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KINGSLEY AND DREW. Mr. Kingsley has publ...
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THE APPROACHING TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN...
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upon the parish officers of St . Peter ' s le Bailey , where the hall is situated . It is expected in the present case the college authorities will adopt similar proceedings . The ratepayers are determined to try the question as to the liability of the colleges to contribute to the support of the poor of Oxford . Dr . Merle d'Aubigne" has left London , and the Metropolitan Church Reform association has sent an address to him at Geneva , upon the late conduct of the . Bishop of London and others , towards the foreign evangelical pastors . They " explicitly disclaim the sectarianism that has declined to welcome to the pulpits of our . national Church the seripturally ordained pastors of other branches of the one universal Church ; " and they are assured that he will not suppose " this unbrotherly reception resulted from the sentiments of the general body of protestants in
Great Britain , but from a misguided section of the clergy having exercised an undue influence upon their diocesan , thus displaying a jealousy which too closely approximates to that exclusive arrogance of the papacy ; " they daringly assert that it is their " conviction that the majority of protestant Christians in the United Kingdom , both episcopalian and presbyterian , repudiate ^ and regret the inhibition from the pulpits of our national Church unhappily issued by the Bishop of London , at the instigation of a portion of his clergy but too notorious for their tractarian imbecilities and Romish tendencies ; " and , finally , they " specially protest against the illiberal sectarianism exhibited towards yourself , the Reverend M . Roger , and the Reverend M . Armand de Lille . " " What will the Bishop of London say to this ? It is flat rebellion ! the of
It not ^ infrequently happens that burial the dead—a ceremony which ought to control and calm all passions—is the occasion of a serious riot . Something of this kind occurred the other day at St . Matthew's , Bethnal-green . We gather the facts from the ex-parte statement of the Reverend Latimer Neville , who asked the advice of Mr . Hammill , the magistrate , upon the conduct of the policeman referred to . The body of an Irish labourer was borne to the churchyard for burial , followed as usual by multitudes of his countrymen . Mr . Neville had scarcely begun reading the appointed service , " when a disgraceful uproar broke out amongst the assemblage , some of whom loudly called upon him to desist , with an intimation that the deceased was a Catholic , and that they would not permit him to proceed , unless the service were performed according to the rites of that religion . " He persisted , but his voice was " drowned in the clamour of the mob . " Not
satisfied with " clamour , a person named Egan suddenly rushed at Mr . Neville , and , " after a violent blow at him , which he fortunately avoided , made a grasp at his collar with such force and handled him so roughly that the back part of his surplice was rent asunder . A scene of indescribable Tiot and confusion ensued , in the course of which one of the gravediggers who came to his assistance , was also maltreated by the infuriated crowd , whose gross misconduct at length attracted the notice of a policeman in the street , to whom Egan was pointed out as the principal instigator of the disturbance . "
How the matter ended as to the disputed point—the reading of a Protestant burial service over a dead Catholic—Mr . Neville does not inform us ; but he proceeded to complain that the policeman contented himself with taking the name and address of the said Egan , and letting that individual disappear . The name and address were fictitious ; and Mr . Neville wanted to know how he could punish the policeman for neglect of duty . Mr . Hammill referred him to the inspector . We do not draw attention to this disgraceful affair for the purpose of noticing the policeman ' s share in the transaction ; but it struck us that there ought to be something done to prevent the occurrence of such scenes , and that when we are blazing hot against an imaginary Papal aggression , we ought not to be perpetrating Protestant aggressions upon the tendercst of human feelings—respect for the dead .
Father -Gavazzi ami Father Newman have been lecturing at Northampton and Birmingham respectively , the first on the corruptions of Koine and the Papal aggression , the second on the state of Catholicism in England . The mayor presided at Gavazzi a oration , the bishop sent an excuse . The Reverend Mr . Wilberforce and the Reverend Mr . Manning were present at Mr . Newman ' s lecture . Father ( Javazzi said what he had to Bay in his peculiar graceful and energetic style ; Father Newman sat and read his predications . Father Gavazzi denounced the Papal Christianity , and Father Newman denounced Anglo-Saxon Protestantism .
