The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-05 00:00:00

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BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Mackenzie Park, Slough (formerly at Clepirmi-rite).
Inetitub•i, 1827.
The NMXT ELECTION of ORPHANS of those who were
•• once in prosperity" will take place at the London Tavern,
Sishopegate-street, on TUESDAY, the 9th January, NM, when
Twelve Uhillren will be admitted.. _ _ .

The Foil Wirbeopeaed at lrand close at 2 o'clock precisely.
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should be addressed.

WEIR OXFORD. CHRISTMAS ENTER-
TAINMENT. The MAXIM? GUILE and KING
CHRUITMAL—Thus highly snceessful Operettas will be per
in addition to the usual varied programme of the above
estabildunent. embracing the services of all the most talented
artistes now Ns London. Conducted by Mi./. Jenghmaus—EVEßY
EVENING.

E'ODARE.—The HOLIDAY S.—THEATRE
of MYSTERY, Toptian-hall —MARV= in MAGIC and
V RILOQUISII, an perfumed by command before her
Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family at Windsor, Tuesday
Evening, Nov. 21, 1866. Great attractions for the holidays—
Magic, Ventriloquism, Inexhaustible Showers of t hristmaa
Presents, the marvellous SPHINX, the birth of Flower Trees,
and Stature', celebrated Indian Basket Feat, as only performed
by him—EVERY EVENING, at a; Wednesday and Saturday,
at S.—Stalls at Mitchell's, Old Bond-street, and Box-office,
Egyptianhall.—Admhelon, Is. sad fa. ; Mal* 3,.
Almost iniraculoua."—Vide "The Times," Aptil 18, 1866.

