The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

Presentation to Sir Moses Montefiore.

In relation to the recent mission of Sir Moses Montefiore,
Barcnet, to Morocco, addresses have within the last few
weeks been pouring in upon him from every quarter of
England where there is anything like a large Jewish con-
gregation, and the example seems likely to be followed by
the congregations of continental cities. One of these de-
monstrations of admiring prat itude for pereuverance:n carry-
ing out an enlightened and benevolent work, was afforded
last Sunday by the presentation of a testimonial to the ve-
nerable baronet, at his marine residence near Ramsgate.
The ceremony took place in the presence of a few private
friends. The Chevalier de Mapurgo, who had been entrusted
by 1,000 of his co-religionists at Trieste to convey the ex-
pression of their heartfelt thanks to Sir Moses Montefiore,
read in Italian the address to which their signatures were
attached, and of which the following is a translation :
" ILLUSTRIOUS BARONET—.

" Whenever the Supreme Disposer of events has decreed,
in Ills unsearchablo wisdom, to try the constancy of the
faith in Israel, by causing his people to pass through severe
trials at different times and places, He always raised up
some mighty champion who, inspired by holy zeal, and
trusting in the eternal promise that Israel shall not perish,
fought their holy battles and alleviated their sufferings,
causing to shine with increased brightness that star which
at moments seemed eclipsed.

" Our century did not, indeed, seem destined to exhibit
new trials of this nature, as by the increasing light ofprogress
that equality between men for which so much blood has
been shed, and which cost so many victims in so many
ages is, praise be to God, becoming general.
" But if this is so in Europe—and not even in the
whole of it, for in some parts that fanaticism which you
have so successfully combated still tries to make itself
felt from time to time—in other parts of the globe it
raises much oftener its threatening hand, particularly in
the Mussulman dominions, raging against all who do not
profess their faith, but especially against the Israelites,
subjecting them to the most barbarous treatment, threaten-
ing their dignity as men, their property, and even their
lives.

" The two principal places which had become notorious
in this respect of late years are Damascus and Morocco ; and
in both, within the space of about four lustres, a single man,
supported by enlightened Governments and assisted by some
of his own illustrious co-religionists, was enabled to change
the grief of a people into joy and their mourning into rejoic-
ings.

That great and good man were you, Sir Mosss Monte-
flore—you who, unmindful of toils and difficulties of every
sort, crossing seas and traversing steppes and vast deserts
in the most ungenial climates, in inhospitable countries, in
a rigid season, and at an advanced stage of life, while pos-
sessed of a fortune which would have invited one of a less
generous mind to enjoy it, and made him shrink from assum-
ing unnecessary cares, you, forgetting self, and sacrificing
your own ease to the public welfare, hastened to the rescue
of your unhappy brethren, who raised their supplications
to you from the depth of their despairing soul; and with
the help of Divine Providence your intercession was crowned
with speedy and complete success, for you had but to show
yourself to triumph.

" And not satisfied with simply removing the sufferings
of the moment, and rescuing the intended victims from the
hands of their slayers and persecutors, you succeeded in
establishing the general position of the nation for the future
on a solid and lasting basis.

