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GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE,
Established IS2l.—Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, B.C.
DIRECTORS:
CHAIRMAN—FREKiERICK JANSON, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JAMES GOODSON, Esq.
Hulse Berens, Esq. J. G. Hubbard, Esq.
Henry Bonhm Carter, Esq. G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.,
Henry M.P.
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Charles Win. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., Augustus Prevost, Esq.
Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Archibald Hamilton, Esq. William Stevens, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq. John G. Talbot, Esq., M.P.
Richard M. Harvey, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
SECRETARY—T. Tallemach, Esq. ACTUARY—SamueI Brown, Esq.
N.8.--Fire Policies which expire at Midsummer must be
renewed at the Head Office, or with the Agents, on or before the
9th of July.
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NEw YORK LIFE INSURANCE COAIPANY.
Founded 1843. Life only (purely Mutual).
Cash assets £2,665,000
Annual income .. £1,200,000
NEW YORE INSURANCE LAWS.
The Insurance Laws of the State of New York are very
strict.
By them this Company is required to submit to a rigid super-
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statements ANNUALLY to the. Superintendent of the Insurance
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ments, in complete detail ; also to undergo a personal examina-
tion by the Insurance Superintendent as a verification. Thus
every possibleisafeguard isthrown around the affairs of the Com-
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given by the Insurance Companies of any other country.
A proof of the care in the management of American Companies
is, that there has not been one single instance of the failure of
an American Life Insurance Company that has confined itself
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York, NO COMPANY BEING ALLOWED THEREBY TO COMBINE LIFE
WITH EITHER FIRE OR MARINE INSURANCE.
ITS POLICIES CANNOT BE ATTACHED BY CREDITORS.
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policies are issued payabie to the wife or children, and payable
to them only, free from all demands of creditors notwithstanu-
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without extra charge, except in the tropics and obviously un-
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POLICIES ISSUED FROM £lOO to £4,000.
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FALMOUTH, GIBRALTAR, AND MALTA
TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED).
DIRECT SUBMARINE ROUTE TO INDIA.
OPENING OF NEW CABLE—REDUCTION OF • TARIFF.
TELEGRAMS from the UNITED KINGDOM are NOW SENT
by this Company's Cable in connexion with the ANGLO-
MEDITERRANEAN and BRITISH-IN DI Lines, at the follow-
ing rates : For Telegrams of

Ten Words. Twenty W ords
To Aden . ..•.
„ Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and
other stations west of Chit-
tagong . „
Ceylon and Stations in India east
210 3 1 0
of Chittagong
„ Gibraltar and Ma1ta........ . • 010 0
„ Portugal (all Stations).. 0 9 0
„ Spain (ditto ••• • • • 09 0
Half the 20 word rates for every additional ten words. From
the Provinces and Ireland, One Shilling extra.
Messages for the New Submarine Route are received at all the
Postal Telegraph Offices in Great Britain and Ireland. The
public should order them to be sent " VIA FALMOUTH."
These words will be transmitted free of charge.
Messages are also received at the Company's Station, No. 74,
OLD BROAD-STREET, and sent direct by wire to their destina-
tion. By order,
JOHN T. BURT, Secretary.
London, June 14, 1870.

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THE GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.
=The select committee which has been appointed for the
purpose of inquiring into the best means of extending the
present system of Government telegraphs met on Monday for
the first time, for the purpose of Choosing their chairman
mid considering 'their course of proceedings with respect
to the subject of Government telegraphs. It is stated
that to meet the requirements of the service several
thousand miles of additional teleo-iaph wires are
contemplated by the Go vernmenbt to be con-
structed •in England, and that it will be prepared
at the proper time to show that, notwithstanding
i4dividual complaints, the general results from the transfer
of the telegraphic lines to the Government have been as
successful in a pecuniary sense as they have been so far
as regard the general public convenience. The 'present
committee is with reference to the extension of the system
to the Channel Islands. The Marquis of Hartington was
chosen chairman.

