The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-13 00:00:00

PALAVERING.

An inspiriting galop has just found its way into
the music-shops. It is entitled " The Balloon Mail
Galop," and the composer naïvely infbrms the musi-
cal executants who look upon the frontispiece that
the galop is descriptive of a journey by balloon. A.
few bars, arranged in several divisions, are preceded
by the announcements representing their mean-
ing. " Loosing the Ropes," " Preparing to
start," and finally, "Throwing over Sant," are opera-
tions all supposed to take place, according to the
composer, during the manipulation of the galop
player. Appreciation of the music is of course
multiplied tenfold by the thoughtful plan
of indexing the music, only there is a serious
difficulty observable in reconciling the brisk-
ness of the galop throughout, with the care-
ful and cautious manoeuvres of an aeronaut. During
the past few days a second attempt has been made to
call things by popular titles, which is even• more
admirable than the galop in the air plan. The attempt
was made in the Seven Dials where the Lorne
Dramatic Club met for its first performance in
a building designated as the " Eclectic Theatre,
Soho." The entertainment was largely attended by
parties who belong to that class who object to a
dowry, and this fact may perhaps be adduced in
excuse for the absence of Royal patronage on the
opening night.

tions connected with the Land Revenue, mea-
sures connected with irrigation, protection against
famine, and the improvement of cotton. Be-
sides this it will deal with qaestions of
commercial taxation, and statistics of trade and
various other matters. The first change inaugurated
by the new scheme will be a redistribution of the
work of the existing departments, as each will have
to transfer a portion of its work to the new bureau.
It will, therefore, be possible to effect reduction in
the several departments without entailing incon-
venience or giving rise to undue pressure. The new
scheme has been under the consideration of a Com-
mittee of all the secretaries to the Government of
India.

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A VETERAN ABOLITIONIST.
Thomas Garrett, the veteran Abolitionist, has
recently died in Wilmington, United States. His
career was one of vicissitudes; but he was ultimately
successful. He is best known for his laborious
efforts in the abolition of slavery, before the nation
bad directed its attention to the question. His house
was known as the refuge for slaves, but few supported
him in his arduous endeavours. His influence after a
time, however, extended in many directions until he
[ was the head of a party which included men of dif-

ferent ranks and creeds, and even Democrats. His
exertions in the cause of freedom brought him into
serious trouble on one occasion when an adverse

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judgment was returned against him for having assis-
ted the escape of two children born in slavery.
The heavy damages swept away his pro-
perty. He began business anew in his
sixtieth year, and again secured a competency. When
the war broke out in America, Garrett said that it
was time for him to quit his retail operations, as the
nation had gone into the business by the wholesale.
During the time he kept a record he assisted 2,700
slaves, and he had relieved many more befora that
time. His noble efforts were at last appreciated in-
stead of being derided, and Wilmington became an abo-
lition city. He lived to see the realisation of his
hopes of universal freedom. On the occasion of the
parade of coloured people through the city, Garrett
was carried through the streets in an an open car-
riage, surrounded by those in whose cause he had so
faithfully laboured. The negroes were devotedly
attached to him, and during the doubtful days of the
war his house was constantly surrounded by faithful
blacks, who watched with jealous care over the safety
of the benefactor of their race.

A FAMILY OF LAWYERS.

The late Mr. Edward Archer Wilde was a member
of a family distiuguishe lin legal history. It is an
instance of the steadfastness with which different
generations of the same family kept to the legal
profession. Mr. Thomas Wilde came up to London
from Essex in the latter part of the eighteenth cen-
tury, and established a firm In Warwick-square. He
had three sons, the eldest of whom became Chief
Justice of the Cape- of Good Hope, the, second son
was Lord Chancellor Truro, and the third was Mr.
Edward Archer Wilde, who died at Brighton on
the first of this month. He was the head of the
firm of Wilde, Berger, and Moore, College-hill,
City. The second member of the firm
is his son, Charles Wilde. Mr. E.
A. Wilde was also the father of
Lord Penzance, Judge Ordinary of the Probate and
Divorce Court. Among the legal members of the
Wilde family are the Hon. J. Wilde, barrister-at-
law, and Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy at
Bristol, and Edward Archer Wilde, of the Probate
Court, Doctors' Commons.

THE CHARGE OF HERESY AGAINST THE
REV. C. VOYSEY.
The Lord Chancellor, on Saturday, read the judgment
of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in an
appeal by the Rev. C. Voysey, rector of Healaugh,
egainst the decision of the Court of Chancery, in the
diocese of York, by which he had been condemned on
the charge of promulgating doctrines, in a publication
entitled " The Sling and the Stone," contrary to the
laws ecclesiastical of the Church of England. The dis-
tinct charges set forth in this appeal, were as
That the appellant had denied the
~ctrines of the Divinity of Christ and of the Incarnation.
That he denied the return of Christ to judge the world,
and had expressed himself in derogation of the holy Scrip-
tures, especially with reference to the Gospel of St. John.
In the book in question, the appellant denied that Christ
had made any atonement by His death, or had been a
mediating sacrifice whereby a reconciliation was brought
about for us with the Father. He contended that this was
not the case, and that it was the most revolting of all
beliefs that Christ suffered in such a way for us. Their
lordships had no hesitation in saying that this was
a teaching contrary to the doctrines of the articles and
formularies of the Church of England, and that there
were not even any authorities by which the appellant's
views could be supported. With regard to the statement
in the same publication that man was not born in sin, and
was not in danger of eternal punishment, their lordships
were clearly of opinion that this was also contrary to the
articles and formularies aforesaid. Their lordships then
referred to the observations in the " Sling and the Stone,"
with regard to the return of Christ to judge the world, to
the effect that if God returned to us in human form after
thousands of years it was a proof that he had been
absent from his family of mankind for that time, and to
believe this was to believe that he was neither the father
of man nor his friend. In looking at these observations
their lordships had not forgotten the latitude that was
allowed to clergy, but they considered that these words
could not be held consistent with the opinions contained
in the laws ecclesiastical. No society of worshippers
could be held together without some fundamental prin-
ciples, and that it was considered that Christ was God
was proved in the fact that he was prayed to as
such in the daily morning and evening ser-
vices of the Church. To hold a contrary opinion
was to reject those principles upon which the appellant
was admitted into the ministry. They were therefore of
opinion that the whole of the charges had been proved,
and that sentence of deprivation should be pronounced.
Also that the appellant should be condemned in costs.
Their Lordships, however, thought it desirable, even at
this last moment, that an opportunity should be given to,
him for retractation, and, notwithstanding the appellant
had stated his opinion that the prin6i.,:Js he had
enunciated were not contrary to the doctrines of the
Church of England, their Lordships were still unwilling
to proceed to the last step of their duty until they had
given him an option of making a retractation. If he had
been present they should have called upon him to do so at
once, but as he was absent they would call upon him
within a week to make an unreserved retractation of the
errors complained of on pain of their decision being en-
Forced.

