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The cafacity to "create a soul under the ribs of
death" is one among the distinctive attributes of
imaginative genius—not that of merely laborious
research or philosophical investigation. The poet,
in the literal sense, is the creator. The antiquarian,
pure and simple, has not been inaptly or in any
way extravagantly designated, or, we might even
say, typified, by CARLYLE, under the title of Dryas-
dust. We feel, in a measure, constrained to insist
upon what we have here expressed by reason of the
graceful eulogium pronounced upon the Archaeologi-
cal Society yesterday at St. Alban's by the noble lord
who has this year undertaken the office of its Presi-
dent. In the very opening of his remarkable address
to the association yesterday, Lord LYTTON referred
to what he called his own sense of indebted-
ness to the archaeologist whenever he had under-
taken, so to speak, to trace upon the canvas some
image of the past—observing, in continuance of his
thought, that arclueplogy had been called the hand-
maid of history, and that, in truth, without her aid,
history could as little represent any particular period
as the drawing of a skeleton would represent the
features and the form in which the individual being
was recognised while in life. "It was archze)logy,"
he said, " that restored to the skeleton of a former
age the flesh amid sinews and lineaments that distin-
guish it from the countless centuries of which it is a
link, clothed it in the very garments that it wore,
and rebuilt the very borne in which it dwelt." Now,
to our notion, the noble lord, in saying this, was in a
manner taking the coronal that belo.igs by right to
himself and his fellows, for the purpose of
placing it, with an almost extravagant gene•
rosily, upon the head of—DmisnusT ! Upon
the brow of the Antiquarian and the Archeologist.
The latter, according to our thinking—the philos3-
phic archaeologist and antiquarian--furnishes the pos-
sessor of imaginative genius, furnishes the poet or
creator with the dry bones of his argument. And
it is the latter, not the former, who clothes those dry
bones anew with living flesh and blood, imparting to
them once more the vanishel charms of form and
features, suffusing beauty again over their otherwise
forgotten lineaments, in a word, " creating a soul
under the ribs of death." A more striking illustra-
tion could not possibly be adduced from among all
the numerous and varied masterpieces of imaginative
literature—namely, as to the relative position in
which the p3et and the arAue )logist stand in
regard to each other—than may be at once very
readily instanced from among the works of the noble
lord himself, the President, now iu 1869, of the British
Arc' x)logical Association. Ills exquisite historical
romance of "The Last Days of Pompeii" illustrates,
in fact, what we are hero insisting upon in as
riking a manner as could possibly be desire 1. Th .re,
in the relics of the buried city--roliei hid bare by
the researches of the archa )logist—the
Age was made to live anew, not in Eno
luminous records of Sir WILLIAA GILL, but in the

life-like imaginings, in the pathetic, roman.i;.:, petic
pages of tliJ cre.itor of GlAucus and lone, the d,di-
neator of Nydia, the Blind Girl, and of Arbaces, the
Egyptian. The true restorer of the past, again—we
would here insist upon it—is far rather the i►nagina-
tive genius than the philosophic student, who simply
furnishes the poet with some among the raw mate-

rials of his art, through the medium of certain pro

'ound and laborious researches in the science o

archm )logy.

Saving only in regard to this particular portion of
his address to the Association at St. Alban's yester-

day, and in regard to a subsequent pas3age where
reference was made to the LOLLARDS, and the gene-

ral drift of religious opinion during the reigns of
the later HENRIES—to which passages we would here,

passing, very respectfully take exception, as being

n no way coincident with our own views—we cannot

but regard Lord LYrroN's address to the Archxo!o-

gical Association, with unaffected and, in regard to

several portions of it, with profound ad:niration.
Than the closing sentences nothing could well be

more inspiriting, more heartening, mire elevating to

the patriotic ardour of his hearers. "It has been

vouchsafed toEngland," he said, " to diffuse her chil-

dren and her language amidst realms unknown to the

ambition of ALEXANDER, and spreading far beyond
the boldest flight of the Roman eagles. Ages hence,
from the shores of Australasia and America, pilgrims

