The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-06 00:00:00

THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND.

Address of the Lap Members of the Council of the
Chum% Awelegion to the People of Kaplan&

It is desirable for the lay members of the Church of
England to understand distinctly the position in which
our Church now stand.: and the dangers to which
she is exposed. For more than thirty years, by a
systematic action, there has been a movement among a
section of her members tending evidently towards the
Church of Rome. Feveral Clergyman, now Priests in
that Church, took an active part in the movement.
Others, who acted with them, and took part in the
same publications, still retain important positions in
the rniveraities and bold lucrative benefices in the
Church.

United in their views, they have determined to
carry these out by an active organisation. Many
years ago they established Societies which they called
Church Unions. Unnoticed by the public, little
observed by the rulers of the Church, these persons
spread their Societies through many of the Dioceses
of England. They attracted some persons, honestly
attached to the Church of England, by the plea that
'hey only wished to revive sound Church principles.
Thus they drew into their ranks a few even of the
dignitaries of the Church. But their own plans never
changed ; and their publications, which were numerous,
showed in a manner not to be mistaken, what these
plans were. They carried on their action with in-
defatigable vial, and they appealed with the assiduity
and eagerness of Propagandists to every section of
society -especially to Me upper class. They addressed
students at the Universities with elaborate works, the
young clergy with controversial writings; they flooded
the country with tracts, manuals, and essays ; and
observing that their views found little favour with the
middle dem, the Nought to indoctrinate these persons
by schools, attractive from their cheapness, to which
Clergymen of ability devoted themselves, and where
boys were trained in supenti•ion by their doctrines
and practices. Several school' have been set up in
one of our apothem counties: one is now attempted
to be opened in a midland diocese.
A few yearn ago therm men united their Societies into
one central body in London. The Church Union now
numbers 1,500 Clergymen and 2,000 laymen among its
members. Two years ago a section of that body came
forward with a somewhat imprudent precipitation.
In the year 1865, 1911 Ecclesiastics adddreased Cardinal
Patrisa, the Prefect of the Inquisition at Rome,
informing him of their intentions and their longing.
They assured him that it was their great desire, and
had been their zealous labour to unite the Church of
England with the Church of Rome. Rebuffed by the
Cardinal and exposed by the merciless logic of Dr.
Manning, they seemed to feel, that if they could not
be received at Rome till they could induce the Church
of England to swallow the whole body of Roman error,
they must hasten with a more rapid step the process of
adulteration. Last year Dr. Pusey, the founder of the
movement, came forward and published the
" Eirenicon," the drift of which, by verbal mysti-
fication, was to show, that you could reconcile the
Protestant articles of the Church of England with
the Tridentine dogmas of the Church of Rome.
Another ecclesiastic published essays entitled the
"Church and the World" in which he endeavoured to
show that nominal members of the Church of England
could hold all the dogmas of Rome, and observe its
Ritual, without changing their communion With
views thus elaborately expressed, Dr. Posey joined
the Church Union, and the President of that Iflltuon,
already familiar with the worship of Rome. delivered
~,,„I,Goo. to his council, showing that the final aim
of his party was to re-unite the Churches of Rome and
gneland. Meanwhile, the same party published •
volume eoplaining and illustrating the sacrifice of
the Maas ,• DUM r of Churches in the dioceses of
London and Winchester practised Roman rites.; the
ministers Preached Roman dogmas' Confessionals
were set up; absolution, long secretly practised by
Dr. Piney and others, WIMP openly granted; and an
idolatrous sacrifice, which it was opposed that our

Reformers had by the revision of the Prayer-Rook
rendered impomible, was again announced in publica-
tions, and exhibited in the Churches.

