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The chaplaincy of St. John's, Deritend, Birmingham,
is filled by popular election. The campaign which has
just taken place affords an excellent idea of what may be
expected if the parish clergy should be elected by the
ratepayers. One of the candidates is the Rev. H. L.
Elliott, and the Birmingham Post gives the following
sketch of his speech on Tuesday evening delivered
at two successive meetings—at the top of High-street,
Bordesley, and at the Five Ways, Ravenhurst-street
Mr. Elliot, in the course of his remarks denied that he
was a Ritualist, or that he had ever been inside a Ritualist
Church,.and therefore (alluding to a handbill which had
been circulated) he said the statement it contained was
not worth the paper upon which it was printed. He con-
tended that Mr. B.adger (one of his opponents) had no ex-
clusive claim to Protestantism. He (Mr. Elliot) was a
Protestant, but went a step further in his
Protestantism than Mr. Badger, inasmuch as
he protested, not only against the Popery and
the infallibility assumed by councils, but against the in-
fallibility assumed by Birmingham Popes and Birming-
ham Bishops. (Applause.) He protested against that
bigotry, ignorance,and assumed infallibility characteristic
of the party which was pleased to call itself Evangelical.
The matter rested with the electors, and the question
which had to be decided was this : Were the people of
Birmingham willing to accept the hard-and-fast
line of theology laid down 300 .years ago, or were
they willing to support a man who contended
that that line must be re-examined? He (Mr. Elliot)
came forward as the representative of Liberal opinions,
not only in matters political and social, but in religious
thought. (Hear, hear.) Here is Mr. Badger's speech
"on the waste ground at the corner of Lower Trinity-
street and Heathmill-lane " :—Mr. Badger addressed the
meeting at some length, and based his remarks on the
words, "Fight the good fight." He said
they had had for some time past to fight against prejudice,
ignorance, and false notions, and he hoped they had come
pretty nearly to the end of the battle. On the morrow,
if it should please God, he trusted their labours would be
crowned with victory. (Cheers.) He was thankful to
those who had been working-for him, and should be
grieved to see them disappointed. He then urged those
whom he addressed to fight for the grand old truths as
contained in the Bible, and in combating priestly assump-
tion, he contended that the blessing of a butcher, if he
were a good man, was better than that of a bishop who
was a worldly man. (Cheers.) He urged them to fight
with the weapons of sanctified reason, and to persevere
with patience in their struggle on the morrow. In reply
to the question, whether,ll elected, he would give up the
living he now held, Mr. Badger said it was impossible for
him, by law, to hold two appointments, and that, if
elected, he should at once commence and continue to
preach in the chapel. (Cheers.) What had been stated
about his holding two livings was a mere trick. (Hear,
hear.) Mr. Martin then proposed " That Mr. Badger is
a fit and proper person to fill the appointment of chaplain
to St. John's ; and that this meeting pledges itself to
secure his triumphant return on the morrow." (Cheers.)

CHARLES DICKENS AND WESTMINSTER

ABBEY.

