The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-11 00:00:00

President-I-Hie Grace the Duke of Buccuniroit, K.G.

This Hospital, founded iu the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent ler support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abohnrch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn. and Co. ;
Hsrries and flo. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Papia, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,:Berners-street ; and,at
the_Hospital from,.lo till 5.

Mr. William Tallack has sent us the opinion' of
eminent men in the United States on Capital Punishment.
He derives the information from the work of the Hon
Marvin H. Boyle, entitled "Christ and the Gallows,"
which has excited considerable attention in America.
Among those who have expressed a strong disapproval of
executions are the poets Longfellow, Bryant, and Whit-
tier. Charles Sumner regards every execution as a con-
fession of weakness, if not of cowardice ; and Fernando
Wood, who, as Mayor of New York, had many oppor-
tunities of witnessing the effect of the death penalty on
murder, declares that so far from deterring, it has thg op-
posite effect. This remark of Hon. Fernando Wood that
" that dreadful offence has increased where capital punish-
ment is most general," is, however, susceptible of another
explanation, for capital punishment will certainly be more
frequent where murder is most committed, as the murder
precedes the execution. Wendell Philipps and Henry Ward
Beecher both eloquently denounce that mode of punish
ment, and Mr. Beecher takes up a point on which Mr.
Tallack has long dwelt with:great force—" While the fear
of hanging does not deter men from crime, the fear of in-
flicting death deters many a jury from finding a just ver-
dict, and favours the escape of criminals." We all know
the opinion of Horace Greeley on the subject, for ho has
long and consistently been the enemy of executions, con-
sidering them to furnish the most pernicious example.
He would abolish the death sentence, and publish as
widely as possible the sanctity of human life.

LADVERTI-SEEENT. J—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate
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Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish-
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and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sotmd
lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re
gularity, am' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex
tract a few out of the 63,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restored
by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866.
—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since
abandoning all other remedies, ho has confined himself entirely
to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, Food, of which he consumes
a plateful at every meal. It has pros-nit:ea a surprisingly bone
ficial effect on bis health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel
lent food too highly. From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure
No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brellau, of seven years' liver
complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous
palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and
the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord
Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years'
dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agory from
dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency,
spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."--Cure No
46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years
diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and
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unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached
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21 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABISA CHOCOLATE
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at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 558
—being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent
free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-OfficeOr ier.—
Binh Y Die BARRY and Co., NO. 77 Regent-street, London; and
all Grocers and Gliernista

believed the Church was in danger, but that
she might be,' saved by prompt and energetic
reform. He pointed out very numerous changes
amongst which were the redistribution of endowments in
subdivided prishes, the removal of inefficient ministers, the
replacing of clergy according to their special talents and
gifts, the modification of the parochial system, the lessening
of the autocratic power now possessed by individual incum-
bents, greater freedom of the people in providing for their
spiritual wants within and not without the Church of
England, provision for the growth of new districts
by a missionary clergy extempore prayer, as well as extem-
pore preaching, &c.—The Rev. J. H. Iles recommended the
formation cf a union of Churchmen who did not think
moderate drinking a sin.
Speakers then followed thick and fast. Bishop Ryan
-dvocated the Church doing more in the - way of
middle class education.—The Rev. Canon Gore stood
up for short and frequent services. The Dean
of York concurred in the opinion that they must get
rid of the pow system. They ought also to have daily
;:raver in the churches, and in addition to that they should
have a weekly celebration of the Holy Communion, and
it should be frequently choral. They must also in the
large towns have the personal superintendence of the
Episcopate.—The Rev. James Bardsley had become a total
abstainer, not because he objected to a glass of wine, but
because he thought that drinking customs were a great
evil to the community. He gave most encouraging
accounts of his labours with lay aid in Manchester. The
Rev. W. Lefroy 'raid- that the- ladies of Liverpool had
worked bravely for the Church before sisterhoods were
dreamt of. He went in thoroughly for compulsory educa-
tion, and entertained nu fears so long as clergy.nen did
their duty.—The ReV. A. Stowell, of Salford, spoke of the
work of the Church outside the walls of the Church. The
working classes were Protestant to the backbone, and the
more they assimilated the services of the Church to those
of the R,cmish Church, the more they would alienate the
working classes. Nothing had been said about the dwel-
lings of the working classes. The Congress should consider
skis subject seriously. There were many human heinks
living in worse places than the gentry would keep their
dogs in, and in which purity and innocence and religion
were a miracle. The opening of the public-houses on the
Lord's Day was the great hindrance to their work.—The
Rev. John Scott, of Hull, thought that where there were
to be found clergymen willing to remain celibate, they
should be selected to work in the poor districts
of the large towns. He advocated as most important the
establishment of mission-rooms. Open air preaching was
most important, and extempore prayer might be found
most useful.—The Rev. John Ellerton said if there
were any present who could spare an evening
to assist working men in scientific pursuits, making them-
selves useful to them, and interesting them, they would
find themselves amply repaid in other directions.—The
Rev. F. C. Lowder advocated the sending forth of missionary
bodies. Let the clergy live together and work together.
Let them and the laity who would devote themselves to
the work live together. And why could they not have
devoted women living under various forms of life ? Some
could only devote a few hours a day, but they could &I
but little ; and if other ladies liked to live together under
a religious rule; and give themselves entirely to the work,
why should they not be permitted to do so ?