ST EAMBO ILER EXPLO SIONS.
The Select Committee on
MSteram-bk in toiler Explosions met
aaain on Monday morning, . Hiche chair.—Mr.
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) letcher, the secretary of the Manchester Steam-Users
Association, continued his evidence, and said the
average number of boiler explosions was 50 per
annum, sacrificing 75 lives. He advised periodical inspec-
tion by a competent authority, no boiler being allowed to
be used unless the owner could produce a certificate. What
hi wanted was to combine local inspection and central
anrnority. The greatest difficulty was where the boilers
were too small for a man to get inside them, but he would
still have them inspected as far as possible. In reply to
Sir T. Bailey,
the witness said he thought a national system
of inspection would be the best as there would be so much
diverse action with local boards, The Central Board
should meet four times a year, its officers beinc, always at
work. He believed there were from 40,006 to 50,000
steam users in the kingdom. He thought the insurance
principle tended rather to promote than to prevent explo-
sions. The company would be better off in paying the loss
occasioned by explosions than by g Aug to the cost of in-
spection. The Insurance, Company last year left 5,000
boilers wholly unexamined.—Mr. Penn, C.E., practical
engineer was then called, and said the malconstruction of
the safety' valves was one cause of boiler exßlosions, one
which inspection would prevent. He was m favour of
periodical compulsory inspection which would certainly
reduce explosions to a minimum. He had often inspected
al
boilers, and was convinced that regular inspisectionng was
the only way to prevent explosions. Th beil
the evidence on Monday, the committee remained in
deliberation.
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RITUALISM AT BRIGHTON.
ELPHINSTONE V. THE REV. J. PURCHAS.
This case was specially appointed to be heard yesterday by
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on a motion
in a pending appeal from the Court of Arches. The suit
was in the court below, "Elphinstone v. Purchas," and
the defendant, who is the minister of St. James's Chapel,
Brighton, was proceeded against at the instance of the
Church Association for certain ritualistic practices in the
service of the Holy Comnaunion. He had not
appeared to the proceedings, and was con-
demned for some of the practices alleged ; but the
Judgment did not include the use of certain vestments,
and the promoter, Colonel Elphinstone, appealed to the
Judicial Committee in order to obtain a decision on the
important question of vestments, and also on'the use of
wafer-bread, holy water, and other articles. Since the
appeal Colonel Elphinstone had died, and the case had come
before the Judicial Comm an application to substi-
tute a new promoter, and Mr. Idenry Helbert, a resident at
Brighton, was proposed. Mr. Purchas appeared under
protest, and submitted that the cause had determined
by the death of the promoter. There was a long list of
motions before the committee to-day, and it was some
time before the case was account The learned Solicitor-
General could not attend onf ill-health, and an
application was made that the case might be adjourned.
The case accordingly stood over, and is expected to come
on again next week.

