The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet and irregular, at an average decline
of id. per pound since Saturday. Sales, probably,
about 4,000 or 5,000 bales.

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.

(horn lc lbllet.)

Although the winter toilettes have scarcely begun to
make their appearance, we are a
able to gl.vesnmeverY de-
cided information as to what will be fashionable for the
coo mmi
morning
nseason.dress
H Fori gh beotdhi eosme will be
dinner,ex col u sr
eveningiv e l yco n fin
dressed,
fichus or lace vests will be worn
over low bodies. The vest
placed on
etehrosabgoedey
fseor anse
gt oh.
gi me
di t
raeteee iets,
isc still
a m ,or
much in g
trimmingsveue .
jacket l b e made f
e ewh tehe postilions jai leo
tni‘esi
fabenarsymq nee sw, easbi peo
waistcoat
lnyi
in
hBlo.krsoiernttrimmed
to form a waistcoat in front. The
in jacket fashion, so as
incess style, body and skjrt in ono
dresses,made of rich
materials.
dpireeeses,eswmalabdee
ing dresses
minuethheupseridnfceerssysiet3i•tlien,o
will be as much, or if pox
umllme
ovdenthan ever. Skirts arc still made very
e : whether it mil continue its reign much
leoinbige,manodrev'etFriyi full at the b otto,m. Plaid is for the present
quite the rag
longer is a question we cannot answer. Palotots of velvet,
cloth, brown or grey, nearly fitting to the figure, trimmed
h galena,
are worn by ladies of fashion. Lace and gui-
pure. are as greatly in favour for trimming as they have
been of late. Feathers will be much used in trimming
moire or velvet dresses. Amongst the toilettes we de-
scribe this month some will be found excellent models
for winter dresses. A robe of pearl-grey taffetas,
with a flounce round the bottom, between five and six
inches in width, in hollow plaits, and put on with a band
of violet of the same width, which is formed into trimming,
in the shape of large shamrocks put very closely together,
and edged round with lace. The body is made with a double
point, and piped with velvet ; the sleeve half open, quite long,
and narrowed at the bottom, is trimmed round the bottom
with a flat band of velvet, and velvet shamrocks up the
back, matching with the design on the skirt, but of smaller
dimensims. A Gabriel collar of violet velvet. The lingerie
accompanying this toilette should be small tight sleeves of
organdie, with an embroidered wristband and two frills of
Valenciennes lace, and a lace to match standing up round
the throat. This dress may also serve as an evening dress
by having a second body made low, the top trimmed round
with a biais of violet velvet, with three shamrock-shaped
ornaments down the front and also on the back; the sleeve
composed of three bouillons of tulle separated by biais folds
of velvet, and above them two small jockeys, the ono form-
ing the upper, the other the under part of the slcovoe.t. •ett_
plisse of organdi, edged with Valenciennes lace, altogether
.1-
about two inches in width, finishes off the top ofettr
stripes
of A silver grey taffetas dress, in checks of narrowd.with a bl"k
deeper shade, China rose-coloured stripes, °tun", with a
thread ; at the bottom of the skirt a wide
wad°
ono hollow
heading of embroidery. This flouncLelie
of rose-con:tees
plaits, and where it is set on a narrow
are Pl4c°dlPau'red
taffetas matching the stripes of the dress,e,i,ds
nid tho
taffetas about the size of a thick. PYches apart, a
of plain grey taffetas edged with. " eattes
• the flounce.
bottom one has a grey fringe
couching
just
are pined up the dress aboutvrth.refttrielia
skirt is put
mixsd, the bottom of the fringe
the
patter on the .
of rose and black
jug. of rose-
on the body, like a tquaredbe
wish
a fringe.
A band of the same width as the
in
ered
behind. This band is Wr
t, and forms aj oc ey

WHAT'S IN A CHER K ?--A person on Williams
rything that is going on,
has
Creek, well informed up on eve
made a calculation which shows that the average gross yield
of gold per diem on the creek alone anacunts to 2,00007
a month I
or about 32,000 dols.,dcoulfocs,
aeolnluoepwoacnnrecle;ioBoan,olloaOndOee,dols. "
Enormous as this stun may appear, and undoubtedly -s
euvinctshiinnattending the working for
,the rateable pro-
number of men on the creekg to assumes
another p
;20 dole.
it
the 1 '
for thein:phetrahxosepde
outlay an
perhaps not far front the mark heavy
of
is
per man would only amount the claims.
assessments into
be 1,600--
171
hers:
cuioi ti un
consideration,with out ta ki n g
whichthe w.sovrokui per day,
half.—Canadian paper. Incigeharges and
probably reduce it nearly one-