" Nor to the threatened or persecuted alone did you direct
your loving solicitude, but you also visited the capital of
the Caliphs. The chief ruler gave you the golden sceptre,
and, furnished with a hatti scherif, you repaired several
times to the holy city of Soliman, for the purpose of raising
also the moral position of our co-religionists in those parts,
by educating them, and teaching them handicrafts and
agriculture, erecting at a heavy expense temples and
schools, hospitals and workshops. For all these things your
name has been blessed, in the same venerable place where
arose once the Temple of Solomon from the oriental..
which is still standing from the patriarchal tor' .14
ail
or Hbeoh,
from the ill.ustrious academies of Safteth
" B;eseed be thou, 0 Moses, all "" a of Tiberias.
te thou who did so much fo- • 'zraet exclaims, blessed
of our Heavenly Fathom
me, blessed be thou the chosen
. lir for this holy mission. Thou hest
so splendidly fult'Lied it I
" Amidst do much enthusiasm of an entire nation, which
is evel.l, shared in by Governments :wad peoples of other re..
Fgious persuasions, how could we, Israelites of Trieste, be
silent. zealous as we pride ourselves iii being for the wel-
fare of our nation—we who have had the great joy to pay
you homage thrice on your journey for holy purposes, have
prayed to God with you in our temples for the happy issue
of your magnanimous enterprises, and together with you
have thanked Him for having graciously heard us, have
decided to invoke every year upon your venerable head all
the celestial benedictions by means of our chief pastor in
the great temple of God, on the holy day of pardon in its
most solemn hour, with a prayer expressly dedicated to this
purpose, and decreed by our national representatives.
" And now, after your last godly struggle in Morocco,
tbo Israelites of Trieste have decided, illustrious baronet, to
give a new and solemn proof of their admiration for you,
by perpetuating your illustrious name to future ages, that
our children and children's children may bless it in coming
generations, as we do now.

" They have decided, therefore, to place a commemora.
tive marble slab in our great common council chamber, on
which your acts shall be engraven in letters of gold as the
valorous and holy champion of Israel.
" In addition to which, knowing that you prize above
all things charity, which you exercise so generously, they
have decided—' To found a charitable institution, which
shall bear in perpetuity the name of the Montefiore Charity

(From a Corresponient.)
I send you a statement of occurrences nowgoing on in the
United States, which for barbarity exceed anything within
my knowledge. The extracts enclosed are from Louisville
(Kentucky) papers of July 20. And for what aro these
defenceless women and children deported from their homes
and placed either in a wilderness at the mcuth of the Mis-
sissippi River (where nothing lives but alligators or snakes),
or sent among a hostile people in the North, without the
means of sustenance and no possibility of getting any em-
ployment? Theis attachment to the Southern cause, their
refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the infamous des-
potism of the North, has caused this treatment. Think of
refined ladies and tenderly nurtured children being exposed
to such horrors. The stories of Russian and Austrian
atrocities in bygone days pale beneath the merciless inge-
nuity of Yankee tortures. Our people wage this war of in-
dependence upon civilised ideas of war, presuming that the
non-combatants should be left in. their homes without the
infliction of punishment upon them for mere opinion. The
Yankee has violated every rule of warfare, and daily prac-
tises most horrible atrocities which you do not hear of. I
give you an extract from a private leiter from Kentucky :
, "Johnston has retired step by step before Sherman until
his advance is now near Atlanta, but his course is marked by
devastation and death, and his army, daily weakened by
assaults of the rebels, is only kept up by constant reinforce-
ments, and we are all calmly waiting to hear that he is
overwhelmed. The acknowledged loss of the army is '
40,000 since it first marched againt Dalton. The real loss
is far greater. Some of Sherman's officers now say he dares
not retreat, as it would be worse than a 'Moscow' The
war is daily assuming a more savage character. If men are
killed or robbed by roving bands, perhaps of mere robbers
of either army, at once orders are sent here to forward so
many prisoners to that place, and they are then hung on
the same spot without trial. This has been done twice in
four days. Sherman forwarded 249 women and children
from their homes to be sent north of the Ohio, utterly desti-
tute, to go among those who hate them. 29 women and
children, refined ladies, came on the 19th, were put in the
military prison that night, and forwarded the next day down
the Miesissippi to the extreme limits of the Gulf of Mexico,
to dwell with alligators or to die in the swamps. And the
crime of the Southern women was in aiding the rebellion in
which their fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers are meet-
ing this brute in deadly hostility. I send you this slip with
their names. My blood boils, and my cry was, oh, that I
were a men to meet such dastardly villains, who thus war
upon defenceless women and children I Anti Christian Eng-
land, once so ready to rush like a knight errant iu aid of the
downtrodden, stands quietly looking at these atrocities per-
petrated against a gallant race for maintaining their inalien-
able rights against the fanatical descendants of those who
murdered Charles I."

