by the compulsory vaccination of common people, in which every window in the large City Hall was broken by men and women who had seen the dire effects of vaccination on the bodies of their healthy offsprings. The proposed Bill, if passed would have riveted vaccination on a free people, but it was withdrawn by the Municipal Council, and had never been revived. In England it was their boast to be a law-abiding people; they suffered much and long, having faith in the potency of moral force, in the strength inherent in a good cause, and in the ultimate triumph of right over wrong. (Loud applause.)

In view of the fact that by such influences alone the opposition to compulsory vaccination has swollen day by day, and year by year, it was suggested by Dr. E. Labbe, the editor-in-chief of the "Reviel Medical," the French medical anti-vaccination organ, that if a convention of delegates, representing this revolt against state medicine, could be gathered together the hands of the opposition would be strengthened, the cause of freedom, parental rights, and true hygiene furthered, and the cruel and tyrannical vaccination Acts, pronounced by Mr. John Bright to be monstrous, and regarded by their Prime Minister with mistrust and misgivings, the more speedily overthrown. The London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination appointed a Committee to confer with Dr. Labbe, and it fell his lot to take part in the movement. One dfficulty, which was a serious one, was that there was no organization in Paris against compulsory vaccination, but against this drawback was the fact that the practice in the minds of a large number of the profession, was held most loosely. Invitations were issued, and the results which had been published far and wide of the Conference showed that the promoters had not been over sanguine in their predictions. Letters were received from every country where vaccination was enforced of sympathy and warmly approving of the project. Professor Newman, in a letter, said it would not seem his special duty to step forward were not the richer classes of England so fatuously bent to obey the medical faculty in the matter of vaccination, while the newspaper Press seemed so frightened about anything which would split up the Liberal party, that they acted the very illiberal part of inserting the subtle, and often false statements of the advocates of this tyranny, and habitually refused admission of replies. This was not the way of strengthening the Liberal party. (Applause.) This letter and others were received with enthusiasm by the audience in Paris. The Congress assembled on the 10th December, the delegates representing eight nationalities, viz., France, Belgium, Prussia, Wurtemburg, Holland, Switzerland, England and the United States. Having explained the pleasure the delegates felt in meeting together, he said that Dr. Boens presided at the Congress with impartiality and ability. He went on to say that several of the delegates were men whose writings against compulsory vaccination had made them familiar to every student of the question in Europe. Mr. Tebb then proceeded to detail the action taken by many of those gentlemen on behalf of Anti-compulsory Vaccination, and gave the opinions of several medical gentlemen amongst the number upon the subject of vaccination. He then recounted somewhat the proceedings of the Congress which lasted three days. The result of the deliberations of the Congress was to demonstrate amongst others various propositions, to the number of nine, which Mr. Tebb read. The concluding paragragh ran as follows:-"That in view of the confusion of opinion which prevails in every medical assembly amongst the so-called authorities, whenever the subject of vaccination is discussed, it is unwise, impolitic, unjust and tyrannical to enforce it: that such enforcement retards all improvement in the treatment and all discoveries for the prevention of small-pox: and that all Compulsory Legislation with regard to vaccination ought to be repealed." The Lecturer concluded by an eloquent peroration. Truth, he said, spreads slowly, but it does spread, and future generations will be amazed to learn how in so enlightened an age, a cruel, filthy, and mischievous superstition could have so long survived. To use the words of the greatest reformer of this generation, "Nobody ought to dispair whose cause is just. Nobody is justified in despairing if he has a righteous cause to uphold. It may not be given him to see it triumph, but that is only a question of time: it is an immaterial thing, but of the right itself there is no power on earth to stay it. None can ever defeat it in the end: God Himself is pledged to its final victory." (Loud applause.)

RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. FARRINGDON moved the following resolution :-"That in the opinion of tl is meeting Vaccination is a great evil; that it does not prevent or mitigate small-pox, but is the direct means of killing many infants, and spreading most loathsome diseases broadcast throughout the country; that it is dangerous and unjust for Parliament to allow a section of the medical profession to enforce their speculative theories on the people by fines and imprisonment; and that the Compulsory Vaccination Act ought therefore at once to be entirely repealed.” In moving the resolution he expressed a determination never to submit to the Act, and said he had only that morning been summoned before the Hove Bench in respect of two children he refused to have vaccinated.

Mr. T. Martin, of Lewes, seconded the motion.

This other resolution was also carried:-" That this meeting looks upon the compulsory vaccination law as a violation of parental rights and individual liberty, and that it condemns the action taken by the Officers' Duties Committee of the Brighton Board of Guardians in secretly authorising the vaccination officer to prosecute respectable citizens time after time for the same child, when they could have exercised the discretion allowed by the Act with regard to repeated prosecutions; this meeting is of opinion that such conduct on their part shows that they love to oppress."

It was resolved that copies of the resolutions be signed by the Chairman on behalf of this meeting and forwarded to each member for the borough.

One of the speakers uttered some criticism on the conduct of the press. Two reporters handed a written statement to the Chairman, who refused to read it. The reporters continuously interrupted the meeting. Mr. Hasker then read the note from the reporters, and pitched into the Press so keenly that the reporters once more gave tongue to such a degree that the audience cried, "Turn them out." They left the meeting with a few sympathisers, and the proceedings closed peacefully.

