupanloup said he considered it as the focus from which the flames of the sacred fire of the Church radiating in every direction, had spread from country to country and people to people, to the villages in France, to the depths of Germany, into Spain, to Italy, to Switzerland, across the billows of the broad ocean, to North and South America, and even to the desert East, to cheer and to inflame. It was only just now, said he, while perusingthe two volumes of the last Congress, that my mind was refreshed with all I saw there ; how many high and important topics had been dis cussed ; what deep questions had been settled ; what vital counsels had been taken ; what re solutions and what useful institutions had been formed. I say, when I reflect on all this, lam struck with wonder and gratitude. Yes ; addresses and congratulations are offered you on all sides. Your advice, your help, your co-operation is sought ; your example is imitated ; and the fire of your zeal has set on fire the hearts of other nations, and the good work—the bonum opus—you have be gun, will, and has already become, a grand and sacred edifice, and what is more, will expand into an immortal crown for yourselves individually and your nation which shines pre-eminent in this work. I heard a friend, a native of Hungary, pay you lately, in the name of his noble country, the homage of his grateful admiration. Let us give thanks to Him who is the Giver of light and all good and all fertile inspiration, and after Him to you, gentle men, the persevering organizers of this assembly, to your most worthy and most eminently-pious Cardinal, His Grace the Archbishop of Malines, your excellent pastor who, in his wisdom, has found courage enough to uphold your work, in concert with many, and in spite of more. (Long applause.) The presence of the Bishop of Namur prevents me from expressing all the devotion and homage I feel for him. At Liege, now twenty-one years ago, I took up arms under his banner, and followed in his example and under his auspices. Years have fled ; they have aged one, but they have only more and more developed his zeal, his eloquence, and his devotion. Now that I have dis closed my first thoughts to you upon your noble work, I am not going to entertain you with words to excite your fervour, or to influence your hearts, already so well disposed to every Christian feeling. No, really it is not necessary to excite your en thusiasm ; I ought rather to damp your ardour—at least as regards those who address you, since, I remember your zeal led you so far once as to deprive a speaker of his watch that he might not perceive how long he was before you. (Laughter.) I will not do as I did three years ago. I will not abuse your good nature. (" No, no." " Speak on ; speak as long as you are able," from all sides.) Indeed, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEP UMBER 30, 1867. I could not, since I feel greatly fatigued, and shall be able only to say a few short words. They are words of St. Paul, which that great champion addressed to his valiant companions in arms Nolle vinci it malo, sed vince in bono malum." "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil by good." As you see, gentlemen, these are words full of portent—words which make you feel that you are surrounded by evil ; you, of whatever nation you are ; to what rank soever you belong ; from what people you come out; and you, perhaps —more than all, you Catholics of Belgium ; yes, all evil is there—living, growing, working, speak ing, teaching, and ardent in its teaching, per suasive in its speech, and indefatigable in its work —and our task is to conquer evil ; to conquer it, not by evil, but by good. Your work and mine is simply this :—" Vince in bono malum." Evil and the presence of evil is no strange or novel phenomenon on the earth, and that is precisely why we must neither be surprised nor discouraged at it. Now, without entering into the history of evil, only just look at the great battle against Christianity, which has been waging for three hun dred years and more. What did not Protestantism do in the sixteenth century ? It attacked the Church. What did not the Revolution do in the eighteenth century ? It attacked Christianity and all supernatural belief. What does the nineteenth century do ? It takes a further step—it attacks all principle. It admits no God, no soul. Free and spiritual, immortal, it denies everything—future life, all distinction of good and evil, all morality ; it desires to create a new order of things. The natural order is no longer tolerated, and it is cer tain that sophists are engaged daily in fabricat ing a new order of things. (Deep emotion.) Such is the extent of evil that surrounds us, and that is what we must overcome by good. We can do it, but we shall have to make strenuous efforts to effect it ; and what struggle, let me ask you, does not ? Yes, truly, the work is