Intelligence-Anniversaries, Re-opening. 307 after a sermon from Exodus xii. 26, by | style.) 'And now my tongue is loosed: the pastor. PETERBOROUGH. On Lord's day, July 7th, five persons were baptized in the General Baptist Chapel, and three of them were received into the church; the other two were connected-one with the Independents, and one with the Methodists. LOUGHBOROUGH, Baxter gate. On Lord's day, July 7th, eight persons were baptized, the third and youngest of the Pastor's sons were of the number. The day was one of unusual interest and impressiveness, and the service of the Lord's supper was tender and solemn in an extraordinary degree. LEEDS, Call-lane Recently three friends have been baptized. ANNIVERSARIES. HUGGLESCOTE-On Lord's-day, May 19th, two sermons were preached on behalf of the Baptist Sabbath and Day Schools, by Rev. J. Lewitt, of Nottingham. The congregations were large, and the collections £34. BROUGHTON.-On Sunday, June 2nd, 1861, the Rev. F. Winks preached us two excellent sermous, one in the afternoon from Isaiah xl. 11, and in the evening from Isaiah xxxii. 2. Congregations good though not large; collections £2 18s. 10d. On the following day we had our annual tea meeting, when about one hundred sat down. After tea the meeting was addressed by Messrs. F. Mantle, J. Wilson, T. Worthington, and J. F. Winks, The latter gentleman, on rising to address the meeting, said, I feel that I cannot talk much; my tongue is tied, and the only way to loosen it will be to make up the deficiency of the collection. I wonder what you all came to chapel for last night? you did not come to give to support the school: that is quite plain. I am a man of business, and must have the money got.' Two friends promised 2s. 6d. each, and onward the promises went till £1 12s. 14d. was raised. 'Now,' said Mr. W., let us sing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." I will talk to you an hour if you like.' During the next few days 14s. 6d. was given; proceeds of tea meeting, 168. 11d., making a total of £6 2. 5d. (more than £2 over last year. MARCH, Cambridgeshire.- Sermons in connection with the fifty-third anniversary of our Sunday school were preached by our pastor, on Sunday, June 30th; and on the following Tuesday, the annual festival was celebrated under the spacious tent of Potto Brown, Esq. The day being fine, a large assemblage of the children and the friends of the school came together. From the collections and proceeds of the tea a liberal sum was realized. The Revs. Sellors, of Richmond College; T.Watts, S. Fairley, S. Allsop, E. Forman, and T.T. Wilson, gave addresses. In his report the superintendent announced the pleasing circumstance, that of the additions to the church during the year a considerable number had been from the school. We are grateful to our Lord for these early trophies of divine grace. LEEDS, Call lane.- -Efforts are making for re-frouting this place, which is the oldest Nonconformist chapel in the town of Leeds, having been built in the year 1691. On Lord'sday, July 14th, two excellent sermons were preached, morning and evening, by the Rev. Jabez Statterd, superintendent of the Leeds Baptist Mission to the Unconverted. On Monday, the 15th, a tea meeting was held, after which there was a public meeting, the Rev. J. Tunicliffe in the chair, when addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. Stutterd and Messrs. Love (Wesleyan), Taylor, Wright, Watson, and Smith, secretary of the building fund. Somewhere about £200 have been realized. If any friends in the Connexion feel desirous of helping us a little, any donations sent to the Rev. J. Tunicliffe will be thankfully received and duly acknowledged. Re-opening Services.The General Baptist chapel in Clarencestreet, Portsea, having undergone (which was sung in real old hundred certain needful repairs and alterations, involving an outlay of £95, and £150 | ing was held; addresses were delivered of the chapel debt being called in, the church resolved that no part of the money should be borrowed. A subseription was at once started. Reopening services were held on Lord'sday, July 7th, and sermons were preached by the minister, Rev. E. H. Burton, and Rev. J. S. Matson, of Havant. On Thursday, July 11th, Dr. Burns, of London, preached. The proceeds of these services, added to the profits of the tea meeting held in the preceding week, amounted to about £34 108., which together with the subscriptions of the members and friends of the church, gave a total of more than £140. MISCELLANEOUS. MACCLESFIELD-On Sunday, May 5th, 1861, a sermon was preached on behalf of our Foreign Mission by our esteemed pastor, Rev. J. Maden, and on Tuesday evening, May 7th, we held our Public Missionary Meeting D. Holland, Esq., in the chair. When addresses were delivered by the Revs. I. Stubbins, G. B. Kidd, S. W. Mc'All, M. A., E. D. Green, J. Gutterige, E. Jones, and J. Maden. Collections and subscriptions amounted to £14 10s. FLEET. Special Jubilee Sabbathschool Festival.