The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-30 00:00:00

tgismlT PIIBLIELIOWINALB rThe Times, referring to the meeting of the Zvangeffcals for special prayer, says there is one part of the business Vonn-which it is possible to be ve r y p ra y erful and unpoli.. 'al ; though we doubt it even as we say it. The usual, and, indeed, almost universal manner of conducting a con. tested election is a sore scanda l to re p resentative institu tions, and to all constitutional governm ent. Every such election is an appeal to man a s he is, and it makes him certainly not better than hews& He does not cons ider . himself to be on his good behaviour like a . man . going to church, or to court, toga wedding, or a ch . nstening. On the contrary, he thinks it a time of hcense, of self. will, of self-indulgence, self-seeking, and every form of selfishness. The candidates and their friends take him on his own chewing and his own estimate of himself, and he is either bamboozled, or intoxicated, or bribed, Or cajoled with visionary hopes for himself or the nation. Anyhow, he is treated as a man under the excitement of he hour, and carried beyond the bounds of reason and propriety. It is vain to suppose we shall ever cure this by altering the electoral stratum, for, high or low, the British elector would be found a very average piece of unman nature. So here is something to preach and pray for, and something to preach and pray down, if it be possible. By all means let Lord Ebury and his friends pray down bad agents, bad beer, bad spirits, bad argu ments, and bad practices generally. No quarter to the club or the sub-committee that meets every night at the Pig and Whistle, and keeps it up past lawful hours to promote purity of election ; no quarter to that Pagan divinity, the Man in the Moon ; no quarter to the enthusiastic and utterly uncredited young men going about with their pockets full of sovereigns, how come by nobody knows, and ready to give as freely as they appear to have received. If Heaven can be moved to stop all this, it will be the miracle of the 19th century, and may be presumed to be for the conversion of mankind to sound constitutional principles. But even here the preach. ing and praying must not be all on one side. The Bible enjoins courage and independence quite as much as it does temperance—nay, more, we should be dis posed to say. So if Lord Ebury and his friends preach and pray against strong drink and filthy lucre, they are bound to preach and pray with equal fervour and simpli city against intimidation, against influence, against all the highly respectable, quiet, and potent means employed to make a man vote as somebody wishes him to vote. The Post approves of the appointment of Sir John Young as the new Governor-General of Canada, but cannot join in the loud chorus of praise which has been demanded for the great disinterestedness of this appoint ment, the patrons being a Conservative or Constitutional Government (whichever is the preferred epithet), and the recipient, it is said, a member of the Liberal party. It is very strongly in our minds that the Government have ardently desired to do something capable of being pleaded as a set-off when the Mayo job comes to be discussed. If we are not misinformed, Sir John Young has only been lately thought of for Canada, though the Government have long known that the duty would devolve on them of providing a successor for Lord Monck, and though it is some time since Sir John Young returned from New South Wales. It has been freely reported that the Governor -Generalship of Canada was placed at Lord Mayo's disposal, but that his lordship thought nothing good enough for him abroad except India ; and rumour has also mentioned Lord John Manners in connection with the appointment. The Post re minds its readers that a bill was hurried through Parliament to make the now extinct office of Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands an office within the scope and meaning of the Colonial Governors' Pension Act ; and this was for the special benefit of Sir John Young, who had been Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands before he was Governor of New South Wales. We judge from this also that there was then no idea of profiting by Sir John Young's good qualities for the government of Canada. The general approval with which his name has been received may be taken also as a censure of the treat ment which he received at the hands of Lord Derby's Government of 1858-9, when his position in the lonian Islands having been made untenable by no fault of his, but by the publication in London, through fraud, of an important confidential despatch of his to Lord Lytton, he was ultimately discredited and sacrificed ; and it remained for the Duke of Newcastle, in Lord Palmerston's Govern ment, to do him some tardy justice by appointing him Governor of New South Wales. Let us hope that re membrance of injustice formerly done has helped to lead Mr. Disraeli to concur in this appointment. It is some what of a strain to speak of Sir John Young as a Liberal. He was born and bred a Conservative, and he remained a Peelite after Mr. Disraeli abjured Peel. He has been out of Parliament now for many years, and has long since ceased to be known as a politician. The Herald says it would be interesting to know th precise point at which, in the estimate of the Libera, party, the interference of outsiders in elections becomes " illegitimate." The definitions with which we have been favoured thus far seem rather to indicate the heinous ness of non-interference. We have seen the Marquis of Bute soundly rated because he declines to employ his in fluence on behalf of the Liberal candidate for Cardiff. The Duke of Somerset's refusal to put on the screw at Totnes in the interest of his party is attributed to the resentment of a discarded placehunter. Lord Overstone's announcement that he is not disposed to further the chances of the Glad stonian candidate for North Northamptonshire has goaded a Radical print to sneer at him as "a nouveau riche and a parvenu peer." If, as it would seem, abstention is a crime, active intervention would, of course, be a sin of the deepest dye. But the rule is not of universal application. The Liberals draw the line at peers, and approve of any amount of interference within that reservation. Their represen tative men are untiring in their efforts to impress the electors in favour of candidates "of the true stamp." Mr. Goldwin Smith, mercifully delaying his departure for another and a better hemisphere, appears at one moment at Exeter, at another at Oxford, at another at Marylebone, championing the cause of those transcendant Liberals, `Messrs. Coleridge, Harcourt, and Sandwith. Mr. Stuart Mill, albeit he is rigidly determined not to pay a farthing of his own election expenses, scatters his cheques and his guineas wherever there is a chance of buying a seat for a socialist or an infidel. Mr. Edward Miall posts down to Maidstone to guarantee the ortho doxy of Sir John Lubbock and Mr. Angerstein. Mr. Bright publishes to the world his belief that Northampton cannot do better than return the sitting members, Mr. Gilpin and Lord Henley ; and the Radical candidate for Galway solicits the sweet voices of that mail-packet-con ,tract-loving constituency with a written testimonial from Mr. Gladstone attesting his" integrity and ability." In fact, the great Liberal party seems to have resolved itself into " a mutual admiration society," the members of which make it their special business to go up and down the country eulogising each other, and dinning it into the ears of the constituencies that their dear friend So-and-so is really the man for the seat. The Herald reproaches the Liberals with ingratitude to such men as Beales, Bradlaugh, and Odger. The extreme 'doctrines of Radicalism are taken up