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and easier classes of seciety—(hear, hear, and cheers)—#.o
the exclusion of the poor man, or to his relegation into the
most inconvenient, distant, and inadequate seats. (Renewed
cheers.) Now this, lam afraid, is an evil inherent in hu-
man nature, and an evil of such antiquity that it formed a
ground for a rebuke and a reproof upon the part of the
Apostles themselves; for St. James himself distinctly points
to this ungracious distinction in the earliest Christian
churches between rich alai poor, and notices it as a fact for
condemnation and amendment. The other cause is, 1 be-
lieve, an honest shame of parading the wretched garments
in which the poorer classes are clad in immediate contiguity
with the better and richer garments of the wealthier and
more easy-to-do portion of the parish. Ido not say that
this is a feeling which is to be altogether vindicated, but it is
a feeling which is not unnatural, and a feeling for which
we should make every indulgence and allowance. Nor do
I say, again, that I condemn as absolutely and entirely as
some persons are disposed to do the appropriation of parti-
cular seats, provided a sufficient amount are set apart for
those who are not enabled to obtain spiritual accommoda-
tion ; on the contrary, I believe it tends to the solemnity,
regularity, and order of parochial worship. I am sure it
tends very much to the influence of the best fe.lings when
father, mother, and children can enter the house of God with
a knowledge that there is a seat to which they may go with
a certainty of being together and united, to offer up their
prayers and praises, and hear the Word of God. (Hear.) But
I am far from condemning the appropriation of certain
seats to those who are able and willing to incr6ase the
means of the Church by paying for the accommodation,
provided it is not granted to the exclusion of those who
have no such means of paying for the accommodation, and
who are equal by the law of the land, and who by the con-
sittution of the Church have an absolute equal right with
the richest of the rich to enter and worship God in the
parish church, which is not for the rich alone, but for every
parishioner, rich and poor. (Cheers.) Well, then, but in
this case we have to deal, not with a mixed population, but
with a population all of whom are of the poorest class, few
of whom can afford anything, and none of whom can afford
any considerable sum for separate accommodation for them-
selves. We are providing the means of religious worship
for those who are clad in rags, and who will not be shocked
by the comparison of the silks and satins of their richer
neighbours ; and in this case I say it is most important,
not that there should be some free seats, but that every
seat in this church school which is about to be built
should be free and equal, without payment of money or
price, and that no amount of poverty of clothing or
squalid destitution should be sufficient to exclude the
very poorest of the poor who are willing to enter and wor-
ship from His house in whose eyes rich and poor are alike,
and the distinction of rank and title are as nothing. (Loud
applause.) This, then, is the object for which we have met
to-day. I believe the Christian liberality of the people of
this neighbourhood, who can well afford it, will not suffer
this great work to fail for want of funds. Every motive
which can actuate men conspires to recommend the support
and countenance of this undertaking ; the peace of the dis-
trict, the good order, the sobriety, the cleanliness, the tem-
perance—let me take the meanest and the lowest motive,
the diminution of the burdens which are entailed upon a
parish by the augmentation of its criminal population; but
from those let me go to higher motives—vic., the duty
which you owe to your Christian fellow-creatures, or to
those who, if not your Christian fellow-creatures, it is your
highest object and aim to make your Christian fellow-crea-
tures. So perform your duty to that God who, as He would
not that a sparrow should fall to the ground without His
knowledge, would not that one of those little ones should
perish." (Cheers.)

Lord Derby then formally laid the stone, and after ad-
dresses from Canon Stowell, the Mayor of Liverpool, and
Mr. W. Brown, ex-M.P. for South Lancashire, the pro-
ceedings terminated.

THE MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S
PARK, EDINBURGH.

Notwithstanding the exertions of the police and
the county criminal authorities, it is believed that
very little transpired on Monday to clear up the
mystery which overhangs the dreadful tragedy.
of Sunday morning. A number of persons, includ-
ing five or six soldiers from Piershill, were exa-
mined by the Procurator• Fiscal during the forenoon,
principally with a view to throw light upon the in-
tercourse had by the deceased girl with the soldiers
in whose company she was seen on Saturday even:.
ing, and especially with the prisoner Tanner. These
preliminary examinations are, however, in accord-
ance with the usual custom in criminal cases in Scot-
land, conducted with the utmost privacy. Early in
the forenoon a story got into circulation to the
effect that at the time Tanner and Quin were ap-
prehended in Campbell's-close on Sunday afternoon,
two other soldiers of the same regiment were sit-
ting in an adjoining house in the same close ; and
that, on hearing of the apprehension which had
taken place, they got themselves dressed in civi-
lians' clothing, hurriedly left the house, got into a
cab, and drove off. The police immediately set
about sifting the story, and proceeded to search the
house in question ; but the result of their investi-
gation and inquiries was to satisfy them that the
two suspected men were cabdrivers, who welt out
about the time stated to their cabs.

