The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

PASTORAL LETTER OF THE ARCH BISHOP OF WESTMINSTEX Reverend and dear Brethren, aad dear Children is Jesus Christ,—Once more the season of Lent ca lls us to repentance. One more year, with all its sins of thought, word, deed, and omission has been recorded against us. The voice of the Church, or rather the voice of our Divine Redeemer, calls us to the absolution of His most Precious Blood, and therefore to the sorrow and the works of penitnce. So gi.eat is His compassion, and so abundant the redemption Ile has wrought for us, that to every one, howsoever fallen, He offers a full forgiveness. All that he requires for the validity of our absolu tionis that we should come to him with a sorrow for the past, and a purpose to sin no more. And inasmuch as they who have fallen into mortal sin • have thereby lost both the sanctityng grace of the Jloly Ghost and the gift of supernatural charity, • all that He requires of them is the sorrow which springs from faith and hope. These two remain after charity is departed. The light of faith still draws us with desire of pardon to the feet of Jesus Christ. Such is the imperfect contrition which, through the infinite compassion of God and the infinite power of the most Precious Blood suffices for the validity of our absolution. Let none, therefore, despair of forgiveness, or stand afar off as if afraid to return. "Him that cometh to •me I will not cast out." " If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow ; and if they be red as crimson, they shall be as white as wool." There is only one sin which shall never be forgiNeen : the sin against the Holy Ghost; because it is the sin against the spirit of penance, against the Absolver of sinners—and therefore the sin which is not repented of. For all other sins there is pardon, full, free, sovereign. Howsoever stubborn, inveterate, and reiterated the sin may be, there is absolution. For leprosy in all its types and stages, there is perfect cleans ing:, Only let no soul turn away from the voice which is now calling us to peace, or persist in voluntary exile from God. It may be, some will hear these words who for years have forsaken the piety of their childhood ; who have for long years neglected both confession and communion; and Easter after Easter have hid themselves from the warning voice of the Church and of our Divine Saviour. Let this Lent be their resurrection from the dead, and their reconciliation with God. 44Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection ; in these the second death hath no power." He has " passed from death to life." " Old things are passed away ; all things are made new." Nothing but the resurrection to eternal life will exceed in blessedness the calm confidence of hope which sustains the penitent after his ab solution, and the peace and sweetness restored to the heart by the revived conciousness of union with God and with His Kingdom. To this then you are called, whosoever you are; who by your past sins have long been cast out of the presence of God. " Harden not your hearts, as .in the provocation :" but open them to the love of God, which is patiently and tenderly upbraid ing you with those words : " You will not come to me that you may have life.' Every year, as Lent comes round, many who have long been in mortal sin are raised again ; many who were long lost are brought home to the fold. So it will be now. The work of grace is among you, and many will arise from the dead and live for ever. In the last Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Low Sunday included, 54,000 persons came to confession for their Easter duties. But the number of our flock is fourfold, or more than threefold at last. After casting off the largest number for the aged and the sick, and for children under the age of reason, there will yet remain as many more who ought to come to confession and communion at Easter next. Rev. and dear Brethren, I know that your zeal and charity is always at work to restore the negligent, the careless, the fallen, the outcast, to God and to His Church. You will labour this Lent as before, encouraged by the sensible and visible growth of devotion and piety which, through your labour, is to be found year by year advancing in your flocks. And you, dear children in Jesus Christ, who have hitherto been faithful to the precept of the Church and to the Spirit of GOd in your conscience, persevere as before. Let this Lent be a time of increased piety and charity. The obligation to confess your sins once a year is light to you, who gladly do so month by month, or week by week. The preceipt of Easter Com munion is a consolation to you, who count your weekly or almost daily communion to be your highest joy on earth. This law of the Church is a sweet obligation, which binds you to the peace of. God and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Labour all you can to bring others to the same peace and joy. If in this Lent each were to bring one soul to the confessional, it would be a noble harvest of grace. The love of our neighbour is the test of our love to God. The seven spiritual and the seven corporal works of mercy are the fruit of our love to Jesus. " Love is the fulfilling of the law." The law of nature in the conscience, and of re velation in the Ten Commandments, and of grace in the Sermon on the Mount, in the life of Jesus, and the Spirit of God in the heart—all are fulfilled in the love of our neighbour : " for the charity of God is poured out into our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us." And that charity is the one source of a twofold love, which fulfils the two tables and the two precepts—the love of God with all our heart, and of our neighbour as ourselves. The whole law " is comprised in this word : thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ;" for this two fold eperation of charity, though distinct, is in divisible. It is the same affection, the same energy, the same grace. " If any man say, I love God and hath his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not ?" " He that hath the sub stance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his compassion against him, how cloth the charity of God abide in him ?" If our hearts are at enmity with our neighbour, they cannot be in friendship with God. If they are cold towards men, they cannot be fervent towards our Divine Redeemer. If we are hard, selfish, unsympathising ; if we are soft, luxurious, self-indulgent ; if we lavish much on ourselves and refuse to the wants of others ; if we live softly and are careless of the privations of the poor ; if we never deny ourselves and never lay to heart the wants of those who are in need, then certainly the love of God is not in us. Love to our neigh bour is the pledge that we are in a state of grace. " We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren." How is it that charity is invested with such great prero gatives ? Why has our Divine Lord made love to others the best of our salvation ? It is because charity is the nature of God Himself, and there fore the greatest conceivable perfection. " God is charity." The untreated essence is love. It