THE JOINTED STEAMER CONNECTOR.—An inte-
resting trial trip cf the jointed steamer Connector
took place on Saturday last, on which occasion Mr. Reed,
ohief constructor of the navy, Admiral Belcher, Capt. Sy-
monds, R.N,, and other nautical gentlemen wera present.
The Connector started tram Greenwich during the height
of the gale on that, day, and notwithstanding the severity of
the weather, proceeded with her party down the liver, eli-
citing the praise of all at the excellent manner in which she
behaved in the gale. When in the neighbourhood of Graves-
end she disconnected and reconnected her sections,
ss,
notwith-
standing the roughness of the water, with pet:fects
the
chief
and ultimately detached her steam portion with
th
constructor of the navy, and naval officers theofP
' landed them at Purflect. She then reconnectedndsteamed
against the full force of the gale back to Lon arty, and

TUE WESTERN PEOPLE,

(F in the Special Correspondent of the Timm)
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Oct. 19.

" wdo you like America ?" Such from the
days of the elder to those of the present Trollope is
the stereotyped question with which a stranger is
evrzywhere greeted in this country. "How do you
like the Americans ?" does not usually follow. Yet
it ma ybe matter of duty to answer this second
quer- T, even unasked.
TI le old Venetians wished their Republic never
to 1.70 made the theme of any remark, hostile or
iri 2ndly. The Americans are, on the contrary, ex-
cessively fond of being talked and written about;
with this peculiarity, however, that the harder they
are hit the more thankful they seem to be. The
least word of abuse is deeply taken to heart, but
any amount of praise is wasted upon them. Mrs.
Trollope, of old, lashed them within an inch of their
lives, and they kiss the rod to this day ; Anthony
Trollope wrote a fair and on the whale favourable
a °count of them, and his book fell nearly stillborn
lon this side the water. Unless you are very hard
upon them, they will vote you dull, colourless, insipid.
Yet my time has come to bid my farewell to the
"Vest, and I should think I had but imperfectly
acquitted myself of my task, did I not consecrate at
least a few lines of my last letter to render, as I
best could, the impression I received of the character
of these 'Western people. It little matters whether
I am set down among the unreasonably severe or
the unbearably stupid. When there is no way of
pleasing some people, it is just as well for a man to
try and please himself.
The American people are an English race at
second hand. Two millions and a halt of European
emigrants came into this country within the period
of ten years, from 1850 to 1860, and by far the
greatest number found their way to the Western
States. The influx of strangers must have been far
greater in the previous years, in the days of Irish
potato rot and German republican riots. The Anglo.
Saxon race is or soon will be in the minority west
of the'Alleghanies ; yet from this chain to the Rocky
Mountains the American type continues true to
itself. Nothing can be more prodigious than the
absorbing and assimilating power of the dominant
race. German names are to be read here and there
on the shop windows at St. Louis and Chicago;
guttural Teutonic accents will strike your ear as you
walk about the Transrhenane (über den Rhein),
suburbs of Cincinnati, especially of a Sunday after-
noon ; but, on the whole, the aliens are no more
perceptible in these Western cities than they are
in Nc.w York,—New York, the" third German city
in the world," by reason of its "Dutch" population
taking rank next to Vienna and Berlin.
There are no better citizens in America, I am
told, than the Irish of the second generation, and
the names of Andrew Jackson, Patrick Henry, and
John Calhoun are quoted in support of the assertion.
Possibly, the Americans are too apt to take for Irish
everything that comes out of Ireland, as they would
consider fish all that is got out of the sea. But there
is no doubt that all trace of Irishism is lost in the
American schools, and that Irish no less than Ger-
man children soon grow up here, soon forget their
alien origin, to disavow, to hate, and despise it.
The AtnEricans are English or they are nothing.
However estranged they may be in their mutual
feelings, this elder and this younger branch of the
Anglo-Saxon race are one in the estimation of all
the rest of mankind ; and it is only as a variety of
the British type that the American character is to
be studied and tested.