It will give the country great pleasure to learn that the
proposal we supported on Monday has commended itself
to the relations of our great novelist, and that the remains
of Charles Dickens were on Tuesday laid in Westminster
Abbey. Any announcement of this decision had been
purposely withheld, in order that the last duties might be
rendered in as much quietness and privacy as possible.
The suggestion we ventured to offer has in this respect
been followed, and Dickens's directions have been strictly
observed in the simplicity of his funeral. His relations
may be assured of our cordial gratitude for the readiness
with which, amid their personal sorrow, they have
thus consulted the feelings of their countrymen. They
have happily combined a clue consideration for the
wishes of the dead and a regard for the reasonable de-
sire of the public to claim for the great author, in
death as in life, a national as well as a private relation-
ship. It is not the mere splendour of the Abbey which
renders it a fit tomb for such names. A green turf offers,
perhaps, as becoming a sepulchre, and certainly as beau-
tiful a one, as a mausoleum. But the Abbey may be
considered as the family grave of the nation. The mass
of men play their part among a small circle of relatives
and friends ; they have their little time of influence, and
they rest most appropriately among those who knew them
best and where they will be longest remembered. But
there are some few who hold kindred with successive
generations, whose friends are found in the great of every
age, and whose influence lives as long as there are Eng-
lishmen, or even men, to be influenced ; and
such as these are most fitly laid in that which
is to the nation " The Sepulchre of our Fathers."
'This modest barial in a magnificent abbey affords no
/inapt illastration of Dickens's life. His genius sur-
rounded him with endless creations of beautiful thought
and feeling, and even, as he himself has recently assured
us, of devotion. But they never separated him, as they
have too often separated other artists, from common life
and common sympathies. It was his pleasure, if not his
very genius, to know none but homely thoughts and ways.
His fame was great enough to have justified feelings of
pride, or to have enabled him to gratify a laudable ambi-
tion. But he chose a simple life, and adhered with con-
stancy to the single aim he had adopted. He
felt that the great gifts of heart and head with
which he had been endowed were such as were best
employed in the quiet work of a man of letters. He
was concerned with the natural relations of men
and women, not with the artificial forms of society
and thought. His genius saw through our trappings,
whether of want or wealth, and in life, as in death, his
happiness was found in teaching us independence of such
externals. He left directions that he should be carried
to the grave as an ordinary man—nothing more and
nothing less ; and his career has received this flitting
completion. But his true place among us none the less
demanded acknowledgment, and we have now recognised
it in the only public manner possible. We congratulate
the Dean of Westminster on his ready sympathy with
the public feeling. He has found a grave for Dickens by
the side of Macaulay, close to Handel, Johnson, Garrick,
and Campbell, under the shadow of the monuments
of Thackeray, Addison. Goldsmith, and Shake-
speare. The man, the company, and the place
are alike worthy of each other. It was said of old to
be the work of dramatic writers "to purify the
passions," and nothing could better describe the
office of modern novelists. It is, moreover, a peculiarly
necessary as well as lofty function in a civilisation like
our own. The chief danger of a highly-cultivated society
is to foster artificial modes of thought and feeling, until
the truth of nature is obscured, or its sensibility crushed
by conventions. It is against outrages of this kind that
Dickens appealed to our native human feelings of pity,
fear, and love, and his glorylies in the success with which
he recalled to us the pure sentiments of nature. He taught
us to fear, not power; but wrong ; he led us to pity the
suffering, and to love the good. So far, at least, as this
world is concerned, no profession can assert a higher aim
than thus to make us more simple, more pure, and more
true ; and, as the Bishop of Manchestor said the
other evening, the work of the great novelist
was but in harmony with the Work of the Church. Among
the means of this moral purification of literary art is all
but the highest, and as civilization advances it exerts a
wider and deeper force. Many a great statesman who
has been borne with pomp to the Abbey had less oppor-
tunity for benefitting his country and his race than the
novelist who was on Tuesday so quietly laid in Poets'
Corner ; but, whetever the powers of the divines, or
the statesmen, or the men of learning that crowd that
national shrine, none used their talents with greater
faithfulness or greater reverence than Charles Dickens.—
Times.

TENDER SKIN, OR SHAKY HAND P—A Scotch
gentleman went into a barbar's shop to be shaved. He
soon perceived that the man was much the worse for
drink, as he had in fact cut the skin two or three
times during the operation. He desired to notice this in
as delicate a manner as possible, and suggested to the
operator, " I think, my friend, the hot weather has made
your hand unsteady." He very quietly replied, " Na,
sir, its nae that so muckle, as the heat has made your skin
some tender.

SUICIDE FROM LOVE.—A night or two ago a lad
named Bird, in the employ of a confectioner at Spalding,
in Lincolnshire, was observed to leave his master's house
and go into an outbuilding. As he did not return his
mistress went in search of him, and found him suspended
from a beam quite dead. An inquest was held on Monday
evening, when it was stated in evidence that the boy, who
was only 17 years old, had told a fellow-servant that a
girl he had formerly courted had spoken to him coldly and
had declined to walk with him or hold any communication
with him. He was of an excitable temperament, and it is
supposed that this led him to commit the rash act. A
verdict was returned in accordance with the facts.

