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

EVENING EDITION.

1870.
HONDURAS TEN PER CENT.
GOVERNMENT RAILWAY LOAN.
£2,500,000, in 25,000 Bonds of £lOO each.
Bearing 10 per cent. Annual Interest, payable half-yearly, viz.,
on Ist January and Ist July.
Issued at 80 per cent., and to be redeemed at par in sterling
within fifteen years by yearly drawings, on the 31st December
in each year, by means of an accumulative Sinking Fund of
3 per cent. per annum.
The first Drawing to take place on the 31st December, 1870.
The instalments to be paid as follows :-
16 per cent. on allotment.
10 per cent. on Ist August.
10 per cent. on Ist September.
15 per cent. on Ist October.
15 per cent. on Ist November.
15 per cent. on 15th December, when Definitive Bonds,
with a Coupon of Lb payable on the Ist January
attached, will be given in exchange for Scrip.

80 per cent.

Interest will date front the Ist July.
The Instalments may be anticipated at any time, when an
Instalment falls due, under discount at the Bank of England
rate.
PROSPECTUS.
His Excellency Senor Don Carlos Gutierrez, Minister Plenipo-
tentiary for the Government of the Republic of Honduras to the
Court of St. James's, being authorised by full powers, dated 14
March, 1870, to raise for his Government a Loan of Two Millions
sterling net, for the completion from sea to sea of the Inter-
oceanic Honduras Railway. has instructed the London and
County Bank to receive applications for the same.
The Loan will be represented by bonds to bearer of £lOO each,
bearing interest until redeemed at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist January and Ist July in
each year, at The London and County Bank.
The whole Loan will be redeemed within 15 years by an ac-
cumulative Shiking Fund of 3 per cent. per annum, to be applied
by annual drawings, the said drawings to take place on the 31st
December in each year, in the presence of the Honduras Minister
in London, a representative of Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Gold-
schmidt, and a Notary Public, and the Bonds so drawn will be
paid within one month thereafter.
This Loan is raised to complete the Interoceanic Railway, and
to place the line from sea to sea in thorough and efficient work-
ing order. As in the case of the previous Loan, the proceeds
of the present Loan will be paid into the hands of trustees ap-
pointed for that purpose.
The entire Railway and its revenue is mortgaged to the bond-
holders of all denominations, and the proceeds of the State
domains will be applied in a like manner.
The first section is contracted to be finished next November.
Messrs. Waring Brothers and McCandlish have undertaken,
under heavy penalty, to complete the second section at the end
of 1871, and a new contract has been signed with them to com-
plete the entire Railway from Puerto Caballos, on the Atlantic
coast to the Bay of Fonseca, on the Pacific, and deliver it over in
efficient working order in the autumn of 1872.
The Railway is under the protection of the British Government
by a treaty which declares ;
" In order to secure the construction and permanence
" of the route or road herein contemplated, and also to
" secure for the benefit of mankind the uninterrupted
" advantages of such communication from sea to sea
" her Britannic Majesty recognises the rights of sove-
" reignty and property of Honduras in and over the line of
"the said road, and for the same reason guarantees posi-
tively and efficaciously, the entire neutrality of the
" same. And when the proposed road shall have been
"completed her Britannic Majesty equally engages, in
"conjunction with the Republic of Honduras, to protect
"the same from interruption, seizure, or unjust confls-
" cation, from whatsoever quarter the attempt may
" proceed."
Treaties signed by the Honduras Government with France and
the United States contain the same provisions.
A general Bond, executed by His Excellency Don Carlos
Gutierrez, on behalf of the Government of Honduras, will be
deposited at the Bank of England for security of the entire Loan,
and the Definitive Bonds of this Loan will be signed by his Ex-
cellency Don Carlos Gutierrez, on behalf of his Government, and
countersigned by Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt,
Agents of the Government in England.
Applications for the Loan will be received by the London
and County Bank, 21, Lombard-street, and Branches, where
Prospectuses and Forms of Application can be obtained.
London, June 20th, 1870.

HONDURAS GOVERNMENT TEN PER CENT.
RAILWAY LOAN FOR £2,500,000.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To be retained by the Bankers.

To His EXCELLENCY DON CARLOS GUTIERREZ, Honduras

Minister in London.
Per London and County Bank.

Sir,
I hereby request that you will allot to me £ Stock
of the above Loan, on the terms of the Prospectus issued, and
I hereby agree to accept that or any smaller sum which may be
allotted to me, and to pay the instalments thereon ac"ording to
the terms of your Prospectus of the 20th June, 1870.
I am,
Your Excellency's obedient servant,
Signature.. ,
Address in full ..... ..........

ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE
ENGLISH CHURCH UNION.

The annual commemoration of the English Church
Union took place on Tuesday. 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, • -
r. 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 teachine,
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.

UNORDAINED MINISTERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHURCH. •

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-

AN, •
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. Mr.
James Thomas, the reader thus admitted, is the principal
of a large school at Old Stratford, in the parish of
Passenham, 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 Kesence 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-rthe—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
layine 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.

THE QUEEN AT SHEEP SHEARING.—Previous to
her departure from Balmoral last week, her Majesty the
Queen drove out as far as the home farm of Invergelder
to witness the process of sheep-shearing. Having arrived
when the work was being executed, the carriage was
stopped, and her Majesty with seeming pleasure viewed
the work of shearing, at the same time taking down notes
in a book.
PAUPERISM.—The monthly return of the Poor
Law Board shows that at the end of April, 1870, the num-
ber of per3ous receiving relief from the rates in Eng-
land and Wales was o'7 per cent. more than at
the corresponding period of 1869. The increase amount-
ed to as much as 4.8 per cent. in the south-
eastern division, and 4•6 per cent. in Yorkshire.
The metropolis shows an increase of 2'B per
cent., the south-midland division 2.4 per cent. ; and the
north-midland 21 per cent. The increase in the south-
western division was slight, being only o's per cent. The
other divisions shew a decrease ; the eastern 0.2 per cent.,
the northern 0•6 per cent., the west midland 0.7 per cent.,
the Welsh I'9 per cent., and the north-western (Lan-
cashire and Cheshire) 51 per cent.
DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.—Dr. Lankester
has held an inquiry into the discovery at No. 21, Upper
Charles-street, Clerkenwell, 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
what circumstances they had come there they had no
evidence to prove.

