The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 20.—Two o'clock..—Rumours of
a speedy return of the French troops from Mexico
continue to be widely circulated, and gain consider-
able support in commercial quarters. Under the
influence of these anticipations, Stocks and Shares
show great firmness at increased quotations.
Threes, for the Account, are well maintained at an
advance of 15c., viz., 68f. 70c. ; and Italian Fives
are in great demand at 62f. 70c.—an improvement
of 40c. A project for increasing the capital of the
Credit Mobilier Company has been widely discussed
to-day, and the result has been an augmentation of
22f. 50e. on these shares, the present quotation
being 837 f. 50c. Spanish Mobiliers have advanced
3f. 75c. In Railway Shares Lyons have improved
2f. 50c., and Lombards, 3f. The. Three o'clock.
—The market closed at the following quotations:—
Roman
Ottoman Fives 4O 30
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt —
Deferred

4+ per Cents 9B 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 65
Do. end month 6B 62+
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3665
Credit Foncier 1312 50
Italian Loan 62 52
Do. end month 62 62+
RAIL'

VAYS.
Cash. Acct.
... ... 855
... 1115
... ... 858 75
... ... 552 50
... ... 560
... ... 530

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ,
Austrian
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Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
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LITERATURE.

Lyra Liturgica. Burn; Lambert, and Oates.

Side by side with Ihe Christian Year we at once
and unhesitatingly place the Lyra Liturgica. This
is high praise, no doubt, but it is praise to which
the lovely little volume under notice is eminently
well entitled. " Reflections in Verse for Holy
Days and Seasons" is the sub-title of the Lyra
Liturgica. " Thoughts in Verse for Sundays and
Holydays" is that of The Christian Year. The
motto of the latter is from Isaiah (xxx. 15) " In
quietness and in confidence shall be your strength."
The motto of the former is from the Psalms (cxviii.
54) " Cantabiles mihi erant justificationes Tune in
loco poregrinationis mem." May 30, 1827, is the
date appended to the prefatory advertisement of
" The Christian Year." The Feast of Corpus
Christi, otherwise June 15, 1865, is the date affixed
to the introdactory remarks addressed to the reader
at the opening of the " Lyra Liturgica." The present
issue of the last-mentioned work marking the date
of its first publication, there appears, as a matter
of course, no intimation whatever of that fact
upon the reverend author's titlepage. Whereas
upon the titlepage of the latest reprint of " The
Christian Year" there appears conspicuously a no
less magnificent timbre of itspopularity than is con-
veyed by the intimation that this most recent edi-
tion is the EIGHTY-EIGHTH of that famous work's
publication. And no wonder ! For, to whom does
it not come home- with its gentle utterances ? In
what heart does its music not awaken some respon-
sive vibration ? It is dear to others besides the Rev.
John Keble's co-religionist:. It is beloved far be-
yond the pale of the Anglican communion. High
Churchmen and Low Churchmen, Conformists and
Non-Conformists, Dissenters and Catholics take it
alike home into their affections—reading it, a-re
haunted by its harmonious numbers with an equally
delicate sense of delight in its appreciation.
Echoing here an appropriate stanza from the very
first poem in the work itself —the tenth stanza of
the "Morning Hymn" opening up the varied strains
of The Christian Year—wo may best indicate how it
is that we, one and all of us, turn back to it, again
and yet again, so very frequently for joy and con-
solation : by saying—

" As for some dear familiar strain
Untired we ask, and ask again,
Ever in its melodious store,
Finding a spell unheard before."

