The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE ENRAGED MUSICIAN._ Edward Jeffs, or Jepp, a
tall young man, was brought before Mr. partridge charged
• with being drunk and disorderly, assaulting Thomas Munt,
his landlord, and destroying furniture.
Mr. Munt, of No. 12, Jubilee place, Jubilee-street,
Stepney, said the prisoner occupied two rooms in his house.
On Saturday evening the prisoner, who was intoxicated,
came into the kitchen of the house and wanted to remain
there. He told the prisoner that he could not do so as he
expected some friends. The prisoner made a great disturb-
ance, abused him, and made use of the most dreadful
language. He led the prisoner to his own room and was
about to leave it when prisoner took up a violin and struck
him on the nose with it. The prisoner then took up the
violin and smashed that also. The door was the next ob-
ject of attack, and that was broken up. The prisoner then
demolished the partition of his room, and destroyed the
chairs and other furniture. lie called a police-constable
and gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Partridge—He plays on the violin P
Witness—Yes; he was playing with it on Saturday
evening, and then broke it.

Mr. Partridge--He appears to have acted the part of the
enraged musician.

The prisoner, in defence, said ho was a barber as well as
a musician, and he had so much business to attend to on
Saturday, and so many noses to pull, that he became quite
unnerved, and thought he could put his nerves in order
and carry on his business if he drank some liquor. The
liquor had an effect contrary to what he intended, and made
his nerves worse. He played a tune on his violin, but that
did not soothe him, and he did not know what he did after-
wards.

Mr. Partridge said the prisoner was a very foolish man,
and ordered him to enter into his own recognizances to
keep the peace to all her Majesty's subjects, and especially
towards Mr. Mont, for six months.

SFRIOUS INJURY TO A CONSTABLE THROUGH AN
EXPLOSION OF GAS.—About five o'clock this morn-
ing an explosion of gas, attended with serious consequences
to a constable named Thomas Evans, 113 C, took place at
the Marlborough-mews Police-station. It appears that at
the time above stated, Evans, who had a lamp in his hand
opened the library door fur the purpose of seeing the time
that he might call some of the constables, when he
blown with great force against the wall, and the gas with
whichtho room was fully charged ignited. Assistance was
promptly at hand and the flames extinguished, but not
before great damage was done to the room and its contents
Evans, who was badly burnt about the head and hands,
was at once removed to the Middlesex Hospital, where he
now remains, the extent of his injuries not yet being ascer-
tained.

SIGNOR COSTA'S " Eli" will be the first oratorio
given by the Sacred Harmonic Society this winter.
Miss GOODMAN.—The Church 7 lines is requested
to contradict its statement of Saturday week that this lady
has seceded to the " Roman Communion."

REV. FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER. D.D.

Father Superior of the Oratory at Brompton.
Our impression of Saturday briefly announced the
death of the Rev. Frederic William Faber, D.D.,
Superior of the Oratory at Brompton, the most dis-
tinguished of the Anglican converts to the Catholic
faith after Dr. Newman. Dr. Faber had been ill
since May last, his disease being the terribly serious
malady known as Br•ight's Disease, and for a long
time his life has been despaired of. He died at five
minutes past seven on Saturday morning, after
receiving the last sacraments. Whatever may be the
general opinion as to the conduct of the. Oratorians
:n their self-imposed work of proselytism, no one
can deny that Dr. Faber was one of the most ear-
nest, most gentle, and most loving of mankind
He was universally popular, and his death has
caused a more widely spread feeling of grief
in Catholic circles than any other death in that
religious body could cause, Yesterday, after high
mass, the Rev. J. E. Bowden, one of the Fathers of
the Oratory, made a short address to the large con-
gregation there assembled. The rev. gentleman,whose
voice was at times broken by emotion ,spoke in the most
eloquent and touching manner of the late superior.
"He might not need their prayers," said the preacher
but still they gave them. The golden words which
he had spoken from that pulpit made their hearts
burn within them, Had they profited by his teach-
ing ? Let them pray to his patrons, St. Wilfrid, St.
Philip, and St. Raphael. A few spasmodic breath.
ings were the indications of his death. As be (the
preacher) knelt by his bedside he seemed to see the
realisation of the picture drawn by Dr. Faber of the
true Christian at the end of the 2d chapter of his
work, " All for Jesus," the passage beginning
" Only serve Jesus out of love," &c.
Frederic William Faber was born in 1814, end
was the son of the solicitor of the Bishop of Dur-
ham, who was appointed judge or assessor of the
Bishop's Court for the Palatinate, and died more
than 20 years ago. His brothers are Col. Faber,
who is serving with his regiment in India ; the
Rev. Francis Faber, 8.D., late fellow of Magdalen
College, Oxford, rector of Saunderton, near Prince's
Risborough ; and Mr. Henry Faber, a barrister, at
Stockton-on-Tees. His uncle was the celebrated
George Stanley Faber,B.D., the author of the works
on Prophecy. Frederic Faber was educated at Har-
row School, and was sent thence to University Col-
lege, Oxford, where he obtained a:sholarship. In 1836
he obtained the Newdigate prize for his English
poem, " The Knights of St. John ; " in the same
year he took a second class in Literis
Xumaniori-
bus ; and in 1837 was elected to one of Dr. John-
son's theological scholarships. He was ordained
deacon by the Bishop of Ripon and priest by the
Bishop of Oxford. Ha retained his fellowship at
University College till 1843, when he took the col-
lege living of Elton, Huntingdonshire, worth about
£450 a year.
Mr. Faber had early in his university career
adopted High Church opinions. In 1838 he pub-
lished a work called " The Ancient Things of the
Church of England." When travelling in 1842, he
had many conversations with Italian priests and
strangers about the rites, ceremonies, and doctrines
of their Church, and in puolishing an account of
" Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches," de-
dicated to the poet Wordsworth, he took for a motto
the well-known refrain of the Shepherd's song in
the Campagna