great, for it is not only dog mas or reli c on that are attacked, but everything —reason as well as faith ; natural as well as supernatural ; liberty as well as authority ; philo sophy as well as religion—every principle which is the basis of human societies as well as Christi anity, and it is to us Christians to gain the glory —to us to whom belongs the honour of defending these principles which are the truth, against these most violent, as well as most absurd enemies. The struggle is serious, and I will tell you the reason why you are worthy to bear it, for in you exists that faith divine, that intelligence, that love which inspires you every time the Holy names of Jesus, Mary, and the immortal Vicar now in St. Peter's Chair is named, to feel a glow, and to show how distinctly you and their cause are one and eternal. The contest is serious, because it reveals, above all, that it is the souls of men that are sick. Let us rise up and go and heal them, as our Blessed Lord did, when he heard that Lazarus was ill ; and, above all, recol lect, gentlemen, the end of the struggle for us is to save souls ; for our adversaries—they fight in order to destroy ; but we —we must fight to save. Let them conquer; but we must convince. We must not spare our strength, our blood, our lives ! Our crucified Lord, who sees us now, impresses us with the immense price at which He values a soul. The struggle is serious, because it is not only the most deeply rooted we have ever witnessed, but also because it is only in this age that evil has ever had such powerful engines for its creatures. See for an instant its extraordinary organization, whether we view its subterranean organization, in the in finity of secret societies and all their ramifications, or we look at its outward organization, in the mass of anti-religious and anti-Christian publications. And what shall I say of this propagandism, so im mensely prolific and so determinately bent on its work of destruction, which attacks the young man on his first entry into life, the riper age, and the experienced in years and in knowledge, alike with the ignorant and the idle, the poor man in his misery and the rich man in his luxury ; it attacks, I say, even the woman and the young girl her self, and it spares not the sick couch and the dying bed ; and darkening alike the consciences of all, would tear from each the last consolations and the hope of a last return ! (Prolonged emotion.) We are living, are we not, gentlemen,' in the broad daylight of the sun? Well, I ask, where shall we find, on any part of the globe, anything like this infernal compact, this frightful engagement, which is fully as absurd as it is impious, by which a man determines to die hardened to every better feeling, disregarding the faith of his father, at open enmity with God ? Can any tyranny equal this, that a man should allow another to come between him and his God, to prevent Him from finding his soul, from pardoning him and saving him ? This struggle is a terrible one, but I believe that it is, perhaps, more violent here in Belgium than anywhere else, and it is to your honour that I say it to you, Belgian Catholics—yes, to your honour !—for it is certain that those who attack you so vigorously are well aware who they are attacking, and that their desire is to crush the truth there, where it is most vigor aus, and sending forth shoots of life into every other country. Yes, it is to your eternal honour ; it proves you are a Catholic nation, a chosen people, the most Catholic on the face of the earth, and that is why the enemy has directed such des perate attacks against you. Indeed, there is a question which we may all ask ourselves, and wonder as we ask it — Will this struggle last for ever? There is a deep melancholy in the thought of an eternal struggle, even to persons the best disposed in spite of all to struggle on ; and I find myself obliged to tell you, in all truth, yes, the struggle against evil, with different phases, is to be eternal ! Understand it well, gentlemen ; un derstand it with the respect due to the Sovereign Master of all. " I send you," said our blessed Lord, "as sheep in the midst of wolves." He does not say that ye are sheep having one wolf sent among you. No, no ; think rather what it is to be a sheep among a troop of wolves, in niedio luporum. It is a most startling simile, and that is our posi tion. " They have persecuted me; they will also," said our Lord, " persecute you. The disciple is not above the Master. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, what will they not call the servants? The day cometh when ye shall be hated because of Me." Because of Me ! How well said ; for it is for that we are hated—for Him, for the truth, for justice, for Christian liberty, for prin ciple. It is because they hate Me, that ye, who are only disciples, they hate also. Your name they also deem a crime in their sight—Nornen maim. And that is why I -said just now it was the glory of Belgium. to have been marked by this hatred, just as it is your glory to have among you that holy and valiant company, which is the honour of your country, which gives devoted instruction to your children, among whom we find more than one illustrious representative of sacred science. Such I should not fail to designate as the princes of erudition and of Catholic hagiography. In the midst of this struggle it is:the Holy Spirit who says, "Be not afraid." St. Augustine, in the strong expression of that African eloquence which resounds to our shores and far further, bids us again fear not. You wonder that the attacks and success of the wicked reach you and prevail among you, and when you see the tide of p 3rsecution rise and menace to engulph you, you cry, " Oh, my God, is this Thy justice, that the wicked flourish and the good suffer loss ?" and I ask you in return, "Is this your faith ?" " Ipsa est fides tua ?" " Did I promise you anything else at your baptism ?" says our Lord ; " Did I ever promise you ease and indolence, luxury and pride ? No, ye were not made Christians to flourish in the world." Gen tlemen, if you will allow me, I will follow this question a little deeper, and say what many may be tempted to say. It is true God holds in His immortal hands the hearts of all nations and of all ages, and that He can turn the minds of the power ful and the rulers of His people as He wills. How sweet it would be to think that He intends to bind the clouds and to come down and make men bridle their human passions, and save His Church and give His children peace eternally. " Well, no," the prophet answers ; "so high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are God's thoughts above our thoughts, and His ways above our ways." What has lie thought? To whom alone belongs wisdom and power? He has found it wise in His profound counsels to permit the existence of evil and to change and to overcome evil—by good rather than not to permit evil to reign? And, truly, is there anything more divine than to bring good out of evil, to command evil and to use it as an instru ment of good. It is, if I may use the expression, a divine artifice of the power of the Almighty on the hearts of Ilis children. God has done it; and you, whoever you may be, who hear this, and every one ought to ponderthese divine laws which are based on this principle, as it is the crown of all God's pro vidence, should learn that God does not make the evil, He permits it, but in permitting it He rules it, Ile governs it, He subdues it, He makes it enter into his providence, whether we will or not ; and why, then, is this mysterious permission of evil? Because God has deemed it more worthy of Him, as well as more worthy of us, that there should be struggles and triumphs of virtue over evil. More worthy of us —God has preferred that the free will of man for good should suffer the possi bility of evil in order that there should be, here below, that great thing we call virtue, or, in other words, struggle, suffering, courage, and victory. God found that, even after the Fall, man was yet noble creature enough to sustain this combat. More worthy of Him, for when Ilis Divine Son descended on earth He gave Him no other glory than that of the Cross, and St. Paul does not hesitate to pro claim loudly and before all the nations that Jesus Christ was only raised to the pinnacle of all greatness because He had descended by a volun tary abasement to the deepest humiliations. And that is what God was pleased to think ; and when I reflect within myself, in my innermost self, I cannot but feel, if I may dare so to express myself, that God has well thought. I believe that adver saries are much better for us than injudicious friends. I think that struggles are far better for us than apathy, or too much prosperity, or an enervating repose. I feel bound to add, that if these struggles are eternal there are also consola tions, and it was only this morning that I found a passage in the Psalms, giving a most:vivid image of this truth. " Thou hast placed the darkness, and it was thick night "—" Posuistis tenebras, et facta est nox." There are times when the light seems to be darkened—when impiety, atheism, materialism, cast their fatal shadow over the world, and even the friends of God, by means of some deplorable misunderstandings, are deceived. In such darkness and thick night wild beasts come out of their dens, animals who never see the day pass and repass, and then their cries are heard, " Catuli leonum regi entes." One cries out, " God is the principle of evil. War against God. 