fested, and that made them so very dear to me, are now my best and truest comforts. Their patient endurance of great sufferings - for it is an agonizing death to die-their simple trust in God through Christ, their thankful, happy, holy disposition shone out brightly throuzh all. Nothing had power to disquiet them: nothing could cast a cloud upon that bright sunny Christian spirit. One allusion to our Lord's sufferings, when they were agonized by thirst and fearful convulsions, one prayer or verse of Scripture always calmed them, always brought that soft beautiful smile on their dear faces. There was not one word of complaint, it was all perfect peace. And this was the closing scene of such lives, which made us often say, Would that we all could render such an account of each day's work as Eiwin and Fisher could honestly do!'. 'I am very glad,' Fisher said, that I was doing my duty. Tell my father that I was in the pat of duty, and he will be so glad. Poor Santa Cruz people!' | 'Ah! my dear boy, you will do more for their conversion by your death than ever we shall by our lives.' I never witnessed anything like it; just when the world and the flesh and the devil are in most cases beginning their work, here was this dear lad as innocent as a child, as holy and devout as an aged matured Christian saint. I need not say that I nursed him day and night with love and reverence. The last night, when I left him for an hour or two at 1 A.M. only to lie down in my clothes by his side, he said faintly (his body being then rigid as a bar of iron), Kiss me, Bishop.' At 4 A.M. he started as if from a trance; he had been wandering a good deal, but all his words even then were of things pure and holy, His eyes met mine, and I saw the consciousness gradually coming back into them. They never stop singing there, sir, do they?'. for his thoughts were with the angels in heaven. Then, after a short time, the last terrible struggle, and then he fell asleep." Ir is no longer the practice to hang red curtains round the rooms occupied by patients with the small-pox, and indeed colour is not supposed generally to exercise any influence on health or disease. Yet, however true this may be as regards animals, there can be little doubt that colour has an important relation to the growth and existence of plants. M. Bert has (says Galignani) addressed an interesting communication on this subject to the Academy of Sciences. Having placed twenty-five kinds of plants in a greenhouse provided with glazed frames of various hues, he watched their progress under the influence of the different lights they received. Milfeil, mullen, violets, cactuses, and houseleeks were among them; besides green cryptogamia, plants strongly tinged with red, such as perillæ, and, lastly, firs. The individuals of each species were of the same size, having been sown at the same time. The glass of the frames was respectively transparent white, dulled white, black, red, yellow, green, and blue; and the whole greenhouse was shielded from the direct rays of the sun. The observations commenced on the 20th of June; on the 24th various seeds were sown which all sprang up at the same time in all situations. On the 15th of July the plants requiring the sun were all dead under the black and green frames, and were very sickly under the other colours, especially the red. The other plants were all declining. The mortality continued to increase, and on the 2nd of August all were dead under the blackened glass, except the cactus, the lemna, firs, and maiden-hair. Under the green glass nothing was left alive except the geraniums, celery, and houseleek, besides those that were not dead under the black; but all were in a bad state. The mortality was much less un der the red glass, and still less under the yellow and blue. On the 20th of August the acotyledons alone were still alive, though perishing under the black and green; and as to the rest, the red had proved more hurtful to them than the yellow and blue. The stalks were much taller, but also much weaker than the red; blue seemed to be the colour least detrimental to the plants- their greenness had remained natural, and even deeper than under the yellow. The plants sown on the 24th of June had all died off very quickly under the black and green, later under the red, and had thriven better under the blue than under the yellow. As for the plants under the white glass, they all continued to live, though less luxuriantly under the dulled than under the transparent glass. CHAOS IN OUR LAW.- Our plan, says the Law Times, of stopping the extension of chaos to our law is by the introduction of harmony into the decisions of our courts. But, so far from approaching to anything like harmony, the decisions seem to be drifting further apart than ever. Within a few days we have had singular illustrations of this in our courts of common law. One case had reference to the validity of a custom prevailing among brokers. We do not propose to discuss the question for the very sufficient reason that it is one upon which Lords Abinger and Wensleydale are at variance, and upon which the Court of Common Pleas, as lately constituted, is equally divided, the Lord Chief Justice and Mr Justice Montague Smith holding one way, and Mr. Justice Willes and Mr. Justice Keating the other. A second case has reference to certain fixtures which, it was contended, were mere movable chattels. The point was very important, inasmuch as certain mills containing some hundreds