The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

Mail: OF tiiiE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times is very angry with tle Queen for going off to Scotland at a time in which her Presence in London is so much needed as now. It is now - necessary for Ministers to communicate with the sovereign. Mr. Disraeli is 63 years of age, and, though mentally energetic, it would be too much to ask him to rush to the Highlands at limited mail speed and return within forty-eight hours. So her Majesty must be communicated with by messenger, if at all ; and, however the communication is made, there must be an inconvenient lapse of time before the answer is re ceived. Mr. Disraeli should have been able to make some statement to the House of Commons last evening ; but for this he was not prepared. In answer to Mr. I)alglish, he announced that he would state to the House on Thursday the course the Government intended to take with reference to the Scotch Reform Bill. What ever may be the determination arrived at, whatever new difficulty any new vote of the House may bring upon tin Minister, it is impossible that he can have the opportu nity of advising her Majesty personally on the subject. and so far the efficient transaction of public business must be hindered. The Times thinks, therefore, that it was An act of culpable neglect on the part of the Minister t to inform the Queen that the political prospects - o f ,her Government were so doubtful as to demand her pre..ie.nce at or near the seat of the Legislature. The Queers has always shown herself ready to fulfil her con stitutioxol duties, and no one can doubt that, had the case been fu:l3 ,- laid before her, she would willingly have re mained at 'Windsor at a period of such paramount im portance. E.:ther by chance or through a traditional practice of the ...Royal House, a crisis has generally found the sovereign a.'• some distance from the capital. But in all such cases the first person in the realm has been readily access.'ble. In the old days a carriage and post horses, in n:ore modern times a special train, soon placed the chiefs of the Ministry in the presence of their sovereign, to whom they were able to communicate by word of mouth their deliberate decision, and of whom they were able personally to ,ask a renewal of confidence or the highest exercise of the riyal prerogative in the diosolution of Parliament. It would be a questionable innovation if this usage were abandoned, and we we-e to come to resignations by telegraph, and correepondence by messenger, instead of royal councils. No one can say what misunderstandings and what consti tutional derangements may be the result of such an incom plete transaction of the highest business. The matter, indeed, does not need argument. The sovereign is an essential part of the Legislature, A much as the Lords or the Commons, and when Parliament is summoned for the despatch of business it is but reasonable that the sovereign should be at hand. The Post declares that the " moribund" House was not sufficiently heroic to deal with Mr. Trevelyan's motion abolishing purchase in the army. But although the feel ing of the House was against the abolition of purchase, it was admitted by Sir John Pakington and others that if they had to construct a system de novo, purchase could • be admitted as the governing principle of the scheme, md so far they allowed that that principle was not intrinsi cojiy a good one ; but the practical consideration affecting th present view of the matter is that "le jen ne vaut pas • clandelle," and that from seven to twenty mil lions -for these were the limits assigned—was too high ms price to pay for that which many believed to be a douLtinl advantage, and which more still considered was just the reverse. The reason for this great range of price to ;le paid in the event of abolition of purchase is, that some Lave reckoned in the capitalised value of the retiring pens.'ons which would be absolutely necessary to create a flow e promotion, while others omitted this item. It was admitt.e.d on all hands that in the event of the abolition of purchase the country would be bound in equity to repay tc officers retiring all the money they had paid even ahoy e regulation prices, for that although the Queen's regulat;ons for the army prohibit abso lutely such fancy prices, being paid, still the custom has been winked at, and all but recognised by the authorities. It has been admitted that the principle of purchase is unsound, and when we can better afford the vast sacrifice necessary for its abolition—perhaps in the coming and reformed Parliament—it will be time enough to change a system which, if confessedly not the best, or even, as we believe, vicious in principle, is one under which we have managed to maintain our prestige and integrity for over two hundred years. The Herald complains that Mr. Trevelyan, if hii speech may be taken as an indication, wishes to set up the French system in England. When Mr. Trevelyan and those friends of his who are not ashamed of the name of Radical have succeeded in establishing in this country French in stitutions ; when they give us universal suffrage and the social equality, or rather the shadow of it, which French men regard as the great conquest of the revolution ; when they make the State not only supreme in the smallest questions, but a meddler in them ; when they establish the conscription in the place of volun tary enlistment, and give the people of England the habits, the traditions, and the passions of the people of France, they may allege the example of France as a con cluSive argument against the purchase system. The Herald hopes that the English army will never be officered by men of the stamp of French officers ; but we can assure him that, with all our respect for the military qualities of French officers, and all our conviction of the evils of the purchase system, we would rather keep that system and the present class and stamp of officers in the British army than imitate the French example. The Daily News observes that the battle of Lords and Commons in Victoria was suddenly interrupted three weeks before the last overland mail from Melbourne ; but when the steamer sailed the war seemed as far as ever from coming to an end. The Governor's Ministers, strong in the support of the Assembly and the country, were surprised early in March by the communication of a despatch from the Duke of Buckingham to the Gover nor, forbidding him to recommend the inclusion of the Darling grant in the Appropriation Act. This interference the local Ministers immediately re sented. They were ready to fight the local Council, but not the Council and the Colonial Office together. Moreover, the duke's intervention had the appearance of a breach of faith. Not long before the Colonial Office had written out that " the controversy must be locally decided," but now it was interposing again. Under these circumstances, they recommended the Governor to publish the duke's last despatch, so that the people might see how matters stood ; they declared that the interference of the Crown in a matter so entirely within the discretion of the Assembly as the form of a bill of supply threatened the existence of responsible government, and begged leave respectfully to inform his Excellency at once that they would take no course, nor submit to any condition inconsistent with the decision of the people expressed at the general election. The resigna tion of the Colonial:Ministers was accepted by Sir Manners Sutton on the 13th of March, and at the