The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-14 00:00:00

Jo's.

F~ icnd.

"'lt's turned wery dark, sir. Is there any light a
comin ?'
"' It is coming very fast, Jo.'
"Fast. The cart is shaken all to pieces, and tbe rugged
road is vary near its end.
" Jo, my poor fellow.'
" I hear you, sir, in the dark, but I'm a gropin— a
gropin—let me catch hold of your hand.'
" Jo, can you say what I say ?'
" say anythink as you say, sir, for I knows it's good.
" OUR FATHER.'
" Our Father !—yes, that's wery good, sir.'
" WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.'
" Art in Heaven—is the light a comin, sir ?'
" It is close at hand. HALLOWED BE THY NAME.'
" Hallowed be—thy—'
" The light is come upon the dark benighted way.
Dead !

"Dead your majesty. Dead, my lords sand gentlemen,
Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order.
Deadoilen and women, born with Heavenly compassion

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in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
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BETTY HIGDEN'S.

"'Let me wet your lips again, and your forehead. There.
0 poor thing, poor thing !' These words through her fast
flo wing tears. What was it that you asked me? Wait
till I bring my ear quite close.'
" Will you send it, my dear?'
" Will I send it to the writers ? Is that your wish ?
Yes, certainly.'
" You'll not give it up to any one but them ?'
" `No.'

" As you must grow old in time, and come to your
dying hour, my dear, you'll not give it up to any one but
them ?'
" No. Most solemnly.'
" ' Never to the Parish ?' with a convulsive struggle.
" No. Most solemnly.' _
" Nor let the Parish touch me ? Nor yet so much as
look at me ?' with another struggle.
" No. Faithfully.'
" A look of thankfulness and triumph lights the wan old
face. The eyes which have been darkly fixed upon the
sky turns with a meaning in them towards the compassionate
face from which the tears are dropping, and a smile is on
the aged lips, as they ask—
" What is your name, my dear ?'
" My name is Lizzie Hexam.'
" I must be sore disfigured. Are you afraid to kiss

me?'
" The answer is the ready pressure of her lips upon the
cold but smiling mouth.
" Bless you ! Now lift me, my love.'
``l...izzie4exam very softly raised the weather-stained
' lifted her as high as Heaven."—Out • Mutual

THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.

A public meeting of Nonconformists was held last night
at St. James's Hall in opposition to sectarian teaching at
the cost of the State. There was a very large attend-
ance. Mr. M'Arthur, M.P., presided, and urged the
necessity of undenominational and unsectarian teach-
ing. At the same time he expressed a feel-
ing that to be effective education must be made
compulsory.
The Rev. A. HANNAY said it seemed as though the
Government intended to make an effort to pass the
bill by the assistance of their adversaries, and in the
teeth of their most intelligent and warmest supporters.
The bill was a most defective one—defective even with
the amendments the Government proposed to insert. To
his mind a bill could not be considered perfect unless
it entirely excluded the Bible from schools, and left reli-
gious instruction to religious people and religious institu-
tions. This announcement was received with loud cheers
and cries of "No, no."
Mr. ILLINGWORTH, M.P., complained that the bill
should have been introduced at all this session. As it
now stood it would cause endless strife. It would
seriously affect secular education, and would be an insult
to religion. Had it stood over till next session the
Government would have had the opportunity of clearly
seeing the state of public feeling upon the subject.
Mr. RICHARD, M.P., and Rev. C. H. SPURGEON were
also among the speakers. The latter objected to the pro-
posed boards, declaring that, if adopted, religion would be
entrusted to Bumbledom, or to the parson and the squire.
He advocated religious teaching, but held that it should
be unsectarian, and he would preach his views up and
down England, if necessary. It was the duty of every
Christian to agitate against a Government who would ex-
clude the Bible from their schools.

Resolutions embodying the sentiments expressed were
adopted. The first declared that so long as any classes
were required to pay rates for the teaching of religious
tenets from which they dissented the bill could not have
the approval of Nonconformists. The second, while not
desiring the withdrawal of the grants to present denomi-
national schools, deprecated an extension of the system,
and advocated the time-table conscience clause, and the
abolition of all inquiries by the inspector as to the
religious teaching given. The third resolution called for
a prohibltion of all catechisms or formularies ; this not to
apply to the Holy Scriptures, which might be used, not
compulsorily, under the time-table conscience clause.

