The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-27 00:00:00

THE LATE THOMAS D' ARCY M•GEE.

The obsequies of the late Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee
took place on April 14 in Montreal. All accounts
speak of the event as one of the most remarkable
in the history of Canada. At an early hour 'in the
morning the people living along the of line proces-
sion draped their houses in black crape and cambric.
The emblems of mourning were visible on all the
public buildings. At nine o'clock the procession
formed, and the collie was taken from its temp mary
resting. place and deposited in the car. The cLr
was drawn by six grey horses enveloped in black.
It was 16 feet high and 12 feet long; the roof,
which was of elegant design, was supported by six
columns. On the roof there was a large silver cross,
draped with black velvet and crape ; there were also
six large plumes. Oa the sides of the car were the
words, in white letters upon a ground of black
velvet, " Miserere Domino," " Consummatus in
brevi explevit tempore multa," and on each si lc of
the picture of an ostrich the words " Fac et spara."
.The soldiers of the British garrison lined the streets
and kept a clear passage; they fell into line at the rear
of the procession. The troops on duty wore the 100th
Regiment, the 16th Regiment, the 78th Regiment
(highlanders), the 60th Rifles, the 13 th Hussars, and
a section of artillery. In the procession, which was
made up of about 25,000 persons, were Sir C. Wynd-
ham, R.C.8., and staff, the representatives of the
Governor General, and of the Lieutenant Governor
of Ontario and Quebec, the Mayor and Recorder of
Montreal, the legislative c3uncillors, senators,
members of the House of Commons, members of
the local governments, foreign consuls, the Chief
Justice and the several judges and magistrates,
members of the Privy Council, members, of the cor-
poration of Montreal, municipal officers, officers of
. the army, the militia commandant, militia officers,
officers of the courts of law, Major-General Russell
and staff, the clergy of Montreal, representatives of
the bar and the medical profession; students of the
university, students of law, medicine, and the arts ;
the professors of the colleges, the various benevo-
lent, temperance, and working men's societies ; all
the national societies (including the New England
and St. Patrick's Societies), the Government and
local police, &c. The procession passed to St.
Patrick's church, where the funeral ceremonies
took place. The coffin was received at the door by
a procession of priests and acolytes, who preceded
it to the altar. The church and altar were lighted
with tapers and heavily draped with white and
black crape. After the mass the Catholic Vicar
General of Ottawa delivered an appropriate sermon.
The vicar general took occasion to inveigh in strong
terms against Fenianism. " If," said he, " this
dead statesman was guilty of a crime in opposing
Fenianism, that is a crime of which I too ant guilty.
I call upon you to stamp out secret societies:,
A tremendous burst of applause followed
these words, and the preacher found it neces-
sary to say, " Remember that this is the house of
God." At the conclusion of the sermon the proces-
sion reformed, and the coffin was taken to the cathe-
dral of Notre Dame, where a libra was sung by the
seminary priests under the direction of Monseigneur
Bourgot, the Catholic Archbishop of Montreal.
The procession again took up its march througi the
'principal streets, and finally passed out to the 'Cit-
thelic Cemetery (some two' miles from Montreal),
where the body was interred. It is estimated that
from- 60,000 to 100,000 persons S'saembleA
streets through which the cortege paSsed. During
theday Gen. Averil received a telegram from Secre-
tary Seward, expressing the American Government's
detestation of the murder.; and sympathy with the
cauadiau public.