is the character of God. Infinite Love is God. All the words, works, and operations of God are love. He is intrinsically love, and His operations ex ternally are prompted by love. Creation, Re demption, Providence, His whole Kingdom in Heaven and Earth, in all its manifold operations, all are charity. And again, in order to our perfection, the charity of God is poured forth into our hearts in Baptism. When the Holy Ghost was given, both the created and the uncreated charity were infused into us. The LTncreated Charity, that is, the Holy Ghost, made us his temple ; the created charity is the third and greatest, of the three theological virtues. God, in our Baptism, made us to be His children ; and the formal cause of our adoption is the Spirit of the Son " whereby we cry, abba, Father :" that is, the love of God, from which flows, as heat from light, the love of our brethren. The law was therefore written in our hearts, - and- fulfilled. as,- , it -was written. The command to love God and our neigh bours was imposed when this twofold grace of charity was infused. And this love has a two fold measure : towards God, the whole heart ; towards our neighbour, the love of self—not that love of self which is irrational, narrow; and selfish, but the rational love of the soul conscious of its own dignity in the image of God ; of its own destiny to the Kingdom of God ; of its own duty, the knowledge and love of God ; of its own price, the Blood of Jesus Christ. Such a love teaches us first to be unselfish, self-denying, self-chasten ing ; to count all things to be loss that we may win Christ ; to cast all away, the right hand or the right eye, that we may enter into life everlasting. This love of self subdues and subordinates self to the law of God and His kingdom. It makes our own sanctification and salvation the first thing, vital and paramount. Such also is the love of our neighbour. It is the love of the image of God and of the presence of God in him : the desire of his sanctification and dignity, of his perfection and salvation ; and, subordinately to this, the de sire of his welfare and happiness in every kind. The divine love of self casts out self, and perfects the love of our neighbour. The selfish love of self excludes our neighbour and casts out the love of God. "He," therefore, " that loveth his neighbour, hath fulfilled the laws. And it is by this that charity perfects the soul. A soul conformed to the law of God is perfect. But a soul animated by charity is conformed to the law of God. It is more ; it is a law to itself. As the conscience is a law to itself in the order of nature, the soul governed by charity is a law to itself in the order of grace. St. Augustine there fore says,Ama, et fac quod vis—" Love God, and do what you will :" because the will is one with God's will, and the balance which determines the will is charity. Pondus voluntatis amor. A good will is the perfection of the whole soul. It is to the spiritual being what symmetry is to the body, or fruit to the tree, or bloom to the flower. It is its ultimate and full perfection : its whole nature in all its expansion and beauty. But a good will is a will instinct with charity, and united to God as to the source from which it flows, by which it is continually replenished. Charity therefore per fects all the powers of the soul, and all the graces of the spirit. Faith and hope are barren without charity. Faith informed by charity is living, powerful, and fruitful; and all the affections of the soul are harmonised and sustained in unity by charity, which is for that reason the vinculum perfectionis, the bond of perfection, the cincture and the clasp by which all gifts, powers, and graces are held together in supernatural order and cpmpleteness. Again : love is the fulfilling of the law, because charity and sanctity are inseparably united. With faith, hope, and charity, the grace of sanctity is infused into the soul in baptism. One mortal sin extinguishes sanctity and charity alike ; only faith and hope remain. Charity and sanctity co me and go together. But sanctity is the fulfilling of the law. And it is by charity that sanctity fulfils it. " The law is not made for the just man," as the Apostle says, " but for the unjust and disobedient." The grace of sanctity has higher promptings, in stincts, aspirations of its own, and the heart informed by charity and conformed to the will of God becomes a law to itself. Such is St. John's meaning where he says, " Every one that is of God doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." That is, the grace of his regeneration and of sanctity abides in him, and he obeys it. A higher law is laid upon him. His second nature is nobler, and more constraining than the first ; and he can not sin, it would be a moral contradiction, a violation of his new and superior nature, and a separation from the power and will of God. Such is the effect of charity in the soul ; it is the per fection of sanctity; that is, it is the grace which distinguishes Saints from ordinary Christians. As sanctity distinguishes true Christians from spe cious Christians, so charity distinguishes Saints from others who, nevertheless, are holy. The heroic death of martyrs, and the heroic life of those who give themselves to the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, derive their perfection from charity. It is the love of God, working by the love of their neighbour, which elevates them to heroism. St. Camillus of Lellis, St. Vincent of Paul, St. Joseph Calasanctius, St. Peter Claver, laying down their lives daily for the sick, for pri soners, for little children, or for negro slaves, are proofs, and they are examples to us. This is the service our Divine Lord is asking of us at this time and in this land. He died for the body and for the soul: and around us, in body and soul, His members are perishing. Poverty, disease, misery, and sin, are devouring both old and young. He is calling you to this service, each one in your place, and ac cording to the measure of your power—and this Lent calls you once again with a more emphatic and articulate voice. The love of the soul to God is known to God alone. Only He that seeth in secret can tell who they are who are united with Him by a direct per ception of this interior union of the heart with Him. We can only know it by its fruits, and its chief fruit is love to our neighbour. Our Divine Lord has made this love the sign of His advent and of His true Church. " That they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Again : " By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples, if you have love one for one another." The brotherly love of Christians was this bond of their visible unity ; a supernatural fact among men and nations always in division and in conflict. And this brotherly love is the source of all mutual sympathy, kindness, merciful ness, forbearance, generosity, forgiveness, meek ness, joy in each other's works, desire for each other's success, jealousy for each other's welfare, happiness, good name. It casts out contention, strife, bitterness, suspicions, rash judgments, de tractions, with all resentments, estrangements, enmities, jealousies, personal