The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-31 00:00:00

LONG SE.RVICES AND LONG SERMONS.

We all remember as_ children children what we have gone
perioa of our lives, we have made our owk UIN
of the Church services, and, separating the long two
hours' ritual into different clauses, have checked
each off as it was accomplished, but have remem-
bered with despair that even when the collect
(which we viewed with bitterness from having learnt
it in the morning) was read, there was the Litany
—shame that so beautiful a service should be so
thought of even by a child—and after that the Com-
munion, and then after all the sermon, and when
that might end who could tell? We all remember
how we have wished the sermon came first, because
then, that once over, we should know exactly where
we were with the rest. We have all—do not deny it,
worthy sir, because you have—all, while the sermon
was delivering, watched the thickness of the pile of
pages that had been read, and compared it with the
bulk of those yet to come. We have all rejoiced as
the lump first mentioned got thicker, and that last
named got thinner. We have all experienced heart-
sickness when we found that the clergyman, having
got to the end, turned his book round and began
again on the backs of the pages. We have all ex-
perienced torture when, in a sermon in heads, we
have found ourselves after 20 minutes only arrived
at the end of the first head, remembering that there
were two more, and beyond those, in a vista of
fidgets, an application, and the conclusion. We all
remember the threat of " something to be explained
presently," and how we used to reflect when the
sermon seemed near its end, that it couldn't be, be-
cause that threat had not yet been fulfilled. And
lastly, we all remember our longing for those
blessed words, " And now," and also what our sen-
sations were, when a fallacious " and now" hap-
pened to come in in the course of the sermon,
making us jump off our seats in anticipation of the
end, and proving only the commencement of a new
view of the subject in hand. And why have we
spoken of these sensations as belonging only to our
childish recollections ? Surely this is not altogether
fair ? If we were put on the rack and compelled
to own the truth, should we not at the first twinge,
at the first turn of the screw, cry out, " I own it !
Many of these very feelings, these hopes and fears,
pass through my mind every Sunday of my life P"
Yes, we should speak thus, if we spoke the truth.
Now, the question is simply this,—Why should this
improper and distressing state of things go on ?
Why should we suffer under what it is in our own
hand to remedy, and remedy without a shadow of
offence to the weakest brother, still less to the real
interests of vital religion among us ? What we
urge—urge most reverently, but most strongly—is
no change in any single iota of doctrine, nor even in
the words of which our ritual consists. We simply
wish that what was originally divided, what was
intended to be divided, and what is better
' divided, should be divided ; and that three services,
each one complete in itself, should not continue jam -
bled into an incomplete whole.—Dickens's All tae
. Tear .Round.

COUN7BY MARKETS.

HULL--OcT. 29.

At our market to-day we had a small supply of English
wheat, which sold slowly, and prices were at is to 2s decline
on last week. Malting barley met with a slow demand,
and grinding sorts in moderate request at about the same.
prices as of late. Beaus and peas 18 dearer, with a steady
sale. The linseed trade is still active.
Wheat.... Old white per qr. 64s Od to 65s Od
Old red
New white .. „
New red .... „
Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 54s Od to 568 Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 50s Od to 58s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red s4s Od to 55s Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old 46s Od to 48s Od
Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 37s Od
Grinding 3os Od to 32s Od
Sal and Oderbruck

Holstein and Danish s2s Od to 54s Od
Grinding 27s Od to 29s Od
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga, per at Osl2d to 13d
Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 08131 d
Swedish and Danish osl2-7,d to osl3d
Beans ....English, old, per qr
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
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New tick, 4os Od to 42s Od

Egyptian
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares .... Spring, —s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
_ .

Linseed, feeding
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 0 oto £0 0 0
Foreign! BlO oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5 0
Bones .. 415 oto 5 0 0