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The Primitive Methodist Messenger for the present
quarter oonteins a sermon by the Rev. J. Sharpe, on
" The past, r's prayer," founded on the words of the
apostle Pani, in £phesiass 8, 13-19-a pago for
preachers from tho Rov. Dr. Porter-pooty from
Bernard of Olugny-and a variety of interesting,
personal, and looal information.
FEMALE DESTITUTION,-Yesterday morning two girls
named Smith, aged fourteen and fifteon years respect-
ively, went to the Central Police Station, and stated
that they wished to be eent to the Industrial Sahool at
Newcastle. Thoy said they had been in situations in
'"Woolloomooloo, but had left on Christmas Day, sinoe
whioh they havo bton wandering about houseless,
Both parents of the ohildren are dead. Senior
sergeant Waters took nhargo of the girls till inquiries
respecting them should bo made.
THE PARKES-BUCHANAN TRIUMPH.-There are no
pleasures without some slight admixture of pain, no
sweets without eome tinot of bitterness, no triumphs
without some humiliating alloy. The grand oonquest
of religious intolerance in Sydney is an evidence of
the faot. The viotory is doaisive, final, complote,
iutoxicatingly eplondid, but the viotors have a regret
Parkes and Buchanan are the bitter drops in their
oup of sweetness. Parkes and Buchanan are the men
who, elevated for the present as the champions of the
liberal party, and viotoriona as su oh, are os blights
upon their joy. Ono cannot state any very olear
objections against Parkos savo that bs is a humbug,
and-ia more full of big words than eonnd idoas. Ho
bas some respectability, no doubt, theugh its amount
would hirdly oarry him into tho foremost ranks of
sooioty, but ho has such a tremendous power
of humbugging the peoplo that wa are
not eure he will over meet the fate of
other publlo men, and bs even temporarily
unpopular, His great forte Bsems to be the gullibility
of tho peoplo. His talk to them is made up of bom-
bastic nothings and attsoks upon abuses whioh never
dieted, He is fond of what Mr, Robertson oalls " tho
British Lion business," and certainly tho British
Lion, as represented by Mr. Parkes, is ajvery intrusive,
bumptioue, and inquisitive animal, Thero is nothing
hut roar in him. Me has no idcas.no ho poB, no feel-
ings, His roar is tho ono thing upon which ho depsnds
for making a figure in sooiety; and he losos no oppor-
tunity of making his roar heard. If you listen to a
speeohmade by Mr. Parkes, you say to yourself,
" What a dover man that ie I How well ho speaks I
What noble sentiments ho utters 1" The next day you
read Mr. Parkes'e speech fully reported in tho Herald,
and'you hardly reoogniso if Yet the words aro thero.
Every syllablo of his roar appoars in print. Rut
it- dose not excito your admiration in its
new, form, You think it rubbish, You analyse
a fow sentences, and yon find that they - are sound,
without eonso. - You see that nearly tho whole ot the
oration is mads up of a series of 'absurd questions,
which nobody ever thought ot asking, and whioh
nobody but Mr, -Parkes would ask, '' Will anyone
assort," he says, " that Hottantots oome from Britain?'*
and having put thia '? query in herolo tones, ho will
proceed to heap reproaoh and-sarcasm'-and invoativo
upon the head of anyone who should mako snoh an
assertion. Contradictions of statements whioh no ono
over tbouaht of making aro e'so favourite rhetorical
implements with him. " Thoso who confond that two
and : two make ' five, are &o, dc." ? He comes
down severely upon tho wretohos' who would
so" bontond. - Ho lashes them with all his
vigour. ï He pours out tho-ivials of his wrath upon
thom, and consigns thom to ignominy. His nudionco
cheer him, never fora momout reflecting that no one
ever did say that two and two mado five, and that all
Mr, Parkss'a oloquonoe was moro ?< wind without eonso
or objtot. It nover is anything but \ mere w ind ; and
it vory often blows a hurricane, Mr. Parkes has a
happy knack of falling ia with the popular fooling and
making believe to havo led it, Be trims his sails to
. everjr breezo, and tanks : abouti continually, novcr
keeping a straight oomoo and never attempting to maka
against the . wind,;,, He . < professes sow to
have mado a stand against tho Roman
Catholics. . That is the greatest nonsense, The
nUra-Prutofltant, party modo the .stand, aaa ho has
joined that party, and used it,well. ' Evor since that
mooting hold in St. Mary's Seminary, just after Arch
bishop Balding rsturnod from. Eatopo, tho ultra
ProtoBlants havo boon on the alert against tho
Homanlsts, Tho Publlo Schools Act agitation added
to tho antagonism between - tho two sects, and tho
chesting of Prinoo Alfred tu'rnod that antogoa.em into
bitter hatred. Mr. Parkes has,tradod upon this hatred,
but ho never lcd it in uny way, sud tnoao who aoouss
him1 of stirring up religioua, dissension, dignify him
far too' muoh. Ho could not do lt. He would havo
been afraid todo it. But tho roligious dissension having
onsen, ho saw which sido WOB tho stronger, and at once,,
with noblo heroism, commenced tb ossautt the wcakor'
party.-Wagga Wugua Advortieur,
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