The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-14 00:00:00

rro THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED.
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(From the Doily News.)
There is no mistake. It is the settled purpose
of a vigorous party among us to establish and pro-
mote the practice of Confession to the Priest, by
the influence and authority of the National Church.
As long as it was possible to think that the dispute
of the Rev. Alfred Poole, curate of St. Bareabv,
Pimlico, with the Bishop of London, might after
all be founded. on mutual misapprehensions, or be
explained as one of those accidental collisions of
authority which take place where duties and rights
are loosely defined, we kept silence. But the cor-
respondence which has now transpired, and which
we produce elsewhere, removes all doubt, and
places the conduct both of the bishop and the
curate in the clearest light. It is no longer the
question how much credit is due to the inculpatory
gossip of a knot of loose women. The bishop has
proceeded on broader and firmer grounds. He does
not impeach the motives of Mr. Poole ; on the
contrary, he gives his most valuable testimony to
the goodness of that gentleman's intentions. But
he takes Mr. Poole's admissions as to his own
practice—admissions which recur in the published
letters—and ho says :—" By them. I am led to
regard the course you are in the habit of pursuing
with reference to confession as likely to cause
scandal and injury to the Church. I feel especially
that this questioning of females on the subject of
violations of the Seventh Commandment is of dan-
gerous tendency, and I am convinced, generally,
that the sort of systematic admission of your people
to confession and absolution, which you have al-
lowed to be your practice, ought not to take place."
This would have been sufficiently explicit
for most people. Not so, however, for Mr.
Poole. He wants to know just how far he
may go in the forbidden path without forfeit-
ing his position. Be recurs to his interviews
with the Bishop, and tries to recall the special in-
stances respecting which he has given information.
In his letter of May 15 he refines on the Bishop's
words, asks what particular practice is referred to,
and nevertheless is compelled to acknowledge not
only that be had been in the habit of receiving his
people to confession, butthat in his secret interviews
with the female members of his flock, he bad put
those very minute questions respecting violations of
a particular commandment which the Bishop had
signalised as dangerous, and calculated to cause
scandal in the Church. Even while complaining of
his diocesan for describing; his admission of the
people of St. Barnabas to confession as systematic,
he owns that he has taught them to regard his
questionings and his absolution us the way to
peace pointed out by the Church of England ; and
he justifies his inquisitorial practices by a permis-
sion given somewhere in the Prayer-book to the
afilicced to " open their griefs ;" as if advice to an
householder to open his door were quoted to justify
some one in the street inpicking the lock. But time
is wasted in pursuing these vain quibbles. Every-
body knows to what, according to the principles of
our common nature, practices like those of Mr.
Poole must inevitably lead. Indeed, that gentle-
man says in one of his letters—" I admit that when
persons, male or female, have sought my ministry
in confession, I have put to them such questions as
have been suggested by the matter confessed, which
have appeared to me necessary in order to enable
me to (Jive the counsel and advice which the case
required." Habetnns covfitentem rewn. After the
first confession such questions will be expected,
their subject will therefore be mentally dwelt on ;
the interview follows, quickening thought and
filling the imagination, and thus the whole
mind receives a downward direction. According
to tie Rev. W. Gresley, one of the leaders
of the party with which Mr. Poole acts, " the very
shame of the avowal and confession made is a part
of the contrition and the cure." That procedure,
then, will be observed in the confessional which is
most likely to kindle shame. The heart sickens and
refuses to fellow out in thought the consequences
of a principle so revolting.
The practice of confession to the priest at St.
Barnabas is avowed, defended, justified, and the
Bishop by whose authority the confessor has minis-
tered for seven years, whose licence he has held,
who is responsible for his conduct and the ten-
dency of his teaching, would have failed egregiously
if he had lost any time in putting a stop to prac-
tices which, whatever else may be said of them,
would be fatal to the Church of which he is an
officer. He has interposed firmly, but temperately,
patiently, and in a spirit of paternal kindness,
amounting almost to indulgence, which must exalt
his reputation and increase his influence for good,
not only in his diocese but throught the kingdom.
He has set his mark plainly not only on the prac-
tice of secretly questioning women on subjects from
which modesty shrinks, but on the systematic prac•
tice of confession to whomsoever applied.