by the young aristo ,cr and the other class is not wanted. Mr. Gladstone ands party have used them and accepted their fellowship, and it is simply shabby and mean to endeavour to throw them overboard because they have done their work. They were not ashamed of the Adeiphi agitators, nor unwilling to accetat their aid in the struggle of the past three years ; and the underhand attempt to drive Odger from Chelsea and Bradlaugh from Northampton is as ungrateful as it is disingenuous. The Telegraph remarks that if the Liberal party is to have a compact and commanding majority in the new House of Commons, the sooner it sets its ranks in order. the better. The largest army in the world, without discipline, is simply the most formidable and mischievous of mobs ; and we do not hesitate to repeat, that what the Liberals eminently need at the present 'Moment is a good drill-sergeant. Of the ultimate issue of the contest in which they are engaged there can be little doubt. There is a strength in their principles which must and will prevail ; but the hour of victory may be indefinitely delayed by dissentions, jealousies, and faint-heartedness. Even so glaring an abuse, so monstrous an outrage on justice, as the Irish Church, may prove to have yet a few years' life in it, if the tactics of its defenders are more sagacious than those of its assailants. The Con servatives never fling away a single chance, and are now fighting as loyally for Benjamin Disraeli as ever they did for Wellington or Peel. While agreeing with Dr. Ross's able defence of tne right of women to medical education, the Daily News differs from some of the arguments by which he and the respected president of the society sought to gain the appro bation of the community for a medical college whose graduates propose to limit the scope of their practice to the diseases of children and the duties of the sage femme. The argument to which we particularly refer is that which assumes the unfitness of men to treat some of the diseases and troubles peculiar to women. Such a position seems to us not only based upon false modesty, but fraught with evils to society. In the presence of disease, pain, and danger, the consideration of sex should be, and we believe is as a rule, banished, and the only thought admitted—how to relieve or save the sufferer. Without agreeing with Michelet, that woman is constitutionally an invalid, all know that a large majo rity iof invalids are women, and that the sex is liable to many and formidable ailments at every period of life. It must be a long time, to say the least, before women can generally possess the high scientific knowledge and medical training necessary to render their sex all the aid it needs ; and we deprecate the dissemination of prejudices and sentiments which might, if prevalent, !dead them to Ocur needless dangers, rather than seek the best skill that car, le , obtained. whotlicr it bo that of roan or woman.' ACCIDATTyO 2IGNOI, 1 • ac 9ident occurred on Monday night, at the perform• a of the Italian Opera Company in Dublin, that might have been attended with serious consequences to Signor Mongini, in consequence of the awkwardness of one of the soldiers." The opera was "Les Huguenots," and the accident occurred at the close of the last act, in the course of a mock conflict. In the final scene Raoul is represented as wounded in the struggle in a street on the quays of Paris, by the soldiers, led on by St. Brie, and the curtain falls amid the conflict and the strife of armed men. Just at this juncture Mdlle. Titiens rushed In front of the stage, calling out, in an agitated and earnest voice, to know if there was a doctor present. Dr. Moore, of Stephen's-green, who fortu nately happened to be present, came forward, and he found Signor Mongini sitting o oily chair behind the scenes, the blood flowing very copfrom a wound on the side of the face near the ear. been inflicted by a sword, and as given by a down stroke ; but, although causing a considerable gush of blood, it was not as serious as if the point had entered the face. Signor Mongini was much exhausted, but Dr. Moore promptly applied the necessary means for arresting the flow of blood, and reassured those present, who naturally dis played great excitement and alarm at the occurrence. Signor Foli was so much moved when he saw the blood streaming down the face of his friend, at the moment not knowing but that a dangerous, if not fatal, injury had been inflicted, that be became insensible for a time. Drs. Scriven and Fogarty arrived subsequently ; but happily the wound is not of a description to produce more than a temporary inconvenience. LAW AND POLICE. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WOMAN.-At Rochdale Police court James Duffey has been charged with violently assaulting an old woman, named Catherine M`Keown. The policeman who had charge of the case stated he was told that an old woman had been murdered in a house in High-street. He went there, and found the woman on the floor, bleeding from the eyes and the ears. At first she appeared to be dead, but afterwards she 'hewed signs of life. While in the house the prisoner came in and kicked him, without receiv ing any provocation. Duffey was drunk at the time. Bridget Duffey, the prisoner's wife, stated that the old woman was her mother, and had been residing with her and her husband. James Duffey came home drunk, and sa_ . he could not " abide " her mother. He then beat witness, and turned her out of the house. She opened the shutter and looked through the window, and saw the prisoner run and kick her mother in the head. The prisoner was remanded, as the woman, who is between 70 and 80 years of age, is not expected to survive her injuries. A SINGULAR BETTING CASE.—A singular betting case has just been brought before the Marlborough-street magistrate. A waiter, named Sedgeley, was charged with detaining or stealing a letter, and prosecutor's counsel stated that he was a betting agent, and was in the habit of receiving letters from the country containing gold or notes for him to back certain horses on com mission. The accused called at his house during his absence, and, seeing a letter, undertook to deliver it. His housekeeper gave it to him, but he had kept it, and prosecutor did not know whether or not it contained a £5 or a £lO note. The learned gentleman added that it was a common practice among a certain class of betting men to steal letters addressed to betting agents. Thus, a man who made a bet through an agent must not only calculate on all the ordinary turf jobbery, the withdrawal or doctoring of favourites, and directions some times given to jockeys to lose, but, besides the slipperiness of his agent, the chance of his letter and remittance being stolen. In this case defendant said the letter was one he had written himself to prosecutor complaining of his dis honesty, and, seeing it had not been delivered, be asked for it in order to withdraw it. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that that was a stealing nevertheless, and committed the accused 'or trial. A SINGULAR JUDGMENT.—At the Skipton petty session. Edward Wallis, of Skipton, commercial traveller, was charged, a day or two back, by Jonathan Watson, with trespassing in pursuit of game on the 27th of August last in the Raikes Meadow, occupied by Mr. W. Bell. The complainant proved the trespass, and put in evidence the written leave of the tenant, giving his master the shooting over the land in question. The com plainant, in cross-examination, admitted that he had secured the right of shooting over the land since the alleged trespass had been committed by the defendant, namely, on the 10th of September instant. It appears that the land in question forms part of the Tarn Moor Estate, and is the poor land of the township of Skipton, and by Act of Parliament all freeholders of the annual value of £lO and upwards are the trustees for the land, and any one of them has power to grant leave to any person (duly licensed) to sport over it. The defendant adduced in evidence the written leave of a freeholder, given in July last, and also the leave of the tenant, besides his license to kill game ; thus proving his right to sport over the land. The magistrates consulted upwards of half an hour, and then announced " they had given the case their best consideration, and fined defendant ss. and costs." Notice of appeal was given, and a numerously-attended meeting was held the same afternoon, and a subscription list started to resist magistrates in what was described as their attempt to monopolise the shooting. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—At the Liverpool Police- Court, on Tuesday, a cab-driver, named Charles Devine, was charged with having caused the death of a labourer, named Thomas Dalton, in Regent-road. On the afternoon of Tuesday week Dalton was found in a state of insensibility in Regent-road, and was subsequently removed to an hospital, where he died the following day of fracture of the skull and effusion of blood on the brain. At the inquest held on the body there was no evidence to chew how the deceased received his injuries, and an open verdict was returned. It afterwards transpired that Devine had knocked Dalton down in the street twice before the arrival of the officer, and this having been proved he was taken into custody. and committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter. QUERY.—CouId a thief chargad with stealing your carte de visite legally set up a defence that he was only taking your portrait ? The Mont Cenis Company is, it is said, carrying a great many passengers. People prefer the shortest road, particularly in a season of the year unfavourable to the picturesque. " So," said Hook, addressing a gatekeeper Who ,vas hoarse, " you haven't recovered your voice yet ? " " No, sir," was the answer, " I've caught a fresh cold." But why did you catch a fresh one ? " asked Hook; " why didn't you have it cured ? " FALL OF A FACTORY AND Loss OF LIFE.—At Grasse a manufactory of perfumery fell in the other day, burying a number of persons under the ruins. Six of the workmen were taken out dead, and seven badly injured. The clearing away of the rubbish continued, and more bodies will, it is feared, be discovered. The Minister of the Interior sent an immediate relief of 3,000 f. AT THE HONEYMOON HOTEL.—I subjoin some observations upon early pairs—that is, on the character and conduct of newly-married couples as observed daily from a shaded spot in our own parlour, and out of the corner of my eye. The male bird is first seen. He perches himself on a bench outside, and casts i etrospective glances into the sitting-room for the coming of the beloved object to make his tea. He is attired in as gorgeous plumage as though he were about to perambulate Pall. mall, instead of stroll upon the sea-shore all day. The newspaper lies folded on his knee. What are politics or polemics to Edwin when he is waiting for his Emma. Presently, there is a flutter of some ample but delicate substance, and out she comes, in muslin, radiant as a star. She stoops down and presses her coral lips to his sublime forehead, then stands with one hand lightly resting on his shoulder, looking out upon the cerulean deep. She says something in a soft bewitching tone, eulogistic of the scenery. He replies with some pretty compliment upon herself. She pats his manly cheek rebukingly, and steps on to the lawn to pluck a flower for his button-hole ; in doing so, she catches sight of the present writer, blushes like the rose she has gathered, and flits back with the dreadful news that they are not entirely alone. It is one of the prettiest pantomimes in the world. In some cases this performance is repeated morning after morning ; but in others the performance, after a day or two, varies considerably. Edwin gra. dually awakens from his dream of bliss, and begins to take an interest in the Times. I hear him ringing for the waiter, and inquiring, in a tone of solicitude, if there are prawns for breakfast. If he is a sluggard by nature, his old habit re-asserts itself, and Emma will present herself first in the verandah, making a sun shine in that shady place. She cuts the newspaper for her lord, but never reads it ; she may hold it up before her, but it is as likely as not to be upside down. If a smile irradiates her pretty face, it is of him she is thinking. Presently the wretch comes down to receive his tribute of a kiss (I hear it through the open window so distinctly that it gives me quite a thrill), after which begins a tinkling of spoons— I allude to the breakfast service—and tender muffled talk. On the third morning the male bird smokes in the verandah, and I perceive that, instead of the pair of shiny shoes in which he has previously appeared, he wears slippers. The next day I catch him occasionally taking out his watch, as though time was going just a little slow at the Honeymoon Hotel ; —I 111 e. end of the week he yawns,7 7 -Cham6cris journal. THE "LIFE OF BURKE." tween the religious temper of the eighteenth and that of the nineteenth century ? 9. I maintained " that political expediency, and not natural right, is the measure of politi cal power." Such, surely, has been the view of all law-givers, ancient and modern. They have apportioned political power to the wants and the capacity of different classes, and of different descriptions of men. All classes, and all individuals in a State have an inherent, ab solute right to the protection of life, freedom, and property, but not to the exercise of legisla tive power, for example, or to the election of legislators. I never said that the clergy had an inhe rent, absolute right to political authority. Take, for example, the French Senate. It would be more expedient, more fitting, that the Episcopal body should be there more powerfully represented; but to such a representation the French bishops have no absolute, inherent right. The same remark will apply to the ancient nobility of that country. 10. You say that " I make Burke a peg whereon to hang a world of matter." lam astonished at such an assertion, when I have given a summary of all the leading events of his life, analyzed his chief writings, and some of them even more fully than Mr. Macknight himself, in his comprehensive biography. I have vindicated Burke's political principles more at length than anyof his preceding biogra phers ; and, if I have indulged in a disquisition on political philosophy, it was to develope, and therefore the better to defend and illustrate, the political views of the great statesman. 11. As to the immense services which the Catholic Church has rendered to the cause of European civilization, I beg to refer you to the testimony of eminent Protestant historians, like John von Muller, Luden, Voight, Hurter before his con version to Catholicism, Leo, and Guizot. The Reformation came fifteen hundred years too late to found Christian civilization. 12. You pity me for wearing intellectual fetters. But in the same way as your belief in the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, a state of future rewards and punish ments, and in the necessity of prayer, cramps not, but rather invigorates your intellect, so the doctrines of the - Catholic Church, which is " the pillar and ground of the truth," and wherewith, according to the promise of her Divine Founder, " the Spirit of Truth abideth for ever," enlarge and illuminate the mind. That Church emancipates its followers from the dark superstitions of heathenism, and from the endless uncertainties of Protestantism, and has consequently produced the mightiest intel ligences that have ever adorned the world, from the Justins and Clements of the second century down to the Schlegels, the Gorreses, the Mohlers, and the De Maistres, the De Bonalds, and the Newmans of our time. And the greatest spirits of Protestantism are pre cisely those which have partaken most largely of the illumination.