will visit this land as the birthplace of their ances-
tors, and venerate every relic of our glorious, if

chequered, past, from the day of the Druid to that
in which we live. For while we speak we are making

history, and becoming in our turn the ancients to
posterity. May no future GIBBON trace to the faults

of our time the causes which ensure the decline

and fall of empires. Century after century, may
our descendants in those vast new world; coin-
pared to which Europe itself shrinks into the d)-

minions of a province or a shire, fini still
flourishing on these ancestral shores—nor ashamed to

❑umber the men of this day among its fathers —a race

adorned by the genius of literature and enriched by
the stores of science. May they find still unimpaired,

and sacred alike from superstition and unbelief, the
altars of Christian faith. Still may our havens and
docks be animated by vessels fitted for commerce
abroad, and that in case of need for defence at home.

Still may our institutions and our liberties find the

eloquence of freemen and patriots in our legislative
halls, and the ermine of justice be unsullied by a spot

n the courts where she adjudicates between man

and man. These are the noblest legacies we receive
from the past, and while we treasure these at every

hazard, and through every change, the soul of England

will retain vitality to her form, and no arel,m9logist

will seek her grave amidst the nations that have

passed away." Noble words—words not unworthy

of one' whom Lord IIouGHToN, in no way extrava-
gantly, eulogised, immediately afterwards, as " the
first of our novelists, and not the:last of our barons,"

one who, besides, being in hi.nself at . once Poet,
Administrator, Dramatist, Orator, Novelist, States-
man—is, in all those different capacities, intensely

and emphatically an Englishman.

ONE convert, of whatever race or persuasion,

ought, one would think, to be held as good as
another; but it seems to be an unquestionable fact
that the value of proselytism cl.epends to a great
extent upon the difficulty of accomplishing it.
Nor is it, perhaps, unnatural V. iat a victory over
an obdurate sinner should be looked upon
as of greater worth than an easy triumph over one
not unwilling to receive the truth. Considering
that something like £l,OOO is t supposed to be spent

in bringing about the conversion of every Jew
who is won over from the errors of his race,
and that a convert from that obstinate persuasion
is rarely retained more than a year, we can readily
understand how Hebrew proselytes are so much
sought after, and so much prized when found. At
least it is only by the aid of some such assumption
that the remarkable trial which has just terminated
at Cardiff becomes intelligible. To impute any other
motive to the defendants than that of excessive zeal
would be, judging from the facts of the case, per-
fectly unjust. It is only on the supposition that
heir earnestness grievously outran their discretion
that we can explain their placing themselves and the
denomination which they represent in such an
equivocal position.
Neither the law nor the facts of this " abduction
case" present any great complexity. The Rev.
NATHANIEL THOMAS, a Welsh Dissenting Minister,
and his wife, together with some other persons, were
made the defendants in a civil action for damages,
on the ground that they enticed ESTHER LYONS,
daughter of a Jewish money-lender at Cardiff, to
quit the service of her father ; and that, in the
second place, they received and detained her. There
is no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS had pre-
viously displayed considerable zeal in the work of
converting Jews. One triumph of this kind
had been already secured in the shape of the
cousin of ESTHER LYONS. When, therefore,
tho latter girl presented herself to the
wife of the Welsh clergyman, on the night of March
23rd, 1868, expressing her wish to quit her parents,
and asking for shelter, she was received with little
demur. Why ESTHER LYONS left her home is an
important question, touching which there was a
severe conflict of evidence. The girl herself alleges
that she was ill-treated,and some of her father'sservants
support her evidence in that particular; her parents
and friends, on the other hand, depose quite the
contrary. But whatever motive the young Jewess
might have had for quitting the parental roof, she
met with no lack of encouragement from strangers.
On the presumption that she was a convert, an army
of Christian ladies interposed to conceal her from
her parents. Not only was the host enlisted against
the Jewish foe remarkably numerous, but it seems to
have entertained small scruples as to the means
to be employed. The end was held to justify
almost any means. ESTHER LYONS stayed
at Mrs. Tiro AI AS'S house the night, her
husband approving. Then fearing that the
active parents would discover her abode,
she was taken to another house in Cardiff—the
residence of a merchant named HOLLYEI2. Here she
remained two or three weslis, and was then trans-
ferred to a Mrs. KEEP, at London, where she was
visited by divers interested Christian people.
Filially, after being baptised, she was removed to
G ermany.

