The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-26 00:00:00

B 7 order of the Festival Committee,
GEO. GROVE, Secretary.

Crystal Palace, June 26, 1862.

lANDEL FESTIVAL.—The Exeter Hall
Office obeli for the Sale of Tickets up to TEN
O'CLOCK TO-NIGIIr.
Exeter Hall, Thursday Afternoon.

HANDEL FESTIVAL.-NOTICE-
In reply to v,ry numerous communications respect-
ing tie possibility of giving' one more performance, the Fes-
tiv,,l Committee are compelled to state that the engagements
of the ladies and gentlemen of the orchestra, and with the
railway companies, render such a course impracticable, And
that the Festival MUST CLOSE with the performance of
Israel in Egypt" TO-MORROW.

By order,

Crystal Palace, June 26, 1862.

GEO. GROPE, secretary.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY.LANE.
Dion Boucicault, Lessee.
TO-NIGHT, Thursday, June 26, 186', the performances
will commence at 7, with the SPITAL FIELDS WEAVER:
Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins.
After which, THE COLLEE N HAWN : Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste,
Jessie M`Lean, Stevins.
To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs.
Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan.
Box-office open from 10 to 5.

THEATRE-ROYAL,HAY MARKET.
Lessee Mr. J B. Bnckstone.

THIS EVENING, at Seven, MRS. 'WITH. Mr. Comp-
ton, Miss Caroline Hill, Mrs. E. Fitswilliam.
After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (159th time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck.
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Peres Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.

OY AL LYCEUM THEATRE.
.11-‘) Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.

192 d Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day:ll
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savonrneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Ealconet ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.

To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
hiss Lydia Thompson.

Acting. Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices AS usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to oommence at
7. Boa-office open daily from 11 tlll5.

Cammenoe a 7

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
Hiss M. Harris.
Atter which, at Eiuht o'clock, LOUIS XI. Mr. and
Mrs. C. Bean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter,
Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &c. ; Miss Chapman,
and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROY AL, ADELPHL-...
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
TO-NIGHT, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw,
K. Bland, and Mrs. 11. Marston.
To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs.
C. Verner, Emery, Billington, Stephenson, Eburne, C. J.
Smith,-Romer; Miss Agnes Burdett, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.

To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L.
Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL.
STECKEL,
The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock.
Immense success of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's

Opera, -
" DON SEBASTIEN,"
(Produced here for the first time in this country).
Arranged and conducted by Mr. Jone:hmans.
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell and Signor Tivoli.
The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth
(the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other
man "). Also the following array of Comic Talent, viz.:—
E. Marshall (in Paul Pry), J. G. Fordo, A. B. Hollings-
worth, Miss Georgina Smithson, and Joe Brown, the re-
nowned Dancer.

T H E
OXFORD,
6, OXFORD STREET.

The miraculoUs STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in
new and unapproachable feats.

Verdi's TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATORE,"
" SIMON BOCCANEGRA," &c. ;G. Linley's "JOLLY
BEGGARS ; " G.A. Maciarren's " MAY DAY. ' Principal
Vocalists - Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those
imrivallod Ethioninn rnrnprlifins. impc:v. awn"— Li 4. 1 a
Bob, Eugene,anci Unsworth (the origThina, or any other man {l).
Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes,
108. 6d.

Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International
Exhibition Cantata.

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THE SUN,
LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1862.

An affecting and impressive scene was witnessed
yesterday at the London Tavern. Lord BROUGHAM
after battling for sixty years against the African
Slave Trade, as never philanthropist battled before
(so persistently, so heroically, so continuously !)
--still stood forth there in this, the eighty-fourth
year of his age, to raise once more his eloquent
voice against a system which, exclaimed the
venerable orator, in accents of exultation, "Eng-
land, thank GOD, no longer calls a trade but—a
crime,"

