The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-27 00:00:00

TESTIMONIALS TO SIR C. W. DILKE AND
MR. GODFREY LUSHINGTON.

A crowded meeting of the Liberal working classes was
held a day or two back in the large room of the Lamb Hotel,
Wallingford, to present their late representative, Sir C.
Wentworth Dllke, Bart., with two handsome testimonials
in acknowledgment of their appreciation of his worth. The
one (a silver inkstand) was subscribed for by the working
men themselves ; and the other, an elegant silver salver,
by their wives and daughters. Mr. Job Gunstone (stone.
mason) having been voted to the chair, Sir Wentworth,
accompanied by his youngest son (Mr. Ashton IV. Dilke),
entered the room, and was received with loud cheering.
The speeches were appropriate to the occasion, and an
address was read by Mrs. Patey. In reply, Sir Wentworth
Dilke said it afforded him the greatest pleasure to accept
the exceedingly handsome testimonial. He had no wish,
he remarked, to forget Wallingford. He saw no reason
why women who were householders, and who were
called upon to fill the office of churchwarden, overseer,
and other parochial posts, should be denied the
privilege of voting. He spoke strongly in favour of
the Ballot, and said the poor wanted it to protect
them from the rich, and the rich from the poor, and
the working men from the working men themselves.
Sir Wentworth also referred to the constitution of the
House of Lords, and called attention to the motion given
notice of by Earl Russell, for electing two-thirds of
that body from its present members, and one-third from
life peers. Many of the present members, he said, were
lunatics, and others were minors, and many questions
could not be debated there because no one understood them.
For instance, there was not an engineer in the House ;
while in the House of Commons there were men who were
quite as capable of discussing any measures brought for-
ward as there were outside it.
At the last general election the present sitting member
for Abingdon (Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lindsay) was Un-
successfully opposed by Mr. Godfrey Lushington, the
Liberal interest. But the working men of the borough
determined that in order to shew their high opinion of
Mr. Lushington's character, and their appreciation
of the upright and manly way in which he had fought their
battle, they would raise a testimonial, and for that purpose
elected a committee from amongst themselves to collect
subscriptions. When it was known by the Liberal trades.
men and others that the working men were raising a sub-
scription they gave their contributions, and the result was
that a handsome silver fruit or flower stand mounted on
ebony was purchased, on which the following inscription
was engraved : " Presented to Godfrey Lushington, Esq.,
by his friends in Abingdon, who retain a grateful
remembrance of the honourable spirit with which, as
the Liberal candidate in the election of 1868, he con-
tested the representation of the borough. Abingdon,
1869." The wives of the working men resolved to emulate
the deeds of their husbands, and at once started a sub-
scription to present Mrs. Lushington with a testimonial
of their esteem, and so ultimately, by the help of others,
they were enabled to purchase a very handsome timepiece,
with :figures very suitably emblematic of industry, from
Mr. Sheard, High-street, Oxford, on which was engraved
the following inscription :—" Presented to Mrs. Godfrey,
Lushington, as a mark of high esteem, by the wives of
the independent Liberal electors of Abingdon, February
1869." The presentation recently took place in the County
Hall, which was completely filled, and the whole of the
proceedings were most enthusiastic.

RITUALISM AT ST. GEORGE'S-LY-THE

EAST.

