The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER TARGET. The result of the experiments last week against the Plymouth Breakwater Target shew conclusively that the normal resistance of its weakest part is just overcome by the force exerted by a 600-pound shell fired from the 12-inch rifle gun of 25 tons, with a battering charge of 76 pounds of powder, from a range of 200 yards. At the same time it was proved that this force is incapable of penetrating or doing much injury to those portions immediately in front of the strengthening uprights in rear, or to that portion of the target over which the addditional layer of 5-inch plate was fixed. So that, either by the introduction of more uprights, or by an ad ditional course of plating over the whole surface of the face of the fort, we may be assured that the work will be impenetrable by the most powerful gun now in existence, at any range whatever. But here another question arises. Is it probable that any more powerful gun may, in the future, be made ? The answer is in the affirmative. Four main features have been revealed by the practice against the target and the two solid 15-inch plates. In the first Place, it has been shewn that 15 inches of iron armour, whether in three layers of 5 inches each or in a solid plate, are incapable of resisting the 12-inch rifle gun at 200 yards. Secondly, it has been satisfactorily shewn that the structure supporting the roof could not be damaged by horizontal fire unless the armoured wall be first breached ; and this system of roof construction is capable of general application. Thirdly, the trials chewed that the bolts were capable of holding together the armour plates, and of connecting properly the armour with the uprights in rear. Very few bolts were fractured during the trials. Fourthly, the rope mantlet which, when in position, would hang between the uprights and the box girder which supports the roof girders, was shown to be quite capable of intercepting any fragments of armour, bolts, nuts, &c., that might be driven back. In one instance it caught a fragment of armour weighing upwards of 8001 b., and only had two of its strands cut. It is, however, doubtful whether it could stop the fragments of a shell after their passage through the armour, provided they retain moderate velocity. The cost of the Plymouth fort might be roughly taken at £3,000 per gun, exclusive of foundations and turrets ; and it would perhaps be best strengthened by putting an additional upright between each pair of those now provided for, except at the port, where the addition should be another armour plate, five inches thick, inside the port, and extending between the port uprights. These additions could be made even were the work partially built, and the extra cost would be about 100, making the total £3,400 per gun, to keep out 12-inch shells at 200 yards. But, looking to the coming 11-inch guns, and considering the very uncertain and occasionally disastrous effects of shells bursting between the plates of an iron target composed of plates crossing each other, it is more than probable that a safer and cheaper protection will be found by using iron plates of moderate thickness backed by other materials ; and as wood is undesirable from its perishable nature, we have to look to masonry to act as backing when combined with iron. No experiments have yet been made in this country with such a combination, and many will probably be necessary before the proper forms and proportions of the different materials can be determined. The experiments to be carried on this week include the trial of a casemate in which the front piers and wall are built of Portland cement concrete, contained within cells of thin iron plate ; outside this is a skin of two-inch plating, on which eight inches of iron are variously disposed; thus on one Portion of the front there is a solid 8-inch armour plate ; next, adjoining this, a 41-inch plate with bridge-rail stringers equal in volume to a W.,,-inch plate ; then 6-inch plates with other stringers equal to a 2-inch plate ; then a 4-inch plate with stringers equal to another 4 inches ; and, lastly, a 4:1-inch plate partly supported on stringers equal to 31 inches, and partly backed by concrete and attached to the left pier. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM ABYSSINIA On the arrival of the Crocodile at Portsmouth with the 33rd Regiment on board, a scene was witnessed in the harbour which has not had its parallel since the return of the troops engaged in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. People on shore shouted and waved handkerchiefs ; others in watermen's wherries stood up and cheered and waved handkerchiefs and hats ; and the crews of the Victory, the St. Vincent, and the Duke of Wellington, manned the rigging to the honour of the men who only three short months since were toiling up towards Magdala. The Crocodile was speedily berthed alongside the south eastern jetty of the dockyard, a great rush of people to the gates being the consequence ; and before the ship had been an hour alongside the jetty, notwithstanding the strict rule for admission carried out at the dockyard gates, she was crowded with visitors. In the waist of the ship were berthed about a dozen horses, and here among the others was a small, quiet, chesnut horse, not snore than thirteen hands high, and said to be the favourite charger of Theodore. Of course it was a special point of attraction, and remains of what was once a flowing mane " sheaved, by only a few hairs being left, the interest which had been centred in the animal. This horse was captured by some men of the 33rd, who afterwards sold it to Adjutant Edwin Sandys Watson, who has, it is said, since been offered the fabulous sum of 1,000 guineas for it. There is said also to be a great quantity of money and " loot " on board the vessel ; but the only visible relics of Magdala were a few rough-looking spears, a score or so of shields, and a few trappings of horses. Among the latter the ap pointments of Theodore's horse, before spoken of, were the most costly. The idea that Theodore committed suicide is scouted by many men of the 33rd ; indeed, a general concurrence of opinion is given that he was shot by some of their own corps. He was found face downwards ; he was wounded in his leg, in the throat, in the chin, and through the chest. In his hand was found a revolver bearing on it an inscription that it bad been presented to King Theodore by her Majesty the Queen. The description of the entry into Magdala, as given by Michael Magner, a bugler attached to Staveley's division, is, that he was the first man in, that he was followed by a private named James Burgin, and that by these men an officer named Connor was next assisted under the gateway. Magner, it appears, was only armed with a " cheeseknife," as he terms his sword ; and seeing one of the Abyssinians well armed, and pointing his gun at him, he asked Mr. Connor to " shoot that coon," which he did, and he (Magner) appropriated his arms and ammunition. The final assault took place against the gate just at that time, so that the attention of the followers of Theodore's desperate fortune was diverted from this trio to the greater danger, and to that fact Magner attributes their personal safety. The scene between decks of the Crocodile was one of the most extraordinary imaginable. Sunburnt, bearded veterans, but half-clad, were to be seen grouped with well-dressed females, detailing the history of the siege. The berths of the troops were besieged by anxious inquirers, and all over the ship, in fact, there were tellers of, and listeners to, one story. Just before three o'clock an " assembly " sound told those who were on board that the 150 Dragoon Guards, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Conyer Tower, were about to parade on the jetty opposite to the ship. A few minutes later as fine and as smart a body of men as ever fell in for a church parade NV a 3 formed, and a minute or two after, saluted by hearty cheers from their comrades on board, and by visitors both on shore and on the Crocodile, the men, many of them bearing relics of the campaign through which they have passed, marched for the Landport station of the South-Western Railway, and left by train for Winchester. The health of the men of the 33rd has been remarkably good throughout the voyage. All with one consent speak in the highest terms of the manner in which the campaign was conducted, and of the admirable arrangements of General Napier ; and, as a matter of course, anecdotes of personal adventures are abundant. There was never the slightest doubt among the troops o 4f the final result. All their fea rs were t h at Theo• Gore would give them the slip, and that a long and weari some campaign would have been the result. 