—l remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, J. B. ROBERTSON. Brompton, Sept. 10, 1868. The following letter has been addressed to the Athencewm , : SIR,—As you have on former occasions treated me with great courtesy, I trust you will now permit me to trespass for a short time on your columns. In your recent notice of my " Lectures on the Life, Writings, and Times of Edmund Burke," you have unwittingly fallen into some mistakes regarding facts personal to myself, as well as into some misconceptions as to the social and intellectual influences of the Catholic Church. These mistakes and these misconceptions I will now endeavour, with your permission, to correct within the shortest space possible. You begin by saying " that I was once a pupil of De Lamennais, and am now an Ultra montanist." This sentence seems to imply, that a change has occurred in my religious sentiments. I was brought up a Catholic ; and when, in my youth, I was the friend and the follower of the Abbe de la Mennais, that ecclesiastic was then the glory of religion, and the pride of French literature. The Abbe de la Mennais, who flourished as a writer from 1808 to 1834, was a very different character from M. Lamennais, who wrote during the twenty following years. His fall, more ap palling even than that of Tertullian, which had occurred sixteen hundred years before, opened in the same life an abyss, which sepa rated him from his friends, and even in a manner from himself. Among the many ser vices he rendered to religion in the first por tion of his life, not the least was to have banished the Gallican opinions from the Church of France, and brought back her clergy to those views of the Papacy proclaimed by the French Bishops under Louis XIII., and subse quently defended by the great Fenelon. But in the work you notice, I have had no occasion to enter upon the consideration of those ques tions. 2. You say that when, in my dedicatory letter to Cardinal Cullen, I assert that Burke and Johnson would, under more favourable circumstances, have become Catholics, his Eminence must have smiled. I know not whether the assertion will provoke or no a smile on your part, but I can affirm (and I trust without indiscretion), that Cardinal Cullen, in common with many others, holds that Burke had strong Catholic leanings. The same assertion was made long ago by the Abbe de la Mennais, and by the eminent convert, the Baron d'Eckstein ; and those writers had not then seen Burke's private correspondence, published in 1844 by the late Earl Fitzwilliam, and where the semi-Catholic views and feel ings of the illustrious statesman are more pro minently set forth. 3. You say " that I have no doubt about my own qualifications" for the task I undertook. Such confidence I expressly disclaimed. But as in the Catholic Ch urch all the religious, moral, and social truths are brought forward in 'their plenitude, their integrity, and their harmony, the Catholic when treating of meta physics, moral and social philosophy, and modern history, has cceteris paribus, an im mense advantage over a Protestant, and still more an infidel. This advantage would not be questioned by any well-instructed Catholic. 4. You take exception to my statement, " that a nation's chief strength lies not in its political, but in its religious institutions." I should have thought that even a Pagan philo sopher, provided he were not a sceptic or an epicurean, would not have called so obvious a truth in question. You tell me, with a sneer, that I might have illustrated my statement by the example of Spain. I accept, Sir, your illustration. The religious institutions of Spain are so vigorous, so excellent, that they have made her people (in the words of Fox's nephew, the late Lord Holland, who was anything but friendly to the Catholic Church), " the most virtuous people in Europe." And this assertion is cited, and apparently approved of, by the infidel Buckle. In my last work, entitled " Lectures on Modern History and Biography," I showed the excellence of Spain's political institutions down to the middle of the sixteenth century, as well as the valuable remnants which had been preserved even down to our times. 5. You sneer at me for saying that the Catholic Church offers " supernatural aids to virtue in rich abundance, and that there is a renovating efficacy in her Sacraments." I have a right to protest that you should attri bute to me, as a personal idiosyneracy, a truth held by two hundred and fifty millions of my co-religionists, as well as by seventy millions of Greek schismatics, to say nothing of the Nestorian and Entychian communities. 6. You receive, with a sarcastic smile, my assertion that, at the outbreak of the Revo lution of 1789, France possessed " not only a pious and heroic clergy, but a vast multitude of devoted Christians in every order of the laity." The defence which Burke made of that clergy I have fully justified in the work you have noticed. And I shall say no more at pre sent, than to appeal to members of the English Protestant clergy, aristocracy, and gentry, whose immediate predecessors received that exemplary priesthood with such generous hos pitality, and who bore witness to th© many virtues which adorned them. I make bold to say that England, Wales, and Scotland cannot show such a peasantry as in 1793 rose in defence of the throne and the altar in Poitou, Brittany, Lower Normandy, Maine, and Touraine. In other provinces, doubtless, under equally favourable circumstances, we should have witnessed a like religious heroism. The conduct of the Noblesse of those pro vinces is a bright specimen of the country gentlemen of France, uncontaminated by the vices and irreligion that prevailed at the court and in the capital. In all the intermediate classes of France many and most devoted Christians were to be found. This fact is proved by the zeal and courage evinced by individuals in all ranks of life during the reign of Terror ; by the fortitude with which they suffered imprisonment and death in be half of their religion ; by the warm reception the people gave to Pope Pius VI. and Pope Pius VII., when they severally entered on the French territory ; and, lastly, by the ala crity with which, on the re-opening of the churches, the masses thronged round the altars. Richard Burke, in a letter to his father, from Coblenz, notices, too, the happy change which, in 1791, had already taken place in the religious and political sentiments of the emi grant nobles. It was in the high court nobility, the moneyed and professional classes, and espe cially among the literati, irreligion had, in the eighteenth century, struck the deepest roots. 7. I had said, that in a Catholic country , where there is a variety of religions, " the most religious Catholic statesman would have acted like Burke ; that is, maintained the internal government of his own Church, and at the same time advocated the toleration of the Dis senting sects. To this assertion you oppose the Catholic statesmen of Spain " where there is no variety of religions." May I not retort upon you, Sir, your own question, " Are you really serious?" And must not the most inattentive of your readers see through the fallacy of your argument? 