'Five l'enfer. Property is a theft." And another says, and this one comes from our own land, "Let us quench Catholicism with the mire of the streets. Let us strangle it." And we, who are so short-lived and short• sighted, think that all is lost. No, not yet. • God sends a ray of light, as we saw at the commencement of this cen tury—" Ortus est Sol." When all these miscreants went into their dens, and their reign ended, what happens then ? The Christian opens his door, the sees the sky is clear, the light of day has reappear ed, and he goes out to his daily labour and his work, to deeds of charity and virtue, and soon to the end of his life. " Exibit homo ad opus suum, usque ad vesperutn "—" He doeth good and preserves joy and hope in his heart." This is the struggle and its alternative. Now, in the midst of all these dark nesses and tempests;the Church remains invincible, immutable, indestructible, repeating to us the words of her Lord, " 0, ye of little faith, why do ye fear ?" And recently only, on my return from Rome, where all was joy, courage, and hope, I passed the town and tower of Pisa. My eyes were directed to that famed marble monument, and I thought as an image of the Church, how much we could learn from it. It leans, it has leant for centuries, and it will lean on still after we have ceased to live, a perpetual enigma to every travel ler who passes near it. I could not help saying, " Yes, there is the Church—the Tower of David— as the Holy Scriptures calls it—from which hang suspended thousands of bucklers, Mille clypei armatura fortium.' " She, too, is always leaning and often tottering, and those who cannot pene trate the secrets of the Divine Architect cry out, "It is very alarming." No, not at all. There is a better emblem still of this Church ready to fall, which suddenly rights itself ; and then this Tower of David is the glorious temple—the St. Peter's at Rome—at once greatness, grandeur, splendour, and incomparable majesty—with its mighty cupola casting rays of light all around, as the sun sets behind the surrounding hills. Oh, how I have loved to look upon her thus ! That is the Church, and there the Divine wonder of our faith is well fitted to raise our courage and to encourage our faith, as wrote, yesterday, one of the Church's greatest athletes, who languishes and suffers not far from us, but who, from his couch of sickness and trial, finds courage and a voice to give his testimony to the glory and honour of the Church he so nobly serves. (Great cheers.) The struggle is necessary, as we have seen ; but what are the conditions of this struggle ? The first, of which I have no need to tell you, is courage. St. John the Evangelist says—" I write to you, young men, not that ye may be strong, but because ye are strong, and you have overcome the wicked one"— " Quia fortes estis et vicistis malignum." There are young men among you, many in this auditory, but to them especially it is that I address this word ; for if ever they should be tempted to fear or relax, I would say to them, look at those among us who have grown old and grey in the Church's service, and who have borne so many years the weight of the battle and the heat of the day's action —do as they have done, sustain the honour of their contest. (Bravo, bravo.) The next condi tion, more difficult—one that requires a longer breath than the first—is devotedness or constancy. You must be the friends, the devoted servants of the poor, the young, the ignorant, the little, the despised, the neglected—of those who suffer, of those even who are your adversaries. Let your devotedness to the cause enliven your life and your combats, and make a generous glow to circle in your veins, and from them to the Church's broadest arteries. And the third condition is patriotism. For you must not suppose that because you are to be devoted to this universal cause—this cause of the Church—you are not also to devote yourselves to true patriotism. But patriotism—oh, no, I am not come here to preach on that. I will say one single word on that, and that is—You have a coun try—know how to keep it. (Long and redoubled cheers.) Yes, you have everything that renders a country noble and dear to you. You shine in arts, perhaps not more than one country equals yours. You have noble temples, and to the honour and renown of your people be it said, they press into them in crowds, so that in seeing them, I could but say to myself—Happy Belgians, you are Catholic to the very marrow of your bones, and to the very heart within you. You own the noblest names of Europe's race. You have splendid edifices, monuments of your municipal liberties, in every town in the kingdom. Your industry and commerce are flourishing. You have an instinc tive force of generous courage which helps you to combat oppression, and to. rise above what saps other nations. Well, I say that all this constitutes a "fatherland." (Renewed cheers.) Notwith standing, I was told the other day that Belgium was called in a journal (not a bad journal either) the " sink " of other nations. The writer, I believe, meant by that expression that there were in the depths of this country— and where shall we go not to find what I am going to state ?