'U N ITED IN DEATH. — Two boat m en , when rowingon Sunday morning near the brid g e of St. Cloud, dragged out of the Seine two corpses of a man and woman, both young, tied together with a rope. The bodies were taken to the Morgue with a view to identification.- DEPARTURE OF THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD. The Bishop of Lichfield will leave England for New Zealand on the 2nd July, and having made such arrange ments as may be possible for the appointment of his successor there, will return to England in about six months. lie has introduced to his clergy of the diocese of Lichfield the Right Rev. Dr. Trower, late Bishop of Gibraltar, by whom the see of Lichfield will be administered during his absence. A strange case of attempted roisoning bas been eiselosed at Manchest .r Mora the stipendiary magistrate. An old farm labourer, named Reddish, while working on his Lroth•r's ground, was accosted by a man named Wilkinson, who asked for work. Reddish referred him to his brother, but on leaving for the day was again accosted by Wil kinson, who asked him to have some beer. He consented, but when the beer was brought he found something swim ming on the top. He refused to drink, recognising Wilkin son as the son of a woman who held his insurance policy, which had been delivered up in consequenc of failure in business. The beer was subsequently found to contain opium. These facts having been brought before the PlaZie• trace Wilki*OL_PiaS giaPitittcll24,Ulo,l, NARROW ESCAPE OF THE .ROYAL TRAIN. • It is stated on good authority, that oh tine way to the review the royal train which conveyed the Prince and Princess of Wales had a narrow and providential escape. It seems that from some cause or other, shortly after leaving the Slough station, the royal train was by mistake turned on to the up line, and just as it was getting up steam a train of empty carriages was seen coming up on the same line from Windsor. Fortunately, the engine-driver in charge of the royal train immediately discovered that he had been turned on to the wrong metals, and he instantly, with great presence of mind, signalled for all brakes to be put on, and reversed the direction of the train, just in time to save the long train. of empties from dashing into his engine, and thus a collision was prevented by about half a carriage length. We believe the Prince and Princess were not aware that they had had such a narrow escape, or that the reversion was anything more than an ordinary backing. The affair, however, caused considerable anxiety for a few minutes to those who witnessed the danger. It is stated that the neglect will be made the subject of inquiry, but pending that it would not be fair to give more definite particulars. The whole nation will rejoice in the escape of the royal party. CHARGE OF POISONING A RACEHORSE. it singular case has come before the Barnstaple magis trates. George Wdelacott, groom, was charged with administeraig poison to a horse, the property of Mr. Small ridge. The evidence for the prosecution shewed that Little Sally, a mare belonging to Mr. Smallridge, had died suddenly. She was ridden several days prior to the Barnstaple Races, which came off June 4, at which meet ing the mare was entered to run for the Yeomanry Cup. The horse was taken to Youlston at a cavalry review, and was in charge of Mr. Smallridge's two sons, who lodged at an inn hard by. The horse was kept in the stable. Two days before the races Mr. F. Smallridge, one of the sons, galloped Little Sally round the course, and on his leaving he was met by the prisoner, who was riding Little Fairy, which was also intended to compete. They afterwards met at Bishops Tawton, and prisoner remarked, " The race lies between the two horses." At ten o'clock on the morning before the race Little Sally fed very well and appeared healthy as usual. She was in the stable of the inn. About noon three men, called Jewell, Galliford, Hancock, and the prisoner entered the inn. The prisoner went into the stable, and was seen standing at the head of the mare with the halter off, and his hand on its neck. From that time the horse failed ; she did not eat anything the same day, nor yet the fol lowing morning. She was taken to the races to fulfil her engagement, and on her way she began violently to purge. On her arrival at the course she was examined by Mr. Hewish, veterinary surgeon, who ordered that she should be taken home. About twelve o'clock the horse expired in dreadful agony. Mr. Hewish made a post mortem ex amination, and found that the horse had been poisoned. The stomach was sent to Mr. Herapath, of Bristol, who discovered oxalic acid, sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, and other poisonous spirits. The prisoner's house was searched, and the police took possession of three bottles, one of which contained muriatic acid. The bench remanded the case to obtain further evidence. Bail was accepted—two sureties in £EO, and the prig mer in 2200. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION' AGAINST THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —ln the Bail Court, Mr. Bignall, a farmer and cattle-dealer at Lambton, brought an action against the London and South-Western Railway Company to recover the sum of £3O for losses sustained in consequence of the negligence of the defendants in not taking proper care of some animals given into their charge, and not delivering them at the proper time. On the 21st of March the plain tiff attended Odiham, and purchased eight cows and four calves, and left them in charge of a friend to book them from Winchfield. The plaintiff had arranged wish the static n master for two trucks previously. The animals were despatched on Saturday, but, much to the plaintiff's sur prise, did not arrive till the folowing Monday afternoon, when they were very thin, their udders were swollen almost to bursting, and their feet were very sore, blood oozing out between the hair and hoof. Since then the plaintiff had sold six of the beasts at a considerable loss, but two Le had been unable to dispose of, as they were too ill to be removed from his farm. The defendants contended that the station-master at Winchfield informed the plaintiff that there were no cattle trucks at the station, though he promised to obtain some at soon as possible. The cattle were in the care of a drover, and had been supplied with 4s. Gd. worth of hay. The jury found for the plaintiff on the facts of the case, but reserved a point as to the consignment for the court above. . DAMAGES FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION. — In the Court of Common Pleas, the case of 7aelcson v. Athawes was heard. The defendant had bought a brewery for £2,700 from the plaintiff's father, and the defendant employed the plaintiff's father and the plaintiff to continue in the business for a short time. There appeared to have been a kind of arrangement or understanding that the plaintiff should he entitled to charge 5 per cent. in spending money on payments being made to him by publicans. This was denied by the defendant, who, how ever, on being pressed, admitted that he could not swear that so long as the plaintiff paid him the amounts he re ceived, less a discount of 5 per cent., he had not told him that he should be satisfied. The plaintiff contended the shillings he was charged with having embezzled out of the price of barrels of beer were the amounts of discount which he believed he was entitled to retain. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £l5O. BREACH or CONTRACT.