John Gladstone, (not the distinguished Ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, but a distant relative of his) in whose beautiful home at Stockwell Lodge, near London, I enjoyed, for several days, all the comforts and pleasures which the most hearty and thoughtful English hospitality could suggest and which I shall always gratefully remember. I did not know what to admire most, the magnificent building, with its endless variety of curiosities, or the inspiring strains of the finest military music resounding from the Palace and the terraces, or the dazzling brilliancy of beauty and fashion displayed by the aristocracy and gentry of England. The eyes, the ears, the imagination, and the feelings were drunk with delight, and seemed to move amongst the visions and melodies of fairy land. Perfect order and dignity reigned in this ocean of men. All was joy and gladness, patriotism and enthusiasm. The entente cordiale between the two greatest civilized nations appeared to be complete, and broke out in bursts of applause and hurrahs, in hopeful anticipation of the speedy down-fall of Sevastopol, and the complete triumph of the allied armies and fleets over the mighty empire of the Czar.

But yet one dark cloud overshadowed the festivity. The mournful sounds from the battle-field of the Crimea and the hospitals of Scutari re-echoed in the Crystal Palace, amidst the strains of "God Save the Queen ;" and many of the noblest families of England and France deplored, at this very hour, the loss of brave fathers, brothers, and sons. The news of the brilliant but disastrous charge of the Light Brigade, at Balaklava, on the 25th of October, was already on its way to proud and happy mansions, to fill them with the mingled feelings of joy and gloom :

"Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them,

Volleyed and thundered;

Stormed at with shot and shell,

Boldly they rode and well

Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell,

Rode the six hundred.

"Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed all at once in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while

All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery smoke,
With many a desperate stroke,
The Russian line they broke;
Then they rode back, but not-
Not the six hundred.

“Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,

While horse and hero fell,
Those that had fought so well,

Came from the jaws of Death,

Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them-
Left of six hundred."

A few days afterwards, on the 5th of November, the terrible victory of Inkermann was won at a still greater sacrifice of the flower of the finest army which ever left the British shores, with the brightest hope of military renown. Then followed, in rapid succession, the inglorious return of the Armada from the Baltic, and the heart-rending news of the disasters in the Crimea, which incredible mismanagement and the Czar's fearful ally, the Russian winter, brought upon that noble army, and reduced it to a few spectral figures-to the deepest humiliation of the pride of England. Alas, she had boasted too much of her own strength, and too lightly forgotten the tragedy of Moscow, and the destruction of the great army of the greatest captain on the snow fields of Russia.

I could, of course, not foresee at that time these unex pected reverses of fortune, from which, however, our sister nation soon afterwards recovered. But when I returned with my kind friends to their happy home and cheerful fireside, winding our way through a wilderness of carriages, and looked back, for the last time, to the fairy Palace, I asked myself the question, How long will this magnificent structure stand, a microcosmos of nature and of history,

and the proudest monument of the wealth and genius of the mighty ruler of the worid? And I was overpowered with the feeling of the vanity of all earthly beauty and glory. The temples of Thebes, Baalbec and Palmyra have crumbled to dust; the palaces of Nineveh and Babylon lie buried in the ground; Diana's sacred shrine at Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the world, is the habitation of owls and serpents; the Parthenon, once the fit abode of the goddess of wisdom, the "blue-eyed maid of heaven," has become a prey to wasting war and flame, to paltry antiquarians and high-born robbers; and the imperial Rome, the " lonely mother of dead empires," in the language of a British lord and bard:

"The Niobe of nations-there she stands,

Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe;
An empty urn within her withered hands,
Whose holy dust was scattered long ago,'

And will not the time come when the Crystal Palace, like the Coliseum, shall be a shapeless pile of ruins, Syddenham a graveyard of departed glory, and when-to use the words of England's eloquent historian-"some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's?" Yea, all flesh is grass, and all the glory of the flesh as the flower of the grass, which flourisheth to-day and withereth to-morrow.

"The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve,
And like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Leave not a wreck behind!"