dislikes, whether in dulged only in thought or uttered by whisperings or by audible words. Search yourselves well this Lent, dear Children in Jesus Christ, and see if there be upon you or within you any of these plague-spots, against brotherly love, and the charity you owe to your neighbour. The outward schisms which wound charity all men can see, but the inward schisms which are also mortal to the soul God alone can see. They are often secret and undetected by ourselves. Weigh well your words, and examine your thoughts and hearts. Let nothing contrary to charity take root in them. This is the " root of bitterness," which if it spring up will trouble you, and " many be defiled." It is certain that in the latter days faith will be low and charity will grow cold ; and the chill of charity is the sign of the diminution of faith. " When the Son of man cometh shall he find, think' you, faith on the earth ?" " And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many will grow cold." If there be divisitms of heart and coldness among brethren, this prophecy will be fulfilled in us. The token of the Disciples of Jesus will be darkened, and our works will wither from the root. Love " one another with the charity of brotherhood." "Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered Himself for us." If Christians do not love one another how can they endure these words of the Apostle : " We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren?" The precept of the Sacred Heart would be our sentence of death. At the beginning of Lent, our offerings are yearly made for the maintenance of the two orphanages of North Hyde and Norwood ; and this beautiful and vital work of charity appeals to you this year with a far more persuasive and constrain ing power. Its claims on your compassion are re doubled. The sheltering and training of innocent, outcast, helpless, fatherless, motherless children is among the highest works of Christian love, and the service dearest to the Sacred Heart of our Divine Redeemer. He has said, by the Prophet, " Leave thy fatherless children : I will make them live ;" that is, I will provide. He can provide, by direct miracle of power, if so He wills ; but mira cles are not the ordinary course of His providence. The course of the world is in His guidance. Your hearts are under the sway of His grace, and your hands minister in His stead. He has bestowed on you the dignity to be His almoners to the poor, and the foster-fathers and foster-mothers of His little ones. And a great reward will be upon those who save one of these little ones. Your angel guardian's will watch with a more tender care over you and your children, in the measure in which you watch over the baptismal innocence, and the Christian training of these poor desolate children. This work is indeed necessary at all times ; for every year the number of children left orphans is great. It is far beyond our means of support. The necessity of finding the means to provide shelter and Christian education for these destitute children, is one of our most embarrassing and painful duties. By the private charity of individuals many are either wholly or in part supported. Many still are left for want of means in the hands of those who cannot or will not bring them up in their own re ligion. But this, which is always a heavy task, is made far more heavy now by two causes. First, the cholera of last year has left some hundreds of Catholic children without father or without mother, and some without either. We have laboured to the utmost to provide for them. A fixed proportion out of the Diocesan Fund raised last year has been given, in a large number of cases, towards their maintenance. We appealed in the beginning of Advent to your charity, ear nestly inviting you, as many as were able, to un dertake the support of a child. If each one of you to whom God has given a sufficiency of means would undertake the maintenance of a child for three or five years ; or if each household or family would unite together to give or to gather, in the course of the year, the amount necessary for the support of an orphan, our needs would to a great extent be met. In answer to the last appeal many were moved to offer each to maintain a child ; and we have confidence that many more will hereafter undertake the same work of mercy. The other cause which has increased the num ber of destitute children upon our hands is a happier one. The Guardians of the Poor have begun to yield to the just and Christian claims of Catholic parents, that their children shall be transferred from the Workhouse Schools, where the education must of necessity be Protestant, to certified Catholic Schools of our own. The Guardians of the Strand Union were the first to fulfil this act of equity and charity. They resolved almost unanimously to transfer all chil dren who should be applied for to our Schools at North Hyde and Norwood. They have faithfully fulfilled their promise ; and we are bound to render to- them a public acknowledgment of their just and equitable conduct. A considerable num ber both of boys and of girls have been removed from this one Union School ; of which, in passing, it is right to say, that it is a well-provided and well-conducted Institution, carefully and kindly managed ; and wanting only in that which it is not in the power of its Managers to provide, a Catholic education for Catholic children. Many very touching evidences were shewn by these poor children of the joy with which they found them selves among companions and under the care of those of their own faith. ' The Board of Guardians, St. Luke's, Chelsea, has also manifested the same kindly and just dis position. Other Boards, again, have consented to transfer particular children on the application of parents or kinsmen ; others are deliberating on the course they will pursue ; and some, of whom we refrain from speaking till a future and more fitting time, have not as yet learned the meaning of the words, " Whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also so to them." The irresistible advance of a more equitable public opinion, and the certain course of legislation here after, will before long put an end to a grievance and an injustice under which we have so long suffered, and appealed in vain. The day come, and that soon, when those who have refused to transfer Catholic children to Catholic schools, and have mis-used the power which the law per mits, to bring up Catholic children as Protestants, will desire that their past conduct may be for gotten by all men, and that they may be able to forget it themselves. The number then of orphan and destitute chil dren has been much increased by both these causes : by cholera, and by the liberation of many from workhouse schools. For the former, little is ever to be obtained except from voluntary charity: for the latter, as yet, the allowance for each child is not sufficient to cover its support. A large sum is therefore required to meet the entire cost of maintenance in the former case, and the partial cost in the latter. The Diocesan Fund formed last June has enabled us to make a small grant for each child ; but for the full amount required