latest packet date, the 31st of March, all attempts to form a new Ministry had failed. The time seems to have come for looking beyond the pedantries of this ever-recurring ques tion. The Colonial Office either does too much for the colony or too little. If the Victorians were plainly told by us that happiness is the only object of legislation that has an intrinsic value ; that with the advantage of good laws a people, although not possesse.l of political power, may yet enjoy a great deal of happiness ; and that we were ready to enact for them better laws than they can make for themselves, it is con ceivable that many of them might be disposed to exchange their present constitutional system for a paternal govern ment. But at present we play with the colonists. We give them what we call " responsible government " as a great boon, and then hinder its free working by imposing restrictions on the Governor, whom we do not permit either to follow the advice of his Ministers or act accord ing to his own judgment. The system cannot last. In dealing with the same subject, the Standard remarks that one has only to consider what would be the effect of a contrary course t o p erce i ve that the Duke of Bucking ham was justified in hi s d espatc h of the let of January —in fact, that he had no other alternative. Allowing that there was nothing prima facie so objectionable in the Darling grant as that Sir Henry Manners Sutton ought to have resisted its initiation, and the Governor was not supposed to know beforehand that its initiation was in tended to coerce the Legislative Council, there could not be the same pretext for ignorance after the rejection of the Appropriation Bill, with its obnoxious appendage the reasons given for that rejection by the Council, and the language held in regard to their act by the Governor's responsible advisers. To require the Governor a second time to recommend the Darling grant, and to assent to the manner of its introduction insisted upon by the Ministry, would have been at on ce to sanction all the fur ther violence which Mr. Maculloch and his colleagues might be tempted to undertake again st the Constitution. It would have involved the Governor in all the subsequent proceedings of his Ministers, and would have compelled , him at least to be a silent and passive spectator in a series of assaults upon th e Q uee n's law and tic. written Consti tution of Victoria, which is a part of that law. THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH.—The following story was told by Dr. William Arnot, at a in Sir Moncreiff's chuich in Edinburgh the other evening :—"Dr. Macleod and.. Dr. Watson were in the West Highlands together, on a tour, ere leaving for India. While crossing a loch in a boat, in company with a num. ber of passengers, a storm came on. One of the passen gers was heard to say, "rhe two ministers should begin to p:•ay, or we'll a' be drooned.' Na, na,' said the boatman, the little ane can pray if he likes, hit the big ane mast: Ws: an oar." GIBBAL2'AIt CONVICT ESTABLISIIMEN T. The report of the Gibraltar convict establishm Vat for the year 1867 shews a marked decrease in the nu giber of consequent on the ticket-of-leave system. On the Ist January there were 390 convicts in the establishi sent, 4 fresh ones were received during the year, while on the 31st December last only 180 prisoners were conthaeil. This leaves 214 to be accounted for, and 186 are set elowia as having been sent home to be discharged on limn se, 6 as having died, and 22 as having been discharged. do the spot. The general conduct of the superior officers has been good, but among the subordinates there nee many o f whom the comptroller does not express a favourable opinion. Four assistant-warders had been diserdssed during the year for drunkenness and the like. rae conduct of the prisoners has been good. There wer.e no escapes, aFirtults, or suicides, and the report so. far is satis factory. With regard to employr lent, a table accompanies the report, shewing £9,200 worth of labour had been performed by the prisoners, at the rate of £4O 14s. per man per annum. On the other hand, the expenses of +ne establishment far exceed this, amounting to £16,831, or £55 9s. per man. 'lite rev. canon's report as to the religious state of the prisoners is satisfactory, and he fi‘tds that the magazines 'Good Words, (wiver, Leisure lbw, and Sunday at Home) and the library books are read with avidity. Of the 180 present December 31 it, 8 could neither read nor write, 59 imperfectly, 61 fairly, and 52 well. The medical report is also favourable. The only matter worth mentioning is the occurrence of severe chest affections among the pri soners, caused by a change too early of the winter's clothing. For the future this matter is to be left to the discretion of the medical officer. LAW AND POLICE. MDLLE. TITIENS AND HER WHL—At the Marylebone County Court, Mdlle. Titiens appeared as defendant in an action brought by a perfumer to recover £15175. for a wig. Mary Ann de Roussen, the plaintiff, said she carried on the business of a perfumer, at•l7, Upper Baker-street, and in December last, in consequence of receiving an order for a wig from Mdlle. Titiens, she sent an experienced workman to measure the lady's head. The lady also selected hair of the fashionable colour, and the wig was made. It was sent to defendant at Glasgow, and witness received a letter from the prima donna, stating that the wig would not do, as the hair was not of the colour required, and did not fit, in consequence of the parting being too wide. The alterations were at once made, but Mdlle. Titiens was not satisfied, and sent the wig back again to the shop, and refused to pay for it. Mr. F. Smith said when he took the measure for the wig the defendant told him that it was for the part of Margherita. The alterations were made as requested, and the wig was cheap at fifteen guineas. The defendant sail, in the month of November the late M. de Roussen called upon her and asked if he should make her a wig. He said he would make her a nice blonde wig, with fair beautiful hair, for fifteen guineas. He further said she could wear it in private, as many of his lady customers did. She after that gave an order at the shop, and selected a fair child's curl as a specimen of the colour she should like. The wig produced was not of that colour she had selected ; it did not fit her, and was not the natural hair he had stipulated for, and therefore she declined to pay for it. If plaintiff made her a proper wig according to the instructions first given, she would at once pay. In cross examination, defendant said she had expected "a perfect wig, with a fine blonde natural colour, and to fall below the waist." Forgot in her letter of complaint to say that the wig was not composed of natural hair. Instead if that a wig was sent to her which showed her dark hair, and was itself made up of such rough carroty hair that positive'y she could not wear it. A Mrs. Godbold corroborated this testimony, after which the jury found ter the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the Mansion House, Robert Wardell was charged with attempting to defraud the South-Eastern Railway Company. It seemed that at Cannon-street Station the defendant, who had shewn a third-class ticket when passing the barrier, got into a second-class carriage, and on leaving the train he 'gave the ticket up, and was going away without offering to pay the difference, when he was stopped. Mr. Sarll, a gentleman residing at Blackheath, was charged with a similar offence. The