float down and swing round upon the island. This was commenced, but with the old result, the cable was caught in the rocks, and the raft remained stationary. However, she was floating easily, and the poor fellow could rest. Early in the day, for the afternoon was now far advanced, one of the large ferryboats (built expressly for crossing beneath the fall) had been brought up, but had lain idle. This was now put into requisition, and nobly she rode down towards the raft, whilst in breathless silence we all watched her as she dipped at the various falls, and each time recovered herself. I shuddered as she was launched, for I began to see that the man could not be saved by a boat; a boat never could return against a rapid, however well able to float down it. No sooner would her bow come into contact with a fall than it would dip, fill, and spin round, as did the first skiff which was lost. The poor fellow himself was getting impatient visibly so. He untied his lash ings, stood upright upon the raft, eagerly waiting to seize the boat, and jump into her. She had but one more fall to pass, and that fall was situated just above where he stood; she paused at the brink of it, swung down it like lightning, and, as he leaned forward to seize her, she rose on the returning wave, struck him in the chest, and he struggled hopelessly in the overwhelming torrent. The exclamation of horror, for it was not a cry, which burst from the thousands who by this time were assembled, I shall never forget, nor the breathless silence with which we watched him, fighting with the waters as they hurried him along upright, waving both arms above his head. We lost sight of him at intervals, yet again and again he reappeared, and I thought hours must have passed in lieu of one brief half-minute. But the end came at last; once more I saw his arms wildly waved above his head, and, in an instant, the crowd turned from the spot in dead silence. The man was lost. Two of the written orders which were given by the expiring Commune for the acts of incendiarism committed on the capture of Paris are reported to have been discovered. Marshal MacMahon's staff has vouched for their genuineness, and they have been copied by private individuals, who have since been doing a brisk business in publishing facsimiles. The first is on the official note-paper of the War Office, and is signed by Ferré, who had special charge of the petroleum business. It is dated 4 Prairial (May 21), and runs simply thus: "Citoyen Lucas, Faites de suite flamber Finances " [the Ministry of Finance of course intended] "et venez nous retrouver." The individual who carried this document was dressed in civil clothes, and was one of a small party who stood at and were killed behind the barricade between the Madeleine and the Place de la Concorde. The second order was found on the body of a uniformed Communist who was killed in the very last of the fighting on the 28th of May, close to the Mairie of Belleville, by Vinoy's troops. It is not dated, and is on ordinary paper, but is stamped in three places with the official stamp of the Commandant de Place at the Hôtel de Ville, and is signed by Parent, Lieutenant Colonel, who called himself in those latter days chief of staff, and dealt out military executions on deserters from the ramparts with unsparing hand It runs simply,-"Incendiez le quartier de la Bourse, ne craignez pas.' It happens, however, that this quarter was not burned. Both Parent and Ferré have been lately captured, and are among the members of the Commune now awaiting trial. Pall Mall. Now that the "principle of legitimacy" has turned up again in France, it is interesting to look back at the declaration of the Duke of Orleans, "First Prince of the Blood in France,'' which is given in the Times of June 22, 1815. The irony of events is beautifully illustrated in that "solely in the event of my being unfor tunate enough to have my seat on the throne opened to me by the extinction of an illustrious branch," with which Louis Philippe dexterously qualified his aspirations. The document is as follows: Frenchmen,-I am under the necessity of breakiug the silence I had imposed on myself, and since some have had the audacity to connect my name with guilty wishes and perfidious insinuations, my honour dictates to me, in the face of all Europe, a solemn protest which my duties prescribe to me. Freurchmen,- They deceive and mislead you; but those among you especially deceive themselves who arrogate the right of choosing another master, and who outrage by seditious hopes a prince, the most faithful subject of the King of France, Louis XVIII. The irrevocable principle of legitimacy is now the Revolutions have only made its force and importsole guarantee of peace in France and in Europe. ance more strongly felt, consecrated by a warlike league and by a pacified congress of all the princes, this principle will become the invariable rule of reigns and successions. Yes, Frenchmen, I should be proud to govern you, but solely in the event of my being unfortunate enough to have my seat on the throne opened to me by the extinction of an illustrious branch. It would be then only that I should also make known intentions far different, perhaps, from those which some abscribe to me, or which they choose te suggest me. Frenchmen, I address myself to none but a few misled men. Become yourselves again and proclaim yourselves faithful subjects of Louis XVIII., and of his natural heirs with one of