The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-05 00:00:00

TVA IS AND MEANS.

All I how wonderful ways and means are I When I
prayers, on
belf of hkiems f
think how this very line, this very word, which I am writ-
ing represents money, I am lost in a respectful astonishment.
I am paid, he will say,
for the sake of illustration, at the rate of sixpence per line.
Ahrsaan-ta sheils owna and his case Lamsilhy. he
says
his
Own
With the words "Ah, how wonderful," to the words "per
lino," I can bu a loaf, a piece of butter, a jug of milk, a
modicum of tea—y actually enough to make breakfast for the
family; and the servants of the house ; and the charwoman,
their servant, can shake up the tea leaves with a fresh sup-
ply of water, sop the crusts, and get a meal, tent bier que
mah
all Wife, children, guests, servants, charwomen, we are
actually making a meal off Philip Firmin's bones as it
were. And my next .door neighbour, whom I see spinning
away to chambers umbrella in hand ? And next door but
one the city
man ? And next door but two the doctor I
I know the baker has left loaves at every one of their doors
this morning, that all their chimneys are smoking, and they
will all have breakfast, Ah, thank God for it! I hope,
friend, you and I are not too proud to ask for our daily
bread, and to be grateful for getting it ? Mr. Philip had
had to work for his, in care and trouble, like other children
of men—to work for it, and I hope to pray for it, too. It
is a thought to me awful and beautiful, that of the daily
prayer, and of the myriads of fellowmen uttering it, in
care and in sickness, in doubt and in poverty, in health
and in wealth. Panent nostrum da nobis hodte.
Phil.p whispers it by the bedside where wife and child
lie sleeping, and goes to his early labour with
a stouter heart : as he creeps to his rest when the day's
labour is over, and the quotidian bread is earned, and
breathes his hushed thanks to the bountiful Giver of the
meal. All over this world what an endless chorus is singing
of love, and thanks, and prayer. Day tells to day the won-
drous story, and night recounts it into night.-- How
do I come to think of a sunrise which I saw 20 years ago
on the Nile, when the river and sky flushed and glowed
with the dawning light, and as the luminary appeared, "l:
boatmen knelt on the rosy deck, and adored Allah a
thy sun rises, friend, over the humble housetops
day to
d
about your home, shall you wake many and many _y
a done
duty and labour. May the task have been
the labourer.—CornhilllLtagaztne for Nag.
when the night comes ; and the steward dearkindly with

It is reported (says the Uposted Service Gazette)
that the Channel squadron, under the command of Rear..
Admiral Smart, K.H., Will visit the Baltic this summer.
The St, George, with Prince Alfred on board, will form
par t of the squadron.
The Charicari has received a first warning for
is considered as tending "to throw disre-
aGnoyaornti,?!ewhpiucbhlished, entitled "Les Quiproquos of M. de
pute on the French army and contempt on the institutions
of the country."

THE MURDER IN TIPPERARY,—CAHIR, Friday.
—The coroner's inquest in the case of the murder of M.
Thiebault, of Rockwell, has terminated in a verdict of
wilful murder against Thomas Halloran, one of the three
brothers arrested on suspicion shortly after the perpetration
of the outrage.
The President of the Royal Society held his first
conversazione on Saturday night at the apartments of the
society at Burlington House, Piccadilly. There was a veil
large attendance of the Fellow s of that learned and seientifi. a
institution, and many foreigners holding a high position
their respective countries for their learning and knowledge
in scions*.