-The Jubilee of the General Baptist School at Fleet was celebrated on Wednesday, July 10th. A prayer meeting was held at nine in the morning. At half-past ten, the Rev. R. Kenney, of Burton-on-Trent, preached the jubilee sermon. It was well adapted to the occasion. A procession was then formed of the Fleet and Gedney Broad-gate schools, and marched through the village to the large marquee, where a substantial dinner was gratuitously provided. The scholars number about 200. About 140 friends dined with them. Immediately after, a short pithy address was given by the Rev. T. Burrass, of Peterborough, from 'Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost.' At three, a sermon was preached by Rev. H. Ashbery, of Sheffield, to a large audi ence. ་ An excellent tea was provided, to which more than 800 friends sai down. In the evening, a public meet by Revs. R. Kenney, H. Ashbery, T. Barrass, G. Hester, J. Cotton, E. Stenson, Rev. F. Chamberlain, presiding. A historical and statistical report of the school of considerable interest was read, from which it appears that more than 2,000 children have been taught in the school, a great number of whom had become members of Christian churches. Many have been and some are still engaged in proclaiming salvation to dying men in this and foreign countries. hoped that these services, which produced so much interest in the neighbourhood, will be attended with lasting benefits to this and future generations. E. R. KEMP, Secretary. It is REV. D. M. GRAHAM, AND MR. BALME. -A private letter has been received from our esteemed brother Graham. His answer to the charges made by Mr. Balme, are just what every one who knows Mr. Graham anticipated they would be-perfectly satisfactory. We are not at liberty at present to publish the particulars of the reply. TORTURES OF A WICKED CONSCIENCE. A convict in Van Diemen's Land, after quarrelling with one of the overseers, brutally murdered him. He immediately escaped, with a few clothes and a gun, to the wild solitude of the bush. The murderer lived for some time like a savage, occasionally making his appearance, armed to the teeth, at various huts, where he peremptorily demanded food. The convict's mind ultimately succumbed to the severe mental agony and physical distress to which it was exposed, and he became a dangerous lunatic. He was eventually perceived to be under the dominion of a terrible hallucination. He imagined that he was constantly being pursued by the gashly phantom of his murdered victim. He was observed to rush frantically from tree to tree, bush to bush, house to house, from one part of the district to another, endeavouring to fly (like an animal hunted to death by ferocious bloodhounds) from the clutches of some persons constantly in his wake, and steadily tracking his path. The maniac eventually surrendered himself into the hands of the police, alleging that annihilation was Intelligence-Miscellaneous. preferable to the agony of mind which he suffered. In fact, (although insane) he prayed earnestly for death at the hands of the public executioner, in order to extricate himself from the spectral image that was never absent from bis mind!-Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Mind. By Dr. Forbes Winslow. PAINFUL CASE OF INSANITY. A gentleman, on the point of marriage, left his intended bride for a short time. He usually travelled in the stage coach to the place of her abode. The last journey he took from her was the last of his life. Anxiously expecting his return, she went to meet the vehicle. An old friend announced to her the death of her lover. She uttered an involuntary scream and piteous exclamation, He is dead!' From that fatal moment, for fifty years, has this unfortunate female daily, in all seasons, traversed the distance of many miles to the spot where she expected her future husband to alight from the coach, uttering in a plaintive tone, 'He is not come yet-I will return to morrow!-Ibid. MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.