The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

ACBE.

PIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
ill. Argence (official) elected
Cassimir Perier . ...........
COTES DU NORD.
General de la Mottc Rouge(official) elected 18,800
M. Glais Bizoin ................................. 12,400

20,800
15,100

THE REP-, NEWMAN HALL 0141-T 11-0

A THA NA SIAN CREED.

The Rev. Newman Hall preached on Sunday last 91
Bt. James's Hall, and his sermon bore special reference
the festival of the day. In the course of his remarks 1°
said : The doctrine of the Trinity is a mystery, but Doti
contradiction, though the explanations given of it SW:
times make it appear to be so. A cloud may be grel'
and grand and beautiful, while it defies all attemPt
measure and define it. There are truths which are Wilt.'"
by logical precision in explainirig them. The Athanaoll
Creed had its controversial use at the time when it
written ; but is it wise to perpetuate it in Divine worshl
as a Scriptural account of the great mystery of the Trinity'
We may agree with its general scope so far as it
possible to understand a statement so difficult. Pl.
should we determine the salvation of others by their agree„
ment with this particular method of stating the doctrine'
Vet in thousands of pulpits this day it is being asserted
that all who do not hold the Catholic faith as there°
defined will, without doubt, perish everlastingly ! Thel
who respect the Creed to-day may honestly believe UPI
themselves so far as they understand it; but can thel,
honestly believe that all their fellow-men who do net
thus understand the mystery of the Divine existence
will be eternally damned? Are they not obliged to reel)/
to evasions or explanations which are painful to OOP
Do the laity believe in the damnatory clause they he°,
from the desk? And if not, is their respect for trot'
lessened when in sacred places, and in solemn worslo
they hear words which are not held as true in the sells°
which is grammatical and which was intended by the cal;
pliers ? Multitudes of godly clergyman find their de"!
enjoyment of Trinity Sunday lessened by the necessitr'
pronouncing so sweeping an anathema. The laity ell
this in great degree, as they are only listeners $ll,
may refuse to respond. But is it not time for the laity°
England to Uemand release for their clergy from such
bondage? Let us hope that the Episcopal branch of tild
Church Catholic in this country, a Church so venertsbi,e"
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so learned, so useful, may be delivered from whatever '
a blemish to it ; and that a Liturgy so grand in its shli;
plicity, so comprehensive, and so devotional, may
continue to have its beauty marred by a wholesale con'_A •
demnation so opposed to its pervading and large-head'''.
charity.

711 E EINGLISH JOINT-STOCK BAYJ

PROSECUTION,

The case of the English Joint-Stock Bank was again be'
fore the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on Monday.
Mr. George Lewis, solicitor, conducted the prosecuticof
and the defendants were represented, as before, by 21r.
Poland, Mr. Ormond, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Montagu Williao
and Mr. Straight, barristers.
Mr. HOWELL, accountant, was recalled by Mr. Poland, 4b,
said the gross amount received by the directors as fees Icr
£1,889 lls. Bd., during a year and ten months, of whic
Captain Mangles received £2lO ls. ; Mr. Abbiss, £l97ll°'
and Mr. Bradshaw. £238115,
In answer to questions put by Mr. Straight, he stated tiO
the directors were entitled to a remuneration of £3,000 .01
anaum.
Mr. KEMP, the accountant who audited the accounts of tb°
bank in 1865 and prepared the balance-sheet for that Yes 4
said that he compared the figures with the entries in tbet
books of the bank, and he allowed the sum of £4,000 tbs.
was paid to Mr. Walker without asking for any specific tir
formation relating to the amount. He did not ask to bel
shown the authority for the payment of the mon* ti
treated the entry in the bank becks as a correct ent4;
He did not ask for vouchers cr demand to see that the moll]
entered in the book were ordered by the directors to be Pal
He took for granted that the amount in question had hoe:
properly paid. He made no inquiries of the manager or tit
directors, and did not ask for any vouchers.
Mr. LEwis esked whether this was the ordinary TM i 3
which ho audited the accounts of a bank?
Ur. KEMP replied that it was, and it was all that he `cog
expected to do. It would have taken some months to
vestigate the particulars of all the various items relating;
to
the London and the country branches. He gave a corw:
cate that he had compared the items in the balance
sheet with the books and found they were corree'
He considered that the shareholders would be fully ascsl6e
by the terms of his certircate that he had not seen ~,
vouchers for the payment of the various sums. The beeP
did not contain any entry relative to the sum of £lO,OOO 0;
pended by Messrs. Thorns and Co. for the purchase of sbltri,
In the bank. lie was aware that sums of money had bee
advanced to Captain Mangles, Mr. Abbiss, and other dire,;;'
tors, but the transactions did not appear on the books;
that form. He asked for an explanation, and Mr. Finned;
the manager, informed him of the fact. He then said that tb
account ought to appear in the books in the names of the direc-
tors. The account was entered in the name of Jones and °;
He took no steps to ascertain how the profit stated to Dal,
been made by the bank was made up. He accepted theitell
on the books as being correct. He believed the cost °
liquidating the bank and its thirty-three branches would /9:
£35,000. Two calls of £1 had been made upon file
shareholders, wh;ch would produce about £14,000. 1196
amount of capital I a'd up was £200,000, and the total less
to the shareholders would b.) about £340,000. There wer6l
losses incurred by nearly all tie country branches tl'„
were purchased. £lB,OOO were lost by the Bideford baloi
and £22,200 by the Nottingham bank. The losses by
debts at Mr. Mangles' bank at Aldershot were over £25,19°.„
The business of the whole of the branches resulted l'r"
the losses incurred by the directors of £160,827. 31,,,
Kemp went to say that the creditors had all been paid 20;
in the pound, and the defendant, Mr. Bradshaw, wagoo
debtor to the amount of £l,lOO, £BOO for a loan, and
upon his call account.
The inquiry was adjourned to Saturday.

