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SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE,
S. Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This 'lnseituTion
affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin,
especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home
for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED.
Bankers, London and South Western Ifoi.loway. Branch).
• . .HUGH R. GOUGH Hou

Professor Von Sybel, the well-known German writer,
has published an interesting article on the new German
Empire, in the current number of the Fortnightly Review.
'He answers the complaints of those who are suspicious of
the increase of German power by asking what would
!have been the consequences of the victory of France. The
war was the work of the absolutist and clerical
!prties, and the victory of Napoleon would have
!been the victory of their principles, while the
triumph of Gambetta would be that of the continental
democrats and revolutionists. It is something to have
avoided these dangers. Prussian annexation was
absolutely requisite for the re-union of the divided Ger-
man nation, and the roughness of the means employed is
excused by the obstinacy of the obstacles. The German
Liberals, who in 1862 vehemently opposed Bismarck's
army organisation (scheme, four years: later welcomed
'his victories with enthusiasm. Bismarck was once
in favour of an Austrian policy, and the Liberals thought
that a small army was sufficient if Prussia were to do
homage to Austria. At the close of the Danish war they
found out their mistake, and perceived their aims were
identical. The Professor maintains that Alsace and Lor-
raine, or, as he calls them, Elsass and Lothringen, are only
wanted for the protection of Germany. The German principle
of nationality seeks for no charter of extension, but rather
for fixed limits. He denies with indignation the existence
mrf secret designs on Luxemburg, and declares that Ger-
any's real offence lies in her having become a great
Power, and passing out of the range of convenient
!material for diplomatists into a mighty factor which must
libe taken into account. The admissions made by Professor
'Von Sybel in his remarks on the new empire are not en-
couraging to Liberals. There will be no responsible
Ministers, no power of impeaching Ministers, and
no right in the Parliament of passing an annnal
Mutiny Bill, or of voting the yearly supplies.
There will be no means of expelling an unpopulai• Govern-
Iment froth office—in short, no Parliamentary Government;
:but Von Sybel does not think the freedom or prosperity
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most wants will be a firm Government, for she will even
after her great victories, occupy a dangerous place be-
tween revengeful France, ambitious Russia, and wavering
Austria. There may be a more ideal condition, but it is
Of vital importance to Germany that the sound threads
of traditional policy should not be broken. Her
sovereigns have learned from experience that their
military system which has led to unexampled successes,
s founded on the education, prosperity, and patriotism
f the people. The old German Bund, from 1815 to
1848, was a-grievous hindrance to the political freedom
land constitutional progress of the States. Then kings,
grand dukes, and dukes, had nothing ,to fear for their
sovereignty from the Diet ; for they were protected by
is fundamental law, and they could; moreover, always
-eckon on the support of one of the great Powers if the
ther attempted to oppress them. All the concern of
these' petty princes was directed towards their Chambers ;
'the sum and substance of their policy was the limitation
of the . rights and functions of their parliaments. . The
two great Powers sympathised with their views because
1
ithey were highly averse to the introduction of parliaments
into their own States. The circumstances of the newly-
founded Empire.are entirely different. The chief question
with the smaller States is how they shall escape entire
incorporation with Prussia, and the only power by which
they can retard this is derived from the support of their sub-
',j ects. On the other hand, the central authority of the empire,
ike every other earthly power, will endeavour to enlarge
the borders of its influence, at the cost of the indepen-
dence of the several States ; and will also feel the impor-
tance of conciliating popular opinion, as the surest means
of attaining its ends. Professor Von Sybel, therefore,
iexpects we may see both parties competing for the respect
and confidence of the people—a sanguine belief which few
English Liberals will share.

Mr. 'Childers, we are glad to report, is somewhat
better, though still suffering from the weakness occasioned
by his recent attack,
Some of the' Church papers, which profess to be
'welt informed, state that Dr. Pusey is founding a new
community of Anglican nuns who are to be entirely clad
in habits of pure and spotless white.
It is now very confidently stated that the Irish-
Education Bill will' be based upon the principle of deno-
minational teaching, and it is even said in well-informed
quarters that the bill itself-is now being drafted.

The marriage of Sir Alexander Robert Smythe
Muir Mackenzie, Bart., and Miss Moncreiffe, eldest
unmarried daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa
noncreiffe, and sister of the Countess of Dudley, is ar-
ranged to take place in a few weeks in Scotland.
During the year which has just closed 503 lives
were rescued by the lifeboats of the National Institution,
and 21 vessels were saved from destruction. At the same
time rewards were granted for saving 271 lives by fishing
and other boats not connected with the organisation.

