The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

UTILISATION OF SEWAGE.

Sanger."

The report of the sewage irrigation experiments
made at the Lodge Farm, Barking, by the Metro-
politan Sewage and Essex Reclamation Company,
for the year ending 31st of August, has just been
presented to the directors by the manager. The
demand for the rye grass, to the growth of which
one-fourth of the acreage is devoted, now exceeds
the supply, as its value is beginning to be appre-
ciated. That its use in cattle-feeding is most satis-
factory may he gathered from the fact that two
young steers fed exclusively on the sewage-grown
grass since May 18 had increased in weight by Aug.
7 from 6cwt. and 71cwt. to 71cwt. and newt. re-
spectively. Experiments of a very interesting cha-
racter are detailed, illustrative of the remarkable
fertilising power of the sewage on land of the poorest
and most sterile nature. And whereas it used to be
one of the strong points urged against sewage irriga-
tion that it was good for nothing but the growth of
rye-grass, the manager of the Lodge Farm is able
to speak now of wheat, rye, oats, mangold, cabbage,
turnips, sugar-beet, parsnips, potatoes, &c.,
all yielding most prolific crops from poor land re-
ceiving no other manure than the sewage. It is
confidently asserted that no amount of ordinary
manure could produce six or seven crops of grass a
season, weighing from six to twelve tons each. In
the case of mangold, als), the knowledge that two
dressings or floodiugs of sewage, consisting of from
200 to 300 tons per acre each, is capable of produc-
ing a crop of from 50 to 60 tons per acre, enables a
comparison to be drawn with the ordinary crop of
from 20 to 25 tons produced with a good dressing
(,f farm-yard dung. The crop of wheat grown last
year without any manure was about 3i qrs. to the
acre ; this year the yield with sewage was 5} qrs.
\ Not more than 1 350th of the whole of the sewage
of North London is used ou the Lodge Farm in a
year ; and as the results are so triumphantly suc-
cessful, it may be hoped that the farmers of South
Essex will begin to avail themselves of the means
offered to them by the company for enriching their
land with the valuable fertilising stream which at
present passes away in waste to the ocean.—
Lancet.

DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Oldlrish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in prlference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta-
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co.
Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O --[Ad-

yertisement.)

he delivered in memory of the late Dean Milman. The
Dean's memory, as our readers know, has been treated
with scant reverence in journals which affect to guide the
opinion of the religious world, and he has even been
written of iu the language of stern reprehension, as if he
had betrayed the sacred interests of which he was an
appointed guardian. In contrast with this unworthy
treatment of one who was an ornament of the Church no

less than of society, the bishop's tribute to Dean Milman's
character and services will be read with interest.

" What is it," asked the bishop, " that he has done by
which he has set his mark in the Church of Christ
amongst us? I. Ire has left us, as the product of his
earlier days, from among his other poetry, those noble
hymns which are prized in a thousand Christian homes,
and which will, I believe, live always in the affections of

those who love Christ as long as the English language
lasts. 2. Ho has shown to this England of the nine.
teenth century that in the midst of its unceasing and
laborious mission with the teeming masses of our country-
men, this Church of England can still produce and honour
in its clergy those deep stores of varied learning which
are indispensable, if the scribe instructed amongst
us for the kingdom of heaven is to -lave whence he may
bring forth, for the teaching of the people, thingii new and
old—the lessons inculcated by a vivid reduction of old
history, and the truths which may be winnowed from
the chaff of subtle modern speculations. It will not do,
certainly in this age, for the clergy to fall behind the
laity in any branches of human knowledge, and
this man has shewn us by his example in what varied
fields they may far outstrip their lay contemporaries.
3. He has, by the peculiarities of his mind and the
direction of his studies, held for many years a sort ok
middle position between the active, ever•inquiring intellect
of an age certainly somewhat wanting in religious
reverence, and the men whose whole religious character
is formed on the traditional teaching of the Church ;
uniting in himself boldness and impartiality of inquirst
with full, hearty, reasonable, and reverential belief of
the great Christian verities. It is this side of his
character which has exposed him to much animadversion
at various periods of his life ; but looking back on the
whole life of our brother who has gone before, and weigh-
ing all that he has done, dwelling on the sweet hymns
which spake the inner convictions of his soul, and
thinking of his loving, kindly life, who is the bigot who
will hesitate to say that he has had a great and difficult
task committed to him by God, that he has laboured in
it with singleness of purpose, and to allow, whether we
agree with his theological conclusions or differ from them,
that he has done his work well ? He has indeed, in my
judgment, left for the generation that_ is coming a

toielaouse of accumulated thought, from which many will
loon have to draw their armour in hours of impending

THE DEAN OF CARLISLE ON THE IRISH
CHU.RCH.

