The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

NEW BARRISTERS.

There are but two gentlQmen to be called to the
bar in the ensuing term, which commences on Wed-
nesday next. One of them is a son of Mr. Sergeant
Fitzgibbon. The number of aspirants for legal
fame has been rapidly declining in Ireland since
the operation of the competitive examination sys-
tem hms come into force. Irishmen of even ordi-
nary capacity now turn their eyes to India and the

It being now pretty generally understand that
the Holy Father is inclined to accept pecuniary
proofs of the devotion of his foreign subjects, it will
cause no surprise to learn that the modern collection
of Peter's pence, like other great public charities,
•has its abuses. Thus, at Limerick Quarter Sessions,
a devotee named Adam Valance pleaded guilty to
the charge of obtaining money under false pre-
- tences for the use of his Holiness the P•pe. The
prisoner, happening to be hard up, went about the
district in which Kilfinane is situate, and com-
menced raising the wind for himself and the• Pope,
by alleging that he was authorised by the Rev. Mr.
Lee, Roman Catholic curate of Kilfinane, to collect
" Peter's pence" in aid of his Holiness, and suc-
ceeded in obtaining about ls. 9d., when the rev.
gentleman whose name and influence had been thus
abused put an end to the career of the selfish sym-
pathiser by having him taken into custody, and he
was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with
hard labour by the learned chairman.

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF ST.
ANDSEW'S CHURCH, DUBLIN.

The beautiful parochial church of St. Andrew's,
Dublin, was entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday
last. On that day 60 years (says the Freeman's
Journal) the church which then occupied the site,
by a singular coincidence, met with the same fate.