If this lady had been discovered in Triting this letter she
toe would have been sent among the alligators in the wilder.
ness. One of the extracts I enclose vet is from the regular
Administration organ. The editor mist be a demon. He
coolly speaks of ladies punished ith such cruelty as "on a
journey for their rights." The facts are horrible, and re-
quire no comment :

" ON A JOURNEY FOR THEIR' RiGiTs!—ln compliance
with the recent order promulgated ty General Sherman,
requiring all disloyal citizens within the limits of his
division who were not willing to live under and abide by
the laws of the Federal Goverment, to be sent to a
country where they could enjoy free thought, free speech,
loveand forfre et
haec actions,
rebellion,
accordance,th e fol
following
i nwg tamed it' their
personsprinciples
arrived
and
in this city yesterday evening, underguard, horn the front
—Mrs Susan Birchfield, Peter G.Birchfield, James T.
Birchfield, Nancy E. Birchfield, ii*•y J. Birchfield, Mrs
Eliza Jolly, and Mrs Jane Call, Mirphy, Georgia; Mrt,
Sarah M.Guff, Miss Susan
1\1%14 'Alas Priscilla M`Gluff,
and Mrs Mary Brakefield, Bradley, Tennessee; Mrs Shoe-
maker, and Mrs Core and three childrin, Calhoun, Georgia;
Mrs Sarah Correlle and six children, lamilton, Tennessee.
They were assigned quarters in tilt military prison last
will be placed on rd of transports and
sent night, and a
don the Mississippi d olwa
:a landed
ehsouth-eastern
the
day
Alis beard
as to the point of their destination, bit presume that they
Administrative paper. store of the Gulf.—
will be

ARRIVAL OF WOMEN AND CRILEREi FROM THE SOUTH.
—The train which arrived from Neihville last evening
brought up from the South 249 womet and children, who
are sent here by order of Gen. Sherwin, to be transferred
north of the Ohio river, there to roman during the war.
We understand that there are now atNishville 1,500 women
and children who are in a very destitue condition, and who
are to be sent to this place to be sent north. A number of
ga tn So wmeseatnWs
to
pro-
vide Water a t
ht:uarsinsorces. These people
anys f
nighter r ed
2N4or North
women
are
ee mmti
on
iwseeurytehiant engagedaladceestwi itanusttechrto
oep ruudarinet
dui:l:y:
for themselves a support. Why they should be sent
is reerethan we can under-
Major General Shermanicharged with having
and children were received
hsatteartnehdeobTbaeurretasrcdaks from the front. Th,y were arrested and
—Louisville Journal Democratic.
Gulf
feorsf
ItNeozieo
and
district of Etowah. They are to be sant down the Missie-
s 2, loaned from headquarters,
the country. To what point they are to be sent we have
to be transferred from
Missis-
sippi sent
violated
pn 1)i heroriv er b o
General
t h e
Kentucky is under martial law and .tiled by military des-
potism. No one dares to speak out :
agurist these barbarities,
not yet learned.
Such a course would bring down upon the offender the
same punishment. Sherman seems determined to carry out
his infamous proclamation of last April, when he said that
BO far the United States Government had kindly allowed
the
if there rebel women and children to occupy their houses, but,
ge ;-
Lit
country, he would not only take awathe sentiment of the
- y th property and
give it to loyal inhabitants who might Qomeir° in to settle the
country, but he would also deport the disloyal inhabitants.
The only remedy for such disloyalty was to exterminate
the population and import better i,,,,_, .
-.mutants from other
countries.
August Pi _
. . .