A. ROYAL CHRISTENING. —On Thursday the
two infant princesses, daughters of the Count and
Countess of Flanders, were baptised by Monseigneur the
Archbishop of Malines, assisted by the ecclesiastical digni-
taries of Brussels, in the chapel of the hotel of the Count
'of Flanders. The princesses were held at the font by her
'Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, and his Royal High-
ness Prince Charles Anthony of HohenzolleKn-Sigmarin-
gen, father of the Countess of Flanders, as godmother and
godfather of lie two princesses, who were named respec-
tively Henriette Marie Charlotte Antoinette, and
Josephine Marie Stephanie Victoire.
DEATH OF A CELEBRATED BELGIAN ARTIST.—
We have to record the death of an eminent artist of the
Dutch school of painting, Pecrus Van Schendel, which
occurred in Brussels on Thursday last, the 29th ult. As
a painter of great skill in the rendering of the varied
effects of artificial light, he was widely known and higlfly
appreciated in all Art circles, English as well as conti-
nental. Many of his pictures have been exhibited-in
LondOn and in the provinces, and have attracted much
attention.. M. Van Schendel was horn at TerheyBo den, a
village near Breda, North Brabant, Apiil 21, 16, and
studied at the Academy at Antwerp then under the
,
direction of Van Bree.
TUE laisii CHURCH FUNDS.—We leMarn from a
a sa voien
wcorrespondente t lcji ahti e
fM rs. e
eJr
e.
t aFr.3r l‘foruli rreel a nd. to o' rg.
tain when the Irish Church t'unds would commence
to be available for the support of charitable insti-
tutions, has been informed by Mr. Fortescue that,
so far ,from there being any surplus heretofore,- the
Commissioners have had to borrow money for • the
redemption of the claims of Nonconforming clergy,
and, in the event of a general commutation of incomeliy
Irish Church clergy,..ear, the Commissioners will
have to raise a very' late apital sum upon security of
Irish Church property, as the' first duty of 'the commis-
'li) sionera- will be to provide for pun.,i tual payment of interest
on such loans and gyadual•repak , entkef principal. Mr.
' Fortescue. Rees no immediate pt • ects, of
,surplus for
' distribution as decided by Parliament.:--Ftconan's Journal.
. .

Atkinson, of H.M.S. Lee.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 26th of December pub-
lishes the following accounts of the eclipse so far as the
cloudy state of the atmosphere allowed any observations
to be taken :—" Mr. Richard Abbatt, F.R.A.S., who
stayed at Gibraltar, has kindly sent us the following infor-
mation as to the result of his observations and the views
which he had, lasting about two seconds, of the total
phase of the eclipse :—"rhe weather during the day
was tery unfavourable. The bright part of the
corona was narrow and next to the moon, but
the corona was not of equal width all round. The moon, '
tomy eye, app6;red globular. In no part did the corona ,
or the prominences extend beyond •& or at most of the
moon's radius beyond the limb. I thought the moon
darker than the sky. I noticed four high red prominences
—there were more, but when, for an instant, I took my
eye off the telescope a de-pse black cloud had obscured
everything till the narrowest streak of the sun appeared
on the western side, and nothing but the ordinary phe- .
nomenon of a partial eclipse was to be seen. The darkness
during totality was not so great as I expected it would be.
" To a correspondent, who was a casual ob-
server of the total eclipse on Thursday last at Windmill-
hill','• we are indebted for the following notes :
the corona, and touching the circumference of this
shadow, appeared five or six spots of brilliant carmine,
varying in form and size at irregular distances apart. Two _
of these spots, or red flames' as they are called, on the '
eastern side of the disc, and at about 55 degrees and 80
degrees respectively from the vertex, seemed decidedly the
largest and. most prominent ; they were tongue-shaped, and
protruded about one-sixth the width of the corona. In
their neighbourhood the corona was brightest and widest. -
There, too, the rays of the corona appeared to be gathered'
snore distinctly into groups than elsewhere, faint shadows ,
being visible between the groups. The corona consisted •
cf brilliant rays of extremely faint prisMatic hues ; these
rays at first sight appeared pretty evenly distributed all
round, but closer examination seemed to detect the fact
of their being bundles of rays in nearly regular groups.
The width of the corona was about one-eighth the ap-
parent diameter of the moon's shadow. It was very
nearly concentric with the disc of the shadow ; its boun-
dary was well defined but ' jagged ;' the perimeter, except
opposite the two most prominent red flames above-men-
tioned, where the boundary slightly protruded, was cir-
cular."

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The American party at Xeres saw the totality for
about a minute.

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