—there are cases of disgraceful misery, hidden crime, and wanton profligacy in every large town and in every coun try. And truly, indeed, enough I saw this morning in passing your glorious Hotel de Ville, that admi rable monument of your civil enfranchisement. I entered a small street called, I am sorry to say, Hotel de Ville-street. My eyes met a wily (astrieuse) inscription on the wall of a large house, with these words, " Association Libdrale ; Union Constitutionelle." Underneath was a public house, whose sign was " Hell." (Great sensation.) And this, gentlemen, close under that beautiful golden statue of the glorious Archangel Michael subduing the devil—an image so popularly asso ciated with Belgium and all its soarenirs. No, no ; there is no society, let it be ever so select, so good I —there is 110 yewl o'er f3O large and beautifully built, but has its foul corner and its sewer or sentive. I saw something of this this morning, and there are many others I have not seen. Now, it is precisely because we love our native country better than any one else, we ought, gentlemen, out of love to our country, to consecrate all our powers, and all our strength, to prevent such spots from existing on its soil. We must will and work to make it pure, fair, glorious, and unblemished. Be courageous in the struggle, and, above all, let these things be prominent in your actions—devo tion, patriotism, work, and knowledge. Oh, I would that Catholics were the most devoted and laborious of all men ! It is from my heart that I counsel all to work. Work is the very element of our nature—it is the honour of our families—the secret of our success ; and it alone can secure us a happy future. Believe me, the man who fears not to work has already the elements of happiness at his command. But I will observe en passant, in order to work well, young men, you must learn to rise early. I promise you that that nation who would consent to rise at six o'clock and go to bed at ten, and work eight hours a day, would be the first nation in - the world, and all the nations of the earth would envy her. I must add yet another condition of the struggle, which is intelligence and prudence. And here again I remind you that these are the words of the Holy Spirit who says, " Have the innocence of doves with the prudence of serpents." And since we have the example of the Lord of Life to strengthen us, I will add, let us have, in addition, moderation, gentleness, and humility, though the feeling of the present day is to brand these virtues with the name of weak nesses. Yes, gentlemen, the gentleness of lambs. Yes, the simplicity of the dove in the heart, with the prudence of the serpent, and never to give your head to the enemy ; by head I mean your principles, your strength. Reflect : to give all that up to the enemy, is to be a traitor. We must act with the intelligence that the position, the society, the age, the necessities of the day and hour require, as God and the Gospel demand. (To be continued.) GENERAL BUTLER'S ETHICS. (From the New York Nation.) General Butler has won a good deal of reputation as a lawyer and administrator, but nobody gave him credit for much ability as an ethical philosopher. To this title, however, he has fully vindicated his claim in a remarkable conversation reported in the Boston Advertiser of Sept. 4. He there laid it down hat, as the United States Five-twenty Bonds are not on their face payable in gold, but only in " dollars," the Government ought only to pay them in paper currency, as it pays its other creditors. This, says the General, "is the exact letter of the bond." That is, as the bonds are a promise simply to pay so many " dollars," and do not mention what kind of dollars, and as the Government can call anything it pleases "dollars," by means of an act of Con gress, it may fairly pay its bond creditors either in paper or old iron or cast-off army-blankets or damaged biscuit, or any other commodity that it • may want to get rid of. To be sure, General Butler recommends paper with promises to pay printed on it ; but then, as this paper would, under such cir cumstances, be worth absolutely nothing, we take the liberty of amending this proposition and sug gesting that they get condemned stores, of which there must be large quantities still on hand. " One Hundred Dollars," for instance, might be painted in big letters on old uniform coats, and when a bond of this nominal value was sent in for redemption, ,he blanket could be handed over the counter to the holder. Of course he would grumble, but we could tell him that we never said we would pay him in gold. " But I under- stood," he would reply, " that you would pay me in the current money of the world ; if I had thought that by dollars' you meant anything you chose to call a dollar, I never would have lent you the money." Then we would laugh at him and "chaff" him pleasantly for his simplicity. But not only, according to General Butler, are we not bound to pay the bonds in gold, by the letter of the law, but are not bound in morals to pay them in gold. This may seem a hard saying to simple minds; but nothing can be plainer. The foreign holders of the bonds bought them as a pure money-making transaction, and not with the view of aiding us in our great struggle ; so also the native holders bought them at a tremendous dis count, and with a view to profit, or, as General Butler terms it, "an eye to the proceeds." Now, to make a debt or other contract binding on the conscience, it must be based on affection. In old times it had to be based on a valuable considera tion ;" but those hard, wicked old times have passed away, and nobody is now bound to pay what he _ . owes unless his creditors can show that they trust him out of love, and from a desire to see him get on in the world. As very few creditors can prove anything of the kind, the legal recognition of General Butler's theory would release vast numbers of worthy men from very disagreeable burdens. What is most encouraging and delightful about this whole conversation is the illustration it affords of the amount of wisdom and high morality the nation has to draw on whenever it finds itself in difficulties in the summer season, when its great men have retired to muse and hoe potatoes on their paternal acres. If the Democrats get up a repu diation cry in the West—and there begins to be some fear that the pill, as they present it, may prove attractive to the masses out there—all the Republicans have to do is to send down a re porter to General Butler, or the like of him, and in five minutes a bolus is produced, made not simply, like poor Pendleton's, of common low in terest or convenience, but of principles of pure justice, and the Democrats have forthwith to hide their diminished heads. His scheme is really, as compared to General Butler's, not fit to be seen. He recommends repudiation, in a brutal, coarse way, as a pleasant thing to do ; while the Eastern statesman shows that it would not only be pleasant, but right. In fact, Mr. Pendleton proposes gar rotting, while General Butler recommends the scientific and innocent " drop game" as a means of getting over our financial difficulties. As the " drop game" may not be familiar to all our readers, we may explain that it is a mode of raising money occa sionally resorted to by gentlemen in New York who find their credit low in the regular market. They put a counterfeit fifty-dollar bill in a pocket-book first, and drop it in front of some innocent-looking countryman whom they see coming, and just as he approaches them pretend to discover it and pick it up in his presence. They open it ; find a fifty-dollar bill in it, aro too honest to keep it, have no time to advertise it, as the cars are just going ; and propose to the coun tryman that he should keep it, advertise it, and restore it to the owner, advancing the finder ten dollars, or thereabouts, in the meantime, out of the anticipated reward. This he does, and the finder goes off content. Now in this case no cheat is practised on the countryman ; nobody forces him to take a strange pocket-book with fifty dollars in it. He advances the ten dollars " with an eye to the proceeds ;" the finder does not tell him the fif ty dollar bill is a good one ; he runs his own risk and meets with his reward ; nobody is to blame but him self. Under the New York law the perpetrator of the game is, we regret to say, punishable ; but in these days of grogress let us trust he will not long remain so. Two or three more " jumps forward," and the poor fellows will find their devices acknow ledged by society as a fair mode of levying the tri bute which simplicity owes to smartness. The life of Jefferson Davis is to be wri Richmond gentleman. Mr. Greeley received from Mr. Bonner 5,000 dollars for his story of a busy life. The " Giraffe,:flunters," by Captain Mayne Reid, is now ready at all libraries. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—With the ad. vane° of autumn the mornings and evenings become chilly, stop the late free action of the skin, and give rise to dis orders of the lungs, liver, or bowels under such circum stances prevention shou'd be looked to as well as cure. The first sympiom of cough, disturbed stomach, or deranged bowels should be removed by judicious doses of these pills. Tho very finest alteratives, which act with cer tainty and success on any organ iu which faulty action exists, whether it be perceptible or unknown. Acting as gentle aperients, Holloway's pills strengthen the whole system, increase the appetite, improves the digestion, regulates the bowels, exhilirate the spirits, and expedite the circulation of pure, healthy blood. PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB. The closing trip of the above club came off