Complications.
The Slesurig-Holstem*

says that Austria is for esta-
blishing Holstein n Provisional govern.
an Austrian
the F
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smideee
nbla
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meat composed of commissioner, a
Prussian commissioner, and a Federal commissioner.
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0
by Auetro.Pru —'4
I'7 ssian troops, 1,;1
the tour tiovtrm
meats charged with the execution,
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Prussia, Austria,
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the
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otfhtebe Germanic Confede.
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jaertiengprooneetehdes
Hanover,
twhoen would e
them encto ropfs occupying
this Holstein. buring the settle-
journals of Vienna and those offitr
rightspinrgesewrvitahtiogureoaftthveiva
ration, the second delighting to note the faults by
iollf Germany have
their opinion, of
whichrendered t the
themselves
m secondarysol v
ee
unworthy,States
participating at the present time in the triumph
obtained by the military successes and diplomacy of
the two Great Powers. The Northern Gazette of
Germany makes itself especially remarkable by the
;
extreme violence of its language. In speaking of
the occupation of Lauenburg by the Hanoverian
troops, it asks what result it can hope to attain
by this offence directed against Prussia. ‘4 We
cannot see any," it says, " unless it be desired to
induce the German Powers to oppose themselves
more seriously than hitherto to this arrogance of
the individualism which borders on frivolity,"

The great extension of coal-mining is shown by
the fact that, in 1853, the number of collieries at
work amounted to 2.397; whereas, in 1863, the
number had risen to 3,180. In the great northern
coalfields of Durham and Northumberland we find
the production of its collieries has increased from
19,360,356 tons in 1863 to 22,154, 146 tons in 1863
At the same time there has been a decrease of the
quantities shipped to foreign countries and sent
coastwise to the extent of 418,163 tons; but the
North-Eastern Railway carried out of this coalfield
2,029,803 tons of coal and coke more than it transa
ported in 1862.

In the returns given of coal production the quan-
tities wasted is " getting" and at the pit's mouth
is not stated, It may be inferred that this is very
large when we find the coal-trade of the north giv-
ing in their report the " duff and waste" from their
own district is 500,000 tons. Taking this into
consideration it is evident that the rate at which
the exhaustion of our coal beds is now progressing
cannot be regarded as less than ninety millions of
tons per annum.