One of the most obvious, nay, obtrusive virtues
of these Western Americans is their hospitality.
The enormous hotels raising their lofty domes above
the rooms of their mushroom cities are " institu-
tions" which have barely taken the place of the
squatter's hut, where, in old pioneering days, the
" etranger was always taken in," whether he paid
his shot in coin or merely in thanks. Moreover, the
Great West is a region of unbounded, natural wealth
and in allrich agricultural countries the owner of the
soil is generally ready to share in its bountiful fruits
with the guest who is within his gates. You may

travel from one end to the other of the States with-
out one word being addressed to you, for the Ameri-
can is proud and shy and " would be spoken to :"
but bring with you only the poorest scrap of a note
of introduction, only show the seal of your social
pa3sport, and it must be your own fault if you are

not at home at once with the whole community.

The first man who has hold of you ushers you into
his entire circle. In ten minutes you are made to
shake a hundred hands, and presently, on your
name being down on your hotel book, and vouched
for as something above that of a pickpocket, you
are waited upon by unknown persons, who, you are
to understand, are conspicuous citizens, taking upon
themselves the duty of doing the honours of the
place, and making you free of their house no less
than of their town. This open-handed, open-
hearted benevolence towards strangers is true of all
Americans; it is Chic fly characteristic of the Western
people. Americans live in a hurry ; they have little
leisure to be particular about their acquaintance.
Social equality is established at least in the streets
and publicho-Ises ; and so long as a stranger behaves
well, people trouble themselves little about his
Transatlantic precedents. They are eager, inquisi-
tive people. The untravelled among them fancy
there is something to pick up, something to wonder
at and to learn from every one who comes to them

from the Old World. Where you have delivered your
credentials in the morning you are, as a matter of
course, expected to take
tea:,
in.
the e . your dinner or "substantial
evening. The drawbridge of the Ame-
rican's castle
ary,
vitia
wife and
is always let down; its sanctu-
with the and children, always accessible;
pale,green,
ht
kdelic.ate, sprightly wife ; with the sea
fortnight the hotel
children. For a week or a
accommodation. Ipatfords you nothing but sleeping
you
With
or the rest your friends provide.
They ply
whisky, and cigars old cognac or old Bourbon
ay
treat you
their counting-house in the
forenoon ; the
ou to sherry cobbler at the
bar in the evening;they drive you in their buggy
to their villa, to their
rk neighbour's farm, to the
cemetery, which is the park to all American cities;
they enter your name
Lib-
rary ; their town and all it c Exchange, at the
an boast becomes no less
yours than theirs. 4
It goes very much againstthegrain to have to
find fault with a
you;
0 uput; thandmselves so much
out of the way to pease
on the other
hand, any word said to their disparagementa is too
readily received by the Americans
Proof of in-
gratitude and a breach of hospitality, you have so
many reasons to love them that it seems had and
monstrous that you should not like them. r
For
own part, I like the Americans. In so far as they
resemble the English I have the same feeling ;(:),'
the new branches of the family as I have for the old
stock. It is only on these peculiarities in which
their institutions, their mode of life, the develop.
meat of a new social order gradually set them apart
from the parent race, that I have a few observations

to offer.
In the first place, public life in America is the
rule, and domestic privacy the :exception. I hate
the hotel as a private institution, After the French
and Italian cafe nothing in my opinion can be
more injurious to the public standard of morality
than an American hotel. Whatever may, be said of
the industry and businesslike habits of these people,
I should say that " loafing" is, especially in the
Nean ts, to a great extent the normal state of Amer--
ife. The crowds that beset the Planter's House
at
st Louis, or the Burnet House at Cincinnati, are
something portentous. In the evening and at post-
time the '
gathering would be natural enough ; the
hotel is the newt
alisbazaar, the field for political dis-
cussion ; hut at
hours of the day the publichouse
is a universal lounge,(loing the very home of great hulk-
ing fellows nothing but sitting upon two
chairs, with their fee
tupon tha window ledge, high
There
above their noses. is no friendly chat, not
even chaff among or hinter theta. There they sit
for hours, chewing the cud,
ud,
mll
ing. Talk of Italian doles fur 7ing! yawning, loaf-
saw so dull, so listless, so miserable
! I never
a killing of time
and as I witnessed daily in the halls
shn of parlours, the
bar, the office, the divan, the barber-shop
saidrber -
et the h
Pan Ame-
rican hotel. 'Whatever may
host of
newspapers, of the mass of Cheap
hooks,
issuing
from the press, the Americans—the male Americans
ei.leauli
at least—are not a reading people. I ate -books

