The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-22 00:00:00

REVIEW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

'lf variety of attraction cap make the "People's Palace"
a success, the summer of 1870, so far as it has gone, has
been in. a fair way of accomplishing that desirable end.
Exhibitions of the most interesting descriptions have
-been from time to time held, the flower and rose
shows taking prominence in the season's pro-
grammes. Yesterday there was again a combination of
treats to visitors, including a Great Drill Review of 3,000
boys by His Royal' Highness Prince Teck,
a Dog Show; and Swimming and other GymnaStic Com-
petitions..
,The Dog Show opened at 10 o'clock, from
which time until one o'clock the process of judging took
place. -Nearly 1,000 specimens of clogs, from the grandest
mastiff (sent back to his cage with the mark " too
savage, to be judged ") clown to the tiniest Maltese
and toy terrier, reclining on his velvet couch,
were represented. The distinguished canine as-
sembly was divided into 105 classes, and a more splendid
display of the kind, combining the ornamental with the
useful, has hardly been witnessed. There were champions
of bloodhounds, champions of mastiffs, of St..Bernards,
Newfoundlands, and a galaxy of the stars of sporting
circles, as well as others, whose magnificent form
evidcfficed the fact that a liberal . prize list
may always have much to do in bringing before the world
an improvement of the species. The prize list, as far as
it was completed, is as follows : Class I—Bloodhounds
(previous winner), Ist prize with an extra award of £lO,
Mr. C. E. Holford, for Regent, 2 years and 2 weeks, by
Captain Cowen's Druid—T. Griffin, Esq.'s, Empress.
Glass 2—Bloodhounds (bitches, previous winners), Mr. C.
E. Holford'% Matchless, 2 years, Druid—J. L. Becker's
Raglan. Class 3—Bloodhound dog. Ist prize, Mr. J. H.
Dawe's Valiant, 6 months and 3 Weeks, Trunbush—
Duchess ; 2nd prize—Mr. C. E. Holford's Trunk-
bush, 2 years, Druid—Mr. Becker's Brenda. Class 4
Bloodhounds. Ist prize Mr. George H. Rush-
ton's Juno, 2 years and 2 weeks, Druid—Brenda.
2 Miss Dawe's Vesta, six months and three weeks,
Trunbush—Duchess. Class s.—Deerhounds—Dogs, 1
and £B, Mr. H. C. Munster's Torrum, price £5,000 ; 2,
Captain Graham's Keildar, seven years. These were
only some of the leading features of this branch of the
exhibition, in addition to which there were many others
that can hardly go forth without first-rate commendation.
At two "o'clock the review took place on the Grand
Terrace, His Royal Highness having arrived on the
ground at that hour, and been received with loud cheers
by the large concourse which had by this time assembled,
The Princess was expected but was not present. The
Prince was met at the privat3 entrance by a guard of
honour, composed of the 37th Middlesex Volunteers.
The preliminary evolutions were gone through by the
boys in an excellent manner, and the march-past elicited
general approbation.
After the Review there were exercises on the gymna-
sium ground, followed by diving and swimming in the
lower lake, the awarding of prizes for which was under-
taken by Rear-Admiral Ommaney, C.B. A cold colla-
tion, a performance by the Orchestral Band of the Com-
pany, and another by. Mr. Coward, on the Festival Organ,
brought an excellent day's enjoyment to a close.

UNORDAINED MINISTERS OF THE
. ENGLISH CHURCH.

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The Daily News gives an account of the public admis-
sion by the Bishop of Peterborough of a layman to the
office of " Reader." The common belief is that by the
laws and constitution of the Church of England the func-
tion of preaching with that of offering prayer in the con-
gregations is reserved for those who have taken Holy
Orders, and that a member of that Church must be at
least a deacon before he can assume such duties without
being guilty of irregularity. These proceedings
in the diocese of Peterborough shew that there
is no legal foundation for the common impression,
though long neglect to use the services of laymen may
have contributed to the spread of such a notion. mi.
James Thomas, the reader thus admitted, is the principal
of a large school at Old Stratford, in the parish of
Pa,ssenhani, a collection of houses lying far away
from any church, and it is in the school room,
where services are held on Sundays, that his ministry
is likely to be exercised. The service, or
ceremony, of Sunday last, took place in this
room, in the presence of many of the clergy of the
neighbourhood, including the Rector of Passen-
ham, and was of a simple character. The Bishop,
Dr. Magee, having briefly intimated the object of
the meeting, the Lord's Prayer and a few collects were
said, and a hymn was sung. The Bishop then read the
commission of the reader, to whom he afterwards delivered
a copy of the New Testament. This done, the' Bishop
observed to the congregation that it was the misfortune
of the Church of England that lay help had not been suffi-
ciently developed within her, especially of late years; but
it was not true that the acceptance of such help was opposed
to the law and spirit of the Church. if there had been in
past time on the part of the clergy a disposition to
encroach there might also have been too much neglect
of their rights and duties on the part of the laity.
The laity, the Bishop continued, had other rights and
duties besides that of merely dealing with the finances of
the Church, and the social work of the parish. The laity
had the function of teaching. It was a great mistake to
suppose that the work of teaching was confined to the
clergy ; the laity had their right also to be evangelists.
There were functions reserved to the clergy, but that
was not one. In the parish church the appointed
'pastor should alone preach to the congregation
from the pupit, clothed with authority to do so but
outside the Church there were places where the labours
of an evangelist laymen were very desirable. It was
within the province of any layman to hold cottage
-lectures, and expound the Scriptures, and to
preach to the laity. That was the right and
duty of every Christian layman, and it was a right
which the Church had not denied to them. There was,
in fact, nothing to hinder, but much that called for
the efforts of lay evangelists. More than that, the
layman had an undoubted right to lead the prayers of
his fellow-worshippers either by extempore prayer, or by
the use of portions of the Book of Common Prayer. Not
in the parish church, were the public ministrations were
confined to the clergy, but in the parish church itself
laymen should be reminded that they could discharge a
very important office, and be very helpful to an over-
burdened clergyman by reading the lessons. Those were
some of the offices in which a layman could lawfully be
engaged. The Bishop proceeded to explain that as a mat-
ter of order this work of the laity should be exercised
under the appointed minister of the parish in accordance
with his wishes. Addressing the young who were present,
the Bishop said that perhaps not many of them would be-
come clergymen, but he hoped some would grow up to
become unordained ministers of the Church.

DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINA.—Dr. Lankester
has held an inquiry into the discovery at No. 21, Upper
Charles-street, Clerlpnwell, of a quantity of human re-
mains. It appeared that Mr. Langford, who at present
occupies the house at 21, Upper Charles-street, found
some bones in a box in his garden. Upon an exami-
nation of them being made by a doctor it was
found that they were the remains of a very tall
man, a youth, and a child, and that some of
them belonged to a horse and a sheep. A Mr. Box,
:who had occupied the house for 25 years before the present
occupier, said that he understood a doctor had formerly
occupied the house. After hearing the testimony of a
medical man who had made a minute examination of ,the
bones, and stated that they must have been buried in the
ground 50 or 60 years ago, the jury returned a verdict
that the remains were those of human beings, but under
Int circumstances they had come there they had no
:e*dence .rove.
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SPAIN FOR FRANCE ?
TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SUN."

Siu,—l find in the Portuguese Legitimist paper A Nacao,
of the llth inst. , the following, which I think deserves atten-
tion ; especially as I have not seen as yet any other notice
of M. de la Guerroniere's pamphlet referred to.--I re-
main, sir, yours, &c., A. It. SA4AIVA.
June 17th, 1870.
Translated for The Sun from the Spanish.
" A pamphlet has been recently published in Paris, as
important by the subject it deals with as by the pen
which has written it.

"M. de la Guerroniere, author of the said pamphlet,
considering the question of the frontiers, marks the Ebro
as the natural frontier of Spain, and that the same river
ought to be politically the frontier of France.
" The name of De la Guerroniere is known enough, as
well as his relations with the Emperor, and the weight of
his vote in the policy of the Tuileries, or rather that this
vote is no more than the echo of the Imperial policy, so that
the appearing of this pamphlet cannot but be considered
an important fact, and with it all the Spanish belligerent
press is busying itself ; as it would hear of no transaction
at the expense of its country's integrity.
"France could not think of making the conquest of the
provinces beyond the Ebro, but might wish to contract
with Spain as she did with Italy. And in Spain there are
not wanting individuals inclined to enter into such
transactions

" But would the negotiators on the part of Spain look
for some compensation of the territory thus lost? It is
also certain that they are looking to the territory this side
of the Caia (a frontier river between Spain and Portugal)
with views as disinterested as those of the Cabinet of the
Tuileries.
"And if we said that France could not think of
attempting the conquest of the provinces of Spain
beyond the Ebro, for the same reasons do we say that
Spain could not attempt the conquest of Portugal.
" We have spoken s everal times in this paper of the projects
of Iberian unity ; we have advised, have begged our people
to be on their guard against such projects; not because
fearing that our neighbours might come to make a con-
quest of us, but because we dread, either from degenerate
Portuguese or from somebody who lives amongst us decked
with the name of Portuguese (by this Ferdinand of Cobourg,
his son, the de facto King, are meant).
"And we abound so much in these ideas that we go so
far as to suspect the sincerity of the patriotism of those
who talk of arming Portugal in order to defend her
against a foreign aggression.
" The complaint is a grive one, but the morbid cause
does not lay beyond the Caia, it is unfortunately nurtured
among ourselves.
"Legitimacy alone can save the two Peninsular nations
from the abyss into which revolution is hurrying them.
Legitimacy alone also can set us at ease as regards this
most important question of our national autonomy and
independence.

"In the Spanish Legitimist camp our rights are re-
spected as much as the national dignity of Spain herself is
upheld ; no one dreams there of any attempt against the
rights of the Portuguese King or of the Portuguese na-
tion, but no one also there would give up at any price
even one single inch of Spanish territory. The same
thing happens in the Portuguese Legitimist camp ; the
right of Charles VII. is respected, respected are the rights
of the Spanish nation; but we hold the name of Portugal in
that sacred respect which a son owes to the name of his
father.