Of course, her parents did not neglect to
seek for her during this period of time ; but they
were met with a skill and caution on the part of the
enterprising Christian foe which long baffled all
researches. Mrs. THOMAS and her spouse met
several inquiries with a style of answer that may be
mildly set down as equivocal. On one occasion the
Welsh minister was asked as to her whereabouts, and
replied that he knew nothing—an answer which was
in the strict letter correct, but which leaves some-
thing to be wished on the score of strictly accurate
truth. For weeks the girl's father called upon the
THOMASES, asking for information, but could obtain

none. ESTHER LYONS was specially enjoined to
keep matters " secret from her parents." On one
occasion, when a note-was sent her by Mrs. THOMAS,
she was requested to destroy it. When she
was sent to Prussia—there to be educated
and maintained at the expense of her
generous friends—the route chosen was circuitous,
After she had arrived there, and had occasion to
write to her parents, by the instructions of her
friends, she described the scenery as if Switzerland,
and not Prussia, were her place of abode. Mrs.
HOLLYER, of Cardiff, who sheltered ESTHER for
some time, in writing to Mrs. KEEP, of London,
says :—" Poor Mrs. T., she is so much upset, and the
is Goillhuly W die

I say of mortified rage—they say of grief. They
are in a great rage just now. Pray much to the
Lora) to defeat their efforts." How truly charitable !

As this expression appears in a very careful letter,

full of strategy, we must set down this mingled
caution and exuberance of feeling to the excitement

of the hour.

After some negotiation between the parties, which
came to nothing, legal proceedings were taken, and
we now learn the end of them. The jury have given

a verdict for the plaintiff with damages of £5O, on
the ground that ESTHER LYONS was enticed away

from her home by the minister and his wife

There is some reason to think that this

verdict is founded more on a conviction of the jus

tice of the case rather than in accordance

with its legal merits. The girl was of age—above

18—and had the right to leave her father's service,

and to remain away from his house. The charge of
detaining and harbouring, therefore, fell to the

ground. As to the ground of the verdict—that o:

enticing the girl away—the evidence on that point is,
to say the least, conflicting. There is much reason

to think that the girl, dissatisfied with her treatment
at her father's house, went to the minister's on the

presumption that she would obtain a shelter.

She had been told by one of her companions thal
she would be received there. She seems on her first

arrival at her new abode to have scarcely understood
what was required of her in the way of changing her
faith, though the influences with which she was

surrounded would, no doubt, soon determine her to

embrace Christianity. These are points, however.

which, as the case is to be tried over again, will

be determined by a more competent legal
authority. There can be no doubt that
the moral offence committed in concealing and

spiriting this girl from place to place, often by
the aid of very questionable means, was a very great

one, and deserved a much more severe punishment
than is represented by the verdict. The enormity

of such a proceeding can admit of no question

What, indeed, would Protestants have said if

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Catholics or Jews had been the defendants in this

case ?

The Ametican yacht Dauntloco, tho proporty of
Mr. J. G. Bennett, which arrived at Havre from New York
a week or two ago, has at length dropped anchor in Cuweg
Roads, and has created much curiosity among yachting men.