No 'wonder—remembering Lord BROUGHAM'S
career and his achievemen ts—that the ex-Chancellor
upon his entrance into the assembly, and upon his
appearance on the platform, was greeted by that
immense meeting With
an ovation of the most
enthusiastic kind. No wonder that after the cries of
love and honour and respect that greeted him had
died out sufficiently to enable hit, to
obtain at last
a hearing ; no wonder that, when he ',Poke at length
to his audience, Lord BROUGHAM's voice faltered
at times (the reporter tells us) with evident emo-
tion. It is not often that a great philanthropist
is afforded so striking an opportunity of enforc-
ing the arguments enunciated by him, more
than half a century previously, and of crowning
the labours of a long life, crowded with practical
evidences of good-will to his fellow-men, by the ut-
tering of words so touchingly demonstrative of the
noble consistency or his Whole existence. As a
champion of the holy cause of liberty, as the sworn
foe to slavery, as the friend of the African, as
the arch advocate of Emancipation, Lord
BROUGHAM has happily had no further reason,
during many years past, to lift
a finger
or to whisper a syllable in behalf of the poor
negro anywhere in the whole range of our 'world-
wide dominions. Heartened to that beneficent
decision of hers by the truths articulated so eon-
vincingly'.by the lips of men like BRQVGiIAm, and
CLARKSON, and WILBERFORCE, 2ngland has long
ago washed from her escutc
—and so acted that /...icon the guilt of slavery
', her sons and, daughters can
come into oon::
with clean hands when (as yester-
day)tt; grand old cause is again pleaded. Pleaded
again it was yesterday, and still—as sixty years
ago--by the voice of HENRY BROUGHAM. Then,
at the commencement of these last (sixty years, in
1802, it was the voice of HENRY BROUGHAM,
when full anal twenty. Now it is that same
voice, the voce of that same indomitable
Advocate of Freedom, of Progress, of Enlighten-
ment, when, at the patriarchal age of eighty-four,
HENRY Lord 13Rovoini is recognised and revered
by all classes of his fellow-countrymen as—what he

was most happily designated but very recently by
the ex-Chancellor of Ireland (NAPIER)—" the Hero
of Humanity !"

Immediately before Lord BROUGHAM'S address
to the meeting yesterday in the London Tavern,
the venerable Chairman directed the attention of all
present to a handsome intelligent-looking coloured
boy in front of the platform. The bright-eyed little
negro child thus pointed out to the assembly by
the grey-beaded ex-Chancellor, being, as the latter
intimated to his hearers, the eldest son of the King
of Bonny—the African monarch whose petition Lord
BROUGHAM but two sessions back presented to the
English Parliament. A petition this, let it be
remembered, laid upon the table of the House of
Lords in the year 1860, by Lord BROUGHAM--a
petition from a Negro Prince beseeching the mighty
aid of England to put an end, if possible, to that
horrible slave-trade which still bears away 60,000
blacks yearly from the shores of Africa—bears them
away across the waters of the Atlantic, in this ac-
cursed traffic, to a life and death of servitude ! As
Lord BROUGHAM remarked yesterday, out of those
60,000 negroes stolen from their homes by the African
slave traders, 40,000 are landed annually as slaves in
Cuba-40,000 40,000 out of the 60,000 reach the Cuban
shoresnba— to breed and work and be bought and sold
like cattle—the other 20,000, who never reach the
opposite shores of the Atlantic, perishing by the
way, through the horrors of the middle passage !
" Was it to be endured," asked Lord BROUGHAM,
in referring to those most terrible and afflicting
particulars, "that we should not exert ourselves
and use the legitimate influence we had, or ought
to have, with Spain in this matter ? Delicacy to-
wards her might prevent us," he said," from naming,
or even alluding to, the subject in diplomatic cor-
respondence, but we, the countrymen of WELLING-
TON, after having freed her from the domination of
her enemies, and set her up at the expense of our
own blood, might well interfere to the extent of
calling on her to fulfil the solemn engagement in
consideration of which she received half a million
of our money. The only part of that engagement,"
added Lord BROUGHAM, "which Spain had
fulfilled was to take possession of the money,
and leave the rest unperformed." It is
certainly incumbent upon England, remembering
her own renowned antecedents, on the one hand, as
regard to Spain, and, on the other hand, in regard
to Slavery, that she should at any rate attempt at
length to do something more than simply to lament,
as she does, this persistence in their detestable
traffic by the Spanish slave traders. Happily
for ourselves, under the guidance of philan-
thropists like BROUGHAM—Traffic of this kind
has for more than forty years been branded
as a Felony any subject of the British
Crown proved to have been guilty of trafficing
in human creatures (since Mr. BROUGHAM'S Bill of
1811 was passed into a law) being liable to trans-
portation for a period of fourteen years ! And all
the while, in regard to this diabolical trade, it
should be observed that there is a hideous
temptation, because (lamentable to relate) of
its remunerative character in a pecuniary point
of view. Here, in the Slave Trade, observes
Lord BROUGHAM, " the gains are so enormous
that if one ship out of four or five escape seizure
the fortunes of her owners are made!" After
the venerable orator had eased his heart, once
more, by enveighing against the horrors of the
Slave-trade, echoing, with evident emotion, to-
wards the close of his remarks upon its dreadful
consequences those burning ejaculations—
" Accursed trade I which thrives on human pain,
And calls forth every misery for gain ;
Accursed men ! who, building wealth on woe,

