The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

QUAINT TITLES OF OLD BOOKS.—We might amuse
the reader by citing a few of the quaint and alliterative
titles of some of the books of these times. Taking the
following for instance :—" A Footpath to Felicitie,"
" Guide to Godlinesse," " Swarme of Bees," " Plante of
Pleasure and Grove of Graces,"-1586. These were most
rife in the days of CromwelL There were many bordering
closely on the ludicrous, such as the one styled, "A Pair
of Bellows to blow off the Dust cast upon John Fry ;"
and a Quaker, whose outward man the powers thought
proper to imprison, published " A Sigh of Sorrow for the
Sinners of Zion, breathed out of a hole in the Wall of an
Earthen Vessel, known among men by the name of
Samuel Fish." We might multiply the numbers ad
libitum ; but must content ouselves with adding one or
two more. "A Reaping Hook well tempered for the
stubborn Ears of the coming Crop, or Biscuits baked in
the oven of Charity, carefully conserved for the Chickens
of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet
Swallows of Salvation." To another we have the follow-
ing copious description :—" Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful
Soul for Sin, or the Seven Penitential Psalms of the
Princely Prophet David; whereunto also are annexed
William Humuis's handful of Honeysuckles, and divers
Godly and pithy Ditties, now newly augmented."—Salad
for the Solitary, by an Epicure.

A MODEL MAN IN RELATION TO LONGEVITY.—Let me
now be permitted to delineate the portrait of a man des-
tined to long life. He has a proper and well-proportioned
stature, without, however, being too tall. He is rather of
the middle size, and somewhat thick-set. His complexion
is not too florid: at any rate, too much ruddiness in youth
is seldom a sign of longevity. His hair approaches rather
to the fair than the black ; his skin is strong but not
rough. His head is not •too big; he has large veins at
the extremities, and his shoulders are rather round than
flat. His neck is not too long; his abdomen does not pro-
ject ; and his hands are large, but not too deeply cleft.
His foot is rather thick than long ! and his legs are firm
and round. He has also a broad arched chest; a strong
voice, and the faculty of retaining his breath for a long
time without difficulty. In general, there is a complete
harmony in all his parts. His senses are good, but not
too delicate ; his pulse is slow and regular. His stomach
is excellent, his appetite good, and his digestion easy. The
joys of the table are to him of importance; they tune his
mind to serenity, and his soul partakes in the pleasure
which they communicate. He does not eat merely for the
sake of eating ; but each meal is an hour of daily festivity ;
a kind of delight attended with this advantage, in regard
to others, that it does not make him poorer, but richer.
He eats slowly, and has not too much thirst. Too great
thirst is always a sign fjof rapid self-consumption. In
general, he is serene, loquacious, active, susceptible of joy,
love, and hope ; but insensible to the impressions of hatred,
anger, and avarice. His passions never become too violent
or destructive. If he ever gives way to anger, lie ex-
periences rather a useful glow of warmth, an artificial
and gentle fever without an overflowing of the bile. He
is fond also of employment, particularly calm meditation
and agreeable speculations, is an optimist, a friend to
nature and domestic felicity, has no thirst after honours
or riches, and banishes all thoughts of to-morrow.—Hufe-
land's Art of Prolonging Life._