hawked by the hundred volumes along every rail-
way line, but hardly a person in the whole " car"
besides myself with as much as an open 50c. novel
in his hands. Instruction,—that is,—reading and
writing, is universal in the Western States,but sound
and extensive education is unfrequent. You fall in
with smart people everywhere; for the American
is a stirring, travelling, inquisitive being, picks up
information, and turns it to good advantage, but
intellectual life is almost altogether out of the
question. American literature is limited to the
narrow wants of the Eastern cities ; 90 out
of 100 writers on this side of the Atlantic are
Yankees. The West is as independent upon the
East for ideas as the latter is indebted to the old
country for the same commodity. _ _

Community of life and want of mental activity lead
to a great uniformity of thought and feeling in the
whole Western region. Colossal frames you meet
with here and there in these back settlements, mas-
sive brows, strength of character, fine individual
types of sturdy manhood ; but these are merely the
relics of the old pioneer life, which is rapidly pass-
ing away and shifting further and further west. In
the cities there is great sameness of ideas, barrenness
and vacuity of thought. Even in politics, that all-
absorbing topic of talk, the Americans are an inert
mass ; they have some crude notions about the ex.
cellence of their heaven-born Constitution, about the
bigness of their country, the smartness of their na-
tion, the destinies of their Union. For the rest, you
find everywhere iteration of the same arguments, a
vicious circle of reasoning. They are eager in the
h distinctionap py in
the rather
invention than
oin f
nicknamest e definition
for of parties
;
their
,
poli-
tical divisions ; but " tickets" and ' platforms" are
in the main mere personal matters, and, with the ex-
ception of slavery, they have hardly one important
question really at issue. It may be slowness of per-
ception on my part, but, bating a few crackbrained
radical abolitionists, and a few uncompromising up-
holders of slavery, I hardly ever met a politician,
whether Democratic or Republican, who could
clearly tell me what he wanted.