Those who are conversant with the beauty of our
city architecture will learn with extreme regret
that one of the most perfect interiors in Dublin was
yesterday reduced to a mouldering heap of ashes.
This church was erected in the year 1814, by. de-
signs furnished by Mr. Johnston, at a cost of
£28,000. Its exterior, though unpretending, was
solidly built of Portland stone, the porches and
main entrances being of granite ; but any deficiency
which existed in its external decorations was more
than counterbalanced by the exquisite beauty of
every part of its internal arrangements, and sme
of the finest specimens of wood-carving to be found
in the three kingdoms was to be seen in it. From
its circular shape it derived the name of the Round
Church, and this peculiar formation had the effect
of giving to it an air of novelty in ecclesiastical
architecture not to be found in any structure
erected for religious purposes in these countries. It
was evidently a modified idea carried out of one of
the Italian churches; and the architect of St.
Andrew's Church appears to have spared no labour
in making this the chef d'cruvre of his genius. The
care and attention which had been paid to the
minutest details of the internal ornature of this
edifice, as well as the enduring and costly character
in whicii it was wrought, evidenced that this was
intended to be an enduring memorial of native skill
and genius. The pulpit was in itself a gem of oak
carving, as were also the pillars and fronts of the
circular gallery, all in fine grained black Irish oak.
The case of the organ, as well as the communion
table and the other church furniture, were in per-
fect keeping and in harmony with the designs of
the church. The ceiling was domed, and spring-
ing from the circular wall had a charming effect.
Early s*rvice was performed in the church yester-
day morning at eight o'clock, when a sermon was
preached by the Rev. C. Tisdall, senior curate
The service terminated at half-past nine o'clock,
and shortly before several persons residing in Suf-
folk-street, observed that they smelt fire as if tim-
ber had been burnt, and in a few minutes an alarm
was given by Mr. Vance, jun., to Sergeant Lunny,
who was on the beat. Not one moment was lost,
and information was sent to College-street palice-
office, when Colonel Lake, Chief Superintendent
Campbell, Mr. Inspector Entwistle, and a large
number of police, were promptly on the spot. Col.
Lake, seeing that the fire was assuming a formid-
able character, sent an order fcr the military, when
160 privates of the 26th Regiment (Cameronians)
under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Trent, ar-
rived. Lieut.-Colonel Crawley, 15th Hussars (the
officer of the day) was also on the spot, accom-
panied by Major-General Gascoigne and the Town
Major. The engines now began to arrive in quick
succession, and take up the positions assigned to
them, for the purpose of getting the fire under,
which began to blaze with great violence on the
southeastern side of the roof of the church. Crowds
of persons going to their respective places of wor-
ship began to congregate in dense masses at all the
approaches leading to St. Andrew-street, and the
police formed a kind of " cordon" betwten a forest
of umbrellas and the space required for the opera-
tion of the persona engaged in the work of the en-
gines. The windows of the houses commanding a
view of the burning church were occupied, and
nothing was to be heard but the dull clanking of
the engine pumps and the exclamations of the ob-
servers, as the flames broke out from time to time
from the spaces between the roof and the walls.
The engines on the spot were the Sun, Royal Ex-
change, St. Anne's Police (under the direction of
Inspector Boyle and Acting Inspector Ward), Cor-
poration, St. Mark's Parish, and Atlas, Ten
watering carts, under the direction of Mr. Crof-
ton, were also in attendance. All eves were di-
rected towards the church when the engines began
to work upon it, but it was soon perceived, from
the inflammable nature of the materials, that
nothinr could save the body of the edifice. The po-
lice ascended the building, and discovered that the
fire had originated in one of the stove flues, which
had become overheated, and ignited the timber-
work of the roof. The fire between the ceiling and
the rafters was raging with terrific violence, whilst
the lead which partially covered the dome was
beginning to melt, and run in molten showers into
the gutters. The flames attacked the lathwork of
the ceiling, and for one moment the blaze ascended
like a pyramid, and then fell with a tremendous
crash into the eh cular edifice, which became like a
roaring retort. Every effort was then directed to
save the vestry and other portions of the building,
and by one o'clock the whole of this splendid pile,
including the fine organ, presented nothing but a
heap of steaming, charred timber and rubbish
within the circular bare walls. A relief of the
Cameronians, consisting of 200 men, was in attend-
ance, for the purpose of rendering every assistance
and to keep order. We are happy to say that the
vestry and belfry were spared, and, what is more
important still, the parochial register of births,
deaths, and marriages, extending as far back as the
middle of the seventeenth century. 'l'lle saving of
these important documents was principally owing to
the exertions of Mr. O'Connor, the clerk, Mr. Foley,
of the Wicklow Hotel, Mr. Noonan, a tailor, and a
chimney-sweeper named Murphy, who exerted
themselves in a most praiseworthy manner on this
trying occasion. The cause directly leading to the
fire has not been fully ascertained, but we under-
ssand an investigation is to be held into the matter.
St. Andrew's church has been recently thoroughly
repaired, and it was intoided, in consequence of in-
tramural burials having bean prevented, to extend
the parochial schools over portions of the cemetery
not hitherto allocated for burial purposes. For the
purpose of preventing accident the corporation and
police engines, under the direction of Inspector
Boyle, remained on the spot, and in perfect readi-
ness for immediate action. It will be superfluous to
say that all classes of the community, irrespective
of sect or creed, exerted themselves to the utmost
in trying to save this church from destruction, and
the police exercised a sound and wise discretion
in allowing no idlers to interfere or to block up
the thoroughfare during the continuance of the
fire. Mr. Brunton, Mr. Bouchier, and Mr.
M'Nally deserve ',much credit for their exertions
on the occasion in aiding to save the Bibles,
cushions, and other portable matters in the church.
From what we have heard we regret to state that
the church was not insured. Amongst the things
lost in the conflagration of yesterday was the na-
tional relic--the chandelier which adorned the Irish
House of Peers—and which was transferred to St.
Andrew's Church after the passing of the Act of
Union.