ABERNETiIY AND AN IRIE;II PATIENT.—It was on his
first going through the wards after a visit to Bath, that,
passing up between the rows of beds, with an immense
crowd of pupils after him—myself among the rest —the
apparition of a poor Irishman, with the scantiest shirt I
ever saw, jumping out of bed, and literally throwing him-
self on his knees at Abernethy's feet, presented itself.
For some moments everybody was bewildered ; but the
poor fellow, with his country's eloquence, poured out such
a torrent of thanks, prayers, and blessings, and made such
pantomimic displays of his leg, that we were not left long
in doubt. "'That's the leg, yer honnor ! -Glory be to
God ! Yer honnor's the boy to do it ! May the heavens
be your bad ! Long life to your honnor! To the divole
with the spalpeens that said your honnor would cut it
off!" &c. The man had come into the hospital about
three months before, with diseased ankle, and it had been
at once condemned to amputation. Something, however,
induced Abernethy to try what rest and constitutional
treatment would do for it, and with the happiest result.
With some difficulty the patient got into bed, and Aber-
nethy took the opportunity of giving us a clinical lecture
about diseases and their constitutional treatment. And
now commenced the fun. Every sentence Abernethy
uttered, Pat confirmed. " Thrue, yer honnor, divole a lie
in it. His honnor's the grate dochter entirely." While
at the slightest allusion to his case, off went the bed
clothes, and up went the leg, as if he were taking aim at
the ceiling with it. " That's it, by gorra ! and a better
leg than the Villan's that wanted to cut it off." This was
soon after I went to London, and I was struck with
Abernethy's manner. In the midst of the laughter,
stooping down to the patient, he said with much earnest-
ness " I am glad your leg is doing well; but never
kneel except to your maker."—Macilwain's Memoirs of ,
Abernethy.
ADVERTISING.—It is either advertising or being ruined.
We have said it before. Many of our readers will think
this a bold and unwarranted assertion. It is neither the
one nor the other, for it is founded on the experience of
many men of business. Of many examples we quote but
one. Mr. Bennett keeps a large shop of clocks and watches
in Cheapside. His watches and clocks are among the
best in London; they have an old-established reputationr,
and they deserve it. But their reputation is not owing to
their excellency alone : it required many years of adver-
tising—years of continual and expensive advertising—to
inculcate this great fact on the obtuse, bewildered, and
deluded Londoners. Thanks to Mr. Bennett's perseve-
rence they are at 'length convinced. And when a few
years ago the reputation of the firm had spread through- i
out the length and breadth of the land, it struck Mr.
Bennett that now was tile time to put a stop to this expen-
sive process of advertising. " In future," said that gen-
tleman, " I mean to take the full interest from my capital
instead of paying part of it to the printers." And he set
at once about it. In the year in which Mr. Bennett took
this bold resolution the firm spent a few thousand pounds
less than usual in advertisements. But the consequences
made themselves felt ; and as month followed month,
they became still more disagreeably perceptible. Mr.
Bennett understood that in London virtue is its own re-
ward, provided it keeps a trumpeter ; and as Mr. Bennett
was not an obstinate theorist, he had again recourse to
the printing press. He advertises to this very day, and to
a greater extent, if possible, than formerly. In proof
whereof we quote his advertisement in the catalogue of
the great exhibition, on which occasion he paid £9OO (say
nine hundred pounds sterling,) for the insertion of his
advertisement on the back of the wrapper. Of course his
watches were quite as good during the period he did not
advertise ; but the public was about to forget him. Adver-
tising is an indispensable item in the expenditure of a
London trader.—Saunterings in and about London.
How TO SUCCEED IN AUSTRALIA.--This desideratum
is amusingly taught by a practical correspondent, who
writes from Melbourne. "There is," he says, " a vast
amount of distress among the gentlemanly, no capital, no
hard-work people—people who will not go on the roads
and earn ten shillings a-day, because they have never done
it, and it's below them ; but if a man comes here without
a capital he must work or starve ; and the work that is
wanted is hand not head work. I do anything to pick up
a shilling—carry a box, help to dig the foundation of a
house—and what I have lately made some money at has
been duck-shooting. The Way I set about it is this :—I
start off in the afternoon for one of the numerous lagoons,
situate from five to ten miles off, and take with me on my
back, besides my gun, a blanket, hookpot, pannakin, tea
and sugar, bread, &c. On my road I often get stuck in a
bog or lost in the bush, but, nil desperandum, on I go,
and at length reach my destination. At sunset I take my
station in some thick reeds—perhaps up to my hips in mud
and water, and there await the evening flight of the ducks,
teal, black swans, &c. At last, bang ! bang ! goes old Joe
Manton ; and splash, splash, tumble the ducks into the
lake. Then for an hour it's load and fire, and then gather
together the dying and the dead. I now try and find out
a soft place under some friendly gum-tree, light a fire, and
make a cup of tea (when on board ship I thought I should
became a solid lump of plum-duff ;' now I really believe
I shall be converted into a huge tea-pot, for I drink tea by
the quart, not the cu p), roll myself in my blanket, and off
to sleep. Up again in the morning before the sun, take
my place in the rushes, see the ducks turn out to wash
their faces, and give them a hearty salute ; after which
pack up and away to Melbourne, call at the clubs and
hotels, and sell my ducks ; and if I fail there, it's ' Duck,
0, wild duck ! Widgeon or wildfowl !' in the streets ; and
pays at 18s. a pair for
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to sell ducks, and therefore he starves, and nobody pities
him, and he either turns shepherd in the bush, or works
his way home as a ship steward. For the working-man
this country is the finest in the world, and he is sure of a
fortune if he does not take to nobblers.' Drunkenness
is the very curse of the country. I must now turn in, and
finish this another time. I have to be up at sunrise to
good night."
fish, and fishing pays 20s. a dozen, large and small; so

