The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-29 00:00:00

TVESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

At the Wesleyan Conference, at Hull, on Tuesday, the
Committee of Review for the Home Mission and Contin-
gent Fund was largely attended. It was stated that
71 home missionary ministers had been employed
during the year, and up to last June 84 home
mission chapels bad been built. The increase
of members in circuits in which home missionary
ministers are employed to the year 1869 is 13,971.
There have been 4,807 Wesleyan soldiers, seamen, &c., at
our naval and military ports during the year. A
Soldiers' Home has been provided at Alder-
shot for the use of the men in their leisure.
At the meeting of the Sabbath Committee a long report
was read, in which it was stated that no Act had passed
the Legislature this year affecting the Sabbath, but no
doubt something would be done next year. It
was satisfactory to notice that every attempt to break
down the sanctity of the Sabbath had been successfully
opposed. The second resolution set forth the necessity for
restricting the Sunday sale of intoxicating liquors, and
recommended that general support should be given to
any measure introduced into Parliament for the purpose.
Mr. M'Arthur, M.P. for Lambeth, spoke of the earnest-
ness manifested by the working classes of London in
favour of Sabbath-keeping. A meeting had been held in
Exeter Hall, with hundreds of working men present,
and a most healthy feeling had been shewn. Mr.
Gregory only advocated the opening of museums on the
Lord's day, and no doubt next session a bill would pass
for the opening of such places on week-day evenings. The
petitions of the Methodists had urged the importance of this
matter. Mr. M`Comas, of Dublin, spoke of the general feeling
in Ireland both on the part of the Protestants and
Catholics, and the question of closing public-houses en
the Lord's Day. The Committee of the Theological
Institution received a favourable reFort. Their two
branches at Di,lsbury and Ileadingly Lave been in full
operated during the year. The trea:urer read the cash
account, and r, ported a. balance in hand. The public col-
lection pro' osed last year had yielded .2,300. These pre-
paratory committees are composed of ministers and
laymen, but the Conference itself is composed of ministers
only.

Mr. Grtnv:l:e Murray has been made the defend-
ant in a civil action, NI hich will bo heard in tl.e courso of
a few days, as it has been set down for hearing at the
forthcoming Croydon Assizes. The plaintiff is Mr. John
Hughes, who was the publisher of The Queen's Messenger, his
claim being for liabilities alleged to have been incurred by
Mr. Grenville Murray as the responsible, although not the
registered, proprietor of tho paper.

NEWS FROM IRELAND. A correspondent,
writing under date Wednesday, says :—"Two men
were arrested to-day in connection with the suspected
murder in Kerry.—The meeting of the Cork Agricultural
Show took place to-day ; the exhibition of stock was small,
but good. At the show dinner this evening the speakers
expressed satisfaction with the state of agriculture in the
county."
A REMARKADLE SPECIMEN OF MODERN ART.--
A mosaic portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, life size, has
been sent from Vienna to the South Kensington Museum.
The great English painter is represented standing in an
easy attitude, a palette on a table beside him, in his right
hand a brush, in which he is in the act of mixing the
colours. In his left hand is a book, on which may be read
the title of his "Discourses."
Ma. GEORGE M'DONALD.—As somewhat ex-
aggerated reports of the condition of the health of this
accomplished poet and novelist have been in circulation,
we are glad to be able to say that he is greatly better
in health. The cause of his return from Norway was
an abscess on the knee, which occasioned him very much
pain, • and rendered it impossible for him to continue his
journey. He is now living at Buxton, and able to
walk about, and, we hope, will soon be quite strong.—
Banffshire Journal.
A FAIR ATTEMPT AT A JOKE.—" I," said a
supporter of concurrent endowment, " sympathise more
with those Conservative peers who follow Lord Salisbury
than with those who support that brilliant but captious
ex-Chancenor. The Salisbury point of view is to my
mind a more Christian one." " Well," replied a friend,
" there is something to be said in favour of your view.
No doubt of old it was the heathen in the land who
set up cairns, while at a later period there were a great
many Christians who followed the use of Sarum.—
Guardian.

DOUBLY' DECEIVED.—An elderly man pacing in
great grief the streets of Cork, the other day, caused much
half-pitying a.muoment. He told a story of how he,
being a small farmer of the Dallyhoura mountains, had
been deserted by his daughter, who had eloped with his
servantman, taking £45 v. ith her. llis son had gone to
fetch his sister home, and 11.'4 come up with her at Curk.
He so frightened her and her lover that he got the money,
and two passage tickets they had purchased for America,
and sent for his father to try and persuade his sister. In
the interim between writing the letter and his father's
coming, the faithless youn;; fellow had surveyed the
situation, and finding himself master of a sum of money
and a pas►nge to the States,:had yielded to the tempta-
tion, and saled, leaving the second passage-ticket in the
envelope addressed to his father. The giief of the discon-
solate parent at-this discovery may be imagined ; nor was
It lessened by the conduct of his daughter, who stub-
bornly refused to return home with him, continued obsti-
nate throughouf: the afternoon, and capped the climax by
making off in th evening with the other passage-ticket
and her father's ( ,vercoat.

RELIC:IOUS ;ERVICE IN OnEENLAND,---Every
Sunday there is s. !rviee in the little wooden church, the
men sitting on on-,!sido and the women on the other. The
priest is a sight fi r guds.and men—clad in the sealskin
trousers ant' boots, str, h a dogskin jacket, the collar of
which peeps up al_ove his high Lutheran ruff. Service is
in Eskimo, as are alO the sweetly-sung hymns. An
Eskimo plays tl. e orga,l: very well indeed, while the con-
regrtion intone out sm. e,such hymn as the following:—
" Scerbs £rmeta to Lko okautiagut
Sorapek, innardh ngalloarmerput," &c., &c.
On a sum tner morning, wten it is in session, there issues
through a e cracks in the church door an unmistakable
odour of aL cient seal. The church wall seems to be A
regular place for hanging up all sorts of implements of the
chase. For i nstance, there is a musket or two hanging
in the corner, some paddles, harpoons, and seal-lines, all
on the outside. it seems as if some of old Pliny's Hyper-
borei had hung p up their arms on the walls of the Temple
of Neptune, in A Tatitudefq their escape from shiplyTeels,
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