defendant entered a first-class carriage, which was detached at Wool wich,.where he left it, and got into another first-class car• riage which was going to Belvidere. The defendant paid the second class fare from Cannon-street to Blackheath only, and if he bad not meant to defraud the company would have I aid the difference from Cannon-street to Belvidere. In the first case a fine of 20s. and costs was imposed, anl in the second the defendant was mulcted in double that amount. HEW ER, TIIE CONJURER, FS THE BANKRUPTCY COURT. —ln the Court of Bankruptcy, before Mr. Registrar l'epys, William Ilenry Palmer, better known as Robert Flelier, came up for his last examination. The bankrupt .vas described as formerly of the city of Washington, United States, teacher of music ; then of the Metropolitan Hotel, New York ; then travelling in North America, texico, Japan, and China; and now of the Langhatn Hotel, Portland-place, and the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Strand, prestidigiuteur. He came to the Jourt on his own petition, and attributed his bank cuptcy to having been sued by Messrs. Riggs and Co., of Washington, creditors for £628. The debts are £2,665, and the creditors appear to reside chiefly at New York and Washington. The sum of £6B is stated to be due to :I.lr. W. S. Woodin, of the Polygraphic Hall, and £2O to the United States Internal Revenue, New York. One proof was admitted,. and an assignee chosen. A claim was also entered for £611., on behalf of Messrs. Riggs and Co., of Washington, in respect of a judgment recovered mains' the bankrupt. lEfer Majesty's Ministers have accepted the invi tation of the Master and Company of the Merchant Taylors to a grand entertainment on Wednesday, the 17th of June. It is understood that, at the desire of the Queen, the Volunteer field day, which was announced to take place iu Windsor Great Park on IVhit-Monday, has been postponed until the return of her Majesty from Scot land, which event will take place in about a month. CONVOCATION. — The Archbishop of Canterbury has formally adjourned the Convocation of his province until Tuesday, the 30th of June. In the announcement nothing was said about " the despatch of business." Almost half the Lower House expires with the House of Commons. In accordance with, an invitation, Mr. John Lright, M.P., has consented to attend a meeting to be held by the Welsh Reform Association, in Liverpool, in Whitsun week. This association is of a national character, having its headquarters at Liverpool, and it is intended that deputations from its various branches in the different districts of Wales shall be present. DISEASED MEAT IN THE LONDON MARKETS. At the meeting of the City Commissioners of Sewers, held at Guildhall, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health, presented reports chewing that during the last fortnight the inspectors of the markets and slaughter-houses had condemned 6,3801 b. of diseased meat as unfit for human food. It consisted of 26 sheep, 9 pigs, 3 calves, 48 quar ters of beef, and 34 joints of meat, all of which had been destroyed in the usual manner. Dr. Lankester has held an inquest on the body of the son of a gasfitter name,' Webb. The boy was delicate Ind irritable in a high degree, and when thwarted had frequently threatened suicide. This threat he had at length carried into execution by taking some spirits of salt. The coroner stated that this was the first case which had come before him of a boy taking poison. He inti mated his opinion that the evidence as to his disposition justified the conclusion " that he was not of sound mind at the time he committed the act." The jury gave a ver dict accordingly. The inquest on the body of Mrs. Grossmith, eating-house keeper, of Norton Folgate, has been opened. The husband of the deceased and two neighbours were the only witnesses examined. The former, who was away from home at the time of the assault, was called chiefly for the purpose of identification, and to speak to the presumed ill-feeling of the shop-boy, Arthur Mackay, towards the deceased ; and the latter because hearing cries they rushed in and found h er l y i ng on t h e groun d covere d w ith bl oo d , air! only Mackay in the place. The inquiry was then adjourned. The p o li ce cont i nue to b e unsuccessful in their endeavours to apprehend the murderer. THE DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF GRAFTON.— Dr. Sawyer, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale ' Sou th Wales, S th Wales, had been conducting, the eveni ng services at Grafton, on Sunday, March 15, when his untimely :leath occurred. At about t en o ' c l oc k he was crossing the Clarence river to get back to Bishops. thorpe, accompanied by his son, Mr. Brown, James Creighton. and two female servants. After proceeding a mile, the wind being fresh and the sails set, near the end of Elizabeth Island a sudden gust of wind upset the boat. The bishop's son was asleep, and was not seen after the accident. Creighton attempted to rescue the bishop, but was seized by the servant, who held on to him. The bishop was never seen again. The survivors were picked up by some boats which arrived just in time rescli§ tam RELIGION IN FRANCE DURING THE REPUBLIC OF 1848. The destinies of France, by the revolution of February, 1818, fell into the hands of the people. They did not call back their ancient dynasty, which at the time had but one repre sentative left, the Count de Chambord. He had left France an orphan, exiled in 1830, when only about six years of age, had lived in exile far from his native country, and was, therefore, unknown to everybody in France except to those old legitimist families in whose breasts the lawful sovereign will never die. Those families had been decimated at the great revolution of 1792. The most staunch had lost part of their landed estates, but all had benefited by the indemnity fund voted at the , time of the restoration in 1815. Their high sense of honour kept many of them from ac cepting office even during the restoration, on account of the charter, which they considered as a bondage derogatory to the King. At the revolution of 1830, almost every man of virtue and conscience was obliged to retire into private life ; the Legitimists, so called because they refused to take an oath of allegiance to the revolutionary King, were still living in retirement in 1848. Their good example' and virtues were only known in the villages where they resided ; their only occupation was the improvement of agriculture, and the care of the sick and poor ' • they might be seen every Sunday in Church, and on almost every week day also. Such men were called retrogrades,. and deemed unworthy to conduct the affairs of their country. One of the worst consequences of the great revolution of 1792 was that Paris monopolized the entire Government of France. Paris was everything, the ancient provinces were nothing. To destroy their last feelings of independence each province had been split up into so many departments, having each a Prefect at its head. The Prefect is the servant of the Minister, a kind of spy set over the ancient provinces to prevent their speaking of their former liberties; he is, as it were, the policeman of the Minister ; a slave, because he can be removed at a mo ment's notice. Since 1830 all these Prefects have been men of the revolution. They never go to church on Sunday ; their friend is the village schoolmaster or the publican of the vil lage ; they are great enemies of the priest, be cause they prefer living independent of the Ten