—In the Court of Exchequer an action was brought by Mr. Shipway, a timber dealer, to recover damages for a breach of contract. The plaintiff had bought some timber of Mr. Price, a gentleman in the same way of business, through the traveller of the latter. The timber was not delivered, and the plaintiff, having en tered into a contract with a third party, wrote concerning it, and received a reply stating that the traveller had exceeded his authority, and that he could only supply the plaintiff for cash minus 21 per cent. discount. The de. fendant paid £l2 10s., saying that the sum was more than sufficient to cover any loss the plaintiff might have sustained. The plaintiff was a merchant at Birmingham, and swore he was unable to buy the timber and wood in the market, and had been compelled to get it else where, to keep faith with those whom he had agreed to supply out of the contract entered into by him with the defendant, and that he load suffered pecuniary loss in con sequence. The defence was that the defendant was only liable to pay as damages the difference between the con tract price and the market price, that there had been little or no change in the market between the time of the contract and the breach, and that he had paid into court more than sufficient to cover that difference. The jury gave £35 damages, less the £l2los. paid into court. THE TICHBORNII BARon-rcir.—This matter, in which an •epplication was made on Saturday on behalf of the Aus. 'ralian claimant to the Tichborne estates, was mentioned by the court on Monday. His Honour said that he had looked into the authorities, and was of opinion that the plaintiff should have liberty to bring an action or actions at law for the purpose of establishing his title to the estates, and the defendants must undertake not to set up any outstanding terms of years, charges, or legal estates in such action or actions. The bills in these suits must be retained on the file for twelve months, to await the result of the trial at law. ASSAULT BY A NOBLEMAN.— A Dublin jury has found a verdict for £75 damages again t Inrd Vaux of Harrow den, at the suit of a cab-owner of that city, for injuri es inflicted upon him by the defendant, an officer on tl e Prince of Wales's staff, during the late visit of his Royal Highness to Ireland. The defendant hired the plaintiff's vehicle, and was paying him with a sixpence as his fare, when the man declined it, "whereupon the defendant struck him a severe blow in the eye with his umbrella, which rendered him unable to attend to his business for a considerable time." The Bishop of Peterborough, who is now on a visit to his relative, tho Warden of Wadhatn College, has been seriously ill since his arrival at Oxford. HONOURS TO A DEAF MUM—M. Henrion, of Liege, born deaf and dumb, and who has devoted 40 years to the instruction of his brothers in misfortune, has just received from the King of the Belgians the cross of the Order of Leopold. He was a pupil of the Abb6 Sicard, and with M. Pouplin, whose son-in-law he became, was the founder of the Institution des Sourds-et-bluets in the above-named town. On this occasion a large number of his former pupils waited on him to congratulate bim, and to present to him en address, which was communicated by signs, and to which M. Henrion replied in the same manner. RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS IN TIIE BOROUGH. —A riot, during which many heads were brol,en, took place on Ifonday evening in the delightful localityknown as Kent street, Borough. It originated in some of the inhabitants going rather forcible expression to their virtuous indigna. tion at what they considered too close an intimacy between a beershop keeper and a woman who is not supposed to be his wife. Their gallantry, it seems, took the playful form of throning buckets of water and pieces of coal tt the offending frail one, and on the police interfering in her behalf, a general row ensued, in the course of which many windows were br ken pockets were picked, policemen's hel r ets w re c'ama :ed, and all sorts of people seem to have been ron;hly handled, the neighbourhood being in a state of th - ea fu' r. Several pe•rsons were taken into c tod.v. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1868. -POPE HONOMUS AND PAPAL I.NIALLI next week, when we shall bring this already protracted review to a close. What opinions Mr. Renouf may express in favour of the now exploded Gallican theory can be of little in terest, and, as compared with the theory started by F. Ryder, of but little practical importance to Catholics. The defence which the genius of Bossuet failed to make good is not likely, in Mr. Renouf's hands, to be more successful. We feel indeed but little interest in such a dis cussion. The only point which we cared to refer to was the alleged heresy of Pope Honorius. Until Mr. Renouf is able to substantiate his accusation that Pope Honorius thought heresy ex cathedra, his assertion that the Ultramon tane system of theology is demonstrably " un tenable," will have no weight whatsoever. BILI 7 Y. (Front the Westminster Gazette.) Before proceeding briefly to notice Mr. Renouf's jubilant declamation on the supposed " subversion of the theory of Papal infalli bility," by the alleged condemnation for heresy of a Pope by "three (Ecumenical Councils and a long series of Roman Pontiffs," and his still more rash and offensive warning to the Catho lic Church on the folly of " identifying Chris tianity with a system of theology (Ultramon tanism) which is demonstratively untenable," it will perhaps be better to examine a few of the collateral evidences which the opponents of Pope Honorius bring forward in support of the charge against his orthodoxy. The re sults which we have already arrived at in the course of this review of F. Schneemann's work may be thus recapitulated :—.lst. That it is conceded that the letters of Pope Hono rius to the Patriarch Sergius are susceptible of a Monothelite as well — as of an orthodox interpretation. 2nd. That contemporary tes timony, as well as modern criticism, is, with a few notable exceptions, in favour of the orthodox interpretation. 3rd. That the Sixth CEcumenical Council, in as far as its decrees were ratified by the Pope, condemned Hono rius, not for teaching heresy, but for betray ing the Church by negligence ; and 4th. That Pope Agatho, Honorius's immediate successor, declared in a document, solemnly accepted by the Sixth Council, that the Popes have never erred from the Faith, and that, since the com mencement of the Monothelite disputes, the Popes had never omitted to warn the Patriarchs of Constantinople to abstain, at least by silence, from heresy. It is clear, if for no other reason, that this declaration of Pope Agatho has special refer ence to Honorius, inasmuch as no other Pope but he would have contented himself in only imposing silence upon such a dangerous heresy - . In this Sixth ecumenical Council a twofold judgment, says F. Schneemann, was pro. nounced by the Church, united with its Head. On the one hand, Honorius was pronounced free from heresy ; on the other, he was con demned for promoting, by his conduct, the growth of heresy. In this brief recapitulation of the results of our investigation into the alleged condemnation of Honorius, we desire again to call to mind the important fact, which Mr. Renouf and the opponents of Pope Hono rius conveniently forget—namely, that the de crees of a council are only valid so far as they have been confirmed by the Pope. The Sixth Council acknowledged as much by seeking Papal confirmation for its decrees. But the condemnation which the council had pro nounced on Pope Honorius was explained and confirmed by Pope Leo, as we have already said in our first notice, with the express limitation conveyed in the following declaration addressed to the Emperor :—" We pronounce anathema on the inventors of the new error—that is—on Theodore of Pharan, Cyrus of Alexandria, Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul, Peter, and, likewise, on Honorius, who did not put his hand to the work of purifying the Apostolic Church by the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but, by profane abandonment, suffered the pure faith to be de filed." This limitation of Pope Leo's judgment to a condemnation of Pope Honorius, not for heresy, but for a negligent betrayal of the faith, clearly shows that there is no contradic tion, as Dr. Dollinger pretends, in the judgment of