Disclaiming, as he says—with a very charming,
though, as it appears to us, a very exaggerated
humility—even "the suspicion of any such pre-
sumptuous and hopeless design as that of produc-
ing a counterpart to a work in many ways so in-
imitable as the Christian Year,'" the author
of the " Lyra Liturgica " has somehow
contrived, as it were, in spite of himself
to produce precisely such a counterpart neverthe-
less ! Mr. Keble's plan, as he takes occasion to re-
mind the reader, " has furnished meditations for
every Sunday in the year and for all the received
Holydays of the Anglican Calendar, as well as the
Occasional Services"—such, let us say, for example,
as "Catechism," "Matrimony," "Comminution,"
and so forth. The work thus being, in a manner,
as we may say, rounded and complete. With
regard to the " Lyra Liturgica," on the con-
trary, as its author tells us—" this little work
embraces but a limited portion of the mighty range
of devotional illustration opened by the Liturgy
of the Catholic Church." Nevertheless, according
to his subsequent remark, as if in deprecation of the
charge of the incompleteness otherwise possibly im-
putable to the work as a whole—the series being
" regular, so far as it goes, the verses have been
referred to the Successive Quarters of the Ec-
clesiastical Year, according to the arrange-
ment of the Breviary." The Winter Quar-
ter embracing within it, Christmas—the Spring
Quarter, Easter and Whitsuntide—the Sum-
mer Quarter, Trinity, Corpus Christi, and
the Assumption—the Autumn Quarter, such feasts
as those of All Saints and All Souls, of St.
Michael and of St. Charles Borromeo. Previously,
however, to the celebration thus in turn of the
more important festivities distributed after this
fashion over the Four Quarters of the Ecclesiastical
Year, the author of the Lyra Liturgica, by way of
introduction to the whole, commemorates, as it were,
en masse, the complete glory and solemnity of the
"Holy Ceremonies"—enforcing thus beautifully
(and logically, as it appears to us) the reasonableness
of solemnizing Divine Worship by some degree of
pomp and ceremonial, instead of stripping it puri-
tanically of every outward token of reverence on the
part of the worshippers :

Kings have their marshals, palaces their stato,
E'en Christian homes their forms and courtesies ;
For Reverence must on Love obsequious wait,
And Love that lacks Respect decays and dies.
And shall Thy House, 0 King of kings alone,
No signal tokens of Thy power display ?
Shall no glad Courtiers muster near Thy throne,
No duteous escort guard Thee on Thy way ?
Adding, very tenderly and very reverently, after-
wards—. •

Each symbol of Thy presence, Lord, is dear;
The consecrated vase, the goodly vest ;
The Altar, where Thy Spirit comes so near,
The Tabernacle, where Thou deign's►t to rest.
But chiefly dear, because to Thee, most high,
Thy Priests and Levites, princes of Thy choice,
And they who at Thy Board their service ply,
And they who lift in choir their gladsome voice ;
By reverent gesture, or by staid salute,
Their faith they witness or their fealty prove, '
And yield in studiousforrn, by acts minute,
The thoughtful homage ofpunctilious love.
And Thou who count'st the numbers of the sand,

And track'st the sparrow as it falls to earth,
Shalt note and recompense with bounteous hand
Each least and lowest deed of Christian worth.
Gracefully lyrical and flowing, though the versifica-
tion is throughout, it is occasionally compacted,
even to the condensity as of an epigram. Instance

the passion of supplication compressed into the
couplet-
0, loving Judge, 0 Saviour just,

Remember that we aro but dust !
At intervals, too, his very terseness in this way has
all the force and emphasis of syllogistic reason-
ing. As, where singing of the Patroness of the
Two Advents, he thus enforces her claim to the title
of the Immaculate—.
The grace that from thy chaste Conception flows,
To awe and keen compunction well may move,
So high the Nature that the Incarnate chose ;
So pure the Creature that deserved His love.
By the mere picturesqueness again of a single
aptly chosen phrase, he conjures up a whole picture
in one passing sentence. As where, referring to the
Apparition of the Archangel Gabriel to the Blessed
Virgin, he speaks of—

Her lowliness and calm submission seen
In shrinking converse with her Angel-Guest,

that one solitary participle, presenting to view a
very vignette glimpse of Jalabert's lovely vision of
the Annunciation. His homage for Mater Dci
Genetrix he is never weary of articulating. She is to
him, as she is called in the Loretto Litany, the Stella
Matutina.

Shedding over overy page and lino

(as he himself sings with impassioned emphasis)

A lustre only not divine !
Occasionally in the course of the " Lyra Liturgica"
the rev. song-writer, in reality very ingeniously,
though to all appearance quite casually, explains
some of the esoteric mysteries of the ceremonies set
forth in the Breviary—as where in commemoration of
the triple mass of Christmas Day, he thus indicates
that those three ceremonials are illustrative of the
Nativity under the different aspects of Prophesy,
Narrative, and Dogma—
At midnight's hour prophetic mists shall hang
Around the glories of Messiah's birth,
Which David hinted ere the welkin rang
With the glad notes of holy angel mirth.
At dawn, the shepherds tell with meek surprise
How Heaven enwrapped them with its light benign,
And how they sped to feast their wondering eyes
On Mary, Joseph, and the Babe Divine.
But, when the Day hath come, St. Paul shall preach
Of Him in whom the Father's brightness shone,
And Holy Church the Word Incarnate teach

In the clear accents of the lov'd St. John.
Very beautiful and touching in its evidence of
sensibility is the hymn in commemoration of
"New Year's Eve," sorrowfully contemplative
over—

Holy Childhood's bloom delicious
Blanched by care and sadness now ;
And the miser's scowl suspicious
Where was Boyhood's beaming brow."

