The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Oct. 15.

The Moniteur of to-day says :—" On tho 13th
inst. the Pontifical troops attacked with the bayonet
and defeated 300 Garibaldians who barred their
road to Monte Librate. The invaders were forced
to evacuate that locality after some losses both in
killed and wounded.

BOURSE, Oct. 14, Two o'clock.—Heaviness pre-
vails ; transactions are limited, and stocks and
shares all lower. Threes are at 68f. 15c., a decline
of 12jc. Italian Fives have retrograded to 45fr.
30c., or 25c. lower. The decline on Credit Foncier
shares is of 7fr. 50c., these being quoted at 1,260 f. ;
on Credit Mobilier shares of 3fr. 75c.—at 171 fr.
25c. Railway shares are also lower. Lyons and
Northern, Ifr. 25c. each—at 875 fr. and 1,137 fr.
50c. ; Austrian, of 2fr. 50c.—at 473 fr. 25c. ; and
Lombards of 3fr. 75c.—at 363 fr. 75c. Three
o'clock.—Railways have shown more weakness
towards the close, which has taken place as fol-
lows :

4} per Cents 9B 10
Do. end month —
3 por Cents
Do. end month. 6B 17}
Credit Mobilier 171 20
Do. end Month 175
Credit Foncier 1260
Do. end month 1260 -
RAIL

Bank Sharon 3300
Italian Loan 45 30
Do. end month 45 30
Mexican Loan ll
Do. Bonds lOl 25
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
'AYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 875
Southern 530
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 92 80
Roman .

472 50
366 23

lIIGII MASS Al THE NEW

ST. DOMINIC.

At the celebration of high mass on Sunday morn-
ing last, at the new Roman Catholic, Church of St.
Dominic, Maitland-park, Haverstock-hill, there
were present from 25 to 30 friars belonging to the
order, varying in age apparently from about 25 to
60 years. These were mostly attired in white
woollen cloaks, with cowls, completely enveloping
the body to the feet, and fastened round the middle
by a girdle, all being supplied with the usual rosary.
Each one has submitted to the tonsure, leaving a
ring of hair round the head about an inch and a half
wide, the usual hirsute appendages of whiskers,
moustaches, and beard being carefully taken away.
Constantly throughout the services the cowls were
drawn over the head and returned to the shoulders.
In addition there were eight youths, from about 14
to 18 years of age, unshorn, wearing black cassocks
with white surplices over, reaching to a little below
the waist, and with a blue ribbon round the neck, to
which a gilt medal was attached. The officiating
priests were elaborately clothed in white silk or
satin robes, richly decorated with crosses and other
emblematical devices.

This portion of the service being ended, Dr.
Russell, provincial of the Irish order of St. Dominic,
was then led to the front of the chancel to deliver
the sermon. He was clothed with the usual white
robes, having in addition a black cloak and cowl
over them. His utterance was very distinct, slow,
and unimpassioned, and he read for his text the
11th chapter of John, verses 41 to 44, describing
the raising of Lazarus from the grave. Having
uttered the invocatory prayer, he commenced his
discourse as follows : We are celebrating with joy-
ful solemnity this day the resurrection of the estab-
lishment of the order of St. Dominic in this great
city, situated on the banks of the Thames. One of
the most remarkable events in this age is that of
the resurrection of the old monastic orders, and this
festival we are now celebrating, considered under
present circumstances, seems to me one of the most
critical moments for the faith of the Church, and is
therefore of the utmost importance. So extraordi-
nary is this revival of the spirit in the old monastic
state that I look upon it as marvellous, and there-
fore I have sought for its counter picture in the
resurrection of Lazarus from the dead. Many
causes have operated to prevent the progress of the
faith—the events of the last three hundred years,
and the heavy persecutions to which we have been
subjected ; the spirit of the age, so manifestly given
to materialistic subtleties, and so adverse to every-
thing supernatural, as seen in its acts, its speeches,
and its legislation, everything has been adverse to
the cultivation of the true religious spirit.
But in the midst of this depression and cloud,
does it not strike you that there is something
wonderful in the government of the world,
that men, isolated men, in the present moment
the sole repositories of the traditions of a long line
of persecuted members of the religious orders, that
such men are now seen everywhere emerging from
their silent and secluded lives as private tutors, as
teachers in schools, and from leading other like un-
obtrusive lives, aro coming forth undauntedly to
build up again and erect in the great towns and
cities of this empire convents, monasteries, and
churches which, fur beauty of design and architec-
tural splendour, will remind us again of the past,
glories of old monastic England. I had almost said
that it is a spirit of audacity and fearlessness of
danger that inspires these men thus to act. And yet
have they not examples for what they have done in
the life of Christ, amidst the persecutions to which
he submitted in his day? Standing, then, my
brethren, between the present and the future, what
religious sentiments should now inspire us? This is
a moment of deep religious renovation from the
death of ages, and the good providence of God is a
special subject for your consideration. Manifest
signs of His designed providence may be seen in the
events of the past, and I see also very visible signs
of His peculiar guardianship of those old sacred
orders and iinetitutiona at the present day. God