That it might be seen that this was no mere per-
sonal question, Mr. Poole's local superior, the Rev.
Mr. Liddell, had applied to the bishop, praying
that he might be substituted for his curate in any
proceedings that were taken. The bishop, however,
preferred to deal with the case as it came before
him, and the revocation of Mr. Poole's license was
the result. An appeal from this decision to the
Archbishop of the province was the next step, and
we now learn its fate. The Archbishop upholds
the judgment of Dr. Tait, and says that Mr.
Poole must no longer minister in the church of
St. Barnabas. It is well that he has done so, be-
cause had he done otherwise people would have
been likely to inquire what was the use of a Chief
Shepherd too feeble or too irresolute to defend the
flock from noisome intruders Y But Mr. Poole and
his friends would greatly err if they were to sup-
pose that their defeat is a temporary reverse, due
to the personal teudenoies of a par icular couple of
prelates. They may depend on it that the Eng-
lish people thoroughly understand the Confes-
sional in its practical bearings. The great meeting
held in Sloane-street on Monday night is only a
specimen of manifestations which would be repeated
in every town iu England, were there the least
chance that secret confession to the priest would
become a prevalent practice in the Church of Eng-
land. In this country, happily, the fullest liberty
is accorded to the professors of every form of reli-
gion. But when the ministers of a national and
heavily endowed Church ask that they may unite
the immunity and license of the voluntary com-
munions with the prerogatives and privileges of
Piincipals may decide, the
their
raioewlyn not be granted. Whatever Deans of
Officialcountry will not tolerate the Confes-
sionalßeformed Protestant Church. They
which the practices
ell
a t
shallthe mentalno tbe hpeeladc e
Apatw leceeso eimonhfapuotnrrhudecihrlsee on fd St th. es
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o fare the expression.
of their
at the plea-
surenore
of the Priest, purity of mind lie at
the mercy of a sot of men who have on their
tongues a thousand ready-made questions which
have accumulated through centuries devoted to the
Theywes arean d resolved
daughtersth
analysis of pollution, awe who have charged their
memories with monstrous cases to business. qualify them-
selves for this fearful The life of the
Family is too sacred and mysterious to be aban-
doned to unsympathising vivisectors, trained to
probe souls, apt to worm out secrets, proud of their
skill to break hearts and to heal, to kill and to make
alive ; men not afraid to interfere between those
whom a divine ordinance has made one—because
they address only the weaker party. We know
their zeal, their numbers, their restlessness : we
shall soon hear of them again, but let them beware,
tworn dogma
for, with only an ou to support them,
and condemned by the great body of earnest Chris-
tians throughout the lend, they have entered into
conflict with some of the deepest, strongest, holiest
eassions that can inflame the human breast.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER OF A FEMALE
AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.

Yesterday the town of Gravesend was the scene
of the utmost excitement, resulting from the com-
mission of a frightful murder, and the suicide of
the murderer.
As an introduction to the facts of this tragedy,
it must be stated that, during the past ten days, a
man, accompanied by a female who paned as his
wife, had been lodging at the house of Mr.
Henry Bean, the Royal Standard Beer shop,
Terrace-street, Gravesend. The parties ap-
peared to be on the most amicable terms with
each other, and were in the habit of leaving
the house daily for the purpose of going
into the country to follow their calling, as
hawkers of artificial flowers. On Monday evening,
after partaking of supper, they retired to rest in
their usual chamber, the landlord of the house (Mr.
Bean) occupying the chamber adjacent. About
five o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. Bean was
aroused by a scream, and a strange scratching noise
at his chamber door. He immediately jumped out
of bed, when he perceived, on entering the passage,
that the outside of the door of his chamber was
stained with finder-marks of blood, and he then, in
consequence of' the direction from whence the
screams proceeded, entered the adjacent chamber,
when a frightful scene presented itself.
