The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-22 00:00:00

THE rE:IrsuNAI.TV or TIM OEVII.

lipit; THEODORE'S SON

A Paris letter In the Italica of Rome gives the following
curious account of the son of the late King Theodorus of
Abyseinia :—" Before presenting the young Prince to you.
I will say a few words as to what he has been doing since
the death of his father. At that period the lad was four-
teen. The King had ordered that If he himself surcumbed
in the struggle, his sin should be killed also, in order that
nothing should remain of a race manifestly accursed. One
of the chiefs of the beaten army saved the child, and
handed him over to the conquerors. tine if them, Sir I'.
Elliott, was touched with pity, and offered by signs to the
prince to take care of hint. Ile conducted the boy to
Cairo, where he remained until Pql. Ile had abandoned
his African name, and assumed that of Samuel. Ile was
brought up in the English manner, :ind without thinking
that Ile owed his safety and education to thwie who had
caused the death of Ilia father, gradually habituate.' him
self to that kind of life. When he left the Egyptian
capital to go and live in Arstria he spoke English and
French well, cunt could play the piano. At present he is
as civilised as you or I, and he is a tall young man of
nearly six feet, of athletic build, but as black as ebony.
Sir P. Elliott when be died left hint his fortune, a very
considerable one. Finding himself free and rich, the
young man has resumed his title of prince. and calls
himself Theodonis, like his father. His servants address
hint as 'Your Royal Highness: Only—how derogatory!
-he seems to have betrothed I self to a pretty girl of
Vienna, whose father IA a taker The prince comes to
Paris to pass the winter, awl lives in a pretty little hotel
he rents in the tours Is Heine."

FRSIi (11.!GES
.AGA!NSy. MR.
.lIEFCHER.

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Thu New York journals of the sth publish a long letter
addressed by Mr. Bowen to the Council of Plymouth
Church, in answer to the charge of having slandered the
Rev. Mr. Beecher. These chargeshe denies, and challenges
his accusers to bring him to trial. Ile says—l have known
Mr. Beecher quite intimately since the day of his arrival
in Brooklyn. I have been acquainted with him socially
and privately, in the Church and in the family, in business
matters, and in religious matters. I have heard atten-
tively, and with profound grid, what has been said to
me confidentially against him. I have felt my heart
stirred to its depths for the dear friends who, years before
the present scandal was published, sorrowfully begged
my counsel as they aoitired Inc that their pastor and nuns
had craftily betrayed the sanctity of home, the very
charge long after presented to me by Theodore Tilton in
regard to his own home. I never can or will be lade
enough to allow • single name to be bruited before the
world, although I am now ready to testify to the essential
facts before any proper tribunal. These disclosures !heard
with a sad heart, and tried to accept the evidence brought
to me that Mr. Beecher IVIA grief-stricken and penitent
I have read much that has been said for and against Mr.
, Beecher in the public Press. I with utter amazement read
' and re-read and pondered over his published letters and
written confessions in regard to the serious accusations
made against him. I have tried to weigh all the evidence
which has come before me with judicial firmness and
Christian honesty. Now, being summoned here to speak
and to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, I do solemnly give it as my unwavering opinion
in view of all the facts and evidence presented to me, that
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, without even the shadow
of doubt in my mind, ii guilty of the awful crimes of
adultery, perjury, and hypocrisy." Mr. Bowen himself
has been requested to appear before the committee and
substantiate the charges contained in his written
reply.

May a lay member of the Church of England who
declines to state in writing that he believes in the Devil
be therefore refused whit iasion to the Holy Comn ttttt ion by
his parish minister ,"cliie I. the somewhat singular
question which the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Ca l, by their judgment no Wednesday in the case of
"Jenkins r. Cook," have now set at rest- The came which
has thus resulted has been for
Courts. The tirst opinion upon it was pronounce.' in July
last, by the then Dean 14 Arches, and it 1V3,1 to the effect
that the amen& of exclusion stated were sufficient. Tho
Court of Appeal has just determined otherwise, and this, i
therefore, will belthe view which must henceforth prevail.
The facts were very clear ant simple, and they were, :
fortunately, not disputed. Mr. Jenkins, the injured
petitioner for a restitution of Ecclesiastical rights, WM a
parishioner of Christ Chun+, Clifton. who had been
repelled from Communion by the respondent, the Rev. F.
S. Cook, and for the reason above stated. There seems,
indeed, to have been nothing else that could have been
urged against Mr. Jenkins. It was by something of an
:evident that the one defective point of his spiritual
armour was found out. Ile had about eighteen months
ago sent his Vicar a letter. containing vety free remarks
on one of his late sermons, lin receipt of this document,
Mr. Cook, more fortunate than the patriarch Job, and a
good deal less patient under abuse, bethought him of Mr.
Jenkins', little volume, newt it carefully through, and
discovered that there was no allusion whatever in It to the
I leval or to evil spirit.. It was clear what WaS the purpose
of the omission, and what must he it. consequences. Mr.
Jenkins could have no belief in the existence of these
Powers of Darkness, and, as a further inference, was unlit
to be a partaker of the I'ms. ttttt nion. Mr. Cook, however,
in spite of the two-foil outrage he had reeeive.i, was not
disposed to be vindictive. It was possible he had mistaken
Mr. Jenkins', views, and, even if he had not, he was
willing to give I he benefit of any change they might
have undergone. "Let Mr. Jenkins write me a letter—a
cab., letter—and say that he believes in the I levil. and I
will give I the Saerament." This was Mr. Cook's
effiasatioa. It WM not accepted, and the upshot of the
matter WAS that Mr. Jenkins, having presented himself as
a communicant, and been repelled, sought redress by
process of law, and, has at length sit teessled in obtaining
it.