On Saturday the Manchester Assizes were opened
by Mr. Justice Hayes, who, in his charge to the Grand
Jury, commented on the formidable calendar of ninety-three
cases, and pointed out that most of those of murder, man-
slaughter, and violence to the person, were the direct or in-
direct result of the drinking habits of the population.
At the Nottingham Police Court, on Saturday, a
man named Vincent, alias Gudgeon, was _charged with
assault. It was alleged that tho assault arose from tho com-
plainant's giving evidence in the election inquiry. The
prisoner was fined 405., and ordered to find sureties to keep
the peace for three months.

A serious conflict between a body of Irishmen and
the police took place at Bishop Auckland on Saturday night
The Irish wero making a disturbance, and the police, who
went to quell it, were attacked with sticks and stones, and
one of them was shot in the breast and dangerously wounded.
Several men were arrested, and some of them were found
armed with revolvers.

Ou Saturday morning it was di,covered that a
clerk at Preston had absconded, taking with hint £BO of his
employer's money, and the daughter of a " retired lady of
ind,.pendent means." In a letter which the runaway was
good enough to leave behind him he admits that lie has
stolen the £BO, hopes to be forgiven, and assures the owner
that be will repay the amount " some time."

On Friday, the schooner Lorina, from Newcastle
to Dundee, went ashore on the bank, at the river mouth,
and the master and two of the crew were drowned. The
weather was most tempestuous at the time. The crew had
great difficulty in keeping themselves, alive until assistance
was procured. It was hours before their rescue was accom-
plished by the crew of a fishing-boat. Their own vessel
was too large to go close to the wreck, but they procured a
small boat from the schooner Eclipse, and were only just i❑
time to save the shipwrecked crew, for the Loriva went
to pieces almost simultaneously with the approach of the
boat.

DIVIDENDS ON FTIPLIC_I_ STOWS.

On the motion of Mr. Stansfeld, a copy of the corres-
pondence has been published which has passed between
the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Bank of
England upon the subject of granting greater
' facilities to the public in the payment of divi-
L (lends due upon the National Debt. On the 25th
id January Mr. Lowe, writing to the governor and
deputy-governor of the Bank, states that it had been
brought under his notice that greater facilities were given
to the public by railway and other large mercantile com-
panies in the payment of dividends than by the Bank of
England, the governor being requested to consider
whether similar facilities might not be accorded
to the public fundholders. It was also pointed
out that dividend warrants prepared in the shape of
receipts, and transmitted to the holders of stock, or to
their agents, would be negotiated through bankers in the
ordinary way, not only without appreciable increase or
risk to the Bank, but a relief tothe pressure upon the Bank
during payment of the dividend, and considerable augrnen ta-
ticn of public convenience. ahe Chancellor of the Exche-
quer added that it was his intention to take into considera-
tion the question whether the coupons attached to stock
certificates alight not, when they became due, be
made payable to the several post-offices throughout the
kingdom or be receivable in payment of taxes. A
committee of the Bank was appointed to consider
the propositions of Mr. Lowe, and they came to the con-
clusion that the proposals were full of difficulties, except
the last. With respect to the use of the pest-office for
the payment of the interest coupons, the committee
suggested that a simple method of proceeding
would be to authorise local postmasters to encash
them when presented for the purpose. On the
14th of May Mr. Lowe again pressed the matter upon:the
reconsideration of the Bank, pointing out the manner in
which the dividend books might be divided in order
to afford the necessary convenience to the public
On the 22nd of July the governor and deputy-governor
state that the court, sharing in Mr. Lowe's desire to
make the public dividends as readily and conveniently
accessible to the public creditor as might be possible, had
authorised them to state—" 1. That they are prepared
to give effect, under proper legal sanction, to the wish
expressed in your letter of the 14th May last, so far as
regards the optional payment of the dividends, by trans-
mission of the warrants through the post. 2nd. That,
with regard to the second proposition, it appears
to the court that your objection in recommending
' that fundholders residing at or near a town where
there is a branch of the Bank of England should be
allowed to draw their dividends from such branch bank,'
will be substantially accomplished when the facilities
already exist are combined with those now intended to be
given in connection with the first proposition, and with
the discontinuance of all pecuniary charge. 3. That the
court are unable satisfactorily to entertain your third
proposition, That, so soon as the necessary arrangements
can be carried out, the dividends should be payable to the
public quarterly, in place of half•yearly,' until they are
better acquainted with the mode in which you contem-
plate carrying out your idea of a quarterly payment of
the dividends on the public stocks."