-A WesJeyan has recently made a donation of £1000 in grateful acknowledgment of the promptitude and generosity with which the British and Foreign Bible Society has, from time to time, assisted the Wesleyan Missionary Society in promoting translations, and in supplying copies of the Scriptures to Wesleyan Mission stations throughout the world. Another donation of £1000 has been made by a Wesleyan, for the purpose of enabling the British and Foreign Bible Society to extend its operations in the promising fields of Italy and Russia, or to increase its efforts in China and Polynesia. THE ETIQUETTE of the SeraGLIO.On the Sultan's return to the seraglio, after the recent ceremony of girding on the sword, there was collected nearly a thousand Turkish, Armenian, and other native ladies, and by the courtesy of one of these I am enabled to describe what took place within these male-forbidden precincts. Such a company, as may be supposed, required disciplinary attention; and 309 effectively to supply this a couple of lady police aided the attendant posse of eunuchs in maintaining order throughout the salons. Ices, sherbets, and other refreshments were provided in abundance, and after these had been freely discussed, the most distinguished of the company were admitted to an audience of the Valide Sultana, and honoured with permission to kiss her slipper. Shortly after this ceremony had been gone through, his majesty arrived, and was received on the landing of the ships by his mother, who accompanied him into the throne room, where he kissed her hand, and had his forehead saluted in return. The four daughters of the late sultan were then introduced from adjoining rooms, and were received by his majesty standing. They kissed his boot, as did also his sister-the wife of the Capitan Pashawho was next introduced. His own one wife then entered the room, and was met by the sultan some steps from the throne; an affectionate pantomime ensued, after which the sultana retired into her chamber. Several of the general crowd of ladies were next permitted to salute the imperial boot, which over, his majesty withdrew, conducting his mother by the hand. THE SULTAN'S HAREM.-It is proba bly not known that the Imperial harem is completely renewed at each change of reign. In sending away the odalisques of Abdul Medjid, Abdul Aziz has strictly adhered to ancient usage. The organization of the Imperial court at Stamboul implies the multiplicity of women, and they must not belong to any family of the empire, because the Sultan, as the shadow of God on earth,' must not have any relatives. That is a fundamental law of the State. His women must be brought from a distance, and be purchased, that is to say, be slaves, in order that between them and the Padischah there may be no family ties. That is so true that the Sultan is often called by Turks 'the son of the slave.' The pest of polygamy will, in truth, exist as long as Turkey herself, or what is still more, as long as the Turk. Notes of the Month. ECCLESIASTICAL. POOR 'Parson Jack' is no more! Who was he? Ask any one at Exeter, where he was well-known by this familiar nickname, and they would answer Rev. John Arundel Radford, of Lapford, North Devon; an eccentric, fighting, drunken, dissolute clergyman, who, despite his unfitness, still held his living. The most liberal explanation of his conduct is that he was insane. We do not mention his decease to exult over it, but to point out how lax is the discipline of that church which tolerates such unworthy ministers. The vicar of Whalley has again got into hot water with his parishioners. A dozen of them have had their goods seized and sold for unpaid Easter dues. Another clerical bigot has refused the rites of burial to an unbaptized child, one Dr. Knowles, of Ryde, in the Isle of Wight; and another clerical pluralist has been deservedly exposed. His various livings amount to over £1,600 a year. Buryan, whose deanery he holds, bas never seen his face since 'he read himself in,' now more than forty years ago; and two of the churches whence he draws a large revenueSennen and St. Leven-are said to be in a most dilapidated and filthy condition—reeking in summer with damp and swarming with cockroaches! And this is the 'poor man's church!' The bishop of St. David's has obtained a verdict against the naturalized Russian, Baron de St. Rutzen, of Slebeck Park, Pembrokeshire, who had unroofed a dangerous parish church on his estate at Minivere. The baron is to pay costs, and restore the church in six months at his own expense, with all appropriate ornaments and fittings. The Lower House of Convocation of the province of York has taken alarma at the Liberation Society, and has petitioned Her Majesty to look well after the secularizers of 'holy property," or as they phrase it, to take the premises into Her Majesty's most