THE LATE LORD A. CLlNTON.—Referring to the
reported death of Lord Arthur Clinton, a contemporary
says :—" Lord A. Clinton was a son of the late Duke of
Newcastle, one of the ablest administrators of his time,
and the guardian, it will be remembered, of the Prince of
Wales on his visit to the United States. The
Clintons are a distinguished old family, and it
was in keeping with the aristocratic unities that a
Clinton should marry into the ducal house of Hamilton.
There were great rejoicings at Clumber and at Hamilton
Palace, when the late duke and his duchess, Lady Mary
Hamilton, became `one flesh.' Human felicity seemed,
in their case, to have reached its apex. They lived in an
atmosphere of bliss, their marital sky being of Claude-
like purity. But the tempter came—the Duchess fell
from her high state of womanly, virtue—and became a
proclaimed adulteress by the stern voice of the
law. In the happier days of their marriage, the
present Duke of Newcastle, Lord Arthur Clinton,
and other existing members of the family were born. So
long as the late Duke lived, all went well. He who
managed the War Department under Palmerston and
during the heat of the Crimean war, succeeded in keeping
his household in order ; but no sooner had The Reaper
cut him off, than the male portion of his family became
spendthrifts. When the late Duke of Hamilton broke
his neck by falling down a Parisian stair, under the
influence, it is supposed, of too much wine, the
present Duke (Lord Arthur Clinton's cousin) joined
with the head of the house of Clinton in the most head-
long course of ' plunging' in horse-racing, of which the
English turf makes mention. Lord Arthur Clinton was
at that time a prominent man about town. He was natu-
rally received into the best society, and his inclinations
seemed to have led him at times into the worst. He went
into the maelstrom of London dissipation, and lie ended in
being charged with one of the most abominable of crimes.
Misfortune, it has been said, runs in families. The mother
of Lord Clinton—the Lady Mary Douglas, and his aunt,
Lady Jane Seymour Hamilton, were both divorced for
matrimonial infidelity.

SPAIN FOR FRANCE ?
TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SUN."

SIR,—I find in the Portuguese Legitimist paper A Nacao,
of the 11th ink., the following, which I think deserves atten-
tion ; especially as I have not seen as yet any other notice
of M. de la G-uerroniere's pamphlet referred to.—l re-

A. R. SARAIVA.

main, sir, yours, &c.,
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 several 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 grave 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; butwe 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 iti-
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 ; ho
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's 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

.2th-inst., I find on the same subject the following

"It is not M. de la G-uerroniere 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!'
" 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 revalu-
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 traffickers 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. IL SARAIVA.

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—At a meeting of the
council of King's College, it has been resolved to appoint
to the Professorship of Classical Literature the Rev,
Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor
of St. John's College, Cambridge.
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BALLOON ACCIDENT.—An accident happened to
Mr. Coxwell's balloon during a fete at the Arboretum at
Derby. At twenty-five minutes past six the grappling
irons were loosed, but it soon became apparent that the
ballon would not clear the trees surrounding the enclo-
sure. Mr. Coxwell, who did not himself ascend, shouted
to the occupants of the car to throw out ballast,
but, in spite of every precaution, the balloon dashed
against the trees. The persons in the car, five in num-
ber, were rescued, but the mob, who were indignant be-
cause a local aeronaut, Mr. Jackson, had not been
engaged, attempted to tear up the balloon, and a hand-
to-hand fight between them and the police ensued. Mr.
Coxwell was grossly ill-treated, and the police were pelted
Indian
troupe stones. Previous to this mishap one of the
troupe fell from the rope on which he was performing, but
his injuries were not of a serious nature.

A CROWN FOR VICTOR EXIMANURL.—A corre-
spondent of La Liberte says that recently a subscrip-
tion was opened in Italy for the purpose of presenting a
royal crown to Victor Emmanuel, and a total of 45,000
francs was collected in a short space of time. The
King, having heard what was on foot, invited those who
had been active in the matter to the palace. He thanked
them for their generous design, and begged them to con-
vey his acknowledgments to those who had subscribed to
the fund, but to inform them that, such as he was, his
crown was good enough for him, and that he begged them
to apply the fund so collected to the foundation in
Florence of an asylum for the indigent blind. Such a
mode of receiving a present from his people needs no com-
ment, save that it is worthy of being imitated.
SMALLPDX IN PARIS.—The mortality in Paris
from this fearful epidemic has again risen, and last week
there were no less than 238 death returned from that cause
88 of the victims dying in the hospitals. The increasing
fatality of this disease causes much anxiety in Paris, where
a committee of medical men has been formed to investigate
the causes of this dreadful visitation. From the official
returns it appears that the deaths from smallpox in 1865
were 740 ; in 1866, 615 ; in 1867, 301; in 1868, 655 ; and in
1869, 723. It was only in November last that the disease
assumed an epidemic form, the deaths rising from 39 in
October to 93 in November, and 119 in December. Be-
tween January 1 and May 24, 1870, there have been re-
ceived into the hospitals no less than 4,251 smallpox
patients, of whom 683 have died. Several of the Pans
papers devote long articles to the subject, urging the ex-
tension of vaccination, or the adoption of other precau-
tionary measures.