RAILWAY COMPENSATION FOR
ACCIDENTS.
The select committee of the House of Commons ap-
pointed to consider the question of compensation for
railway accidents met again on Monday. Mr. Headlam in
the chair.
Dr. Pemberton, consulting surgeon of the London and
North-Wester Railway Company,and of various insurance
companies gave evidence in respect to the question of
false claims. In the course of his examination, Dr. Pem-
berton expressed an opinion that by the present law.
railway and insurance companies had been compelled to
pay much larger for compensation than they ought.
With regard to the development of injuries sustained by
accidents, he said his experience was that a very serious
injury was attended by immediate symptoms, although of
course there were exceptions occasionally. He had never
seen a serious spinal injury,. for instance, develope
at a remote period from the accident causing it. But at
the same time in case of injury to the head no surgeon
could determine at once the extent of the injury. As to
the costs of contested claims, he said one of the chief
causes of the excessive spout as the heavy charges which
medical men of high ion made to come into
court. He believed that if the plaintiff in an
action knew beforehand that his claim would come
before a tribunal of experts, he would never go before
them ; and by a tribunal of that description, a large
number of fraudulent cases would be frustrated. Juries
almost invariabl gave damages in relation to the imme-
diate accident, and not with respect to any previous
ailment of the claimant. Both medical men and railway
companies were at the mercy of the patient as to his suffer-
ings • it was a question of bond fides.
Colonel Yollaud, an inspector of the Board of Trade,
was also examined. He stated that inspectors were
frequently required tog ive partial opinions of accidents,
which they ought not to be called upon to do ; and they
were note mpowered to ask any questions or to call any
evidence or to hold any inquiry in reference
to an accident. They merely reported for
the information of the Board of Trade, at the
instigation of the Board. He was strongly in favour of
the adoption of the block system of telegraphing, espe
cially where the traffic was large ; and he thought it
desirable that it should be made compulsory by Act of
Parliament, or at least by some public body or dep.artment.
He advised this course because different companies would
never adopt the system until some serious accident
occurred ou their respective lines, which compelled them
to do so. He believed that the present working
of the railway system was admirable.
Mr. Irian, Secretary of the Railway Accidents Insur-
ance Company gave some particulars of the working of
his office. The compensation for a 3d. first-class ticket
was 21,000 in case of death, and 26 a week M case of
disability ; for a 2d. second-class ticket £5OO for death
and for injury £3 a week; and for a ld. ticket £2OO for
death. He stated in reference to the late lamentable ac-
cident at Newark,
.a large number of third-class passenger
had paid a premium of 2d. for £lOO ; while the first
class passengers had paid 6d. for £l,OOO, because the
company considering the greater risk to excursion trains,
charged a higher premium. Five of the persons killed
held insurance tickets, for which the company had received
about 10d., and would have to pay £5OO. The suggestion
that the company paid premiums to persons to secure and
bring back insurance tickets in case of accidents was quite
false.
Captain Tyler also gave some evidence. He designated
the present system of compensation in this country as a
scandal to the country, and the injustice arising there-
from was rather on the side of the railway companies.
Therefore there ought to be an improved system of in-
quiry ; and not only should there be limited liability, but
a better tribunal for assessing damages. He thought that
if the Board of Trade had power to appoint arbitrators,
it was a plan which would work well, and diminish the
costs.
The committee then adjourned.

Mr.llowes, M.P., continues rather seriously indis-
posed. The honourable gentleman is ordered to remain
strictly quiet. •
A. late junior student of Christ Chu h has
rc been
appointed tutor to a younger brother of Prince Hassan,
and will proceed to Egypt immediately.
A. marriage is arranged, and will take place about
the middle of next month, between Eleanor, second
daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Edward Harbottle Grim-
stou, rector of Pebmarsh and Great Henny, Essex, and
niece of the Earl of Verulam, and Mr. Wauchope late
of the 16th (the Queen's) Lancers, cousin of Lady 'Ross-

more.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—
On Saturday morning an attempt at murder, followed
by an attempt to commit suicide, took place at the Great
Seal Patent Office, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane. Mr. Tomlinson, a clerk, was taking his lunch in
his office, when he suddenly received a severe blow on the
head, and on turning round perceived his assailant to ba a
man named Jerman, employed about the building in
carrying coals, &c. 'He was armed with a special con-
, stable's staff, Which was split in half by the force of the blow.
Mr. Tomlinson immediately grappled with him, but the
man ultimately escaped by means of the window and slid
down the gutter pipe into the yard, where he entered a
watercloset and endeavoured to commit suicide by cutting
his throat. Hearing the disturbance, a clerk, occupiedin
an adjoining room, entered Mr. Tomlinson's office, and on
seeing Jerman escape, proceeded to the closet which he
had entered, and found him bleeding from a wound in the
throat. On further assistance arriving he was removed
to King's College Hospital, where the wound was stated
not to be of a serious nature. Mr. Tomlinson was fortu- '
nately so little injured that he was able to return home
shortly after the occurrence. Upon making inquiries
yesterday morning, it was ascertained that Jermyn was
in a very dangerous state. He was still lying in King's
College Hospital, and up to that time he had not been
able to speak. He was, however, conscious. The wound
which he had made with a penknife across his throat had
completely severed the windpipe and the jugular vein.
• Mr. Tomlinson, although still suffering from the effects of
L the blows inflicted upon his head, was progressing favour
ably, and it is now thought that he is out of danger,