8. You say " that I have a fixed idea that the English press is altogether infidel." If a man were to say that there was a great deal of drunkenness in London, would he thereby declare that all its inhabitants were drunkards? I complained of the rationalizing section of the Anglican clergy ; I observed " that Deism was active and influential in the press ;" and that a new school of Materialists had arisen,• supported by considerable talents." And can any one deny that infidelity in this triple form is active in the press ? But if I said there were many elements foreboding destruction to England, did I deny the hopeful signs ? Did I not speak of the piety and virtue observable in all classes of Englishmen, and especially of the remarkable approximations to Catholic truth, and of the many conversions to the Catholic Church, which form so striking a contrast be- Whitchaven Library and Sacristies beneath Kilburn ... THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINd , SE P T EMBER 80, 1868 as having been erected on more advantageous tr:rms "Capuchin Church, Peck ham ... 130 ft. by 70 ,25,800 'Carmelite Church, Ken sington ... ... 130 " 73 .5,500 Stratford ... 130 " 50 5,000 Sheerness ... ... 310 " 48 4,200 Ashton-under-Lyne ... 80 " 70 3,000 Longton ... 132 " 62 5,000 Stourbridge... ... 130 " 50 3,700 Wolverhampton ... ... 100 " 50 2,600 Rugby, nave and chancel 90 " 25 1,500 Croydon ... ... 90 " 42 2,200 Stafford ... ... 90 " 50 2,290 Dover ... ... 90 " 42 2,300 112 " 57 4,200 G 5 " 30 2,200 And the large church in Elsdon-street, Liverpool, 150 by 64, was built at 2 a foot. ! I have omitted from this list many of my Irish churches, most of which are, alas ! equally and unprecedently low in their cost; still these buildings are neither BARNS nor shams, and, in spite of their moderate price, they are built of sound materali, and with due regard to their hallowed use. It is quite time that the reports of which you speak were fairly met, and I have no hesitation in saying that large as the dimensions may be, they will, like Beau marchais' balloon, collapse with the prick of a pin as soon as they are examined. 1 need hardly say how gratified I am at your kind expressions of confidence in myself, and it is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add that no efforts on my part will be spared to serve you; and what is much more difficult, to produce, as far as possible, with means, -which I feel sure you are now convinced, are inadequate to their end, what is wanted. If Ido not hear from you, appointing Saturday for our meeting, I will hold myself disengaged for Monday or Tuesday next.—l am respectfully and sincerely yours, E. WELBY PUGIN. PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS. At the Republican State Convention of Massa chusetts, held at Worcester ou the 9th inst., it ap pears that the Lieutenant-Governor, William Claf lin, was unanimously nominated for Governor. 1)r. George B. Loring, of Salem, withdrew in a graceful speech ; wherein he stated that, judging by the re ception extended to him, it was almost as well to be a defeated as a successful candidate. There were about 1,500 representatives at the meeting, one of the largest ever held in the old Bay State, and it is supposed that the canclidate nominated at such a meeting is certain of election. The Hon. William Claflin was proposed by General Butler, who in terrupted a motion for a committee to collect and count the votes for Governor, and proposing this nomination as an amendment, it at once was carried by acclamation. Judge Russell, of Boston, nomi mated Col. Joseph Tucker of Lenox as Lieutenant- Governor. A delegate from Plymouth County nomi nated Whitney Griswold of Greenwich. The name of Chas. A. Stevens of Ware was also mentioned. Oa the first ballot there was no choice. After this result had been announced the name of Charles A. Stevens was withdrawn, and the Convention pro- seeded to a second ballot, with the following re sult :--Whole number of votes cast, 1,210 ; neces sary for a choice, 606 ; Joseph Tucker had 622, Whitney Griswold 574, C. A. Stevens 11, scatter ing 3. Colonel Tucker's nomination was made unanimous, on the motion of Mr. Griswold. A resolution was offered calling for Senator Sumner's re-election to the United States Senate, and greeted with loud cheering. These gentlemen were chosen electors at large :—David Sears, Boston ; John 11. Clifford, New Bedford. The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That the Republicans of Massachusetts heartily approve the platform adopted by the Republican party of the nation at Chicago, and pledge their earnest support to the election of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax as essential to the peace, safety, and honour of the country. Resolved, That the rights of the loyal citizens of the South, won by war and secured by national legislation, shall be maintained. Resolved, That we heartily approve the system of re construction established by the law-making power of the nation, as wise and humane, and as demanding no more than the security and good faith of the country require. Resolved, That we repudiate the position of the Demo cratic party recently and authoritatively taken, which has resuscitated the Rebellion, and proposes to overthrow, by force, if necessary, the already effected Reconstruction Acts. Resolved, That the success of the Democratic party tends directly to revolution and civil war. Resolved, That the success of the Republican party is essential to the public credit, as this party alone can be re lied on to make the actual and honest payment of the public debt in gold and silver a matter of sacred honour, while the Democratic proposition is an evasion of our duty and a fraud upon those who have trusted the nation. Resolved, That the public life of the Hon. Charles Sum ner, during the three terms of service in the Senate of the United States, has fully justified the confidence which has been successively reposed in him ; that his eloquence, fearless and persistent devotion to the sacred cause of human rights, as well in its early struggles as in its later triumphs, his beneficent efforts after the abolition of slavery, in extirpating all the incidents thereof, his con stant solicitude for the material interests of the country, his diligence and success as Chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Foreign Affairs in vindicating the policy and maintaining the just rights of the Government against foreign powers, and, at the same time, of preserving peace with the nations, all present a public record of rate use fulness and honour, and that his fidelity, experience, and honourable identification with our national history, call for his re-election to that high office in which he has ren dered such illustrious service to his country and to man kind. General Butler was well received by the Conven tion, and made, both at a caucus on the preceding evening and at the meeting, effective speeches. He said the extraordinary spectacle had been lately seen of Congress on the one side giving laws to the Republic, and the Executive upon the other side insisting that those laws should not be executed until anarchy reigned at the South, and no Union man's life was safe there. The issue now is pre cisely the same which was fought over in the war, and under the same leaders ; the very men that were met in the field. The Forrests and the Lees are at this hour the leaders of the Democratic party. General Butler then referred to the recent letter of General Lee, and said that he had told the North in that letter that the negroes who fought the Union battles and were faithful among the faithless can never have any political rights in the South. Butler contended that uo mutually beneficial arrangement could be made, for those who have no political rights are slaves. The old leaders have only changed their flag, which now is the Stars and Stripes, but all could remember when the war opened these leaders acknowledged they had made a great mis take in allowing the North the prestige of the old flag. At present they had determined "to steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil in." Minor questions before such issues should be laid aside. With General Blair he held