The serious defeat sustained by the Chinese Im-
perial arms in Shense province has been confirmed.
Two deaths from sunstroke are reported, one in
Devon and the other in Cornwall. In both cases the per-
sons struck were girls.

Mr. Akroyd, M.P., who recently met with a
serious accident while riding, has resigned the lieutenant -
colonelcy of the Fourth West York Rifle Volunteers.

It is stated that the Earl of Stair has accepted the
Lord-Lieutenancy of Ayrshire. His lordship will at the
same time retain the Lord-Lieutenancy of Wigtonshire.

A. native of Hyderabad has just been gathered to
his fathers at the mature age of 125 years. He was,
therefore, twelve years old at the battle of Plassey, and
has seen the fall of two dynasties in his native State.
THE REPORTED MURDER OF A CONSUL.—The
rumoured assassination of the United States Consul at
Yedo has been contradicted, a burglar's visit having
originated the report.
The Standard is informed that the Rev. H. Wilson
one of the curates of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, of
Frome, has been formally received into the Church of
Rome.

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The mackerel fishery has been prosecuted off the
eastern coast this year with variable results. On one day,
however, last week as many as 25,400 fish were landed at
Lowestoft.

It is stated at Oxford that the youthful Egyptian
Prince, Hassan, who is now in residence at that Uni-
versity, intends to complete a three years' residence at
Christ Church.

Mr. Peel Dawson, M.P. for the county of London-
derry has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Derry. Tho
new Lord-Lieutenant is a nephew of the late Sir Robert
PeeL

The foot and mouth disease has broken out in
Longleat Park, Leeds, where 400 head of cattle have re-
cently been taken in for summer grazing. Every
precaution is being taken, and the park is closed to the
public.

The death is announced of Commander Henry
Wall, 8.N., in his sixty-fifth year. This gallant officer
received the thanks of both Houses of Parliamert, in con-
junction with the First Lieutenant of the Thetis, on
board which vessel he was serving, for having, in 1825,
saved by their exertions 107 sail of merchantmen which
had been cast ashore in a heavy gale in the Bay of
Gibraltar.

The new City terminus of the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Railway will be at the junction of Queen-street and
Cannon-street, or about 200 yards from the Mansion
House, the new Queen Victoria-street affording a direct
approach to the station.—Railway News.

A serious fire, which resulted in the destruction
of a great quantity of valuable farming implements and
agricultural produce, took place on Saturday morning at
the farmstead of Mr. Anthony Hancock, at Stubley, near
Dronfield, Sheffield. Damage to the extent of £BOO was
done.

The Manchester Courier says that a building firm
in that city recently received a threatening letter, inform-
ing them that they would be served in the same manner
as Mr. Johnson. A strict watch was kept on their pre-
mises, and several men found inside the yard have been
arrested.

A. woman, named Reed, residing at Exeter ob-
served, on Saturday morning, the legs of a man hanging
over the side of a water-butt in a court in which she
lived. On looking into the butt she found that the man
was her husband, who was dead. It is supposed that he
committed suicide.

A. testimonial is about to be presented to the
eminent surgeon, Professor Partridge, F.R.S., by the old
and present students of King's College and King's College
Hospital, to mark the sense they entertain of his services
to the institution and to themselves personally during a
period of forty years.

Proceedings have been taken in -the case of
" Martin v. Jackson," to bring the appeal of the Rev.
Mr. Jackson, the rector of Ledbury, before the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council. Unless the cause be
hurried on, it cannot, on account of the arrears, be heard
for about a year.—Worcestershire Chronicle.

At one of the Liverpool railway stations, while
several thousand persons were awaiting, a young woman
from Rochdale, Sarah Aspinall, accidentally fell, owing to
the crush, under the wheels of a train that was being
backed into a departure sliding, and had both her legs
shockingly mangled. She died four hours afterwards.

We are glad to notice (says the Musical Standard)
the frequency of small and comparatively unostentatious
meetings of country choirs for evening choral service.
Regarding many of the larger gatherings it may be justly
held that the musical result is, in no way commensurate
with the trouble expended upon preliminaries. Mean-
while more care should be taken to exclude all but grave
and steady chants and sober hymn tunes with more dis-
tinctive melody about them than many now enjoying a
fleeting popularity among the " authors' friends."

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