SUNDAY EVENING,

The municipal difficulty has aroused all the energies
of our orators. M. Jules Favre's speech in favour of the
nomination of the mayors by the municipal councils is gene-
rally regarded as one of his best efforts. The amend-
ment was, notwithstanding rejected by the Chamber,
but we all know how much importance to attach to its
expression of the popular sentiments. M. 011ivier, of
course, opposed the amendment in question, and I under-
stand he intends to offer the same uncompromising opposi-
tion to the return of the Orleanist princes to France. It is
rumoured that the Emperor will regard as a personal
affront every vote given in favour of the petition.
Yesterday there was something like a scene among the
deputies, the mayors being, of course,like Queveda's model
woman, at the bottom of allthe mischief. M. Prax-Paradol
was holding forth on the right of Government to nominate
the mayors direct. Being a mayor himself, the deputy
for Montauban has, of course, good reason to appreciate
the enlightenment and sagacity of the official selection !
To withhold this right from the Government.
says M. Prax Paradol, would be to disarm
the Crown !—(a phrase for which the Silele, by the
bye, ridicules him unsparingly.) M. Granier de Cassagnac
and others followed, and the rival parties became excited.
" There is no law against the right," cried M. Ernest
Picard ; " only materialists and courtiers deny
the existence of a primeval right superior to
all your projects of law !" Upon this there
arose a commotion, which M. Schneider endeavoured to
quell. Let these irritating subjects, he said, be reserved
for outside. M. Arago thereupon changed the excite
ment into laughter by quietly remarking to
the Government, " You see it will be neces-
sary for you to provide us with arenas !"
The Government would haire given him anything in
reason, I dare say, at that moment, so grateful were they
for the lucky mot which averted the storm. Nothing dis-
arms an angry assembly like a fit of laughter, and the
deputies, conscious they had been looking and speaking
like so many gladiators, were content to resume
their discussions with more calmness, and to leave
" fighting it out " till another opportunity.
Monetary matters will be our next trouble when we
have laid the ghosts of M.M. les Maires. The Consti-
tutional Left has held a meeting, at which it was decided
that particular attention should be given to matters con-
nected with the Budget, and that M. Picard should be
the first to speak on the 4th of July, the day for opening
the discussion on the Budget.
The heat is still great. At Lyons there is an absolute
scarcity of water, and the murmurs of the public
are growing so loud that the town authorities will
be forced to take fresh measures to procure a systematic
supply as Paris has done. We have not, however, much
to boast of even in the eapitaL The Prefect of the Seine
has just sent round a circular to the traders of Paris de-
siring them to use as little water as possible. Figaro
learns that the watering of the town has been sensibly
diminished of late. Happily, better accounts have lately
been received of the harvest, and the good effects have
already exhibited themselves on the Bourse. Bread made
from this year's wheat, grown in Algeria, is now selling in
some of the baker's shops.
One of our legantes, yesterday, parodied a snot of
Madame de Stael, who sent her compliments to the sun-
shine, by a gentleman leaving England for France.
In the same way a member of the court, on leaving
France for a good long voyage, bade farewell to a lady
who bade him if ever he should meet the rain tell it how
much it was needed in Paris.
Great excitement has been occasioned in the religious
and political world by Cardinal Guid's speech at the
Council. It has been looked upon as an event, and it
may yet have an important influence on the ultimate
decisions of the august assembly. The Cardinal is one of
the most notable prelates of Italy, and he was sup-
posed to favour the dogma of infallibility,
but it is now thought that his discourse against
it will arrest the course of the Ultramontanes with respect
to the closing of the deliberations. The Univers has main-
tained a complete silence regarding the Cardinal's
manifestation of opinion. Another distinguished visitor will
shortly arrive in France, Marshal Prim having announced
his intention of trying the waters of Vichy. When he returns
to Madrid a general amnesty will be proclaimed. It was
reported that Prince Charles, of Roumania, had been
assassinated, but on inquiry the rumour turns out to be
unfounded. The Turkish police are seeking for the origin
of this report, which caused great consternation at first.
Yesterday the abdication of Queen Isabella took place.
The partizans of her cause attach great importance to this
act of abdication, to which, after long hesitation,
she has consented, but it is difficult to see
what difference it can make. The chances of a restoration
are about equal as regards Isabella the Second and
Alphonso the Twelfth. There is no likelihood of Madrid
concerning itself with the affair of the Hotel Basilewski,
and the Cortes have already given themselves four months
holiday.
A strange story is afloat concerning the withdrawal of
the troops from Rome. It is said that some of the deputies
of the Right became alarmed at the risk which the Holy
See might incur in the event of the withdrawal of the
French troops during the recess. They informed the Duke
de Gramont of their fears, and he assured them that the
Government would in its constitutional spirit call the
Chambers together, rather than take upon itself the
sole responsibility of such an act.
We shall never hear the last of strikes. The last news
is that the carpenters of Marseilles have struck work, and
ask for an hour's diminution of work without any reduc-
tion of wages. The Rouen carpenters are about to follow
their example. At Orleans some unpleasant consequences
have ensued from the strike of the ironfounders. Several
inhabitants are anxious to procure water from the town,
but in the absence of the ironfounders it has been impossi-
ble to procure turn-cocks for turning on the water.