" Neither do the Spanish Legitimists grudge our inde-
pendence, nor do we see in their ideas and proceedings
anything but what is praiseworthy; hence the good feel-
ing between the two parties, and the certainty that the
triumph of both in the respective countries will ensure to
the Peninsula an epoch of peace and prosperity at home,
and of consideration and respect abroad."
Speaking of De la Guerroniere's pamphlet, the Leg fa,-
mista Espanol (" The Spanish Legitimist") says :
"In the official regions of the Empire our neighbour
people are much mistaken in regard to Spain, and it is
possible such mistake may cost dear to Napoleon ; he
might possibly be called to account on that, both from
the other side of the Rhine as from across the British
Channel." And adds still in regard to the same subject,
"Montpensier'e marriage with Dona Ferdinanda of
Bourbon has cost Louis Phillipe the throne of France."
Again in the next number of the same, Nacao, of the
12th inst., I find on the same subject the following :
"It is not M. de la Guerroniere alone that speaks of
extending the French frontiers as far as the Ebro, and
giving Spain compensation at the expense of Portugal."
In another French journal, Le Centre Gauche, the an-
nexation of. Spanish territory to France is also spoken of.
And La Guerroniere did not confine himself to the words
we set yesterday before our readers, he went further, he
said, "That the Spanish Government agrees in the
frontiers of France being extended to the Ebro ! Would
La Guerroniere dare to say this without some foundation IP"
" Such is the patriotism of revolutionists. To Don
Carlos, to the legitimate King of Spain, as well as to any
other legitimate king, no one would dare to make propo-
sals of this kind.

" But those are mistaken who think of enlarging them-
selves at the expense of the Peninsula, and if they have
forgotten already the lesson• they have received in the
beginning of this century, let them be sure that Portu-
guese and Spaniards, in spite of the effects of the rev3lu-
tionary yoke they suffered for so many years, have not
lost their old pride and courage if their respective nations
are attacked.

"It would, perhaps, be a fortunate circumstance for
our peninsula that the traftkers on our provinces should
attempt to carry speedily their plans into execution. This
would result in one lesson more for the counterfeit legiti-
macies. This would rouse Spaniards and Pourtuguese to
the energetic recovery of their rights, and the showing
themselves as independent, and as worthy of being so, as
they did in 1808."
" Has La Guerroniere been dreaming of resuscitating
something like the secret treaty of Fontainebleau, of
October 27th, 1807, signed by Duroc and Don Izquierdo,
to divide Portugal between the King of Etruria, France
and Godoy ? I doubt much that Napoleon 111. would
like to copy his uncle's Peninsular experiences.

The Emperor has no doubt heard, and probably remem-
bers, Talleyrand's prophetic witticism, uttered when it
was announced to him in 1807 that the invasion of the
Peninsula by the French armies was determined upon :
C'est le commencement de la fin—" It is the beginning of
the end."

A. R. SARAIVA.

ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE
ENGLISH CHURCH UNION.

The annual commemoration of the English Church
Union took place yesterday. The usual service took place
in the morning, and the annual meeting was held
at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen-street, in
the afternoon. There was a large attendance,
and the chair was occupied by the Hon. C. L.
Wood, president of the Union. The report stated that
every effort was being made to obtain a reform in the very
unsatisfactory method which now obtained of appointing
and selecting bishops, and a bill would be pre-
sented to Parliament. The important subject
of the Final Court of Appeal had been under
the consideration of a committee, and an address
has been presented on the subject to the Upper
House of Convocation by the Bishop of Salisbury. The
report then alluded to the Ritual prosecutions, which
would' be very closely watched, and said the council
looked with deep interest to the publication of the report
of the commissioners appointed to consider the subject.
The report having been received and adopted, and the
officers for the year elected,
Mr. J. G. Hubbard, in speaking of the education ques-
tion, declared that education was a religious work, and
without religion it could be no more national
than religion itself could be national, and until they
found that all the conflicting sects could agree upon the
formularies which should be used, it was futile to talk
of national education. The bill as it at
present stood ought not and could not have the
support of the union and of all true Churchmen.
He moved " That the members of the Union, yielding to
none in their desire for the education of the whole popu-
lation of this country, would readily acquiesce in any
necessary provision for securing the liberty of parents to
withdraw their children from teaching to which they may
ebject. but they are convinced that a time table affecting
the whole course of school instruction ought not as a con-
dition of grants to be made subject to the approval of the
Education Department, and further they protest against
any attempt to interfere with distinct religious teaching
through catechism or formularies to those who desire to
receive it."

The Rev. Canon Gregory seconded the resolution.
-The resolution having been carried, propositions con-
demning the Burials Bill and the legalising of marriages
with a deceased wife's sister were agreed to.
Some other subjects were briefly discussed, and the
meeting then terminated.

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