The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-20 00:00:00

OIiUSOHES.

There was no specialty observed is the morning armies
at St. Paul's, but the congregation was numerous. The
prayers sod lessons were rendered by the Minor-Canes
Lupton and the Bev. J. Cowsrd, the satins= selected for
the omission being " Lord for Thy tender Mercies "
(Format), which was effectively exenated by the choir.
The proceedings at the cathedral this aftersom will include
$ sermon to be preached by the Bishop of London, a new
anthem, composed expressly by Mr. J. Goes, sad a special
selection from the psalms ; and the Lard Mayor and the
oorporatiois will be present.
The whole of the " boys• belonging to the Blue-coat
School were at Christehnrch, NewgateMreet, this morning,
the day being observed ne s Sunday at Christ's Hospital.
Mr. W. Gilpin, the governor, and Dr. Jacobs, the head-
master, attanded with the scholars, The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Michael Gibbs. The atteodance at
St. Sepulchre's, St. Bride's, St. Drusetan's, St. Andrew's,
sal other City churches, wee good.

ABBEY.

SERMON BY PUY M. DWI STAMM.

The mom* semis* at Westminster Abbey was Ind
for 10 o'clock, keg before which hour person from
distant pens of London were flocking to the great
notional mhosber, end almost immediately after
the opening of the doors every seat was ooeu-
pied, a large number standing throughout she ser-
vice. The congregation included many members of both
houses of parliament.
The service was a full choral one. After the prayer for
the cattle plague,
The sermon was preached by ibs very Rev. Dean Stan-
ley. The text was taken from the 10th verse of the 6th
chapter of the Gavel of St. Matthew, the words being
"Thy will be done." "I have chosen these words," said
the preacher, "for our thoughts to-day because they sum
up in a few words what some ass question, the tidier
width aught to be in our minds la the premeds of any
greet calamity, loaders' or individual. Let me take
then ha all the snags of white they am capable.
as guiding oar thoughts through the newton of this day.
Fiat, they express the general sentiment width any peas
visitation of Ood awakens, especially such an one as the
peseent. Deeps:press resignation sad sabmissioe to the
weak, whatever it be. Reeignaties, it has been nonselimrs
Sealy said, is the foundation of all religion. It is sot in-
deed the whole of religion—that we shall see es we ex-
plore more fully the meaning of oar Lord's prayer—but it
is the Winans ; and is • calamity like that which
Ira now overtakes the nation it is one of she
mast important lesions which it can teach us. Magaificent
as we know the power sad the destinies of mass to be, vast
as are the improvements in kaowledge and in the means
of
controlling adore, and diseser,snd time, and span which
amo gives to us beyond the light of soy previous generatioo,
it is on this very amount useful for us to be brought fen
to fan with an overwhelming proof that, after all, we, the
humsa rues, are but a small part of the universe,and that what
we do, with all our knowledge, is • very small thing com-
pared with what we do not know. Here is • dames,
coming we keow sot why, or whence, or whither ; visiting
this esuatry coed sot that, this neighbourhood and not that
—kept in chock, indeed, to • certain degree by haw, skill
sad watehfuleass, yet still balling us at every tura ; a
disease, too, which afflicts us by the sufferings of others,
which visits the homes rase through the groans sad an-
guish sad death of poor dumb animals. What shall we
say ? How shell we account for it ? Science and religion
both give but one answer—' Thy will be done.' It is the
inserutable will of Him who made the universe • it is the
resat of laws which we know but very imperfectly. It
most be received in silence. ' I was dumb,' the psalmist
says, • and vetoed not my mouth, for it is Thy
&tag.' And if scientific speculation is thus baffled,
religions speculation is baffled also. Our Lord
himself has warned us, in the chapter that you
have just heard, that we can from no judgment
whatever oaths mane:ton of this or any other like ealairity
with any participle, sin or evil in those on whom the
ethamity has faller. Those oto whom the tower of Siloam
fell were not sinners above the rest of mankind. The
mations of Europe ea whom this cattle pines has
fallen are not to be thought on that amount
damn above the rest of Europe ; the eountiss of &se-
ised and Scotland, which have suffered most from
this grievous pestilence are not therefore sinners shove the
rest of Greet Britain; the individuals on whom it has
fellers with greatest severity are not therefore greater
sinners than those who have altogether escaped. We are
hashed into NUMMI ; we are nisei out of ourselves is the
presence of the Almighty ; we are, so to speak, in the
hands of a giant, or, rather, let us ay we are in the ever-
noting arms of our hoarsely Father, to whom we breathe
oar sorrows sad our sufferings as children toe father because
we cannot help doing so, bemuse the instinct of our hearts
calls us to do so, whenever these calamities fall upon as.
Yet even this, though it le as overwhelming and myste-
rious thought, ought not of itself to be a depressing
thought. If resignation is the first duty and sentiment of
child-like faith, it is not lees the duty and the sentiment of
nosily and wholesome knowledge. The coosoionsness that
man is but one part of the vast scheme of the universe
is one of the many lessons which the great discoveries of
modern science ought most powerfully to imprr is upon as,
sad the concionsaiss of the vast noknows which spreads
around as on every side is the very thought which the
greatest of all the sons of science expressed at the end of
his loog laborious We, when he said that he was like a child
picking up pebbles on the shore of the great mean of truth.
Like Josiah, the prophet, we are often tem* I to
think that we can us farther than other nes,
that we should know better how to manage the ushers@
than he who male it. We may think like him that it is
better to die than live in such a world of racer-
%slaty and darkeess, but the answer to us is the same as it
was to him—' Doest thou well to_be angry " The rev.
dean proceeded to say that in the mouth of the Christian
the words of the text rose above the feeling of mere sub-
mission and resiguatios. He could say sot only with