hum-The iron ore produce of the United King-
dom amounted to 9,088,060 tons. Of this the Cle-
veland district in the North Riding of Yorkshire,
produced 2,553,806 tons of argillaceous carbonate
of iron; Scotland, 1,500,000 tons, principally of
black band iron ore ; while Lancashire gave
658,643 tons, and Cumberland 690,974 tons of their
remarkable red hematite. This iron ore with about
50,000 tons imported fed 597 blast furnaces,
which yielded the following amounts of pig iron :-
England, 2.451,211 tons ; Wales, 898,829 tons ;
Scotland, 1,160,000 tolls; total, 4)510,i;10 tons.
This was 5G6,571 tons more pig iron than we made
in 1862, This will account for the extra consuuip.
Lion of very nearly 2,000,000 tons of coals.
COPPER.-Our copper mines have, for some few
years exhibited a regular falling off is their rate of
production. Two hundred and twenty-two copper
mines, of which 190 are in Devonshire and Corn-
wall, gave 210,947 tons of copper ore, the money
value of this being £1,100,554. By smelting this
ore we obtained 14,247 tons of fine copper. in ad-
dition to this we imported from foreign and colonial
mines 26,386 tons of copper ore, which gave 4,461
tons of metal, sold at public sales; and 70,498 tons
of copper ore, producing 17,509 tons of copper, were
sold by private contract. Of the foreign ore we im•
ported from Chili 25,966 tons, and 18,708 tons of
regulns, while Cuba sent us 15,570 tons of ore and
858 tons of regains.
TIN.-We obtained from the tin mines of Corn.
wall and Devonshire in the year 1863 a larger
quantity of tin than in all probability was ever
before produced. The tin ore raised being 15,157
tons, which gave 10,000 tons of white (metallic)
tin. When we remember that the tin mines of our
western peninsula have been most industriously
worked for more than 3,000 years, this return will
convey some idea of the continued richness of this
stanniferous district, and of the enormous value
of the original deposit. We have recently been
made acquainted with some curious facts connected
with the mode of occurrence of tin in the
" lode," or mineral vein. All the old tin mines
were shallow workings, and many mines were
abandoned at comparatively small depths when
the miners " cime to the yellows," by which
they meant copper ore. The o yellows," es the
phrase was, "always cutting the tin." Dolcoath,
and many other mines which were worked for
tin, passed gradually into copper mines, and were
then prosecuted to great depths for that metal.
Passing, however, through the copper ore in the
lode, the miners have again come into rich deposits
of tin. From Dalcoath mine, at a depth of nearly
300 fathoms, the adventurers obtained last year
1,026 tons of tin ore, worth £69,741. Many other
mines are exhibiting precisely the same conditions,
and the belief that the ores of the valuable metal
tin occur only near the surface is exploded. We
imported, principally through Holland and from
British India, via Singapore, 2,728 tons of tin and
569 tons of ore and regnitlS•
LEAD.-The lead mines of these islands produced
91,283 tons of lead ore, which yielded 68,220 tons
of metallic lead, and 634,0040 z. of silver. Our lead
mines are more generally diffused than those of any
other metal except iron-the counties producing
the largest quantities being;
Lead Ore. Lead. Silver.
Tons. Tons. Ounces
Durham and Northumberland 22,774 17,205 81,315
Yorkshire „. „ „
.. 8,981 9,171 3,270
Denbighshire .. .. .. 7,919 6,432 29,797
Cardiganshire..
..
.. 7,131 5,661 58,846
Cumberland
..
.. .. 6,690 4,949 41,304
Cornwall ..
.. .. 6,259 4,270 206,312
There appears to be a regular order in the in..
crease of the quantities of silver contained in the
ores of lead as we advance towards our southern
and western counties.
ZINC,-Of zinc ores-" blackejack" of the miners,
" blende" nine mineralogists-our mines produced
13,699 tons, Which, OD
' smelting, gave of metallic
•
'lnnen) have, however,
zinc 3,835 tons. Our zinc . •eit the mines pro-
much difficulty in competing WI- . ,
ducing the ores of zinc on the Cent:Lnent.
Compared with those already names, cut" other
mineral treasures are unimportant.
GOLD.-In the appendix to the Mineral Statistic.:
we have a complete list of all the mines and col-
lieries of the United Kingdom, with the names of
the companies or proprietors working them. From
this list we learn that there are 23 mines dignified
with the names of gold mines in North Wales. We
have, however, returns of gold from only two of
these, and the total quantity obtained is only 552
ounces, of the value of £1,747. In 1862 Vigra and
Clogan alone produced 5,299 oz. of gold of the value
of £20,390. These results, after ell the excitement
about British gold mines which has been rife during
the past four years, leading to the expenditure of
very large sums of money upon the hills of Merion-
ethshire, should read g lesson to rnlr eager advert-
Wren.