The same monotony is perceptible in every phase
of moral and physical life. The town you come to
is as perfect a fac siwile of the town you left behind
as the circumstances of site and ground would allow.
You have everywhere the same " Fourth and
Fifth" streets, at right angles with the same "Wash-
ington and Madison" avenues. The private houses,
with their excellent contrivances of bathing, light-
ing, and warming apparatus, with a high degree of
comfort, snugness, and neatness, are all on one
model, as the cells of a beehive. The hotels only
differ in their degree of dirt, noise, and discomfort ;
the same bill of fare, the same hour for meals, the
same notices on the bedroom doors, the same care-
less, slovenly waiting. The further you travel in
America the less you have to learn.
Another striking peculiarity of the American cha-
racter lies in the preference for city over country
life. The English love of open air, exercise, and
manly sport dies away in this country wherever
society is settled. The American towns—even of
the second and third rate—straggle out for miles
in every direction, so that the way into the free
country lies beyond the limits of any ordinary walk.
But the people seem to care little for green fields,
and less for pure air. Everywhere, in public and
private rooms, in railway cars, wherever men do
congregate, the atmosphere is close and noisome—
unbearable to any one but the natives. The Ame-
ricans are naturally a hardy, but they have hardly
the look of a healthy race, They look sallow, lank,
dyspeptic. The nursery is not one of their insti•
tutions ; children live with grown-up persons.
They have their diet, their talk, keep their hours,
rejoice in their independence for good or for evil.
Neither childhood nor youth have their marked
limits here ; transition ages are as short in man's
life as transition seasons in the climate. The love
of suburban villas, of the cottage-home of old
England, hardly begins to develope itself among
the Western people. The pride of the rich mer-
chant or banker lies in a superb mansion, away from
his place of business, in some solemn and stately
quarter, some "Fifth-avenue " of the Belgravia or
Tyburnia of his over-grown city. Life in the
country is unbearable in most parts of this continent,
they say, in deep winter; it is not quite wholesome
in summer; the fact is, however, that the American
is as loth to wean himself from the pleasures
of town life as the enervated people of Southern
Europe. At Cincinnati, with a population scarcely
' half that of Manchester or Liverpool, there are no
less than four theatres open every evening at this
present season, with all the charms of the motley
American Fall and the purity of the bright Ameri-
can sky to invite man to the enjoyment of outdoor
life, and with all the distress, bereavement, and
anxiety inseparable from the progress of the war.
1 This war, by the way, has brought the levity of
the American character out in bold relief. There is
something saddening—indeed, revolting, in the high
glee, real or affected, with which the people here
look upon what ought to be, at any rate, a grievous
national calamity. The indulgence in every variety
of pleasure, luxury, and extravagance is simply
shocking. The jewellers' shops in all these cities
have doubled and trebled their trade ; the love of fine
dresses and ornament on the part of the women
amounts to madness.. They have the money, well or
ill gotten, and must enjoy it. Every fresh bulletin
from the battlefield of Chicamauga during my three
weeks' stay in Cincinnati brought a long list of the
dead and wounded of the Western army, many of
whom—of the officers at least—belonged to the best
families in the place. Yet the signs of mourning were
hardly any where perceptible; the noisy gaiety of the
town was not abated one jot. Miss Laura Keene,
the actress, and I forget what dancing girl, did not
draw a less full house. There may be a great deal of
empty bravado, of bluster, and swagger in all this
apparent indifference to undeniable suffering, but it
works no pleasing impression on a sensitive stranger.
It is a kind of "funerale eon bello e rnaschere," grat-
ing on a man's best feelings, profane, repulsive. On
the whole, one comes awsy from the West with little
respect for the earnestness and dignity of the people
one has left behind. The sterling soundness of the
English character is dying away among this second-
hand Anglo-Saxon race, partly owing perhaps to the
admixture of less solid elements; perhaps to the
influence of the climate, the working of the insti-
tutions, and the exulting consciousness of that
boundless wealth of the soil which has power to
repair all broken fortunes, to heal all domestic and
social wounds.

THE SHAKSPERE TERCENTENARY--The follow-
ing is the address issued by the Stratford-on-Avon
Tercentenary Committee :—" As the town in which Shak•
spore was born, bred, and educated, which he chose for his
home in the decline of life, and in which he died and was
buried, Stratford-on-Avon is assuredly the most appropriate
spot for a tercentenary celebration in his honour. The fes-
tival will be extended over four or five days. On Saturday,
April 23, there will be a banquet. for ladies and gentlemen,
in the walks f art,
at which tyeeEwailrll of Carlisle will preside and deliver an
address,
there will be
members
ofli both be supported on the occasion by many
HousesliteratoufrPe,aarnlidamsceinent,cane.d oothaeorstbeemridnaeynst
of
to various places in the vicinity of
life, under the
Stratford-on-Avon,geidaillustrative of incidents in Shakspere's
task ; critical aikai Bnce of gentlemen well qualified for the
oratorio (to
whi)ehes of Shakspere's plays a grand
many of our leading vocalists
have already consented
contribute their ser-
vices), and a miscellaneous to
o concert. The comedy of
'As You Like it,' and
one Shakspere's tragedies will be
of
represented by a combination
shmaketropulitan and provincial
talent. There will also be a
yPopular amusements.
day will be devoted exclusively tsPerian fancy ball. One
specified in a subse•
bel
Each day's proceedings will be fully
devotedt oare—first,
P: 0
wthhoeave re-
ceived their education:at the same school at English
quest prospectus. The substantial
pecuniary results of the festival will
which
the endowment of one or more scholsrsbibi
Universities, open to the competion of t
Shak-
spere received his, viz., the Free Grammar School founded
by King Edward 171. ; second, the erection of a -
monu-
mental memorial at Stratford on-Avon. while they e
serve to themselves the privilege of expanding or modifying
their programme according to circumstances, they beg to
assure you that the larger the funds with which they may
be entrusted the more energetic will be their efforts to ren-
der the occasion august and memorable.'
THE DISTURBANCES AT GUILDFORD.---The mayor
and magistrates of the borough of Guildford, after having
been in communication with Sir George Grey, Home Secre-
tary, have at length completed their arrangements for the
prevention of the disgraceful and riotous scenes which have
lannually been enacted within the limits of their jurisdiction
i on the 5Lb. November.

