The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-21 00:00:00

a NEW ECSTATIC.

The impartial de Soignies devotes five columns to a
description of a new Ecstatic, named Louise Lates.u. It
appears from the statement of the Belgian journal that
for some months past this young girl presents every Friday
the phenomena which are called the stigmata of the
Passion. She has on her hands, feet, and over the heart
sanguineous blisters which exude abundantly. The
ordinary functions of life are suspended. The eyes,
open, and turned obliquely towards heaven, appear to be
attentively fixed on some object. The pupils are dilated,
the face is pale, the mouth partially opened, and the
features express a sentiment of admiration, mingled
with a sweet sorrow. At times the object she seems to
contemplate produces a painful starting. When not in
ecstasy she is in catalepsy. At three o'clock she starts
up all at once, and suddenly flings herself on the flags,
without the least attempt to protect her face with her
hands. Yet she receives no injury. She remains for
an hour in this horizontal position, her arms and feet
crossed. About 4.30 she raises herself quickly, without
any assistance, her arms still in the form of a cross, as if
some invisible power had placed her in this vertical
position. She then falls on her knees, next sits down, and
in about ten minutes the body is subjected to a kind of
torsion, and the Ecstatic of Bois d'llaine—for so she is
called—throws herself supine on the ground. Then it is
that she is waked up ; but to accomplish this the persons
about her must belong to the Order of the Passion.

THE EARL OF MORLEY ON AGRICUL-
TURAL EDUCATION.

The education of agricultural labourers is a subject at
present engaging attention in Cornwall. A Govern-
ment inquiry in reference to the employment of
women and children in agriculture is about to take
place there. The Earl of Morley, speaking at Cal-
lington, said that in Yorkshire 74 per cent. of the school
children were under ten ; in Nottinghamshire and Lincoln.
shire, 63l per cent. were under nine, only 4 per cent. over
thirteen ; and, in the opinien of Mr. Fraser, the age had
been steadily diminishing. In Devon and Cornwall very
few children were employed at so early an age. The
number of children in those counties examined in the
higher standards (from four to six) was above the average.
It was 31 per cent., while in the rest of England it
was only 24 per cent. While not an advocate for over-
education, he pleaded for a fair amount of reading, writ-
ing, and power to use the elementary rules of arithmetic.
Two evils to be contended with were the poverty of
parents and the distance of schools from the residence of
the children. The Factory Acts had worked well, allhoug,li
the remedies therein appliedwere inapplicable to agricultural
labour. While the half-time system was impossible, and
while the Workshops Regulation Act was equally inappli-
cable, it was possible that something like the Printworks
Act, which required 150 hours' attendance at school in the
year, might be of use. It was desirable to have some
legislation on the subject, such as would restrict the
employment of boys under ten.

THE RITUAL JUDGMENT AND POLITICAL
PARTIES.

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-The Church News, a high Tory, as well as High Church
paper, considers the result of the Ritual judgment will be
" ta throw the most active, hearty, able, sincere, and honest
members of the Church into the ranks of the opponents
of an Establishment. That the Tories are dropping
their principles one by one is being forced upon us by
facts that cannot be gainsaid ; that expediency instead
of principle has become the motive-power of action is now
tolerably patent." This change was visible in South
Derbyshire last week, where the Conservative majority
of November was all but annihilated, and where,
as the Church News says, " clerics who have been Tories
all their lives long, hereditary believers in Church and
Queen, deliberately changed their tactics. To their old
and sound principles they still stick ; but will not in the
future sapport a party whose principles are gone, and
whose Church policy, as now practically expounded, is
certain ruin both to Church and State." The same paper
is disgusted at the " weak, maunderingly ridiculous, and
impotent " line taken by " the Tory press," which
is enough to " disgust with Constitutionalism any sensible
man having two ideas in his head." If Mr. Murphy, the
Dean of Ripon, and Lord Cairns are to be the present
and future exponents of Toryism, its influence will not
last very long, thank the saints ! Disestablishment
and schism will soon follow our present anarchy.
And all this will be shadowed forth or dis-
covered at the next general election. Men who
have hitherto worked like slaves for a party which
was believed to act for the Church on some sound and
sterling principle, in opposition to the Radicals, will fold
their hands and stand aloof when a conflict arises between I
political sections who, as far as the Church is concerned.
are found to be as like each other as two peas."

The Church News publishes the following letter from
one of the Ritualists who dissented from the decision at
the meeting in the Freemasons' Tavern :—" My dear
brother, I am directed to forward to you the following
resolution carried 21071. con. at a meeting of about fifty
priests who use altar-lights, held to-day :---` This meeting
deems it advisable to continue the use of altar-lights,
leaving it to those in authority to interfere or not as they
may think fit.'—Yours truly in Our Lord Jesus Christ,
C. F. LOWDER, S. Peter's Vicarage, London Docks.
January 13, 1869."

The same paper states that seven pendant lamps are to
be kept perpetually burning at St. Alban's, Holborn,
in lieu of the extinguished candles, and that
"in a well-known church where vestments and
lights have been in constant use, the Ritual
has been raised in accordance with the Privy
Council judgment. Wafer-bread had been adopted;
all prostrations and kneelings' abandoned, and in their
room the simple genuflexion substituted. The word
Mass' is now used instead of Holy Communion' or
' celebration.' The mixed chalice is restored ; and copes
and other vestments, as ordered by Edward's Prayer-book,
are soon to be in constant use."

A telegram from Bristol is to the effect that as a
Mrs. Rimmer was crossing the plank on Tuesday t o reach the
Cardiff schooner, Mary Nixon, from Palermo, lying in
Bris;o1 harbour, she fell into the water. The captain of the
vessel, who was her husband, plunged in to rescue her, and
Loth were drowned.

An accident occurred at the station of the Great
Northern Railway Company at Newark on Tuesday morning.
John Jackson, of Doucater, engina driver, who was work-
ing the up express goods train, slipped off the front of his
engine whilst oiling, and was killed instantaneously by
being struck with the ash-pan underneath the engine, his
body being cut open.

The subject of a change in the law relating to Par-
liamentary elections was considered by the Bradford Town
Council on Tuesday. It was decided that a petition should be
presented to the Legislature•, praying for an alteration (the
precise nature of which the Council did not venture to in-
dicate) in the existing► law relating to the 11011111a0an and to
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