SEVEN DAYS IN AN OPEN BOAT. HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—lndMeaton and Litt!' COMplantrA.
Another shocking story comes from the sea, and the —The digestion cannot be long or seriously disordered
four only survivors of a wrecked ship's crew have been without the effects of the derangement becoming visible
landed at Liverpool. The vessel lost was the Elise on the countenance. These Pills at once Tomos a the
Prosper, which was owned in Cherhotarg, and at the time disorder and its unpleasant consequences ; they improve
of the fatal disaster was Loud from Porsgrund for that the appetite, and with the increased desire for food they
French port. Particulars of her wreck have not emus to augment the powers of digestion and assimilation in the
hand, Isit the screw steamer Vangoard, which arrived at stomach. I follows?, Pills most satisfactorily remove all
Liverpool yesterday from New One ins, brought (oar of deranged or diseased action of the many organs engaged
the Elise Prospers crew, wh., hal heen picked tip at sea in extracting nourishment for our bodies from our various
The poor fellows, who are all Frenchmen, had Isten diets—as the liver, stomach, and bowels, over all lif which
buffeted about for a week in an open lest, and their they exercise the most saint try control. By resorting at
sufferings at this season of the year may be imagined, an early stage of the malady to these purifying and
Added to the intense coil they had to endure the pangs laxative l'ills, the dyspeptic is speedily restored to health
of hunger, being seven days without Noel or water, and strength, and his sallowness gradually vanishes
When picked up they were much exhausted, and notwithset TRIATRICAL "STARS" M TRANSIT. —One of my engage-
standing kind treatment on board the Vanguard they ' ments with Mr. John Hollingshead at the Gaiety (says
have not got over their long period of exposure and Mr. Toole, the comedian) terminated with Easter, when I
starvation, had arranged to "star' for • month at the Standard in
" Uncle Dick's Darling." The Strand manager, however,
being very anxious to retain me for Cabriolo in "The
Princess of Trebisonde," we made a satisfactory arrange-
ment, whereby it was settled I should play Uncle Duck at
the East End In the early part of the evening, then take
the wings of a brougham and a pretty fleet l'egasue and
Ily across town to the Gaiety in time for " The Princess"
at a quartor-past nine. My change of costume from the
plain habiliments of old Dick Dolland to the tights and
spangles of Cabriolo was, of course, effected in the comae
of transit. This plan worked very happily for several
nights, till one evening while I was duly assuming the
bespaugled suit of Cabriolo in the dim recesses of the
',roughen., and just in that hybrid state of undress when
publicity is least pleasing, the vehicle broke down
suddenly in Fiusbury-square ! I found myself stranded
in the midst of an admiring crowd, which inevitably
springs f ron t nobody knowns where, and nobody knows bow,
on such occasions. To dismount and give vent to sundry
h lies on the imperfections of four-wheeled vehicles in
general, and this brotighant in particular, was but the
work of a moment. What was to be done I And how
was that to be done in the time 1 Cabrioto, In his
spangled habit as he lived, stood reflected for a few
seconds, the cynosure of every eye in Finsbury-squares
Beads of anxious perspiration stood on his manly brow,
and trickled off his made up nose. The night winds—it
was Easter, mark ye—very coolly sported with his tight-
encased limbs, the glittering spangles casting bright re-
flections of the glare of the gas-lamps, while the gaping
crowd cast anything but bright reflections on the propor-
tions of his herculean frame. " Hullos ! 'Era's a spill!
Who stole yer trousers, gurnor r shouted one unfeeling
youth. "Can't yer see he's only • hacrobat r' put in
another. "Do us a flip-flap, will your "Ow can he!
' bin and pawned his carpet, and he's gone and bet the
ticket," observed a third. "Sarch yer pocicets." "What'll
you take for yer tights, Spangles r playfully asked a
fourth. "Make a ring—he's agoin' to do a tumble," sug-
m7Stedtaernodu,,afiloyroffered another of the grinning crowd. To
fnti:.y."rW.coand't haendk istardlosreinrgahigsucart.lothos r'
Stand
this sort of thing Cabriolo was mercilessly subjected, and
still the golden moments flew by. Minutes seemed years.
The crowd was augmenting with snowball-like rapidity.
How long po tr Cabriolo might have endured the whips
and scorns of time and the rude man's contumely, I know
not, but foronce Fortune's, wheel which happened to belong
to a passing lisnsom, gave a timely turn. Cabriolo and
his belongings were bundled in, and by bribes of untold
gold, the driver was persuaded to imitate Turpin's ride to
York, anti to land me at the stage-door of the Gaiety just
in time to hear the concluding strains of the overture
and the call-boy's peremptory signal of "Beginners,
Please !"—Etilr'acte Aissanae.

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