" THE " PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DICKENS.—The
finest, beyond any comparison, among all the life-like por-
traitures-of the great man everybody is now lamenting,
is the masterly lithograph by R. J. Lane, A.R.A., taken
from John Watkins' brilliant photograph. A few
copies only, we believe, have as yet been printed
from the stone manipulated by Mr. Lane, but the work,
admirable as a work of art, and simply priceless as a
likeness, ought without any further delay to be at once
published. Published at once it might command an almost
fabulous circulation. It is a noble and truthful present-
ment of a delightful face, and is a portraiture that will be
henceforth treasured up among the most beloved laves and
potato of our English homes,

JUNE 16, 1870.

BELGIUM.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
BRUSSELS, June 12.

My attention was drawn a week since to a telegram in
the Daily Telegraph which informed the English public
that rumours declaring that the Ministry would resign if
the King refused to ratify the order dismissing the Procu-
rator-Gdndral, were gaining ground. I suppose that many
readers are unacquainted with the cause of the Ministerial
crisis, and I will therefore make an attempt to explain it.
Langrand Dumonceau, well known in financial circles,
is a man who is said to have sprung from very obscure origi,i,
and who, after filling the humblest situations in society,
worked his way up till he became agent of an insurance
company. As such he came in contact with some of the
heads of the clerical party in Belgium. Enjoying the
patronage of distinguished names, Langrand's schemes,
and the many financial establishments he founded,
drew the attention of all good souls in and out of the
country. Other names belonging to the highest gentry,
to the Court, and to the army were shining in the hand-
bills, which were distributed all over Belgium and in
these were promised fair and enticing returns. Immense
slims flowed to him. There were some who did not
trust the scheme altogether, but they were won over byithe
immense dividends said to have been paid to shareholders.
The main reason why Langrand was so favoured by the
clergy is stated to have been in consequence of his having
done some service on behalf of the Catholic faith at the
time of the Congress at Malines in 1863. He was then
complimented in a letter from his Holiness the Pope.
Subsequently the clergy supported him, thinking his mo-
tives thoroughly sincere in every project he undertook.
And thus it was that after a time he succeeded in gaining
his great reputation as a financier. It was soon after the
formation of the soi-disant General Catholic Fund that
he disappeared mysteriously from Brussels. The first
person to point out the alleged fraudulent practices of
Langrand was Marwell, the editor of the Cote Libre. This
man denounced the financier, and called upon the Tribunal
to prosecute him. A preliminary investigation was ac-
cordingly held, but the financier was acquitted of all blame,
and no regular trial was proceeded with. Marwell then
accused the Tribunal of incompetency, and he was himself
afterwards ordered to appear before the court in the posi-
tion of a defendant. Marwell is a man who enjoys an
undoubted esteem ; he had no personal interest in the
affairs of Langrand ; his name is highly respected "on
'Change" at Brussels, and being a native of Hungary, the
chief field of Langrand's operations, some say that he was
the better able to judge of them.

Langrand is a man about forty years old, and was born
at Vospen, South Brabant. In his youth he enlisted as a
soldier in Algiers ; returning from which place he became
clerk in an assurance office. He married a Miss Dumon-
ceau, daughter of a grocer at Brussels, whose name he
attached to his own, and he thus became Langrand
Dumonceau. The procedure resorted to by the specu-
lator is reported to be a scandal almost
without example in the financial world. Lan-
grand founded the Royale Belge with 3,000,000 f.
L'Ancre with 5,000,000 f., and other companies to
the amount of 50,000,000 f. All his companies were
highly praised at first by high authorities in Belgium,
including, it is said, unfortunately the clerical party.
It is stated, moreover, that while friendly with the Princes
of the Imperial family at Vienna, he was paying
out false dividends to keep his enterprises
afloat. It was while here that he founded the
International Company, with a capital of 200,000;000f.
Langrand has been in his time created Count of the Holy
Roman Empire, and Knight of some important Austrian
Order. Langrand has now gone to America, and it is
stated that he offers 100 per cent. to all who invest
their money in the mines of Agnemara, but those who
are alleged to have trusted the financier, say that
a donkey does not allow himself to be hurt twice by the
same stone. As I said before, Marwell, editor of the
Cote Libre, accused Langrand Dumonceau, but the Pro-
curator-G4ndral would not continue his prosecution of
the alleged defaulter, and thus great excitement has been
caused.