Reconstruction to be the issue, because it involved peace or war. " Un less the constitutional amendment is ratified by all the States necessary, the payment of our national debt is not made a sure thing, and the chances for the pay ment of the Rebel debt look up. The party should not be divided upon the question of the manner of the payment of the national debt until the fact that it would some time be paid was assured. The Democracy, it is true, are carrying on the campaign upon entirely different ideas, inasmuch as it is their policy to keep the people ignorant of the true issues of the contest. In regard to their candidate for Governor in this State, he simply wished to say that his main recommendation for the nomination was in the fact that he once be longed to the Republican party. It was not to he forgotten, however, that only three years ago, in the Legislature of Maisachusetts, as a Republican, the same gentleman warned his party against receiving Democrats into their ranks, because ney might not always be faith ful. Upon this point General Butler said:—" If you are going to choose a man for any position, take one who has become a Republican from con viction." Men change their habits frequently, but rarely their convictions. In this connection Gen. Butler referred to Judge Abbott, complimenting his legal ability, but saying that he thought about as much of his political sagacity as he did when, in 1818, he was a Free-Soiler. Instead of discuss- THE COST OF CHURCH BUILDING. The following letters have been addressed I to a contemporary : SIR, —For some time past reports—which, however, in no particular case have appeared with proof—have been too easily credited, that the cost of my churches is inordinately expensive. These reports have culminated in a letter I received this morning from a valued client who, in the most friendly manner, has impressed them upon me. I can scarcely say they are prejudicial to me in my profes sion, as I have few clients who would not tes tify to the contrary ; but, as they are generally made by those who know nothing of me and my works, and exemplify some of the difficul ties under which an architect labours in his profession, I ask the favour of your inserting my reply to the letter I received, as an answer to such charges in general.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, E. WELBY PUGIN. Ramsgate, Sept. 24, 1868. REV. AND DEAR Sin,—With your permission, I will take some little trouble to place matters before you in their right light. On receiving your original instructions respecting the con ventual church, you may remember that I sug gested a plan which I considered was sufficient for your requirements. This, however, did n ot exactly meet your views, and you proposed enlargements, which brought the dimensions to a building 140 ft. long by 41ft. wide. This, with a chapel for the laity, 24ft. long by 22ft., sacristies, cloisters, leading to them, and a small tower for three bells, you required for a sum of £2,000 ! Now, how was this possible? On cubing the wor k the price was less than 1-1-d. a foot, which is insufficient, even to cover the cost of a common cottage. This was enough to damp one's energies at starting, for you told me that you expected " a gem," and what sort of a gem could have been produced for the mcney named—or, rather, let me ask what sort of a conventual church at all of the size required? Why the sum would not have paid for the bare materials. It was, moreover, re presented to me a s a sine qua non, that a pro per conventual style and spirit should be thoroughly preserved. To do this and keep the work within a moderate cost was a diffi culty of no little magnitude, and involved a considerable amount of thought, time, and trouble. However, I applied myself to the work, not without the consciousness that the means provided and the end aimed at were sufficient to take the wind out of any man's sails, and discourage him in his task. I took upon myself to reduce the dimensions of the community c hurch to a little more than those originally suggested, which, however, were still 132 ft. by 36ft., but increased the chapel for the laity to 48ft. by 38ft., so that the area of the buildings remained much the same ; but so far from running into extravagance, or " studying beauty more than usefulness," I have, according to my invariable practice, studiously avoided every feature and detail, ornamental or otherwise, which was not abso lutely necessary, and in the minutest respect consistent with the instructions I have re ceived, presuming that a conventual chapel, in accordance with the rule and manifesting the spirit of a religious order is required, and not a barn. I can safely say that not a feature, not a moulding, not an ornament, not even a line, is introduced for the sake of effect, or to the prejudice of actual " usefulness." Why, this is my constant cry, in public and in private, that architects receive too much money for their works, not too little, and employ it in fancies and caprices of tastes, and in the application of unnecessary p r ettiness and use less features, which ruin simplicity - , destroy form, propagate a love of over-ornamentation, and entail extravagance and expense. Yet clients are always demanding these, and select designs, not for beauty of form, perfection of proportions, simplicity of outline, and suitable ness of feature, but from a shallow desire of seeing something flashy and "sensational." Thus it is that clients are really the sole source of the very complaints charged upon the architect, that he runs them into expense from a preference of the ornamental to the useful. I must, however, give you a practical refu tation of the " report" you allege to have heard, that I " run people up to extravagance." I think, when men make a charge of this sort, they should prove it by examples ; but the pre sent case, like many others, is an exemplifica tion of the old proverb, " Give a dog a bad name, Sze." Let me ask you, did you hear of one single illustration of this charge ? So far as I know, my works will bear the most favourable com parison, as regards cost, with those of any other architects. I fearlesslyproduce the dimen sions and prices of some of my churches. Can similar buildings, in any direction, be named ing the great issues of the day, Judge Abbott had been telling his Democratic friends how many pen knives each member of Congress has. He has nothing to say of Forrest, nor anything about the victorious Grant and the Union armies. Not a word was to be heard about justice to the men who fought our battles, or about the soundness of our National Debt. Such things, Gen. Butler thought, showed the utter paucity of argument upon their side. He would not compare the number of pen-knives of each Congressman now with that of good old Democratic times, but he could show them that the Republican Congress had reduced the estimate of Government expenses $80,000,000 below what had been stated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who has recently de clared himself in favour of Seymour and Blair. This same Congress had also taken from the manufactur ing interests of the country a tax of $45,000,000, and to one penknife of extravagance mentioned by Judge Abbott, he could show a million dollars retrench ment." At the last Congressional election in Colo rado Geo. M. Chilcott, Republican, was elected by 108 majority over A. C. Hunt, Democrat, the total being 3,529 against3,42l. The advices from Denver to September 9 announces the election of Allen A. Bradford, Republican, as delegate to Congress. That city gave him 211 majority, and in every county heard from there was a Republican gain. From St. Louis the news was of a despatch from Santa Fe, dated Sept. 8, to the effect that " the Legislative election yesterday (Sept. 7) resulted in a Republican victory. The