The herald., 1895-12-01
J|NGOES IN V|CTOR|ALAND
Find Fault With Currie's Lack
of Spinal Column
THE SPECULATIVE SULTAN
Working the European Bourses for His
Personal Reneilt
A Discovery Interesting Americans 0sner-
ally and rlethodlsts In Particular - Ser.
mons and Poems by Charles Wesley


Associated Press Special Wire
LONDON, Nov. 30.-Copyrighted, 1895.
by the Associated Press)-A dispatch
from Constsntinople this afternoon which
announced the humiliating bsckdown of
the British am mbsssador to Turkey, Sir
Phillip Currie, q bic insistsnce, based on
treaty rights, that Great Britain and in
cidentally Russia, Italy ana Austr ia be
allowed an extra guardship IN the
BOsphorus, IVES not we'll received by the
Tory jingoes.sn1 it is certain to ps made
much of by their opponents.
Although the Dryad has been ordered
back to Salonics, it is understood in ofic-
isl circles that this /, only g temporary
order to avoid giving any provocation,
which might lead to riottng in Constan-
tinople. The Suitan's ohstinacy IN this
matter is all the more annoying, as ii is
clear that the mowers are being dallIed
with and placed in an undieniied posi-
tion by Ab lu Hamid. who IS evidently
skeptical as e. The longevity OF the Euro
pean concert.
/ The suggeston IS published here today
tha. the su!tau has few oroSers operat-
ing on the different fcreign bourses. and
that he has besn personally mani pulsting
the recent rapid changes OF the political
situation in the eaCt from a speculative
point Of view. If this be true. ABDUL
HAND must have made huge profits
within the past few weeks merely on the
movement Of funds which attended ths
various phases OF the extra guarusbips
question, which has been the great attrac.
ion in politics throughout the week.
VANDERBILT ANNOYED.
". X. Vanderbilt, as lessee of ono OF
Lord Lovats deer forests, refuses to pay
the taxes. At the last meeting Of .hs In
verness county council letter from Van
derbilt was read, in which he oomplaiIsd
that he is continually annoyed bv claim
for occupancy taxes. and that he has re.
solved to pay no attention TO them in the
fUture
Tbs letter created much amusement
In the council. and after the matter had
been discussed it was resolved to take the
usual steps to bring about the recovery
o. the amount OF the taxes claimed to be
due.
Truth. discussing the matter. says it
presumes all delinquent ratepayers are
Continually annoyed until they pay.
WESLEYAN MANUSCRIPTS.
DlagcnalIy opposite liS-famuus Hur-
hills c;meteiy, famous - being the last
resting place Of John Bunysn, Daniel De
Foo and George Fox, stands, at the corner
of Castle street. aid the City road, q plain
brick build ,nK, teuanted by the Ulcers
or the Wesleyan conference. Within its
walls are stored the archives pertaining
to Methedisni, from the date OF May "a,
l73S. when Me ,dism. as history knows
il, WAS born. The vaults Of the bu lding
are stored with = mass of ducumsnts,
letters and unpublished sermons, whioh
for the past century and a half have
slowly but surely besn accum ulating. 1t
has remained for the Rev. Charles H.
Kelley, the secretary of the Wesleyan con-
ference to have made within the past fe "
weeks. most interesting literary discov-
cry, and one which. from the nature Of
the matter unearthed, is also oil special
interest 10 Americans.
Three weeks ago Mr.. xeeley had occas.
ION to visit the vaults in order to oversee
some slieht repairs which were in pro.
gress. This involved the shifting OF a
mum ner of old volumes and the empty.
ing Of cupboard long disused. To his
surprise. one OF these books upon being
opeled, was found to contain numerous
manuscripts of poems ana sermons VIZ T.
ten in a clear and leg,ble hand. Some
thing in the handwriting struck him as
being In some manner familiar. Investi.
CATION follower, and thirteen mors vol.
umes were discovered. These, on being
opened, were found to contain ma u
script WORK of Charles Wesley. Nor was
this all. In the above m sntiUned cup.
board large bundle wrapped in paper
and discolored by age and dampness was
found. This also contained manuscript
poems of Charles Wesley, and what was
more imnortant, the subjects of many of
the latter were the authors diatribe
against the American cDlonists for the
''unh"ly'' war for. independence which
they were then wasing.
1t is of .urse we'll known. that Charles
Wesley was Tory of the most pro-
nounced ahu conservative type. UMlike
his brother John. who had writtsn open
letters to Lord North protesting against
the ,.ca,ryine on OF war between grave
people" Charles could sse nothing that
the colnn,sts deserved for their rebellion
but the awful wrath Of Goa
IL is surmisen that this bundle OF
poems is the one which Charles Wesley
sent to the Rev. Thomas jackson when
ths iar Late, was preparing his life of IVES
peeu pu blished, although the mum her OF
books Of poems published by the brothers
separately or in onjunctiou is sixty.
three.
Prominent among these unpublished
poems is one written in 17s0 and entitled
An erican 1Gdepei dence. AS one reads it
1t IS difficult tn imagine that its meta
rhnr a "a meter were composed by the
same man who also peuned the immortal
and exquisite lyric, Jesus, Lover OF My
Soul:'
The poem, which is of great length,
begins:
"Mnere is old Englands glory fled,
Which shone so br ght in a. es past?
Virtue with our foreiathers died
Anu public faith has breathed its last.
And men who falsitied their trust
Have laid our houses in the uust.
Our rulers have to rebels sued
And given US up into their hands
Rapacious, profliGate and iewd
OBJ dient to our foes com mands.
They servo our cause with frantic zeal,
factors of France and tools OF hell
Then comes another written in 1888.
having for IT'S title, The Testimony Of thv
american Loyalists. 1t commences:
''Outcasis of men BY ull forsook,
10 whom shall we for succor look,
10 whom our grief declare?
Will high or low ircline their ear,
Or with human com pass ion hear
The cry Of our despair?" A,
Still another seems to have been in.
pifed by the declaration of Lord Carle-
on, that the conquest of Amefien by
Ire and sword is not to be accomplished
True is the patriotic word
Ne never can by fire or sword
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