Commandments and the Commandments of the Church. Their orders are to keep up every kind of prejudice against the Church and the noblesse, to uphold everything that was bad in the principles of the revolution of 1792, and to make mankind believe that liberty can only exist where the Church has no power. Such were the ruling powers of France when the reins of Government were picked up by the people of Paris in 1848. They were too corrupt to call back their ancient dynasty, but they were honest enough to pro claim the principles of 1789, perfect equality, no monopoly, no kind of privilege, liberty to all to do good or evil. A republic was pro claimed. A republic is no doubt the most liberal form of Government, in that respect it throws in the shade both royalty and con stitutional Governments. A republic . recog nizes the full rights of the people, and does not allow any privileged class whatsoever. The proclamation of a republic in France was the advance of a century on the constitutional Government of England. But can a nation like the French settle down under a republic with all its faults and ardent partisanship ? To do so it would have required a nation of virtuous men, where religion is respected, where charity and the good of one's neighbour is the only impulse ; such virtues were un known in France in 1848. Ever since the great Revolution of 1792 every form of Government had been tried ; France was like an engine made to work out of gear. Every successive Government had broken down in the attempt at working with the new principles ; they only produced a series of accidents called revolu tions, and each revolution multiplied the num ber of parties, in the same way that religions have been multiplied from want of principle in England. A fine illustration of the many changes exists in France in the multiplicity of effigies upon the coin. The people could not see that ,fo form a stable Government it was necessary to call in religion to their help. How can a republic exist without some fixed prin ciple like religion, which can unite all parties ? The people were too corrupt to see this ; they threw themselves into the hands of sceptics, men full of the most extravagant ideas of equality, and in perfect ignorance of the real genius that directs the destinies of their coun try. Such were the popular conspirators and leaders of the day. To please the people they presided over meetings at the Luxembourg, in the Chamber of Peers, and in other places. Men such as Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin, and, at the head of all, Lamartine, became the in structors of the people. Pere Lacordaire placed himself also in the pulpit of Notre Dame to instruct the people. Everybody did his best to give such a direction to the movement as would tend to the preservation of order. Paris being entirely in the hands of the people, they w ere more cl amorous f or wor k t h an for form ing a Government. The Revolution of 1848 had ruined every enterprise • a general stop had been put to t ra d e; th e public funds-3 per Cent. Rentes--had fallen to 35, and the 5 per the Bank of France had sus- Cents. to 45 ; pended specie payments, and as much as 200 francs was paid to cash a thousand franc bank note ; the Bank of France shares were at par. Public works were, therefore, organized to give employment to the most necessitous. Every ge National naanl Guard dtrad to preserve esmanenroll order.edh himself in the The leaders of the people held monster meetings at the Champ de Mars and in other open places ; the Tuileries were occupied by the people. After hearing their leaders they would march through Paris to the seat of Govern , ment at the Hotel de Ville, and these mon ster meetings were only prevented taking pos session of this also by the energy of M. de La martine, and by the prompt attendance of the National Guard, when they heard the call of the drum in the street. Whilst this excite ment was going on in the streets, the danger of anarchy bad rallied men of various opinions; these formed themselves into a provisional government, and their first step wok , to carry out the proclamatiou of universal suffrage by the people. Directions were issued how the general election was to take place. The num ber of members to be returned was fixed at 900, and that assembly met for the first time in Paris in May, 1848, and formed themselves into the Assembles Constituante. In the meantime the dangers of society aroused a better feeling towards religion even in Paris—the clergy were more popular on account of the remonstrances made by the arch bishop to the king of the barricades—the churches were better attended on Sundays. With universal suffrage the people had pro claimed liberty to all. The religious orders also had come back to open colleges and schools where Catholic education was given. The university, with its anti-Catholic teachings, was no longer held in horror. The fathers of Christian families had found out that the god less education of that establishment left them no hold on their sons. With liberty to all, different sects tried to establish themselves ; amongst others, Duchatel's sect. But new sects cannot find room in any Catholic country in the enjoyment of liberty. In England, if the Protestant sect was established, it was only by the most abject slavery, by penal laws, the cruelty of which, in our days, people cannot beli6ve. The guillotine had, no doubt, struck terror in France, and had prejudiced the minds of the people against the clergy, because they saw them condemned to have their heads chopped off or to be sent to the penal colony of Cayenne. But the guillotine was nothing compared with the persecution carried on in England, where the so-called Reformation did not so much attack the body as the soul. It is the slavery of ignorance, the slavery of the intelligence, which bliAdfcicla the eyes of kte THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, MAY 20, IS6B, victims, so as to make them unable to distin guish between error and truth, and to adopt the teachings of any sect rather than the one only Church of Christ. Slavery was never carried to such a pitch in France. There it was rather the slavery of political ideas that I prevailed than the slavery of the soul with all its dreadful consequences. The liberty to all, in 1848, brought out many sects, but though the minds of the people had been prejudiced against the Catholic clergy, their intellect had not been tampered with, nor deluded into following any other teacher than the idol set up by their passions. Therefore, every new sect soon died a natural death. The people knew, as every sinner knows who has any conscience left, that if they did not sanctify the Sunday nor fulfil the duties of religion, it was because they preferred the pleasures of this world to God. These teachers had, therefore, no influence over them. The people told them plainly that they were only mountebanks ; that if there was any religion, it could only be found in the Catholic Church. The people were honest in 1848, they pro claimed full liberty to all, free education, allowed the parish priest to preach as he liked, they let him direct the religious instruction of the children, which until then had been so much tampered with by the schoolmasters. Every liberty that France now enjoys can be traced to the revolution of 1848. The people were, no doubt, glad to carry out the principles of equality laid down at the revolution of 1789, but they had found out that public order and prosperity cannot flourish without religion, which is the only