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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 scripturally ordained pastors of other branches of the one universal Church ; " and they are assured that he will n ot suppose " this unbrotherly reception resulted from the sentiments of the general body of protestants in
Gjeat 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 insti gation of a portion of his clergy but too notoriou 3 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 !
It not unfrequently happens that the burial of 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 j 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 riot and confusion ensued , in the course of which one of the gravedi ^ gers 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 Ei ? an 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 docs 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 . Ilammiil 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 tenueiest of human feelings—respect for the dead .
rather Cavazzi and Father Newman have been lecturing at Northampton and Birmingham respectively , the first on the corruptions of Home and the Papal aggression , the second on the state of Catholicism in England . The mayor presided at Oavazzi a oration , the bishop sent an excuse . The Reverend Mr . Wilberforce and tlie Reverend Mr . Manning were present at Mr . Newman ' s lecture . Father Guvazzi said what he had to say in hi . s peculiar graceful mid energotic Htyle ; Father Newman Hat and read hi : ) predications . Father Oavazzi denounced the Papal Christianity , and Father Newman denounced Anglo-Saxon Protestantism . Dr . Wareing , the Roman Catholic Hi . shop of Northamp . ton , has published the following epistle , at once ludicrously vapid and malignant : —¦
" ( Sensible inhabitants , " Hays the bishop , " a vagabond Frenchman , who wan lately kicked out , of Aylesbury , and who has been for home weeks patst parading his mustaches in this town , to satisfy his own spile , thought well to procure an exhibition of Father Oavazzi , 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 ; Oavazzi , with a stranger or two , some preachers of the town , and tin ; little Frenchman , appeared oil the platform ; and the room was filled with a lurge number of decently dressed men and women of the town and neighbourhood . The performance commenced , the father rose , nnd with Stentorian lum > n and violent gesticulations , poured forth a torrent of eloquent ! but uitintetliyiblc Italian . After an hour and a half of most , furious hurangue , one whole Hcntenoe of which was not undcrntood by one in fifty of the audience , n vote of thanks to the pious Father was proposed and seconded ; and the a »« einbly broke up , highly delighted , edified , nnd instructed by what they hud Been . Men of Northampton , ore thooe scenes to bo repeated ? Are the amenities of life and the comfort of ooclpty to bo destroyed amongst
us , by evety 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 Wake 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 require chiefly the energy of the incumbents .
themselves and their friends to apply for aid to the trustees of clerical 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 published the sermon which he delivered in the District Church of St . John , Char-I lotte-street ; and with , it , by way of preface , he has I printed what may be accepted , we presume , as an authentic account of the conduct of Mr . Drew and j himself : — I " 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 different 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 : —
„ . " '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
me . lie agreed , though with some inconvenience to himself , that he wculd preach a sermon on the " Message of the C . mrch to the Labouring Man . " I suggested the subj ect to him . Mr . Drew intimated the most cordial approval of it . Neither Mr . Kingsley nor I told him what we intended . to 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 expressly 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 Bhould not deliver in another man ' s pulpit even what lie would think right in his own , if it clashed with 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 . lie 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 Bpeak . IJutbe that as it may , I pledgeyou 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 Lnbouiing Man " which every reader of his 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 , 1 hope , soon have an opportunity of judging for themselves , since the sermon will be published exactly as it was preached . " ' Very truly yours , " ' F . J ) . Maukiob . '" 21 , Queen ' s square , July 2 / 5 , 1851 . '
' I . lie readers of this sermon will be kind enough fo 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 finda bis hearers had misunderstood in diil ' .-rent words . His friends took the manuscript from , him as soon it had been preached . They were determined that the awful charge , which in implied in the assertion Ity a felloweleigyman , that he believed Mr . Kingsley to have uttered false doctrine
, Bhould be submitted to a fair trial . They believed that whatever mistakes Mr . Kinsley may have made in particular statements , he has shown in this sermon that th « Church has a voice for the poor men of this land , which will at last reach them in spite of the feebleness of those who deliver it , in spite of the ltohh and terrible HeundalH which the divisions of the clergy and their contradictions Of each other must necessarily occasion . Those who observed the solemnity of Mr Cingaley ' a manner while ho wa « delivering his sermon '
still more when he was Maying with the conffre ^ tJT * , and blessing them , will believe that the thought of & « £ « unwittingly made himself a stumbling-block to his toU men , was infinitely more bitter to him than anv m « personal insult which he was called to endure "
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THE APPROACHING TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE Mr . Hind has written a long and highly interestin e letter to the Times on this subject , from -which we extract the following facts :- — " The last total eclipse © f the sun visible in London took place in April , 17 15 , and there will be no other till the morning of August 19 , 1887 . The eclipse of the Dre sent year will take place on the 28 th of July , and he 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 ' shad ow being Christiana , Bergen , the well-known port of Gothenburg , Carlskrona , 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 tho northern part of Africa . " ^ ' Qe The course of the eclipse will commence on the N . W . coast of America , cross the Rocky Mountains to the Slave Lake , which will be in entire darkness [ about half-past one , p . m ., on the 28 th , thenc e into Greenland , where it arrives a * 2 h . 5 m ., passing north of Iceland , and reaching the coast of Norway , about 40 miles north of Bergen , the total eclipse 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 l > antsic 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 be involved in darkness about 6 h . 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 Austria n 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 coelestial phamomena during a total eclipse of the sun . The corona is thus described : —
"As soon as the total eclipse has commenced , 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 contiguous to the dark border of the moon , and of a second zone , less 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 as 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 possibl y with some regard to the altitude
of the sun and moon above the horizon . In the total eclipse of July , 1842 , the light was so intensely brilliant at Lipesk , in llussia , that the eye supported it with difficulty , and many persons doubted if the sun had really vanished . Yet in France and Italy its brightness was far inferior ; the light was not strong enough to throw a perceptible shadow ; and one observer at Padua estimated its intensity to be to that of the full moon as I to 7 . As might be expected , there is a similar want of £ ?*? . ! ^ ™* ?«• £ ° * ° colour * the luminosity forming the 1812
corona . In some persona , who were most favourably situated and under the best atmospheric conditions , considered it perfectly white without tho slightest tinge of colour during its continuance . Aft Milan , U was straw-coloured , and the astronomer ,, of the Observatory at 1 ' ans , who went to the South of France to make their observations , agree in giving it a yellowish tinge . Uu previous occasions it has been described us pearl , or peach-coloured , reddish , golden yellow , or presenting the hi , ™ of the rainbow . In 1700 it was like a nng «> i gold at JN ui em burg . The breadth has also been
variously estimated . At Perpignan , in 1842 , the light of tlio corona could be traced to a distance equal to onetninl of the moon ' s apparent diameter from her border . 7 "' l » e » k , where it was bo advantageously viewod , some of the raya attained a dirttnnce of eix or uight lunar ammeters . The Astronomer Koyal observing ait the Huperga , near Turin , assigned the corona an angular dimension of only one-eighth of the moon ' appwen . oruudth . Some obsvrvcru have drawn attention to an apparent flickering and whirling motion of the corona , trembling tho effeoU produced by certain kinds of fire-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1891/page/8/
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