The jury acquitted Marwell on all points on the charge
of slander, and the verdict was received with immense
cheering. At the same time Langrand was declared
bankrupt, and it was expected that the Procurator-
General and the Procureur du Roi would tender their
resignation. During the proceedings it transpired that
the Procurator-General had given a written guarantee
to Langrand, to the effect that if he would come from
Vienna to be heard as witness in the case he should not
be arrested ; it also seemed that the son of the Procureur
du Roi, Monsieur Hody, was employed as a clerk by
Langrand at a salary of 4,000 francs.
At the hearing of the charge against Marwell, M. Jansar,
his counsel, ended his speech thus :—" Gentlemen of the
jury, on one side stands before you the Procurator-
General, who allowed M. Langrand to decamp ; on the
other side Marwell, in full conviction of his duty, and
c ertaiu that ho objected against fraudulent unjust acts."

The Queen and the Princesses will leave Balmoral
for England on Friday afternoon.
Count Beust is slowly recovering. The Emperor
has paid him a long visit.

The treaty of commerce with Spain will be signed
shortly ; nearly all the difficulties which prevented ita
conclusion having now been removed.

The body of a young man, named Kelly has been
found lying on the road just outsido Belfast. The poor
Fellow is supposed to have been murdered.

A Middlesbro' correspondent, reporting the con-
tinuance of remarkable briskness and activity in the
North of England iron trade, says that puddlers are so
scarce that in some works a considerable proportion of the
furnaces are not lighted.
AN ARDENT CONSERVATIVE.—Mr. J. M.
Richardson, an auctioneer of Tunbridge Wells, made a
journey to the Isle of Wight, on Friday, in order to assist
in the return of Mr. Bane Cochrane. This gentleman
has a qualification in more than twenty county con-
stituencies.

SUICIDE ON A RAILWAY.—Mr. William Henry
Edwards, a retired tradesman of Clifton, committed suicide
on Tuesday, at tho Dawlish station of the South Devon
Railway, by throwing himself across the rails just as a
train was passing. ills wife was by his side when he jumped
off the platform.

The Freeman's Journal says that a bottle con-
taining a card has been picked up at Castlegregory, near
the shore of the Maharees. It was stated on the card
that the Cunard steamer Aleppo was in a sinking condition.
The Aleppo left Queenstown on the 12th of May, for New
York.

TH.E Ems INTERVIEW.—An Austrian journal, the
Vienna Presse, gives a new version of the much talked of
rencontre between the Russian Emperor and the Prussian
King at Ems. The matter under discussion was the mar-
riage of the Czar's second son to a young princess of the
Prussian Royal house, and the betrothal was finally
decided upon by the two monarchs.
JAPANESE RAILWAYS. Mr. George Preston
White, C.E., consulting engineer to the India Office, and
examiner for all appointments of engineers for India, has
been appointed consulting engineer for the Japanese
Government in the construction of the railways for which
the 9 per cent. loan of. £1,000,000 has just been raised.
It is satisfactory that the Japanese in their first experi-
ment will thus have as much care exercised as if the works
were under British control.—Times.

THE CHARGE OF PERSONATING WOMEN.—Le
Nord says that Mr. Cumming, against whom a warrant
has been issued in connection with the charge of person-
ating women, went to Brussels immediately after the
arrest of Park and Boulton, and put up at one of the best
hotels. As, however, he had no papers, and could not
give evidence as to his means of existence, he was re-
quested to leave the country. The Nord adds that when
he was called upon he had his hair in curl papers, and that
portraits in which he and a friend were represented in
women's clothes were found in his rooms.
MELANCHOLY CANOE ACCIDENT.—A canoe acci-
dent, resulting, there is every reason to fear, in the death
of Mr. Peter Rintoul, jun., of Glasgow, occurred in Loch
Long ou Saturday last. Mr. Rintoul, it is understood,
left IDunoon or Ardentinny with the intention of proceed-
ing in his canoe to Arrochar, and he was observed about
noon in the middle of the loch, paddling his tiny
craft with great industry, there being a strong wind
and a heavy sea on at the time. Nothing more is known
to have been seen of him • but about three o'clock in the
aftereoon the canoe which had evidently drifted ashore,
was found on the beach at Strone Toll, on the east side
of Loch-Long, some four or five miles north from the en-
trance to Lochgoil.

