The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

THE REV. NEWMAN HALL ON 7'.
ATHANASIAN CREED.

The Rev. Newman Hall preached on Sunday last at
James's Hall, and his sermon bore special reference to
the festival of the day. In the course of his remarks he
said : The doctrine of the Trinity is a mystery, but not a,
contradiction, though the explanations given of it some-
times make it appear to be so. A cloud may be great
and grand and beautiful, while it defies all attempts to
measure and define it. There are truths which are injured
by logical precision in explaining them. The Athanasian
Creed had its controversial use at the time when it was
written ; but is it wise to perpetuate it in Divine worship
9.3 a Scriptural account of the great mystery of the Trinity ?
We may agree with its general scope so far as it is
possible to understand a statement so difficult. But
should we determine the salvation of others by their agree-
ment with this particular method of stating the doctrine?
Yet in thousands of pulpits this day it is being asserted
that all who do not hold the Catholic faith as therein
defined will, without doubt, perish everlastingly ! They
who respect the Creed to-day may honestly believe it for
themselves so far as they understand it; but can they
honestly believe that all their fellow-men who do not
thus understand the mystery of the Divine existence
will be eternally damned? Are they not obliged to resort
to evasions or explanations which are painful to them ?
Do the laity believe in the damnatory clause they hear
from the desk? And if not, is their respect for truth
lessened when in sacred places, and in solemn worship,
they hear words which are not held as true in the sense
which is grammatical and which was intended by the com-
pilers ? Multitudes of godly clergyman find their devout
enjoyment of Trinity Sunday lessened by the necessity of
pronouncing so sweeping an anathema. The laity escape
this in great degree, as they are only listeners and
may refuse to respond. But is it not time for the laity of
England to demand release for their clergy from such a
bondage? Let us hope that the Episcopal branch of the
Church Catholic in this country, a Church so venerable,
so learned, so useful, may be delivered from whatever is
a blemish to it; and that a Liturgy so grand in its sim•
plicity, so comprehensive, and so devotional, may not
continue to have its beauty marred by a wholesale con-
demnation so opposed to its pervading and large-hearted
charity.

7HE EAGLISH JOINT-STOCK BANK

PROSECUTION.

The case of the English Joint-Stock Bank was again be-
fore the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House ou Monday.
Mr. George Lewis, solicitor, conducted the prosecution,
and the defendants were represented, as before, by Mr.
Poland, Mr. Ormond, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Montagu Williams,
and Mr. Straight, barristers.
Mr. IIowELL, accountant, was recall, d by Mr. Poland, and
Laid the gross amount received by the directors as fees was
£1,889 lls. Bd., during a year and ten months, of which
Captain Mangles received £21.0 ls. ; Mr. Abbiss, £197
and Mr. Bradshaw, £238115.
in answer to questions put by Mr. Straight, he stated that
the directors were entitled to a remuneration of £3,000 Por
annum.

Mr. KEmP, the accountant who audited the accounts of the
bank in 1865 and prepared the balance-sheet for that year,
said that he compared the figures with the entries in the
Looks of the Lank, and he allowed the sum of £4,000 that
was paid to Mr. Walker without asking for any specific ill"
formation relating to the sun unt. He did not ask to be
shown the authority for the payment of the money, but
treated the entry i❑ the bank hocks as a correct entry.
He did Lot ask for vouchers cc demand to see that the mom: e
entered in the book were ordered by the directors to be paid.
Ho took for granted that the amount in question had bee°
properly paid. He made no inquiries of the manager or the
&rectors, and did not ask for any vouchers.
Mr. LEWIS esked whether this was the ordinary way ill
which he audited the accounts of a bank?

gr. KEMP replied that it was, and it was all that he IS'
expected to do. It would have talc, n some months to in'
vestigato the particulars of all the various items relat'ng to
the London and the country branches. He gave a certifi-
cate that be had compared the items iu the balance'
sheet with the books and found they were correct.
He considered that the shareholders would be fully aware
by the terms of his certircate that he had not seen the
vouchers for the payment of the various sums. The boola
did not contain any entry relative to the sum of £lO,OOO c%-
pended by Messrs. Thorns and Co. for the purchase of shares
in the bank. Ho was aware that sums of money had been
advanced to Captain Mangles, Mr. Abbiss, and other direc-
tors, but the transactions did not appear on the books to
that form. He asked for an explanation, and Mr. FinncYl
the manager, informed Lien of the fact. He then said that ibe
account ought to appear in the books in the names of the direc-
tors. The account was entered in the name of Tones and Cc.
He took no steps to ascertain how the profit stated to have
been made by the bank was made up. He accepted the Reels
on the books as being correct. lle believed the cost of
liquidating the Lank and its thirty-three branches would be
£35,000. Two calls of £1 had been made upon the
shareholders, which would produce about £14,000. The
amount of capital 1 a'd up was £200,000, and the total lois
to the shareholders would in about ;40,000. There W,r`'
losses incurred by nearly all the country branches tl ft
were purchased. £lB,OOO were lost by the Bideford balA
and £22,200 by the Nottingham bank. The losses by bad
debts at Mr. Mangles' bank at Aldershot were over £25,000.
The business of the whole of the branches resulted 01
the losses incurred by the directors of .£160,8..7.
Kemp went to say that the creditors had all been paid 20e'
in the pound, and the defendant, Mr. Bradshaw, was t'n
debtor to the amount of £l,lOO, £BOO for a loan, and £.300
upon his call account.
The inquiry was adjourned to Saturday.