Encouraged by this advance, and strong with the
strength of a growing faction, with newspapers on their
side, and peers and purses to sustain them, the move-
ment gathered strength and did not lack leaders. Last
year it paned into • new phase. The promoters of this
movement presented themselves before the Primate
with • numerously signed ',tithe's, and found a bishop
to lay their Petition before Convocation, and to pass a
high eulogy on their character. They obtained from
the Lower House of r:onvocation a report so balanced
that it was clear they had little discouragement to
apprehend from that quarter.
This year the movement has been more public and
undisguised
The Bishop of Salisbury, who had previously shown
his sympathy with this party, came forward as their
patron. Among his clergy, throng). hi. influence, these
opinions had spread widely. Lest year he made these
known to the 'Upper House of Convocation, by pro-
nouncing • eulogy upon Dr. Posey, who had just
published his Eirenicon, and by praising the volume,
the "Church and the World" But his views, ex-
pressed last autumn in a public letter, and now more
authoritatively in his Charge, have placed before the
world his real sentiments. It is not easy to explain,
and it would be tedious to analyse his mystified
theology', but there are some points about which there
can be no mistake. He holds every Anglican Clergyman
to be • Priest, with similar powers to those of • Roman
Priest, via., the right to hear confessions, and to
absolve from sin; the right to offer up the Eucharistic
Sacrifice. and by the consecration of the Sacrifice to
draw down, through his priestly functions, the presence
of our Lord. Whereas, these dogmas,set forth by a
Bishop and promulgated by a small section of Priests.
who hold dignities and benefices within our Church,
(rightfully we may well ask,) are clearly condemned
by our Liturgy, Formularies, and Articles, and have
been judged and pronounced untenable by our Ecclesias-
tical court. How can any ecclesiastic hold such
opinions without violating his vow, "to minister the
Doctrine and Sacrament, as this Church and Realm
bath received the same r
That the views held and taught by the promoters of
this movement are substantially identical with the
great errors of the church of Rome will appear, if any
one will examine their publications, "The Prayer
Rook for the Young," (Mowbray, Oxford). the "Altar
Manual," (edited by • committee of Clergy, Palmer,
1866,) "the Hymnal of St. Albans," ha, An In these
he will find that many of the hymns and prayers,
are only translations of Romish hymns and prayers,
addressed to the bread and blood, and to the Virgin.
(Altar Manuel, pp. 11, M-3-4 ; Prayer Book, pp. 104,
24-1-6.9) In fact, the teaching of bishop Gardiner. the
head of the Romish party who opposer! Archbishop
Creamer, andwho tried to retain the mass, is lathe same
words as these men use. The only difference is, that
whereas Bishops Gardiner and Bonner were deposed,
Bishop Hamilton and those who think with him, are
suffered, contrary to right and order, to remain in the
church to its great scandal.
But that these persons might leave us no room for
doubt, Bishop Hamilton has authorized the dedication
to himself of the Liturgy of the Church of Sarum,
which has lately been edited and republished by one of
theme Rom/miring priests. "that it may restore a truer
and deeper understanding of the mysteries in which the
memorial of the Passion and death of our Lord is con-
tinually offered, and Himself is present to feed his own
el ct with his own meet precious body and
blood." This Missal, so dedicated, contains,
as Bishop Hamilton well knows, every rite
and dogma of Rome; a full description of
Romish vestments, (pp. 37, 44-1-6), chasuble, amice,
Ice. ' - the lights, the acolytes, (pp. 38, 40, Preface, P.
13), thurifers, (p. 42), and taper bearers (p. 41), incense,
(pp. 42.7, M). worship of the crucifix, (p. 47). sign of
the cross, (p. 48), admiring the cross and prayers to it,
(all:tiritg.2l.RePehrf°rmping. 51(1.c1rte,626-07,..eiTe5vZ1 and
121); ; nigh mass°", low mass,- 3'masses for the deed, (pp.
42 68, 75, 81), belief in purgatory. (p. 54), Prayers to
the Virgin, (pp. 38, 40-9, 64, 70-3, 83), festivals in her
honour, and prayers to the saints asking their interces-
ion, (pp. 40, 64, 90-3). Yet this concentrated essence
of Rornaniam, bishop Hamilton commends to the Clergy
of him Diocese • and refers to it w.th approving
wymyathy in his recent I barge (p. 78). No wonder
that from such a Bishop and such teaching the Laity of
that great diocese turn with feelings of mournful