It appears that the woman had managed to got
back to her own room, where she fell down in a
pool ottblood, whilst the man was apparently re-
clining on the side of the bed, with his throat cut in
a frightful manner. Mr. Bean perceiving the
nature of the fearful tragedy, instantly gave an
alarm, and sent for Dr. Russell, of the Terrace,
who immediately attended, but found that his ser-
vices with regard to the woman were unavailing,
as life was extinct. The attention of Dr. Russell
was consequently directed to the man ; but the
nature of the wound was such that he expired after
lingering about 40 minutes. Mr. Superintendent
White, of the Gravesend police, subsequently
searched the room, and was enabled to find such
documents as led him to proceed to London and
communicate with the relatives of the unfortunate
man ; and they immediately proceeded to Graves-
end.
At the inquest the Jury returned a verdict
" That the deceased, Jane Moore, was wilfully
murdered by John Knight, and. that John Knight
committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary
insanity."

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(Front the Times.)

leaders of the Eng Will clergy to disregard popular
manifestations because they may display an illogical
It is perfectly true that faith and conscience are
independent of popularity, and that one of the chief
uses of au establishment consists in the intellectual
to be distinguished by
An open-air meeting on a question of ecclesi-
astical
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iailshi impartiality
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to
denounces
iwTtbwthhieclicollateral object of
has justly alarmed
assembled the other
thethe snyesti;beoufrChoenefde,ss
promoting a subscription for the zealous Church-
warden, Mr. Westerton. The statements and
arguments brought forward at the meeting were
open to exception, yet it would be unwise in the
1
mode of reasoning, or even a spirit of persecution.
independence which it secures to the clergy ; but
the Church of England can only retain its position
through a general conformity to the feelings and
convictions of the ringligh nation. It i 5 uncioubt-

13.
edly Scriptural and orthodox, it may be Apostolic POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—JuIy
and primeval, but its hold on the affections of the •
country is founded on the conviction that it is t GUILDHALL.—AIfred Skeen and Archibald
thoroughly national. The great body of the edu- Freeman appeered upon a summons before Sir
°Atha classes will always secure their own commu- Peter Laurie, charged for that they, being em-
nion against the utmost danger which may arise ployed as agents intrusted with a bill of lading of the
from putitanio declamations,_ followed by the value of 1,690/ , did uniawfuliy, without the autho-
applause of mob meetings. For themselves they city of their principal, and for their own benefit,
require neither a monotonous uniformity nor an deposit the same at the City Bank.
affeAed consistency, justly considering that a beli-f Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr..Dupre watched
to be sincerely held by millions must be various the case for the defendants.
and elastic, and desiring that to the utmost extent Mr. Bodkin said that the charge was brought
of creeds and formulas the Church should practi- by a firm of high repute in the City, Messrs. Cavan
c illy tolerate all tolerable versions of its doctrine. Brothers, West India merchants, under the
sth
There are some things however, which exceed the and 6th of Victoria, cap. 39, sec. G. The facts of
licence of Anglican liberality ; nor will the laity the case we, e these :—ln April, or thereabouts, the
endure a priesthood which habitually relies on tie prosecutors received an advice stating that there
enthusiasm and credulity of women. The Bel- was a cargo of timber on its way to this country by
gravian apologists of Confession prudently forgot the Glide. They gave the defendants authority to
the question of sex when they vindicate the sell that cargo early in April, and on the 21st of
right of their penitents to receive priestly conso- that month a specification of the cargo was given
lation. There would not be the smallest need of to them, that they might make known they had
popular agitation if men and women were equally such a cargo to sell when it arrived. On the 17th of
in the habit of putting themselves under a spirt- May the timber arrived, and on the 24th Mr.