of looms were mortgaged to bankers, and, on the bankruptcy of the mortgagors, their assignees claimed the looms, which the bankers contended were part of the mill. In the argument it was pointed out that the decision in the Queen's Bench, on which the decision in this case had proceeded, was directly opposed to a previous case in the Exchequer, and also to another case in the Queen's Bench, in which the judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Blackburn; and it was added that the Exchequer decision had been declared right in another case in the Queen's Bench. And the present Lord Chancellor had decided a case as Vice Chancellor in accordance with the decision under appeal. This state of things brings us back to a suggestion, which we have made more than once, that there should be a standing committee of legal and other members of the House of Commons, to whom matters of conflict in legal decisions should be referred. It seems a great hardship that suitors should be made to pay the expense of rendering the confusion in our law worse confounded, without any reasonable certainty of obtaining just decisions in their particular causes. AN action was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench brought against a nephew of the two eminent brothers Julius and Augustus Hare by his sister to recover a portrait of his father - their eller brother-Francis George Hare, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and said to be worth £2,000. The plaintiff claimed as executor, on behalf of creditors, of a Miss Hare, alleged to have been the last owner of the picture. Mr. Francis George Hare lived and died abroad, and was not so generally known as his younger brothers, but he was, it appears, a man of great taste, and in his infancy was a child of remarkable beauty. One of his mother's sisters married the great scholar Sir William Jones. She was acquainted with Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in 1788 he painted for her a portrait of her nephew Francis. In 1835 the picture was engraved, and a copy of the engraving was produced. It was entitled "Infancy." Both copy and engraving displayed all the grace and beauty which marked Sir Joshua's portraits of children. The learned judge, on looking at it, pronounced it truly beautiful. In 1845 it was exhibited at the British Institution, and it is includel and described in Cotton 8 Catalogue of the portraits by Sir Joshua, published in 1857. The jury, after hearing evidence, found for the defendant. espar THE report upon the manufacture of paper in PRAYER OFFERED BY ORDER OF THE ARCH-Japan, which has lately been presented to both BISHOP OF CANTERBURY, FOR THE PRINCE OF Houses of Parliament, is an opportune document. WALES AND THE ROYAL FAMILY."O Al-It may suggest to inventive minds in England mighty God and Merciful Father, to whom some method by which the paper famine with alone belong the issues of life and death, look down from Heaven, we humbly beseech Thee, with the eyes of mercy upon Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, now lying upon the bed of sickness. Thou Father of Mercies and God of All Comfort, our only help in time of need, we fly unto Thee for succour on behalf of Thy servant. Grant, O Lord, that all the sins of his life past may be done away and his soul washed in the precious blood of Christ that it may be pure and without spot before Thee. If it shall be Thy pleasure, prolong, we beseech Thee, his days here on earth, and grant that he may live to Thee, and be an instrument of Thy glory, and a blessing to our Church and nation. Prepare him, O most loving Father, by Thy Holy Spirit, for all that lies before him, in life or in death, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen." Almighty and Everlasting God, who guidest the hearts of Kings, and who hast blest and sanctified the bonds of love to knit together the members of all Christian families, look down, we beseech Thee, on Thy servants Victoria, our Queen, and the Princess of Wales, in this day of their great trouble, and on all the Royal Family. Comfort and support them in their present trial, and grant that their hearts may be stayed only upon Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen." which we are threatened may be mitigated. Consul Annesley says that there are no reasons why the kaji shrub- -a plant resembling a willow in appearance and habits should not be introduced into this country; and he states that paper may be made from its bark, which is of very rapid growth, at a far cheaper rate than from rags. But the truth is, we depend upon rags for our paper only to a certain degree. A great deal of our paper is now manufactured out of other materials, and especially from " to" or Spanish grass, of which no fewer than 150,000 tons were last year imported into England. In seven years its price has risen from 9s. to £10 per ton, and now that its use has become general, we are told that the supply will very soon altogether fail. It appears that the proprietors of coast-lands in Spain, where alone the plant flourishes, in their eagerness to grow rich have well-nigh exterminated the source of their wealth. Instead of mowing the grass, it has been pulled up by the roots, and it is doubted whether all Spain can now furnish us with a single year's ordinary supply. Pall Mall Budget. NUMBERS OF THE LIVING AGE WANTED. The publishers are in want of Nos. 1179 and 1180 (dated respectively Jan. 5th and Jan. 12th, 1867) of THE LIVING AGE. To subscribers, or others, who will do us the favor to send us either or both of those numbers, we will return an equivalent, either in our publications or in cash, until our wants are supplied. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY LITTELL & GAY, BOSTON. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. FOR EIGHT DOLLARS, remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually for warded for a year, free of postage. But we do not prepay postage on less than a year, nor where we have to pay commission for forwarding the money. Price of the First Series, in Cloth, 36 volumes, 90 dollars. Any Volume Bound, 3 dollars; Unbound, 2 dollars. The sets, or volumes, will be sent at the expense of the publishers. PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. For 5 new subscribers ($40.), a sixth copy; or a set of HORNE'S INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE, unabridged, in 4 large volumes, cloth, price $10; or any 5 of the back volumes of the LIVING AGE, in numbers, price $10. Unless the gods smile, human toil is vain. And this none better knew than Chersiphron, With patient labour he had placed at last. The problem hunted through his feverish thoughts, Till in his dark despair he longed for Death, And threatened his own life with his own hand. From The Contemporary Review. 66 Jansenism" as meaning "attaching too THE SECULAR STUDIES OF THE CLERGY. little importance to the forms and ceremo"I hold every man to be a debtor to his profes-nies observed by the Church," it would sion; from the which, as men of course do seek to surely seem to be time to speak up for theological study. receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto." BACON.- Maxims of the Law. But in a matter of this kind common sense may be trusted to make its way in THE fact that theology ought, as a mat- the long-run. We have learnt, by no ter of course, to make a part of the men- means too quickly, that soldiers and lawtal training of clergymen is widely, though |yers both need some exact professional not universally, acknowledged; but there training before being permitted to lead are very many schemes, from the lists of troops and conduct suits; and we may be divinity schools and examining chaplains very certain that the same notion will at to the more elaborate recommendations last obtain recognition in the case of reof formal treatises, to guide the young ligious teachers. I have thus no fear upon ecclesiastic in the selection of books. this head. I confess, however, to a very strong, and, as it seems to me, well-founded apprehension about the future general training of the English clergy, which looks as though on the brink of graver perils than the existing ones. No doubt, theological study in England is in a highly unsa.isfactory condition, and can hardly be said even to exist. Not any serial, magazine, or journal devoted solely to this vast and interesting pursuit, whatever may have been its school, has succeeded in maintaining a footing. If What I mean is this. Up to the present not subsidized it has died; if subsidized, day the great bulk of the Anglican clergy it lingers on as a feeble exotic, incapable has been drawn from the Universities, and of vigorous continuance and propagation. the tide of literates which flowed in a few That which passes here for scientific years ago has for the time somewhat retheology at the present day is either mi- ceded. And however little the average nute textual criticism, or vague, pietistic declamation, both of them holding a certain position in the field of divinity, but a merely subordinate and ancillary one, no more to be confounded with the scope of the main subject than a dissertation on enclitics, or a panegyric of Homer, can be substituted for an intelligent grasp of the moral, religious, political, and mental development of ancient Greece. pass-man may have availed himself of his opportunities of culture, yet he must needs have been surrounded for several years of his life with an intellectual atmosphere, which cannot but influence his subsequent tastes and habits, and produce some, at least, of the effects of higher education. Now, on the other hand, one danger has come, and another is near. The steady change, amounting to a practical revoluAnd the remarkable inexactness of tion, which has affected our public schools thought and paucity of information as to and Universities, making athletics and the very terminology of divinity prevalent physical training the main subject of amongst the great mass of the educated study, while science and literature are republic, clerical and lay; the current lack legated to the background, and pursued, it of knowledge as to its axioms, definitions, would seem, even by their few votaries, as and postulates; nay, as to its broadest his- a means of pecuniary gain or of official adtorical facts, might seem to make the dis-vancement, rather than from any true love cussion of the theological studies of the of learning, makes it quite possible for a clergy a matter of much more pressing young man of our day to attain the deimportance than that which I have adopted gree of Master of Arts with a more slenas my theme. der stock of knowledge, literary or scientific, than might fairly be looked for from When a journal of such high position as the Times can air its own profound ignorance, and presume on that of the public so far as to define the well-known term * Times, October 5, 1871, p. 8, foot-note to first column. |