Dr. Close has issued a long address to the electors of
Carlisle calling upon them to support the cause of the
Church by voting for the Conservative candidate, Mr.
Hodgson. The dean says: "You are, then, about to

record your vote for or against the principle of an Esta-
blished Church ; that will be the effect of your rote,

whether you intend it or not. Let me therefore entreat
you not to cast to the winds the wisdom and the heritage
which you have received from your fathers! They
knew and appreciated the value of a Christian Church
recognised by and interwoven with the secular authorities
of the State. The principles of civil and religious liberty;

which won for themselves a victory at the glorious
Reformation, were held within these bounds. Protes-
tantisni assumed, not the character of voluntaryism, nor
congregationalism, but the reformed faith constructed
the Established Churches in England and Scotland, in Ire-
land, and in the various nations of Europe as it made
its way among the peoples. Where, then, was the
European Christian nation which in some form or other
was destitute of a State or national Church? In this
argument I have been grievously misrepresented. In a
hostile journal (not in Carlisle) I am reported in a leading
article to have said : ' Whenever godliness has laid strong
hold upon a people, it has been through the agency of a
Church Establishment'—whereas I was arguing exactly
the converse of that proposition, and proving, by
facts, that whenever the Christian religion had laid hold
of a nation—whether it ascended from the people, or,
as among our Saxon ancestors, it often descended
from the rulers—whenever religion became general, a na-
tional Church was the result. I could not have been
guilty of the blunder that a national Church converted the
nation, but I did state and hold that, until our evil days,
and not long before them, it was ever held that the
State, the Government, the secular constitution of every
Christian people, ought to have the form and sub-
stance of some national Church. Here, again, the
term national, as applied to some form of Christianity,
is misunderstood and misrepresented, A national
Church Establishment may not at all times and places
mean the Church of the whole people, or even of the
majority of them. The phrase imports rather a State
Church, and one hi that sense national—because the State
represents and governs the nation ; and in our case that
State, consisting of king, lords, and commons (but
never, be it remembered, every individual of the
land), embraced that form of Christian worship,
and those rites and ceremonies which are still found
in our Church—she became the Established Church by the
will, law, and order of this whole realm. And unless that
glorious constitution of Church and State be broken up
and destroyed by the same authorities by which it
was created, it remains with our Protestant Queen

on her throne, reigning by virtue cf her Protestant
principles and Protestant descent ; and woe to the man
that draws away the first stone from the foundation of
this consecrated edifice ! It is in this sense, and
viewing an established religion in its true national

and State character, that I affirmed and repeat, that any
nation without some such political recognition of some
form of pure Biblical Christianity is, as a nation, and in

its national character, a nation without God I There

may be hundreds or thousands of individuals in that
nation most pious and good, but they are not the nation,
nor its representatives, nor its constitutional authorities.
Whether a Government be imperial or a monarchy,
or an oligarchy, or republic, if it do not possess and
confess in its corporate capacity some faithful Christian
Church as the State Church, that nation, as a nation, is
without God, and therefore godless ! . . . And with
regard to the Protestant Episcopal Church of Ireland,
what has she done to merit this sweeping violation of all
her rights, possessions, and privileges ? She is the Church
of the minority ! And what of that, if she is the Church
of the truth? And if she has not enlarged her borders,
the British Government is chiefly to blame, for it has
always frowned on proselytising in every shape. The
measure proposed is an unprincipled robbery of a
faithful and unoffending Church ; a Church beloved by
thousands of the poor Romanists themselves, though but
few dare express their feelings. As David said of his ene.
mies, 'I paid them the things which I never took,' so it
the property of the Irish Church is taken from them and
given to the Romanists in any shape or form, they will
take of the things which never belonged to them. Our
House of Lords will stand between her Majesty
and such an insulting proposition. Yes, I have my hopes
that the good sense of the commonalty of the English
nation will see through this trap laid for them, by which
they might strike the first blow at our religious constitu•
tion. If you, my good friends—the majority of whom I
feel sure have no love for Popery—will stand to your post
of duty, and say, as many influential Liberals have
already declared, that, though staunch to your general
principles, you cannot in this instance allow them
to carry you away into revolutionary action, the House co
Commons itself may yet be spared the disgrace of up-
rooting that which their wiser forefathers planted, and
breaking down defences which form the principal barriers
against the inroads and arrogance of Rome. That crafty
Power now joins the hue and cry against Establishments,
knowing full well that if only Protestant Established
Churches are swept away, an open field will be left for her
manceuvres by which of old she enslaved the nations of her
will!"

SHOCKING MACHINERY ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG
117.011 AN.—A shocking accident haprened on the premises
of Mr. Blythe, feather merchant, Henry-street, Liverpool,
on Saturday. A young woman, named Teresa Haden,
was engaged in a room in which was some machinery
worked by steam power, when she was caught by the strap
attached to the rapidly-turning wheel, dragged in amongst
the machinery, and half torn to pieces.
AN AIqUSING PRACTICAL JOKE.—The Figaro
publishes an account of a practical joke which, unlil:e most
practical jukes, has the merit of being amusing. An enthu-
siastic sportsman went to a breakfast given in sign of the
commencement of the shooting season. The talk was of
game, when suddenly in rushed a servant exclaiming to
the host that a hare had been seen moving about en
the lawn. Out went the enthusiastic sportsman, gun in
hand, fired at the hare, and missed him. The hare,
scratching his nose, stood p n his hind legs, presented a
horse-pistol at the enthusiastic sportsman, and fired in
return. No one was hurt ; but the enthusiastic sportsman
was naturally astounded, until at last it was explained to
him that the hare was a performing animal which had
been hired from a neighbouring show. The sports-
man's charge had, of course, been tampered with by the
confidential scry„nt.