Sin,—ln a second printed letter addressed by you to
Mr. Pollock, a copy of which you have not had the
courtesy to send to me, though you have made free use of
my name in it, I find the following statements :
At p. 10, " That one speaker, Mr. Girdlestone, should
have denounced as Romish mummers' the whole con-
gregation worshipping at St. Mark's Chapel, and, by im-
plication, many hundred others in the land." I myself,
some weeks ago, furnished you, at your own request, with
a corrected report of my speech at Liverpool, to which you
refer in the above words. Will you be kind enough to
point out to me the exact words in that report on which
the above charge is founded ?
At p. 5 of the same letter, I find the following state-
ment I need not trouble my readers with more de-
tails, but I have authority for saying that, during the past
ten years, from £40,000 to £50,000 per annum has been
the average amount received and expended by the Na-
tional Society, and this quite independent of trust-money
and Government grants."

In a note at the bottom of the same page, I find you
state the " general fund for 1852 to have been £8,782
16s. 641. ; and for 1853, £12,577 13s. 6d." Will you be
kind enough to refer me to the page, in any one of the
published annual reports of the Society, which I have
searched in vain, in which authority for the first of the
above statements can be found ? And will you likewise be
kind enough to reconcile your second statement in the
note above referred to with the annual report of the So-
ciety for 1853, in Appendix No. 3 of which I find the fol-
lowing item :—" To nett amount of subscriptions and
donations to the 12th of May, £8.235 2s. 10d."
In your letter to Mr. Pollock, you dispute only two of
the facts stated by me. With reference to the first,
namely, the baaing of the students, you adduce no evi-
dence to disprove it. I need, therefore, merely say, that
my informant, a beneficed clergyman well known all over
England, himself witnessed that example of levity on the
part of the students, immediately after Sunday morning
service. With respect to the cricket, I beg leave to refer
the Principal of St. Mark's—who, you say, denies the
charge—to my authority, namely, p. Bof a pamphlet,
" Romanising Character of National School Society.
Nisbet and Co. 1851," which has had a wide circula-
tion, and has never, to my knowledge, been answered.—
Your obedient servant, E. GIEDLESTONE.
F. S. Warren, Esq.

Durham, 29th October, 1853.
REV. Sia,—My friend in Liverpool, who has managed
the publishing of my letters to ➢lr. Pollock, ought to
have sent a copy to you a fortnight ago. There has been
an oversight on his part, for which I am sorry. I dis-
claim any the slightest intention of discourtesy towards you.
I have written to London for the book you name as
published by Nisbet. When I have seen it, and also had
time to make one or two more inquiries in detail on the
point of income, I will have the pleasure of fully answering
your note.—Your obedient servant,
Rev. E. Girdlestone. FREDCZ. S. WARREN.

National Society's Office, Sanctuary, Westminster,
_ Nov. 18th, 1853.
_ _ _

REV. Sin,—Having succeeded in obtaining a copy of
the pamphlet, headed " Romanizing Character," &e., and
also having had an opportunity of going through the old
reports of the Society, I am able to answer your letter of
the 27th of last month.