ST, GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST,

On Sunday morning there was a large congregation as-
sembled in the parish church of St. George-in-the-East, in
the expectation that the new rector, the Rev. J. Lockhart
Ross, would preach his inaugural sermon. It appears that
the necessary preliminaries for an exchange between Mr.
Ross and Mr. Bryan King have not been legally completed.
Accordingly the Rev. W. C. Howell, M.A., of Brasenose
College, Oxford, who has for some time past done duty in
the parish, again preached. After a careful exposition of
the text, the 15th chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Ro-
mans, verse 4, the rev. gentleman said that probably this
was the last time he should address the parishion era of St.
George's from that pulpit. All of them were aware that an
exchange of livings was about to take place between their
present pastor (Mr. King) and the vicar of a parish inWilt-
shire. That exchange, it was probable, would be ratified in
the course of the present week, and in that case the new
rector would occupy the place from which he then spoke
next Sunday. He would therefore just remind the con-
gregation for a few moments of what had been his manner
of life among them for the last year and ten months,
during which he had resided there. When, 22 months ago,
he was induced to undertake the spiritual oversight of that
parish, or rather the district immediately round the parish
church, comprising 22,000 souls, he was distinctly given to
understand, and he fully expected, that he should have
the assistance of a brother clergyman. In that expectation
he had been deceived. The consequence had been that for
the last 22 months the whole spiritual charge of these
20,000 people, together with the secular correspondence and
other matters connected with the parish, had devolved solely
and entirely upon himself. Finding himself, soon after he
came there, in that position, he induced the rector of the
parish to make application to the Curates' Aid Society for
a second curate. That application was refused—a refusal
which he could not but low( upon as a singular mode of
carrying out the object of the society, which was to provide
additional curates for populous places. From such a quarter
the refusal came with the worst possible grace. The society
had published a fearful, though somewhat an exaggerated,
account of the heathenism and moral degradation of St.
George's-in-the-East, and had founded upon that state-
ment a claim to public support. He mentioned this cir-
cumstance in justification of himself, lest the parishioners
might suppose that ho knowingly entered alone the spiritual
charge of 20,000 people. Ho assured them that he did no
such thing. He thought he should have had at least the
assistance of one clergyman, and he did his best to obtain
the assistance of another. The consequence of this had
been, as he had said, that the parishioners had been deprived
of those services in the school-room and elsewhere which
it would have been his wish, as it would have been his
duty, to provide. That same account of the heathenism
of St. George's-in-the-East which was published
in sue of the quarterly papers of the Additional Curates
Society was also published in one of the papers of the
Church of England Scripture Readers' Society. The result
was that a sum was provided for a time for the parish, and
on the recommendation of the Bishop, and with the consent
of the rector, the services of a Scripture reader were ob-
tained. For several months past he had visited from house to
house in one part of the parish, and, as far:as he lead had the
opportunity of observing, he had combined a conscientious
with a judicious discharge of his duties. He felt that as not
only all the services of the church, but the visitation of the
sick members of the church, and such secular business con-
nected,with the parish had devolved upon him, it had been
impossible for him to do justice to each branch of his clerical
duty. He had endeavoured to do his duty to the parishioners
without compromising him who was still their rector, by con-
ducting the public services of the church in a way not to give
the slightest reasonable cause of offence to any member of the
church or congregation. His sole object had been to solve a
problem which he might liken to the mathematical problem
of the three bodies. First, he had had to satisfy Christ's
church ; secondly, the people committed to his charge ;
and, thirdly, not to compromise that rector who was still
expected to occupy that pulpit had not an exchange taken
place. That problem he had endeavoured to solve by the
application of the principle of universal charity and for-
bearance. He cordially thanked the past and present
churchwardens, the trustees of the charity schools, and
other parochial officers for the courtesy whieh had been
extended to him ; passed a high eulogiutn upon the parish-
ioners generally, notwithstanding many serious evils in the
parish to which he could not shut his eyes, and concluded
by bidding all God speed and farewell. Mr. Howell's de-
parture is said to be regarded by the leading parishioners,
most of whom were present at yesterday's service, as a great
lost to the parish.