Force tears and blood to stream in ceaseless flow I "
Lord BROUGHAM referred, not inaptly, certainly
most refreshingly, to the prospect of the happy
results that might ensue, by way of a diversion,
from the slave-trade, from the more and more
sedulous cultivation of Free Grown Cotton in our
own dominions. Here and there in our own
colonies, among other places in Jamaica. As an
indication of the fact that cotton can be grown
advantageously in Jamaica Lord BROUGHAM
mentioned to the meeting yesterday the follow-
ing particulars :—"Early," said the noble and
learned lord, " in September last cotton seeds were
sent out to Jamaica from this country ; they re-
mained but four weeks in the ground, and from
them a crop was gathered, manufactured, and
sent over to England, and he himself was now
wearing a waistcoat made of part of it," [Cer-
tainly a case in point illustrated by proof positive.]
" Capital alone was wanting," continued Lord
BROUGHAM; "there was no want of labour which
might not easily be supplied ; for if the labour
there of our own free negroes or mulattoes was
not sufficient, there were, independently of coolie
labour, resources in the island of Porto Rico it-
self, where there were 60,000 slaves and 30,000
free peop!e of colour. Even under existing circum-
stances there was no want of labour in Jamaica. The
wages of negroes were ls. a-day, and whereas the
cotton, some of which he was now wearing, cost
Bd. a-pound in the manufacture by free labour, it
would have cost 10d. by slave labour. The whole
expense, including the capital expended in cultiva-
tion and the hire of premises, amounted to 6d. a-
pound, whereas if slave labour had been employed
the cost would have been 25 per cent. greater." As
the noble orator had himself remarked earlier in
the day, " Ont of evil comes good," out of the Cotton
Famine comes visibly before us, not as a brilliant
and illusory day-dream, but as a very reasonable
probability, the prospect of more abundant and
reliable supplies of Cotton than ever; and this
through the systematic cultivation of cotton by free
labour upon our own soil, whereby, through the
mercy of Heaven, the last horrors of the accursed
slave trade may be brought at length to a close.

Dr. LUSIIINGTON'S decision in the case of the
Essays and Reviews, as it might be properly termed,
will be studied with interest by a very wide circle,
and 45 substance will be a matter of interest to the
whole
reading community. Our readers, saw last
night that the legal result was that some of the
articles were admitted in the cases both of Mr.
WILLIAMS and
Mr. WILSON, but were to be re-
formed; leave being
given to the parties to appeal.
This is the technical
end. legal position; but what
will be of far more interest to the large public which
has read' with curious interest the Essays and
Reviews, as well as to the clerical body, is the
principles laid down by the learned
Judge as the
foundation of his judgment, since these involve the
amount of liberty accorded to clergymen in
regard
to matters of doctrine.