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post, and as your name stands at the head of the list of
subscribers to the document I trust that I am right in ad-
dressing my reply to you.
" I regret to find myself differing in opinion from so
many of my fellow Catholics, and were matters of but
slight importance involved in the question at issue I would
gladly content myself with tacitly withholding my signature
from the Declaration. I feel, however, that such important
principles are at stake that.' should not be doing justice to
myself if I did not briefly state the reasons which prevent
me from adding my name to your own, and those of the
other noblemen and gentlemen who have already signed it.
" The great obstacle which prevents me from giving my

humble sanction to any document of the kind, however
cautioutly worded, is the principle which it involves—that
the inhabitants of the Papal dominions stand in a different
position from that of the people of any other country, and
are debarred from the right that has been practically con-
ceded to all other nations of changing or modifying their
form of Government according to their own view of their
necessities, or their political predilections.
" Now, to this theory it is impossible for me to subscribe,
I can see nothing in the circumstances of their case which,
in my opinion, can justify a foreign intervention for the
purpose of compelling their submission to a form of Govern-
ment to which they may be disinclined.
"Taking this broad, and to my mind indefensible, prin-
ciple of justice as the basis of the argument, it becomes
unnecessary to go into the other questions which are raised
by the Declaration; such as the necessity of the temporal
dominion of the Pope to the welfare of Catholic Christen-
dom, the character of his rule, or the means by which his
authority has beon shaken in the revolted provinces.
"Still I would, with reference to these points, venture to
say that I cannot in all respects agree with you.
" I feel a great disinclination to any view which has a
tendency to confound the spiritual authority of the Holy
See with the temporal power of the Pope, and I cannot but
fear that a danger of such a confusion lurks in the pro-
jected movement.

" Again, I cannot, as a liberal Englishman. honestly avow
any feeling of sympathy with a despotism, however admini-
stered ; and I cannot conceal my strong impression that
the existing state of things at Rome and in the Romagna
of itself affords a proof that the temporal administration of
the Papal dominions has not been in all respects such as to
instil an ardent attachment to it into the hearts of those
who have been subject to its rule.

" These are, however, matters which in no respect affect
the principle on which I base my decision, and on which I
foal bound to decline interfering in a question which, in ray
opinion, ought, like others of the same kind, to be left to
bo settled between the governor and the governed.
" Once more expressing my sincere regret at finding my-
self unable to agree with so many persons whose faith I
share and whose opinions I highly respect,
" I remain, dear Lord Petre, yours very sincerely,
"The Lord Petre, &c. " JOHN SIMEON."

RESCUE OF TWO HUME FEMALES

FROM FRAZER ISLAND.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald.)

It will, no doubt, be fresh in the recollection of
our readers that a report wns current respecting
the detention by the natives of Frazer Island of a
white woman and her three children, supposed to
have been thrown on the island from the wreck of