ANOTHER .DRINKING FOUNTAIN FROM

AN INDIA X.

On Monday her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Teck
" inaugurated " a new drinking-fountain in the Legent's
Park. The fountain was announced to be the gift of
" Cowangee Jehangeep Ileadymoney, Esq.," a Parsee
merchant of great wealth. This is the second fountain
erected in London by gentlemen from Hindostan. That
they should take any interest in such works has to many
appeared strange. We have had communicated to us the
way in which it " became fashionable" for them to do so.
An Indian nabob hearing of a village (in Buckingham-
shire, we believe) which did not possess a single well or
spring, and consequently that the inhabitants had to
bring all the water they required a long
distance, and with much toil, be sent to this
country funds and instructions to bore for water until they
could insure a good supply. This was done, and an artesian
well was sunk, and a plentiful and constant supplyof water
obtained. The well was protected by a handsome erection, a
drawing of which appeared in the Illustrated London
News. This attracted considerable attention in India,
and fired the zeal of another Indian prince, the
Maharajah of Vizianagr ann. This Prince was
very faithful to British rule during the mutiny,
and Lears the motto on his coat of arms of
"Ever Loyal." Ile expressed the wish to erect a
drinking fountain in the metropolis, and after long
negotiations, a site was obtained in Hyde Park. The
fountain was erected at a cost of £1,200, and was opened
by his Royal Rigby:us the Duke of Cambridge last sum-
mer. It kis now the property of the Queen. Full
reports of the opening appeared in the papers, and the
171vvtrafrd 8",,c) u tiktaai of tho fountain. Thus Mr.
Headymoney was moved tv "go and do likewise." The
result is the fountain inaugurated to-day. It cost £1,400.
The structure from base to summit stands twenty-two feet,
and is chiefly composed of Sicilian marble, intermixed with
serpentine and with polished red Aberdeen granite. It is
reached by three massive granite steps of sexagon form, the
basement of the fountain being quadrangular, facing east,
west, north, and south. There are four fountains falling
from the centre of a lily flower into a large font-like looking
basin, constructed of the polished red Aberdeen granite,
resting upon pillars, and from each corner of the square
tower springs a pediment, whilst the centre is of spiral
form, beautifully sculptured, with appropriate designs
representing water flowers of various descriptions, sur-
mounted at the apex with a group representing the lotus.
On the southern front, above the panel intended for the
inscription, is a very beautifully-sculptured head repre-
senting the donor wearing his Parsee cap, the face being
unmistakably oriental. On the western front is the por-
trait of the Queen.

A few days ago, a Northern gentleman, when
in Calais, accidentally met Mr. George Hudson in the
Place d'Armes, and in a conversation, the ex•railway king
expressed the gratitude, while tears ran down his cheeks,
he owed to the press and the generous people of England.
Mr. Hudson is now in a comfortable position.
A serious nitro-glyceriue accident took place re-
cently in Brazil. A quantity bad been prozured for blasting
experiments, but it was resolved not to use it on account of
its evil reputation. Accordingly, six cans of it, containing
601b5., were taken in a launch to about a furlong's distance
from the arsenal to be sunk in the bay, but, unhappily, ou
throwing out the first can it exploded, the explosion ex-
tended to the others, the boat was blown to pieces with six
of the crow, and the seventh man was rescued only to die
soon after.