SEIZURE OF CARTRIDGES.
On Friday afternoon Mr. Inspector Woolley made an
important seizure of cartridges on the premises of Edgar
Brookes and Son, Lichfield-street, Birmingham. On
Saturday the full penalty of £2O for manufacturing
cartridges, though unlicensed for the purpose, was in-
flicted on the Messrs. Brookes.

APPALLING CALAMITY.
WRECK OF A FRENCH TRANSPORT SHIP.
LOSS OF 1,220 LVES . _

A telegram from Dover to the Liverpool Courier says :
A Cherbourg correspondent telegraphs here to-day (Fri-
day) that a thick fog enveloped the coast on Wednesday,
and much rain fell. The French Government transport
Lecerf, got on the rocks at Cape Hogue, three leagues
from Cherbourg, and was totally lost. One thousand and
eighty soldiers on board perished, and only ten of the crew
of 150 were saved. They say they cannot remember how
they got on shore, but they faintly remember clinging to
some broken spars.

LOSS OF A STEAMER AND FIFTY LIVES.
Information has been received in Bombay of the loss
of the General Outram, a small coasting steamer, in a
gale on the 14th or 15th of January. The vessel,
which was bound from Cochin to Bombay,
foundered about half-past three a.m., after twenty
minutes' warning, and about fifty of the persons on board
are believed to have been drowned. Major Carr (sup-
posed to be Major M. W. Carr, of the Madras Staff
Corps), Mr. G. S. Clay, of Messrs. Lawrence and Co.,
Bombay, M. T. D. Stewart, engineer, Bombay,
and the captain's wife, Mrs. Teasdale, are among
the missing. The only survivors mentioned are the
captain, the engineer, thirty of the crew, and two
native passengers. They were picked up in a pitible con-
dition by the steamer Phlox, bound from Bombay to Goa,
and taken to the latter port.

The axle of a goods train on the Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway broke on Friday morning, and several
waggons were thrown across the line, which was Colll'
pletely blocked for several hours. The mail from London
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ofw hArtilleryfew
for the
Pembroke Dock garrison, and also for the Western Di
trict, has been instructed to proceed to Bordeaux, and
report himself to Lord Lyons for duty with the head'
quarters of the French army.
THE DEBBY MEMORIAL.—A meeting of the sub-
committee of the Derby Memorial was held on Friday, 5t
the Carlton Club. Present the Earl of Abergavenny, the
Lord Colville, Viscount Barrington, M.P., Mr. Sergeant
Spinks, the hon. sec. (Lord Henry Lennox, M.P.), and
Mr. Frederick Gray; Sir John Pakington, Bart., MY'
in the chair. It was stated by Sir John Pakington that
site was likely to be given by the Chief Commissioner 01
Works in every way suitable for the statue, being in io'f:
mediate contingency to the Houses of Parliament. lie
was requested by the committee to again place himself
communication with Mr. Ayrton, with the view of
specting the site mentioned, and it is believed that Ot7
difficulties will be thrown in the way by that gentleman'
MR. GEORGE TICKNOR.—The death is announcetl
of Mr. George Ticknor. The New York Times is of opine
that he was probably the most thorough literary scholl':
America has ever produced. He was born in Boston on vPot
Ist of August, 1791, and was therefore nearly 80 yearO,n
age at the time of his death. Although he was admitteci3O
the bar in 1813, he never intended to devote himself to tP,„
practice of law. Dissatisfied with the degree of leanolviive
afforded by the schools of this country at that periocl,oo
determined in 1815 to go abroad and seek a wider o,llt
in the famous Universities of Europe, and in an accliirtio
ante with their institutions, their leading men, o" ,rt
daily life of their great capitals. As a preliminarl Pity
of this experienc he spent two years at the Unive°ooo
of Gottingen, e,
in Germany, and during the threeiloe,
following visited London, Edinburgh, Paris,
vexed
Madrid, and other centres of learning, and tralietera
extensively in all the countries of Southern and •Slre°his.
Europe. Wherever he went he made a study of the 03e
tory, language, and literature of the people, and hecolic
acquainted with their foremost men of letters and of
affairs. Among those with whom he became inallielvijord
acquainted were Rogers. Wordsworth, Southei,olol-
Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Roscoe, Mackintosh, 1-I°,r
land, Goethe, Schlegel, Madame de Stiiel, 003 0 aad
others of note in the world of letters. His Cult
social position gave him a ready welcome in the loxidl3l
circles, and his intelligence, affability, and inoll3r,sereef
and fascinating qualities made him a favourite I,l°
he became personally known. vcSrl
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