On Thursday evening the Rev. Dr. Littledale
lectured on "Innovations" at the Asseinb'y Rooms, Groat
George-street, Liverpool, in connection with the Riglist'
Church Union. The lecturer said they must distinguish
between innovations, and amongst other things gave
authorities for the antiquity of the "Elevation of the
Host," turning to the east, the division of the sexes iu
church, and the mixed chalice. He next came to the three
questions of incense, vestments, and lights, all of which
he claimed were used by the ancient church, and
therefore should be adopted now. lie claimed that the
Reformation was an innovation, and then said: A
church which cool 1 pro Ince in its highest lay and cle-
rical ranks such a set of miscroante as the lea,hng Eng-
lish and Scottish Reformers—(hisses, and cries of "011
oh !') —must have been in a perfectly rotten state, as rotten
as France was when the righteous judgment of the Great
Revolution fell upon it. But *though we cannot help
acknowledging that a great deal was then swept away
which was intolerable, and that many a dead head fell
deservedly beneath the guillotine, we do not make herix.s
and martyrs of Robespierre, Dauten, Marit, St. Just,
Coutlion, awl the like, nor do we pity them when the axe
they whetted for their feudal tyrants fell on them in
turn. Yet they merit quite as ntuch admiration
anti respect as °cannier, Ridt.y, Latimer, Blooper,
and the others who happened to have the ill-
luck to bo worsted in a struggle wherein they meant
to serve their adversaries as they wore serve 1 them-
selves." This sentence provoked a chorus of disapproba-
tion. Several persons in the gallery who ha 1 previously
muttered "Oh, oh's" loudly cried "Shaine !" and one gen-
tleman in the f.ont of the body rose to his foot, and
shaking his open hand at the lecturer cried " Shame upon
you, shanc, shame." When remonstrated with, this gen-
tleman, whose demeanour was very respectful on the whole
and who was evidentlyovorcom a by feeling, sail "L's too
much; it's disgraceful," while another gentlemen, also in
the body, rose and angrily exclaimed, " And suet senti-
ments from a clergyman of the Church of England." These
sentiments ware loudly applauded in the gallery, and the
uproar lasted for some time. The lecturer then proceeded
The history of the Reformation was now being cleared
from the misrepresentation of partisani, a id every fresh
find established the wickedness perpetrated by the re-
formers. After citing instances, he referred to what he
called innovations made at the Reformation for which
credit might be taken—the circulation of the Bi'tle, the
restoration of-the cup to the laity in the Holy Communion,
anti the establishment of the service in English. But not-
withstanding these, he contended that the state of religion
in Elgland, and he cited Ridley. Latimer, and • Hooper in
proof—was lower after the Reformation than before
Several questions were put, and the meeting became so
noisy and unruly that it was brought to an abrupt ter-
mination.