Seldom has the pathetic form of an antithesis all
but paradoxical in the emphasis of it been more
felicitously applied than in this instance, where our
author in:his Hymnon the " Feast of the Epiphany,"
commemorates in the coming of the Kings of the
East—

" The Wise of Earth to lay their Folly at His feet !"
Hardly in a single instance, by the way, have we
been enabled to detect in the equable flow of the
rhythm throughout the various poems making up
this charming collection entitled the " Lyra
Liturgica, . one casual line that fails to scan cor-
rectly. One solitary verse alone of this kind can
we here recall to our recollection—namely, at p.
51, the second line of the stanza beginning—

Then on her eye a wondrous vision beamed
A man of meek aspect, a matron mild, (sc.
An incidental lapsus, so trivial of its kind, that we
only direct attention to it at all as evidence of our
having examined the contents of the volume with a
searching and almost captious scrutiny. One phrase
there is—so regarding the work, under however
another aspect—that still, even after careful recon-
sideration, appears to us quite inexplicable. It is a
phrase occurring upon p. 59, where, referring to
Satan's temptation of the Messiah, the lyrist
exclaims—

" What though his arts were met and foiled,
And from 1 by mailed Soil recoiled."
Surely a slip on the part of the typographer. An
obvious misprint occurs later on (p. 103), where, in
reference to the Crucifixion, our author is made to
say—

" Gaut His drink, behold Him, languish."

While we are thus ungraciously carping over the
microscopic flaws that are alone discernible in theso
pages, upon the most searching and even, it might
almost bo said, cynical examination of their
contents, we would take exception, en passant to
the apostrophe addressed to St. Benedict (p.
69), to the effect—

Thy children, doom'd to exile, still
With loyal hearts or work thy will
Or stereotype thy ways.
Where our author is most persuasive, as it appears
to us, is in the eloquent force of his exceeding
tenderness and simplicity : as where, at the open-
ing of his hymn on the " Feast of the Annunciation,"
he cries out in a very enthusiasm of simplicity and
tenderness—

Ye who deem us over-bold
When we chant our Lady's praise—
Judges harsh and critics cold
Of evil life and ardent phrase—
Como with me and con the story
Of her grace and destined glory ;
By its light ye stand reproved ;
Dare we slight whom God so loved?
As on Ash Wednesday he has an eye and a voice
of reverent appreciation for the profound symbolism
latent in the " penitential grains," so has ho in a
joyous and exultant mood for the " consecrated
boughs" borne aloft processionally on Palm Sun-
day. Poetically referring to the fragrant clouds
surging up from the thurible, he speaks of their
rising in " fleecy ringlets." Alluding to the Apos-
tolic assemblage in between, the Resurrection and
the Ascension, he almost wittily applies the well-
known expression of the Evangelist—
" We, too, are gathered in our Upper Room (Thy Church).',
Like an echo from the heart of our old Eng-
lish Poet, Thomas Southwell, comes the pathetic
close of this solemn and affecting stanza (which
shall be the last of our many excerpts from the pages
of the " Lyra Liturgica")—

Church and her priests despised ;
The Eucharist unprizod—
Cooped within walls, and of its honour shorn,
Or borne in breast, not hand
Like something contraband, 0

And hid from pious eyes for fear of scorn.
Having said all which, and fully justified our re-
marks, as it appears to us, by the foregoing quota-
tions, we would here recur to the simple but em-
phatic observation with which we comm enced—
namely, that, according to our view of those two
exquisite works, The Christian rear and the Lyra
Liturgica may be placed side by side upon our
bookshelves. They are the effusions of congenial
spirits—sons of the same alma mater—men whom
that noble University of Oxford will long hold in
proud remembrance—•the one wistfully,no doubt, the
other exultantly! For if the one has long since passed
beyond the pale of the Church Establishment,the other
Oxford, Cambridge, England, yet rejoices to know
is still within the compass of its communion. Yet--
divergent though their paths have been—there re-
mains unbroken (even it may be said unloosened),
a bond of direct and intimate sympathy between
John Keble and Frederick Oakeley, between this
Catholic priestland this Protestant clergyman ! Just
assuredly as thelike sympathy subsists, unbroken, un-
loosened, between Dr. Pusey and Dr. Newman. Of
the latter fact, the Apologia and Eirenicon have
very recently afforded signal and conclusive attesta-
tion. Of the former fact, that is of the
no less intimate sympathy still subsisting between
the natures, between the souls, of such men as the
Rev. J. Keble and the Rev. F. Oakeley, evidence
equally conclusive and quite as signal in its way,
appears to us to be exquisitely discernible in the
kindred fervour and congenial devotion manifested
by Mr. Keble in the Christian Year and by Father
Oakeley in the Lyra Liturgica—lyrical volumes not
unworthy of being placed on either side of the be-
loved masterpiece of Thomas h Kempis, the immor-
tal De Imitatione.