TORPEDO OPERA.TIONS.--AR attack by torpedoes
was made on Tuesday afternoon by the Royal Engineers
upon the wreck of the Golden Fleece, which has been for
so many months an obstruction in the channel way for
shipping off Sully Island, Bristol Channel. The charges
were in three iron cylinders, amounting in the aggre-
gate to 1;500 lbs. of gunpowder, and were applied to
a portion of the vessel immediately in front of the engines
A large quantity of timber was brought away by the ex-
plosion, and the general condition of the appearances dis-
played were such asto signify that the operation had been
successful, but no actual results can be recorded until a
survey by soundings has been made.

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LITERATURE.

Silvia. By Julia Kavanagh, Author of " Nathalie,"

Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett.

Julia Kavanagh's books are always interesting. There
is an earnestness about her style and a reality about the
characters she describes that irresistibly enthral the
reader's sympathy and attention. Silvia Nardi, the
heroine of the present tale, is an Italian girl, gifted with
all the fascinations, and possessed also of many of the
imperfections of her race—wayward, impetuous, and pas.
sionate. Her faults bring their own punishment. She
refoses'a lover to whom her whole heart is devoted, and
engages herself to one who is an object of her indifference,
and is then overwhelmed at the results of her foolish im-
petuosity. The scene in the forest where Charles Meredith is
shot at by the assassin is vividly and powerfelly described,
The passionate emotions which thrill the hearts of hero
and heroine are depicted with that mingled tenderness and
purity so conspicuous in the writings of Julia Kavanagh.
Contrasted with the impetuous Silvia is her friend aad
companion, the gentle and unhappy Madame de l'Epine.
" An ermine, a regular ermine 1" exclaims Silvia, as her
delicate friend daintily lifts her dress from the duet of the
bye-ways, and with equal care does Madame de l'Epno
preserve the tranquility of her spirit amid the heavy trials
of her life. Here is her beautiful theory of prayer—"l
consider prayer," she says, " like one of those high places
t• which men climb in order to get a wider view of all
that lies below. Whenever I want to see how small my
trials are, and when I cannot, because, alas 1 they are so
near, I climb up that divine mountain and look down a$
them. How different they seem when seen from that die.
tance. Some have vanished utterly ; others are so small
that I could laugh at them. And there have been timer.
happy times, when dwelling there, I, as it were, sew
nothing else. All lay below, miles below, and quite for.
gotten." "Is it not cold up there ?'' objected the ieapul.
sive Siliva ; but we need not pursue the dialogue between
these very dissimilar friends. Some of the minor characterer,
Lady John, and Mrs. Groom, and Mrs. Green, not for.
getting the all credulous but ever delightful Capitaine de
l'Epne, are happily sketched and will not very readily
be forgotten.

The Household Fairy.

By the Lady Lytton. HaU

and Co.

This is a pretty little volume dedicated to every house-
holder in the kingdom, and it treats of a subject which
assuredly comes home to one and all. Readers may here
learn by what all potent and irresistible necromancy Mr.
Winifred Welldon converts " the greatest plague of life"
into "a household fairy." The glimpse of Mrs.
Winifred's charming abode, " The Blossoms," and her
dainty little handmaiden Audrey is very attractive.
and the delighted visitor is favoured by the good-
natured old dame with ample details as to the secrets of
her wonderful art of housekeeping. And singularly prow
tical and practicable are this good lady's theories, for
instance, when shais asked how she can possibly keep her
house so marvellously clean, she replies that the way she
" keeps it clean" is "never to let it get dirty 1" and again
when the visitor is astonished that onlyone servant is able
to accomplish such admirable results, Mrs. Winifred
shrewdly excaims, "Well, ma'am, there are twelve hours
in the day; a great deal may be done, especially
in a small house, in that time, provided it is
done ; but forty-eight hours are not long enough
to do any thing when every thing is always
going to be done." As the King of France interrupted
the apologetic mayor, who had twenty excuses to offer for
not firing a royal salute—imprimis he had no cannon—by
observing that that one reason was quite sufficient and he
would dispense with the rest, so we are inclined to masa
this one axiom of Mrs. Welldon's as containing the key to
all her philosophy. Mistresses and maids will do well to
consult the teaching of this homely soothsayer.