we must still appeal to your generosity and self-denial. S. Helen's Orphanages at Brentwood and Turn ham Green have been most generously founded in this year : the former to contain about 50 boys, and the latter 20 or 30 girls. The Orphanages at North Hyde and at Nor wood have already with great promptness re ceived. many of these poor children. We need not speak of the efficiency of these our two chief institutions for boys and for girls. They were never more efficient, as we are glad to attest from personal inspection. But they are not adequate to receive the number of children who will be thrown upon our charity. In the course of the last year or two the school at North Hyde has been en larged ; and in the course of this year a further enlargement will be made by the outlay of a thousand pounds from the Diocesan Fund. For the reception of girls, S. Mary's House at Walthamstow has been opened, under the Sisters of Penance of the Order of S. Dominic, from Stone. The house is large enough to hold from fifty to a hundred children. Another house has been opened at Hampstead, under the Sisters of Providence of the Immaculate Conception, who at this time con duct so efficiently the prisons for women in Belgium and in Rome. For boys, the Industrial School at Walthamstow being insufficient, a treaty has been entered into for a capacious and adequate house; but for two months those who have the disposal of it have per petually delayed to complete the agreement, and now have finally refused. We trust, however, that another house will be found within the next few weeks. To those who so generously made their offerings to the Diocesan Fund last June, it will be accept able to know that, in addition to what has been above stated, grants for three years have been made to ten of the most populous districts of the Diocese, by which ten additional Schools will, without delay, be opened. Such then, dear children in Jesus Christ, is the work of charity to which we call you for this Lent. It is a work of true, compassionate, Christian love to the least and the weakest of the members of Jesus Christ. And yet, though they be little and weak in the sight of men, in the sight of the Angels of God they are the children of Him whose face they always behold. You will be " fufilling the law " purely and acceptably in his sight, and con forming your will to His will, to the perfection and santification of your own hearts, by working to gether with Him for their salvation. Every act of charity will have a double effect upon yourselves. It will expiate the temporal pains due to your sins after the absolution of the most Precious Blood ; it will measure the reward which is laid up for you in the Kingdom of God. All works of penance expiate in this world the temporal pain still due both to mortal and to venial sins. Fasting, self-denial, austerities, self chastisement, the severity to self which the Apostle calls " indignation " and " revenge ;" all secret mortification of the body, with its senses, and of the soul, with its disorderly affections ; the little unknown privations by which the heart, and mind, and will are subdued and chastened—all anticipate and cancel somewhat of our inevitable debt. The gaining of indulgences obtains direct remission. But the gaining them to give away in spiritual alms gains more, both by the act of piety and the act of charity. It is charity towards God which prompts us to gain them, and charity towards our neighbour which prompts us to give them away. So every act of charity both sanctifies and expiates. And your compassion on these little ones, and your self-denial for their sakes, will go up with your works of penance, and prevail with especial power for the remission of what is still due to the just Judge of all. The other effect of every alms you give to these poor children is the enlargement of your capacity THE SUN, LONDOS, TUESDAY EVEAING, MARCH 5 1867. for eternal bliss. It is of faith that charity is the measure of the soul for the vision of God. " God is charity ; and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him." This is true, even in this state of grace. Much more abundantly and intrinsically shall this be verified when God shall be " All in all." They that have loved most shall be most blissful, where all shall have his own capacity, some greater and some less, but all shall be full. They shall see God most intensely who have loved Him with the largest charity on earth. They shall be united to Him most intimately who have died to themselves, and have lived by the " life " which "is hidden with Christ in God." And your charity to these little children is the fruit of the supernatural life which God Himself has infused into you, and sustained by His own presence in your hearts, the earnest of your salva tion, the measure of your eternal bliss. We hereby grant to all the Faithful who shall devoutly say one Our Father and one Hail, Mary, in the presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacra ment, during the Forty Hours of this Lent, with the intention of promoting a faithful observance of the Easter duties, an Indulgence of forty days. "The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the charity of God, and the communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen." Given at Westminster, and appointed to be read in all Churches and Chapels of the Diocese on Quinquagesima Sunday, 1867. 014 HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster. W. A. JOHNSON, D.D., Secretary. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. A meeting of debenture holders in this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. F. Harrison was requested to take the chair. It was stated that the meeting was called without the assent of the Committee of Debenture holders. The CHAIRMAN said that the first meeting of debenture holders in this company was held on the 28th of Sept. last, at which Mr. Hodgson, the chair man at that meeting, congratulated the bondholders that the London, Chatham, and Dover Company's Bill for raising £1,000,000 of capital in priority of everything was rejected by the House of Lords in the last session. There was a general meeting of the company held at St. James's-hall, at which the debenture holders attended by request, and he warned the debenture holders at that meeting not to forego. their claims to priority over everything else. On the 26th of November the third and last meeting of debenture holders was called by the pre sent directors of the company at the Victoria sta tion, and the room was crowded to excess. At that meeting the proposal of the directors to raise £1,500,000 in priority to the claims of the deben ture holders was received with indignation, and they would not listen to anyproposition for raising money over their heads. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which a resolution was proposed by Mr. Price, seconded by Mr. Few, to the effect that the Committee of Debenture holders confer with the directors on the subject, to obtain power to investi gate the accounts of the company, and to report the result of their investigations to a future meeting of debenture holders. This was passed by an immense majority, there being only three dissentients. The debenture holders were still in want of the requisite information as to the affairs of the company. The Committee of debenture holders had conferred with the directors, and he presumed had investigated the affairs of the company, but the committee had not, up to the present moment, made any report to the debenture holders on the subject, neither had they called any meeting for the purpose. The chairman of the committee, Mr. Hodgson, had, in fact, refused to call a meeting of the debenture hol ders, or to consult with them as to what should be done. Two members of that committee, Mr. Broom hall and Mr. C. Harrison, had resigned in conse quence of the course adopted by the chairman and the other members of the committee. Mr. Hodgson, instead of consulting the great body of the deben ture holders, had published a scheme for releasing the company from.its difficulties similar in principle to that proposed by the directors, but instead of raising £1,500,000, as proposed by the directors, Mr. Hodgson propose I that the amount should be only £500,000, and had in a circular solicited assents to that proposition. The directors had stated in their report, recently. issued, that the only difference be tween their scheme and the committee's scheme was in degree, not in principle. It was true the latter proposed to remove the directors and appoint liqui dators, but he believed that the directors' scheme was much better than that proposed by the com mittee. A bill had been prepared by Mr. P r i ce , which, if carried out, would rectify the present s t a te keep the undertaking as a living and o g f o ing things and concern. Mr. PRICE explained that he would not have op posed the committee if they had acted in accordance with the resolution passed on Nov. 26 l ast. He was the mover of that resolution, and as a trustee for others he bad heard nething else to alter his views, and all h of e th debenture himself ehe( consulted re mained a si to the justice of their case. It was the duty of the committee to the ea me mind holders as have called a meeting of debenture holders, and submitted anyreport or scheme they thought proper. If the committee had done its duty, the directors would never have gone on with their bill. The directors' bill would come before a committee of the House of Commons on Thursday next. He thought that no committee could deal prop er l y w i t h t h e questions affecting the various rights and interests in the company. There was a mass of litigation going on which should be stopped, and a com petent tribunal should be appointed to deal with all the legal questions. He contended that they must first deal with the question of p r i or i t i es an d settle them before authorising any further money to be raised. He asked the meeting to approve " A Bill to transfer all pending litigation respecting the affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway , Company, and the adjudication of all matters aris ing out of the Acts constituting and defining the powers of the company, and out of the Acts of other companies over whose line the company now run, to the decision of a court of arbitration and appeal, especially instituted in that behalf, and for the preparation and settlement of a scheme to re lieve the company from its present embarrassment." He proposed that the court of arbitration should consist of one of the Chief Judges, assisted by two assessors, to settle the legal questions, and after having heard all the evidence to propound a scheme for raising the requisite f un ds, apportioning the several amounts to be raised by each section. Resolutions were passed to the effect that the priorities and cross rights of the various parties should be referred to a special tribunal for settle ment ; that the large body of debenture holders had never assented to the proposal in the directors' bill to raise money over th e i r h ea d s ; that a committee be appointed to promote the new bill and carry the resolutions of the meeting into effect, and that Mr. Powell, Mr. C. Price, Mr. J. Broomhall, Mr. C. Harrison, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Bateman be the committee, with power to add to their number. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. WEST CORNWALL. The half-yearly meeting of proprietors was held at Penzance on Saturday ; Mr. L. Vigurs in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the directors sought powers to enable them to bring to a final settlement an old land pur chase, and two or three other outstanding matters, and also to effect a conversion of the debenture debt of the company into debenture stock ; and when this was done there would be no further necessity for keeping the company alive. Unless some unforeseen circumstances occurred the shareholders might de pend for the next three years on a dividend of 21- per cent. ; in 1870 there would be an increase of £2,000 in the rent, and a further increase in 1873, and then they might calculate on 31 per cent. The line had now been opened for passenger and goods traffic on the broad gauge. The revenue account for the past half year showed a disposable balance of £5,006, of which £4,076 was available for division among the proprietors of original stock, and out of thin the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 21- per cent. per annum, leaving £174 to be carried forward. The report was adopted, the special powers sought by the directors were granted, and the retiring di rectors were re-elected. CENTRAL CORNWALL. The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at Camelford ; Mr. Gurney presided. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders on the prospects of the undertaking. A basis of ar rangement b_etween the Central Cornwall, the Lon don and South Western, and the broad gauge com panies had been agreed to, and Parliamentary sanc tion of the terms was being sought. In the mean time the London and South Western Company had matured arrangements for the working of this com pany's ides at 45 per cent. of the gross receipts, and the payment to this company of a rebate on certain portions of the traffic. A bill embodying these terms, and asking power to purchase or lease the lines of the Central Cornwall Company, also powers for the thorough working of the whole sys tem of the London and South Western Company, had been introduced. The bills were now before Parliament, and no doubt they would be passed. The report was adopted. LAUNCESTON AND SOUTH DEVON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Launceston on Friday; Col. Archer in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said the amount standing to the credit of re venue, if appropriated to dividend, would give £1 2s. 6d. per cent. ; but as the feeling which had for some time prevailed concerning railway securities had prevented the issue of more than a small amount of preference capital, the directors felt compelled to recommend that the revenue balance be applied to the payment of the outstanding claims ou capital account. The revenueaccountshowed that the gross receipts, excluding rebates, had been £3,431, of which one-half had gone to the South Devon Com pany for working the line. The rebates received were .