THE DUNICELD BRIDGE AFFAIR. The cam-
paign b. tween Mr. Robertson, of DuudonnaeLie,
and the DukA of Athole respecting the pontago at Duukeid
Bridge still continues. Mr. Robertson has been sentenced
by the Justices of the Peace, Perth, to !.). the whole of the
damages sustained by the Duke and a line of £lO, or, in de-
fault, three months' imprisonment. Mr. Robertson gave
notice of appeal to the Quarter Sessions. At another court
in Perth thero was a stormy scene, arising from the
same affair. The duke having prayed for an injunction
to restrain Mr. Robertson from destroying the gate, the case
was heard in the Sheriff Court before Mr. Sheriff Barclay.
Mr. Robertson protested against the hearing, saying he be-
lieved the judge to be corrupt, and actuated by malice. The
Sheriff would not agree to suspend proceedings, and the
injunction was made perpetual, Mr. Robertson declaring ho
would appeal. Popular sympathy is evidently rm the side
of lie assau*.t, Lula the ixiiipoiary gate Las been again
destroyed, and a reserve of flakes carried away to prevent
its re-erection. Mr. Robertson was present, and is to be
charged with disobeying the injunction.
CARBON PRINTING. —All interesting account of
carbon printing is given in the Daily Nocs. The two
great difficulties of the photographer have always been
the want of permanence in the photographs, and the
difficulty of obtaining many copies at a cheap rate. To
remedy the evil of fading photographs, artists have lately
turned their attention to carbon printing, that is to say, to
the production of pictures in other materials than that which,
being affected by the light, originally produced the picture.
Many years ago Mr. Becquerel noticed that the effect pro-
duced by the rays of the sun upon bichromate of potash
depended upon the quantity of size in the paper used.
When the paper was without size it was very slightly
affected by the light. On this hint all the processes of
carbon printing have been perfected. A coating of
gelatine is made sensitive by the application of bichromate
of potash, and is exposed under a negative, such as is
ordinarily used in photography, when all the parts Eat
would become dark are affected to some perceptible depth,
while the lights undergo no eliang,. Mr. Woodbury, the
inventor of a recent process, taking advantage of
the different depths to which the sunlight has
penetrated, having washed out the unaffected gelatine,
takes a sup; of the piettms in relief in soft metal by the
help of great pressure. These copies can be imitated for
an indefinite number of times by various means. In large
pictures this process is uncertain, but for copying cartes
and small subjects it is perfect, and when a portrait is
taken in the morning a number of copies may be ready on
the same afternoon. Another process by which carbon
printing has been performed on a large scale has be, la
invented by Mr. Swan, of Newcastle. By this process
large pictures may be executed with all the delicacy of a
photograph, while they have the permanence of a print.
The only drawback is, that it takes more time than Mr.
Woodbury's invention. The Autotype Company, who are
carrying on this process, are producing copies of the best
continental pictures, while another firm is copying from
English chef crccuvree.