power that can curb the pas sions. They had learnt that vice and perjury lead only to the dissolution of society or to the greatest slavery. That is why they saw with pleasure the return of the religious orders and the breaking up of the university mono poly. The people proclaimed themselves king in 1848. Nobody was therefore asked to take an oath, and all those conscientious men who had retired from public life in 1830 were able to accept the places of mayor or governors in the departments, and to take part in the go vernment of public affairs. The general elec tions which took place soon after the revolu tion of 1848, under the proclaimed law of uni versal suffrage, were principally influenced by the landed proprietors in the country and by the Republican leaders in the principal towns. The first National Assembly was composed of 900 members. They were men of every shade of opinion, chosen more on account of the popularity they enjoyed at the time, than for any fixed political principle. The good sense of the people had been so tampered with by theories of liberty, perfectly true taken in the abstract, but most false in their appli cation to a nation where glory and honour are the mainsprings of life and of activity. A re public is no doubt the most liberal of all govern ments. But can a country like France settle down under such an element ? If it could have done so France would have been a hundred years in advance over every other nation. But the impossibility of that renown was shown as soon as the National Assembly met ; it was nothing but turmoil. Those exciting scenes and speeches cannot yet be forgotten. It was said at the time that the riot of the street had got into Parliament. The number of opinions can ideas of h uttered in that Assembly were almost equal to the number of members present ; . some had re ligious principles, some republi can 1792, others demagogue principles ; every shade that can exist between good and b a d was represented in that meeting. But the more they discussed, the more they found out that reforms cannot be carried out without a head, and that a leader or chairman is neces sary to judge what ought to be done and what ought to be avoided. They had banished royalty, so they named a president to be re elected every three or four years. This nomi nation was followed up by decrees to prevent the constant assembling of men in the streets and squares, as everybody felt - the necessity of order. It was with the greatest difficulty they made the people leave the Tuileries, of which, as kings, they had taken possession. This commencement of order did not please the red republicans, who ' had made Paris their centre. Although the Provisional Go vernment, which had been formed in the great commotion, had been replaced by new men, such as Arago, Gamier-Pages, Marie, Lamar tine and Ledru-Rollin, all these men were wanting in religion, and had no other prin ciples than those of equality, and liberty. But they were honest republicans, and wished that every class of society should enjoy the same liberty. It was on the 12th of June, 1848, that Louis Napoleon was returned for the department of the Seine, and by three other departments to the National Assembly. Although banished out of France he was allowed to return, liberty was absolute during the republic, and the Connt de Chambord might have returned as a simple citizen, the only family excepted was that of the Orleans. The red republicans would not allow order to be restored, they had taught the people to live on the subsidy of the nation, which ended in the awful struggle of June, 1848, during which more than 300 barricades were thrown up, and firing continued in all parts of Paris day and night during three days. The Departments came to the assistance of Paris ; the Faubourg du Temple was carried with cannon and howitzers • more than 20,000 men were killed and wounded, amongst them eleven generals. The Archbishop of Paris was among the killed. Innumerable prisoners were taken. This awful struggle was necessary to put down the red republicans. It was only by such means that order was restored in Paris.—Cor respondent of the Westminster Gazette. PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICISM. A remarkable illustration has within these last few days been once more afforded, of the widely contrasting systems, and sentiments engendered by the systems, of Protestantism and Catholicism. The occasion was that pre sented by the annual meeting of the Protestant Reformation Society at Willis's Dancing Rooms, St. James's, under the presidency of the veteran but irrepressible Admiral Vernon Harcourt. Among the principal speakers Col lected together upon the platform, was the Rev. Dr. Cumming, altogether unabashed, it would seem, by the non-fulfilment of his many reiterated prophecies. The illustration we are referring to, however, as having been given anew of the diametrically opposite character and tendencies presented to view by Pro testantism when contrasted wit h Catholicism y was so given, it may be observe d at once, neither b Admiral Vernon Harcourt nor yet by the Rev. Dr. Cumming. The illustrator and embellisher afresh of that already toler ably notorious fact was, in truth, one of the bishops of the E ng li s h Church Establishment. The particula r mem b e r of the Protestant Ripon,the h Hierarchy thu s alluded to, being no other than the Bishop ofaccording Romet o has whom—toan begin with—" essentially political aspect, being closel y iden tified," said th e Bi s h o p of Ripon, " with poli tical position s i n w hi c h she, the Church of Rome, always seeks to obtain an ascendancy." Without pausing to discuss this particular question as to the essentially political aspect imputed to the Catholic Church, and repu ! diated, oddly enough, in regard to Protest antism, by one of the chiefs of a Church always spoken of by Cobbett, according to its own proper name, style, and title (in italics) as the Church by law established—not established by , Christ, but by law established —we shall con tent ourselves with passing on at once to what we have more especially selected from among the Bishop of Ripon's remarks at Monday's meeting, in Willis's Rooms, as the subject matter of our present observations and com mentaries. " We could not attain the truth," said the Bishop of Ripon, at this portion of his harangue ; " we could not attain the truth by ridicule or by acr i mo nious controversy." Adding, " This soc i e t y "—remember he was addressing himself to the Protestant Reforma -404 society-=." Thy Society ad itself against any such course as unworthy of the sacred cause with which it had to deal." Yet, im mediately after this—rather incongruously, to say the least of it—the Bishop of Ripon went on to remark that " He believed that the more firmly, closely, and fully a Roman Catholic held to the distinctive features of his religion, to that degree was he going from the pure Word of God, and running the risk of ever lasting damnation." Observe ! this future lot of " eternal damnation" is, in the belief of the Bishop of Ripon, the all but inevitable lot of every Roman Ca'tholic because of—what ? Because of his " more firmly, closely and fully, holding to the distinctive features of his re ligion." Protestantism, through one of its bishops, speaks with that toleration ! Catholi cism, on the other hand, as we all know, asserting on the contrary its own supernal knowledge of the everlasting condemnation incurred by such as abjure the truth through remaining out of its pale—with a saving clause invariably