The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Mr. Reverdy Johnson is, the Times hopes, the inaugu rator of a new school of diplomacy. He is accredited in form to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. But in fact he is accredited to the whole English people. By this means a subject of dispute which at one time threatened the peace of the entire Anglo-Saxon race has in his hands become even a bond of union. It is certainly not in accordance with the traditions of diplomacy to publish to the country at large the fact, usually reserved for the private ear of Secretaries of State, and by them commonly not believed, that the diplomatist's countrymen are friendly as well as his Government. But where all the conditions of inter national friendliness are in existence, the personal testi mony of a foreigner invested with a public character to the fact might dissipate many promising difficulties. This country has never been an uninterested spectator of the great political experiment in more or less successful pro gress on the other side of the Atlantic. The United States, on the other hand, have always paid this country the compliment of studying it socially as well as politi cally. It would have been well for the mutual good feeling of the two Powers if more pains bad been taken here also to learn the character of American society. The absurd burlesques of fact would then have been exposed which represented energy in America as absolutely incompatible with intelligence or manners, and a political career with honour or refinement. Mr. Reverdy Johnson in his own person has confuted many of these prejudices already. We hope still greater effects from discourses like that of Wednesday towards the assimilation of the public opinion of his own country and this. The respect and sympathy excited by Mr. Reverdy Johnson's frank expression of contempt for the propositions in some quarters of the Union for pay ment of the debt in paper may react usefully there, and shame into silence such essays at making political capital. The tone in which he repudiated any tampering with national credit as a fraud shews that the higher class of American politicians recognise as inviolable the same principles of political morality which are current in English public life. The Post remarks that General Grant had never she wn bitterness or animosity against the South during the whole of the struggle. He went about the work that duty imposed upon him in a quiet, silent, business-like way, never making grandiloquent, fire-eating speeches, and only making himself heard of by winning battle after battle, and taking town after town until he captured Richmond, together with Leo and his army. The SoVh are probably in their hearts as proud of Gra .t as they are of Lee himself ; and Grant, if we may judge from his straightforwardness and honesty, will be as just a President—so far as Southern interests are concerned—as the man who so long struggled against him. In England men seldom attain to the Premiership until they are some twenty years or so older than General Grant. In the learned professions, such as the law, for instance, a counsel is not considered competent to lead, that is, he seldom obtains a silk gown until about the age of 40. Nor is it until the same period of life that a physician is supposed to have acquired a properly ripe experience. Unless a man possesses great wealth or high interest he seldom succeeds in making a sufficient name fos himself to aspire to a seat in the House of Commons until about the like age. In short, mentally, and some times even bodily, a man may be considered in the prime of life between forty and sixty. In professions which tax the physical powers as well as the mental—as in the case of men who may have to bear the fatigue of long marches and be exposed to extremes of heat and cold—it is different, and after fifty, perhaps, the bodily powers may not keep up to a level with those of the mind ; but though General Grant has seen service in the field, it may behoped that he has yet a quarter of a century of good work in him. The Herald commisserates with Mr. Gladstone. That it his present position as the leader of the great Libera, party, the chief who has restored the " rabble " to something like discipline, the inventor of the policy which is to send the Tories to the rightabout and restore his party once more to office, he should be driven from the place of refuge so chivalrously accorded him in 18(35, would be a Liberal calamity. But that he should enter the House of Com. mons as the not remote successor of Mr. Townsend would be nothing less than a catastrophe. From a bad third at Oxford to a fluke third for South Lancashire was a terrible descent, but that it should be possible for the leader of the Liberal party to be able to challenge the administration of the present Government solely on the ground that he is " the right bon. gentleman the member for—Greenwich" is one of those appalling contingencies -which sensitive minds shrink from contemplating. Yet people of stronger nerves can brace themselves to face even more dire alter natives. 'We frankly confess that we are not quite equal to realising an occasion upon which the First Lord of the Treasury should find himself compelled, in deference to the etiquette of the House of Commons, to address the leader of the Opposition, the chief with "a working majority of 120 at his back," as " the right hon..gentleman the member for—Greenwich." The Times has a satirical leader upon the vacant livings, or combination of livings, Doddington . , March, and Ben wick. It has probably been more valuable than the Arch bishopric of Canterbury, and though it will now be divided, even after division its fragments will be, in point of emolument, of almost antediluvian bulk ; and their incumbents, with the duties of commonplace parishes, will still be better off than most bishops. But the expectations raised in this instance will be felt within a very limited circle. In whose hands would the reader guess that the gift of the richest preferment in England is placed ? Simply in those of Sir A. W. Peyton, a relative, of course, of the clergyman just deceased. A small circle of his rela tions and acquaintances includes all the persons who can entertain any curiosity as to his selections. A clergy. man can scarcely be said to enter a profession ; he is absorbed into an organism, the life of which is in the past, and which draws only its materials from the persons and things of the day. There is no ex planation, therefore, or reason to be given, or, at least, that is worth giving, for any particular arrange