The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-10 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FIan kV,

CHESTER CUP.
7to 1 agst Zodiac (taken)
100 to 8 agst Hadji Stavros (taken)
11 to 1 agst Silkstone (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sappho (taken)
20 to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken)
20 to 1 agst Stampedo (taken)
100 to 3 agst Prince of Denmark (taken)

TILE DERBY.
9 to 2 agst The Marquis (taken)
7to 1 agst Buckstonc taken)
11 to 1 agst Ca'erer (taken)
15 to 1 agst Zetland (taken)
20 to 1 agst Stockwell colt (taken)
25 to 1 agst Neptunus (taken)
25 to 1 agst St. Alexis (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Spite (taken)

SALISBURY
THT:RSDAY,
Acceptances for the `Viltsl
Ago st lb
Dulcibella
Schism
Plumper
Man in the Moon 4 7 12
The R0e.... 4 7 12
Hi glifty er
South Australian 5 7 4
Sycophant
Dusk
The highest weight accepting being Bst 41b, it has been
raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion,

MEETING,

-, MAY 22.
hire Stakes, Two miles.
Ago ot lb
Canary
Innellan 3 6 6
Avongrove .. ~ . , 3 6 1
Springbox 3 6 1
St. Lawrence 3 6 1
Capture
C by Flatcatcher—
Rather High 3 6 1

THE MALTON MEETING-MAY 22.

Acceptances for the Malton Handicap. One mile and a

half.

The highest weight accepting being 7st 71b, it has been
raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion.
Ago st lb
Doefoot
Springwell ..
Prologue
Willie Wright 6 8 5
Lon gshot
Phantom
Crusade

Age st lb
Chamade
Tim Whiffler • 7 7
Trust
Bannerdale
Charlton
Pembroke , 3 6 12

LITE.RATURF.

The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the
National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated
by his Journals and Correspondence. By Mrs.
Oliphant. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
It is almost needless to observe that this is an
interesting work, as most readers will know for
themselves that the details of so eminent a man
cannot be otherwise. The authoress has performed
her task con amore, and thus the descriptions are at
once animated and attractive. It is of essential service
in the study of such a man's career, to be enabled
to peruse his letters which are hero offered for
consideration by the favour of his children.
They display considerable kindness of heart and a
deep humility of feeling that is not often found in
the sentiments of one so followed and so flattered.
Happy is it for the memory of all the famed ones
of earth if, in passing away from their greatness,
they leave their best and brightest records in the
ties of home and kindred they have faithfully
cherished. Even in the most mistaken moments of
his life, Irving seems to have been more an enthu-
siast led away by excitement than an originator of
a doctrine to lead captive adoring votaries for the
honour of the plan and for the desire of aggrandise-
ment. We meet with some forcible lessons on the
vanity of human opinions in many portions of this
work. When Irving first began that career, which
was afterwards to gain for him a world .wide renown,
his opening days were as dark as many that
have lowered over humbler and less successful bre-
thren. Some rudely left the church, all complained,
and the same church, says the narrator, " which a
few years later was disastrously crowded with
hearers, coming far and near at the name of the
great preacher, thinned out of its ordinary attend-
ance, in those early days when he was to supply
Irving's place." The leader is led on through the
various phases and successive changes till he reaches
the proud meridian of his fame. The great influence
which he exerted over his hearers is most surpris-
ing. It is here remarked that those who steadily
resorted to hear a man who kept them three hours at
a stretch plunged in the deepest questions of religion,
" must indeed have been under the sway of a fasci-
nation seldom exercised, of which few men knew
the secret." Irving's manner in private life was
most impressive. "He unconsciously assigned to
everybody he addressed a standing ground in some
degree equal to his own. The ' vision splendid'
attended him not only through his morning course,
but throughout all his career. The light around him
never faded into the light of common day." The
second volume is chiefly filled with accounts of the
several discussions and disputations that followed on
the promulgation of Irving's peculiar doctrines. Of
these it is not necessary here to speak, except to
remark that, throughout the angry and vexed course
of the most irritating of all subjects, religious con-
tention, Irving seems to have maintained a dignity
that would have become the grandest advocate of a
most glorious cause. Mistaken and misguided as
he was on many points, he certainly possessed those
qualities which are rarely met with in troudblohuas
times. The concluding passages which rehcor
.ouri.
visit to Glasgow, the last step in his earltoulTe.l.
d a or
ney, are very mournful. Howev.erhtc
have been
mystified in the dark days of life in_
his belief, his faith at last burnedigbrightly and
clearly. He was buried in the crypt
made sorrowful
Cathedral, and with him departedhad the angry strife
mad
and bitter denunciations that
of whichthwa itth hisaas was
his life, but after him survived fame,hisswere
of too eminent a nature to be interred '
ashes. The deeds he performed
which never can be put aside as the things that
have been but exist no mole; he was tOOO rat t much
have
gained hav
im-
pressed on the mind of his generation n
a lasting (mention in the chronicle of its
annals.