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The Rev. John Robert Hall, M.A. has been I
collated to the rectory of Banton ; the Rev. Thomas Barr
Sikes, M.A., has been ()Dilated to the rectory of Halsted ;
the Rev. John Frederick 'theme. clerk, has been (alleged
to the vicarage of Hornbill ; the Rev. Hy. Chu. Howard, ;
clerk, has been licensed to the curacy of Fordoomb, Pens- .
bunt; the Rev. Walker Geary Knocker, 8.A., has been
licensed to the ours of St. Job., Margate ; and the Rev. ;
Wm. Dant, M.A., has been licensed to the curacy of •
Peashurst, all in the county of Keut and diocese of Canter-
bury.
A CLanorman's TEarimota.—As a clergyman
I have had to call thousands of times n?on utter strangers
among the working people. I cannot remember any in-
stance
in which I have been treated with rodent:es, except ;
when I have been inconsiderate, or professionally intrusive, j
myself. Of course I except boys ; for, however great '
friends you may be with young people generally, you can-
not
emus some wanton impertinence from street imps, ;
bursting with Irreverent wit. But they are rude to each
other, everyone, and aIL Their ill-behaviour is chiefly the
result of sheer animal spirits, and the fact that their play-
ground is the street. Boys must be at high judo. some-
times ; and when they are let out of the workshop, or are ;
enjoying any parenthesis of escape from supervision by •
their immediate sod admitted superiors, they let off steam.
A model boy, who never dirties his dogers or tumbles his
hair, who always " rebukes" his fellows for departures
fiom his code of morality, who appears in favourable
aspect., under initials, in a tract, is often more radically
and exquisitely offensive than one who thinks aloud, freely,
about any person or occurrence, whether it be a tipsy old
woman on a stretcher, who is being borne, as in • living
police funeral, to her temporary home in the station, or a •
duchess whew carriage is blocked on its way to a drawler I
room, and " dominated" by some urchin on a lampost. I
except street boy., who are unfeeling ; I except encounters
in a mob ; and I repeat that I can read) no instances of
noprovoked ill manners in any of the genuine working.
classes, throughout numberless personal oommunicatioos
with them. They are naturally courteous. No doubt, if you
were to call just as the family were sitting down to dinner
or tea, and still go in though you found them thus eugaged ;
if you were to open the door without knocking, or ask im-
pertinent questions about the goodmao's or gooderife's esys
and means, or begin to read a chapter from the Holy Bible
apropos to nothing at all, simply because you assumed that
• strange bootmakees family needed conversion, you might
expiate yourself to a iough hint that your company was un-
desirable. But if the Archbishop of Canterbury were to
pay you a visit, and remark that your doorstep was not so
clean as it might be, or ask you what your income was, or
how much you had paid for your child', funeral, and what
eon had got for dinner, you would try to convey to his
Grace your f the mistake he made is affecting an
interest in your concerns. And when a clergyman or visitor
bent on amateur proselytism and elevation of the muter,
forgets his manners, as the Archbishop of Canterbury naves
would his, what wonder if he Beta a rap on the keuekles
from • carpenter who does sot know how to reply to an
impertinence with indirect and polished coolness !—Thit
Rev. Harry Jones, in Macmillan's Afar/wine for January.
CHRISTMAS IN ROME.—Next morning I put on
my dress clothes and white tie, and repaired with
multitedes of Englishmen similarly dressed, and of
Englishwomen in black crape—the regulation eoe-
Itume—to St. Peter's. It was • glorious and cloudless
morning ; sunbeams streamed in columns from the southern
windows, falling on the vast space full of soldiers and •
mingled mass of every kind of people. Up the nave stood
double files of the Pontifical guard. Monks and nuns
mixed with the Swiss cuirassiers and halberd.. Contedini
crowded round the sacred images, and especially round the
toe of s'. Peter. I saw many mothers lift their swaddled
babies op to kiss it. Valets of cardinals, with the invari-
able red umbrellas, hung about side-chapels and sacristies.
Purple-mantled monsignori, like emperor butterflies, floated
down the aisles from sunlight into shadow. Movement,
colour, and the stir of expectation, made the church alive.
We showed our raiment to the guard, were admitted within
their ranks, and solemnly walked up toward the dome. I
There, under its broad canopy, stood the alter glittering
with gold and candles. The choir was carpeted and hung
with scarlet. Two magnificent thrones rose ready for the
Pope: guards of honour, soldiers, attachés, and the elite of
the residents sod visitors in Rome were scattered in groups
picturesquely varied by ecclesiastics of all orders sod
degrees. At ten • stirring took place near the great west
door. It opened, and we saw the processios of the Pope
and his cardinals. Before him marched the singers and
the blowers of the silver trumpets, making the moat liquid
melody. Then came his cap of maintenance and three
tiaras; then a company of mitred bishops; next the car-
dinals in scarlet ; and last, aloft beneath • canopy, upon
the shoulders of men, and flanked by mystic fans, advanced
the Pope himself, swaying to and fro like • Llama or an Aztec
king. Still the trumpets blew most silverly, and still the
people knelt ; and as he cams we knelt and had his blessing.
Then he took his state and received homage. After this
the choir began to sing a mass of Paleettine's, and the
deacons robed the Pope. Marvellous putting on and taking
off of robes end tiaras and mitres ensued, during which
there was much bowing and preying sod burning of incense.
At last when he had reached the highest stage of sacrificial
sanctity, he proceeded to the altar, waited on by cardinals
and bishops. Having ceased it carefully, he took a higher
throne and divested himself of part of his robes. Then the
; mass went on in earnest, till the moment of censecration,
when it paused, the Pope desceeded from his throne, pissed
i down the choir and reached the altar. Every one knelt ;
the shrill bell tinkled ; the silver trumpets blew ; the air
became sick and heavy with incense, so that sun end
, candlelight swooned in an atmosphere of odorous cloud-
: wreath.. The whole church trembfaid, bearing the strange
subtle music vibrate in the dome, and seeing the Pops with
his own hands lift Christ's body from the altar and present
it to the people. An old parish priest, pilgrim from some
valley of the Apennines, who knelt beside me. cried and
quivered with excess of adoration. The great tombearmod,
the sealptared saints and angels, the dome, the volumes of
• light and incense and unfamiliar melody. the hierarchy
tomistrent, the white and astral figure of the Pope, the
multitude--made up an overpowering effect. What fol-
lowed was intensely dull. My mind again went back to
Reiland, sod I thoegbt of Christmas services beginning in
• all village churches mid all cathedrals throughout the lead
their old familiar hymn, their sachem of Handel. their trite
' yet reversed minima How different the two some. are—
I, Christens' is Rome, Christmas in England—ltaly and the
North—the spirit of Latin and the spirit of Teutonic Chris•
ifepanar for Jaasary.