Pope Leo and the declaration of Pope Aga the, that the Popes had never erred in faith. F. Schneemann remarks, in reference to this pretence of Dr. Dellinger's, that men should not be so ready, on such superficial grounds, to find contradictions in the words of councils and of Popes. If such, then, as we have seen, was the judgment on Honorius, pronounced by the Pope and the Sixth Council, no refer ence, in general terms, to this condemnation, made by after councils and ratified by subse quent Popes, alters in the slightest the charac ter of the original condemnation. Therefore, when the impugners of the orthodoxy of Pope Honorius bring forward, as Dr. Dollinger does, and, of course, his disciple, Mr. Renouf, that not only did the Eighth Council confirm the anathema on Honorius, but that Pope Adrian I f. spoke in his letter, appended to the acts of the Eighth Synod, of Honorius's being accused and condemned on account of heresy, such a reference by a Pope or council to a former judgment, without further investigation into the question, leaves the earlier judgment uu affected and unaltered. What the judgment was before, so it remains after the reference. Hence the assertion of Mr. Renouf, that coun cils subsequent to the Sixth Synod, and a long series of Pontiffs, condemned Pope Hono rius for heresy, falls to the ground, since, as we have shown, the judgment of the Sixth Council, so far as it was ratified by the Pope, did not condemn Honorius for heresy, but for something else, and subsequent councils and Popes in referring to the Sixth Council did no more. To accumulate, as Hefele does, acts of councils and of Popes condemnatory of Honorius, is not, then, as we have seen, to alter, by a hair's breadth, the judgment pro nounced in the Sixth Synod by Pope and coun cil. Neither can any meaning other than that expressed in his confirmation of the Sixth Synod, be imputed to Pope Leo from his letters to in which he s p ea k s o f Honorius. On the Spain contrary, they explain still more clearly the nature of Honcrius's offence. In his first letter to the Bishops of Spain, Leo. 11. points out exactly in what his treachery and defile ment of the Faith consisted. After referring to the anathema on the Monothelites, he adds, " together with Honorius, who did not, as be came the apostolic authority, extinguish the incipient flame of heresy, but fanned it by his negligence." His betrayal, therefore, consisted in his negligence ' • and this betrayal, because it dishonoured the dignity of the Apostolic authority, was the defilement he alluded to of the Roman Church. In his letter to King Erwig, referring to the inventors of the Monothelite heresy condemned by the Council, Pope Leo says, "and together with them, was condemned the Roman Honorius who suffered the defilement of the immaculate rule of apostolic tradition which he had re ceived from his predecessors." In the profes sion of faith found in the " Diarium RR. Pontificum," to which Dr. Dollinger also re fers, it is not said as Dr. Dollinger asserts, and Mr. Renouf repeats that " Honorius assented to the false doctrines of the heretics," but drawing clearly the distinction between the auctores and fautores of heresy, and designating by name the other condemned Patriarchs as auctores, of Honorius it is simply said : Qui pravis eorum assertionibus fonientum impendit. Nowhere, then, have the Popes declared that the guilt of Honorius was in having himself taught the Monothelite heresy, and in the con firmation and publication of the Synodal de crees they expressly limit the anathema pro nounced on Honorius so as to exclude him from a condemnation for heresy. And the Popes are, as a learned German writer remarks, at the very least the authentic and ultimate inter preters of the Synodal decrees; but it is beyond question that the Popes only confirmed the de crees alluded to in this dispute in the sense and with the interpretation they put upon them. " No one, therefore," says a learned writer in the Katholifr, whom F. Schneemann refers to, " is compelled by Church authority to consider Honorius as a heretic, and it is moreover his torically incapable of proof at the very least, if not altogether false, that Honorius, either ex cathedra or otherwise, formally gave expres sion to a dogmatic error." Such, then, is the result we have arrived at ; but this result is nothing new, but the common belief held in the Catholic Church. " There are now but few," says a writer of weight—" and they moreover of suspicious tendencies or of no great authority—who condemn Honorius as a heretic." There is nothing in the tone or in the substance of Mr. Renouf's pamphlet, we regret to say, which will remove him from either of the above categories. We must defer what w , 3 have to say on the general question of Papal infallibility until whence he could draw. We are not saying that such should be his action, so much as this —that we cannot possibly figure to ourselves the frame of mind a man must be in to do otherwise. He either believes, or he does not believe. If he believe, then he must—he can not help, but he must—act as a believer. If a man believes he is walkin g into a furnace, he cannot but turn away. If he believes not, then our argument is not addressed to him. Again, if he believe, does he not, or should he not, go a step further—must he not do ? Those who know, and have eyes clearly to see the power of principle, cannot those same eyes open upon the duty of action, of doing one's share ? If a man can see but partially, and moves not, should not that partial vision give him light enough to try and see more ? If a man, in fine, feel himself out of gear with what he knows in the secret folds of his heart is the Church of God and the anmury in which principles of true, lasting, and over whelming force alone are stored—should he not get up, rouse himself, look at his position, and clean self out to make room for the norma of a stronger and nobler life than that of petty conceit, minute talent, and schoolmaster lore ? We think so, for we hold that man's mind when filied with self, and miserable human talent, is weakness; but filled with the light and strength of God, through the voice and guidance of God's own spirit—becomes like that spirit— tender, strong, masterful, and constraining. — Westminster Gazette. AMERICAN MARKE7 S. (From the Wall-street Journal.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, Juno 5. Money is a perfect drug, and we hear of some transac tions on call at 21 per cent., the general run, however, being at 3 to 4 per cent. Discounts aro readily obtained on first class names at 5 to 6 per cont., but that quality of paper is very scarce. Government Stocks are very active and a large business is doing. Sixty-twos are especially firm. Gold shows very little variation, having opened to-day at 139 and closed at the same figure. American Silver is in limited request at fill to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are worth 1031 to 1031- in gold. Foreign Exchange is firm, although the business is on a small scale. State Stocks are in good demand, and we note very large purchases at advancing prices. Most of the Western Bonds aro becoming very scare, , , pirticularly those of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. Railroad Stocks are unsettled and weak, it being sus pected that many holders of the clique Stocks, such as Erie, New York Central, and Cleveland and Toledo, have been quietly unloading. Secretary M'Culloch has responded as follows to a letter addressed to him by a number of bank officers in this city, relative to the redemption of matured Compound Interest Notes : " Treasury Department, " WASHINGTON, June 3, 1868. " Your favour of the 2d inst. is received with accom panying petition. " I found that I could not with fairness continue to re deem compound interest notes in New York without authorizing redemptions at Philadelphia, Boston, and other important points ; and as such general redemptions would subject the Department to groat trouble and no little expense, I some time since directed that all such notes should thereafter be redeemed at the l icasury of the United States. lam advised by the Treasurer that parties forwarding notes to him for redemption will be subjected to no delay in receiving