The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-21 00:00:00

THE CUNARD STEAMER SAMARIA.

One of the Simaria's boat's arrived at Queenstown
early yesterday morning, in charge of a third officer,
and reported leaving the Samaria on Saturday 40
miles westward of Cape Clear ; all well, but with
both shafts broken. Tugs were sent to her assist-
ance.. The Java is detained to take the Samaria's
mails and passengers to New York. Queenstown,
March 20.—The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Samaria
put in here at 8 p.m. to-day, with her shaft broken.
All her mails and cabin passengers were transferred
to the Java. Passengers all well.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will return to
London to-morrow from Kimbolton.
The death'of Countess Blucher (née Miss Dallas),
of which the news reached Windsor yesterday morning, has
caused the Queen and Royal Family the deepest sorrow.
The Countess was one of her Majesty's truest and most
valued friends, and her loss will be irreparable not only to
the Queen, but also the Crown Princess of Prussia, to whom
the Couhtess was over truly devoted.

DEATH OF MRS. ALBERT SMITIL—We regret to
have to announce the death of Mrs. Albert Smith. As Mary
Keeley she will be remembered by many old playgoers. She
made her first appearance at the Lyceum in 1846, as Bertha,
in the "Cricket on the Hearth ;" afterwards appearing both
at the Lyceum and Adelphi Theatres, in numerous farces
and burlesques, with her gifted parents. She was born in
1829. Her husband, the "Monarch of Mountains," as he
has been facetiously styled, died in 1860.

DR. NEWMAN'S NEW WORK.—The powerful
grasp of Dr. Newman's mind appears very vividly and dis-
tinctly in its pages. The experience of a long life has per-
fected what was always one of the clearest notes of his in-
tellect, his wonderful appreciation of points of view diffe-
rent from his own. This was very remarkable in " Lose
and. Gain," but it is oven more- striking in the
book before us. Ile makes allowances for other men,
which speak volumes for the depth of his charity and the
practical influence of his religion. It is almost a paradox
to say it, but it seems as if the acceptance of the most
dogmatic of £ll creeds has made him less dogmatic. The
more intense his own convictions, the more generous and

liberal he is to those whom he considers in the
unfortunate position of rejecting them. His own
labours and sufferings, the persecutions he has endured,
so doubly painful to a mind intensely sensitive, the troub-
lous journey by which he won his way to his present faith,
have refined and softened a character always remarkable for
its intense sympathy. All this appears in every page, and
it is here, and not in the controversial eagerness of Dr.
Pusey, that we must look for the true Eirenicon. —Athenawn.

There are more than two hundred amendments on
the paper of the House of Commons to the Irish Laud Bill,
when that measure reaches the Committee stage.

Miss Harrington, a sister of Chancellor ILirring-
on, of Exeter, and well known fur her charities in that city,
lied yesterday morning.

The charge of perjury agaiLst ti,e police at Oxford
by Lord RanCiolph Churchill has assumed a reality, ar.d
will come on for hearing on Friday next. The case is loolad
forward to with great interest at Oxford, where for some
time past the relations between the under graduates and the
police have not been very pleasant.

- The body of Mr. Elliott, Earl Mahnesbury's
steward, who recently disappeared under very singular
circumstances, has been discovered in the river Stour.

M. DE MONTA_LEMBERT'S FIRST SPEECH.
On the 21st Of -September, 1831, M. de Montalembert
delivered his first political speech, and this was in his
own defence, before the Chamber of Peers. He was ac-
cused, In common with M. Lacordaire and M. do Coret,
with having organised free schools. Tho most
remarkable passage of his speech was the following :
" Those men who would shrug their shoulders at the mere
mention of the Pope's infallibility have created an
infallibility which is august and formidable in a different
manner. They have forced upon us the infallibility (of
the Royal Council of Public instruction. The creed
of such authority may be found in these
words : "Frenchmen, who are no longer Catholics,
we will shew you the right faith for en-
lightened man, with Denton you will believe in the
social unity of the Republic proclaimed by the executioner
and sanctioned by the guillotine ; with Napoleon and M.
de Fontaines you will believe in the imperishable grandeur
of the empire according to the decree of 1.808 concerning the
happiness of the people and the liberal ideas of the world ;
with Louis XVIIL and M. Royer Collard, you Will believe
in the sacred mysteries of parliamentary doctrine, with M.
de Corbieres in censure, and electoral frauds, with M.
Frayssinoes in all that is most pure and subtle in Gall:-
canism, with M. de Vatemesnil in parliamentary arrests
and the theology of M. de Montlosier ; with MM. de
Broglid, Bathe, and Merilliom in the infallibility of M. de
Vatemesnil and the legal order ; finally with M. de
Montalivet ; you will believe in the sovereign justice of
galley slaves ; you will recognise that churches are no
longer public monuments—that the freedom of domicile,
the secrecy of oaths and public faith, are only words, and
that it is lawful to outrage them all with impunity, so
long as one has a telegraph at his orders and a portfolio
under his arm."