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A provincial contemporary gays that the tories resignation but with cheerfulness, "Thy will be done,"
fought the battle of the first reading of the Reform Bill in because he felt that God knew and eared better
trusTarkish fashion—by placing the renegades in the front. for men then they knew and cared for themselves. 1
The strength of the camp at Aldershot, now ma- It was not men fate, or destioy, or abstract law that had
terWly reduced by the departures for Ireland, will soon be overtaken them, like the wheels of MOON lifeless irresistible
augmented by the 66th Regiment from Devonport, the 48th mschine ; it was the living, careful, deliberate will, wish,
from Shornoliffe, and the 81st from Gosport. The 65th design of a reasonable being like themselves ; like them-
sad 89th Regiments and the 15th Hussars weals* expected selves, in having an intention and design ie all that wee
to be stationed at the camp dories the gamma. done ; unlike themselves, is being able to do for them, and
The town of Poitiers has of late been singularly to will for them better than they were able to do and will
for themselves. The general intuition of the universe—in
unfortunate. Not long since the mayor, a banker, was
this at least the Bible and science penally agreed—was
declared a bankrupt, and last week the cashier of the
benellosoce—benefimoce in the long run and on a large
trench of the Beek of France established there abwonded,
leaving a deficit a 800,000 fr. Several permns have hew scale, how difficult soever It might be to trace is
arrested on suspicion of being woonsplices oat in each pa-tieelar butanes. This beasfiesoos, this
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geodesist, was their Father's will, and to this will thsygave
PILOORICS3 OF EDUCATION IN NAPLII6. —ln 1861
their weent and amen. Row the great calamity which had
there were in the late kingdom of Naples 3,078 @duels called them together that day might mance at last to
attended by 65,411 children ; in 1863 there were 5,665 the sum total of human happiness., how far it might have
schools attended by 148,525 children. In Sicily there hien a n eentittee al the gradual parigimmm and
were 571 schools in 1861 attended by 15,968 scholars ; in
1863 there were 1,177 schools attended by 32.588 wholars. doe of the world in which they lived, they knew
nob Bat neither could they have known or rinsed such
It thus appears that in two years the number of retools
a result in name other eases in which nevertheless long
has almost doubled and the number of scholars more than
doubled eller" ards that result had bees made absolutely clear.
.
... Let them look back, for example, to that terrible visitation
ROYAL VW! TO TUN CIGAR STIAAINB.—Arter whisk mid every heart sad mind I. this great city exactly
the nesnooessful attempt to hutch the Northumberland-
ironclad screw frigate the Prinoe of Wales and Prince 200 years ago, when the greet fire of London, in 1666, w-
aiter% Prime H enlohe, the Duke of Sutherland, Gap- acid nearly the whole of the eastern pert of this capital
tams Shaw, and several gentlemen left Millwall is one I to ashes, how overwhelming mast hem bees the reflection;
of the Citisee steamers, and proceeded to Blackwell to ,of Loadoners at that moment. Yet that ealamity proved •
visit the Rose Winans, the cigar mew steamer, lying is I blessing rather than a entr.m. It tem witnessed the first
the junction dock of the West India Darks. Their royal
highnesses were rewired on board by the owners. who, great fire, 1665 witueseel the last great plague, sod it WM.
conducted them over every pert of this extraordinery humanely soaking, through the cleansing and purification
vessel, which is sow being &tied with her screws, and will ' and estiaripmeot of the ill-built closely-pseked streets of
in • few days haw* the docks for an ws-Persowasi trip Loodon after the fire, that the plague was east out far ever
previou to her departure for St. Petersburg. The royal
from amongst them. In like manner in ways that they could
party remained on board some time, and on leaving re-
embarked on board the Citizen Niamey for the S er's not see eves the sweeping destruction of thousands of
, stairs, House of Commas, where carriages were in attend- these poor sufferieg
betaamale over the cogatry might, in
1 awe to convey them to Marlborough Hones. God's good purposes, a means of diesiaishiss the wafer-
ROYAL lionvicumrneg, &marg.—The blossom lag whisk these very ere terse underwent. Bet there was
lof the beautifel Amherstie sobilis, se rarely flowered is a id 41„pf, ease of the "mu to wads ease
England, and to obtain which was the mama' object of a
mission seat to ladle by the late Duke ST Demashire, will e'll'ettme l'et' °ere will nee a°ll. net "di °nee°
be exhibited at the seening of the sea* neettsgew„ agr, than inseentable laws over whist' they had so nostril,
Between, F.R.S. sad Vice-Presidest LEM, will deliver not only by the lug peewees@ of oenturies, bat it was dose
• lecture cm this plant. even uses expressly, derisively, and directly through the
! The Imdwitm of peppermint in the stets of win sad the spirit of His neweable eresesees. "Thy will
Miaidat lir.** to
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• veil eneldilneble In" " be done,' they said, "la earth as it is in Itseven• Isi
bonnets, ae t appears frantic, infanta revenue department
that 90.000 dole. worth of that sr**. was insisub,stmad Heaven It was done through the working of 1M wills of the
duleg Ink blessed In harmony with God's will ; and in meth it ear