your princes and fellow citizens. LOUIS PHILIP, Duke of Orleans. Pall Mall. ROME, June 18. Prince Louvenstein read the address, which, as well as the Pope's reply, related exclusively to German topics. The canon of Breslau presented the Holy Father with an address from the Prince-Bishop of that see and the Catholics of Breslau, who together remitted the Pope an offering of 100,000 francs. Audience was also given to Prince Hohenlohe, envoy extraordinary from the Emperor of Austria, and to Dom Miguel of Portugal General Bertholi-Viale arrived as a special envoy with the congratula THE day before yesterday the Pope received two deputations from England -one from the Roman Catholic clergy and one from the Roman Catholic youth. The clerical deputation comprised Monsignor Capel, R. F. H. Laing, and R. F. M. Wyndham, delegates for Westminster; Chancellor T. R. Brown, delegate for Beverley; Canon O'Sullivan, R. T. Souter, and R. F. Hopkins, delegates for Birmingham; R. P. Mathews, delegate for Hexham and Newcastle; R. W. Brry, and two delegates from Shrews-tions of the King of Italy, and was told by Carbury. Chancellor O'Sullivan read the address, which was written in Latin, and the Pope, after a short pause, made the following reply in French: dinal Antonelli that the Pope's commands would be taken as to his reception, an answer which was followed by a message from the Holy Father to the general, expressing his thanks for I derive a lively consolation from seeing around the King's wishes, but declining to receive an me the clergy of England. I know how much they envoy from him in such a state of affairs. The labour for the glory of God, and how they are united Sacred College brought the Holy Father an in spirit and faith. We could look for no other re-offering of 30,000 francs, and 6,000 francs sult, so long as the English clergy attend upon the Church in the edifying manner they have always done to this moment. I have always cherished the deepest interest for the dissemination of religion in England, and I bless with all my heart your bishops. your clergy, your flocks. I bless England, and all the dominions of England, and I desire that my benediction upon that country shall endure for ever. Canon O'Sullivan presented the Pope with 5,000 francs, and Monsignor Capel made an offering of 25,000 francs. The Holy Father then passed into the salle ducale, to receive the delegates of the Catholic youth, who were headed by three children of the Earl of Gainsboroughthe Hon. Edward Noel, Lady Edith Noel, and Lady Constance Noel. The address, which bore 90,000 signatures, was read by the Hon. Edward Noel, and was accompanied by an offering of 85,000 francs. The Holy Father replied to the address in the following terms: It is with pleasure that I see the young gather round my old age. To children was given the glory of cheering our Lord on the eve of His Passion. I have to partake something of the sufferings of the Passion, and God may require me to endure further sufferings; but I shall remember the children who pray with me. The Passion of our Lord is the foundation of the Church, and all our sorrows are profitable to the Church, because they more firmly unite us. You know the old proverb, "Union is strength," and it is not the young who divide. The youth of Italy, of France, Germany, Holland, and England, adopting this high principle. protest against the spoliation of the Holy See, and it is to their perseverance in this union that we must look to obtain, through their prayers, the deliverance of the Church by God. In the present day there are many who clamour for liberty, but when they speak of liberty for the Church, their design is to make the Church the servant of the State. The Church is to instruct, direct, and govern the Christian world, not to be its servant. And now, from the bottom of my heart, I bless you and your families. The Pope afterwards received the German deputation, composed of 600 delegates and 400 residents and visitors. It was headed by the Princes Louvenstein and Isemburg, and the were presented by the deputation from Holland. There has been a Te Deum at St. John Lateran and a grand service at St. Peter's. Mass was chanted by the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the most admirable order prevailed, though the congregation numbered 20,000 persons, and though great disappointment was felt would be tedious to enumerate the deputations at the absence of the Pope and Cardinals. It which during the last three days have brought the Holy Father offerings of money from every part of the Catholic world. On one day the Pope received more than a million of francs, and the donations are often supplemented by costly plate and ornaments. Among the Sovereigns who who made use of the telegraph for the purpose, sent their congratulations is Queen Victoria, and by the same medium received through Archbishop Manning the Pope's response, blessing the Queen and the Royal Family. The public peace has been now here disturbed, the King's Commissary, Signor Gadla, having notified to the Prince-Syndic that the clerical party was to be at liberty to move in processions and celebrate the Pope's jubilee in whatever manner it pleased; and Prince Pallavicini bas employed the Civic Guard and the National Guard to preserve order. l'all Mall. According to the Gaulois, all is not coleur de rose in the life of the heroic Emperor of Germany, for not only is his Majesty suffering from rheumatism, but he no longer finds at Ems that French colony which was the principal charm of the place. "The formidable voice of the Krupp cannons," says your contemporary, "have driven away those joyous swarms of witty and amiable people." 