The Bishop of Oxford shrinks with instinctive
prudence from this notorious Miami, though its editor
Is one of his favoured clergy. But with clergymen
holding these opinions be shows that his sympathies
run. Sisterhoods set up within his diocese, with his
eager sanction, ornaments, vestments, and processions
allowed: Roman dogmas boldly preached, Romisb rites
taught by words and signs; Romanizing Ritualists
brought to preach before him Roman serrices intro.
duced into churches, Roman emblems adopted by him-
self, stone altars declared illegal, yet he will not
interfere with them; the Commandments illegally
removed, yet he will not have them replaced; they
make way for flower pots, crucifixes, banners, candle.
sticks, pictures, and sculpture, tending to commend
the worship of the Virgin, and chancels so adorned are
opened by the Bishop with emphatic praise; the essays
of "the Church sad the World," are presented by him
to Convocation, the petition of the Church Union and
its notorious president are tendered with high encomiums,
—these things must prove to all the bias of Bishop
Wilberforce'. mind. But if there was any lingering
doubt, his late Charge dispels it. In that Charge the
pure rites of England's early church are condemned as
Gold and puritanical, "a frozen uniformity," (p. 49)
which marks a lower ceremonial. He !elle his clergy
that those who look with apprehension on a great
development of ritual amongst us, "can act more
immedittely on the side of moderation by raising that
which is too low than by being over-ready to clamour
against that which they think too high," (p. 6) ; and he
tells us that to object to Ow rites, which
night seem ago he denounced as childish
frivolities and tending to favour Romish cot-.
ruptions, is nothing else than the renewal of "the
old Puritan objection to the Church, and its system of
external ceremonies" (p. 55). A distinctive dress for
the Clergyman while offering the Eucharist, he recoin-
mends, as marking our belief in "the unquestioning
certainty of a real presence in it of our Blessed Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ" (pp. 60, 59) ; and while his
diocese is speckled with the red eruption of Ritualism,
the persons, whom he selects for praise are Ritualists,
thou, whom be reprimands are the congregations who
remonstrate in vain.

Such are the facts of the case ; and such is the imbue
before the country, on which the integrity and ex.
istence of our Reformed Church turns. It is the old
battle of the Reformation, which we thought had been
settled under Edward VI.; but which we find has to be
fought ocean.
There to indeed nothing new in the fight. The Bishop
of Oxford speaks of these rites as novel, borrowed from
the rich ceremonial of antiquity (p. 57), • new reaction
against the Puritan element " which gave its special
shape and colour to our own ceremonial" (p. 58).
Whereas they are only the old clothes of Rome, which
the Church and the State, under Edward VI., looked at,
examined, and cast off.