• Another strike is now proposed by some of the
members of the weavers' union and their leaders. Teo e.
twelve of the Preston manufacturers refuse to run thei:
looms at the reduction of five per cent. and " the Blackbil„4"
wheel" only, and now demand one of ten per cent. Sieh-
the strike was given up a fortnight ago, very few of
turn-outs have succeeded in obtaining employment -Abe-
-300 only - and there still remain out of work about 1,300'
THE SONS OF COUNT BISMARCK.—CUITeIIq ha
been given to the report that Count Bismarck had eeullA
his two sons to Oxford. The news now seems to
be
untrue, as a Ministerial journal at Berlin states that tl3;
two young Counts study at Bonn, on the Rhine ; and
thS
they have only made a trip to England during Whiten -4
tide holidays in company with a marine officer. TheY.°
now actually at Oxford.
ANOTHER FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurre:),
the Upper Gethin Colliery, South Wales, at four o'nle; b
on Saturday morning. Three men were filling rubb,:stii
in the pit, and while doing so about twenty tons a et:,-,
and stones fell on them. Two of them, William DitvA-,s'
labourer, Riverside, Merthyr, 31 years of age, and Tb..iioll3-
Randall, collier, Abercanard, 20 years of age, were Icl-"ed
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on the spot, and another man named David ' Davies, collie"
had his leg broken.
THE BRECON ELECTION PETITION. The petition..
against the return of Lord Hyde, the Liberal member for
Brecon, charges the noble lord and his agents with hriber4''
treating, intimidation, paying for conveyance of lirtlte,a-a:
and undue influence ; and also charges the member vr""
having knowingly employed as canvassers or agents 13:1
sons who had within seven years been found or rePlz"
guilty of corrupt practices. The petition is signed 139fe11
electors-a draper, builder, printer, and licensed victualler.
Lord Claude John Hamilton, the Conservative candidate'
is, it appears, no party to the petition.
A CATHOLIC BISHOP ON STRIKES.—On sundae
the Roman Catholic Bishop Goss availed himself of t'o
opportunity afforded at a church visitation, at Preston,
ce
advert to the strike which had recently taken Ple'iv
amongst the operatives of that town. He told the 001;v
ing men that, by resorting to a strike, they se! he
a tyrant more exacting than their masters, 31114 ca
cautioned them against putting too much confiae-teo
in their leaders, whose interest it was to foster dis_,„l3lee
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between them and their masters. By resorting to a5r"...4
the operatives were driving the trade from the ccalat"jji
and it behoved them to accept what their masters Were
a position to pay; for whilst they were losing a shit;
the masters were losing a pound. By the course oil
operatives were adopting they were preventing FreSt 't
from becoming the large manufacturing centre Which ly
ought to be, and he advised them to work harniolli°lls
with their enq 1 >yers.
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DISGRACEFUL SCENE AT A FUNERAL.—
A saidisturbance took place on Sunday in the neighbourhood oa
St. Augustine's Church, Hackney-road. A girl connecte,,
with the church had died at her home in Margaret-streey:
fo
and her body was to be conveyed to the school.rooro
t.
ertain ceremonies to be performed previous to internierimr
A procession started from the house, consisting dile--
young girls, dressed in white, with white veils °;c:1
their heads, and carrying flowers forming emblenaat,"-
designs. This procession Is soon joined by anotbesri
composed of a number of clergymen and choristerof
!
babited in white surplices, several Sisters
Mercy, and about 100 school-children, also dyes
seci
in white. The latter procession was headed by ar° a
,9•,,
hearing aloft a gilt cross about ten feet high. The crov
which was very great, had hitherto contented itself wit.
ei
"chaffing," but the members of the procession, se
this, became very indignant, and by the time the ach°l3_
was reached there were some very violent manifestations
of disapproval. The incumbent of St. Augustine's, vi,ned
remained at the door to receive the corpse, was gre'
with loud, yells and hisses, and cries of "No F°Per, rt
Yi.
'lt was only after a struggle that the police succeeded
!
closing the large iron gates, and thus keenii
infuriattd gado Quilt the Vi.ll4iPg,