"Roma! Roma! Roma!
Roma! non piu come era prima."

In his tracts on the Church and the Prayer-book
(1840), Mr. Faber considered the Church to be a
safeguard ogainst selfishness and worldly., times ;
and did Freemasonry the honour of saying that
"when it was anything more than a club, it was
profane and against the Gospel"—a statement the
veracity of which was only to be equalled by
its sagacity. In 1838, Mr. Faber published a tract
on the duty of keeping to the principles of the Re-
formation, and spoke of the "Roman Catholics" as
" Roman dissenters." In the same year he wrote a
tract on the "Burial Service: Its doctrines and its
Consolation." Yet when he was on his foreign tra-
vels, his views must have been of an extremely Ro-
manised character, for we find him speaking of
Luther and Petrarch in the following terms;—
"Here the apostate monk
Came, ere his fall, and when he saw how nigh
Good lay to Evil, their baser spirits shrank
A.B from a touchstone."
It was probably about this period that Mr. Faber
wrote the enthusiastically religious verses which
were quaintly described as "Lives of the Sainte
potted down into Sonnets."
Mr. Faber remained at Elton for rather more
than two years, during which time he restored his
church, got up a choir, and obtained a character for
ultra-High Churchism. His account of his seces-
sion is interesting. He said that he had long been
in doubt as to the orthodoxy of Anglicanism, and
his excuse for officiating then in an Anglican
church was that he had "only delivered old sermons
written and preached in 1837 and 1838! He had
'visited less sedulously' in his parish, and he had
stated his doubts to persons who came to confess to
him. He had preached at Elton the doctrines
vulgarly called Roman, no doubt, but he was not
aware of it." The end of all this was not far distant.
Mr. Newman, Mr. Dalgairn, Mr. Capes, Mr. A.
Christie, Mr. Cottle, Mr. Morris, and other well-
wn Anglicans, had been received into the Catho-
lic Church in 1845. On Sunday, November 16, Mr.
Faber preached a short sermon from Ruth, and in-

timated that it would be the last time he should
appear in the pulpit of Elton Church. On the fol-
lowing day he was received into the Catholic Church
by Dr. Wareing, vicar apostolic of the northern dis-
trict, at St. Felix Chapel, Northampton. Mr. Faber
was accompanied in his secession by Mr. T. F.
Knox, 8.A., member of a noble Irish family, who
had, a year or two before, taken a distinguished
degree at Cambridge, and would in all proba-
bility have obtained a fellowship at Trinity. Be-
sides Mr. Knox, who was Mr. Faber's guest, the
rector of Elton took over to Rome a dozen of his
parishioners.

Having been received into the Roman Catholic
Church, Mr. Faber was for some time a resi-
dent of St. Wilfrid's, Staffordshire, where he
founded a confraternity. Iu 1849 he came to Lou-
don, and established the brotherhood of St. Philip
Neri in King William-street. Strand. He brought
with him six priests. In 1854 the Oratory was re-
moved to the splendid buildings adjoining Holy
Trinity Church, Brompton, where there are now no
fewer than 20 priests, besides lay members, novices,
&c. Here for 10 years Dr. Faber has worked with great
success, as far as regards proselytism, and the spa-
cious chapel of the Oratory is filled with a con-
tinually increasing number of worshippers. The
baptism of the captain of Westminster School, fre-
quently dealt with of late in the public columns of
the newspapers, need only here be alluded to.