£923. On the other side of the account £2,215 had been paid for interest on debentures and to bankers, and £l6l for other charges, leaving a ba lance of £854 in hand. The capital account showed a total expenditure of £234;676. The report was adopted, and the retiring directors were re-elccted. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE. The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from Jan. 1 to Feb. 24,.1867, amounted to £80,192, as against £78,241 for the same period of 1866. The propor tion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from Jan. 1 toFeb. 24 amounted to £5,496, as against £6,005 for the corresponding period of 1866, and the expenses to £3,097, as against £3,529. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the examiner, Mr. Frere, held a sitting at the House of Commons. The unopposed bill of the West Cork was found to have complied with the standing orders, and the unopposed bills of the Laugharne, the West Sussex Junction, and the Kilkenny Junction (various powers) were postponed until the 7th inst. Miscellaneous French News. (From the Correspondent of the Anylo-American Times.) PARIS, Feb. 28, 1867. The grand ball in honour of the birthday of Washington took place on the 22d instant, at the Grand Hotel, and was largely and brilliantly at tended. The gentlemen who formed the committee of management proved most effective stewards, and one and all obtained applause for the able manner in which the arrangements were carried out. Their names were—Colonel Hoffman, Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Emmet, Mr. Munroe, Mr. Phalen, Mr. Heard, Mr. Van Brugen, Mr. Bowles, Mr. Evans, Mr. Lamson, Mr. Nicolay, Mr. Richards, Mr. Camac, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Tucker. The ball was given in the dining hall and sitting rooms of the Grand Hotel, which were tastefully decorated with the flags of America and France, and further adorned with two large portraits of Washington, surrounded with ever greens and flowers. The corridors were lined with arl2er-vitae, cedar, and camellias, which had a pleasing and beautiful effect. The supper was elegant and recherche, and much appreciated by the numerous guests. Many of the most distinguished visitors, both of America and of Europe, honoured the occasion by their presence, among whom we noticed the American Minister, General Dix ; Prince Galitzine, Hassan-Ali-Khan, Duke de Bas sano, Comte de Leebach, Gustave Dore, Monsieur de Enazu, Professor Morse, Mr. Post, Mr. Corbyn, s ce ., &c. It would be invidious to select the belles among the crowd of beautiful women who graced the assembly ; but among those whose elegant toilettes and amiable manners attracted most attention were Miss Dix, the Misses Beckwith, Miss Beylard, Mrs. Monroe, Miss Clarke, Miss Sims, Miss Brookes, Mrs. Clarke the Misses Clift, Mrs. Tuckerberry, Mrs. Spencer, Miss Morse, Miss Hamel, Miss Henriquez, Miss Torrence, Miss Mackenzie, Miss Minnie Brookes, Miss De in ing, and others too numerous to mention. It is hoped that this is but the first of many such reunions to take place this spring, and is the inauguration of a brilliant and festive season. Unlike the Temple of Solomon, raised, as we are told, noiselessly, without sound of hammer or nail, the world's fair building is now resounding with myriads of those instruments putting the last strokes to that vast Temple of Industry and Peace. Ex hibitors from all parts of the world are arranging stalls, boxes, &c., for the display of their wares ; and the interior of the building is rapidly filling with fast-arriving shipments, represent ing the progressive spirit and enterprise of the present generation. The outside grounds have still a somewhat unshapen appearance, though shrubberries, grass- plats, fountains, and artistic edifices are springing into existence, and covering the extensive surface of what was once the celebrated military parade, known as the " Champ de Mars." The International Theatre is approaching comple tion, and will be as elegant and commodious as any in the city. In this theatre piec,s will be played in various popular languages. The Exposi tion, notwithstanding its unfinished state, is very attractive, and is daily visited by hundreds desirous of witnessing the progress of the works. The Emperor has recently called into coansel many Generals and other officers belonging to the infantry service for the pu r fpose of learning their opinions upon different modifications that will pro bably be introduced into that branch of the army. It is asserted that, in compliance with the law of reorganisation, each of the many corps d'arnice which comprise the military strength of France, will be required to undergo a sort of examination, and useful changee which might be important in time of war will be studied and duly considered in conjunc tion with all the new inventions in arms. Although in a state of peace and tranquillity the Emperor is determined to be prepared at all times for war. He justly says—" The influence of a na tion depends upon the number of men which it can put under arms." The Empress, for the benefit of visitors to France during the Exposition, has determined to form a collection in the palaces of Malmaison and Petit- Frianon, of such• pictures, furniture, and other objects that were the property of, or used by, the Empress Josephine and Marie Antoinette, when occupying these imperial residences. A special commission has been charged with the execution of this work—and the collection when completed will form an interesting museum. As the Carnival is drawing to a close masked and fancy balls are multiplying in the gay capital, and fun is raging "fast and furious" in their nocturnal revels, when "Joy is unconfined," and when each and all are resolved on "No sleep till morn—wlzon youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." At the Hotel de Ville the second ball of the season took place last week. Five thousand guests were present, embracing thz legislative, diplomatic, and administrative notabilities ; representatives of the army, press, finance, &c. The toilettes of the ladies were superb, and long trains of silk, satin, velvet, and gauze, ornamented with a profusion of flowers, pearls, lace, and diamonds, gracefully sweeping time to the 1:12118i0 of a quadrille, presented a coup d'ceil strikingly beautiful. The principal orchestra in the grand gallery was directed by Strauss, while another band performed in the saloon. The annual ball of the artists came off at the Opera ,Comique on Saturday night last, but was not so largely attended as before. However all passed off merrily, and the "break of day" found the revellers still " tripping on the light fantastic toe." At the Chatelet Theatre the third grand bal masque was given on Saturday night, and was a decided success. The new order—that allows no lady to appear unmasked and without full costume--was rigorously enforced, and added greatly to the interest of the ball. The eleventh fancy ball of the season has been given at the Opera, and, under the management of Strauss, passel off in its usual brilliant