The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, June 13.
The Queen drove out in the morning, accom-
panied by Princess Louise ; and in the afternoon
her Majesty again drove out, accompanied by
Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Leopold.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC iIfAUS.

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PLYMOUTH, June 13.
The Royal Mail steamer La Plata, with the above
mails, anchored in Plymouth Sound at 11 a.m. to-
day. She brings 149 passengers, specie valued at
$377,625, and 33 sacks of mails. Twenty passen-
gers and the mails were landed at this port, after
which the La Plata proceeded for Southampton.
The mails, having been sorted on the pas=age, will
be forwarded by the 12.15 and 1.30 p.m. trains.
Among the passengers is Governor Walker, from
Barbadoes.

The crops were looking well in the West In Tian
Isliinds, but business was backward.

The La Plata's news dates from Valparaiso,
May 3 ; Grey Town, 16; Jamaica, .24 ; and St.
Thomas, 14.

The most stirring topics in Chili were the arrange-
ment for the Spanish and Chilian men-of-war being
allowed to leave London, and the refusal of Chili
to renew the commercial treaty with the Argentine
Republic. The Peruvians were complaining that
they were shamefully deceived, having no notice of
the agreement for sailing th 3 vessels.
Yellow fever was making rapid strides in Lima,
150 to 200 deaths occurring daily. There were up-
wArds of 2,500 cases in hospital. Commerce was
completely paralysed. The merchants were about
holding a meeting to consider the necessity of en-
tirely closing their establishments for the present.
Pile public and private schools and theatres are
already closed by order of the Government, in order
to prevent contagion. Captain Blakely, inventor
of the Blakely guns, and his wife, are among the
victims of the disease, In Callao the fever was
not so violent. Colonel Balta has been elected
president. The whole south of Ilayti had de-
clared for Nissage, and were marching for Port-au-
Prince.

The Tirailleurs, a body of Government picked
troops, had joined the insurgents. Faubert and
Normil were awaiting the arrival of Nissage for a
combined attack on Port-au-Prince. It was feared
that great loss of life and property would result
from Salnave's resisting.

The third volume of the Meditations sur la Reli-
gion Chretienne by M. Guizot, whose intellectual
vigour and industry, seem rather to strengthen
than diminish, has this day appeared. It was

looked for with much interest. The present volume
contains a preface of some length, which is, itself,
a chef d'ceuvre, and was probably suggested by the
recent discussions in the Senate and in the press
on the growth of materialism among professional
men. After premising that he is not " one of those
who believe that Catholics are necessarily hostile
to political liberty, and that freedom of inquiry
inevitably pushes Protestants to anarchy," he notices
two publications by two persons. with whom, he
says, he has no personal acquaintance, differing
from each other in situation as in ideas ; the one a
Catholic, the other a Protestant; the one a great
prelate in his Church, the other a Protestant
pastor ; " both of them sincere Christians, and full
of sympathy with the instincts, aspirations, moral
and intellectual of our society ; both resolute and
skilful in presenting Christianity under the form
and in the language most adapted tom tke it pene-
trate into the soul." One is the Archbishop of
Paris, M. Darboy, the other is M. Decoppel, Pro-
testant pastor at Alais. The production of the

former i; a " Pastoral Letter on the Truth of the
Christian Religion" on the occasion of Lent; tha t
of the other is a " Report on the Actual Require-
ments of Preaching in the Protestant Churches,"
recently published by the Religious Book Society
'at Toulouse. After describing the characteristic
features of these productions, M. Guizot says :--
" I do not examine, I do not discuss, any of the
particu'ar ideas, any of the phrases, any of the
words which are found in the report of M. Decop-
pel ; I only desire to point out the great and com-
mon character of the writers. They are both of
them Christians, sincere Christians, and they have
at the same time for their object to bring
Christianity and modern society to understand
each other, to accept each other, and exercise
reciprocally a salutary action. They are not'
merely writers, orators, amateurs in religion or
in philosophy, but ecclesiastics by profession,
belonging to different Churches, who enter int°
this path, regard it as legitimate as it 15
necessary, labour to draw into it the population
naturally placed ;under;their influence, and, doubt-
less, hope for the practical success of their efforts.
I believe they are right in hoping, as well as is
attempting the task, and that out of the groups
engaged in opinion and in struggles, religious or
political, this vast population, uncertain, floating,
at one time indifferent, at another disquieted on the
religbus questions, and on the relations of the
Christian religion with modern society,—that this
population, I repeat, which is France itself, may be
religiously moved, persuaded, enlightened, end
brought to the great Christian faith, concurrently
with the sentiment of the natural and necessary
accord between Christian faith and public liberty;
It is the :profound desire I feel and the hope
cherish in this great result which lead me to pro-
long these meditations, and to let them take their
chance in the dense and dark mêlée of event-5'
questions, passions, and interests which are s°
foreign to such subjects. The more I examine the
more I am convinced that France is more occupied
with religious questions than she appears to bet
and that in the midst of her troubles, her lassi-
tude, and her fluctuations she cherishes the secret
sentiment of the imperishable grandeur and prac-
tical importance of those questions. If, as I think'
such is the public tendency, I believe I have II
claim to be heard with some confidence. IWO
lived much, and I have not been Hie during re/
long life. I have taken part in the affairs of the
world. I have quitted it ; and lam now only a
spectator. For the last- twenty years I have bell
trying my tomb. I have entered it living ; and
have not made an effort to leave it. I have 00;
rience of the world ; and I have the advantage °f
being detached from it. If it were given to w Al) e '
be still of some service to the two great causes r
which in my eyes form but one—the cause 1
Christian faith in souls, and that of political
liberty in my country, I should await with grati-
tude and in the stillness of my repose the dawn o

the eternal day which fools call death."
THE WRECK OF THE GAIU
into the wreck of this vessel was continued at Penz3,ll,„e-..
on Friday. Wilson, the second officer, deposed that ow"
the ship had struck all was panic, chaos, and di5339,131i
He did all that was possible to save the passenger`, b -
the sea was so high that scarcely anything could be 'l°73.
Nine hours and a half after they left Ushant, although l'l
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distance to the Longships was only ninety-five rcti'et,-,i
the engines were kept at full speed. He kept ag;
look-out, because he thought.they were nearing the
ships, but the vessel struck before they were cognisantg:
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being so near the land. Neither the captain, the '
mate, nor himself could swim. He (witness) could 113%
el3l
got into a boat, but thought it his duty to rem
board until the boats were sent off. He remained 03 3.
polio, and saw many pas3enger3 sucked in by ths%.,.
After witnessing this distressing spectacle for some
the
he jumped overboard, and was picked up by one fboats. 4. 00
Do.Tatches were received on Saturday av
Colonial-office from the Governors of Gibraltar, 313.:3
and from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatclav
were sent to the Governor-General of Canada, and t° t

Governor of British Columbia. hag
After a lengthened trial Thomas EdgleY Jo
been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Lite 1-,°° 0
Banking Company of a large sum of money, obtained °r
the discount of bills, and he has been sentenced to on
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