Dr. Faber is well known as a writer, but it may
not generally be remembered that 25 years ago he
was considered one of the most graceful and charm-
ing of young poets. The " Cherwell Water Lily"
and other poems was a most popular book in the
early days of Oxford High Churchism. The
author's friendship with the poet Wordsworth may
account for his enthusiastic affection for the moun-
tain and lake scenery of Cumberland and Westmore-
land. His intense love for Oxford, his description of
Oxford in spring, and of St. Mary's by night, may
take high rank among the poetical triumphs of
the 19th century, One or two of the poems
are addressed to Lord John Manners, his fellow-
traveller and most intimate friend, to whose " soul's
hereditary gentleness, es well as to the " blaze and
splendour of his boyhood," the poet bears a warm
testimony. His " Rosary" alid other poems he de-
dicated to Mr. Beresford-Hope, who " out of a
humble mind, with cheerful augury, redeemed from
sacrilege the Abbey of St. Augustine, and held it
but in trust for the church of better times." His
poems on Scio, Candia, Parnassus, Therapia, Snow-
don, Hevellyn, Rothsay, and others, show a great
rower of description and much poetical feeling. His
works of late years, since his secession, have deep-
ened the poetical element in his nature till it has
approached fiction. Few writings of modern times
are comparable to Dr. Faber's; there is in them
such a wonderful combination of piety, credu-
lity, earnestness, and eloquence.
Amongst Father Faber's other works are his pa.

pular "All for Jesus," which has had an immense
sale in England, and of which 40,000 copies have
been sold in America alone; " The Saints and
Servants of God," " The Spirit and Genius of St.
Philip Neri," " Sir Lancelot," " Spiritual Confe-
rences," " Growth in Holiness," "Jesus and Mary,'
"Tales of the Angels," "Discourse on the Sacra-
ments," and many others. Several of his works
have been translated into French, German, Dutch,
and other European languages.

Of all the converts to Catholicism from the An-
glican faith, the Morning Post of to-day ob-
serves that none have been more zealous, more
successful, more earnest, than Dr. Faber. His ac-
complishments, his administrative tact, his brilliant
conversational powers, his unfailing good temper
and geniality, having brought round him a band of
devoted end attached friends, who attended him
day and night dining his painful illness, and who
now bitterly lament his death.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

On Saturday a field day, sham fight, and bivouac
took place at Hadley, near Barnet, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Col. Wilkinson, commandant of the
2d Administrative Battalion of Middlesex Volun-
teers, and was one of the most interesting as well
as, generally speaking, best conducted field days,
although upon a small scale, of the season. The
ground selected for the evolutions was a piece of
land situated near Hadley Common, of triangular
form, measuring from east to west a distance of
about 1,350 yards, and at the base about 450 yards.
Two-fifths of the ground beyond this westward was
a plateau of green sward, trending eastwards into a
shallow ravine, abutting upon a wood. Brushwood
and forest trees, skirted on the south by a bridle
path,and intersected by glades,covered the remainder
eastward to the level crossing of the Great Northern
Railway, at the apex of the triangle near Barnet
station. The corps engaged were the Post Office
and-Whitehall companies of the Civil Service, under
command of Captain Du Plat Taylor; the 33d IVlid-
dlesex (Tottenham), under command of Captain
Hill; the 41st Middlesex, under command of Cap-
tain Sendy ; the Enfield Lock Rifles, forming part
of the 2d Administrative Battalion of Middlesex
the 12th Middlesex (Barnet) Rifles, under command
of Lieutenant Hendery, in the absence of Captain
Hanbury ; the Cadet Corps attached to the 12th
Middlesex, and the Hatfield and Hadley Trocp of
the Herts Yeomanry Cavalry. The force was under
the command of Lieut.-Colonel Wilkinson, aided by
Major Wilbraham Taylor, of the 2d Administrative
Battalion, who acted as brigade major; and Captain
Baylis,of the 36th Middlesex (Paddington), and Ser-
geant F. E. Baines (by whom the whole arrange-
ments had been organised), of the 12th Middlesex,
acted as aides-de-camp. On the plateau before
referred to, just at the brow of the ravine, an ad-
vanced lunette had been constructed, in the centre
of which was a flagstaff with its flag flying, whilst
the various tents and arrangements for the bivouac
gave to the scene an appearance of reality such as has
scarcely ever before been witnessed on the occasion
of volunteer evolutions in the field. It was
arranged that the attacking force, consisting of the
Civil Service end 33d Middlesex, which had been
entrusted to the command of Captain Du Piat
Taylor, should commence operations as soon as they
got into order outside the Barnet station, which
they did by marching from the station along the
bridle path on the western side of the Great
Northern Railway. The defending force which was
underthe direct command of Col. Wilkinson, consist-
ingof the 41st and the 12th Middlesex and the cadets
with the Enfield rifles, occupied the plateau in rear
of the lunette, and as soon as the announcement
was made by the cavalry, who had been sent out to
reconnoitre, that the enemy had arrived and were
marching on their position, skirmishers were sent
forward into the wood in front to intercept and
check their advance. On reaching the wood on the
eastern side the attacking force was divided, the
33d making their way by the bridle path on the left.
The main body, or Post Office division of the Civil
Service, took the central or principal glade, whilst
the Whitehall division of the same regiment formed
the right flanking party of the enemy. Scarcely
had the attacking force entered the wood when
the cracking of the rifles told that they had
come upon the pickets and skirmishers of the
defenders, and the fight appeared to approxi-
mate closer and closer to the plateau, and to wax
warmer and warmer every succeeding minute. A
few minutes more sufficed to bring the retreating
skirmishers of the defending force and their
antagonists into sight at the foot of the ravine
skirting the wood at the foot of the plateau. The
enemy were gathering force and concentrating their
companies rapidly, and as speedily succeeded in
clearing the woods and in driving the defenders'
skirmishers out and up the ravine into the open:
The defenders' cavalry were instantly ordered down
to charge the advancing foe and cover the defend-
ing skirmishers' retreat_ The skirmishers of the
attacking force formed rallying squares to receive
the cavalry and succeeded in causing them to de-
camp to the rear of the lunette. By this time the
main body of the attack made its appearance
through the various glades, and commenced