manner. Thee balls are always largely attended, and fami liar to many Americans who have passed the winter in Paris. The Spring races have already commenced, and last Sunday at La Marche there was a large attend ance to witness the exciting sports of the turf. It is rumoured that the celebrated Fenian chief, Stephens, is now in Paris, but not much reliance is placed in the report. The funeral of the Prince de Sahns, who was killed in a duel with the Count Wedel, took place on the 19th of February at Vienna, and was attended by a large concourse of the elite of the city. Among those of distinction who followed the remains to the tomb were the King of Hanover, with all the officers of his suite; the Archduke Guil laume, the Duke Philip of Wurtemberg, the Mi nister of War; and the Commandant of the Pro vince, accompanied by a number of generals, and a corps of artillery. The cause of the duel is not yet known, and there are many contradictory reports in regard to it. The Philadelphia Americans in Paris are con gratulating themselves upon the new line of ocean steamers that are to run between their city and Liverpool, and it is to be hoped that every success will attend the efforts of the enterprising owners of the Philadelphia and European Steamship line. Mr. Cyrus W. Field is expected in Paris, and it is to be hoped that the Americans there will give him a public demonstration of their respect. Among the recent American arrivals is John Norris, Esq., formerly of Boston, Massachusetts, but who has been residing for some time in:England. Mr. Norris's stay in Paris will be of short duration, as he leaves in a few days for St. Petersburg on business of importance. In thelast letter from Paris to the Anglo and Franco- American mention was made of the intention to erect an Anglo-American church, large enough to accom modate a thousand persons. Now I discover that two churches of the kind will be built, one of them —owing to the energetic efforts of the Rev. Dr. Eldridge—is now commenced, and ere long will be finished. This church, I believe, will be open to all denominations of Christians, the mornings being devoted to the services of the Episcopal Church. Carnival is shaking her bells merrily, and calling all who love tinsel, gold, and glitter to the most imaginative costumiers. Priestesses are assuming prophetic airs before pier-glasses. Folly is jauntily setting her cap at bachelors, while reckless belle Ilelenes are subduing Paris more completely than in the days of Menelaus. The best-attended ball of the season is ever Madame O'Connell's. She never gives more than one in the course of a winter, but it is always a date to put down on one's tablets. Madame O'Connell's receptions, which take place every Saturday, are the usual rendezvous of all the aristocracy in France by right of birth or talent. She has been too often compared to Madame R6carnier for me to repeat the parallel. I will only say that Madame O'Connell and Madame Ancelot are about the only two women in saris who keep up some trace of what " salons" were in former times. Painters, poets, ministers, celebrities in the diplomatic corps, all meet in the studio salon of the Boulevard St. Germain. Maitre Lachaud, the orator, and Cham, the caric tturist, are constant habitue's. But to return to the fancy ball. Madame wider Pichat was undoubtedly the queen of the evening, though she appeared there as King Louis XIV. in his youth. All the grace of adolescence and majesty were blended in her figure and dress. She wore a white satin coat, blue-watered waist coat, with lace ruffle, tight silk stockings marked with gold, shoes on high scarlet heels, and the veriest jewel of a sword to kill a bosom friend with, though it was in an embroi dered sheath. She entere•l the hall, cane in hand, with the undeniable look expressed by—" c'est moi !" Lace cuffs, lace edgings, were artis tically crimped or gathered, and literally lent a downy appearance to the brilliancy of satin. Corn tesse de Mouzay was dressed as a Russian peasant girl, Madame la Comtesse de Na 6 was an animated rose ; there were morning dews all haze, and auroras all bright mist ; there were Chinese and shepherdesses both in authentic attire. Among the latter Madame Guibert was most bewitching, a la Wathau, with a basket of exotics, which she distri buted to her partners. Among the gentlemen, Mephistopheles was not so much remarked for, his demoniac black and red as for the diabolical fascination of his discourse, which many a Margaret could affirm (if any would own that they were fascinated, which is most im proper, of course). Mr. Louis Figuir wore a chain of sausage-radishes, oysters, and other edibles; and on his back stood out pic-nic. There was a Cossack, too, with something very unsavoury by way of refreshment in a mess dish. The mistress of the house was a priestess of Isis. Her costume was splendid and after her own designing. She wore on her head the sacred ibis, and on her gold wand the symbolic ichneumon. The perfect oval of her features wasdraped in bandlets of fine linen, her arms were bare, her under-tunic of wool ; but over that hung a wide flowing tunic of purple, with heavy deep folds. Altogether she was a most imposing subject for an artist versed in antiquity. All the other balls of last week are pale, except ing the great American fete given at the Grand Hotel in honour of Washington. The gentlemen of the committee who were the instigators of the great national ball will have to renew their invita tions next year, for if, noblesse oblige, we may say that success is not less peremptory. I have been asked to say who was the handsomest, and my per plexity is extreme, for the handsomest girl was not the best dressed, so I beg to mention no superiority. In my opinion the happiest will ever be the loveliest, and thus all were lovely. Particular thanks are due to Messrs. Munroe, Hoffman, Tucker, and Bowies for the excellent arrangements made to welcome their countrymen with due honour and generous hospitality. And now a little private communication. We have four new colours, readers—" Isabelle," " Al pine currant," " grenade," and " moonlight." In my next a full description of these rich hues, and the textures they denominate. Nothing new in our every-day costume, except ing that velvet will be worn over satin till late in April, and that jet is cascading in streams down every garment. Information has been received from the Prussian post-office that letters can be sent via Russia to the following places in China—viz., Pekin, Kalgau, Tientsin, and Urga. Letters intended to be sent by this route should be posted early enough to ad mit of their being forwarded from London by the night mail of Friday or Monday, in order that they may reach St. Petersburg in time for despatch by the mail for China leaving St. Petersburg on Tues day and Friday. The letters must be specially ad dressed " via St. Petersburg," and they will be chargeable with the following rates of postage, which rates must be pre-paid :—For a let ter, addressed to Pekin, Kalgau, or Tientsin, not exceeding loz. in weight, is. 9d. ; above ioz. and not exceeding loz., 3s. 6d. ; for each additional loz. or fraction