_
These ceremonies Cranmer and Ridley and the sturdy
founders of our churc, dismissed in language expressive
and unceremonious. "Their prodigious sacrifices, their
ceasing' of idols, their boyish processions, their un-
commanded worshipping', and their confusion' in the
ear, of all traitery the fountain" (Stripes Life of
Cranmer, voL L, p. 196), these Cranmer spoke of u
"Popish trash, of which the Church of England should
be discharged" (ditto, p. 224), and the pictures of the
altar with candles lighted, and the priest apparelled
after the old sort (p. 227) : and the oil, and the anoint-
ing, and the altar and the sacrifice, and the priest in
tawdry vestments, and the elevation and the 'Aeration,
and the incense, and the ashes, and the images, and the
prayers for the dead, and the absolving priest, and the
loathsome confessional, all these are nothing new, but
are the old things rejected at our Reformation, fought
for by Bishops Gardiner and Bonner, and a cloud of
Romaniaing priests; and then, after full enquiry and
deliberate discussion, by Convocation and Parliament,
by statute and canon, condemned, and put down.
Then, as now, the people of England had anion, them
priests who hated the name of Protestant, and detested
the principles of Protestantism They sighed for the
I powers of Homan prelates, for the mass and the arrogant
priesthood, for arbitrary jurisdiction, and the confes-
sional. Headed by two Bishops they struggled hard
with obstinate tenacity ; and against them our Homilies
and Articles, the Injunctions of the Bishops and the
proclamations of the Sovereign, were directed. It was
then the people against the priests, the nation against
Ecclesiastical tyrants, the Church of England against
the bastard corruptions of Rome. It is the .ame con-
flict now. Romanixihg Bishops and priests, with their
confessions, and absolutions, and sacrifices, and assump-
tions, who seek to crush the liberties of the laity, to
corrupt the faith of the Church, to adulterate the
Liturgy, and to debut our services.
Let no one misunderstand the issue. It is not a
question of chants and scents, of trappings and decora-
tions, of flowers and puerile processions ; it is a question
of our faith and Church. But that belongs to the
English people, and to men of all sects. For in the
Reformation all parties have a share, and Protestant
truth is the birthright of all. The battle was fought
once, and was won before ; it has to he fought and won
again. Sir Robed Peel said truly, twenty years ago,
that the battle of the Reformation would have to be
fought over .gain. We appeal to the Laity to rise and
put themselves like men. The battle is in their hands;
for it does not depend on Convocations or Commissions,
or the schemes of intriguing Ecclesiastics. It is in the
hands of the people. They may fight, and if they fight
firmly, they will win.
What their powers are, and how they may act, we
shall tell them hereafter. Enough now to put the
case before them —to state it plainly, and strip it of
"gm.
behalf of the Council of the Church Association,
A. W. CRUIKSHANK, Secretary.

CHARMS, LOVE PFULTREE, INTERPRETL-

TION OF DREAMS, AND PORTENTS.
Let us consider the pretensions of our (theme:, or
wise men and women, as they are variously I
They can charm away long standing and recurring com-
plaints, such as rheumatism, ague, erysipelas, whoop-
ing-cough, epileptic fits, as well as minor matters, such
as cramp or wart/. They can interpret dreams, and
they can dream where to look for stolen property, and
thus aid in its recovery. They can decoct love-philtres,
and attain young people how to proceed if they wish to
see the individuals who are to he their future partners
in life, and they can tell fortunes. In some of these
matters • personal interview with the charmers is
requisite, end special troatment is Galled for; but in the
majority of cases the circumstances of • nape are met by
a selection from asort of floating currency of charms and
cures, that requires no departure from usual practise.
Portents, especially, require no mocha interpretation,
though there are some few that may be almost con-
sidered private property, such as the supernatural
appearances that precede the death of members of
particular families. Many cures, too, are of general
application. Should a child have the whooping cough,
for instance, there is no Deed of a special consultation
with any authority upon the subject. Every old lady
knows that it only requires to be taken out walking
every day, till it meets • man on • piebald horse; or to
betaken to • married couple whom names are &web and
Mary; or to be placed, with ita facts to the tail, an the
mom that is alwan to be found on • donkey's hook or

to have its breakfast of mUk divided with • (erre;
either of these cures will prove efficacious More
serious complaints, of course, require sterner remedies.
Epileptic fits call for a sactificts offended powers must
be propitisted with the death of • cock, the spot on
whlch the sfflicted person fell being the alter indicated.
'Hie rile of seer:lice is, further, visibly interwoven with
the eeremo•ial of many other charms. The impalement
of snails on thorns, for the churning away of warts is
another case in point, as is the vietitnization of frogs by
stic:iog them full of pint for magical purposes. In the
oorth the "uncanny" trick of pieleing a pigeon's heart
with • quantity of pine, and burning it thus curiously
stotidell, is believed by curious lasses LO reveal wonder..
There is &remarkable confusion of idea in the minds of
those resorting to each practises as to whether they are
summoning to their aid good or bed powers. The
eifferencts, too, between 110 invocation and a prayer is
not clearly recognised by young and crude minds, es we
may realise in the following familiar liees which, seventy
years ago, as • septuagenarian assured us, were
said by many a child at its mother's knee as a prayer,
nightly:—