In the afternoon the Weekly Offertcry and Almsgiving
ens the subject discusse:l. The Rev. Canon Trevor
trongly supported the weekly offertory, and recommended
that the repugnance to it be combatted and removed.—
The Rev. A. H. Mackonochie was received with great ap-
plause, long continued, which shewed that the signers of
the protest against his appearance to read a paper on this
subject were in a woeful minority. He remarked that the
position of the offertory as a part cf Divine service was
clearly not a question of Church finance, but one of religion.
It was quite true that as a matter of finance it was a
success, but, from the Christian point of view, from which
they all desired to look at it, it was successful because it was
right, not right or expedient because successful. Two
special blessings were to be gained by the spread of the
offertory system and the deeper realisation of the
privilege of aLmsgiving. " The first of them is'
the increased gift of the spirit of self-dedication. We
want not only money but labourers for our work. Hard,
unattractive mission work has to be done at home and
abroad. The sacred memory of Christ's Church is no longer
a comfortable sinecure for those of the sons of gentry and
of the aristocracy who showed no talent for anything else.
To enter its ranks is now to enlist in the great army
that has to contend face to face with sin, the world,
and of the flesh. The suffering and the shame of the
Cross are for the many its only rewards. Hence
few, in comparison, care to enter it. We know
that the very act of giving begets the desire to
give. May wo not hope that if we teach more faithfully
the unspeakable blessing of a treasure laid up in heaven,
that treasure may even in this life flow back upon the
Church and the nation that gives, in a spirit of self-dedi-
cation among rich and poor, which shall enable us to
eulfil the mission entrusted to us of the conversion cf
sinners and the evangelisation of the heathen. But
we have been constantly warned during the sitting of
this Congress that the position of the Church as an
7.stablishment is doomed. I do not pretend to be wiser than
others, but this we all know—if clisestablishment be at
hand, there will come with it the great national sin of
sacrilege, in the seizing by the State of that which still
remains to the Church of the bounty of her children in
ages past. lam not one who, for the Church's sake, would
vithhold a single penny of her substance if by losing she
can again be free ; but I do see a great national sin, and
therefore a great national danger, in disendowment.
'low can the Church, while receiving the gift of liberty
"'rem the State, save its liberator from the punishment of
the sin of sacrilege? I conceive that something will be
lone if she can gain for herself from God such a fulness
of the gift of loving liberality as shall enable her to be to
his country what the ten righteous, whom God sought in
vain, might have been to the Cities of the Plain—a rem-
nant of election, whom God shall behold and love, for
whose sake the arm of the avenging angel shall be stayed,
and who shall bring to their country God's grace and fresh
abundance of his love."—Mr. Charles France urged that
the offertory, in a financial point of view, was a great
success. He gave several instances of the effective working
of the offertory. These shewed that the people were
learning, and the large proportion of copper coins
.hewed that the poor were giving; but still he
thought the results compared unfavourably with the
Dissenters.—Mr. Collins, M.P., condemned the pow
,ystem, and contended that the offertory was the only
substitute.—Mr. Henry Clark insisted upon every man
devoting one-tenth of his income to religion.--The Rev.
William Lcfroy hold it as a matter of most sincere convic-
tion that every parish church should be free and open ; but
he felt that the Christian ministry should be supported by
some definite and reliable contributions. Where the
offertory maintained the minister it was at the expense
of missionary enterprise. Of thirteen churches in England
glorified by Mr. Mackonochie, not one contributed to the
ile
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mofistshieosneacrl;uernches,
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pamnrisicsisesioliwneeavrirYeedasotnehliaectrieitehnse.othing—a yearly average of £3 3s. from
each church.—Mr. Brett defended the offertory, contend-
;Jig, in reply to the last speaker, that the churches ho had
named had held specific collections for colonial bishoprics
and other objects. Other speakers followed.

THE COLLIERY STRIXES IN YORKSHIRE.—An
viction in connection with the strikes and locks-out
in South Yorkshire has taken place at Silkstone, where
the men formerly employed at the New Sbvereign Colliery
reside. The ejectments were enforced in accordance with
an order made by the District County Court Judge, and
200 people, men, women, and children, were removed from
their houses. The proceedings were of a very peaceful
character. It is twenty-five years since such a scene was,
enacted at Silkstone, and the men were then turned ex
bccaune they resisted a reduction of their wages.