remittances for the proceeds. Any person holding compound interest notes can send them, at his own risk and expense, to the Treasurer of the United States, and on the very day on which they are received, every check on New York for the proper amount will be forwarded in return. " Regretting that I cannot consistently with a sense of duty to the Government comply with the request of the bankers of New York, I am, &c., "H. M‘CuLLoctr, Secretary of the Treasury." The following is the ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of the State of North Carolina providing for the payment of the interest on the public debt : " Section 1. Ba it ordained by the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, and it is hereby or dained by the authority of the same, that the first General Assembly that shall be convened under the provisions of the Constitution framed by this body, be, and the same is hereby directed to make the following provisions for the payment of the interest upon the public debt. Sec. 2. It shall provide for the payment in cash of the interest falling due on and after the Ist day of January, 1869, upon that portion of the bonds of the State which are dated prior to May 20, 1861. " Sec. 3. It shall provide for the payment in cash of the interest falling due on and after the first day of July, 1869, upon that portion of the bonds of the State which are dated on and after January 1, 1866. "Sec. 4. It shall provide for funding all such coupons upon the above specified classes of bonds as are now due, or which may become duo prior to the time when the payment of interest shall be resumed as above directed. And for such purpose the General Assembly shall autho rize the issue of bonds of the State, bearing six per cent. interest, which shall be given at par is exchange for such coupons as are now duo or may become duo prior to the time when such resumption of the payment of in terest shall take place. " Sec. 5. This ordinance shall bo in force and take effect from and after its passage. "Passed March 14, 1868." Miscellaneous Stocks are generally active, particularly Pacific Mail and Quicksilver. Mining Stocks, which had experienced a sudden revival, are again drooping, Consolidated Gregory closing at $4.10. The other stocks are also down (the business not having been on an extensive scale), and the market is altogether weak. Petroleum Stocks continue to be inquired for, but all good securities are scarce, and are not pressed for sale. The Iron Age, June 4, says of general hardware—After a spring season in which thoy did better than their neigh bours, the hardware men are now. doing bettor than any one else, many of them now doing a fair amount of busi ness, though trade is generally pretty dull. A good many orders aro coming in from such travellers as are out, and some letter ordere aro received. There is a good deal of complaint from manufacturers that the prices they are able to obtain are not sufficient to allow them a living profit, though they aro thankful for the relief afforded them by the removal of the 5 per cent. lay. Of iron it states :—" A fair business is doing, consider ing the season, in both Scotch and American irons, at firm rates. There have been no very large sales. More has been done in forge pig than any other kind. One hundred packs of Russia sheet were sold at 17 cents, currency. METALS.—We note an improved feeling in trade circles, and though the spring business is now fully ended, a fair trade for the autumn is anticipated. The peaceful and legitimate workings of the recent political pressure and excitement at Washington are considered to have again tested the stability of the country, and have awakened re newed confidence in the future. But it is necessary in fairness to remark that there exists all through the coun try a marked and immovable caution as to future engage ments. The great financial and political issues of this year of the national struggle for the system of pacification and reconstruction to be adopted in 1869 involves interests so great, and measures so very opposite, as to compel trade and manufacturers to wait as it ware the result of the struggle now being initiated. In metals prices are generally firm and stocks well held. Money is easy, and on prime collateral is working at loss than the usual interest rate. It is predicted that it will continue abundant till the usual call for means to move the harvested crop. In September, October, and November the customary monetary pinch may be looked for ; but with the realization of the good harvest now confidently looked for throughout the land, the wholesome financial measures promised by the Chicago Convention, and similar honest measures that it is well known the Democracy will embrace in July, the return of prosperous industry and healthy commerce may be speedily looked for. (From the Springfield Republican.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, June 5. The supply of money in the market was not diminished during the week, nor have the rates of loans advanced. Four and five per cent. aro still the ruling terms at New York, and many investments are placed on long time and good security, at even lower rates. The speculative de mand for money has almost entirely ceased, and only so much is sought as is needed in the daily and regular trans actions of business. The prospect of any favourable ahange in the market, or of any greater demand for money, is not good, and under the present accommodation it is not likely that the rates of loans will rise perceptibly for some weeks to come, unless some unforeseen emergency should force an advance. The banks of Now York now hold a large and steadily increasing surplus of legal tenders, and were it not for the heavy export of specie during the week the aggregate increase of the funds on hand would have been nearly five millions, while the loans have increased hardly three quarters of a million. A similar condition of things exists everywhere, and capitalists and moneylenders have good reason to look blue and call business dull. The only investment for money which is at all popular is the Government Securities, and these aro advancing so ra pidly in price that the premium is becoming no small por tion of the purchase money. As the Government will soon pour large quantities of money on the market, there is no probability that it will find ready investment at any thing like remunerative rates, nor that the demand from south and west for the movement of the crops, which will soon begin, will create any stringency in the market or any lack of supply of funds. In view of the abundance of money it is not surprising that the Senate refused to consider Mr. Sherman's bill for adding $20,000,000 to the national currency, and that the chances for any further inflation of the greenback circu lation are growing rapidly smaller, with good prospect of speedy and final disappearance. With more money in the country than can be disposed of, the cry for more will not be heard, and there would doubtless be general approval if Secretary M'Culloch should resume his practice of re tiring $l,OOO 000 of greenbacks monthly, although it pro voke opposition from the western inflationists. The sales of Government Securities continue to in crease in amount and advance in price, and with no apparent obstacle to unlimited further progress in either direction. The demand at the counters of the leading New York brokers comes largely from the country banks and other outside purchasers, while many foreign customers are in the market, waiting to buy, but waiting for lower prices. At the present indications they axe likely to wait and go away empty. The Government loans will soon be closed out, and, with the United States in the market as a purchaser of its own bonds, the competition and the price will exceed anything yet known. The great abundance of money stimulates the operations of the specu lators in Government Securities, as they are confident that there will be no difficulty in finding a ready sale for all the bonds which they may possess, and at the highest figure to which they can force the market. Five-twenties of 1867 . are selling at from 114 to 1141 ; and no cessation of the demand, and the Government has not enough printed to supply the