Tan GREEK MURDERS.— The bidependance
Italienne denies the rumour that a joint note from Eng
land and Italy on the subject of the Greek massacre will
shortly be addressed to the Greek Government.
REPORTED BATTLE IN LA PLATA.—The Menlo-
morial Diplomatique of Saturday evening publishes news,
without date, from La Plata, announcing that a battle
has taken place between the Argentine forces under
General Conesa, and the insurgents under General Lopez
Jordan. At the first shock of cavalry General Jordan
scattered the right wing of General Conesa's army, but
the Argentine infantry afterwards routed General Jor-
dan's corps, which was compelled to retreat.
PRUSSIA AND ME ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY.—The
The Berlin Correspondent of the Agence Hams says that
much suprised hasbeen expressed atthe suppression by the
Moniteur Prussien of the passage in the Duke de Gram-
mart's speech relative to Count Bismarck, and adds that
the suppression was not confined to the Moniteur Prus-
sien.The passage was omitted in the telegram sent from
Paris to all the Prussian papers, and in the accounts given
of the sitting of the Corps Ldgislatiff the same paragraph
in the speech was so altered as to be scarcely recognisable.

There is a great strike of shoemakers going on in
Massachusetts, and, according to the New York Tribune
just received, it seems that the arrival of 75 Chinamen
from California has brought discomfiture on some of the
Boston turnouts, for all the foreigners were taken on at
one of the large establishments which had been thrown
idle.

A. strange case of cannibalism is reported from
Swinton. In the course of a fight between Thomas Sykes
and Thomas Askin, the latter is said to have nearly bitten
off the under lip of his antagonist, who is now under the
care of Mr. Blythman, surgeon, and must have suffered
most excrutiating pain from his injuries, which are de-
scribed as presenting a most revolting appearance.
M. DE LESSEP'S VISIT TO LIVERPOOL.—Satur-
day was occupied by M. de Lesseps in visiting the chief
objects of commercial and general interest connected with
the town and port of Liverpool, including the St. George's
Hall, Free Public Library and Museum, the warehouses
recently completed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board, and the principal docks. The steam tender Alert
having been placed by the dock board at M. de Lesseps'
disposal for a cruise on the river, he had a good oppor-
tunity of appreciating not only the great extent of the
dock range, but the massive and handsome character of
the masonry of the walls, locks, and towers. He was
greatly interested and gratified. M. de Lesseps was ac-
comp tilled by Mr. D. A. Lange, and by a number of the
leading commercial men of the town. Yesterday ad-
dresses from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and the
East India and China Association were presented to him
at the Town Hall. The mayor invited the members of
the Town Council and the Mersey Dock Board to be
present on the occasion.