With some expressions of wonder at the " extraordi-
nary " proceedings, the daily papers chronicle the progress
made through the parish of St. George's-in-the-East on
Good Fridayby the Rev. C. F. Lowder, M.A., the incum-
bent of St. Peter's Church, and a noted Ritualist. The
?rocession was announced as " the Way of the Cross.'
and the parishioners were told that the minister would
make a tour through his parish, the choir chanting litanies
and hymns, and himself making short addresses al
intervals. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the churcl
being tolerably full, Mr. Lowder, who was habited in F
plain cassock, and accompanied by Mr. Stantham,
curate, and another clergyman, entered, and, kneeling
before a large cross draped in black, which stood on
the high altar, said one or two short prayers. The
clergy and congregation then proceeded into the courtyard
of the church, a vast mass of persons having meanwhile
assembled outside the gates. Mr. Lowder having kind's
invited as many as chose to come in, delivered a shor,
address on the leading characteristics of the day, and a
special litany was sung. Then a procession was formed,
consisting of choristers, c:ergy, and such others persons
as were inclined to join it. Preceding it was a gentleman
who held on high a gold cross, veiled ; and this was Carrie('
before the clergy during the whole of the ceremony o
the day. Having moved up Old Gravel-lane near to th,
iron bridge of the London Dock, Mr. Lowder and hi.
friends made a halt at the corner of Worcester-street
Addressing the people, he said they were going that da.3
through the painful stations of the way of the cross. ia
the first he had spoken in the courtyard before they
started. The second station on the way of the cross was
when Christ received his cross, and when he was con-
demned to death. On this point he delivered an impas-
sioned address, in which be showed how every disciple of
Christ received his cross in the world. At its close the
procession reformed, the upraised veiled cross being,
as before, carried in front, and the choristers and
sympathisers with the movement singing the hymn " Jesus,
refuge of the weary." Passing down Worcester-street,
the procession again halted at a place called Greyhound-
court ; and here Mr. Lowder said the third station on
the way of the cross was that in which Christ fell
under the weight of the cross. On this he preached
with great fervour, shewing how men were continually
falling through sin and temptation. Then another move-
ment was made, the hymn, " Oh, come and mourn with
me awhile," being solemnly sung. The next halt was
made in Tench-street. Mr. Lowder said the fourth sta-
tion on the way of the cross was when Christ was met
by His mother when He was coming out of Jerusalem. On
this he founded an energetic appeal to mothers, of whom
there were at least a hundred before him with holies in
their arms. Down Bird-street they came within half-a-
dozen yards of Napping Church, a narrow street dividing
the parish of Wapping and St. Peter's, Here Mr. Lowder
delivered an address on the fifth station when the cross
was laid upon Simon of Cyrene. Christ bad fallen down
under the weight of his cross, and his cruel persecutors,
rather than lose the sight of his death, made a poor coun-
tryman bear it. The influence of the cross penetrated his
heart, and on this incident Mr. Lowder founded his in-
struction. Then, passing down Greenbank-street to the
north of Napping Church, the procession halted at the
corner of Anchor and Hope-alley. Mr. Lowder said the
fifth station of the cross (the repetition caused some con-
fusion in the other arrangements) was that in which
the woman, coming out from the crowd, and seeing the
sad face of Jesus and His exhausted state, gave him a
cloth to wipe His face. It had been said that the impres-
sion of His face was made upon that cloth. The next
halt was at the corner of King•street, where Mr. Lowder
spoke of the sixth station, where Jesus fell a second time.
Then, on a large open space at the end of King-street, he
spoke of the eighth station of the cross, " the women
of Jerusalem weeping for Christ." A little further
on he spoke of the ninth station, where Christ fell a
third time after having nearly reached the top of Mount
Calvary. At Wapping-wall Mr. Lowder spoke of the
tenth station in the way of the cross, "Jesus stripped
of His garments at the place of execution ;" and further
on, on the eleventh station, in which Christ was laid on
the cross. The procession then moved to Calvert-street,
one of the headquarters of the former riots ; and here
Mr. Lowder spoke of the twelfth station, " the death of
Christ after hanging for three hours on the cross ;" and
the thirteenth station, " Christ taken down from the
cross." This concluded the circuit of the parish, in
which just three hours were occupied ; and the vast mass
of people who had by this time assembled—and many of
whom had followed Mr. Lowder throughout—sang with
great vigour Toplady's celebrated hymn, " Rock of ages,
cleft for me." The procession then moved into the court-
yard of the church, where Mr. Lowder spoke briefly on
the fourteenth stage of the way of the cross, " Christ
taken down from the grave," and then pronounced the
benediction. Immediately afterwards the church was
crowded, and evening service was commenced.

ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.—WhiIe the sexton of
the parish church of Padstow, Cornwall, was digging in
the churchyard, a day or two back, he came upon an up-
right piece of granite, fixed in a piece of much larger size,
which seemed to form the lower part of a very ancient
piece of carved work. The footpiece was a large, fiat, and
irregular-sided granite stone, 81t. long and sft. wide,
weing nearly three tons. Padstow Church was built more
than 1,000 years ago.

THE LATE EARL OF GLASGOW.—The late Lord
Glasgow has left Mr. George Payne the splendid legacy of
25,000, in addition to one-half of the horses in training,
&e. The remaining moiety of the horses goes to General
Peel. Out of compliment to his deceased friend, Mr.
Payne takes Lord Glasgow's colours fur his second colour.
viz., white body, crimson sleeves and cap, in which the
horses bequeathed to him by his lordship will always run.
The racehorses are, we hear, to be named forthwith.
Among the fortunate recipients under the will may also
be mentioned the Hon. James Macdonald (8,000)
and the Hon. Colonel H. Forester (V 5,000). Cunningham,
who had charge of the stud paddocks at Doncaster, has
been left a legacy of £5OO and the stallion Tom Bowline ;
and Aldcroft will also receive £5OO from his old master.
We understand that the legacy to Aldcroft was made by
codicil only Vw9 days before Lord Glasgow died.—Sporting
giat