opening a galling file fire upon the position of
the defenders, who also, from behind the lunette,
to which their skirmishers had retired, opened an
Equally brisk fire along the whole line upon
the advancing foe. The enemy formed and ad-

vaneed in line to storm the lunette, whilst the whole
of the defending force of infantry moved down in

its support. The Effect of this movement and the

deadly volleys they poured in upon the assailants

was understood for the moment to check the advance

and to drive them back some 50 or 60 yards to re-
form and recruit their strength, owing to the loss of

men they were supposed to have sustained. Having
re-formed, the enemy advanced up the bill against

the lunette in direct echelon of wings, but were

again met by a charge of cavalry, and were com-
pelled to form close column of sections to repel
cavalry. At this moment the flanking column
which had taken the glade diverging to the right
was now seen debouching from the wood, and a

part of the defending force being detached,
with the cavalry to check its advance, the
main body of the enemy, profiting by the
confusion, under the cover of a tremendous vol-
ley, rushed forward and succeeded in capturing the
lunette, and amidst the cheers of the attacking force
the defenders' flag was lowered and that of the

attacking body substituted. The defending force
then returned to the plateau and formed line in
_ .

front of the tents facing south, whilst the attack

having also reached the plateau, faced in the op-
posite direction, and after •a series of volleys from
both by companies' wings, and finally by each
battalion, the grand charge was made by the attack.
After forming together in line into close column,
and marching by subdivisions round the centre,
forming battalion squares to receive cavalry, and per-
forming other evolutions, the whole force marched
past first in open and then in close column to the
music of the band of the Civil Service Rifles. They

hen formed in line, and advanced in slow time, and
n review order, the whole of the movements being

performed in a very soldierlike and efficient manner.
Three sides of a square having been formed,
Lieut.-Col. Wilkinson addressed the officers and
men assembled, and expressed the h:gh satisfaction
he had experienced in witnessing the admirable
manner in which the evolutions had been performed,
and his thanks to the Civil Service and other corps
who had come to aid them in that which he hoped
had proved a useful and instructive volunteer
field-day. On the part of the Barnet division of
his battalion he bid them now welcome to the
hospitality they had provided. Men having been
told off to take charge of the various tents where

refreshments were provided, and others to light the

fires for th© bivouac,' this part of the day's pro-

ceedings closed with three cheers for Col. Wilkin-
son, three for the Civil Service and other
.corps

which had attended, and for which Captain Taylor

returned thanks, The men were marched in de •
tachments to partake of the more substantial portion

of the entertainment. By this time the moon had
made its appearance high above the trees of the
wood, and the braze of the camp fires, with the
crowds of volunteers around them, and the bands

playing merrry tunes, rendered the scene altogether
one of the moat pleasing and intereating character
)Nnich can possibly be imagined.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPAIN.

The Spanish journals stage that accounts have
been received from Melilla to the 17th instant.
Everything was then cam in the camp of
the Moors, who seem to repent of the atti-
tude which they had exi Burned. The Alerta
steamer, from Malaga, lauded a battalion of
infantry. The Spanish expedition destined
to chastise the Moors of the Jtiff will, it is
said, be from 8,000 to 10,000 strong. General
Meador:laid° has had a conference with the
Governor of the Riff, who is encamped before
Melilla, and the result of the interview will
b 3 immediately sent to the Government. The
generality of the Moors wish for peace.