The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-12 00:00:00

Nor is it in the intellectual order that the Catholic
Faith is invading the mind of our country. It
is penetrating even more deeply into the spiri-
tual consciousness of the people. Let a handful of
unreaaonable pietists or of antiquated controversialists
say what they will, the English people do not believe us to
be idolaters nor anti-Christs. Our Churches are open to
them. They have seen the Divine Worship of the Holy
Mass with their own eyes, and heard the words of our
Pastors with their own ears. There is a widespread re-
action from the traditions which the blindness and deaf-
ness of religious prejudice has so long propagated.
Since the end of the last century there has been a pro-
found reawakening of the minds of men. With some little
extravagance, indeed, the religious sense of England has
been stirred into an earnest belief of the eternal
truths. Men are looking about for a Guide in the
way of salvation ; for a Teacher to whom they
they may intrust their souls; for a Church which knows
what it means, and means what it says ; for a hierarchy
which is not divided ; for a keeper of holy writ who guards
every jot and every tittle of the Sacred Books ; for an In-
terpreter who does not contradict himself; for Pastors who,
day by day, in all the world, absolve sinners in the Con-
f esssional, but require confession of sin by a divine and
universal law as a condition of absolution ; for a deep in-
interior, evangelical life after the pattern of the Gospel,
when men, taking Jesus at His word, sold all that they had
and followed their Master ; for a-Religion which is one and
the same in every place ane in every nation under heaven;
in perfect harmony with itself, the only perfect interpreta-
tion of the Holy Scripture, in all its commandments, pre-
cepts, and counsels, and therefore the only Scriptural
religion.

It will not long be doubtful where these things are alone
to be found. When another generation has effaced the
scars of old prejudices, it is certain that the common sense,
just judgment, and straightforward manliness, of English-
men will turn to the only Voice in the midst of them
which never falters, to the only system which is coherent
and true to itself.

But we must never forget that over all these intellectual
and spiritual currents of the natural order there is a super-
natural ministry of grace and power disposing all things
for the sake of the Elect. Lights, inrpirations, impulses,
penetrating' fears of the Divine Presence, drawings and
benedictions of the Divine love are ever at work upon
the intelligence, the heart, the conscience, and the will
of this great people. Truth seems to hang in the air, and
to descend by no discoverable law upon individuals and
households, in seasons the least looked for, and in ways
the least foreseen. What is all this reverend and dear
breathren, but the grace and visitation of Him who shed
His most precious blood for the souls which crowd and
die in this great city ? We are workers together with
Him : a mission arduous but blessed. To save one soul
is reward enough for a life of toil ; to gather many
into life eternal is beyond all we dare to ask. And
yet it is promised to us : " They that are learned shall
shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that
instruct many to justice as the stars to all eter-
nity." Happy are they to whom this work of grace
and peace has been committed as to you. And happy are
we in knowing that day by day, at all hours, we may say
day and night, often without the rest necessary for health
and life, you are labouring for the salvation of the flock for
which we must give account. Though most unworthy to
be set over you, yet God is witness, we have no more heart-
felt and fervent desire than to live and labour to the end as
we have in the years that are past feebly indeed, but gladly
"spending and being spent" with you for the souls for
whom Christ died.

And now, Dear Brethren and Children in Jesus Christ,
the law of the Universal Church which binds its Pastors
in the bonds of filial dependence to the Successor of S.
Peter, the Fountain of all jurisdiction over souls, but for a
special permission of the Holy Father would have obliged
us to leave you fora season. Though wa have received
from the hands of our Brethren of the Province the Episco-
pal character, we cannot exercise the fulness of jurisdiction
until we have received either in person or by proxy from
the hands of the Vicar of our Lord the Pallium which both
signifies and conveys our participation in the fulness of the
Pastoral office. It will be our desire to ask hereafter in
person this last grace of the Sovereign Pontiff, and to re-
turn as we may. Nor can we feel that by such
an absence
wileY shall be wanting in anything to you, be-
cause tls seedily
sew we are assured that in no way, under God, can we be
rendered less unworthy to minister to you than by flist seek-
ing of Him, who represents on earth our Divine Master, the
ight and guidance which flows from His Apostolical
Benediction : and because we know that the unity and
prosperity of the Church depends upon the most inti-
mate unior, with its visible Head, and that not visibly
alone, but inwardly by a conformity of both the intel-
lect and the will to his mind and spirit. The perfection
of a Christian is docility to the Divine Voice, and the organ
Of that Divine Voice is the Church speaking by its Head.
This the men of the world call feeble, unmanly, and
slavish, an abnegation of personal conviction and personal
independence. You have received anoteer Gospel in
which the most masculine intellect, and the most in-
flexible will learns to exercise its fullest powers in their
amplest liberty with the mind of a little child, and the
docility of a Disciple. Such is the spirit we have learned
of you, and such is the filial dependence which unites us,
both Pastor and Flock, to the tittered Person of the Vicar
of the Son of God.