2. The motion of the counsel for the defence relating to
the examination of certain witnesses is rejected, and the
witnesses will be examined at Posen whether the counsel
are present or not.
3. There is no objection to Dr Wilkouski as counsel for
his brother. .
Herr Brachvogel then stated, in answer to an inquiry
from the President, that M. Mielencki was so ill that it
would be impossible to bring him from his cell. The Crown
prosecutor now resumed the reading of the documents. The
first was an alleged copy (certified to by an Austrian offi-
cial) of a scheme for the organisation of the insurrection,
dated May 2, 1863: Messrs Brachvogel, Elven, Gneist,
and Lewald protested against this document being accepted
as evidence, as it was merely a copy of a project made, and
perhaps fabricated, by an Austrian official, and which, even
if it were authenticated, would not supply the smallest proof
as to the culpability of the accused, most of whom were
imprisoned before its date. The Crown prosecutor replied
that Russia, Austria, and Prussia were perfectly justified
in assisting each other to put down an attempt
to restore the Poland of 1772. The document
was certified by an official of the Austrian Go-
vernment, and that should be sufficient proof ofits authen-
ticity. After a very animated discussion, the president
raid that the question had already been settled, and re-
quested the defence not to return to it. A large number of
sentences in former political trials was then read ; after
which, Messrs. Janecki, Lisiecki, and Deyeks proved that
it appears from these sentences that most of them were pros
nounced on boys for belonging to literary and historical
societies, and that the punishment awarded was very small,
and would, in schools in Prussia Proper, have simply
amounted to a flogging. M. Deyeks also observed that as
at Berlin, with a quarter of the population of Posen, there
were in the year 1860-3 more than twice as many persons
sentenced for political offences as in the Grand Duchy, the
inference was that the Prussian population of Berlin were
very much more turbulent and revolutionary than the
Polish population of Posen. The Crown prosecutor ad-
mitted this, but denied that it was revelant to the matter at
issue. On the 10th, after a large number of documents had
been read, the witness Wagner was called, who stated that
one day M. Guttry requested him to take a bundle of papers
to Count Djialynski and bring him a receipt, which he did.
The official experts were then called to prove whether cer••
tain Polish documents were in M. Guttry's hand writing,
and, after comparing them with two letters addressed by
that gentleman to the Commissioner of Justice and the
Landreth, declared the handwriting was M. Guttry's.
After a sharp discussion between the prosecution and the
defence, the latter maintaining that, as the official experts
did not understand Polish, they were not qualified to pro-
nounce on the authorship of a Polish letter, and that this
was a case where Polish experts should be called, the Court
came to the following decision :—" As the defence denies
that the documents in question are in M. Guttry's hand-
writing. and puts forward the evidence of the Polish ex-
perts against that of the official ones, the Court will sum-
mon the Polish experts as proposed, and also agree to the
proposal of the prosecution that the evidence of the persons
to whom the letters are addressed should be taken."

The proceedings then closed, and the Court adjourned to
he 16th.

The Bishop of Capetown and Bishop Colenso.

The following are the closing passages of the charge
delivered to the diocese of Natal, in the Cathedral of Pieter-
maritzburg, on May 18. by the Bishop of Capetown :