Brum 017‘ TEE ITZ3LIC JOITMTALI3,

The Times, in referring to the withdrawal of the bill
for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and
its threatened reappearance next session, remarks that we
• are promised, therefore, continued abitation on this
delicate and difficult subject. The social disturbance its
prolonged discussion must cause is probably reflected in
the obstinate animosity it has lately called forth. The fact
is that, when once stirred, the question rouses very deep
social and very keen religious feelings, and, whichever
way it may ultimately be decided, we own to have but
little sympathy with those who have raised it. We
are at a loss to sec the hardship of restricting
a man from a single family in choosing a second
wife. The law demands only a very moderate degree
of self-control, and those who have followed their
own predilections against the judgment of the
community have no right to represent themselves as in-
jured persons, and to demand that prescription and
general rules should be upset for their private advantage.
However, when the bill is again introduced, we trust it
will be fairly as well as fully discussed, and that it sill
net be met with the kind of opposition it has encountered
in t►he gresent session. No proposal can be permanently
defeated by such means. It is possible that full and seri-
ous debates might lead to such an expression of public
opinion as would discourage the promoters of the mea-
sure ; but to resist them by the mere forms of the House
is simply to furnish them with au excuse and a provoca-
tion to persistence. It is probable that the whole mar.
riage law of the ed Kingdom will shortly come under
review, and this particular point would be most properly
considered in connection with the whole subject. The
thing is not one which should be done in a hurry or refused
in a passion. It is one of grave social concern, and should
receive proportionate consideration.
The Post, in reviewing the work of the session, says that
the Government have carried an Irish Church Bill, they
have passed a Bankruptcy and an Imprisonment for Debt
Bill, and by conducting the Endowed Schools Bill to a
successful issue they at least have lifted the education
question over the threshold. Each of these acts is a great
achievement, and confers a national benefit. Certainly
the first could not have been brought to accomplishment
--perhaps neither of the others could—without the com-
mand by the First Minister of such a majority
as has not been at any stateman's back since Sir
Robert Peel walked ❑p the House of Commons
as the representative of a change in commercial
policy in 1842. It was said that Mr. Gladstone's majority
was too cumbersome for manoeuvre, and too large and
heterogeneous for control, and it was prophesied that it
would melt away from its leader, just as the Highland
clans were wont to do in the times of old when the day
of plunder was over and the discomforts of campaigning
commenced. It has not so turned out. Mr. Gladstone
has gone through the session without the loss of an
adherent, and he has done his work without disturb.
ing the balance established by constitutional theory
and custom between the various elements of legiela-
tive power, and without bringing into collision the
two Houses which constitute the Parliament of the
kingdom. The credit, however, of this particular
result, it must be owned, is not due solely to Mr.
Gladstone. It is not unknown that, in regard to the
differences of opinion between the Lords and Commons,
the First Minister did not primarily exhibit the temper.
ateness of view and that sagacity which ultimately
determined the policy of his Cabinet, and the avoidance
of a collision between the two Houses is probably more to
be ascribed to the influence of some of his own party, and
to the moderation and determination of some of the lead-
ing members of the Opposition, than to any action or
declaration on his part. There rests with him, however,
in any event, a sufficiency of credit to enable him to bear
this abstraction without suffering from it.
" My heart's in the Highlands, it's not in the House ;
my heart's in the Highlands, a shooting the grouse !"
Such, we can imagine, says the Telegraph, is the little
song that is singing Itself just now in the mind of
many a weary member, tired of disestablishment, disen-
dowment, hot air, and late hours. The enthusiasts of the
gun, however, must still " bide a wee." The Twelfth is
at hand—that memorable day in relation to which we
read that " grouse-shooting begins," and that " leg-before
wicket was introduced in the year 1775." Next week w

be the week of the moorlands ; but we have entered fairly
on the week of the waters. Every day of it has a
racing "fixture" some of them in the most
unlikely-looking places. Gentle, or simple, amateur or
professional, there is a chance for everbody. On the various
club-lists, many of which are anything but exclusive,
there now stand at least two thousand yachts, with a
computed aggregate tonnage as a minimum of fifty
thousand tons, and employing, when even half of them
are in commission at the same time, several thousand
sailors, to say nothing of owners and owners' friends. It
takes something more than mere vague talk about
"fashion" to account for such figures and facts as these ;
and candid critics, home or foreign, will confess that the
truest, as it is the simplest, explanation of them is to be
found in the character of the English themselves and in
their hereditary love for the sea. Hence there is a satis-
factory suhstratum of earnestness and purpose under all
the festivity and merrymaking of the island. Nor, were
the case otherwise, would any elaborate pleading
seem necessary to shew that, after all, man—especially
woman—has a right to be amused, and that there are few
pleasanter ways of spending an idle week than in saun-
tering about a pretty little watering place with "some-
thing on the card" for every day in the week; something
to look at, if not actually to do ; something, at any rate,
to mitigate that horrible sensation of ennui which often
afflicts an industrious Englishman at the commencement
of his holiday. There is nothing prettier in the Three
Kingdoms than the scenery of the Isle of Night; there
are no brighter waters than those which surround it ; and
if the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta should fail in 1869
to please and amuse those by whom it is witnessed, it will
so fail foz the first time.