"Matthew. Murk, Luke. and John
Bless the bed that I lie on.
There are four corners to My bed.
There an lour angels round me spread
one to read and one to write,
And two to guard me all this night.
HI should sleep and never wake,
I pray to God my soul to take."
And again, in the rhyme in which Coleridge tells u.
the Christchurch boys used to invoke the aid of the
Brangelists to assist in untying the knot they believed
the devil wu tying in their legs when they had the
cramp. The same contusion of idea is apparent in the
key and the Bible test, in which two persons place a
key between the leaves of • Bible and expect both objects
to turn rounds. •stgn that the questions to which they
sought replies were answered affirmatively ; and in the
selection of horydays for the performanoe or accomplish-
ment of some other ceremonies. Thus one girl whispers
to soother, and has done no, we may persume, for
senturiee, "if 3omo pluck a rose on Midsummer's-eve at
midnight, and put it away in a box till Chrimmu, and
then wear it in your band or hair. some one will take it
out who will be your husband, or bear the name of your
future spouse." Fridays, supposed to be unlucky from
Lb. fact of the crucifixion having taken place on one, are
picked out a. the only days on which some rites can be
performed with any prospect of • result. This mystifica-
tion is intensified in some countries by the interweaving
of the sign of, crone as part of the occult ceremonies.
In the midland counties we have heard of • cross beim,
made at the foot of their beds by maiden, with their
shoes, who getting into tied beekwarde, repeat the
following charms on three successive Fridays :

°I have net my shoes In the dupe of a T,
Hoping int true love for to me
In hl, apparel and his array.
In his clothes he wears every day,"
After which they may not break the charm by speaking
till the morning. This proem is to enable them to
dream of their future husbands, and bearing in mind
the physiological fact that our brain', in some conditions,
continue to pursue, in slap, the object• that hut
ocapial them when awake, iii. probable that it was
successful sufficiently often to create a oonfidenoe in its
efficacy. In the southern counties we have beard of u
much trouble taken, on three sucomaive Friday even-
ings, to procure • visit from the unknown or tardy
prospective partner. For this purpose the damsel,
throw • handful of salt into the fire at the same hour,
leek after week, with a form of locantation in verse,
which set forth that it is not the eat that the fire is to
born, but the heat of the young charmer's lover that it
is to turn, no that he msy neither be age to rest nor be
happy till he pays her a visit. To procure a letter
from • lover, it matters not on which day of she week,
all the longing lady has to do, Is to turn he bed over
nine times.