To spare the reader the necessity of wading
through an elaborate legal judgment, we will state
the important points of this kind laid down by 1),
LusHINGTox. The charge in the case is "promul-
gation of doctrines contrary to the articles of re-
ligion, and in derogation of the Book of Common
Prayer." What is required to make out the charge
is, let The articles (of accusation) must specify' the
the opinions which the clerk has advisedly
main-
tained. 2d, The doctrines of the. Church which
the opinions are alleged to contravene, and the pat •
ticular articles or formularies Which contain these
doctrines. Iu Dr. WILLIAMS' case, there is the
peculiarity that the writing Prosecuted is a Review,
land this is tha first case of a clergyman prosecuted

for writing a review of a heterodox book. It is ob

vious that such a review might be for the most
orthodox purposes ; but the doctor laid down that
the clergyman, after stating clearly the heterodox
opinions of the book reviewed, must not leave his
own opinions in the dark, otherwise he might re-
publish with impunity an infidel work. Dr. WIL-
LIAMS' approval of BUNSEN is general, but not in-
discriminate. In this case he was bound to take
care that he left no doubt of his rejecting such of
BUNSEN'S opinions as were in conflict with the
doctrines of the Church of England.
The next point discussed by the learned judge
was one of fundamental importance. The prosecutor
had introduced as standards of Church doctrine, the
Holy Scriptures, and especially those parts which,
as lessons, epistles and gospels, are made part of the
Church :service. The Judge rejects the Ecriptures
as the legal standard of Church doctrine. His
grounds are, we think, clear and his reasons un-
answerable. The Court has no power to determine
what the doctrines of the Church of England ought
to be, but what they are. He showed that the
Articles, the Liturgy, the Prayer-Book, and the
Homilies were each made by law standards of doc-
trine—the Articles primarily, because they were
expreisly drawn up to prevent any diversity of doc-
trine. The learned Judge, in his official capacity,
could not notice the opinions of orthodox divines of
the highest reputation as legal standards, though
an incriminated party could appeal to them to show
that his opinions had been so advocated without
offence. He repudiated even the protest of all the
Bishops against the "Essays and Reviews" as any
guide to him in his judicial character.
He noticed the argument that to hold the ar-
tieles, formularies, and canons to be binding on the
clergy would be to deny that right of private judg-
ment which is the foundation of the Reformation.
But the learned Judge holds, with Mr. DIS-
RAELI, that clergymen must keep heretical
opinions to themselves. They are not, he
says, prohibited from holding any opinion
whatever, but from promulgating it, if contrary to
the legal standards of the Church. The statute of
ELIZABETH "assumes that the truth of the Articles
is so proved that it cannot be shaken.". And again
he says, " the Act of the Legislature proceeds on
the basis that, for the purposes intended, the Church
is in possession of all truth, and that nothing in
that respect remained to be discovered." If it is
said that this is to deny to clergymen participation
in the discoveries of modern science, he replies that
" the clergyman is not at liberty to use such dis-
coveries so as advisedly to maintain what is repug-
nant to the Articles." It may, he says, be a true
and an important discovery, one held to be proved
by eminent scholars and divines— but " is the
Court to discuss whether the discovery be a true
one or not ?—the Court can do no such thing—it
can only administer the law—the duty of the Court
is to shut its ears to all such discoveries—it is
bound by law to do so." Had GALILEO been a
clergyman, and come before Dr. LIISIIINGTON, we
fear he would have fared almost as badly as he did
at the hands of the Roman tribunal. The Doctor,
however, is unquestionably right.