the Sea Belle, bound from Port Curtis to Sydney ;
and Captain Arnold, of the Coquette, on his last re-
turn trip, felt so confident from what he had gleaned
from the blacks in the vicinity that the report was
not without foundation, that ho, together with his
owner, Mr. Sawyer, placed himself in communica-
tion with certain influential members of the Govern-
ment, which led to the vessel being again sent down
for the purpose of rescuing the unfortunates from
their dreadful position if possible. Mr. Sawyer ac-
companied the expedition, and we are happy to state
that his praiseworthy zeal in the cause of humanity
has been amply rewarded, he having arrived in Syd-
ney on Saturday night, Oct. 22, with two females,
whom he had succeeded in rescuing from the tribe
with whom they had been captive so long. After
some difficulties in obtaining naval assistance, a
party was formed at Woody Island (called by the
natives Tudlewaugh), comprising Mr. Sawyer, Cap-
tain Arnold, two seamen, and about 50 natives, who
at once proceeded inland with plenty of arms and
provision. ; after travelling 60 miles, they came
upon the tribe encamped, and with them the two
ehildren they were in search of. A rush was made,
and the children seized before the tribe had time to
make any resistance, who, being taken so completely
by surprise, scattered "in every direction. The at-
tacking party at once made the best of their way
back, the blacks dodging them for many miles, but
only on one occasion was recourse made to firearms.
On reaching the ship she came into Newcastle, when
Mr. Sawyer brought the ehildren to Sydney by the
steamer. The girls appear to be about the respective
ages of 15 and 6 years; and although great care and
attention have been bestowed on them since their re-
lease,theyare slowly recovering. Yet their appearance
is heartrending; their bodies, emaciated from long
suffering and exposure to the weather, are covered
with a coating of hair; the skin, stained by their
tormentors to assimilate with their own, has become
spotted and wrinkled, as if from old age ; the nose
has been fattened by force, the limbs distorted, and
the vacant stare of idiotcy has left these poor crea-
tures scarcely in appearance human, and, although
enabled gradually to recognise such things as they
must have been in the habit of seeing hourly before
they fell into the hands of the natives, their ac-
quaintanca with their mother tongue is as yet ap-
parently quite gone. With respect to the particu-
lars of the wreck of tne Sea Belle, all that can be
gleaned from the natives is, that the boat came on
shore with the crew and passengers ; that the male
portion were killed at night, the woman and her
children taken into the interior; the woman died
about twelve months ago, and her son about the
same time. Mr. Sawyer has most considerately
taken the children to his own house at Balmain,
where they are receiving every possible attention.
Of the history of the elder child (who is supposed
by many who have seen her to be about 16 years of
age, but stated by competent jadges to be nearer
20) no intelligence of the least weight has yet been
ascertained, though there does not appear to be a
doubt that she is of white parents, notwithstanding
that her face has been distorted into an expression
resembling in some degree that of the aboriginal
tribes, and that she has lost all knowledge of the
language of Europeans. She has a face rather long,
hair and complexion apparently once fair, with nose
and lips flattened and expanded, and her physiog-
nomical aspect would leave an impression that her
intellect was deranged or very weak. It is stated
that she converses freely with Charley, the abori-
ginal youth, who afforded the earliest information
regarding the existence of whites on the island,
and who was brought down from Port Curtis with
the hope of obtaining further intelligence from
him. The light as yet thrown upon the career of
the younger girl is very faint, yet affording more
hope that the mystery of her past life will be un-
ravelled. Though her lips are somewhat thick and
her nostrils broad, she has an intelligent coun-
tenance ; but, like the elder girl, the only lan-
guage she speaks is the dialect of the northern
blacks, in which she also talks pretty fluently with
Charley. Any idea that these unfortunate beings
are sisters, or that they were part of the ship-
wrecked passengers of the Sea Belle, appears to
rest at present on the merest surmise ; as not only
does the age of the younger one, when taken into
consideration with the date of that vessel's last de-
parture from Port Curtis, involve circumstances
difficult to reconcile with the supposition that they
were passengers then on board her, but there is the
great anomaly of the total loss of a mother tongue
in less than three years, the Sea Belle having left
Port Curtis early in April, 1857. It is understood
the authorities in the north have been communi-
cated with, in order to obtain certain definite par-
ticulars connected with the Sea Belle, and the
assistance of some person able to interpret the dia-
lect of the blacks of Frazer Island, and that until
such assistance arrives the investigation is post-
poned.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Saturday, Jan. 7, Is6o, was 2,313, of which
638 were new cases.
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moment open before the eye of the Almighty. He
requires us in the meantime to obey Him, by work-
ing while it is day, since the night—our night—
cotneth, in which no man can work. And do' we
think, gentlemen, that we acquit ourselves in His
sight by simply exerting ourselves to deal justly—
whether severely or leniently—with the detected
offences of our erring fellow-creatures? We have
a national, as well as an individual future ; and
let us be thoroughly convinced that our future,
in both capacities, depends upon our conduct, in
both capacities—the neglect or observance of our
duties in both capacities--exactly as effect depends
upon cause. Gentlemen, we are, as a nation, ra-
pidly causing to disappear those sources of anxiety
which have long and reasonably disquieted all re-
flecting persons; I allude to that astounding con-
tentment with our insular insecurity which our
posterity 'will hardly believe when they read of,
and which has now disappeared before a sternly
awakened sense of national spirit and duty, towards
the glorious and hallowed land we live In, and all
the teniler-and noble interests connected with
_it.
Every hour sees us steadily approaching a state of
impregnable strength and inaccessible security. So
to speak, half the battle is already won ; and when
once our of 4 nglish spirit has been roused, and
enlightene oglish good sense and intellect,
the whole battle will have been won ; and fear of
invasion will have melted into dreamy recollections
of a doubtful and apprehensive past. But when we
are thus beginning to breathe freely—to realise the
belief in the soothing and assuring language of our
church, " That by thee we, being defended from the
fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and
quietness"—let us earnestly bethink ourselves of
our duties, and begin to set our house in order.
Let us look our social condition in the face, let us
see what causes for good, and for evil, are in opera-
tion, not overlooking the one, or under-estimating,
or exaggerating the other; nor, above all, neglect-
ing the least opportunity of doing good in our day
and generation. Looking around us steadily and
soberly, I think we may do so hopefully, despite
several causes for anxiety, grief, and humiliation.
While shocked by the disclosures of our criminal
courts—in our Bankruptcy and Insolvency Courts,
and the revolting revelations of the Divorce Court
—and by cases, every now and then occurring, of
guilt and profligacy not amenable to our criminal
tribunals (of which we have very recently, accord-
ing to common report, had instances), but attract-
ing to them the abhorrence and loathing disgust of
society at large—let us with reverent thankfulness
to God acknowledge that the hurt of society in our
country is sound, even—to go no further—as tes-
tified by the extent and intensity of that loathing
and abhorrence to which I have, alluded. Never,
again, were works of piety and charity done on so