Legislature will be two-thirds Republican." We have been under a misapprehension, having overlooked the fact that the California election, which ordinarily takes place on the first Wednes day of September, was this year postponed to No vember, by a special act of the Legislature. Mem bers of Congress, presidential electors, and minor officers will then be chosen. The Springfield Re publican, of the 12th instant, says :—" A.good deal of activity now begins to be visible in the presiden tial canvass, and if there has ever been any doubt how the election would go, there is none now. The greatest political demonstration of the campaign, so far, was made by the Republicans of Indiana, at Indianapolis, last week Wednesday, and like meetings are soon to be held in other parts of the country. Mr. Pendleton says the result in Novem ber will depend on the October elections in Ohio, Indiana., and Illinois, and there is no doubt those States will elect the Republican ticket by increased majorities. In Indiana the Republicans claim that they shall carry nine of the eleven Congressional districts, and in Ohio they mean to carry sixteen out of twenty-one, and profess to be able to increase the Republican majority in the whole State over 15,000. Pendleton acknowledges the desperate condition of his party in his own State by cancelling all his engagements elsewhere, and confining all his efforts to home." At the Nevada Democratic State Convention, W. F. Anderson of Landley county was nominated for Congress, and R. 11. Taylor and P. H. Clayton for judges of. the Supreme Court. Presidential electors were also nominated. Among the Republican nominations are Amos Paul of Newmarket, New Hampshire, for Presidential elector for the first district, and Jason IV. Tap pan for the third district. At the Democratic State Convention held at New Haven, Connecticut, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, the following Presidential elec tors were nominated :—At large : Governor James E. English and General William B. Franklin ; first Congressional district, Alfred R. Goodrich ; second, Henry G. Hubbard ; third, Lloyd E. Baldwin ; fourth, Nathaniel Wheeler. The next day the R - publican State Convention nominated the following ticket for Presidential electors :—At large : Joseph R. Hawley of Hartford, and W. Fitch of New Ha ven ; first district, Clark Holt of Vernon ; second, Luther Boardman of East Haddam ; third, Henry Bill of Norwich ; fourth, Geo. Dudley of Winstead. In Maryland the Democrats nominated for Coa -1 greys Frederick Stone, Fifth District, Stevenson Archer re-nominated from Second District, Go vernor Swan Third District, comprising thirteen wards of Baltimore. The District of Minnesota have nominated Captain Eugene Wilson, of Min neapolis, for Congress. A. S. Wallace, of New York, has been nominated as the Republican can didate for Congress from the Fourth District of South Carolina. THE SOUTHERLY STATES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The irrepressible correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial has had an interview with General Forrest, in which that celebratel Confederate officer went through his facings at the correspondent's word of command. The Ku-Klux Klan, Forrest avers to be a genuine organization ramifying over the South. In Tennessee alone there are 40,000 men enrollel, and the total number amounts to half a million combatants. They await Brownlow's action with the militia when it is ordered out. If the slightest outrage is attempted, every white Radical in Ten nessee, all of whom are marked, would be killed without mercy. It is vain for the " carpet-baggers" and the " scallawags" (the difference, it appears, being that the former are Northern adventurers, and the latter Southern renegades), to hope that they may raise the storm and leave the negroes and the Southerners to fight it out, for arrangements have been so made that the first victims would be the Radicals themselves. Such a contest is abhorrent to himself and his brethren of the South, but they cannot avoid it if forced upon them. They are heartily sick of war, and desire, if allowed, to culti vate their lands in peace. Forrest spoke out, and if he did say what the correspondent alleges there can be little doubt that he means it, for he is not a dog that only barks, as the bloody annals of Fort Pillow can testify. The Legislature of Tennessee has passed a law empowering the Governor to send troops to any county, when ten loyal freeholders residing therein, backed by a Judge, member of Legislature, Sheriff, or Attorney-General, request it. The county in which the troops are used shall pay the expenses. In South Carolina the Legislature has passed a law, under the appre hension of a civil war preceding the Novem ber elections, clothing Governor Scutt in such case with the powers of a dictator. A reply has been published to the appeal of the whites to the President for protection, denying that the blacks desire to inaugurate a civil war, though they are prepared to resist aggression. They assert that the whites are themselves to blame by their opposition to the Congressional plan of Reconstruction. Their words are :—" But we_ cannot surrender the great palladium of our liberties—the ballot-box—for auy consideration whatever. And if we are to be massa cred because we ref use to vote the Democratic ticket; if we are to be murdered in cold blood because we will not sell our manhood, then let it come—we can die but once ; and if, as you state, thirty millions of white men are going to fall upon four millions because they are black, and will not vote for IL Seymour and F. P. Blair for President and Vice-President of the United States, both of whom have declared that the negroes have no right to vote, then we are pre pared to die, but not to vote to be killed. With a strong faith in God and eternal justice, we wait the decision of high Heaven. If our cause be just God will not suffer us to fail with a firm faith in the right. We ask nothing at the hands of our fellow man but a fair chance in the race of life, and equal opportunities for ourselves, our wives, and our chil dren. We ask no more." On the Lower Shanty, where the cultivation of rice prevails, and the ne groes are most ignorant and numerous, there has been rioting, and some disgraceful stories are told of negro outrages there and elsewhere throughout the South. The Social Eluality Bill, announced some weeks ago, has been passed, but in a very modified form. In Georgia the principal evtnt is the action of the Legislature against the negro members, which has astonished the Nortb, as the Senate will follow the example set them in the Lower [louse. Considering that the new State Constitution adopted by the State de clares all persons, born or naturalized in the United States, and resident in the State, citizens of the State, while it prohibits the passage of any law abridging these privileges or immunities, the negroe3, not with out reason, consider that the carpet-baggers have sacrificed them to make peace with the Secession ists. Bradley, the negro lawyer, who was expelled ,~ in July, delighted at finding himself surrounded by other victims, has been haranguing at Savannah, where he termed the Yankees the meanest people on earth, which is not complimentary to Boston, where he received his education. The House bay- . ing rid itself of its negro members is engaged in passing laws declaring negroes ineligible for all offices. It followed up recent action by swearing in white men as members who had the laext highest votes to those expelled, which Governor Bullock protested against in vain. The North ern Republicans are at a loss how to deal with a State that has thus violated the express provision on which it was re-admitted. It can not, once in, be thrown out ; and what Court can interfere with the judgment of the Legis'ature on the qualifications of its own members? Nor can Congress correct the construction put by a Stat 3 Legislature on the Constitution by which it sits. Things are in a riotous state in Savannah, and near Atlanta there was an open fight between the negroes of the opposing parties, in which two men were killed and five badly wounded. North Carolina aP pears to be the most sensible of these States, and in every county there are organized two or ithrce armed parties to preserve order. Louisiana, on the contrary, is the worst, and its Legislature has passed a Social Equality Bill in the full mea sure of its folly. 