ment. It grew so ; and that is all that can be said. Doddington, therefore, and the state of things of which Doddington and its fellow livings are a type, will long remain in all the glories of antiquity. The system has, at all events, one great advantage. The Church is identi fied with the life of the nation in a degree that has never been attained by any other scheme that has yet been devised. Start afresh, and transform the clergy into a strict profession, and, if experience and reason may be trusted, they would soon develope into the narrowest and most , purely professional of castes. Abstract theology has creates a concrete Church ; and unless you fasten the clergy to their native soil by some powerful bonds, an overwhelming attraction draws them wholly into the service of an inde pendent mistress. Systems of what are called " lay co-operation " have all failed. The. laity, as a rule, will not take the trouble to attend synods and conferences, and those who do are wholly under the influence of the greater learning and the more definite purposes of the clergy. But when such a mass of appointments is in the hands of laymen or of lay authorities, the clergy are subjected by the most effectual of all means to lay control. The Daily News says :—The day has passed when county meetings meant very much. An attempt to revive them as instruments of political conflict is like bringing out the old matchlock or the captured cannon of forgotten wars, less to do execution among the enemy than to make a demonstration against them. The fens of Cambridge shire have been summoned to the rescue of the Irish branch of the English Church. Lord Hardwicke, who i•s lord-lieutenant of the county, and has a disposition to rally round every threatened institution, though he if, singularly unfortunate in his efforts to get anybody t(• rally with him, was in the chair at the meeting held in. Cambridge on Tuesday. His lordship seems t(; have been somewhat in doubt as to the character of the assembly over which lie presided. Thi I idea of fair controversy seems to be a discussion i 4 which his own friends should have the right of speakir and his opponents the liberty of hearing. If this view hed been acquiesced in, we should, doubtless, have been tole before to-clay that the county of Cambridge had declared in favour of the Irish Church Establishment. The advo cates of its separation from the State appear to have mustered in as great force of numbers, and in greater force of reason, than its supporters. We thank Lord Hard wick° and his friends for the proof they have given of the difficulty of getting an unequivocal declaration in favour of the Irish Church, even by the strongest pressure of authority and influence, in any meeting which partakes of a public or open character. The Stamford answers the question as to whether there shall be a Protestant State Church in these islands or not. Its answer has always been the same. There shall and must. The answer of the Times of late has in effect been —There will riot be much longer, and there really is no reason why there should be. Of course this has not been said in so many words of the Church in England ; but what has been said and is being said at this very moment amounts to that. The Church disestablished would have to enter upon a conflict with relentless antagonists, whom it would not be able to encounter upon anything like fair terms, unless it assumed their very worst and fiercest characteristics, and fought them with their own unsparing weapons. First and foremost, it would have to transform itself from the tole rant, comprehensive, patient Church it is, to a Church militant awl aggressive. A position of large minded " immobility " has comprehended, and can still comprehend, High Church, Low Church, and Broad Church, and together they have lived in Christian char - ty. But, as our contemporary reminds us, "it seems but a silken thread, or an unseen spell, that holds it all together." A silken thread, indeed, it is - a thread which no one feels or ought to feel, yet its binding capacity has lasted for three hun dred years. An unseen spell it may likewise fitly be called, for it acts efficiently, yet invisibly. But the thread and the spell are the union of Church and .te, which it is now proposed to dissever. Three— nay, three hundred —sects might be made out of the now ce:nparatively trifling differences in the Church of Eug!and ; sects that would rage against each other with a fury too often seen in such small fanateal bodies, to the infinite scandal of Christendom. At present, the mild em nplusion of law, which presses equally in all direction; and ti erefore severely in none, is suffie'ent to keep elements together that ; "once disswered, cAD344 SIR R. PEEL ON THE FUTURE POLICY. Sir Robert Peel thus gave his opinion of the policy of the future, addressing his constituents a day or two back at Tamworth :—" We want, first of all, to give the industrial classes improved facilities for education ; we want an improvement in the relations of capital to labour ; we want economy in the expenditure of the national resources ; and we want some plan for bettering the condition of Ireland. No doubt the commerce and the trade of this country is very great ; but there is a dark, a very dark side to the picture, which requires to be treated by Parliament. Commerce and trade and exports have increased. But has there been a corresponding improvement in the con dition of the industrial classes? No. There are at this moment, notwithstanding the increase in commerce and trade, 900,000 persons in receipt of parish relief, at a cost of £7,000,000 a year. Have the poor laws worked to the social advantage of the poor? Instead of elevating, as they might have done under proper manage ment, those laws have rather tended to pauperise the people, and to diminish in them the true sentiment of independence. I hope, then, that this subject will receive the attention of the new Parliament. But in contrast to this are the results which have been accomplished by self-taught independence. Thus, at the present time, there are 25,000 friendly societies in the country, with £20,000,000 of assets, and with 3,000,000 members. Then, again, we want a more general system of education not compulsory education, for I do not believe that to be in harmony with the sympathies and feelings of the people. It is held that the people of the country ought to exercise an influence in the concerns of the State. Surely it is the duty of Parliament to devise some measure for educating them to that condition that they may be able to judge for themselves as to what is good for the