NAPOLEON 111. AND M. GUSTAVE DORE.—M.
Marne, editor of tho Bible lllustree of M. Gustave Dore,
having solicited an audience with the Emperor, to present
a copy of the work, was informed in reply that his Ma-
jesty would receive him, but in company with the author
of the illustrations. M. Gustave Dore therefore went to
the Tuileries at the hour appointed, and was warmly com-
plimented by both the Emperor and Empress, who also
accepted the work magnificently bound.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Saturday.

Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Helena, Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe,
drove out yesterday afternoon.
Prince Christian rode on horseback, attended by

Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrived
from London, and dined with the Queen and royal

Princess Hermann, of Hohenlobe, joined her Ma-
jesty's dinner party.
Lord Augustus Loftus arrived from London, and
also had the honour of dining with her Majesty.

Sunday.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, drove out
yesterday in a carriage and four.
The Dowager Duchess of Athole and Colonel the
Hon. A. Hardinge attended.
Lord Augustus Loftus had an audience of her
Majesty yesterday, and kissed hands on being ap-
pointed her Majesty's Ambassador to the King of
Prussia.

The Earl of Bessborough and the Earl of Cork
had also audiences.

Lord Bessborough, having resigned the office of
Master of the Buckhounds, kissed hands on receiving
from her Majesty the Wand of Lord Steward of
the Household in place of the Earl of St. Germans,
resigned.

Lord Cork kissed hands on being appointed
Master of the Buckhounds.

The Lord Chancellor arrived from London, and
had the honour of dining with the Queen and
royal family.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale, who have been staying on a visit to the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Frances
Countess Waldegravo, at the Chief Secretary's Lodge,
Dublin, are expected to leave to-day for Orleans House,
Twickenham.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have been
entertaining during the past week, at Clumber Park,
Worksop, tho Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, Vis-
count Canterbury, Lord Courtenay, Lady Rossmore
Hon. Robert Temple, Lord Arthur Clinton, Captain
Synge, ticc.

The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is, we
understand, much better. As before stated, there is no
reason for anxiety, although the dowager duchess is unable
to lea-re her chamber. .

The Earl Russell will give a full-dress banquet
on Monday, the sth proximo, at his official residence in
Downing-street, to the mover and seconder of the Address,
and a largo party of peers, members of the Government,
and other political friends in the House of Lords.

The Earl of Derby, as the leader of the Conser-
vative party, will give a Parliamentary entertainment on
the sth of next month, at his residence in St. James's-
square, to a party of about 30 Opposition peers.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have arrived at Grosvenor-gate for the season. The right
hon. gentleman has issued cards for a dinner to a party of
members of the House of Commons for Monday, Feb. 5.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence
on Carlton-house-terrace, the following gentlemen:—The
Lord Chief Justice of England, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, M.P., Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. Edward Hamilton,
M.P., Mr. Tite, M.P., Sir Francis H. Doyle, Sir F. Rogers,
Mr. Melville, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Chisholm, Mr. Repington,
Mr. Airy, Mr. Erskine May, and Mr. Gurdon. Mrs. Glad-
stone and familay arrived in town on Saturday evening
from Hawardon Castle, Flintshire, for the season.

Miss Emma Hardinge's Orations on America.