This is a widowed diocese, The whole flock is without
its pastor. The clergy without their guide, counsellor,
friend. The church without its ruler. What are our
present common responsibilities? The duty of my office
csmpels rue, serfs vacante, to take charge of this diocese. I
have come autonget you ;or the express purpose of doing so,
During the vac,noy, the clergy will 10)k to use for in.
structions as to all points of duty. They will hold them-
selves responsible to rue. It is my earne,t desire, my
reverend brethren, to render you every assistance in my
power, to share your anxieties and labours, to counsel you,
and, co far as in me lies, to strengthen your hands in the
discharge of the duties of our common ministry. It will
not be long, I trust, before another shall be appointed in
the room of him who has fallen front the faith, to fill his
vacant seat, and witness for Christ and for the faith in
this land, " His bishopric shall another take," is the
Spirit's rule for the Church in every age. But should
there be delay, as, in circumstances which are, happily,
of so novel a character, and in which so many and such
complicated interests are concerned, may possibly be the
case, I shall hold myself in readiness to visit you again, if
my other duties will admit of my so doing. Meantime,
until another bishop shall be consecrated, I have appointed
the very reverend the Dean to act as vicar-general. And I
may add, that I have asked J. W. Turnbull, Esq., barrister
at-law, to act as registrar; and have placed in his hands the
formal withdrawal of the power of attorney under which
the late Bishop administered the property of this Church
vested in the see of Cape Town. In conclusion, suffer me,
my reverend brethren, to set before you what, amidst your
present trials and anxieties, is your duty. To you, and to
your conduct in this post, and at this hour of danger, the
whole Church of Christ is looking; for you it is praying;
nay, from His throne in heaven your Lord looks
down and notes how each of His servants comports
himself at this crisis in the history of His church. God be
praised ! ye are yourselves true and faithful to your Lord.
It is a ground of deep thankfulness that not one clergyman
holding a spiritual office in the whole province—through-
out this church in South Africa—has been led astray from
the faith of Christ by the false teaching that has been put
forth. But of you, my brethren, more is expected than this.
It is your privilege if ye so will, to be Christ's living witnesses
in the land in which your lot is cast ; to stand up for Him
and for His truth—for the living word of God, and for the
written word of God—against him who has forsaken both.
Your trial is far less than His saints have endured in other
days. Ye are not called to "resist unto blood, striving
against sin." Ye are in no danger of bonds, or imprison-
ment, or death. Nay, the world, or all that would be re-
spectable in the world, ignorant and careless though some
be—all but the scoffer and the unbeliever—avowedly are on
God's side. And the assault upon the faith, on the part of
him who was set over you in the Lord, has not come, as it
might have come, in some subtle form, calculated to deceive
even the very elect, and requiring the keen and practised
eye of the theologian to detect; but it has come in the bare
and naked, form of a direct assault upon the foundation of
all revelation and of all faith, to which even the unlearned
cannot altogether shut his eyes. Your first duty, my reve-
rend brethren, is to witness in this land of your adoption,
for Christ and for the faith, once and once for all delivered.
My charge to you is to stand fast in the faith, to quit you
like men, to uphold, teach, maintain the good deposit which
ye have received, and to hand it on unimpaired to those
that shall come after. Tho first, and next, to regard this
sad falling away of your bishop as a solemn call from God
to watch more earnestly, lovingly, devotedly, over that
portion of the flock which the Chief Shepherd has entrusted
to your keeping. Labour amongst them in season and
out of season. Pray for them with continual inter-
cession night and day. Strive to shield them from the
arts of the seducer, and to build them up in their
most holy faith. Win for yourselves the rich promise—the
glad welcome of your Lord when you shall have finished
your courso—" To him that overcomoth will I grant to sit
down with Me on My Throne, even as I also overcame and
am set down with the Father on His throne." "Well done,
good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord." Realise the fact that unto you Christ entrust the
custody of His truth, the keeping of His faith in this land.
Be not dismayed though some fall away, or are indifferent,
or even should they oppose themselves. Through you, if
you are faithful, Christ will maintain His own cause, and
bring future good out of present evil, He allows tempta-
tion to come upon his people for the trial of their faith, and
patience, and love ; but Ho never sutlers anything to befal
His church which will not, if it prove faithful, He turned
to its good. Let this church, amidst its present distress, be
true to its Lord—hold fast the faith which it has received
from the fathers—stand by the Bible as God's word, and by
the creeds as containing the one uuchangeable faith of
Christ, and a blessing shall be poured out upon it from on
high. It shall " lengthen its cords and strengthen stakes,
, its
burst forth on the right hand and on the left," and even
through the mighty power and indwelling of the Spirit
of Go, ~, become a praise upon earth.
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The ur,.`mlS Orchid ~ Pariateria elaw, of Pa,-
.
name, which is `;ailed the Dove plant, because the form of
in the flower, is now exhibited by Mr
a dove appears seatet.'
in ti South
west orchard house of the Royal
Bateman, in bloom,
spe,c,es, the flowers are produced
Horticultural Gardens at South Kensington. Of this re-
o wavy flowers, yielding a
minaarklaobnlge
sanpleinotfeyreesltlinowgish
whit:
very peculiar fragrance. In the neighbourhood of Panama
it is known to the natives by the appellation
and el Spirito
Santo," from its resemblance to the dove; in Roman
Catholic countries it is much prizcA as a decoration for the
i altar.