The Daily News says that all who mix much with the
clergy know that great curiosity has existed amongst the
members of the Church as to the principles on which Mr.
Gladstone would exercise the higher patronage of the
Crown. Mr. Disraeli proved a great bishop-maker,
having appointed no fewer than five sees ; and it seems
not improbable that Mr. Gladstone may have to elevate
as many clergymen to the chief places in the Church. Mr.
Gladstone's first important appointment is that of the Rev.
W. C. Lake to the deanery of Durham. We may venture
to conjecture that in this nomination, as in the offer of the
same benefice to Dr. Temple, Mr. Gladstone has sought
to acknowledge valuable services rendered to the public
in the work of education ; and no one, it believes,
will challenge the appropriateness of the reward.
But just as this post is filled, a more important
one is rendered vacant by the death of the Bishop
of Salisbury. The deceased prelate was devoted
to his work ; but long before he had been laid aside
by ill-health his extreme ecclesiastical opinions had
greatly diminished the influence of his high personal
character over his clergy. Mr. Gladstone will doubtless
think it right to take the recent history and present con-
dition of the diocese into account when giving Dr.
Hamilton a successor. Referring to the supposed nomi.

nation of the Rev. H. P. Liddon to the see, the Daily
New says be is, no doubt, marked out by special gifts

and attainments for a very distinguished place in-the
Church ; he is its greatest preacher ; if not a great divine,

he has produced the List Barnpton Lectures on a doe
trinal subject which have been delivered for many years;
and he has never made a false step. A man, however,

may be all this, and yet make an inferior administrator

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of a diocese and without the least desire to contest Mr.
Liddon's title to advancement, we may say confidently
that there are many among the working clergy as good as
ho. It may be safely predicted that Mr. Gladstone's
desire will be to appoint the most suitable man to the
office, without distinction of party.

The Standard thinks that the case which has just
reached its termination, for the present, at the Assizt
Court at Cardiff, is one of the deepest public and domestic
interest ; one whose final decision interests every famil3-
and every father in the kingdom, whatever their religion
opinions, and whatever their rank in society. It matten
nothing that in this particular instance the plaintiff is oat
of a sect and of a class which excite, and perhaps deserve;
no sort of sympathy in their religious or commercia
capacity_a Jew and a pawnbroker. It matters nothing
that the defendant is a Dissenting minister. In the next
similar case the offender may be a llomish priest, and th,
sufferer may be a Protestant gentleman. The question
involved is simply this : whether the zeal of religion•

)roselyLism can or cannot with impunity override all tl.

restraints of social duty, and violate rights anterior an,

superior to all differences of creed ; whether a daughte

cau be withdrawn from her parent's rocf and conceale•
from his search while undergoing the process of "con

'ersion," without any possibility of inflicting condig,
ninishinent on all concerned in her abduction? Even i

he verdict of the kir:), iiouhl stand, it is far from Kai,.

actory. Tire case is one which concerns every father of :

'airily in the decpcst and closest manner. We must, i

conclusion, express our regret that it does not seem t
have been so regarded by the Wesh Dissenters. We hea
of no censure passed on Mr. Thomas ; no steps taken t
expel him from the ministry, or even to bring him
account before his communion for conduct which, if no
legally criminal, ought unquestionably to exclude an
man
from the pulpit. We would fain believe that till
neglect proceeds, not from any indifference to the gravitl
of the offence, but simply from a wish to wait until th..
case had been investigatednos. in a court of law. But nos.
that the case bas been tried and the facts are proved, n.
time ought to be lost in purging the Baptist communit\
from all connection with those who have been concernet'
in it, and in affixing a strong censure on every person wh,
took part, in whatever manner, in the removal of Esthe)
Lyons from Cardiff, and her concealment from tho scare]
of her parents. - ---