needs for purchasers, and for the conversions of seven-thirties, which have lately been pouring in at a rate altogether unprecedented. The whole amount of this loan now outstanding is less than $70,000,000, and it will probably all be exchanged before the close of the month. The fact that this floating debt will all be safely funded and per manently disposed of, at so early a day, removes one of the most doubtful class of Government Securities from the market, and enhances the price of the remaining debt, Secretary M'Oulloch's monthly statement of the national debt has not yet made its appearance this month, but it will show a reduction of the indebtedness, though smaller than that of last month's exhibit. The amount of currency in the Treasury is said to have considerably increased, but the heavy payments of interest have necessarily reduced the surplus gold in the Treasury vaults. Tho whole dis bursements duo were over $27,000,000, and the last claimant has not yet been paid The price of gold has been steady, bat it has slightly ad vanced in consequence of the heavy demand for export, and closed on Thursday at 139 i. The Treasury has made no sales, and will probably reserve its future surplus for the payment of the coin interest on debt due on July 1. The whole export for the week ending Wednesday was $4,211,723; making an aggregate of over thirty-seven millions for the year, thus far, and much more than Las been sent out of the country for the corresponding time in any previous year. The export for the first five months of 1867 was thirty-three millions, and that was largely in excess of the average, which has been scarcely one-half of this groat shipment. The payment of duties in gold last week realized $2,305,000 to the Government, and the disbursements of coin interest required $1,643,000. The arrivals of specie at New York were on ly $618,000, although over $ 1 , 000,000 is now on its way thither by the last steamer from San Francisco. The imports at Now York for May, 1868, were $25,676,113 against $35,285,742 in 1867, and the exports for the month just closed were $14,343,860. The premium on gold is not likely to change much during the summer months, especially should the large export demand continue, as that will fully relieve the market of any surplus from the Government payments of interest. Speculation has been rather tame at the stock board during the week. and the little bull movement in the Pacific mail stock met with so rttle success that it has b ee n given up, and the stock has suffered a relapse in con sequence. It, however, represents efforts of speculators to live and command a ready sale in the market. The rail road shares are all advancing slowly in price, doubtless as the result of the appreciation in governments, and the reports of the earnings are favourable and encouraging. Some of the older and more wary dealers predict that the term of high rates is near its ond, and that the next turn will be downwards. The general expectation, how ever, is the other way, and all parties are buying for a rise. The Rock Island difficulty is in the courts, but a party of its stockholders, in the face of an injunction by an lowa judge, met at Chicago, on Wednesday, elected officers, and will proceed to sell the shares, issued for the construc tion of the road to Council Bluffs, lowa, at the earliest and best terms they can receive. They are confident that they can procure the removal of the injunction, and that the officers of the company will work out all right if they are only allowed to go on without factious hindrance and im pertinent opposition. The great Erie war seems to have utterly died away, and the lingering lawsuits, which come up periodically for postponement, are the only reminders of the sanguinary conflict. Drew and Vanderbilt have buried the hatchet, and the Erie directors are doing what they ought to have done long ago, retrack their road with substantial steel rails, and make it safe for the life and pro party entrusted to it. The annual meeting of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company was held on Wednesday, and a cernfortable increase of $57,131 in the net profits of the business of 1867 over those of the previous year reported. The total receipts were 81,863,303, and the total expenses $1,019,153. The receipts for the first four months of 1868 have been $533,990, against $199,551, for the corresponding time last year. The New York and Now Haven Railroad Company denies any intention to issue stock dividends as has been reported, but President Bishop says that the whole amount of the recent large increase of stock authorised by the Connecticut Legislature will be ex pended in permanent improvements on the road. Steel rails will come in for a principal share of the outlay. The ex press and miscellaneous shares are dull and declining, and the transactions have been smaller than usual. A break in the San Francisco mining companies checked the sales considerably, and they will be ma to by the share instead of the foot as heretofore. The dry goods market has suffered for another week with hope deferred, and the summer trade has been so long delayed that it must be only limited in amount, and only for goals that will have an immediate sale. The New York merchants still hope for some encouragement from the southern and western trade, but it will be light. The trade of the year is, however, less distinctly diviled into the summer and winter portions than it used to be before railroads had made communication of the interior with the metropolis frequent and easy, and the business is now more evenly distributed, with less accumulation en any particular month. The market for domestic cottons has baea dull and transactions small, while the raw 'ma- NEW YORK R kTES OF EXCHANGE, Juno 5, 1868. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers - 1101-1101 London, Prime Commercial lO9l-109f Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 36 —364 Frankfort, 0.3 , 1 . 4oi-41* Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.164-5.121 Amsterdam, Bankers S w i ss The following for the New York City Bank Stocks: — Merchants' America Butchers and Drovers 135 Broadway City New York 2. Manhattan Mechanics' Union Phenix lOB Nassau lO5 Tradesmen's Gallatin National Merchants' Exchange 118 Continental lO3 Seventh Ward State of New York ... 116 1 Commonwealth Commerce Ocean American Exchange... 1191 Fourth National .. 1031; Bank of the Republic... 120 - Ninth National Bank of North America 1101 Park 153 Eleventh Ward ........ 105 Leather Manufacturers' 170 Mercantile Fulton 153 Tenth National First National 205 East River New York County...... 140 Pacific l6O Marine l4l Chatham 149 Grocers' The following were the closing quotations. for the various Public Funds of the United States in New York:— Sixes, 1868, registered Sixes, 1868, coupon Sixes, 1881, coupon ll6l to 1164 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon - to 1101 Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon lO6 to 1061. Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series Express Stocks aro quoted as follows : Adams ... ... ... ... ... ... 571 to 58 American ... ... ... ... ... ... 53 to 531 United States ... ... ... ... ... 55 1 to 56 Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... ... ... 25 to 261 Merchants' Union, 35 per cent.... ••• ... 28 to 281 The following were the closing quotations this evening for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : N. Y. Central 132; Erie Hudson - 2 R.,ading Mich. South. & N. I. Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B7 North-West North-West Preferred 811 Canton 5Ol 1 40c1c. Wand • lOll Cleveland and Toledo 107 Fort Wayne Pacific Mail 9G Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa. Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 3o' Boston Water Power l9 Cumberland -.--- 5...