applicable to those who do so in invincible ignorance. It is not the simple fact of their " closely, firmly, fully holding to the distinctive features of their religion," of their schismatical or heretical belief; which condemns them, it is their repulsion of the truth, it is their rejection of the faith, it is their abjuration of Catholicism—they them selves the while not being iu invincible ignorance. There is toleration if you will, accompanied by a logical and loyal adherence to the indivisible unity of Truth. But the inconsistencies of Protestantism are not merely as in this instance superficial, they are in grained and ineradicable. They are indicated as such, in point of fact, by the very title assumed to themselves three centuries ago by their originators as significative of their general aim and tendencies. Disintegrated as the Establishment is already in a great measure, riven asunder as it is even now in view of all men—here the High Church, here the Low Church, here the Ritualists, here the Evan gelicals—a disposition has of late been mani festing itself "in certain quarters" a half-ex pressed, but sufficiently manifest, disposition to repudiate that same distinctive title, the title of Protestant—this arising, of course, from a tardy sense of its incongruity, as the designa tion of an establishment assuming to be the exponent of the truth of Christianity. Con scious of this disposition within the Estab lishment to repudiate the title of Protestant, the Bishop of Ripon, when referring to the inadequate aid accorded to the Society, some of the supporters of which he was addressing at Willis's Rooms on Monday, observed, that— " One reason was that the very name of it was objectionable in the highest degree to a large number occupying a certain quarter. They hated," he said, " the very word Protestant, they designated reformation' as schism.' But," exclaimed the Bishop of Ripon, " they gloried in the word Protestant, and rejoiced in the glorious Reformation." That avowal being the sum total apparently of the speaker's yin ' dication of both the word Protestantism and the word Reformation ! Each of those words having a distinctly negative character —each a something g o i ng b e f ore it , a of them implying something older and antecedent—a something to be Protested against, a something to be Re formed. That Something being, in reality, the Church of Christ, the Church Catholic, the Church that, according to the divine dictum, never can by possibility fall into error, never can admit of the requirement of Reformation, never can have the gates of hell prevail against it, having the Spirit of God with it, on the con trary—the Paracite, the Redeemer Himself, even to the end of theworld. No wonder that " a large number, occupying a certain quar ter" (to adopt the phrase of the Bishop of Ripon), evidence at last an anxiety to drop out of view both the word Protestant and the word Reformation ! For, was it not wisely written centuries ago by Cummianus, in his Epistle De Controversaria Paschali, " Quid pravius sentire potest de ecclesia matre quam si dicarnus : Roma errat, Hierosolyma errat, totus mundus errat ; soli . . . Britones rectum sapiunt ?"--Westininster Gazette. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. A NEW ROUTE FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO.— Mr. William A. Thompson, President of the Erie and Niagara Railway Company, addressed the Board of Trade in Buffalo on the 19th instant, in regard to the importance of establishing another link in the great chain of commerce between Chi cago and New York, generally understood as the Buffalo and Detroit Air line, through Canada. The Board passed resolutions endorsing the project and promising it a generous support in trade and tr affic. The proposed road is said to be 30 miles shorter between New York and Chicago than over the New York Central via Toledo; 12 miles shorter and two hours less than over the Great Western o f Canada and the New York Central ; 46 miles shorter than by the Erie via Akron and Toledo, and 17 miles shorter than the Catawisa road via Emporium and Buffalo. (From the Wall-street Journal, April 25.) The following is a Comparative Statement of the Earnings of Thirteen leading R a il roa d s i n 1863 an d 1867 1863. 1867. Dols. Dols. 1,673,706 3,184,122 Chicago and Alton Chicago, B. I. and Pacific 1,959,267 4,153812 Chicago aud North-Western 4,500,000 11,532,348 Erie Illinois Central Michigan Southern and N. I. Michigan Central 3,168,065 4,371,073 N ew York Central, 1862 Philadelphia and Ilead'ug, 1862 Pi t t s burg, Pt. W., aud Chig., 1862 3,745,310 7,242,126 St. Louis, Alton, and T. 11. Toledo and Wabash Atlantic and Great Western, 1861 3,235,492 5,167,371 Total 53,671,684 92,875,982 Increaso 39,204.298 The figures show that in four years thirteen rail roads have increased their earnings nearly 80 per cent. Not one of these roads can fail to show as great a gain in the future, and no sound reason can be given why, upon the ground of ability to earn regular and large dividends, they should not pass into the hands of investors at and above their pre sent market price. The annual report of the "Toledo, Wabash, and Western Railroad Company" for the year ending Dec. 31, 1867, shows that the capital at $21,149,000, w as composed of 57,000 shares, $5,700,000 common sock, and 10,000 shares, $1,000,000 pre ference stock, and the balance bonds. The gross earnings were $3,809,363 58, and expenditure $2,786,882 32, leaving a net income of $1,022,471 26. The earnings were $91,067 more than those of the preceding year, and the expenditures were 24,304 less, showing a comparative net increase of $116,271. The annual election of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company was held at Toledo on April 22, and the following persons were unanimously elected directors for the ensuing year :—E. B. Phillips, Albert Keep, of Chicago ; Philo Morehouse, of Elkhart; J. S. Barry, of Con stantine, Michigan ; I'. Hoag, of Toledo ; W. Williams of Buffalo; N. Beardsley, of Auburn, New York ; Le Grand Lockwood, Henry Keep, Jesse Hoyt, J. Packer, A. Haremeyer, and D. N. Barney, New York. At a subsequent meeting of the board, B. Phillips was re-elected President, De Grand Lockwood, Treasurer, and D. P. Barhydt Secretary. At the meeting of stockholders of the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company, held at Dubuque, lowa, on the 13th inst., the following gentlemen were elected directors for the ensuing year :—John S. Kennedy, Charles L. Frost, D. Willis Junes, of New York ; Hon. William B. Allison, Dubuque, Iowa; John Crerar, Chicago. The road is being extended to Charles City, lowa, ant will be opened for business to that point Sep tember next. At the meeting of the bondholders and share holders of the Toledo, Peoria, and Warsaw Rail road Compaty, held recently at Peoria, Illinois, for the election of directors for the ensuing year, the following persons were elected :—Charles L. Frost, Zeno Secor, James W. Smith, Courtland Palmer, New York ; Hon. J. B. Brown, rortland, Maine ; Henry Hill, Warsaw, Illinois ; Hon. Wm. T. Bryan, William 11. Cruger, Henry F. Clark, Peoria, Illinois ; and at a subsequent meeting Charles L. Frost, of New York, was elected presi dent; Theodore Iligbie, secretary and treasurer. The road is being extended to Warsaw, Keokuk, and Burlington, and will be opened for through business the coming Fall. The new railroad from Logansport to Union City, Indiana, ninety-two miles in length, has, it is said, only four curves on the entire