Some old people delight In this kind of lore. Itis
noon their lip. all day long. Their quaint sayings and
constant remini•oenees of old times make their convenes-
tins like • cabinet of curiosities. They can meet every
rens with • cut and dried saying, out and dried we
know not when, we know not by whom. From the
birth of an infant till it has "corned the length of •
man," as the north country peasant says, ciremmatances
ogee which no one has any control, indicate it. destiny
to these worthies. To begin with, the day of the week
upon which it is born settles the leading features of
temperament or fortune.
"Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child le full of grace :
Wedneulay's child Is born to woe,
Thuralm's child haa far to go;
Friday's ehlki is loving and wiring,
Saturday's child must work for its
ID some parts of the kingdom the rhyme goes on to
say, that the child that is born on the Sabbath-day is
blithe and bonny, good and gay; but in other parte
these desirable characteristics are deemed the eyelid
property of those born on Christ-day. If. in deeming,
a garment should be accidentally put on wrong-aide nut,
at.. • sign of good leek; if his palm ebould Itch it is •
sign that be is about to receive money; if his nose
should tingle, that he is going to be vexed or pleased.
according to whether the tutulation ix most observable
on the outside or inside of that organ ; if his ears
should hero homey be sure that isombody is talking
about him ; if the sole of his foot should exhibit an
irritation, he may make preparation for going to
strange places; should be trip in running upstairs, •
wedding may be expected; end should be shudder, some
one is walking over the spot that is to be his grave.
Should he forget anything, or have to turn book for it
alter leaving the house, he must sit down before start-
ing afreab, or he will meet with bad luck. In some
parts of the country it is deemed imperative thst be
should also eat and drink, to avert the evil his careless-
ness would otherwise draw upon him, Ii be should
inert • squint-eyed person, he need not anticipate much
profit from the undertaking in which he is engaged;
for in this rude and illogical learbilig a squint eye is an
neil rye for other. 'amides its unfortunate poeuieseor.
His own hand, tell big own fortune, without any need
of eonsultation with the palmistet ; for if there be
pecks upon his thumbnail, he is going to receive a gift;
i
f these marks appear upon his first finger-nail, he bas a
friend; if upon the second a foe; if upon the third a
visit to pay ; and upon the fourth • journey to go.
The days of the week are arbitrarily lucky for the
conduct of some business and unlucky for the prosecu-
tion of other. Nail-eutling on some day. is • most
hazardoua proceeding; all sorts of mieery culminate on
the,hoad of the rash mortal who presumes to out them
on the Sabbath-day.—" better for him he had
been bore;" sod to cut a child's nails before he is one
Year old is • sure way to nicks hint • thief. Sneezing
indicates a great deal more than the development of •
catarrh or • cold in the head. In the matter of sternu-
tation, lip-lore bee shaped the experience into this :-
-.Sneeze on Monday, ~see= for danger;
Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss • stranger,
gnome on Wedneeday, get • liter;
&mem on Thursday, something better;
Sneeze no Friday, sneeze for sorrow;
Saturday, see your true love to-merrow,"
Another rhyme aye,—
"Sneeze three tleneebefore you're up,
You'll see you're sweetheart before you sup."

Some household duties are regulated by a regard fo-
Md-world rules that some people meld not bring them
selves to Infringe for any convenience. Washing-day
I. nettled with as much solemnity as attended the
adjustieetion of the proper reennence a Easter, in
the days of rivalry between the Celtic and Roman
churches:—

'Throe who era& on Monday have all the week to dry;
Those who wash on Tueaday will hare one day gone by;
Those who waah on Wednesday erash in the middle of the
mak ;

,
Those who wash on Thursday have all their clothes to seek;
Those who was wash on Frid'y must truly wash at need ;
Those who wash on Saturday must be sluts Indeed."