Another strike is now proposed by some of fDe
members of the weavers' union and their leaders. Ten of
twelve of the Preston manufacturers refuse to run their
looms at the reduction of five per cent. and "the Blackburn
wheel" only, and now demand one of ten per cent. Since
the strike was given up a fortnight ago, very few of to
turn-outs have succeeded in obtaining employment—about
300 only - and there still remain out of work about 1,300.
THE SONS OF COUNT BlSMARCK.—Currency ha%
been given to the report that Count Bismarck had sent
his two sons to Oxford. The news now seems to be
untrue, as a Ministerial journal at Berlin states that the
two young Counts study at Bonn, on the Rhine ; and that
they have only made a trip to England during
tide holidays in company with a marine officer. They ate
now actually at Oxford.
ANOTHER FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. ---
accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred I"
the Upper Gethin Colliery, South Wales, at four o'clocic
on Saturday morning. Three men were filling rubbish
in the pit, and while doing so about twenty tons of earth
and atones fell on them. Two of them, William Dalai'
labourer, Riverside, Merthyr, 31 years of age, and Thono.,
Randall, collier, Abercanard, 20 years of age, were
on the spot, and another man named David Davies, collier'
had his leg broken.

THE BRECON ELECTION PETITION.—The petitioo
against the return of Lord Hyde, the Liberal member fat
Brecon, charges the noble lord and his agents with bribed'
treating, intimidation, paying for conveyance of voters'
and undue influence ; and also charges the member Oil
having knowingly employed as canvassers or agents Pei
sons who had within seven years been found or reptite:#
guilty of corrupt practices. The petition is signed by f°'
electors—a draper, builder, printer, and licensed victualler.
Lord Claude John Hamilton, the Conservative candidate'
is, it appears, no party to the petition.
A CATHOLIC BISHOP ON STRIKES.-011 Sunclai
the Roman Catholic Bishop Goss availed himself of °hio
opportunity afforded at a church visitation, at Preston'
advert to the strike which had recently taken Plat
amongst the operatives of that town. He told the NOrp,,
ing men that, by resorting to a strike, they set "0
a tyrant more exacting than their masters, and to,
cautioned them against putting too much • confiders'
in their leaders, whose interest it was to foster disOte
between them and their masters. By resorting to stril‘es
the operatives were driving the trade from the country'
and it behoved them to accept what their masters were
a position to pay ; for whilst they were losing a
the masters were losing a pound. By the course 03
operatives were adopting they were preventing Prest°,ll:
from becoming the large manufacturing centre which 4
ought to be, and he advised them to work harmoniou"
with their emi 1 Ters.
DISGRACEFUL SCENE AT A FUNERAL.—A seril
disturbance took place on Sunday in the neighbourhood of
St. Augustine's Church, Hackney-road. A girl connect
vith the church had died at her home in Margaret-sq'ef;
And her body was to be conveyed to the school-roonl w-
ertain ceremonies to be performed previous to interweilot;
A procession started from the house, consisting chie,er
of young girls, dressed in white, with white veils
their heads, and carrying flowers forming emblem:l6r
designs. This procession was soon joined by a"(Alici.:
composed of a number of clergymen and choriste
habited in \ hite surplices, several Sisters
Mercy, and about 100 school-children, also dress:n
in white. The latter procession was headed by a
hearing aloft a gilt cross about ten feet high.
Time cr
rsi,ll
which was very great, had hitherto contented itself in's
"chaffing," but the members of the procession, 011 seeol
this, became very indignant, and by the time the se? 0
was reached there were some very violent nianifestst,l:lo
of disapproval. The incumbent of St. Augustines'
eted
remained at the door to receive the corpse, was greery.'
with loud yells and hisses, and cries of " 11,1 in
It was only after a struggle that the police succeeds the
closing the large iron gates, and thus keePill°
infuriated meb cut of the building.