thereof, ls. '9d. ; for a letter addressed to Urga, not ex ceeding Oz. in weight, ls. 2cl. ; above oz., and not exceeding loz., 2s. 4d. ; for each additional ioz. or fraction thereof, is. 2d. Upon registered letters a fee of 4d. each letter must be paid in addi tion to the postage. Miscellaneous Statistics of the United Kingdom. A volume bearing this title has just been issued by the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade. It is the sixth part of a series of similar re turns, affording statistical information upon all the leading subjects of national interest (except Trade and Navigation), for a period of about ten years — from 1855 to 1863. In the present volume, the " summary of con tents" specifies as many as 37 subjects for which statistical tables, varying in number and extent, are to be found in the subsequent 35 pages. The tables are framed upon a comparative sys tem, in order that the results of the last year for which the returns are g i ven ma y be seen against the corresponding figures for the two preceding years. The exceptional character of any of the statistics for a particular year can thus be observed , and incorrect inferences avoided. For many of the leading subjects of these sta tistics, such as banks, civil justice, crime, education, paupers, population, and the public revenue and expenditure, the tables are compiled from the cor responding departmental reports and returns, or are specially furnished by the departments for this mis cellaneous volume. The returns, when separately published for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, are here brought together under the several headings ; and, where practicable, summaries of the chief results are compiled for the United Kingdom. It is probable that some of the " miscellaneous" statistics relating to important but less prominent subjects might be practically inaccessible and un known to many persons interested in them, were not abstracts collected from the Parliamentary Returns and published iu a volume of general sta tistics. The principal items of receipt and expendi ture under the county rates are, for instance, mat ters of considerable importance for local informa tion and consideration. In this collection of mis cellaneous statistics information is also to be obtained which does not come before the public in any other manner. The Statistical Department of the Board of Trade has applied to the principal Chambers of Commerce for returns of the rates of wages and the hours of labour in the leading manufactures and trades, and some very useful and interesting facts have been received from the council and secretaries of the Chambers. It is greatly to be desired that these valuable returns should be made as com plete as practicable, and we have no doubt that many of our chief manufacturers will be ready to co-operate in perfecting what has been so well com menced. Another branch of statistical information is to some extent supplied by special returns of the prices paid for various articles of food, clothing, and stores by public departments and institutions. The im portance of reliable and comparative statements 01 prices of articles of large consumption is too apparent to need more comment. We could wish these mis cellaneous statistics were brought down to a lat er period, but the volume can be recommended as a very useful compendium of statistical information• COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—__NTAncu 2. Another scanty supply of wheat. For all qualities the ry full pric'es of last week were given, best qualities makioD slight advance. Barley comes to h an d spar i ng ly, and s at late prices. Beans and pe as i n goo d d em and at Ittie rates. „,. 405 Wheat, white 6'a 70s Beans, blazagan...••• o7 " iss red 62s 67s Middle and small._4 4B Barley ... . 42s 568 Peas, white. ......... 38, lk '4 3tis 6 Oats NORTHAMPTON—MARCH 2. old New white wheat, 58s to 655; new red, 46s to 64s ; white, 62s to 68s; old red, Gls to 66s per 36 stone. 133-1.1 !; ( j for malting, 42s to 51s per qr. ; grinding, 298 to 36s per stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s ; new, 23s to 32s per 2 4 s tone ' Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 atone. stony 38s to 42s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD—MARcn 1. This market was fairly supplied with wheat, but busisi; ness was slack, and the prices of last week could barelY u obtained for best satnples, inferior sorts sustaining a redue,i tion of about ls. per qr. Business in spring cor n of ail, descriptions was limited at late rates, with the exception o' oats, for which there was a considerable demand. Wheat, old white 52s 653 r Peas, Partridge ..... C! . ; 1,63: 1 N 1, 1 11 :1 in i i i i. t i.1 e g ..._ .. _ .. ..................... , : 5 . 5 ; i _ o 9 o new ..., a (i7d , Old red new. 508 553 i —i Barley.... 26s 3: - .is I dit o, neW..• —6 4 5, LheValler - -d —s ; Beans, Tick, 01d..... .40s ..,6 Grinlng ss 30s I new. ... 36 ",6 - 6 Malt 553 03 1 narrow , icks 423 = Chevalier 6)s 62a 1 Oats , Maz.iganne‘.‘.'.......::4)9% 4443: GRANTHAM—MAI - tut 2. Old white wheat, 65s to 725; old red, 60s to 68s ; n! white, 6es to 71s ; new red, 56s to 64s per 36 stone., -15'11,r ley for malting, 38s to 455 per qr. ; grinding, 30s toli4sl% 3U stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s pm stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; new, 39s to 46s Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. per 3 8 'stow ABERDEEN—MAncn 1. but At our market to-day wheat was in fair supp l h the trade continues inactive, at rather lower terms. White wheat 1 54s Od to 58s OD on ,? bugle • Red wheat 45s Od to 48s Od; Potato oats 24s Od to 26s Od! 401 b 11 bushe l ' Common oats 23s 6d to 25s Od; Bere 31s Od to 32s 6d ( 531 b 11 bushel. Barley 32s Od to 33s Od $ „ 9Bo:b Oatmeal Flour, fine 2 17 0 s s 0 6 c c i t t t o o 2 5 3 1 s s 6 6 d d 11l ofsack 0 - 1 ::1 80 ,ti . KIRKCALDY—MAncu 2. Good supplies of wheat, bailey, and oats, all of wh iell brought the prices of this day week. Wheat. Barley. Oat s ' First...." t3s Od ; 358 oil I 2fs Od i second 51s Od 37s Od Od Third sBs 01 44s 0d •,9s iid COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. 5. a • Walls End Haswell... 19 0 Holywell Main l6 0 Walls End Hetton ... 19 0 Kelloe _. —. u •—• Hetton Lyons .... 16 6 West H a rtley Tunstall Russell's Hetton— •• . 17 3 Hough Hall Tees ships at market, 41—sold, 38. NEWSPAPERS F OR:RUSSIA.—As many newspaper° addressed to Russian Poland, and other parts of Russ i n- ne s , con ti n ue to be stoppe d and returned to t hi s country, atte tion aga i n called to the conditions under whic h alo newspapers can be forwarded by the post to Russia. These conditions are :-1. Political newspapers, in covers sad at the ends or sides , cannot be received unl ess addressed either to members cf the imperial family, to the iieP eri3l Mi n isters, or to members of the diplomatic corps; 2. N°°- p o litical newspapers may be sent, in addition to the Per sonages mentioned above, only to the higher schools, to a the Imperial Public Library, the Academy of Science,' n to established booksellers. 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