tual director. When the clergy of the fashion- Freeman, the nephew, called for the bill of lading
able quarters can prove that a score of for the purpose of lodging at the docks. It was
middle-aged gentlemen have been caught at the given to him without suspicion, and in a short time
confessional, they will have proved, not that the it was brought back with a message that it was of
practice is desirable or justifiable, but that it is not no use until it was endorsed. That rather excited
flagrantly inconsistent with the tastes of English- suspicion, because it did not require to be endorsed
men. Fathers of families want no protection for for lodging at the docks, but having confidence in
themselves ; they only require that their wives and their brokers, Mr. Ballard, the clerk, signed the bill
daughters should profit 'by the same wise reserve of lading, and handed it over to the defendant's
which distinguishes the English clergy in their in- clerk. 'they heard nothing more about it until the
tercourse with their equals among the laity. The defendants stopped payment in the month of June,
natural and graceful respect felt by women for those when it was found that the bill of lading had bsen
who are set apart for the service of religion must taken on the 26th to the City Bank, and lodged
not be perverted into the means of an unwhole- there as security for a large sum of money. When
some influence over their minds. This was the true the stoppage took place they were indebted to the
meaning of the protest at St. James's-hall, as well City Bauk to the amount of 10,0001. Mr. Skeen
as of the demonstration in Sloane-street. The de- was then applied to, and lie made a statement
tailed charges which have been brought forward which it would not be necessary to put in evidence,
are important to the individuals whom they con- because all he stated could be proved by other
cern, but as long as it is known that auricular con- persona. It appeared from the statement, that
fession is encouraged in the Church no personal there were documents of other parties relating to
vindication will remove the general uneasiness. goods that had been sold lying at the City Bank,
Mr. Poole says that his questions in relation to and to release them this document was given. The
a breach of the Seventh Commandment were sug- bill of lading relates to goods to the value of 1,700/.
gested by the penitent herself, and asked at her Edward Ballard, shipping clerk to the house of
request. It is not easy to understand how, under James Cavan Brothers, 29, Finsbury-circus, India
the circumstances, they could be necessary, and it merchants, proved delivering the bill of ladiug to
is absurd to suppose that a divine muse like a phy- Mr. J. Freeman.
sician, investigate every minor symptom before he Joshua Freeman said, I live at 5, Bath-buildings,
can prescribe for the moral diseate. When a wo- De Beauvoir-town, Kingslaud. I was clerk to the
man who has been guilty of grave misconduct ap- defendants and nephew to Mr. Freeman. I remem-
peered to repent of her error, the proper remedies her going to Cavan and Cu., ere' obto.:iiing from
and appliances might have been suggested without the last witness the bill of lading produced. Shortly
any further investigation. The Rubric, though it before I went I had been directed by Mr. Freetnau
was composed for a simpler and less sensitive so- to apply for it. We had securities lodged at the
ciety, requires only a natural ieterpretation to City Bank for advances made on goods of our own
adapt it to the circumstances of the present day. that came by the Laura Campbell. Some of these
There is nothing to prevent a clergyman in Bel- goods were sold, and it became necessary to deliver
gravia or elsewhere from reproving, or encouraging, them, as the customers were clamorous for them.
or counselling a parishioner who resorts to him in Mr. Freeman was aware of the fact, as others and
a state of mental perplexity. It is the elevation of myself had mentioned it to him. Mr. Freeman
confession into a ceremony or formal institution was at this time at home ill, and Mr. Skeen was
which has excited reasonable alarm. The ad- attending to the business. I had not any conver-
vocates of the system play fast and loose with I station with Mr. Skeen on the subject of the bill
the charge when they treat the practice as an ex- of lading up to the time that my uncle gave me
ceptional exercise of discretion. It is in their p ewer orders to go and apply for it. My uncle gave me
to state whether they have fenced it round with rules the order to get the bill of lading at his house in
and observances, or merely treated it as a delicate Oakley-terrace, Southgate-road, but he gave me no
and confidential conversation. The stories of tapers, instructions what to do with it. I received the
and darkened rooms, and prescribed genuflections bill of lading in the first instance from Mr. Bal-
may be exaggerated, but they are of the essence lard. It was at that time unendorsed. When I
of the question, and they have never been oate- left Mr. Ballard I went to the defendants' counting-
gorically denied. The full-grown system is familiar house, but neither of them was there. Perceiving
to the most superficial contraversialists in the that the bill was not endorsed I took it back to Mr.
avowed discipline of the Church of Rome, and it is Ballard, and he endorsed it. I had no instructions
not surprising that Protestants should be jealous to do so. It was necessary to have the bill of lad-
in watching the inchoate Confessional of %t. Bar • ing endorsed when it was put into our hands, but
nabas. Since experience has shown that penance it was not necessary for the sake of selling the
may assume the dignity of a sacrament, it is not 1 timber. On the day after receiving the bill of
unreasonable to ask whether it is to be a etroduced lading I went to see my uncle on other matters,
as a distinct element into the practice of the and lie told rate to bring him up the bill of lading.
