The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-22 00:00:00

EDMUND BURKE.

" We hear him in conversation at the club, with
Johnson and Goldsmith, and Reynolds and Wynd-
ham, winding into his subject like a serpent, as
Goldsmith said of him ; bidding some too grave and
anxious gentleman to 'live pleasant;' fascinating the
great-hearted Johnson with ' his knowledge, his
genius, his diffusion and affluence of conversation,
and making him cry, 'Sir, that fellow calls forth all
my powers.' We see him in the House of Commons,
in his tight brown coat, with his spectacles and a
little bob-wig with curls, beginning his oration with
folded arms and an air of humility, and gradually
rising to thunderous denunciations of the noble
lord in the blue ribbon ; or later on, of those
vain petulant upstarts in a neighbourhood country,
who were wickedly proscribing the sacred
ministers of religion, prosecuting their virtuous
and innocent Sovereign, and covering with
humiliation the august daughter of the Caesars•
We may follow him from the heat and vin"
lence of the House, where drunken lordlings
and squires derided the greatest man of their
time, down to the. calm shades of Beaconsfield
where ho would with his own hands give food to 3
starving beggar, or medicine to a peasant sick of the
ague ; where we would talk of the weather, th°
turnips, and the hay with the team men and the
farm bailiff ; and where, in the evening stillness,
he would pace the walk under the trees, and
reflect on the state of Europe and the distrae'
Lions of his country. While Fox was squandering
tens of thousands at the gambling-table,we may watch
Burke supporting Barry for several years at Rome
anxiously pressing his last half-guinea upon the friend'
less Emin ; rescuing Crabbe, though a perfect
stranger to him, from a debtors' prison, and maw'
taining him in his own house until a provision was
found for him ; and on every occasion ready to
extend not only sympathy, but a share of his slender
purse, wherever he found penniless genius or worth.
And, finally, we may look with tragic emotion 03
the pathos of that crowning scene which left 00
remnant of the old man's days so desolate and void•"
—John Morley.

GUSTAVE DORE.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Teck honoured the
Exhibition of Gustave Dore's Paintings at the EgyPtig°
hall with their presence yesterday.
Tine Archbishop of Westminster contradicts th°
statement which appeared in the Manchester Examiner tbi4
the Pope had thanked Mr. Gladstone for his attitude on
the Irish Church question.
The Standard says Viscount Ingestre, formerly
MP. for South Staffordshire, will be brought forward V.
the Conservative candidate for Stafford.

The Cork Examiner says that the subscription t°
the fund raised for the wife of Captain Mackay amounts
to £2OO.

The Army and Navy Gazette is of opinion that 171
this time the Abyssinian expedition must be over, and Sir
R. Napier must either have been repulsed or taken gag"
dale, or the captives, or both.

A correspondent of the Freeman calls attention
to the subjects which are proposed for discussion at the
May meetings about to be held in Dublin, as announced is
the placards and advertisements. As these meetings are
under the auspices and are attended by the highest dip',
taries of the Establishment, it is not very remarkable ties
the Irish people should feel aggrieved at being obliged t°
pay towards the support of a system which at eve/
opportunity wounds their feelings on the most sensitive
points. The subjects which they propose to discuss are
the following: Is not the Pope Antichrist ? and Rome the
Babylon of the Apocalypse? 2. Is not the Pope the 1W
of siu, and Rome the mother of harlots ? 33. Has not the
Church of Rome bortowed the celibacy of her religious
orders from Paganism ? 4. Romanism is only Pagaeislu
baptised. 5- The Papacy came hot from hell, and its FN.'
eence makes a hell upon earth. 6. Roman Catholics sr°
affectionately requested to attend.
A curious case, which has been talked about Of
some time, was opened on Monday before Vice-Chancellor
Giffard. The plaintiff is an aged widow lady named L 101);
who seeks to recover money and securities to the value 0'
£60,000, which she alleges wore improperly obtained fret°
her by the defendant, Mr. Douglas Home, the well-knelt'
spiritualist. Mrs. Lyon alleges that in 1866 she became °-c-
-painted with soma spiritualists, who lent her books 0
spiritualism, and directed her attention to the gres,l
medium, Mr. Home, who had just opened an " Athenose°
at Sloane-street for the encouragement of the belief. Oa
October 3, 1866, she went to 72, Sloane-street, where the
ithenteum was, and where Mr. Homo resided. 1101°4
wade known the object of her visit, Mr. Home, by the °a
of a table, set the spiriis of the other world in motion, au,
she consequence was that Mrs. Lyon received some car,
forting assurances, for which she proposed to reward P.'.
Hume by a handsome subscription; but having no eht4l4°,
book with her she postponed the donation till a seeclt
interview, when she was again much cheered by the reeu
of Mr. Home's inquiries. These were in regard to bet
husband, who had died some years before, and they e1313e,,,%
to have been worth to Mr. Home, or his Atheuseute,
sums of £3O and £5O. At a third interview betviee",
Home and the plaintiff at the plaintiff's house, the sPic,l,/l
with Home's assistance, communicated the tidings, ,s
love Daniel," moaning presumably Mr. Home; bri°lllo
to bo your son ; ho is my son —therefore yours."
table then ecstatically kicked up its legs. The defendeue
Home, further informed her that it was the will a tb
spirit that she should adopt him as her son, that a frilo
of Home's named Hall should bo sent for, and that 0.
should produce stock receipts for the sum of about £24:in,
Under the influence, as Mrs. Lyon alleges, of Home's 6Pof
ritual powers and ascendancy, she went, on the 10"11 s,
October, 1866, to the Bank of England, and there tra°
(erred the sum of £24,000 stock to Home. Shortly 3fte
this Home, at another interview, assured her that it is
the spirit's will that she should destroy her existing
and make another will bequeathing everything she Pd°or
sessod to Homo, and that a Dr. Hawksley and a Mr. 1111 t
were to be the attesting witnesses. The will to this effl;eo,
was soon afterwards prepared for the defendant by \
ed
Martin Wilkinson, a solicitor of Lincoln's-inn-fields: 90-
was executed by the plaintiff, and attested by Mr. Wil?tir,
son and Mr. Hall. Further sums of money were 3.l.'irs
wards transferred by her to Mr. Horn-. The philutl
property is said to be worth nearly £150,000.
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