--•• terial does not show much improvement. Prints and (From Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) printing cloths are slightly better, and for printed lawns London, Juno 17. there has been a good demand, the season for that kind of American Securities have formed no exception to the goods being now at its height. Woollens have a better inactivity prevalent in the London Stock Exchange dur prospect, as the accumulated stocks of three or four years ing the past week. United States Bonds exhibit no fluctua is pretty well cleared out, and the new stock and the new tions of moment, and the quotations of the various de styles are coming into demand. Flour and provisions scriptions currently dealt in !are almost identical with have been dull and declining, while the cattle markets of those recorded in our last, 5-20 Bonds of 1862 being 74 Cambridge and Brighton, being better supplied with better to 73 ; the 1865 issue, 711 to 72 ; and 10-10's, 684 to 69i. qualities of stock, have advanced. Erie Shares, at 45 to 46, are a shade lower ; and Illinois Central have declined to 991- to 100 on sales by investors, who bought at lower prices, to realize the large profit which the recent advance has afforded. B:)th yesterday and to-day there has been a good de mand for Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds, and at closing quotations, 34/ to 35, they show a rise of about 2 per cent., which in Debentures, at 291 to 30, have to some extent sympathized. .111EXICO. (From the Anglo-Anzerican Times.) The accounts of Mexican anarchy are so deplor able that the attention of the United States is again much directed to that country. After a long ex perience few thoughtful Americans anticipated any other result to follow the overthrow of the Empire and the useless and impolitic execution of MAxi mILIAN. Yesterday, as the anniversary of that event, mass was celebrated in Paris and in many European capitals for the repose of the soul of the brave and chivalric Austrian Prince ; but ere the first year completes its round revolution is ram pant in every extremity of the Republic, plots are discovered in the very palace of the PRESIDENT, trade is annihilated, communication paralysed, and no man in Mexico can sow with any prospect of reaping the harvest, or at any rate of enjoying the fruits of his toil ; indeed, the mass of Mexicans are too lazy to give even the work necessary to gather up the results of the industry of others. The universal panacea for the evils of misgovernment are supposed by many good Republicans to lie in Republican institutions ; and this is true, if there be but virtue in the people. It is vain to enact good laws if they are never enforced ; and it is worse than vain to place power in the hands of masses, if these masses be composed of idle, lying, de bauched thieves. It does not follow because a man is a man that therefore he should be a ruler ; for, granting his natural right, there are none so infatuated as to maintain that he cannot forfeit that right by crime. If nations prove, by a long course of disastrous history, their incapa city for self-rule, they become criminals in the family of peoples, as individuals do by crime is society. Few doubt the right of the United States to put its foot down on Mexico, and enforce at least some semblance of law and order, for a na tion has no more right to breed misery, disorder, and insurrection on a frontier than a neighbour has to accumulate filth next door and breed a pestilence. That the armed interference of the United States would be a blessing to Mexico is generally conceded ; but what would be the effect on the United States? There are higher considerations for Americans than even the attainment of the " manifest destiny," that is, one sway from the Isthmus up to the Frozen Seas. The only object of such a rule is to secure the best and the cheapest Government to a whole continent ; but it does not follow that because you introduce good institutions, that therefore you re generate the people. You cannot reproduce the British Government in India, nor, indeed, even in Ireland; and the United States will work in vain to establish any better government in Mexico than the crushing despotism of military power. But what would the exercise of such a force do for the Union ? It would annihilate all the principles of free government upon which it works. If Mexico was annexed, and a military despotism established, the States would cease to rule, at least in a portion of their territory, by representative institutions, and would in part become a conquering Power. If they introduced their own institutions, adding Mexico as so many States to the Union, they would bring into Con gress a vile foreign element, which would react most injuriously on themselves; and leaving the local government to the Mexicans,the disorders which now disgrace the mongrel Republic would continue and disgrace the model Republic. The fact is that the United States cannot, for these reasons, at pre sent interfere in - their neighbours' affairs, for by doing so, though the world would be benefited, it would be at their loss and perplexity. Mexico is likely to prove the puzzle of the New World, which the United States must eventually solve ; but it will take brains and time to work out the riddle. MA gou Ez has publicly deniel that he betrayed MAXIMILIAN. No doubt he feels acutely the estimation in which his deed is held, and he began at once to realize the traitor's doom ; but scarcely less quick has been the punishment of JUAREZ. Despised and abhorred by all foreign nations, with every province of his country in insurrection, with an empty Treasury, with clamorous and unsatisfied creditors, with the fate he meted out to his prisoner ever hanging over his own head, he leads an uneasy life, and learns too late the lesson that even had there been a ga in instead of loss in MAXIMILIAN'S execution, the whole prize was not worth the perpetration of the pettiest crime, much less . a senseless execution. which proved as great a want of generosity as of judgment. The world looks for nothing from Mexico, and will continue to regard it as the richest country inhabited by the worst specimens of man kind, with one chance only of redemption, and that is in its being occupied and held by the Army of the United States. The Hon. John Jay, as Special Commissioner of New York, has reported on the Antietam Burial-ground , and he shows that the remains of the Confederate sol diers who there fell are in a condition discreditable to the nation. His words will have more effect, as he is the Pre sident of the Union League, an institution which at least no one can accuse of disloyalty, nor is the record of John Jay one that any Republican, however extreme in his views, can find fault with. He recommends interment in the same enclosure as the Union dead, in a spot set apart; and as no appropriation has been made at Washington for the purpose, he considers New York should boar its share of the expense. "It is a fact not pleasant to relate, but which, nevertheless, has a significance not to be over looked in this connection, that the remains of the Con federate dead on the battle field of Antietam, for whose equal benefit, as your Excellency has distinctly shown from the act of Maryland, this cemetery was established, now lie buried on the battle-field, occasionally at a depth so shal low that their bones are sometimes disturbed by the plow share and the arrow." Dr. Biggs, President of the Board , stated that a skull was recently brought to him which had been turned up separated from the body. The Senate has ordered 10,000 copies of J. Ross Browne's last Report of the Mineral Regions of the Pacific States to be printed for distribution. 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NATHAN—On the 22d inst., the wifo of Ernest Nathav, Esq., of Burlington-road, \Vestbourne-park, of daughter. Marriages. BLUMBERG—ROGERS—On the 20th inst., at St. Afar:/ 6 Spring-grove, Islewortb, Frederick W. Blumberg, sq",. Captain 17th Lancers, third son of the late L. A. Blu r , berg, Esq., of Kensington Palace - gardens , to Laura -1.1; Fulford, daughter of R. A. Rogers, Esq., late Ca P t3l Royal Artillery, of Oldcastle, county Sligo. COTTAM—GIBBS —On the 18th inst., at the parish church, • Great Stanmore, Middlesex, Thomas F. Cottam, to Elizabeth Ramsay, second daughter of Wm. Gi b " Esq., of Bushey-heath, Herts. Deaths. CEARIDOE —On the 20th inst., at Stoke Villa, LoamingOth Sir John Thomas Claridge, aged 77. DUNN—On the 20th inst., suddenly, at Windsor, J. Dun 13 ' of 157, Cannon-street, City, aged 51. ENTWISTLE—On Ihe 20th inst., John S. Entwistle, of Foxholes, and Castleton Hall, near Rochdale, age d i lIARDY—On the 20th inst., Ann, the wife of John hardy' Esq., of Fairlight, Upper Norwood, aged 13. LINNET—On tho 21st inst., Mr. J. Linnet, late of CursiOr streot, and Argyll-place, Regent-street, aged 83. STEPHENS -On the 20th inst., at 6 , Canterbury- r oad, P e l l], ton, Mr. Thos. Stephens, late of the Swan, St ectisv aged 42. London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.II. AND 10 "0 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits SUN °Jac), N° s ; Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the Call3'' lltilgooex.