The death of the Earl of Haddington is announced.
The melancholy event occurred on Saturday, after a short
illness. The deceased nobleman, George Bailie Hamilton,
eldest son of the late Mr. George Baillie, of Jerviswoode,
by Mary, youngest daughter of the late Sir J. Pringle,
Bart., was 1)orn at Mallerston, near Kelso, on the 14th of
April, 180 t,, and was brother of the late Marchioness of
Breadalbane, the Countess of Aberdeen, Lady Polwarth, and
the Countess Ashburnham. He married, 16th September,
1824; Georgiana, daughter of the Ven. Archdeacon
Robert Markham. The late earl succeeded to the
peerage in 1858, on the death of his cousin,. Thomas
--Framilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, who died sine prole.
He was appointed a lord in waiting to the Queen in Sep-
tember, 1867, having previously, in April, 1859, been a
representative peer for Scotland, and his lordship
was High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland from
May 1867 till the resignation of Lord Derby. His lord-
ship was also appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Roxburgh-
shire in 1831, and of Haddingtonshire in 1851, and was a
deputy-lieutenant of Berwickshire. In 1861 he was
appointed colonel-commandant of the East Lothian
Yeomanry Cavalry. The first peer of the family, an
eminent Scotch advocate, was ennobled in 1562. He
became first Earl of Melrose, a title he subsequently
chan,,o-ed for that of Earl of Waddington.rhe Earls of
Haddington were the heriditary keepers of Holyrood-park
from the reign of Charles IL till 1843, when the late earl's
kinsman compromised the family interest for a pecuniary
compensation of £40,000, and the office is consequently
now abolished. The deceased peer is succeeded in the
family honours by his son, George, Loru Binning, born
26th July, 1827, and married 17th October, 1854, to Helen,
second daughter of Sir John Warrender, Bart., Ly the
Hon. Frances Henrietta Arden, by whom there is a
youthful family. •

REVISION OF THE AUTHORISED VERSION.
It maybe interesting to recall a scene which was briefly
noticed in the columns of the Times as having occurred
during the past week, and which gives a pleasing augury
for a better feeling between the contending factions of
Church and State. We refer to the participation in the
Holy Communion by the Company of the Revisers
of the Authorised Version of the New Testament,
which occurred in Henry Vll.'s Chapel in Westminster
Abbey, preparatory to their entrance on their important
work. A notice had been issued to each of the body, to
the effect that the Sacrement would be administered there,
on the day of their first meeting, to such of the body as
should feel disposed to attand. Some few were-prevented
from appearing ; but at the hour named as many astwenty
presented themselves, and were placed in the ancient
stalls of the chapel No one else assisted. The Dean
read the service from the Communion table at the
head of Henry Vll.'s tomb. It so happened that
this table thus received its first use. It had within
a few days past replaced a temporary table, having
as the inscription round it records, been erected in the
place of the ancient altar which once indicated the spot
where Edward VI. was buried, probably to meet the
wishes of his sister Mary, and had been destroyed by the
Puritans in the civil war. On the marble slab which
covers its top is placed the fragment of the beautifully-
carved frieze of the lost altar, found unexpectedly last
year in Edward Vl.'s grave, together with other frag-
ments of ruined altars which happened to be at hand
for a like purpose. In front of this table, thus itself
F monument of extinct strifes of former days, and round
the grave of the youthful Protestant King, in whose reign
the English Bible first received its acknowledged place
in the coronation of the Sovereign; as well as its free
and general circulation throughout the people, knelt
together the band of scholars and divines, con-
sisting of representatives of almcst every form of
Christian belief in England. There were bishops of the
Established Church, two of them by their venerable
years connected with the past generation ; there were the
representatives of our historic Cathedrals and Collegiate
Churches, of our learned Universities, of our laborious
parochial charges, and of our chief ecclesiastical Convoca-
tion ; and with these, intermingled without distinction,
were ministers of the Established and of the Free Church
of Scotland, and of almost every Nonconformist Church
in England—lndependent, Baptist, Wesleyan, Uni-
tarian. It is not to be supposed that each one of those
present entered with equal agreement into every part
of the service ; but it is surely not without a hopeful
significance that neither on the side of the Church nor of
Nonconformity was there any " religious difficulty " raised
as to a joint participation on such an occasion in the most
venerable and sacred ordinance of the Christian religion.
The chapel of Henry VII. has witnessed many famous
sights, more august and more stirring—the funerals of
kings and princes, of nobles, generals, and statesmen;
the debates of the Westminster Assembly and of the
Convocations of the English Church ; the installation
of the Knights of the Bath, whose banners wave from
the roof, and whose swords were deposited beneath the
altar raised on that spot. But it may be doubted
whether it has ever been the scene of an event so fraught,
if rightly considered, with possibilities of kindly inter-
course between jarring factions, and pacific solution of
warring problems, as that which happened, silent and
unobserved, on the 22nd of June.