on Saturday last, the P.W.Y.C. being the only club that has essayed to close their season - with a sail down the river. The ren dezvous was Blackwall at 2.30, and shortly before three the worthy Commodore, Cecil Long, Esq., led the way in the Eva, 22 tons (Messrs. W. L. Lowe and E. S. Bulmer) He was accompanied by Mr. Low, the vice, and Mr. Sad- Her, the rear-commodore, besides other gentlemen, and after a sail with a fair wind arrived off Purfleet, where dinner took place at the Royal Hotel. Here the number of guests was increased, and Mr. Long took the chair, sup ported by Mr. Sadlier, the rear; Mr. Percival Turner, the treasurer; Messrs. F. if. Lemann, G. M ss, E. Kuibbs, Webster, J. W. Benson, R.. Bird, Goo. Legg, &c., faced by Mr. Lowe, the vice -commodore, who was supported by Messrs. A. Turner, Boys, &e. After the removal of the cloth, the usual loyal, patriotic, and complimentary toasts wero given. The offi•_!ers of the club were congratulated upon the successful season they had closed, and future greater prospects wore held out. A convivial evening showed the interest taken by the members, and the bond of fellowship and kindly feeling that has always existed is this club appeared stronger than ever. SALE OF EXMOOR COBS AND PONIES. On Wednesday last the annual sale of cobs and ponies, the property of Mr. Robert Smith, and bred at his stud farm, Exmoor Forest, which is situate from 1,000 to 1,200 feet above the sea, took place at Fielden's Repository, Bris tol, when a large number of breeders and other persons who took an interest in the sale, were in attendance. The amount realised for the 42 lots was about 1,000 guineas, of which the highest price, 78 gs was given for Forest Queen, a bay mare, height 14h liin, rising 5 yrs, by Nutshell ; 54 gs was obtained for Nutshell, a dark bay horse, height 14h lie, rising 5 yrs, by Nutshell ; Prima Donna, a ches nut mare, height 14h 3in, rising 4 yrs, was knocked down for 40 guineas; Edgar, a chesnut horse, height 14 hands, rising 5 years, by The Gem, was sold for 35 gs. Sambo, a black horse, height 14 hands, 5 yrs old, by Young Port, fetched 32 gs. ; Tomboy, a bay horse, height 14h 3M, rising 5 yrs, by Nutshell, and Bob Logic a dark bay horse, height 14h 3in, rising 4 yrs, by Silver Locks, 30 gs. each; Jessie, a grey mare, height 13h 3in, 7 yrs old, by Nutshell ; Heather Bell, a grey maro, height 14h lin, rising 5 yrs, by Young Port, and Telegram, a grey horse, height 14h lie, 5 yrs old, by Nutshell, were disposed of for 29 gs. each. Joey, a dark bay horse, height 14h 2in, by Young Port, and Billihong, a chestnut horse, height 14h 2in, by Bald-faced Stag, both went for 28 gs. The price of Friar Tuck, a brown bay horse, height 13h 2in, rising 5 yrs, by The Gem, was 27 gs. ; of Alonzo, a chestnut horse, height 15h lin, rising 4 yrs, by Swalcliffe, and Lillie Bell, a grey mare, height 13h 3fin, rising 5 yrs, by Artist, 26 gs. each ; of Artichoke, a bay horse, height 14h 2in, 6 yrs old, by Sir Percy Shafton ; of Tho Count, a bay horse, height 14h 2in, rising 5 yrs, by Artist, of Free and Easy, a bay maro, height 14h 3in, 5 yrs old, by The Comet ; and of Sir Colin, a brown horse, height 15h lin, rising 4 yrs, by Swalcliffe, 25 gs. each; of Silver Locks, a dark bay horse, height 15h lie, rising 4 yrs, by Silver Locks, 24 gs. ; of Pickwick, a chestnut, 11h 2in, rising 5 yrs, by Bowstring, 23 gs. ; of Punchy Bay, a bay horse, height 13h 3in, rising 5 yrs, by Royal William, 20f gs. ; and of Forester, a brown bay horse, height 14h, 5 yrs old, by Young Port; and Brunette, a brown mare, height 14h 3in, rising 5 yrs, by Royal William, 20 gs. The other lots averaged about 16 or 17 gs. each. Mr. Henry Ellis was the auctioneer. SHARKS ON THE ENGLISH COAST. The sudden appearance of sharks on the English coast is somewhat alarming. The capture of no less than five sharks within the last week has come to our knowledge —ono at Margate, two at Hastings, and two at Folkestone. Four of these wore the Porbeagle shark (Squalus cornubi cus), the fifth a Thresher or Fox shark (Carcharias vulpes), a rare and most interesting species. This fish was sent up by J. Ledger, Esq., of the Customs, Folkestone, to Mr. B. Buckland, who is making a cast of it for his Museum of Economic Fish Culture at the Royal Horticultural Gar dens. Its weight is newt., and its total length 13ft. 6in. The tail of this specimen is very remarkable ; it is some what of the shape of a grass scythe and measures no less than 6ft. 10in. The Thresher is said to be a great enemy of the whale. Although these five sea monsters have been caught in mackerel and herring nets at some distance from the shore, yet we cannot help warning bathers, especially at the above-named watering places, that there are sharks about. We advise them, therefore, to be very careful, and especially not to bathe in deep water from boats, for no one can tell where a wandering and hungry shark may suddenly appear, and there are probably more of those savage fish still roaming about. —Land and Water. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICII—SATunDAT. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 66s . to 72s ; red aittood (1‘ (weighing 631 b), 58s to 641 per qr. Flour, 468 Od to 476 0 , por sack. New barley, 38s to 44s per qr. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 70s to 76s ; old red, 66s to 71s ; new white, 66s to 74s ; new red, 60s to 69s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 38s ; new, 27s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 52s ; new, 46s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 505 to 52s per sack. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. - New white wheat, — 688 to 76s ; new red, 60s to 70s ; old, white, 68s to 75s ; old red, 65s to 70s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 37s to 44s per qr.; grinding, 34s to 385 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 37s ; new, 26s to 31s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 45s to 51s ; new, 46s to 52s p©r 38 stone. Fine flour, 53s ; seconds, 45s to 48s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. White wheat, from 64s to 72s ; red, 60s to 66s per 3 6 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 41s per qr. ; grinding, 35s to 37s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 30s per 21 stone• Beans, new, 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to 68s. Flour, 48s to 50s Der sack of 2801bs. Rye, 42s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australis. and New Zealand, via Southamptos.....oot. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Oct. 14. Ditto, via Panama Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video ...Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ...... , . Oct. 4. Cape of Good Hope. Asoension. and St. Helena Oct. 23. China. Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 3. Ditto, via Marseilles ..• • • Sept, 27. Falkland Islands Oct. 4? Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 27. India. via Southampton Oct. 3. Ditto, via Marseil es Sept. 27. Malta, Egypt, tto. Oct. 3. Ditto, Marseilles Sept. 27. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton DIU ), via Hared lea Oct. 14. Newfoundland Portugal Oct. 4. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet -• • Oct. 3. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) . . Ditto, by Canadian packet Oct. 4. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerin Oct. 3. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cub t and Mexico ...Sept. 28. Bahamas, via New York Oct. 9, Bermuda, via Halifax The late Lord Canning, Governor-General of India, alluded to the services of John Cracroft Esq., C.B.—the subject of a paper in our last issue—in the following words : Minute of the Governor-General of India regarding the services of civil officers and others during the Mutiny and Rebellion, July 2, 1859. signed—Canning. Paragraph 16 : —" It is now my duty to recommend to the favourable consideration of her Majesty's Government the following officers :—Mr. John Cracroft Wilson, Judge of Moradabad. 1 name this gentleman first, because he has the enviable distinction of having by his own obstinate courage and perseverance saved more Christian lives than any man in India. He did this at the repeatedly imminent peril of his own life. He has since left the ser vice of the Indian Government, and is retired to Nov Zealand, whither, I respectfully hope, that the favour of the Crown may follow him." ly a Births. CHAmmt—On the 27th inst., at Upper Norwood, the wife of Major F. E. A. Chamier, Deputy-Commission in Oude, of a daughter. CAZENOYE—On the 28th inst., at 6, Beaufort-gardens, S.W., the wife of Fred. Cazonove, Esq., of a daughter. PLUMBE—On the 26th inst., at 3, Alie-place, E., the wife of Mr. H. M. Plumbe, of twin sons. Marriages. LOTETT CRISP— On the 26th inst., at Norwood Church Middlesex, Win. H. Lovett, Esq., of Sandringham gardens, Ealing, to Eliza, youngest daughter of T. CrisP, Esq., of Avenue Lodge, Southall. WESTLEY— CARTER—On the 26th inst., at Chiswick Old Church, Frederick Westley, of Old Bond-street, to Ann, second daughter of William Carter, Esq., of Cromwell House, Turuham-green. Deaths. CLARK —On the 26th inst., at 44, Belsize-square, W. Clark, Esq., aged 49. FOWLER—On the 26th inst., at Western House, Great Marlow, Bucks, Charles Fowler, Esq., J.P., aged 75. HALsTED—On the 27th inst., at Blackheat h, Lawrence U. Halsted, eldest son of Rear-Admiral G. A. Halsted , aged 18. NAIL—On the 27th inst.,Samuel J. Nail, Esq., of 2, Fish street, one of the Governors of Dulwich College, aged 71. --- London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TuE SUN (Mee, No. 112. Strand, iu the Precinct of the Se coy, in the CetultY of Middlesex.—Monday, September 30, 1867. y .