About two o'clock a boy residing in the Canon-
gate was playing in the enclosed piece of ground
between the Abbey-hill and Regent-road, in which
the old stones of Trinity College Church are placed.
While running about he came upon a girl's shift,
a little cotton printed bed-gown, and a white
worsted stocking, apparently thrust in among the
loose stones and debris towards the east end of the
park. The boy took them home, but they were soon
afterwards bro'ight by his parents to the police
office. There are two slight stains of blood on the
shift, but none on the other articles. In the course
of the afternoon the whole of the articles were
identified by the members of Mr. Slater's household
as having belonged to the deceased, and it is pro-
bable that they formed part of the contents of the
bundle which the girl carried with her from the
house.

From some statement made, it is believed, by the
by the prisoner Tanner, during the day, a request
was sent to the castle to ascertain all the men of the
78th who had been out during Saturday night on
leave, and to order their attendance at the Pro-
curator-Fiscal's office. The request was complied
with, and between five and half-past eight o'clock
on Monday night upwards of 20 of these men were
examined. Tanner, who was shown to all the wit-
nesses, bore himself in a very cool and unconcerned
manner. He is a tall, slight made young man,
barely 20 years of age, and would scarcely from his
appearance be taken for a person likely to commit
the brutal crime laid to his charge. He states that
he is a native of Paisley, but speaks with English
accent. No evidence of any kind has, it is believed,
been obtained against Quin ; and he has accordingly
been handed over to his military superiors at Piers-
hill, where he has been placed under arrest on the
charge of absenting himself from the barracks with-
out leave. No trace has yet been discovered of the
" corporal" whom some of the witnesses thought
they had seen in company with the girl on Satur-
day night or Sunday morning ; nor of the two ab-
sentees still missing from Piershill.
It was considered advisable not to proceed with
the post-mortem examination on Monday, as had
been directed, in order to give a further opportu-
nity to witnesses to identify the body—not as
that of Elizabeth Slater, regarding which there is
no doubt—but as that of the girl seen in company
with the soldiers in the Queen's-park and else-
where on Saturday night. The medical exami-
nation was, however, to be made yesterday.
It is considered a curious circumstance that
no one heard the girl cry out during the struggle
which it is believed must have taken place in the
Queen's-park before her death. The watchman
employed to guard the tank in the course of erec-
tion on the face of the hill, directly opposite the
trees, neither, it is said, saw nor heard anything
to attract his attention.

SPIRIT-STIRRING SCENE AT THE ACADEMY OF
Music.—Last evening Professor Anderson chanced to have
very many spiritualists present, some of whom subjected
him to a series of categorical interrogations relative to his
belief in spiritualism, and what are the mystic influences
which act upon his table. Usually the table and bell of
the Professor are the only rappers in the room, but last
night the Wizard's spirits were more numerous and more
exuberant than usual. Spirits rapped under the seat in
the parquet, on the seats in the dress circle, against the
columns of the family circle, under where people sat and
over where people were sitting. Some political quiridu,
present, anxiously desirous for knowledge, and ilicli
" spirits" scrod replied o
pe re:
throw a telescopic glance far into the political VII "redict
quested to know if the Professor's
could best who would be the next President. The Wiz
eel l d s 111: a ril 011
Lee'incoln, are you
the effect that the spiritualists, and nltf,hh,
an-
swer that question; but he would see
the spirits of the present candidates; i 0 .
ap from the centre
there ?" Rap from the drestshceirercl;:, t
Rh ~..ang
" yes." " Douglas, are you
who's to be President V' Seven
of the house. " Lincoln,
raps gave to answer—the number
icreopfulbetltearns
s. in the nameokuy, e l ofi
the spirit. Cheers from
t
C 411‘erier-s-Troams'.
0 aname rapse
oangtaain
the who'sD e tom Democrats;
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"
aSevenin. s, tseTen letters,
it was not quite clear whether Douglas meant
Lincoln meant Douglas, nor did the Professor attempt to
elucidate. The laughter was uproarious. There was a
very crowded house. Much interest was excited by the
deaf and dumb from Hartford being present, and tho
Wizard selecting an interpreter to come upc in the stage and
talk to them by way
of finger -elegy. 11 .1 my new experi-
ments were introduced. One performed . with a large key
—entitled in the programme the " Key of Eblis"—was
especially wonderful, and no less so was ti ie new version of
the Wizard's great bottle trick. The W izard's powers of
magic were never better exemplified than
in his bringing a
crowded house to see him on a night so warm as that of
yesterday.—Boston Atlas, July 17.
A SETTLEMENT, AND No 111ISTAK E I—An elderly
female, on being examined before the magistrates of Bungay
as to her place of legal settlement, was a.sk:ed what reason
she had for supposing that her deceased Must; sand's settle-
ment was at St. Andrew's. The old lady, lookh ag earnestly
at the bench, said, " Ifo {vas born auntmarrie( 1 there, and
they buried him there, and if that as ottli4 g him there
r I don't know what is.