line. It forms a connecting link in a new and through route from Chicago to the Atlantic cities. The Central Pacific Railway has been operated on both slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains during April. Passengers and freight are hauled by waggons around the incomplete gap of six miles at the east end of the summit tunnel, when they again take the cars down to the Big Meadows of the Truckee, one hundred and fifty miles east of Sacramento. The track is meanwhile being graded at the foot of the mountains, and so soon as the spring rains admit the line will be pushed rapidly forward across the Plains to the Humboldt Valley. It is expected three hundred miles will be in opera tion in August. The earnings of the road for 1867 were close upon $1,500,000 ; and the receipts for 1868 show fifty per cent. increase upon the same length operated. A report on the surveys, estimates, and income of the New Orleans and Ohio Railroad is before us. This work proposes to be a direct line from New Orleans to the Ohio River, at Paducah, Kentucky. Seventy-nine miles—from Jackson, Tennessee, to Mayfield, Kentucky—only remains to be completed. It is claimed that the work to complete this gap is comparatively light, estimates for it being $23,384 56 per mile. The total distance from New Orleans to Paducah is put down at 518 miles, and at this latter place it is calculated there will be concentrated a valuable interest that will bring Chicago, Cin cinnati, and St. Louis into competition. An especial part of the railroad interest there necessarily centres in the determination to bridge the Ohio. This, it is proposed, shall be done under the general law of Congress. THE BOSTON, HARTFORD, AND ERIE RAILROAD. —The Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad is being pushed along as fast as possible. Fifty large dump cars, to be drawn by steam locomotives, are being put upon the road, and two locomotives will soon be put upon a temporary track. These arrange ments will insure the rapid progress of the work of excavating and filling, of which there is a large amount to be done in the Valley of the Natchaug, as well as at other points. Workmen are at work digging away for the foundations for the abutments for the bridge across the Natchaug, and laying a temporary track for the conveyance of the stone from the quarry a little distance up the stream. They have there large quantities of some of the finest stone for the purpose. It is expected that the road will be finished to Willimantic by the close of 1869. —Hartford Times. THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD COM PANY AND ITS CONNECTIONS. —A few years ago it was thought to be a great financial blunder when the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company dis posed of its monied interest in the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad. Now, however, the shrewdness of this sale is apparent. The Fort Wayne Road was a completed enterprise, furnishing the desired connection direct with Chicago, and must be ran by whomsoever owned in the direct interest of the Central Road. Their own proper capital withdrawn from the Fort Wayne, which now de facto is a part of the general system, enabled the owners of the Central Road to put forward their other connections, not yet se cured, south of the line of the Fort Wayne Road. Th 3 results of these efforts present the strongest possible combinations through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to the Mississippi. A study of this stupen dous system is interesting and profitable. Taking Pittsburg as the objective point, an uninterrupted and direct line is opened to Chicago by way of the Fort Wayne Railroad, to Cincinnati by the Pittsburg, Columbus, and Cincinnati line, and to Indianapolis by the Columbus and Indiana Central. Diverging from their main line at Piqua, another one extends through Union to Logansport, and thence westward, under the control also of the Columbus and Indianapolis Central, via the Logan sport and Peoria Roads, to Burlington on the Mis sissippi. From Indianapolis wes, the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Roads, and the new State line from Terre Haute to St. Louis, now being rapidly pushed to completion, are owned and controlled by essentially the same interests. Also the new and important line ~from Indianapolis, via Craw fordsville to Danville, Illinois, and on to Bloom ington and Peoria, has passed into the control of the same great consolidation. It will thus be seen that from Pittsburgh as a centre this system reaches to every important commercial point in the West. The m tgnitude of interests involved in so gigantic a scheme in our rapidly developing West cannot be even faintly realizA.—Cincinnati Gazette. The Grand Trunk Railroad offers to take passen gers from Maine to Chicago and bask for pc), or by way of Niagara, $33 50c. during the session of the Republican National Convention, on two months' tickets. The IVa ll-street Journal says :—Holders of the Central Pacific Railroad Bands are joint investors with the United States Government in the Grand Continental Pacific Railroad line, having the prior claim thereon. These securities are highly recom mended to persons desiring good, safe, steady in vestments. They are for sale, at present, at par and accrued interest in currency—the interest and principal being repayable in gold—and now yield nearly nine per cent. upon the outlay. The first through train from New York to Sioux City reached that point on the 30th M irch, having left the former place nine days previous, loaded with goods for Montana. Sioux City is 1,040 miles above St. Louis, so that precisely that amount of precarious steamboating is saved to the Montana trade. A Southern Trans-Continental. Railroad to the Pacific will soon be running parallel to the Central Utah route. General Fremont is now in Washing ton to look after the interests of the Railroad and Telegraph Company of Texas, which proposes to make a way from Jefferson, in that Szate, west ward, by El Paso to San Diego, in California ; connecting with side roads to San Francisco, Guay mas, and other places. The eastern part of this great thoroughfare would terminate at Norfolk, in Virginia, or at some other favourable point south of Washington. Such a road would be scarcely second in importance to the Central Pacific, and play a great part in the reconstruction and restora tion of our Southern States. For the building of the river railroad from Hart ford to the mouth of the Connecticut $1,463,709 must be pledged, to insure success, by the towns on its ruute. Hartford of course bears the chief bur den, with a tax of 2 per cent. on its taxable pro perty, which will amount to $842,574. All other towns on the west bank will need to pledge 4 per cent., save Rocky Hill, while of those on the east is required 1I per cent. Active measures are being taken to make the connection between the extremity of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific as complete as pos sible. Recently Messrs. Abbott, Downing, and Co., of New Hampshire, consigned to Wells, Fargo, and Co., Omaha and Salt Lake city, thirty elegant coaches, and I. R. Hill two hundred and fifty co ac h harnesses. The coaches will carry 9 passengers insiie and 10 outside. The average weight of the coaches is 2,250 pounds. Fourteen sides of leather were used on each coach, for boot, thorough-braces, &c. They will run between the eastern and western division of the Pacific railroad, and they were taken away by a special railroad train. The permanent