It will be seen that it would be next to impossible for
any rightly-disposed persona to oommence laundry
operations later than Tuesday in the face of this state
mint, The working-claases of London haves hebdomadal
nomenclature of their own: Black Monday, Miserable
Tuesday, Dreadful Wednesday, Equal Thursday, Buser
Friday. Joyful Saturday, Glorious Sun lay. Amietants
in shops, especially, sympathise with thaw attributes
and own their application. After their holiday on
Sunday, • return to business on Mooday may be felt
as tedious. Tuesday and Wednesday drag on still
shadowed by the contrast of put joys; but Thursday la
midwey between these and thou in anticipation. Friday
heralds the near appromth of the Sunday holiday; and
by Saturday anticipation has concreted into content.
The Saturday half holiday movement has, probably,
dimned the acuteness of this feeling, which, for all we
know, may have been thus esteemed by London
'Prentioes in the days of Queen Brea, or before Portents
do not disdain to indicate the approach of events in
the homeliest form. Our current lip lore assigns
different meanings to the cinder that flies
out of the fire on to the bearth-rug, &mord-
ing to its shape. lilt be roundish, it is a purse, and sie-
nifiee the prospective receipt of money; if it be oblong,
It is • *Olin, and announces death; if it be hooded,
or thicker at one end than the other, it inn inedel, and
intimates the probabilty of an addition to the family
circle. A film of soot, hanging to either of the bars
of the fire-place, is called a stranger, and indicates the
arrival of one; and, should the fire only burn on one
side, the approach of • stranger is considered to account
for the non-combustion of the best of the fuel. Sparks
are more definite ; they point out that the 'Martyrs
to be expected are enemies. A tallow-candle, every one
knows, lets us know when we are about to receive a
letter, and the expression of " • thief in the candle"
applied to fiery excrescences on the wick, lophs se
though our forefathers relied upon the candle as a
sort of of burglareletective, the transition from the
security afforded by artificial light against midnight
depredators to the object yelding that light being easy.
Out of doors it is just the come: there is a meaning to
many things where none might be expected; and
nearly everything the eye rests upon is an omen of
some sort. As is probably allowed, in jest or earnest,
wherever the English tongue is spoken_. crow in
the south. a magpie in the north, —means much more
than a close inspection of those ornithological specimens
would lead us to suspect: one crow is sorrow, two are
mirth, three a wedding, and four • birth. Mere the
indicative power of the crows 0011118 ; but magpi.,
continue the tale, five are heaven, Oa are bell, and
seven "the de'irs own selL" Crow. are accredited
with • determination to soil the guineas of such
persons who do no not put on some new gureneuee on
Koster Sunday. Should • dog howl, it is hosause he
kncws of bad news. Trees and herbs as both associated
with this tort of domestic magic, The ash for instance,
has powers over witches and wizards; and lassos choose
lovers by its aid :

"An even se I do metes.,
But nets pull'd from the tree;
The first young man that I shall meet
My own true lure shall be."

Herbs have olliors beyond those of healing. Sage,
unusociated with onions, has a property as attractive
into flavour socoeiaMd with Out blub is appetizing.
A maiden can see her future husband if abe lie" to
pull a lea or two of it at midnight on Midsummer's-
eve. Our rustic informant of this Get tried this ober"
some fifty year. ago, and saw as she left the garden
for the house again, the yetlnf men at. gunim waking
aerials an adjoining field. Her cariosity brought no"
of the evil omeequences that are supposed by .011141 to
anarna to charm-trying, for she and her husband are
.tin living, and among their handsome progeny is to be
00110161 one of the brave felloas who won the Victoria
Cram and a commission, for *limb', in the lielkla the
Crimes,—The Asada'.

eaurt an% fashionable Intelligence.

THE Rugg? VISIT OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE TO THE
Quassi.—A Paris correspondent of the Independowee
Beige says: "It does not appear that Queen Victoria
is coming to Paris It is sail that one of the motives of
the journey of the Empress to Osborne wag to induce
the British sovereign to snake an aecnrsion to the conti-
nent. It is also said that the mission of her Mejecty,
Eugenie, ICY to eommunicate to Queen Victoria some
letters of the Emperor Napoleon 111, and the Emperor
Maximilian, calculated to throw • new light upon the
matter so sadly terminated at Queretaro, end to dispel
soy prejudices that may have been entertaired in Eng.
land respecting the part played by the Imperial govern-
ment throughout this incident."
HEALTH 0, THE Qom's. The recent appearance of the
Queen in pablie wee followed by • most dietreasing
attack of sickOMis and exhaustion, which lasted for
several hours. The inner life of the Court is neownearily
known to but few: even those in immediate attendance
upon the Queen are not always in • position to arrive
at a correct knowledge of her Majesty's real condition.
The privacy of the sovereign should be as mash
respected as that of the humblest of her subjects.
There are occasions, however, on which that prin.,
may be held too sacred. This is more especially the
ease when erroneous reports have gained general
creelencw. Then it is right to be known that her Majesty,
with the greatest desire to fulfil all those ditties whieh
appertain to her dignity or her hospitality, Is
reeasiooally prevented from performing them by bodily
entering of a character most difficult to be borne.—The
1411Cti.