The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

our own metropolis, and no doubt by the papers of this
city, and thus had attained a notoriety. After the lecture
in Paris, he was accosted by a gentleman who from his
softness of tone and plausibility of manner he recognised
as one of the celebrated brotherhood of Ignatius Loyola.
This gentleman expressed a very significant opinion with
regard to the Pope. He said if he were introduced to
Ferretti (the original name of the Pope) he would shake
hands with him, for a more benevolent and kind-hearted
man never lived ; if he were introduced not to Ferretti but
to Pio Nono, the holy father, the pontiff, the vicar of Christ,
he would kneel down and with all his heart kiss his foot, as
a reverence due to so august and exalted a personage ; but
if he were introduced to the sovereign of the States of the
Churoh, to the temporal ruler of the Marches, the Romagnab
and Civita Vecchia, he would give him a black eye. (Laugh-
ter.) This was intensely Romish, and showed the exquisite
dialectic subtlety which could divide the same personage
into three pieces, to be so differently treated. He (the
lecturer) disclaimed any pretensions to being a prophet er
the son of a prophet. Ho tried to forthtell what the in-
spired prophets had written, and did not pretend to fore-
tell, which it would require him to be an inspired prophet
to do. He always spoke of the great doctrines of Christi-
anity with unflinching dogmatism ; but when speaking of
unfulfilled prophecy he spoke with the utmost reticence,
modesty, and reserve, as of a subject on which he might be
wrong. There was a glorious issue for this great land. He
believed that England was not to go down amidst the wreck
of nations ; that she was to be the Israel and Judea of
Eur Ope itself, and that God had too great a design for
her to accomplish—too sublime a mission to fulfil—
ever to allow the " first isle of the ocean " to perish
amid the awful convulsions which had now begun to agitate
and terribly to shako the nations of the earth. No one
could look abroad without seeing that we were rapidly drift-
ing into some new and unexperienced circumstances and
situations. The state of Rome at present, as described by
the Times correspondent, was a literal fulfilment of the pro-
phecy that " judgment shall sit to the end ;" and that of
St. Paul, " I will consume it by my spirit." The whole of
the city was going to ruin. He did not believe that the
Popedom was to cease. The screams of the Pope for assis-
tance were piercing; his entreaties to those he had been
wont to curse were eloquent and affecting ; he appealed
to their selfishness and to their religion ; he heard
the echo of his appeal, but rarely received an answer.
Why was all this? The Popedom was not now to be
destroyed; it was being "consumed," and at the close
it would be utterly destroyed by the brightness of the Re-
deemer's personal arrival. Ile grounded the immediate
subject of his lecture on the 18th chapter of Isaiah; and
deduced therefrom that the nation spoken of as " scattered
and peeled," was the Jewish nation. If asked to cast a
glance over the area of Europe along the centuries that,
like the corridors of a grand cathedral, were lost in the
mist and midnight of. the past, what other nation
would they select ? This nation was to be reinstated
in their own land. For this they were a nation scat-
tered over every country, and held in mechanical solu-
tion amongst the Gentiles, but not in chemical solu-
tion ; they were insulated, disintegrated, and distinct.
Russia and France were to be the great resistants to the
accomplishment of the great promise of the restoration of
the Jews to Palestine ; but a nation which he identified
as England, and which was described in the chapter as
"shadowing with wings," &e. was to present the offering
to the Lord of Hosts in due season, and to be blest and
owned of him because of so doing. The description of
Tarshish, and the words of the 20th verse of the 66th chap-
ter of Isaiah, strengthen this impression. At the close of
this economy which was rapidly rushing to its eve, and was
perhaps nearer than some of them would dare to presume
to predict, the Jews were to be restored to their own land.
This was to occur in the fulness of the times. Let them
mark the controversy that was gathering round Syria.
Napoleon, that powerful and sagacious ruler, had a taste for
annexation, and he would desire to annex Syria as a counter-
balance to our Indian possessions. There were 250,000
adherents of the Greek Church who were looking to the
Czar as their head. These two powers were now in the
neighbourhood of Syria, and whoever held that country
possessed the key to all the East. England would never
consent that either France or Russia should have it. If he
could reach the ear of statesmen he would tell them that
the issue of the complication and the settlement of the
" situation" was to hoist the signal for God's ancient people
to go home. As soon as the " sick man" died—and he was
dying fast—England should say there shall be in the East
and Syria, as in the West a Belgium, a neutral nation
established, and thus the complication would be solved.
In doing this she would only be fulfilling propheoy. He
did not say that prophecy should be the rule of practice.
Punch had said that he (Dr. Cumming) believed the world
was coming to an end in 1867, and yet had taken the
lease of a house for 21 years. (Laughter.) This was true ;
but the well-known caricaturist had omitted to state the
fact that the house could be given up at every seven years.
(Laughter.) When he (Dr. Cumming) wanted to know
his duty, he looked for the Divine commands ; when he
wanted to know his prospects he consulted prophecy. The
holiest place was the post of duty. The Bible and the Pro-
testant liberties of England were her mainstay, and he be-
lieved she would endure as a lighthouse for the guidance of
other nations, and to accomplish the glorious destiny which
ho believed was indicated in prophecy. (Cheers.)

The proceedings closed with the singing of the doxology.

ALLEGED MORTARA" CASE AT

WAR WICK.

On Saturday evening last some hundreds of
people assembled in front of the residence of Mr.
Norman, chemist and druggist, of Smith-street,
Warwick, in consequence of a man named George
Gates creating a great disturbance about Ann Gates,
his daughter, who had been in the service of the
former for some few months, It appeared that
Mr. Norman was a Catholic, and Gates's daughter,
who was between 15 and 16 years of age, having
left him, Gates was under the impression that she
had been sent to a convent.
On Monday Mr. Norman applied to the Warwick
bench for a summons against Gates, considering
his life in danger from the threats made udse
cf the previous Saturday, which was god
girl,
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House of Mercy, Hadsworth.
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here quite safe,
able. I have received great kindness both from the
oung people that are here. I have
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htzppy. I must now conclude with kind
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Miss Teresa, and twenty kisses to Master
love to
Tom,—Believe me to remain, yours respectfully,
" ANN GATES."
The letter concluded by some allusion to a favourite
cat and jackdaw, and was written in a good hand.
Gates acknowledged that the letter was in his
daughter's handwriting,. and on being told that
the case would be adjourned for a week he used
a host of invectives against the Catholic religion,
as being a most "disgusting " religion, and he
feared his ►daughter would be ruined in the mean-
time. Mr. Greves, solicitor, of Stratford, who
happened to be in court, said, " I think you know
nothing about. it!' Some excitement will attend
the hearing of the crtse on Monday next, as the
clergy are said to have taken the matter in hand.
—Birmingham Daily Pas:-

A SILVER MEDAL has been awarded to Mr.
Thorley for his famous Cattle Food ConJiraent. The fol-
lowing is a copy of the letter from the Keie2ley Agricultu-
ral Society on the subject :
Keighley, 3rd O,*A-, 1860.
Sir,—l am directed by the Committee of the Keighley
Society to forward to you the Society's Silver Medal on ac-
count of the Cattle Food you exhibited at their .how on
the sth September. I forward this letter and the Medal
by
the same post.
I am, sir, yours truly,
R. FA.WCETT, Sscre IT
Mr. J, Thorley, London,