Miss Emma Hardinge delivered a second oration
at St. James's Hall on Saturday. In discoursing
upon " The United States : the People and their
Uncrowned King," Miss Hardinge described the vast
transatlantic community as being composed of four
great departments—the New England States, where
were the head-quarters of the shrewd, ready-witted
race popularly known as the " Yankees ;" the
Central States, whose chief emporium of commerce
and industry was the city of New York, where
the demon " business" held supreme dominion ; the
Western States, where were the illimitable prairies,
the romantic wildernesses so dear to the imagina-
tion of poets and novelists ; and, finally, the Sou-
thern States, whose military achievements and poli-
tical revolutions had of late years attracted so
much of the world's attention.. The fair orator de-
scribed in fluent and felicitous language the social,
political, and commercial institutions of those vari-
ous contingents of the Great Republic. She then
dwelt at some length upon the prodigious natural
resources of the American continent ; she next
passed to a graphio description of some of the
characteristic features of the river and mountain
scenery; and after glancing at a variety of miscel-
laneous matters, and dismissing the Fenian " craze"
with a scornful allusion, she drew a happY
augury from the general anxiety for " reconstruc-
tion," and concluded an impressive and spirited
oration by expressing her belief that days of unex-
ampled power and prosperity were in store for the
Columbian commonwealth. The tone of her dis-
course was exceedingly conciliatory, and in strict
accordance with the avowed purpose of her " mis-
sion"—the promoting a better understanding be-
tween the new and old continents of the world. At
the conclusion, Mr. Dove announced that the sub-
ject next Saturday would be the reconstruction of
the Union, to be delivered at the same hour and in
the same place, and Miss Hardingo, on retiring, was
loudly cheered.

• READERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH.--The fol-
lowing is the selected list of candidates (six in number) for
the Readership of the Temple Church :—The Rev. Alfred
Ainger, late scholar of Trinity-hall, Cambridge ; Rev. Ed-
ward Jesselyn Beck, Fellow, and late Dean of Clare College,
Cambridge ; Rev. William T. Du Boulay, Trinity College,
Cambridge ; Rev. William Anthony Harrison, Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge; Rev. W. G. Martin, St. John's
College, Cambridge ; Rev. John Oakley, Brasenose College,
Oxford. The election will be made on the 7th prox.
Mr. JEFFERSON BRICK NATURALISED IN ENa-
LAND.--The Star has got hold of a noble writer who thus
says the Spectator refers to Gustavus Brooke on board the
London: "A billowy curtain has fallen tumultuously on the
last scene of the chequered life-dream of Gustavus Brooke,
the tragedian." "Go where you will, his early fame and
the splendour of his adolescence are favourite topics among
the old playgoers." But we are told that "the bright
exhalation disappeared with ominous suddenness." The
whole article is gorgeous in style, and almost suggests that
it must be an exhalation from the splendour of somebody '0
adolescence,—the finest phrase of a bright boyhood of
which the heart of man ever conceived. But the Star
does not often twinkle like this. Surely it has engaged
the man who does the big words in the Telegraph.
"Go IN, FINNEGANS." Some of our Irish
fellow-citizens, of the Fenian persuasion, had a little
festivity in St. Louis a few days since, and when
the affair was well under way they forgot them-
selves so far as to send for Major-General Frank P.
Blair, with the purpose of drawing a speech from him..
The General was found just at the conclusion of a dinner
party, which had not been conducted on strict temperance
principles, and to put a fine point upon it he was not pre-
cisely in a condition to confine himself very closely to one
subject. He concluded, however, he would go and make
the boys a speech, notwithstanding the advice of some of
his friends, among them General Sherman, that he had
better postpone his remarks on the great Fenian question
until some other occasion should arise. Arrived at the
hall where the sunburst glowed and the shamrock bloomed
he was presented to the audience with the usual flattering
observations, and drawing himself up to his full height,
his countenance wearing a look of inexpressible solemnitY,
he roared at the top of his voice :—"Finnega.ns ! I'm with
you !" The mercurial Irishmen, dashed a little by the ar
parent mistake of the General, in addressing them by a nal,
they had not called themselves, and looking upon his broad
declaration that ho was with them as all right, interrupted
him with a tremendous round of applause. Poising him-
self as if to meet a great emergency, he continued
"But, mind, I toll you, you have a big contract on
hand, and old Ireland is away across the ocean. But when
i
you get ships, and have them loaded with cannon and
things, and sail down New York harbor, I'll go out there
at Sandy Hook and take off my hat, and say with all
ruY
heart—Good bye, Finnegans ! And when I think itg
about time you had touched the sod over there,
give you my prayers, and say—Go in, Finnegans
At this point there was another interruption, and one
not altogether of excessive approbation. General Blair W"
tumultuously told they were not Finnegans, but Feniall
and, after apologising for his mistake by saying he had
been down South so long he had forgotten the names °
things, the hero gracefully retired.--Cinn. Commercial.