Dr . Wareing , the Roman Catholic Bishop orNorthainp . ton , has published the following epistle , at once ludicrously vapid and malignant : —• " Sensible inhabitants , " Buys the bishop , " a vagabond Frenchman , who was lately kicked out of Aylesbury , and who has been for Home weeks pant parading his mustaches in this town , to satisfy his own spite , thought well to procure an exhibition of Father Gavuzzi , an Italian Priest , whom he brought down from London , to inveigh against the corruptions of the Church of Rome , at Northampton . The mayor of the town took the chair ; Gava / . zi , with a stranger or two , some preachers of the townand the little Frenchman , appeared on the
plat-, form ; and the room was filled with a largo number of decently dressed men and women of the town und neighbourhood . The performance commenced , the father rose , and with / Stentorian lunga and violent gesticulations , poured forth a torrent of eloquent but unintelligiblo Italian . After an hour and a half of moat- furioun haramriie one whole Hentence of which was not under-¦ tood by one in fifty of the audience , a vote of thanks to the pious Father was proposed and seconded ; and the ueinbly broke up , highly delighted edineu , and m-Btructed by what they had Been . Men of Northampton , are those ucenea to bo repeated ? Are the amenities of life and tho comfort of society to bo destroyed amongst
us , by every foreign harlequin , brought here by bigots , to make this town a hot-bed of intolerance , and to sow discord and religious hate among brethren ? I believe and trust that you will answer NO ! " I am , your friend and fellow-townsman , « 'H William Ware ing . " Northampton , July 4 , 1851 . " We have to notice also the meeting of the Board of the Tithe Redemption Trust on Wednesday , Lord John Manners , M . P ., in the chair . Numerous fresh cases requesting information and advice , from parishes where the tithes are alienated , were gone into , some of which seemed to reauire chiefly the energy of the incumbents
themselves and their friends to apply for aid to the trustees of olerical and other corporations , in whom the power over the alienated tithes of their parishes is vested ; others were cases in which pecuniary assistance from the trust might be obtained , did the present . state of the society ' s funds admit of its immediately undertaking any fresh cases . A hope was expressed that the parties who are now taking an active part . in the matter of " Church extension , " would direct their attention to the vast amount of lay and clerical" tithes alienated from the Church , as the most available and most legitimate means of endowment for the new churches they are proposing to build .
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Kingsley And Drew. Mr. Kingsley Has Publ...
KINGSLEY AND DREW . Mr . Kingsley has published the sermon which he delivered in the District Church of St . John , Charlotte-street ; and with it , by way of preface , he has printed what may be accepted , we presume , as an authentic account of the conduct of Mr . Drew and himself : — "As soon as the blessing had been pronounced , the clergyman of that church rose in the reading-desk , and declared his belief that the doctrine of a great part of the discourse was untrue . He added , that he had been led
to suppose that the sermon would have an entirely dif * ferent character . Many who heard this statement very naturally believed that Mr . Kingsley and some of his friends had succeeded , by false pretences , in obtaining leave to preach in Mr ; Drew ' s pulpit , and that they had been admitted to that privilege under solemn guarantees , which one of them had violated . A gentleman who did not entertain this opinion himself , but who found it prevailing among a great many of his acquaintances , applied to Mr . Maurice to explain the facts of the case , so far as he knew them . The following letter was received in answer to this request : —
3 T" ' My dear Sir , —About , four months ago , Mr . Drew , requested me to take part in a course of Lectures to be delivered in his Church on certain Sunday evenings in the months of June and July . He said at the same time that he had been reading Mr . Kingsley ' s books with the greatest interest , and that he earnestly desired to secure him as one of the lecturers . I promised that I would mention the subject to him , though I knew that he rarely came to London , and seldom preached except in his own parish . Mr . Drew wrote to me a short time before Easter , expressing his wish that some arrangement should be made immediately respecting the Lectures , as he was leaving town . I happened to be spendidg a day . or two with Mr . Kingsley when the letter reached inconvenience to him
me . He agreed , though with some - self , that he wculd preach a sermon on the " Message of the Church to the Labouring Man . " I suggested the subject to him . Mr . Drew intimated the most cordial approval of it . Neither Mr . Kingsley nor I told him what we intendedito say in our sermons . It would have been ridiculous to do so . He had asked us not only with a previous knowledge of our published writings , but expretssly because he had that knowledge . Mr . Kingsley says he should have been willing to show Mr . Drew his manuscript if he had wished it , and to have erased any passages to which he objected ; so strong is his feeling that a clergyman should not deliver in another man ' s pulpit even what he would think right in his own , if it clashed witli the feelings and convictions of the person who
invited him . I do not agree with him . I would not have altered or omitted a single line in a sermon of mine at Mr . Drew ' s request . He might ask me to preach or not , as he liked . If he chose to do it , he must submit to hear what it seemed to me right , as a minister of God , to apeak . But be that as itmay , Ipledgeyou my word that no questions were asked , and no guarantees were given . Mr Kingsley took precisely that view of the " Message of the Church to the Labouiing Man" which every reader of hia books would have expected him to take . As you were present on Sunday evening last , you know that it was so . Those who were not present will , I hope , soon have an opportunity of judging for themselves , since the sermon will be published exactly as it was preached . " ' Very truly yours , " ' F . D . Mauhioh . ' " ' 21 , Queen ' s square , July 2 / 3 , 1851 . '
" The readers of this sermon will bo kind enough to remember that it has not been corrected by the writer ; that he has not availed himself of the privilege which every author would wish to claim , of removing errors in composition , or of expressing sentiments which he finds his hearers had misunderstood in different words . llin friends took the manuscript from him as booh it had been preached . They wero determined that the awful charge , which is implied in th « assertion by a fvllowclergymau , tlmt he believed Mr . Kingsley to have uttered
false doctrine , should bo submitted to a fair trial . They believed that whatever mistakes Mr . Kingsley may have made in particular statements , he him shown in this sermon that the Church has a voico for tho poor men of this lund , which will at last reach them in spite of the feebleness of those who deliver it , in spite of the gross and terrible scandals which tho division * of tho clergy and their contradictions of each other must necessarily occasion . Those who observed the solemnity of Mr . Kingsley ' B manner while he was delivering hia sermon ,
still more when he was praying with the congregation and blessing them , will believe that the thought of having unwittingly made himself a stumbling-block to his fellow men , was infinitely more bitter to him than any mere personal insult which he was called to endure . "
The Approaching Total Eclipse Of The Sun...