Finally, Dear Brethren and Children in Christ, we com-
mend ourselves to your charity and to yur prayers, in full
confidence that you will obtain for us the graces we need
to serve you in the truth and love of Jesus Christ :
especially we would ask you to intercede for us in the
Presence of our Divine Redeemer in the Holy Sacrifice,
and to commend us to the :prayers of our Blessed
and Immaculate Mother. We, 'on our part, will
bear you affectionately
in mind when we ask
for ourselves and for the Flock committed to us the
happily in the midst
of the long perturbations of a glorious Pontificate.
reigning
of our Lord Jesus
blessing
Meanwhile
wecommend
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troe itghne
Christ,and to the sanctification
of the
One (Tod over all for Blessed for ever.
Amen.
Holy to the
ciho lovest, of the
, Father,

Given at Westminster this Bth day of June, in the year
1865, being Thursday within the Octave of Pentecost, and
the day of our Consecration ; and ordered to be read in all
Churches and Chapels of the Diocese on Trinity Sunday,
when the Annual Collection will be made for the Church
Building Fund.
UENRY EDWARD, Archbishop Elect.
!Jowl CANON MORRIS, Secretary.

The company were again represented by most of the
leading officials of the line, with Mr. Grierson, the general
manager, at their head. Mr. Tyrrill alone was absent. Mr.
Chandler, solicitor, of Shrewsbury, was again present, re-
presenting the relatives of Miss Jones, deceased, and cer-
tain of the injured persons.
After some further evidence had been given, the room
was then cleared, and in somewhat over an hour and a
quarter afterwards the jury wore prepared with their ver-
dict, which the foreman read as follows :
"We bring in a verdict of accidental death. We find
that there is great blame attached to the officials
,of the
Great Western Railway Company in not providing suffi-
cient brake power before leaving Chester, and in.not pro-
viding better carriages and engines in its excursion train.
We consider that the enginemen wore guilty of gross and
culpable negligence in not attending to the signal put up
by the platelayers ; and we believe that the enginemen
were going at too great a speed over a defective portion of
the :line between Babbin's Wood-bridge and the scene of
the accident. We think the platelayers were also guilty
of gross and culpable negligence in not properly and suffi-
ciently packing the sleepers so as to make them secure
enough to bear so heavy a train as the excursion train at
the pace the train was then going."

The Coroner—By the word " culpable," you do not
mean wilful ?

The Foreman—We exclude the word " wilful." We
have studiously avoided using the word wilful, because
we did not intend to return a verdict of manslaughter.
The Coroner—lt is not, in my opinion, a verdict of
manslaughter at all.

The Foreman—" Gross" is not wilful, in proof whereof
we have had the dictionary, and hero it is in the room ;
and if the lawyers can make anything else of it they may.
We hope the verdict will give as much satisfaction to the
public as it does to ourselves. We have very carefully
considered all the circumstances.

Mr. Jones, on behalf of tho company, desired that tho
coroner should place upon the record the specific statement
of the jury that they studiously avoided returning a ver-
dict of manslaughter.

Mr. Grierson then addressed the Court. He said—l need
scarcely say, on behalf of the directors, that this very un-
fortunate accident will be a source of the deepest regret to
them; and with regard to the verdict, which will of course
be laid before them, I may state—particularly with regard
to the first portion of it—that the directors are, if possible,
more anxious than the public can be to provide for the safe
and efficient working of the line, and that ever since the
present board has been in office, which has not been long,
they have devoted the greatest amount of attention and
anxiety to the subject, with the view of preventing such
unfortunate occurrences as these ; and they have autho-
rised the construction of continuous brakes to the trains,
which are thought the most efficient for the purpose of stop-
ping them under ordinary circumstances, particularly, in
special cases, such as the present. Some of them are already
attached to the trains, and others are being constructed as
rapidly as possibly. They have also authorised the exten-
sion of the telegraph arrangements over the line, the appli-
cation of the improved locking apparatus to the signals and
points, and generally to the most improved means calulated
to insure the% safe and efficient working of the line, as
shown to bo desirable and necessary by experience, and as
recommended by Captain Tyler and the' other Government
inspectors; but, of course, in a large system like the Great
Western, it required time to carry these improvements out ;
but I can assure the jury, and through them the public, that
everything will be done by the directors to insure safety
and comfort on their lines.
It was now past nine o'clock, and it was arranged that
rather than detain the jury longer, they should assemble
again on Monday at the Redual station to complete the in-
quiry in the terms that the law required.

THE WANDERING MINSTRELS. —These distin-
guished amateurs, who have so often efficiently em-
ployed their musical powers to advance the cause of charity,
are again about to aid one of our useful institutions, by
playing (under the able leadership of their president, the
Hon. Seymour Egerton) at a concert which is to be given
on Tuesday evening next, at the Hanover-square Rooms,
in aid of the funds of the Home for Gentlewomen, Queen-
square. On this occasion the minstrels will be reinforced
by the West London Madrigal Society, so that there will
be a strong muster of instrumentalists and vocalists. It ap-
pears from the published reports of the institution that it was
originated in 1849 and that it has been of great service to the
class for whose benefit it was designed. Of the ladies
assisted during the last 16 years there have been of the
widows and daughters of merchants, 33 per cent.; of land-
owners and private gentlemen, 21 per cent. ; of officers in
the army and navy, 14 per cent.; and of clergymen, physi-
cians and surgeons, solicitors, artists, professors, Govern-
ment officers and surveyors, together, 82 per cent. It is to
be ardently hoped that the efforts of these two musical
societies will be largely productive of good to the benevo-
lent institution which it is desired to assist. _

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THE SALE OF J ULES GERARD'S GUNS, hunting
knives, &c., at the Hotel Drouot, has been a serious
disappointment to his aged mother. The firearms only
fetched their value. The only article which was anxiously
bid for was the skin of a lion, which ho killed on the 30th
January, 1850, in the Sequia country. The proprietor of
an immense shop on the Boulevards, La Regenc, gave £24
for it, and also purchased Jules Gerard's letter describing
the exciting struggle be had with the brute.