bridge over the Mississippi, at Omaha, is settled. It is to be erected half a mile south of the business centre, where the high ground will enable the company to run on an easy grade to the foot of the mountains. The company has se lected the depot grounds, which will be appraised, and the owners paid by the city. The bridge is to be of granite foundation and piers, and the iron, structure it is estimated, will cost about two mil lions. It will be nearly two years under conaruc tion. The company is surveying the ground and sounding the river, and will commence work in a few weeks. The granite will be brought there from the Rocky Mountains. It is expected that a large number of mechanics will be employed as soon as the work commences. The Erie Railway Bill, legalising the issue of $10,000,000 New Stock, has passed the No v York House by the unexpected majority of 101 to 5, and the bill authorizing the construction of an un derground railway in New York city has also been passed. Vanderbilt has secured a substantial and valuable triumph in the pio rata Freight Bill. The bill if passed would have prevented all unjust discrimi nation against local and• way freight and freight consigned to steamboat lines. It was ordered to a third reading by a vote of thr,!e, to one, and t.co days afterwards was defeated by a vote of two to . one. President Eldridge of th Erie Railroad has issued a congratulatory circular over what he calls the vic tory over Vanderbilt and on the decision of the New York L'3gislature legalising the issue of ten millions of stock, and advises that part of the funds alr.!aly realized from the sale of bowls be expended in double tracking the Delaware division of the road, upon which. occurred the recent terrible acci dent. Mr. Eldridge has made bold to visit his family in Boston, and Mr. Drew has left Jersey City and returned peaceably to New York. But though these outward signs of peace are visible, no one knows on what terms the great Vanderbilt con sents to the truce, and what will be the next move. —Springfield Republican. The Union Pacific Railroad Company has com pleted another section of 20 miles on the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and the road now extends 570 miles west of Omaha. Another section of 20 miles will be completed in a short time, and the road will extend about 200 miles beyond the Rocky Mountains before the close of 1868. The earnings, expenses, and rate of dividend of the Pennsylvaniit Central Railroad Company, upon whose passenger and freight charges there is no re striction, except that imposed by competition with other lines, were as follows in each of the last three years : 1865. 1866. 1867. Dols. Dols. Dols. Earnings 17,459,169 16,583,883 16,340,156 Expenses Net Earnings 4,189,111 3,792,974 4,259,856 1865. 1866. 1867. Percentage of expenses 76 77.9 71 Rates of dividend I►L 1864 the earnings were $14,759,038, and the expenses $10,693,944, leaving the net earnings $4,065,114. The percentage of expenses was 72.6, and the rate of dividend 10 per cent. It has been said of this road that it is one of the best con structed and best managed in the country, and yet its expenses average 73 per cent. of its gross receipts. RISE iN THE VALUE OF LAND IN 7HE UNITED STATES. (From the Anglo-American 2 lazes.) rlhe rise in the value of real estate in America is very marked. Most persons thought that specula tion in land had been overdone. In the city of New York the lot on which stands the sewing machine establishment of Wilcox and Gibbs, at the south corner of Bond -street and Broad-street, has within a lifetime risen from ten dollars to 200,000, the latter sum offered for it having been refused. The island on which New York stands was once sold for ten dollars ; and though probably the most valuable tract of land in the world, it is nearly all owned by some twelve capital ists. Many of the shrewdest speculators six months ago thought there would be a sharp decline in the price of land, but they have been mistaken. It is thought that the rise in real estate is in some measure due to the repudiators, but along the line of the Union Pacific the increase is in obedience to natural causes, and is immense. Speculation is turning in that direction, and the lots the company have announced they will offer during the summer will in all probability be eagerly taken up. In Chbago more money has last year been made by speculation in land than in any previous year in the history of the city. Some property was soil on Wabash Avenue for $12,000, but the gen tleman, repenting of the bargain, bought it back for $20,000, and the other day again sold it fors4o,ooo. In St. Louis there is a perfect furore for build ing, and there has never even in that prosperous town been seen so many good houses and stores in course of erection. It is settled that the Mississippi will be bridged at that point. Council Bluffs on the left bank of the Missouri, opposite Omaha, on the right bank, is progressing with great rapidity, as it is fixed to be the depot whence the trains to San Francisco will be made up. The Union Pacific Company own lands in that city worth over $200,000 for their buildings, and the bridge will connect Council Bluffs with Omaha. At one time it was feared that Belle Vue, seven miles below, would be the spot chosen ; but the fact that Coun cil Bluffs is the terminus of six railroads from the East settled the question. Omaha in two years has increased in population from four thousand to fifteen thousand, over twelve hundred build ings having been erected last year, a number which will probably be exceeded in the present year, many of them being of brick. Far West the most rising town is Cheyenne (pronounced Shy-en), but eight months old, yet numbering 4,000 in habitants. The Union Pacific Railway is completed 570 miles west of Omaha, giving to Chicago a rail communication direct West of 1,060 miles. A branch is to connect Cheyenne with Denver, ex tensive shops are being constructed, and it 15 thought that a Government arsensal will be there located. The increase of population pouring along the Union Pacific road may be conjectured from the fact that for the last three months 20 cars filled with emigrants have been dispatched each day. LA ovitaTisEuEsT.] Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta, Arabica, Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma., con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange ments, hremorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness biliousness, fevers, sore throat s , diphth e ria, catarrhs, colds, in flueuza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu ritie, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness , acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsYr cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, Sc We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry 5 Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning a ! 1 other !medics, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry Revalenta. Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro luced a surprisingly beneficial effect ou his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette da July 23. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. — Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,8 32 . " Fifty years indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Be ware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which,- without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. 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