called Abraham and others out of the world to people
those old monastic deserts of the East, that they
might be separate from the cares and temptations
of the world, and that they might devote themselves
to the service of the Most High, and thus carry, in
a later age, the Gospel to its highest perfection, to
follow Christ, and lead, with him, a life of poverty;
and, though dead to the world, to live for the world
—to edify the world by example, by wise counsels,
by enlightened preaching, and by contributing
always to relieve the sufferings of humanity. He
preserved his disciples amongst the religious orders,
and maintained them with that sacred authority
which was his, and he led them through the perils
of the world as he conducted the fathers of his people
of old. He defended them from the fear of their
enemies. He gave them a conflict in which to battle
that they might become conquerors. And where
is this battle and. this preservation more visible
than in this our order, and iu our celebrating this
day, not in Westminster Abbey—that glory of Old
England—but in this chapel, the religion of Edward
the Confessor. After referring to the state and
condition of this country under priestly rule, he said
England was then happy England in those good old
monastic times. Her history must be looked at,
not through the mists and darkness of the last 300
years, but through the ages which went before, in
order to see the true religion. Three hundred years
have passed away under the cloud of the so-called
Reformation, but the providence of God was not
withdrawn, though might was uppermost instead of
right. Monasteries and cathedrals perished together
in one common ruin. It is a most mournful me-
mory for the followers of the old religious orders to
recall, but we are now encouraged to look boldly
upon the present, seeing that other days have come.
Lazarus is a true picture of God's love to the
Church. He did not love him less because he was
hidden. God never loved the religious orders more
than when they were stripped of their possessions,
and I do believe the conviction was always kept
slumbering in the breast of the order that God
would do justice to his own, and restore them again
to their former state—and that day is now coming.
Are we not to-day celebrating in our own house, in
this land, the religious services of our order after
nearly four centuries of privation ; and our Lord
comes and gives us much consolation when we see
this Dominican order brought before us in this
house. May a blessing rest upon you that attend
here We have our Lord here present (pointing to
the " host" upon the altar), and though no pious
pilgrim wends his way this day to worship at the
tomb of St. Edward, in a building not far distant
from us, where his ashes rest unregarded in the
Abbey—and this is a shadow thrown thus rudely
across our memory—yet the days are betokening
for us a better time ; for is not he who raised Laza-
rus and the religious orders to life here with us this
day; have not the archbishop and the revered hier-
archy of England been with us in this celebration?
And the establishment of this order will be an hon-
our to this neighbourhood, and will confer great
benefit upon the poor.
Dr. Russell having then retired from the scene,
the futher celebration of high mass was proceeded
with.

Tort* CirooL.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Saturday.
The Queen drove to Loch Muich, accompanied by
Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Leopold.
Princess Louise drove out, attended by Lady
Biddulph and Miss Phipps.
Mr. Theodore Martin has arrived at the Castle,
and had the honour of dining with the Queen and
the Royal Family.
The Queen honoured Mr. William Brodie, F.S.A. ,
with a sitting for his bust of her Majesty.

INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF ROMAN
RE.IIAINS AT CLAPTON.

(From a Correspondent of the Horning Advertiser.)
The Priory Estate, Clapton, now in the hands of
a freehold building society, is being rapidly tra-
versed with roads, and the workmen of Messrs.
Pound and Capper, the contractors for the work,
have disentombed a Roman coffin in excellent pre-
servation.

The site of the interment is evidently close to a
point where two ancient ways met, and perhaps
intersected each other, viz., the old causeway from
Horuerton via Brooksby's-walk through this
meadow to a point where the old mill head of the
river Lea stood 100 years ago, and another un-
doubtedly ancient causeway from Hackney through
Clapton-passage, between what are called the Fire-
houses and the Orphan Asylum, the former running
from south to north and the latter from west to
east. On the opposite bank of the Lea, where the
former terminated, Mr. Mayne, the engineer to the
East London Waterworks, states that the workmen
came down upon a hard, well-made road—composed
chiefly of forest gravel, which must have been
brought at least three miles—at least six feet below
the surface. Leland seems to indicate a Roman
way from west to east in the direction where this
coffin has been found, and a coin of Victorians,
A.D. 265, has been found close by. It should also
be borne in mind that some Roman gold coins (one
of Nero) were found some years ago in this imme-
diate vicinity at the back of the Orphan Asylum.
This beautiful specimen of Roman art was found
in the natural gravel two feet six inches from the
surface—lying due east and west, the foot to the
east. The coffin is now under lock and key iu a
shed, being under consignment to the trustees of
the British Museum. It is of solid marble cut out
of the solid block, of rather rough grit, the same
width from end to end, and of the following
measurement :—lnside, length, 6 feet 3 inches ;
width, 15 inches ; depth, 18 inches ; average thick-
ness, 2 inches. The inner surface is smooth, and
there is a rise of about half an inch carved for the
head. There is evidence of clamps for a lid at the
upper outer corners, but no vestige of a covering.
It is plain externally, except on the left side, the
whole of which is elaborately chiselled in fluted cable
pattern from top to bottom, the cable running half
way up the sides. At either corner are deeply-cut
obelisks, and in the centre of the upper half a
medallion in alto relievo, of about 12in. diameter,
giving the portrait of the deceased. The features
are damaged, but the folds of the " toga" about the
shoulders are as clear as if just cut, and the right
hand is fixed by the thumb in the middle of the
breast, the fore and middle fingers being stretched
out across the chest, while the third and fourth
fingers are doubled in. The medallion rests upon a
carved model of a Roman tomb, on which are
Roman letters, which in the dim light of the shed it
is impossible to decipher.
On opening the coffin, and carefully removing
the superincumbent debris, a skeleton was found in
the ordinary position of Christian burial. The
bones, being much decayed, soon fell to dust, but
portions of the right thigh, loft leg, and one or two
ribs remained distinguishable for some time after.
Amongst antiquarians who have had an opportunity
of seeing the remains the deceased is judged to have
been a small-boned man, about 6 feet high, and
rather knock-kneed, and their opinion is that ho
was a civilian of rank, certainly not a military man.
The coffin is really a very interesting specimen of
Roman art, and wilt no doubt attract considerable
attention when removed to the British Museum.

BURNING OF A DANISH STEAMER.—Telegrams
have been received from Copenhagen, dated Friday, 11th
inst., announcing the destruction of the English steamer
Danish Queen, Captain Priest, master, in the Baltic, by
a portion of her cargo (petroleum) igniting and blowing
up. She was an iron-built vessel, 95G tons register, pro-
polled by screw engines of 100-horse power, and was from
Hull, bound to Cronstadt. The date of the disaster is not
given, but it appears to have happened between Golland
and Dagr. Part of her crow landed at Copenhagen. A
telegram from Riga, dated Sunday, reports that eight of
the crew had reached Windau, and that the master
perished iu the flames.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE. SHILLING DAY, MON-
DAY, OCT. 14.—AdraiSS1011$ on payment, 1,947 ; ditto
by seN9l3 tickets, 924 total yi§itvo, 2,871.