English Church. Long waistcoats, outlandish sur- I went for it, and the morning atterwari'le he en-
touts, evanescent bands are but the vanities of dorsed it with the words, "Skeen and Freeman,"
ecclesiastical dandyism, and even the substitution but the words written over it were not their writing
of a drawling sing-song for articulate reading is at all. My uncle then remarked that it was a very
irritating, rather than dangerous. None of these awkward affair about the Laura Campbell, as the
things have been developed into articles of faith or people were clamorous for their orders. He said,
indispensable rules of discipline ; nor would Rome " Suppose I lodge this bill of lading temporarily for
herself hesitate to put all her gewgaws and milli- a few days at the City Bank, in lieu of the docu-
nery up to action it a fashion of austere simp'icity month relating to the cargo of the Laura Campbell,
were to spread throughout Christendom. But the for I expect to be in funds then to release it."
supremacy of the priest over the conscience, Having endorsed the bill of lading he enclosed it
through the instrumentality of the Confessional, iu a leiter to Mr. White, the manager of the City
is an indispensable element of the system which Bank, asking him to take it in lieu of a portion of
finally passed from England at the Reformation. ceder brought by the Laura Campbell. I took the
In the absence of an infallible authority the deep letter to Mr. White on the 26th, and that gentle-
conviction of the nation, from the highest rank to man opened it in my presence. He read the letter,
the lowest, is a more certain test of the true doe- and told me to call again, as he must consult the
trine of the English Church than any scraps of directors. He kept the bill of lading.
forms or of Rubrics. The statesman who tried to Mr. White, the manager of the City Bank, said
work out all the logical results of the constitution, —The defendants kept an account at our house.
and to give substance to every established form, The bank has made them advances to the amount
would bring the system to a dead lock, or reduce it of near 10,0001. on dock warrants and other secnri-
to a proved absurdity. Divines who try similar ties. The value of the dock warrants was about
experiments with their symbols and traditions will 5,0001., and amongst them were dock warrants re-
inevitably fall into similar confusion, unless they lacing to the Laura Campbell. One of them was 264
are warned in time by the protests, or even by the logs of cedar. I knew the defendants were timber
clamour, which may arise from a laity impatient brokers alone. I did not know them as anything
of resuscitated paradoxes. else. I remember the last witness coming to me
with a letter on the 26th of May. The endorse-
ment, " Deliver to John Scott or order," is the
17 handwriting of Mr. Scott, our security clerk, end
was written after the bill came into our possession.
I saw Mr. Skeen on the subject on the afternoon of
the 26th, and told him they could not part with
the cedarjunlesshe would agree to hand the proceeds
over to them within a mouth, and leave the bill of
lading as a collateral security until they had done
so. Ido not remember Mr. Skeen saying he was
very averse to the transaction altogether, for that
the timber did not belong to them. After some '
discussion a letter was written, containing the terms
upon which we would consent to the proposal
he made, and he took it away, and the next day
returned it signed. Mr. Skean said to me after
the failure that he was very sorry the bill was ever
lodged with them. The hill of lading was lodged
at the docks the same day.
Mr. Hayward, clerk at the East and West India
Deckhouse, Billiter-square, produced the bill of
lading for the 153 logs of timber, by the Glide,
front Demerara. It was lodged with them, with
the present endorsement, on the 26th May.
Mr. Bodkin then applied to have the defendants
committed for trial on this evidence.
Mr. Skeen then put in a paper denying that he
had ever seen the bill of lading referred to until it
had been produced in court that day. He also
made a statement to the effect that Mr. White was
not quite accurate in all he had stated.
Mr. Dupre applied to have Mr. Skeen dis-
charged, as he had not been an active party in the
transaction. at a
Mr. Bodkin objected, as ho had come in
subsequent stage of the proceedings, and adopted
his partner's acts.
The defendants were then fully, committed for
trial, but admitted to bail—themselves in 1,0001.
each, and two sureties each of 5001.
The sureties were put in, and the defendants left
the court.