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York stated that the tide of emigration for the present
spring fur the United Sta'es has commenced with in-
creased volume. It is estimated that upwarJs of 7,000
emigrants left Germany during the first week in April for
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.The Drew party have reduced their fares and freights
lattllicalfdlatyd,odlleafre,atotindgamage the Hudson River
on the Erie Road, and compelled the New York
and Ilar;ein Railway. At
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the New Jersey Legislature for. protection. The
Board of Tin re of Chicago and other Western
York, protest against a menopoly, which they cee-
r
influence against Vanderbilt. But the Erie direc-
torswho had in Ile his way to Albany was also
captured. A third director, it is said, fete
carried igt:00,000 of the company's money to
Akron, Ohio, t ) he used ie estal,iishing the broad,
gauge come e: ion between the Atlantic and Great
Western Rai:way and the Michigan Southern. Mr.
Drew asserts his object to be to use the road for
the benefit of the merchents of New York, an I he
eudeavoetis to secure their ail. But it is the busi-
ness of the directors to manage the property in the
interest of the shareholders, a fact Mr. Drew seems
wholly to have overlooked. The independent
papers denounce bote sides, declaring the fight to
be a disgrace to the community. The New York
Journal of Commerce says:—" It is evident to us
that Mr. Drew manipulated the concerns of the
Erie road for years to put money in his own pocket,
regardless entirely of the interests of the regular
stockholders or of the prosperity of tl e several locali-
ties a better management might have done so
much to promote. It is our conviction that he has
played fa,t and loose with the finances of that
corporation fur a long thee, with the sole pur-
pose of furthering his private speculations and
petting money in his own pocket. On the other
hand, we have no more respect for the style of
manaseement generally adoptel by principal op-
ponent. Commodore Vanderbilt's general methods
are unscrupulous and overbearing. The Nation
considers it dillioult to state " without indignation
what an amount of depravity has been developed
I-by these quarrels, but still more difficult to uuder-
stand or even conceive the dense moral apathy, in-
difference, nay, the ghastly relish even, with which
so much wickedness is generally regarded." The
Round Tilde supports Vanderbilt and decries Drew,
whose " aim is to keep down the price of Erie stock,
because he and his friends are under contract to
return to the company 56,000 shares which they
had borrowed and sold ; to accomplish their ends
they have almost produced a money panic, the dis-
astrous results of which no one could fail to see.
They have broken their trust, disobeyed the law,
violated the injunctions of the court, aryl are at
present fugitives from the State." The New York
Citizen, on the other hand, goes in fur hearty abuse
of Commodore 'Vanderbilt. Drew, it says, will
win,- because he spends five dollars more readily
than Vanderbilt spends live cents ' • not a bad
reason, certainly, nor is the second, if tree—
" Vanderbilt is •so widely, deeply, and deservedly
detested by every decent new iu the community,
that any fair pretext to hit him a heavy clip -over
the head, both will be, and ought to be, gladly
seize I and made useful to the uttermost by every
legislative gentleman within striking distance.'
Of all our olious money-kings—vulgar, domineer-
ing,-rapacious, unscrupulous, and merciless—Van-
derbilt, so far as we have had any means of judging,
is by far the most revolting and detestable speci-
men." At the same time it is satisfied that Drew
is a " scallywag," whatever that may be, but as
Vanderbilt is a greater " scallywag," we are, says
the Citizen, "Drew men up to the handle."
Mr. Jay Gould, the Erie director, caught in
New York State, was brought before Judge Barrett
on a writ of habeas corpus, and his counsel de-
nounced the measure of Judge Barnard, one of the
bench, in the Vanderbilt interest, in regard to the
arrest of his client, as scandalous and oppressive.
The action of the New York Judiciary in the matter
is considered in the highest degree improper. In
the Supreme Court of New York certain' questions
were discussed by counsel, and witnesses were
called, among whom was a prominent lawyer named
Ilaskin. His examination by his learned brother,
Mr. Brady, eventually descended into the lowest
personal wraegle. The war has been transferred to
Albany, and from the courts of justice this demoraliz-
ing contest has entered the Legislature. The bill i utro-
d aced to legalize the immenseissue of new shares and
rejected in the House was at once carried up in a
new form into the Senate, when it gave rise to fierce
i
personal dennr.ciations. A false report was spread
Wall-street that it had passe I. Erie stock ins
stantly fell from 75 to 711, and the fright has since
prevented its full recovery. The following state-
ment was given by the Erie Directors to the Senate
Co:nmittee as to the amount of the common stock
of_the company :

•
Issued unaer tile—
Original certili3 tte
Act of May 4, 1861
Act of A ril 11, 1866
Cottvendons of 4th mortgage bonds
Conversions of sth mortgage bon Is
Conversions of Buffalo branch bonds 13,600
Conversions of Long Dock bonds
Act of May 4, 1861, authorising au increase of
55,000,000
Hypothecated with Mr. Drew ....
Issued under Buffalo, Bradford, and Pitts-
burgh conversions
Issued in February and March, 1868 10,000,000

2,200,000
ii,000,000

Total common stock 531,265,300
Touching these precious individuals who have
created all this sensation, the Springfield Repub-
lican says :—" Vanderbilt': pile' is put at 40
millions, Drew's at 20. One is 73 years old, the
other 71. If we were as old and as rich as either
wouldn't we be at peace with all men and women,
and be trying to make our peace with Providence ?"
—A iajlo - l zerica►z 7 hues.

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