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His Excellency Major-General SIR GEORGE POMEROY-COLLEY, K.C.S.I., C.B., C.M.G., &., &c., Governor of Natal, Killed in Action on the Amajuba Height, Lange's Nek, February 27th, 1881.

A Funeral Sermon, Preached in ST. PETER'S CATHEDRAL, PIETER-MARITZBURG, on Sunday Evening, March 6th, by the VEN. ARCHDEACON COLLEY.

"Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood." Isaiah, ix, 5.

I little thought when I was writing the discourse announced for this evening that it would have to be set aside for one to be preached as a funeral sermon for the wise, good, and true and brave Governor of Natal, Sir George Colley; or that His Excellency's pew, here under the Cathedral pulpit, would be draped in black, the sad outward sign of woe, and heavy grief affecting all throughout the land, at the untimely death of its leader and chief.

It is terrible to realise that it is not all a hideous dream. To think of a mind richly stored and capable and a heart so gentle and expansive being wasted, devastated, rifled by fatal lead, that the chemistry of nature wrought in some accursed hour. To think of the strong arm nerveless, the lips' wise utterance hushed; the beaming eye quenched in darkness; the kindly look frozen to placid immobility, and the manly countenance cut in the cold statuary of death! O war, war, war, when these are thy victims do we not hate thee with a perfect hatred, which is a righteous hate!

Yet how passionate is the desire for martial distinction; the thirst for glory in the shock of battle, and wild the ardour for military fame! Alas! and this with some whose better human powers, and intellectual gifts, of infinitely more value to the world than to be so cheaply held, that it were lawful to risk their being thrown away, or bartered for the reputation of mere animal courage; a quality so common, that it is forthcoming, in any quantity, from our over-crowded cities, at the rate of thirteen pence a day.

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When will this defect of our nature be ruled out? For we are all prone to it. At times, I earnestly, myself, wish I could wear a red coat instead of a black one; and chafe very frequently do I at the restraints of my clerical office, desiring, with an intensity that I fear will one day lead me to break through all imposed barriers, desiring that my sacred calling would permit me sometimes, by way of luxury, to whip a blackguard and villain. Ah! The physical part of us then predominates, and the psychical is held under. But this is an inversion of true order. The moral must have the pre-eminence, and the material

must subserve.

Forgetfulness of these maxims has robbed our country of its brightest ornament; and, as proud of bearing the same patronymic, has afflicted the preacher with more than ordinary grief at the irreparable loss we have all sustained in the tragic death of the late Governor. Personal sorrow being poignant, beyond the public distress, so loyally shown at the sad termination of the brilliant career of Sir George Pomeroy-Colley. For in him the preacher's name has lost its most eminent representative.

But, from the consideration of temporal hopes o'erthrown, and earthly prospects clouded, turn we from personal griefs-not forgetting the awful domestic woe of the unhappy lady at Government House, overwhelmed with the bitterness of early widowhood-turn we from individual sorrows to things of general interest that must be dwelt upon in the light of this public calamity, while the gleam and flash of rifle and cannon at this moment (as last Sunday when we little thought it) may, as we speak, be carrying death to others than him whose loss to-night we specially deplore.

"From whence come wars and fighting among you?" asks the Apostle St. James, and the answer is, "Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?" Yes, for every physical defect hath its spiritual cause. The cause of war here, that has already been so disastrous, is Love of Rule. I don't say on which side it is the worst, or where the power wisely to govern is most lacking. These are open questions which it would be unfitting for the pulpit to pronounce upon. But this we may say, as a philosophic fact, and syllogism, established from many considerations, that with the love of dominance, and supremacy,

is generally given the capacity to administer. Then, the love of rule is orderly, and, under the direction of heaven, is quickened to operate large good, and be a blessing to mankind. But where for self-ends, and trivial objects, and impotent vanity, the wise love of dominion within limits, sanctified for national and imperial and material progress, degrades to the aimless, senseless lust of dominion-with the hideous spirit that would chose rather to reign in hell than serve in heaven -there must be confusion, and every evil work-plots and counterplots-licence raging in place of law-riot and rapacity-social decay, moral corruption-widespread ruin, and a general rot, And, dreadful as war is, its temporary horrors are preferable to chronic misrule, and withering blight, individual, and collective, that under God's providence and cruel war may be overruled to terminate.

As a citizen of the world, I care little for that so-called virtue, in the name of which so many crimes have been perpetrated. I mean patriotism-the nerveless, spiritless, cat-like clinging to any special locality, or country, and senselessly conceiving all other regions to be vastly inferior to our geographied Liliputia. I have little regard for this. Naturally, I admit, we love the word "home" and the sentimental feeling therefor borders on being a virtue. But this is very different from the Jingoism of London music-halls and casinos; and the daft yelling of "Rule Britannia, Britons never shall be slaves," when the bawling idiots themselves are slaves to the vice that, more than aught else, degrades our Fatherland. No patriotism this! but downright ignorant conceit.