THE PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.
Dr. Fraser, the Bishop of Manchester, in addressing a
demonstration of upwards of 15,000 Church of England
Sunday-school scholars at Blackburn Corporation-park
on Saturday, said he never saw in his life such a spectacle
as then met his eyes ; he never saw before him so large a
congregation, and the sight of so many thousand Church
of England Sunday-school scholars filled his heart with
mingled feelings, partly of encouragement and partly of
depression and anxiety. The depression on his mind was that
of his own weakness and incapacity in attempting to be,
he Bishop of such a large population as that of Lanca-
shire, and he feared that he should prove unequal to the
mighty task which lay before him. There was a time
when Bishops were seldom seen in popular assemblies of
that kind—when they stood upon the dignity of their
Order. He believed the Bishops of the present
generation had found that their strength was in coming
into the most immediate and direct contract with the
people. A friend of his who lived in old times and
ancient memories, and looked doubtfully upon the
changes that he saw going on all round about him,
once told him that he thought the days of the
Church of England were numbered when the Bishops
left off wearing their wigs. He sometimes went into
circles where he heard a very croaking tone about the pros-
pects of the Church of England. Looking round that
great gathering, he confessed to his mind being very much
lifted up, not only regarding the present of the Church of
England, but still more regarding the future of the Church
of England. He believed there never was a greater
opportunity for usefulness, and a greater scope
for putting forth all her energies, than is now laid out
before the Church of England, if she would only rise
to the occasion, and prove herself worthy of the oppor-
tunity. The Church of England must not simply be
the church of the nobility, or of the aristocracy, or
of the wealth of the land, but of the whole people ;
and she must be tolerant, catholic, evangelical, com-
prehensive, and conciliatory. Her strength lay not in
her Bishops, though they no doubt were of use in their
places, not even in their clergy, though they did a thousand
times more to strengthen her than the body of the
Bishops ; but the strength of the Church of England
lay in a staunch, faithful, and consistent laity. They
must take their stand upon the ancient principles that
had characterised our constitution in Church and State,
be loyal to their own principles, yet temperate and
moderate towards the principles of those who differed from
them—not in a spirit of compromise, which he understood
to be a watering down of principles till they become
so weak that they could not distinguish them from the
similarly watered down opinions of those who differed
from them—not in a spirit of " toleration," because that
was almost insulting to men who lived on the free soil of
England, but of broad sympathy and mutual conciliation.
There was a time when it was believed by rulers in high
places that the strength of the Church of England
depended upon Acts of Parliament and upon
repressive laws prohibiting meeting-houses to• be
opened there and conventicles there, but all those
things were relics of the dark ages when men did not
understand the temper of the English people or the true
temper of their own Church. The Church was now
standing forth in her strength and spreading out her arms
wider and wider, and gathering more and more into her
fold, by teaching the better lesson of Christian charity
andmutual conciliation. He ventured to prophesy that fifty
years hence Englishmen who would be living then would
be living on a soil which would be inhabited by a race
still more happy, still more educated, still more civilised,
still more united, and in the highest sense still more
religious than the race which treads the English soil now,

SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.—TWO proposals have been
presented to the Chamber of Deputies of Rio Janeiro
which pronounce the freedom of all children who shall be
born of slave parents. These plans are as yet imperfect,
but they are an indication of the state of things, and afford
promise of future improvement. They have been referred
to the examination of a special commission.
A LADY KILLED IN THE LONDON STREETS.—On
Saturday Mr. Payne, the deputy coroner held two in-
quests respecting the death of Miss Maria Gleadow, aged
sixty-four years, at Guy's Hospital, and the other on
Maria Sanson, aged two years, at St. Bartholomew's.
Miss Gleadow was a sister of Mr. Gleadow, a professor of
music, living at 8, Doctor-street, Walworth, and she was
single lady. Mr. G. Hanson,llo,New North- road, Islington,
stated that at six o'clock on Monday evening, while he was
driving a pony and trap through High-street, Borough, he
saw the deceased crossing the road in front of his pony's
head. He called out to her, and she then ran against a
three-horse omnibus that was going to Camberwell. The
horses struck her and she fell into the roadway. The
wheels passed over her body. The driver of the omnibus
called out to her, but he was not able to pull up in time to,
prevent the accident. The police carried the lady to Guy's:
Hospital, where she expired on Thursday from the effects,
of her injuries. A verdiat of " Accidental death" wan.
recorded.