'The State is in a bad war , and Mr. Pinchback, lately admitted to a seat in the Senate, after informing the Democrats that they had got pretty near the end of their string, went on to threaten that " the next outrage the' commit will be the signal for the doom of retri bution ; a signal that will cause ten thousand torches to be applied to this city, for patience will then have ceased to be a virtue, and this city will be reduced to ashes. The negroes propose to have peace if they have to conquer a peace." On the re port of this speech coming back to New Orleans Mr. Pinchback immediately sent the following message to the / ribune:—" My speech is entirely misrepre sented by Democratic journals and telegrams. I made no threats. The day before, in the public street, a mob threatened to hang me because I was a Republican. In my speech I admonished them that if Republicans were wantonly attacked they would be obliged to defend themselves byevery means. I have always counselled moderation and deprecated violence. Please contradict contrary statemen ts. The South Carolina Democratic Convention has issued a circular in which it urges all citizens to vote at the Presidential election, declaring; tha t none are disfrancised either by the 14th constitu tional amendment or the Reconstruction Act. T hey exhort and warn the negroes to vote with t hem, who are their true friends. Some coloured Repub licans have replied that they are ready to regardlas friends those who respect their rights. lbeY re mind them, however, that they have opposed eve r ' measure for the liberty and advancement of th e , negro, and tell them if they had taken a diff erent course they should have preferred them to the leaders from the North. They close by assuring ta,', Democrats that they desire to live in peace, but sha: not vote away their rights in order to secure p eace Formal protests appear to be the order of the dal in Georgia, at least before they ended in the h° desPer, rate riots since reported. The negroes w the Legislature on being declared inelig ible fo' . seats, have forcibly protested against their equlbe sion, threatening to appeal to Congress, a nd t „ Governor protests, as he had good reaso n to he; against armed political organizations, Hewing issued a proclamation in which he denies _5 authority for armed or unarmed organizatio ns, warns the people that drilling and exer c° 7 with military tactics, with arms, by any, °r ig es, nized body, except the army of the United ta'et,'o is unauthorized, unlawful, and being aga inst deace of the State, must be immediately suspended' lie says that persons distinguished for t heir b°7 o tility to the United States and the State are promoting acts of violence, publicly denouncing..thoef laws as unconstitutional and void, that th e result is the acts of Congress and insurrectionary aPl?tioa are manifest in the rapid spread of the dis P el on the part of those who maintain the validity the laws of Congress and of the State Governlne.l3t established thereunder, to protect t h e mselves; arms against such acts of violence and combina tion s against civil rights. lie quo t es General Gr ant parole given to Lee's army, wherein it is stated tot; the- persons paroled will not be disturbed 131 re United States authorities as long as they nbeeo ~„ heparole and the laws in force where th e y reel'''. The California Farmer says of that Stat e : r a "The harvest season for grain may now be said t° v " beao its zenith, and therefore farmers are all in the b3r4 field; consequently there cannot be ex p ected , gre; rush of wheat upon our wharves or at our vAtrour houses yet. It will be observed, however, tiott„,ore room,heavy enlarging operators their in borders, are spreading ou t f 0 r r, a ll our grain regions large warehouses are airne many yg Pbluainlet,s.Falti:i3 dicative of a consciousness of the immense clop of g oo .. now beino• harvested snow large as it may taw be ell o ase posed to'be, we are confident that it will e°r t be the very largest calculations, for in our meeting Wi th . l ,eit growers they freely admit that their crop exceeds im highest figures." In Washington County, Indiana, a Mr. u r a til l Campbell is successfully engaged in rearing.brook trtuo; His ponds are four in number, and now 'contain ab" ot o thousand fine, healthy speckled trout, many of the to pound in weight. Tho ponds were first planted in. ge of spring of 1867 with minnows and eggs procured in a n d'' York, and the experiment of hatching the spawn c NI rearing the minnows has so far proved suace 3 „;i i beyond Mr. Campbell's most sanguine expectat'oas. ' a (5 4 ponds are walled in with stone, and the water that fel ot them is supplied from a large spring. There is a coasta,ei the currant through each pond, which are la r g e, with grt_v„. Est bottom and jagged, irregular side walls, affording possible place for spawning and hiding. This cooling ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Pills.— . m h ea t i e c d i n a e n bettor() dinner does the system. 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Holloway's plils thorOUgy cleafl° fC I iur. fectly regulate the circulation, and beget a feeling, .Y ro v of fort in hot climates and high temperatures, which 10 desirable for preservation of health. ~. ya10 1) . 16 [ND yERTisEmENT.]-llenceorth no one will donut dime AS properties of Du Barry's health -restoring Revalen . ,f e '; l3 Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousand 01 .41 beei l it has already received from Invalids whose position L.',„, poP. e i deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his HolineSs2;;,,,o.. unsuccessful c c h es e s a f l u th l mhaesaraeintpreeartfmecetlnyt.resvitoergeduobtey iftroaniftetrbte.h,t,r_tiYa•Yzetteod; Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, J uly 21, 1866. -The heaßn .. her rail?: Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning al1,00,1e007: dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry sfe`ripile..'d Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at e",,,ath, 9 B l:re It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his. 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T s h u (g. e3r 7 o t i ol v e" i' second daughter of Ales. Scott, En" :c , r . ° On the ~. a'" tl ie 28 1 ' -t at w- Tea, ' Church, Croydon, Louis D. Pow t liesi,no'fille Ir b e to r r o f V''' barrister-at-law, to Catherine, second (kW. aural Sir Henry Prescott, K.C.8.• Deaths. k . Giotic e ' ACKERS—On the 27th inst., at Prinknash Pi ll.— he s• tershire, James Ackers, Ted 57. , a t ISa l3e CRUICKSIIANK—On the 16th inst., sudtlewYt ter, Frederick Cruickshank, Esq., a ged 6 8 . s 3 ' ,a' c,,, GARDNER—On the 25th inst., at AI% ifous e ' France, Philip T. Gardner, Conin3t°ll , r 0/5 - : bridgeshire, Esq., aged 46. MAYNE—On the 28th inst.. at Nuthurst Lodg e i ° SI; Il ic ham, Katherine Emily, Youngest daugbler D Mayne, K.C.8., aged 16. -..--? . A l O li P t London : Printed and Published by WILLII—.., go e • of No. 112, Strand, Printer , a t Tas SUN Cl' Oti oti in the Strand, in the Precinct of the SP voY , Dliddiesex.—Wednesday, September 30, 1868. jjINAIIA This celebrat Prize Medal. 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