gracious consideration.' Dr. Hook, the new dean of Chichester, has 'made work. The sub-dean has sued bim for intrusion in his parish. It is pleasant and refreshing to turn aside from all this and see the bishops of London and Carlisle busy in promoting preaching in theatres, and the first doing the work of an evangelist." He spoke the other day in Covent Garden Market to a crowd of 2,000 father-in-law to Mr. Cheese, whose pereons. The bishop of Durham, recent appointment created so much stir, is said to be dangerously ill. The Independent Chapel Building Fund has prospered this year. Over £5,000 have been raised, and £1,000 now remain in the treasurer's hands. Two missionaries to India-Messrs. Lowe and Thompson have been publicly ordained in the Queen street Hall, Edinburgh. A Raffles scholarship has been instituted in connection with the Lancashire Independent College. A beautiful monument, in memory of Dr. Watts, was recently unveiled' at Southampton. The ceremony took place on the 187th anniversary of his birth. He was a native of the town. The Canadian Congregationalists are about to send a deputation to this country. nigger pew' question is thus likely to be re-opened. The Methodist Con ference is to meet at Newcastle. The The Irish Conference is over. It met at fully common. Tragedies of an unusual Cork. 3,000 have been added to and revolting kind have been enacted: 'society,' and the present total of -one by Baron de Vidil, who attempted members is over 130,000. The Cana- in broad day-light, and in the neighdian Conference shows an increase of bourhood of Twickenham to fell his 500. The French Conference was son from his horse with a life-preserver. very thinly attended: only three The son refuses to give evidence. The ministers were present. Twenty-nine other, called the Northumberland-street is the total increase during the year, tragedy, by a Major Murray and Mr. and the number of members through- Roberts. Mr. Roberts is dead. The out France is little more than 1,500. Caughey, the American revivalist, is case is not yet cleared up. In the in England. So also is our old friend political world the plot thickens. Lord Oncken, of Hamburg. American aid Campbell, the Lord Chancellor, is dead. to the German Baptist Mission has He was the son of a clergyman, and all but ceased, and he is here asking had himself studied for the church. assistance. O for a good long purse to help him! New Baptist chapels have been opened at Birmingham, Skepton, and Wokingham. American journals report the supposed loss of a ship carrying Baptist missionaries to China. We hope their surmises may prove unfounded. GENERAL. Tuz past month has been crowded with disastrous events. A destructive fire on the Surrey side, near London Bridge, unequalled in the metropolis since the Great Fire in 1660, has laid a vast line of warehouses in ruins. Two millions is the estimated loss. The lamentable thing is that Mr. Braidwood, the heroic and Christian gentleman who superintended the London Fire Brigade, has been killed-and several bystanders, more perhaps than will ever be known. Diseonsolate women beg piteously at the police offices for news of their missing husbands. The fire originated in the spontaneous ignition of some jute. A brilliant comet has visited our heavens. Astronomers say its tail was sixteen millions of miles long, and that the eighth day after its first appearance the earth was immersed in it! Deaths by lightning have been fear He and Chalmers and others formed a mutual improvement class. Campbell, when his turn came to open with a short extempore prayer-broke down. He then relinquished the church for the bar. Sir Richard Bethell succeeds him to the woolsack. Lord John Russell is at last to be made a peer. He will be missed in the Lower, but is needed, so report says, in the Upper House. Granville is weary of his post of defence. As Parliament approaches the end of the session members talk less and do more. Pity it is they do not begin in this fashion. Cobden, Chavelier, and Bright have been feted at the Mansion House. The hero of the League speaks hopefully of the new treaty with France. Louis Napoleon has formally recognized the kingdom of Italy, and has ratified a treaty with England to abolish after, the next year, the negro immigration. Paris is alarmed at the crash among the great speculators. Mires' trial showed how great sins are gilt. The King of Prussia has been shot at. The young man is in custody. He is reported to be a politico-maniac. Fortunately the King was but slightly wounded-a mere scratch. Italy shows herself still firm and self-reliant. Her new minis |