BOW-STREET.—Joseph Sanderson, of 19, New
Bond-street, tailor, attended to receive the judg•
went of the court in reference to the charge of
having addressed indecent language to two little
girls,
the children of respectable parents, in St.
James's-park.
Mr. Davies, from the office of the solicitor to the
Board of Works, stated that, at the suggestion of
his worship, the opinion of an eminent criminal
lawyer had been taken upon the question as to whe-
ther the present charge constituted an indictable
offence, and the result confirmed the impression
already formed by his worship that it was not.
Mr. Lewis hoped his worship would bear in mind
the excellence of his client's character, and the dis-
crepancies which he had pointed out at the last ex-
amination in support of his argument that the wit-
nesses were mistaken as to the identity of the
defendaM, who was clearly shoWn to have been in
his brother's shop at the time of the alleged occur-
rence. Doubtless Mr. Sanderson had walked into
the park for a few minutes, but this was nearly
half an hour after the time stated by the park-
keeper. If his worship had any doubt on these
points, it was due to the defendant that he should
have the benefit of it.
Mr. Jardine said—l have no doubt whatever
that the filthy language described by these children
was use 3, and used by the prisoner. The case
beil g thus proved to my satisfaction, I can inflict
uo penalty upon him compared with the total loss
of character which the conviction of such an offence
as this—an offence which I will not trust myself to
describe—must entail upon him. I fine him 40e.,
and if he does not pay it I commit him for one
mouth.
The fine was instantly paid.

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During the last month or two a series . iitosessiskA
cial eellibitons, or, as they are termed. EaTtaksitioil
.Reoonales, have been held on various points of the
Freneh territory, in which the agricultural, manu-
facturing, and natural products of the • respective
districts have been exhibted. The exhibition at
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tended to visit the town on that occasion, the muni-
cipal authorities, having at their head the Pr ete t de
la Haute-Vienne, the Comte de Coetlogon, and the
eentry of the neighbourhood, determined to invite
le 12 central disJicts of F. ante—Crease, Correze.
Puy -de-Dome, Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, Chs-
reilte, Chat ente-In ferieure, Dordogne, Gironde,
end Dux Sevres—to contribute specimens of their
agricultural, industrial, and artistic produotions, •So
as to exhibit the resources of the centre of France,
which until lately has been very inefficiently pro-
vided with means of communication with Paris,
ports of shipment, or the great centres of consump-
tion, and which, as it lies out of the main lines of
travel, is seldom visited byEnglish tourists. Never-
theless few, if any, of the railways starting from
Paris pass through a more pleasing country, or one
better calculated to convey to a foreigner a fair idea
of the agricultural resources of France than the
railroad which for the present stops short at Lino-
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and enterprise.
From Paris to Orleans the country is familiar
enough to must English tourists—thanks, in no
small measure, to that little colony of their country-
men who have established themselves at Tours,
in the capital of the " Garden of France." But
from Orleans; where the line branches off-to Limo-
ges, the country is not so well known, and yet it
exhibits Some of the richest and most picturesque,
and, at the same time, some of the poorest and most
desolate districts in France. Before reaching Or-
leans the railway passes through the great corn and
grain district of Seance, which looks like an im-
mense alluvial plain stretching away ou either side
to the horizon, and now covered by rich crops.
The appearance of the crops is most satisfactory ; so
far as could be judged they give promise of an abun-
dant harvest, which it is much to be hoped will not
be falsified by the rain and cold weather that have
set in with a persistence rarely to be met with at
this season so far south. Leaving to the right
the city which the simple peasant girl of Domremy
has made famous through all time and is so rich
in historic memories of Englishmen, the railway
ciosses the Loire—looking so calm and gentle now
that it is with difficulty one can realise the change
to a raging torrent that elsewhere leaps from its
bed and inundates the countryside—and passes
through a long succession of gardens where once
the soldiers of Salisbury, Warwick, and Suffolk
foraged and many found their last resting-place.