Firstly,—You ask me to refer you to the words in your
speech at Liverpool, on which I ground my charge
against you of having denounced as " Romish mummers"
the congregation worshipping at St. Mark's Collegiate
Chapel. I find at page 19 of the authorised report, which
contains your speech, the following words spoken by you :
" These Romish mummeries of music were carried on
through the whole service." Now, the service at St.
Mark's is essentially congregational, and I see no dif-
ference between telling a number of persons that they
habitually take part in " Romish mummeries," and that
they are Romish mummers."
Secondly,—You ask my authority—in contradiction to
the oft-repeated statement of yourself and others that
the income of the Society stopped at £9,ooo—for saying
that the average income had, for the last 10 or 15 years,
been £40,000 to £50,000. I make good my statement, by
saying that the Society has received, in round figures, on
account of, annually,

General Fund
£lO,OOO
Queen's Letter Fund, £27,000 triennially, or 9,000
Special Fund, £130,000 to £150,000, say
Welsh Education Fund, £lO,OOO in donations or 1,000
Ditto, Annual Income 2,000
St. Mark's, Whiteland's, and Battersea Colleges,
about £30,000, or
Westminster Training School, £20,000, or

£40,000
The Society has also, from time to time, received various
sums to devote to special objects ; I give one instance—
Bethnall-Green School Fund. I think, at least, I have
shown that £9,000, the figure which constantly appears
in the report of your speeches, is a very unfair representa-
tion of the Society's actual income.
Your next question has reference to the amount of the
general fund in 1852-3. It is a simple sum in arithmetic.
If you will be good enough to take the balance-sheet,
deduct from the sum. total the government grants and
trust-money funds, you will find the balance as I gave it,
£12,577 13s. 2d.

I now approach a painful and distasteful task—your two
charges against St. Mark's.
First,—As to the alleged " baaing" of the students.
Most certainly I cannot take upon myself to deny, for
there is no way of disproving it, that some one out of 70
or 80 young men, gathered from all parts of the country,
may have, on some occasion, during the Sunday, imitated
the cry of the sheep which feed in a neighbouring meadow.
But are you serious in bringing this forward against an
educational establishment, and founding on it a grave
charge of breach of the Fourth Commandment ? When
asked a year ago for proof of the insinuations against this
College contained in your memorial, why did you not lay
bare this astounding fact ; or why, when with Mr.
Colquhoun you had an interview with the Primate and
the Bishop of London, did you then ignore this dreadful
story, and reserve it for a platform speech at Liverpool ?
But your charge of " cricket-pliying" is of a different
description, for a game of that kind could not be played
without the knowledge and sanction of the authorities.
The principal says, " Your well-known fact is simply and
merely a falsehood. " Upon which you refer him and me
to page 8 of a certain pamphlet ; that pamphlet is now
before me. Will it be credited, that neither at page 8, or
at all in the book, is even the slightest mention made of
the game of cricket. I will not add a word of comment.
But of the miserable pamphlet itself, printed, as I was told
the other day by Nisbet, at the office of the Record,lwill
say this : a sadder exhibition of perverted facts and pitiful
inuendoes could not have been made. A spirit of levity,
when speaking of holy things and places, so gross as to
degenerate into blasphemy, pervades the whole. The
anonymous writer dares to go into the presence of
Almighty God, to pretend to join in worshipping Him, and
then goes home, with notes taken on the spot, to turn
what he has seen and heard into burlesque. And to such
a polluted source does the Vicar of Deane go for "well-
known facts," on which to build his attacks on the
National Society. I should scarcely know how to restrain
my language, were comment necessary, within the
bounds which charity requires.—l remain, Rev. Sir, your
obedient servant, FREDERIC S. WARREN.
Rev. E. Girdlestone.
P.S.—As you have appealed to the Liverpool newspaper,
I reserve to myself the right to publish this.

Deane Vicarage, Nov. 21, 1863.

Sin,—l received on November 19th your reply to my
letter of October 27th. I decline to take any notice, as
being irrelevant to the matter in hand, of any expression
of opinion concerning myself or others contained in that
letter. But the ingenuity with which you still continue
to disguise facts and mutilate quotations must be exposed.
Firstly,—There is the widest possible difference between
denouncing practices and persons. In the words which
you have quoted from my speech, it is true, I denounced
mummeries; but I called no man " a mummer." Much
less did I denounce as'ltornish mummers " the whole con-
gregation worshipping at St. Mark's Chapel, and by
implication many hundred otheis in the land." By no
perversion of language, however ingenious, can such a
charge be founded on my words.
Secondly, —My second request to you was, to "refer me
to the page in any one of the published annual reports of
the Society, in which authority" for your statistics could
be found. You have not referred me to any report, but
to an ipse dixit of your own, which is of no authority
whatever. Granting, however, for the sake of argument,
that your saying is of authority, there is nothing in it, after
all, which contradicts my own statement and that of my
friends, namely, that the income of the National Society,
derived from donations and annual subscriptions, is, in
round numbers, not more than £9,000. The various

Rev. E. Male, M.A., to the Vicarage of Rathmel, Yorkshire.
Rev. F. Morse, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Mary's
Church, Shrewsbury.