But while these melancholy thoughts depressed my mind, I lifted up my eyes in faith and hope to heaven, and I saw a structure not made with human hands, fairer and brighter than the Crystal Palace--adorned with richer treasures and enduring monuments of faith and love-resounding with nobler strains of music, the hallelujahs of angels and archangels, of martyrs and saints of all nations and tonguessubject to no ravages of time-unchangeable and eternal as its builder,-the heavenly city, where the weary pilgrim of Zion will find his true home and everlasting rest.

P. 8.

ART. IX.-EULOGY ON DOCTOR RAUCH.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.

Soon after the consolidation of Marshall College and Franklin College, in the Spring of 1853, the Alumni Association discussed the question of the removal of the remains of Doctor Rauch from Mercersburg to Lancaster, and in July, 1855, took the following action :

Whereas, since the removal of Marshall College to Lancaster and the sale of the College property at Mercersburg, the remains of the venerated Dr. Rauch, the first President of Marshall College, lie alone, and are liable to exposure and abuse;

and

Whereas, it is proper that these honored remains should lie near the spot to be occupied by the new College edifice; and finally,

Whereas, the relatives of the deceased President, have, upon consultation, acquiesced in any proper measure, which may be devised for the removal and suitable consignment of his remains; therefore

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to propose some suitable action in the case.

Rev. Dr. Bomberger, Dr. Mayburry and Geo. W. Brewer, Esq., were appointed the committee and reported as follows: That, in every view of the case, it seems proper that the remains of the first and honored President of our Collegiate Institution should repose under the shadow of the College itself and be under its immediate guardianship. The presence of his tomb and a suitable monument over it, would be an abiding memento of his virtues and excellence, and render the new College grounds more precious in the eyes of the older Alumni. We recommend the following action :

1. That application be made to the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College for a suitable piece of ground to be occupied for the purpose above named, and for their cooperation in the matter.

2. That a committee of five be appointed to collect the necessary means for the proposed removal and the erection of a monument. And that this committee be authorized to superintend the removal, and the erection of a monument so soon as they have the requisite means at command.

A committee was accordingly appointed by the Alumni As sociation, consisting of Rev. J. H. A. Bomberger, D. D.,

Rev.

M. Kieffer, D. D., Rev. E. V. Gerhart, D. D., Rev. G. H. Martin, and Rev. G. W. Williard. At a subsequent meeting this committee was reconstructed. It is now composed of nine members, namely, Rev. J. H. A. Bomberger, D. D., Rev. M. Kieffer, D. D., Rev. E. V. Gerhart, D. D,, Rev. S. H. Reid, Jacob Heyser, Esq, James L. Reynolds, Esq., Rev. Prof. Theodore Appel, Hon. John Cessna, Hon. John W. Killinger.

In accordance with these instructions the application was made to the Board of Trustees in July, 1856. The Board responded cordially to the request, instructing the Executive Committee to purchase a lot of ground in the Lancaster Cemetery and have the remains of Doctor Rauch removed and interred. The Executive Committee acted promptly; but the purchase of the lot was embarrassed and delayed by some previous financial transactions between the College Board and the Cemetery; so that a deed for the lot was not obtained until the Spring of 1858; and the removal of the remains was in consequence deferred until the ensuing winter.

In pursuance of these arrangements, Rev. E V. Gerhart, a member of the Committee, repaired to Mercersburg and superintended the exhuming of the remains on Tuesday, the first of last March. In performing this work it became apparent with what consideration the deceased had been buried. The coffin, enclosed in a heavy box, was laid upon a flooring of brick, and covered by a strong, well-built arch; the grave was then filled up to the surface with brick laid in mortar, no ground whatever having been used. After removing the arch, the lid of the box was found to be firm; and the coffin itself in a very good state of preservation. By means of ropes the coffin was raised entire, containing the remains untouched and undisturbed; then put into a new coffin-shaped box, and thus transported to Lancaster. The committee have great pleasure in saying that the exhumation proceeded from beginning to end without any occurrences which were inconsistent with the solemnity of the occasion, or in violation of the sense of respect due the ashes of the beloved and honored dead.

At Lancaster the remains were deposited in the first German Reformed church until the day of burial. A new coffin was ordered just large enough to contain the old one.

The funeral ceremonies took place on Tuesday, the 8th of March, at 10 o'clock; the services being held in the German