He who out in the wilds will go, and carry with him the virtues that made his mother country great, is the true patriot, aye, though he may have renounced corporate union with the country of his birth, and stand up for independence. And he is not the man to be a landthrall to this Transkeian or that Transvaal extent of earth, when the whole world lies before him; and the worthiness of his citizenship of the old country inspires him to labour to impress the latitude he has chosen, and new land of his adoption, with the best characteristics of his early home.

The wise tendency of the age is towards cosmopolitan ideas, and the poet's prophecy is for "the Parliament of man, and the federation of the world." The bonded

unity betwixt all peoples, and the glad merging of our little idiosyncrasies, and angularities and tribal differences to form the perfect architecture of mankind, and build the temple of humanity, after the composite order that shall best exemplify the unity in the diversity of heaven, where there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond or free, but all are one in Christ.

But permit me for a moment to dwell upon the history of this last sad phase of the unhappy struggle within our borders.

I omit here calculations based on reports of the number of men who went into action, with the number of the rounds of amunition to each man, and the estimated casualties of the enemy, so many conflicting statements being current as to render it altogether impossible at this juncture to arrive at the truth. Too quickly, however, as it appears, was our amunition expended, and then the defence collapsed--the defence which was vital of the splendid strategic position which our late Governor had occupied in a masterly manner that nearly surprised the Boers into breaking up their camp in panic. Something towards this was being done, in fact, when the enemy perceived that Sir G. Colley had no artillery with him, which the nature of the strong position so admirably secured prevented being present. Then the Dutch, as fatal marksmen, knowing that their every shot takes effect, grew bold with the knowledge, and stayed their retreat; becoming more confident with impunity from great peril through our fire, and persistent in their attack, scaling that natural fortress, the Amajuba peak, and outflanking our men, regardless of our small arms fusillade-they reserving their fire till they knew that

every shot fired told of an Englishman's fall. And so the sad end came as they were certain it would come.

Men as brave as lions when brought to bay, or charging in the open on the foe, we all know our troops to be, but now painfully outmatched, as well as outnumbered, by men daily and hourly accustomed to the use of the rifle-born marksmen- and horsemen unequalled by any in the world.

But lack of ammunition appears to have been the chief cause of the disaster we deplore, and secret of this desperate reverse. No one's reputation may be established on the ruin of the reputation of others; but an enquiry must be made, doubtless will be made, to know why with the admitted strength of the splendid position our late Governor secured, to the dismay of the enemy, yet the foe was not kept at a distance, that would have prevented heaven's permitted fall of Sir G. Colley becoming a terrible tragedy, as it would seem not to have been the ordinary casuality of death in battle.

But alas! it became "Sauve qui peut"; save himself who can, before His Excellency had fallen, when ammunition failed; it being only a matter of time ere our prodigal fire brought the hands of our men to the bottom of their cartridge boxes, with dismay to find them empty. And then-we must forgive the rest-they begged our brave General, outwardly cool as if on parade or at a review, but with amazing forgetfulness of his safety, and all that hung upon it and underestimate of his importance in a hundred ways, mistakenly sharing equal danger with the common soldier- it was then that they begged Sir George to surrender, which sad duty he was spared by the ruthless foe, who, as stated by a eye-witness, at the distance of but a few paces, rifled the manly form of a soul born to command, and be, by right of his attainments and gifts, a wise, strong leader of men; whose unhousing by that fatal ounce of lead the world was not prepared for, and which, personally, very, very acutely, as something more than namesake we, I as preacher, and you as congregation with City, Colony, and Empire, lament to-night.

How terrible the moment for our friend and chief, and ruler in things civil, supreme, when, seeing the day going against him he battled with the soldier's woe in his breast of having to contemplate surrender; and felt the calls of humanitarian virtue (largely instinct in him) to the effect that he must not vainly waste precious lives, in mad, impotent wrestling with overwhelming odds and the hideous inevitable!

In an instant flashes before him the accumulated triumphs of a most successful career. His mental qualifications, that early in life placed him at the head of the Staff College. His official power and grasp of detail at the War Office. His eminent services in Ashantee, where the resources of his genius contributed in no small degrce to the notable success at Coomassie. His most important and valued work in India as right-hand-man and dearest friend of the Viceroy-who, as a literary man, leaving a great part of the cares of an Empire, as large as Europe, to Sir George, could write to our late Governor as a soldier fitted to command, and scholar able to appreciate the power of the pen, and recognise in it a power beyond that of the sword, could write to his friend Colley, dedicating some of the results of his literary leisure to him, and say-"Wise, brave, and true."

Think of all this, in that dreadful moment last Sunday, flashing through the mind of His Excellency, General, Governor, and member of this Cathedral congregation; and then conceive his feelings when death was staring him in the face-his work undone, his plans upset, his purposes for minimizing the horrors of war frustrated, and premonitions of his tragic end that were in his heart, but for the soldiers' sake might not travel to his lips. All the brilliant past clouded in a moment-the steadfast, outward seeming steadfast soul-his heart nathless a snowclad active volcano-the immobile face giving no indication of the tumult within-the outward