Rev. J. Nunn, M.A., to the Rectory of Thorndon, near Eye,
Suffolk.

Rev. G. A. S. Powell, 8.A., Registrar of the Archdeaconry
of Wells, to the Incumbency of South Burcombe, near
Salisbury.

Rev. S:. Rashleigh, 8.A., to the Vicarage of St. Wenn,
Cornwall.

Rev. W. L. Rolleston, M.A., Vicar of Great Dalby, to the
Incumbency of Kirby Bellars, near Melton Mowbray.
Rev. C. Taylor, M.A., to the Vicarage of Barnby-in•the•
Willows, Notts.

Rev. H. Temple, M.A., to tle Rectory of Thornton, near
Buckingham.

Rev. J. Thorp, M.A., late Head Master of the Diocesan
Training School, Summertown, Oxford, to the Chaplaincy of
the Oxford County Gaol.

Rev. C. M. Toriter,it:A., to the Vicarage of Horndon.on-
the-H ill, near Romford, Essex.

Rev. P. A. L. Wood, to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of
Salisbury. -
DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFERMENT.—The Rev. Richard Heighway Kirby has
been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Haverthwaite,
in the county of Lancaster, void by the cession of the Rev.
W. H. Hugall. Patron, the incumbent of Colton.

CLIEADLI.—The piece of land added to the churchyard
of Cheadle was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, for
interments, on Wednesday last, the 23rd instant.
UPTON.—The ground surrounding the new church now
in course of erection in the township of Upton, in the
parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and intended as a
churchyard or cemetery, has been licensed by the Bishop
of Chester for interments, until consecration, to meet the
wants of the parishioners in that neighbourhood, it having
been duly conveyed and enclosed.

A Cuuicn RATE of 6d. in the £1 was carried last
week for East and West Ham, Plaistow, and Stratford,
Essex, on a poll, by a majority of 571 to 464.
STEWART MAJORIBANICS. ESQ., of Bushey-grove, has
liberally subscribed £lOOO towards the erection of a new
church, in lieu of the old church, in the parish of Bushey,
Herts. Kirkman Hodgson, Esq., of Sparrow's Herne,
Bushey, has likewise subscribed £5OO.

Tni DEAN AND CHAPTER of Durham have arranged
to give £5,000 out of the purchase-money for their pro-
perty at Jarrow Slake, required by the York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Railway Company for the dock at Jarrow
Slake, for the purpee of building and endowing a church,
8.7. c., near the intended dock.