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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 o of the back volumes of the LIVING AGE, in numbers, price $10. HYMN OF REST. COME all ye weary, worn, and sin-defiled, The day of whose deliverance hath not smiled; Who toil on, sorrow-laden, sore distressed: Come unto Me, and I will give you rest! 'Twas here we met, full field, in laurel glade, When diamond icelets hung from every spray; 'Twas here the oxlip and the primrose pale First stole our senses with their perfume faint; Here nightingales at midnight wooed their mates, Come ye who seek, through all the world of sin, Here first I learnt June shadow leaves to watch, The precious treasure only found within; Come ye for whom the human love hath proved Whose hearts yet hover round some empty nest, Come unto Me, and I will give you rest! 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BY MATTHEW ARNOLD. cannot but attract our notice pre-eminently, shows at present a great and genuine disregard for letters. And perhaps, if there is any other body of men which strikes one, even after looking at our aristocratic class, as being in the sunshine, as exercising great attraction, as admired by the Philistines or middle-class, and as having before it a future still more brilliant than its present, it is the friends of physical science. Now, their revolt against the tyranny of letters is notorious; to deprive letters of the too great place they have hitherto filled in men's estimation, and to substitute other studies for these, is the object of a sort of crusade with a body of people important in itself, but still more important because of the gifted leaders who march at its head. MR. DISRAELI, treating Hellenic things with the scornful negligence natural to a Hebrew, said the other day, in a well-known book, that our aristocratic class, the polite flower of the nation, were truly Hellenic in this respect among others, that they cared nothing for letters and never read. Now there seems to be here some inaccuracy, if we take our standard of what is Hellenic from Hellas at its highest pitch of development; for the latest historian of Greece, Dr. Curtius, tells us that in the Athens of Pericles "reading was universally diffused," and again, that "what more than anything distinguishes the Greeks from the barbarians of ancient and modern times, is the idea of a culture comprehending body and soul in an equal measure." And we have ourselves called our aristocratic class barbarians, which is the contrary of Hellenes, from this very reason: because, with all their fine, fresh appearance, their open-air life, and their love for field-sports, for reading and thinking they have in general no turn. But no doubt Mr. Disraeli was thinking of the original Hellenes of north-western Greece, from among whom the Dorians of Peloponnesus originally came, but who themselves remained in their old seats and did not migrate and develop like their more famous brethren; and of these primitive Hellenes, of Greeks like the Thesprotians and Molossians, it is probably a very just account to give, that they lived in the open air, loved field-sports, and never read. And, explained in this way, Mr. Disraeli's parallel of our aristocratic class with what he somewhat misleadingly calls the old Hellenic race, appears ingenious and sound; to the Molossian Greeks, the Greeks untouched by the development which contra-distinguishes the Hellene from the barbarian, our aristocratic class, as he exhibits it, has a strong resemblance. At any rate, this class, which" that infinite separation for time and for from its great possessions, its beauty and eternity which is involved in rejecting the attractiveness, the admiration felt for it Godhead of the Eternal Son." In the by the Philistines or middle-class, its ac- same way, "to no teaching," says one tual power in the nation, and the still more champion of dogma, “can the appellation considerable destinies to which its polite- of Christian be truly given which does ness, in Mr. Carlyle's opinion, entitles it, not involve the idea of a Personal God;" Religion has always hitherto been a great power in England, and on this account, perhaps, whatever humiliation may be in store for religion in the future, the friends of physical science will not object to our saying, that, after them and the aristocracy, the leaders of the religious world fill a prominent place in the public eye even now, and one cannot help noticing what their opinions and likings are. And it is curious how the feeling of the chief people in the religious world, too, seems to be just now against mere letters, which they slight as the vague and inexact instrument of shallow essayists and magazinewriters, and in favour of dogma, of a scientific and exact presentment of religious things, instead of a literary presentment of them. The distinguished Chancellor of the University of Oxford told us on a public occasion lately, that "religion is no more to be severed from dogma than light from the sun." Every one remembers the Bishops of Winchester and Gloucester making in Convocation the other day their remarkable effort "to do something," as they said, “ for the honour of Our Lord's Godhead," and to mark their sense of |