The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

THE FALSE PROPHET DENOUNCED

In the last number of the Church and State Re,
view, edited, if we are correctly informed, by
Archdeacon Denison, Dr. John Cumming, the
fashionable preacher, so long pretending to
the gift of prophecy, down in Crown-court,
Drury-lane, and thence in honeyed accents
" dealing damnation round the land," alternately
from his pulpit and from his writing desk, is thus
boldly denounced at last as a False Prophet :•--
"Dr. Cumming could discover the Crimean and
fartheas Turkish
the Italian wars in the Book of Revelation, but he
could not see the termination in either case; BO
that hie calculations relative to the disruption of
faulwt.as Athsat
the Turkish empire and the fall of the Papacy
mweemrebewr,rehtcishedwe re-
empire would be divided by means of an arrange-
ment between England, France, and Russia.
Palestine was to fall to the share of England, and
the Jews were to be restored. He was somewhat
puzzled about Malta, as an objection to our occupa-
tion of that island might be raised on the part of
wretchedly
prediction a t
France. The Jews are, he says, to be collected
from all parts of the earth under the protection of
England, and thus a great prophecy will be ful-
filled through our instrumentality. Our Lord's
coming, the fell of Antichrist, and the first resur-
rection of the saints preparatory to a reign of a
thousand years, are to follow the restoration of
Israel. However, the Turkish empire still exists,
nor is the Papacy destroyed. On the contrary, the
Pope appears as vigorous as ever, though shorn of
some of his temporal poiver.n

A GOOD SUGGESTION,

(From Punch.)
TO THE LADIES OP ENGLAND.

"Ladies, " Windsor Castle, Aug. 1.
"The Queen has commanded me to express the pain
with which her Majesty reads the account of daily acci-
dents arising from the wearing of the indelicate, expensive,
dangerous, and hideous article called Crinoline.
Het Majesty cannot refrain from making known to you
her extreme displeasure that educated women should by
example encourage the wearing a dress which can be
pleasing only to demoralise' taste.

"For the miserable idiots who abjectly copy the habits
of those conventionally termed their betters, it is impossible
to entertain anything but pity.
" But to the Ladies of England this appeal to abandon
the present degrading, dangerous, and disgusting fashion,
is made in the belief that they will show themselves the ra-
tional and decorous persons whom they are supposed to be.
"I have the honour to be,
" Ladies,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" C. B. PHIPPS."

Mgr. Plantier, the Archbishop of Nimes, has
recently published in the form of a Pastoral an elaborate
refutation of M. Ernest Renau's " Vie de Jesus." No less
than ten columns of L' Union aro occupied to-day (Friday,
7th August•) with extracts selected from this masterpiece of
logical and persuasive eloquence.

M. TRIERS'S STAY AT BADEN-BADEN, says the
Court Journal, has proved an interesting topic for news-
papers as well as private conversation. It is recorded that
this celebrated personage was a constant evening visitor to
the gardens attached to the Kur•aal. His constant corn
panicn was the Duc de Moray, and amongst the ladies in
his train the Princess Menschikoff may be mentioned, but
she was only one of a bevy of beauty of the highest dis-
tinction.

THE CAPE MAILS,—PLYMOUTH, Thursday.—
The Royal Union Mail Company's steamship Saxon,
Commander Hoffman, arrived in the Sound this morning,
and is appointed to leave at 4 p.m. for Ascension, St.
Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope. She takes out a full
general cargo and nearly 80 passengers, among whom are,
for St. Helena, Chief Justice Phelps and family and Captain
Childs; for the Cape, Colonel Rawstorn, Major Jones,
Captain O'Brien, Rev. M. M‘lllahon, Rev. M. tewart,
Dr. Kellner and Dr. Fritsch ; and for Algoa Bay, Dr.
M‘Leod. The next mail ship homeward is the Briton,
Commander J. Boxer. She is due on the 29th, but may
arrive on the 24th hut,