COLONIAL BISIIOPS.—On Wednesday the Right Rev.
the Lord Bishop of Cape Town resigned his see, in order
that the diocese might be divided into three bishoprics,
Cape Town, Natal, and Graham's Town. The Rev. Dr.
Colenso and the Rev. Dr. Armstrong will be consecrated
to-morrow to the sees of Natal and Graham's Town, in
the parish church, Lambeth, Surrey.
THE REV. DR. H. B. WusoN, rector of the united parishes
of St. Mary Aldermary and St. Thomas the Apostle,London,
died on Monday last week, in the 80th year of his age. In a.
letter recently addressed to his parishioners, Dr. Wilson ex-
pressed a hope that he might die in the reading-desk or at
the communion table, and that he might be buried in the
church without being taken home; adding, that a London
incumbent, whom he had for years esteemed as a friend,
had promised to read the Burial service over him.
APPOINTMENTS VACANT.—The rectory of Mount Bures,
Essex, value £4OO a year. The rectory of Epperston,
n ear Southwell, value £320 a-year ; patrons, Hulme Trustees.
The wardenship of St. Thomas'sTheologicalCollege,Colombo,
value £4OO a year ; patrons, the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Professorship of
English Literature and Modern History in King's College,
London ; patrons, the Council. The office of vice-principal
in the Worcester Diocesan Training College for Masters,
at Saltley, near Birmingham, value £lsoa-year ; vacant at
Christmas. The Rev. C. Sparkes has resigned the Incum-
bency of St. Mary's, Prince's-road, Lambeth.
EPISCOPAL CENSURE.—One of the curates of a popu-
lous parish in Dublin having, it is believed without due
consideration of the subject, affixed his signature to the
protest against the appointment of Bishop Gobat, has had
his license withdrawn by the Archbishop of Dublin. This
mark of ecclesiastical censure has caused great regret to
the friends and parishioners of the rev. gentleman, for a
more efficient or zealous clergyman could not be pointed.
to within the whole range of the diocess, and it is to be
hoped that some explanation will be afforded, which may
induce his Metropolitan to reconsider his decision in the
matter. It is reported that the correspondence which has
passed between his Grace and the offending curate will be
shortly laid before the public. The whole affair has cre-
ated considerable interest in Dublin.
PROPOSED ERECTION OF AN ENGLISH CHURCH IN
PAnis.—Several meetings have been lately held in Paris
of lay members of the united church of Great Britain and
r Ireland resident in Paris, with the object of obtaining the
erection of, a church in some measure commensurate with
the requirements of the English resorting there in such
numbers, and creditable to the British nation. The
amount of church accommodation provided in two small
chapels and a room at the embassy is utterly inadequate
to the very large number attached to her communion who
are at all times resident in and passing through the me-
tropolis of France, so that many hundreds are every Sun-
day prevented from joining in public worship who would
otherwise attend. Both the small chapels above alluded
to are private property, and unconsecrated ; and while the
English constantly resident number 10,000, and the
English visitors are seldom fewer than 10,000 more, and
sometimes reach 20,000, the accommodation in such chapels,
and in the room in which divine service is performed at
the embassy, does not exceed 2,000, a considerable portion
of which is occupied by American residents, who are very
numerous, and have no place of worship whatever in Paris.
The promoters of the work wish to obtain from govern-
ment a contribution equal to about one-third of the outlay
required to erect a church capable of accommodating not
fewer than 1,500 people, 500 of the sittings to remain for
ever free; and on condition that this assistance is given,
the church is to be solely the property of the crown.
ST. SAVIOUR'S, LEEDS.—The annual commemoration
commenced on the eve of the festival of SS. Simon and
Jude, and continued throughout the octave. Holy com-
munion was celebrated daily at 7 30, matins at 11, with a
sermon, evensong at 7 30, also with a sermon. On the Sun-
day within the octave, and on both the festivals, that of
SS. Simon and Jude, and that of All Laints, there was a
second celebration of the holy communion after morning
service. Amongst those who were present were the Rev.
Cecil Wray, Liverpool ; Rev. G. F. S. Perry, Tottington,
Lancashire ; Rev. Parker, Rochdale ; Rev. James Col-
lins, Wilmslow, Cheshire, &c. At the morning services
the attendance was comparatively scanty, almost the
whole population of the parish being poor, and engaged
in the work of the factories ; but the evening services
were attended by large and most attentive congregations.
The most striking feature about the services of St. Sa-
viour's is the hearty way in which the whole of the people
join in them. They are all choral, and the entire body of
the congregation join in the chants and responses in a
manner most striking and beautiful. It realises the idea
of united worship, and was remarked by many strangers
present as the most congregational service they had ever
been present at. The singing of the Litany on the Sun-
day, when, of course, there was the largest congregation,
reminded us forcibly of St. Ambrok's description of the
united prayers of the Christians of his day, that it re-
sembled the roar of the sea. At St. Saviour's, without
any organ, without any paid choir, with only a few boys
of the parish, taken out of the school, a most effective and
congregational service is performed, and the people are
deeply attached to it. —Leeds Intelligencer.
THE ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE relates the following cir-
cumstances occurring at the city church, Oxford, on
Sunday week, when the Rev. H. Pritchard, B.D. Fellow
of Corpus Christi College, and late Junior Proctor,
preached morning and evening In the evening the
church was crowded, and the heat was so great that to-
wards the close of his sermon, the preacher fainted, and
fell back on the pulpit seat. This circumstance created
quite a sensation among the congregation, but after a
lapse of a few minutes, and with the aid of a little cold
water and a smelling-bottle, the reverend gentleman re-
vived, and was enabled to finish' his discourse. It is a
singular circumstance that the subject of the sermon was