—Tuoday, Julie 23, 1808. CATHOLICITI IS POWER. Catholics alone possess the power that can govern a world. The principles which lie in the armoury of the Church, and which are not made for special occasions, according to the dictates of momentary expediency, have a might within them which, when fairly applied to difficult questions, instantly effects a solu tion. The cardinal point which is at once the centre of stability, and the law of Catholic motion, from which radiates the broad and far-extending lines of power, is fixed in a dogma which the world hates, because it has an instinctive consciousness that it is our one grand fountain of strength. The only body of, men on earth, as far as we are aware, which claims to speak, not relative, but absolute and unfailing truth, is that body which is spread through earth, and is called Catholic. Those who through pride, through lust of money or of flesh, have broken off from the Church, or have been cast out by her, cannot carry away with them her strength. The very point which is her fount of power, by their act of apostacy they abandon. To it they cannot longer hold. They have drifted out to sea, the wind caught them, their moorings gave way, they drift and scud, they lay motionless, or they are tossed and shaken ; without chart or compass, they are carried by wind and by wave in that direction exactly in which the wind and the wave is strongest. We move, and they move, but with this difference—we move from a given point to a given point, while they move from nowhere to nowhere. Ours is the motion of a craft under complete control of an experi enced captain ; their motion is that of the heaving and sinking, the drifting and heavy, objectless motion of a wreck. The powers which ruined the ship keep playing upon her to the last ; the first stitch of canvas which gave way was but a harbinger of the future triumph of the elements. We are not here, of course, speaking of the action of every man who calls himself Catholic. Many there are, unfortunately, who, though in the Church, do not live the full and perfect life of the Church. Some see her power and the grand reach of her principles. They can grasp in theory the magnificent results which would follow were she at the head, with her laws of life thrilling through the activities of nations. But they lack courage, or practical talent, or they are deficient in Christian bold ness to face a hostile public opinion which is strong with the convictions of millions. In fact, they seem to doubt whether, after all, numbers, if there be only sufficient of them, are not able to prevail more effectually than truth. Others see but partially the power of principle in the Church. They cannot grasp it as a whole. They see she has done marvellous things, they know she is divine, and that she will prevail ; but they do not know how, and are content, either through their temperament, or by reason of their isolation, to let things take their course, and let her right herself. Neither the rormer, nor these, are the men who are to manifest to the world the power of life which could be evoked from the mother of the living. And there are other classes besides these—there are those who live in the church, profess her religion, and partake of her sacra ments, but seem to bear about with them an acid which mounts into their minds whenever they speak of her, or are called upon to defend her, and pours itself forth most freely when ever a doubtful story is bandied about at her expense, or any of her high ministers can be spotted with human weakness, or with short coming which seem to cast a shadow on her holiness. These men seem born by a blunder into her communion. All their instincts and tendencies, the whole tenor and drift of their intellectual lives, run athwart or counter to her. They are the thorn in her flesh, and a difficulty in her path. If they read the fathers, it is to find them at variance with her present dis cipline or tradition; if they interpret her saints, it is to her disparagement; if they criticize her history, it is to draw some ugly line across the picture of her spotlessness; in a word, they are ever ox the watch, not, perhaps, consciously, but instinctively, to blemish and damage the high honour of her fair name. But, though men are frail—some lethargic who see, others active who don't see, and others who are both active and see, only act in the wrong way, and see in the wrong light —still, principles live. They never die, nor do they catch the diseases and the deaths of men. They are living energies, which only require to be brought into play. They are the power of life, tilt logic of action, the energy of good, and penetrating as with the diffusive power of light. Fill a mind with them, and send it abroad through the earth—that man is a flame of fire. In proportion as we live by them, and in them, in that very same proportion are we strong. For instance, what principle on earth could be imagined more pregnant with enormous force than the principle which we have called the cardinal point of Catholic power ? Imagine twenty millions of men, for instance, who should be firmly impressed that they had in their possession the exclusive truth, that they were so directed that they could not be wrong by any possibility; human or divine—imagine these twenty millions of men, each convinced in the bottom of his soul that his truth—the truth they all held—was the oily saving truth—imagine these twenty millions of men again living with others, whom they tenderly loved, but whom they felt were holding falsehood in the place of truth, and eating poison in the place of food—imagine these twenty millions so situated, --would not their power be overwhelming ? Would not the very fact of their holding the principle that their truth was the exclusive truth, the infallible truth, be sufficient to account for the immense influence they would exert ? The power is not of numbers, but of principle. For imagine, on the contrary, that those twe nt y million men, inst e ad o f holding their truth to be exclusive, held the doctrine c ommon in this country, that what each man believes that is truth for him, the whole ratiouale of their in fluence and power would be gone ! Or, if they held the doctrine of exclusive truth, yet did not admit its absolute certainty, the influence upon them in its propagation would be very much diminished. In a word, the power and force of action is according to the perfection of the principle. In proportion as those twenty millions carried the cardinal point of Catho licity in all its purity in their minds, in that same proportion would they bring a greater power to bear. In proportion as this prin ciple relaxed hold upon them, in that same proportion would they become helpless and inactive. What can be said of a million can be said of one man. If it is the principle that is the power, it will be a power in one man according to his measure as it is a power in a million men. Every man, then, who is in earnest and believes in the divine mission of the Church, will do his utmost to make her principles his own, and live with the fulness of her strength. Every man, then, who thus believes, and is thus earnest, will do all he can—if he be in doubt—to discover her mind, and seek every assistance to read her aright. He would know where his strength lies, what his true interests are, and would conceive himself greatly blessed in possessing a fountain of living waters of tratli from This Prize Me( cA It is Pt the Sold it Alien obsemB:, h an'B LL ---__ MY Ato A 14vAA . RT hold or R I able we , i Form s fr R °l ICING S r ttrii th,v rc and big A tt. It. 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