ist a scale ; never did Christian munificence shine
more resplendently, its profuseness being almost
equalled by its enlightened and systematic dis-
crimination. Its influence is seen on every side,
and pervades all ranks and classes of society, not
only directly relieving want and succouring misery,
often with a lovely—a heavenly—secrecy and un-
obtrusiveness, but soothing inevitable distinctions,
relaxing the stringency of rightful demands, pro-
moting the health, comforts, and amusements of the
humbler sections of society, and setting limits to
inordinate and selfish exactions upon the labouring
classes. See how column after column of our news-

papers teems with importunate appeals to liberality,
and acknowledgments of the success of those ap-
peals, on behalf of religious and charitable societies,
of associations to reclaim the adult, and the youth-
ful offender—of these great moral features of our
time, reformatories and ragged schools. When
were greater voluntary efforts made ? Nay, when
were efforts known comparable to these now made
to diffuse education—and, above all, religious edu-
cation ? Gentlemen, I do not speak unadvisedly
when I say all this, thus cheeringly and openly;
we do not speak, as it were, in the dark ; for by
means of unceasing parliamentary inquiry, police
returns, and the never-sleeping vigilance and
scrutiny of the press, comparatively but little is
concealed from the eye of one only moderately
desirous of becoming acquainted with our true social,
moral, religious, and political condition. To such an
one, however, are disclosed not alone the agencies
for good, but also for evil ; not only the healthy,
but the deceased portions of society. And is the
disclosure to be made in vain ? No. It should

temper thankfulness for the good with anxiety on
account of the evil kindling in the observer a sense
of individual and heavy responsibility in respect
of opportunities divinely presented, tind means as

graciously afforded for loos& Not only should he
endeavour to fulfil his mission—the mission which