The Church and the Churches ; or the Papacy and
the Temporal Power. R
—y Dr. Dollinger. Trans-
lated by IV. 13. M'Cabe. Hurst and Blackett.
The volume before us is the work of a German
theological author of epnsiderable note, who has
exercised some political influence in his own country.
For four years he represented the University of
it
Munich, being one of Faculty of Theology, in
the Bavarian Chamber, where her
ehewas regarded as
one of the leaders of the Ultramontanes. There
appears, however, to have been some difficulty in
rightly comprehending his views, since on being
elected a deputy to the National Parliament in
1848, he spoke and wrote in favour of civil and
religious liberty. His translator remarks that
" the same spirit and the same principles which
made him in religion the keenest of controversial
writers, and the most earnest advocate of reforms,
guided him in political life, and made him the ex-
ponent of the highest Catholic views and the
champion of ecclesiastical freedom." The modera-
tion of his tone, and the fearlessness with which he
discusses subjects not often handled by writers of
his faith, admitting the need of reforms and altera-
tions, render his work somewhat peculiar. He is
one of the school of thinkers who desire to see
unity restored in the Christian Church, and are not
without hopes of an adjustment of the differences
between Catholics and Protestants. With regard
to the temporal power of the Papacy, his views are
best expressed in his own words :—" Let no one lose.
faith in the Church, if the temporal principality of
the Papacy should disappear, whether it
season or for ever. It is not essence but
accident;ormerly
not end but means ;it began late ; be
it was formerly
It
something quite different from what it
Europe it
now justly appears to us to be inditsrnsable ; and
so long as the existing order s
must at all costs be maintained, or if it. is. violently.
d. But it is possible
interrupted it must be rest9l:a ,n Europe in
which
to conceive a political conditiondthen it would Only e
the exception of the
it would be superflaoustlln
With
a clogging burden."

,
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4 ,
rase declaring the liccobiity pr:ieerming.l"ni4
temporal power at all risks, these opinions.,,O ...
'Dri--- r—‘tl-
.IDollinger are reasonable and just. His\ vt4ric •
throughout is distinguished by a degree
rslity which seems to have given offence to soil
members of his own faith. His views, of course, 4-
will not be acceptable to the general English pub-
lic, but those who interest themselves in the ques-
tion of Papal authority, which seems to demand a
speedy settlement, will find much to repay them in the
perusal of this work, setting forth as it does in clear
and simple language the opinions of one of the,
most able, and at the same time most temperate, of
their opponents.

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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The exhibitors had quite enough to do yeste-r-
-day morning to preserve their goods fmm damage
from the rain, w;iich came down in a deluge into
several parts of the building. In the eastern tran-
sept and the civil engineering department consi-
derable damage was done, and the most strenuous
exertions became necessary to prevent further mis 4
chief. The Skidmore screen was thoroughly washed,
and the floor everywhere bore marks of the inunda-
tion. Many theories were started as to the causo
of this rather unpleasant incident : some saying
that the gully-holes in the roof were too small.
others, that the gutters were too large ; and a third
party, that the work had been done in too great a
hurry, and that the tar had all melted off the roof
during the hot days. An attendant confirmed this
theory by stating that the tar had come down upon
him more than once in showers.
The Minton fountain is going on rapidly, and is
expected to be finished in about a fortnight, and
the demolition of the trophies progresses slowly.
Every one that is removed improves the appear-
ance of the nave. In some cases a sort of compro-
mise has been attempted, and the offenderhaambigeehnt
decapitated in the hope that thus the public
be satisfied. The top trophy, and one or two more,
were in this state yesterday ; but they looked, if
possible, worse than before. Nothing, in fact, less
than the complete removal of these obstructive
nuisances will make the nave a place pleasant
either to look at or to walk in. Mr, Emanuel
has added a wondrous black pearl to his collection,
which his assistant obligingly informed the ladies
weighed 100 grains, and was worth £2,ooo—two
pieces of information which seemed very much
to increase the general curiosity. In the Swiss
court we learned that the watches which had been
stolen the previous day had been recovered, and the
thief caught. He was, it appears, one of the Swiss
attendants, and was identified at his counter by
the pawnbroker with whom he had pledged the
goods. On the western platform, close to the throne,
Mr. Wagner, the great Berlin silversmith, was con-
tinually surrounded by groups admiring the beau-
ties of the plate which had been prepared by order
of the city of Berlin as wedding presents for the
Crown Prince and Princess. The shield, the pre-
sent of the Rhenish nobility, was especially admired,
the more so as the legend with which it was
covered was lucidly explained by the artist. The
plate collectively, including the shield, the vase,
and the candelabra, weighs, we w ere informed, four
and a half hundredweight of the finest silver.
But the lion of the day was certainly the French
court, which was crowded with visitors of the
highest distinction. First, Queen Christina of Spain
was wheeled through in a bath chair, accompanied
by the Due de Rianzares, and attended by a limited
suite. Shortly afterwards came several members
of the ex-royal family of France, including the
Queen MariesAmelie, the Duo de Nemours, the
Prince de Joinville and daughter, and the Prin-
cess Clementine of Saxe Coburg. These dis-
tinguished groups stopped a long time before the
splendid display of Cristophe, which seemed almost
sufficient to form an exhibition of itself. The
central plateau for the banquets of the Hotel de
Ville, was pronounced to be a marvel both of
workmanship and design, and some of the Eng-
lish visitors suggested that a deputation from
the corporation of London should come and see how
much better " they manage these matters in
France." Queen Christina appeared to be most
taken with the lovely porcelains (Bisque) of Gille,
and the French party were much attracted by the
novel combinations of bronze Dore and African
onyx. We could not perceive any French detec-
tive following the distinguished exiles, and we were
positively informed by our own police that there
was not a French detective within the building.
On the other hand, we are bound to admit that
more than one of the French exhibitors informed
us that French police officers had followed the ex-
Royal Family, but " merely out of curiosity, the
same as the rest of the public." The rain, as usual,
kept down the attendance, but nevertheless, exclu-
sive of ticket holders, upwards of 4,000 persons paid
for admission.