Dr. LUSHINGTON tells us that if greater liberty
be wished for it must be sought from the Legisla-
ture, not from the courts of law, who are bound to
administer the law as they find it. The only open
questions have, in the GORHAM case, been decided
to be those which are not determined by the
Articles and Liturgy. What, then, is the meaning
of the act of subscription to these articles and for-
mularies ? This is a question which was not only
discussed at the trial, but has been raised into fresh
importance by a controversy now vigorously going
•,,
men, now, in subscribing to the very articles and for-
mularies which the 2,000 ministers of 1662 refused
and became in consequence the celebrated ejected
of St. Bartholomew's day. The doctor is very decided
on the real character of subscription. "It is,a most
solemn act—the Court cannot take cognisance of the
subscriber's intentions, but the law will hold him to
have taken the obligation secundum animuns impo-
nentis ; and that sense is, the plain grammatical
sense of_the articles themselves. The subscription
to such articles is a declaration by the subscriber
of his conviction of their truth, and a promise to
abide by them." Then, again, in regard to the
construction of these articles, the GORHAM case
decided that " the rules to be applied are the
rules by law applicable to the construction of all
written instruments. The consideration of exter-
nal and historical facts is to be imported only so
far as is necessary to understand the subject mat-
ter and the meaning of the words employed. We
seek the plain literal and grammatical sense." In
giving his judgment, therefore, the Doctor kept
closely to the articles and formularies; he regarded
no learned divine's opinion; he rejected the Scrip-
tures, considering the use of them in the service to
be apart from doctrinal objects, and an appeal to
them as involving a theological, not a judicial,
inquiry.

We may add that the chief doctrines and teaching
found to be legally heterodox in the two cases judged
by these standards were, Ist. Advisedly maintain-
ing, whether in direct or indirect language, that the
Holy Scriptures proceed from the same mental
powers as produce other works—or that the powers
which produce both differ only in degree—such
teaching would make " the holy Scriptures not
God's word written, but the work of man." 2nd.
Though criticism may be permitted so far as the
rejection of verses and passages proved to be spuri-
ous, and even to rejecting the commonly-received
authorship of books, it would be contravening the
articles to reject a whole book. 3rdly. The doc-
trine that finally all, both great and small, would
escape condemnation, was contrary to the ereeds
and formularies. 4thly. Of course, the opinion
that the Holy Scriptures " were not written under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and were not
necessarily at all, certainly not in parts, the Word
of God could not be allowed.

As a peasant of Toutorzette, a village near St.
Lever (Landes), was last month driving two oxen to drink,
one of them ran at a dog which lay under a tree by the
roadside. The dog immediately seized the animal by the
nostril, and held on till the ox, by a violent effort, threw it
off. The dog fell into a pond, and was killed immediately
after by the peasant. On returning home the man caute-
rised the ox's wound with a hot iron. The ox showed no
symptoms of disease until the 36th day, when it refused its
food, and on the following morning no doubt could be en-
tertained that it was mad. Its owner immediately pro-
cured assistance, and strangled the animal by means of a
running knot thrown over its head.

An extensive ledge of cinnabar has been dis-
covered in Nevada territory. Its locality is in latitude 40
deg. N., long. 119 deg. 52 rein. W: from Greenwich, and
within the limits of the Truckee reservation secured by the
Government to the Pi-Ute Indians. Specimens brought
in yield 60 per*cent. quicksilver, and the supply of cinnabar
is inexhaustible. Immediate measures will be taken to
supply the machinery necessary for the reduction of the
chamber, in expectation of meeting the immense demand
for, quicksilver in this territory, at prices greatly reduced
from present rates.--Silver Age.
RI.oENT EXPLOSION AT BIRMINGHAM.—
The inquest relative to this accident was commenced yester-
day afternoon before Dr. B. Davies, the borough coroner.
Several witnesses were examined, chiefly as to identification
of the, bodes and so forth, but the inquiry had not touched
any of the main facts as to the cause of the explosion at the
time our
ins parcel was despatched. Mr. White, the Govern-
ment pector appointed to take cognizance of the ages of
children in factories, was present.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (Limited).
_Traffic receipts for the week ending June 22, 1862,
£15,435 14e, sd,