every man has whether he choose to neglect it or
not—by the active support by purse, and personal
exertion, of all such inestimable institutions as
I have been adverting to, but by the rectitude
and spotlessness of his own conduct and charac-
ter, in all the relations of life—whether as master
or servant—as trader, merchant, or professional per-
son—as gentle or simple, of exalted or humble
station, of only moderate means, or affluence.
Gentlemen, let me impress upon you that every one
bears about with him, always and everywhere, a
great engine for good or evil—his own example.
How can an unconscientious unscrupulous employer,
for example, exact strict probity from those whom
he employs, or, at least, how can be be surprised if
they attack himself, as they see him ever attacking
others, bitterly telling him, when detected, that
they were but following his example, and treading
in his own defiling footsteps ? Though this may
not justify them, will it not smite and silence him?
Aid does not this hold good in all the relations of
life ? So what a lesson it teaches of being circum-
spect on our parts and forbearing towards others !
Mut, gentlemen, I must bring these few observations
to a close. I make them in a grave and earnest
spirit, sincerely desiring to do good, though by
never so faint a suggestion, conveyed however im-
perfectly. These recurring periods of time—annual
and decennial—not only justify, but provoke reflec-
tions on the past, and gra Te solicitude for the future
—an individual and national past, an individual
and national future ;on the part we ourselves have
played, or are about to play—the duties we have
neglected, and those we are resolved for the future
to discharge, white we have the power.

A SPORTING " CROSS " AT THE ANTIPODES.—A
groat sporting scandal has arisen in Melbourne. Flying
Buck, the horse which lately won the great Champion
Sweepstakes, has been beaten, and the jockey who rode hint
has publicly avowed that he received instructions to hold
him back. Here is a pretty nut for the colonial Turf Club
to crack. The matter does not appear to have received a
due amount of "ventilation."—Australian Mail.

We read in the Wiltshire Independent:—‘, The
venerable Marquis of Lansdowne, who a short time back
was suffering from a severe attack of the gout, is now, we
are happy to say, quite recovered, and has been keeping
Christmas at Bowood with true old English hospitality. In
addition to the Earl and Countess of Shelburne and their
youthful family, who reside with his lordship, the family
circle meeting the noble marquis on the occasion have con-
sisted of the Hon. J. and Lady Louisa lloward and family;
the Countess of Kerry and her daughter, the Lady Mary
Fitzmaurico ; the Hon. C. Gore, the Count and Countess
do Flahault, and the lion. Miss Elphinstone de Flahault.
The following have also been visiting Bowood during the
Christmas holidays :—The Earl and Countess Somers, Mr.
and Mrs. Monckton Milnes, Sir James Lakiata, Count
Palin, Mr. Westmacott, Col. and Mrs. Higginson, Mr. H.
Grevillo, Sir D. Dundas, and Mr. and Mrs. Canon Guthrie.
It is expected there will be a succession of visitors for some
time."
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THE LATE LORD MACAULAY.—When Mr. Adam
Lord Macaulay felt so strong an inte-
mßlack, M.P.,, commenced the new edition of his " Encyclo-
P ljritaunn ndlecar'taking, and so warm a regard for his old
fraietdniidan the
and publisher, that he said he would endeavour to
send him an article for each letter of the alphabet. This
generous offer. the noble historian's failing health and vari-
ous avocations prevented him from fully realising; but he
sent five articles to the " Encyclopsedia," Memoirs of Atter-
bury, Runyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt—the
last being the latest finished production from his pen. As
any publisher would have been glad to have given £l,OOO
for these contributions, their being presented as a free .will
offering to Mr. Black, is a fact so honourable to both parties,
especially to the noble donor, that it deserves to be publicly
known and recorded. A correspondent writes :—" Lord
Macaulay lad family connections with the North. A sister
of Zachary Macaulay, his father, and, of course, aunt to
the historian, was married to the late Mr. Hamilton, minis-
ter of Hoy, in Orkney : their son is now minister of Ikea-
say, in Zetland—a valuable and excellent man. The elec-
tors of Nairn applied to Macaulay to become a candidate
for the representation of the Inverness district of burghs;
he declined, but referred to the connexion of hit i family with
the north country. The historian's gran d-uncle died
minister of Cawdor, in Nairnshire." A Nail n correspon-
dent sends us the epitaph on this member of :the family :
" Under this stone lies interred the remain s of Kenneth
Macaulay, minister of Cawdor, who died in the year 1779,
in the 56th year of his age, and 32d of his mil iistry. Notus
in frates animi paterni." [Noted among hit t brethren for
fatherly disposition.]—lnverness Courier.