THE APPROACHING TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN . ¦ Mr . Hind has written a long and highly interesting letter to the Times on this subject , from which -wl extract the following facts : — " The last total eclipse of the sun visible in London took place in April , 1715 , and there will be no other till the morning of August 19 , 1887 . The eclipse of the pre . sent year will take place on the 28 th of July , and be total in the southern parts of Norway and Sweden , in northern Prussia , Poland , and Russia ; the principal places within the zone covered by the moon ' s shadow being Christiana , Bergen , the well-known port of Gothenburg , Carlskroaa , Dantsic , Konigsberg , and Warsaw . The eclipse will be more or less visible to the whole of North America , the North Atlantic Ocean down to the 30 th degree of latitude , the whole of Europe , and the northern part of Africa . "
The course of the eclipBe will commence on the N . W . coast of America , cross the Rock y Mountains to the Slave Lake , which will be in entire darkness about half-past one , p . m ., on the 28 th , thence into Greenland , where itarrives at 2 h . 5 m ., passing north of Iceland , and reaching the coast of Norway , about 40 miles north of Bergen , the total ecjipse extending at this time over a zone 150 miles broad . Its after course lies in the direction of the town of Elbing , near the coast of Prussia , between Dantsie and Konigsberg , thence across the south-west of Russia , near Kobrin , in the province of Grodno , Jitomir , and Ivanovka , to the Sea of Azov , which will b e involved in darkness about Qh . p . m . local time , while the sun is yet at a considerable altitude in the heavens .
Great preparations have been made for securing proper observations . English , French , and Austrian astronomers will locate themselves at various points in Sweden and Norway . The Russian Government have equipped six stations , with three observers at each ; and the Prussian astronomers will arrange themselves at different places near the shores of the Baltic . If the weather prove favourable , we may expect observations " along the whole course of the moon ' s shadow , from the western coast of Norway where it enters Europe , to the sea of Azov . The corona and red flames are the most conspicuous and remarkable ccelestial phenomena during a total eclipse of the sun . The corona is thus described : —
"As soon as the total eclipse has co mmenced , or , according to some accounts , a few seconds before the narrow solar crescent has vanished , a very beautiful appearance presents itself , in the form of a luminous corona , or border of light , which surrounds the sun and moon during the continuance of the total eclipse , and disappears within a few seconds of the time when the first returning ray is seen . It has been described as composed of a circular zone conti guous to the dark border of the moon , and of a second zone , leas luminous , contiguous to the first . But the greater number of . observers of the eclipse of July , 1842 , do not allude to any second zone of light further distant from the moon ' s limb than the brighter one , the intensity of
light appearing to them"to diminish very gradually from the dark border of the moon until it assimilated itself with the general ground colour of the heavens . Other observers , compare it to the " glory " with which painters surround the heads of saints , divergent rays of light streaming off from the moon ' s limb in every direction . Others , again .. while giving the corona the same general form ae before , refer to certain rays , or aigrettes , as the French term them , extending beyond the aureola . The brightness of the corona varies greatly at different stations during the same eclipse , according to atmospheric conditions , and possibly with some regard to the altitude of the sun and moon above the horizon . In the total eclipse of July , 1842 , the light v * as so intensely
brilliant at Lipesk , in Itussia , that the eye supported it with difficulty , and many persona doubted if the sun had really vanished . Yet in France und Italy its brightness was far inferior ; the light was not strong enoug h to throw a perceptible shadow ; and one observer at Padua estimated its intensity to be to that of the full moon as 1 to 7 . As might be expected , there is a similar want of accordance with regard to the colour of the luminosity forming' the corona . In 1842 some persons , who were most favourably situated and under the beet atmosp heric conditions , considered it perfectly white without theslightest tinge of colour during its continuance . At Milan , it was straw-coloured , and the astronomers of the Observatory at Paris , who went to the South of France to make their observations , agree in giving it a yellowish
tinge . On previous occasions it has been described »» pearl , or peach-coloured , reddish , golden yellow , or presenting the hues of the rainbow . In 1700 it was like a ring of gold at Nureinburg . The breadth has aluo been variously estimated . At Perpignan , in 1842 , the light of the corona could bo traced to a distance equal to onethird of tho moon ' s apparent diameter from her border . At Lipctik , where it was bo advantageously viewed , aoine of the rays attained a distance of aix or eight lunar diameters . Tho Astronomer Royal observing at yi <» Superga , near Turin , assigned the corona an ungulor dimension of only one-eighth of the hiooii ' b apparent breudth . Homo observers have drawn attention t < * an apparent flickering and whirling motion of the corona , resembling tho cflects produced by oertaln kind * of i" ° -
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12071851/page/8/
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