The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPTED A ,SSASSIIVA TIO 3 OE
THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.

A correspondent of the Lzrant IleralA writing from
Cairo on the 2Gth ult., says :—" The affa'r of the Ma-
nasse ' attempt' to blow up the Viceroy Las occupied
the local authorities and their auxiliary consular
commission since my last, and has even yet only
reached the stage of a true bill' being found against
the luckless impresario and another rayab, as guilty of mur-
derous intent in the first degree, and against two Italians as
their accomplices to a minor extent. The two former have
been what in Europe would be called committed for trial, and
the latter are held in custody by the Italian consul to be
dealt with rs he may be advised from Florence. Though"
all the world now knows that the whole thing was merely a
c:umsy plot ftighten the Viceroy and get money out of
his gratitude for discovery cf the `plot'—which was to have
been fathered on Muslapha Fazyl or Ilalim—it is beliovel
it will go hard with Manasse and his fellow rayab, if only
pour clicourager les attires. They will probably be sentenced
to transportation to the White Nile ; but as a fatality at-
tends the voyage to that Egyptian Cayenne—at least no
prisoner ever despatched thither has been known to reach
it—you aro not likely to see the old familiar face again in
Para."

THE VICAR OF DONCASTER ON
DISESTABLISIIMENT.

The Far. Dr. Vaughan, in a sermon preached in aid of
the Doncaster Inflrmnry, spoke in the following terms
on the transitional state of the Churcb:—" We are passing
more and more—for better or worse—out of a parochial
into a congregational life. We are becoming less of
State Church and more of a Free Church —if
expressions once used as party watchwords may be
employed, for explanation's sake, in a simple and unpo-
lemical manner, in the sanctuary of God's house.
It is not for me either to rejoice or lament
over a transition as momentous as it is inevi-
table, and I take things as they are, and I would urge
you to turn to good account the circumstances- in which
God's Providence has placed us. Now the lesson
which I learn from this change is simple and practical.
It is that the Church of flitch place—that the congre-
gation worshipping in each church—must bestir itself to a
livelier and snore -earnest.,hlterest in the management of its
own concerns. I have so faith in the multiplication of
Church machinery on a large scale—whether it take the
form of convocations, conferences, or congresses. These
things seem to me to have a tendency to distract the
minds of the Church's pastors from their real work and
from their alone available infiticn.ce. What I desire
is that the pastor of each Church, acting with
his own church-officers and church-worshippers should
endeavour soberly and earnestly to arouse, in his own
little sphere of action, the zeal and interest of his people
in the particular work of the Church, its services, its
charities, and its missions, so far as that work
depends—and it does mainly, soon, perhaps, it
will entirely, depend—upon voluntary effort. The
Church of England is becoming less and less national
—less and less territorial—in that sense, I trust,
in no other) less and less national—more and more inde-
pendent—more and more congregational. If there is
something in this to be deplored, there is at least some-
thing to be rejoiced in. The heart of the people must
be appealed to for the maintenance of the people's
worship."

THREE YORKSHIRE MEMBERS ON THE

PERMISSIVE BILL.