The gardeus are as primly lsep4, the trees and
shrubs as mathematically regular in their outliae
as the veriest Dutchman could desire, and yet,
despite their formality, they are pleasing to the
eye ; perhaps more front the fact that they precede
the entry into Sologne—a bleak and desolate tract
of country—than from any intrinsic merits of their
own. Tue extent of this district must be consider-
able, for during several hours the train passes over
land no more fertle than Woking-oominon. Trees
dwarfed and stunted into fantastic shapes are
grouped here and there along the hedges of stag-
nant pools, or on hillocks at a distance. No signs
of animal life arc visible, save at rare intervals,
such as La Mothe-Beauvron, where during his
Presidency of the Republic the Emperor pur-
chased in 1552 a considerable estate, with the in-
tention of reclaiming the land. In these localities,
which are few and far between, the land is cleared
and marled. Brick houses, which have a
thoroughly English look, have been built on the
borders of the clearings, and roads opened from
point to point that give an earnest of the conquest
to fertility which during the next few years the
genius and industry of man may effect. Most as-
suredly not the least among the achievements of
the Second Empire will be bringing under cultiva-
tion the Sologne. After la Mothe-Beauvron the
country grows more wild and desolate in appear-
ance. Athin and scanty heather springs from the
soil, and scarcely hides its stony nature. Tho stag-
nant pools are thick with yellow mud, and the few
plantations of pines throw a melancholy shale over
the Landscape. In some dist icts the soil is heaped .
with boulders, the weather-worn and purple sur-
faces of which contrast strongly with the vegeta-
tion. Nothing can be more picturesque than the
appearance of these rocks, for they look like the
debris of some grand Titanic struggle—like the ruins
of fortresses built up by giants. Here they are
massed into heights steep and rugged,—there they
are hurled over the soil without connexion or con-
tinuity. Although generally so desolate the dis-
trict is not without interest to the historical stu-
dent, nor without charms to the lover of landscape ;
neither is it so unproductive as might be at first
imagined. Not far from the station of Salbris is
the once fortified town of Romorantin, which
was besieged by the Black Prince, and is now
the centre of an important cloth manufactory for
army clothing. It was here that Francis I. origi-
nally intended to erect the edifice which was subse-
quently built and now exists at Chambard. The
Royal Chateau of Chenonceau, the residence of
Francis 1., Diane de Poitiers, Catherine de Medi-
cis, and Mary Stuart, is too well known to need
more than a passing notice. At Vierzon, where
the railway branches by the left to Bourges and by
the right to Limoges, we leave the Sologue and
enter the valley of the Cher. We then are in the
Berri which George Sand so loves to describe. The
town of Vierzon itself was taken, pillaged, and de-
stroyed by Richard Co.nir de Lion, and again by
the Black Prince. Indeed, from this point down.
to Limoges the country is filled with historical sou-
venirs of the period when the Kings of England
were Dukes of Guyenne and Aquitaine and lords
of Limousin. Berri is also the seat of several very
important iron works, which at the present moment
are suffering from the general depression of trade.
From Argenton to Limoges the country is pictu-
resque, and well deserves the name of La Petite
Suisse," which is popularly given to it. The whole
surface of the country is broken into hill and dale,
and the fields separated one from the other by
hedges which break the monot my of the landscape,
although at the expense of the soil. In parts,
although wild, the scene never wears the desolate
appearance of the Sologne. Rivers and mountain
streamlets leap down from rock to rock) and,
sparkling in the sun,
are led by a system of irriga-
tion to fertilise the hillsides and pasture lands of
the district, as is practised in Lombardy. The
chesnut now appears for the first time, and,
however agreeable it may be to look upon, one
cannot help regretting that the inhabitants should
be compelled to eat its fruit in lieu of bread. The
cattle grazing are small, and have a Welsh or High-
land look ; and as the day advances the train draws
near to Limoges, the ancient capital of the Limo-
vices, and the Stoke-upon-Trent of France.
Unfortunately the weather has been most unpro-
pitious all day—a heavy sky, overcast from the
morning, and a constant drizzling rain, which
when it leaves off is replaced by a species of Scotch
mist, more than sufficient to damp the enthusiasm
of others than the Limousin. But neither rain, nor
mist, nor bad roads could keep them away. They
are now swarming in from all parts. All the hotels
are filled by the local gentry and the authorities of
the twelve departments. Prices of the moat
extravagant kind are asked, and there seems to .be
a vague idea that the visit of the Prince is to-be
the occasion of many making fortunes.

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