country. There is no question which so deeply affects the working classes as that of economy in our financial arrangements. I should be the last man who would wish to see the army and navy, or our defences rendered inefficient ; but I do wish to see them made efficient without the prodigious expenditure •which they at this moment entail. We want a more careful management and expenditure of our county funds, and among other things an abolition of that abominable system of turnpike, which, in this district especially, presses very heavily upon the poor man. 7 1ER. G. HARDY ON MR. GLADSTONE AND THE LIBERAL PARTY Mr. Gathorne riardy, in a speech delivered on Thurs day, at Maidstone, attacked very energetically the Libera party. Their creed, said he, may be summed up in one word—Mr. Gladstone. It is a remarkable thing that Mr. Gladstone was in power in the year 1865, when the present Parliament was elected; that he had then amajority of some seventy members, and that the very gentlemen who are now setting up his name as a standard and rally ing point for the whole country showed at that time no very strong disposition to support him, and to enable him to remain in office. He has now been in opposition during more than two years. All those gentlemen, as we are aware, recently combined upon a vital question. Mr. Gladstone places himself in front of the Liberal battle. No doubt his name is a distinguished one. It is the name of a man of great genius, great eloquence, and great ability, but I think it is also the name of a man who is a dangerous politician, who is liable to be swept away by the vehement impulses of his own mind, which often carry him further than anyone could have anticipated, or than he could have anticipated himself. Let ns look at those with whom we are coming into collision, because until we know their composition we cannot have a true idea of the quarrel in which we are engaged. There are first the old Whigs, who seem to have at length given in their adhesion to Mr. Gladstone. But I think anyone who has observed their history—who knows what they think and what they express pretty clearly, if not in public at least in other places—must be prepared to say of them what was said of the followers of Saul when they elected him king, " They followed him trembling." Then we come to the Radicals. Ido not wonder that they rejoice in having at last found a useful leader. For a long time they had been discredited in this country; they found no leader in whom the country would place confidence ; and we must not, perhaps, feel surprised at the extravagant and almost grotesque adulation with which they welcome into their ranks Mr. Gladstone—the man who bad long been a Conservative of Conservatives, a Tory of Tories, and who, I am bound to say, now advocates their principles with the zeal of a neophyte. I wonder that the Rationalists support him. It does not appear that he has adoptei their views, and it seems somewhat strange, remembering what are the opinions he has hitherto maintained, that they should follow him as their leader. All those gentleman now form a combined party ; but I believe that if they were to get into office that combination could not long continue, and that if they were to sit in the same Cabinet their theories would be found very consider. ably to differ. That which was the tail among our opponents is now becoming the body, and the views of the Radicals are manifestly in the ascendant among the Liberal party, however much they may conceal them in order to put for ward Mr. Gladstone more prominently as their leader. Now the objects of the Radical party are, I believe, irreconcileable with the maintenance of our existing institutions. They are so wholly inconsistent with those institutions, that they would practically introduce a new system of government into England. The object which the party that now supports Mr. Gladstone has in view is, I believe, a fundamental alteration in the political and reli gious life of this country. We know that many of them are beginning already to threaten the House of Lords and to advocate further and violent changes in the franchise, which many people think has already been too much extended. Thus they seek to reopen a question which we thought was in a great measure closed for the present, and they threaten changes in the House of Lords which would be entirely subversive of the dignity and independence of that assembly. These are the things we have to look to, and these are the institutions we have to defend, if we be. lieve that they are calculated to promote the greatness and prosperity of this country. Mr. Hardy next referred to the Irish Church, and argued very forcibly against its disestablishment. Passing to education, the right hon. gentleman said : " We know already that a large number of the adherents of Mr. Gladstone are the supporters of a system of secular education—that is to say, education from which religion is eliminated as far as the State is concerned Theywould leave voluntary efforts to provide for or to neglect; as people might please, that religious training, which is the vital part of all education. You must send men to the next Parliament who will support that educational system which has hitherto been so well conducted among us, and which would, I believe, if carefully maintained, ensure the perfect education of this nation. The principle of that system is assisting voluntary efforts ; for it is a very re• markable fact that, however philosophers may declaim, no education has ever been given upon the voluntary principle in any country by men who were not actuated by religious motives. Where are the schools of the philosophers ? Where are their colleges ? Where have they ever sub scribed funds, apart from the money supplied by the State, for educational purposes? It is true they have appro priated the public money to this object ; it is true they have diverted to this end religious endowments ; but it is for you to say whether you will allow these endowments tc be employed for any other purpose than that for which they were founded." SANITARY COMMISSION.—We understand that it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to issue a royal commission on sanitary matters, and that our member, Sir Charles Lanyon, has been nominated by the Government as the Irish representative on the commis sion.—Bclfast News Letter. At a meeting of students favourable to the elec tion of Mr. James Moncreiff, M.P., as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, held on Wednesday night in the the University, it was announced, amid great cheering, that Mr. Alfred Tennyson had written a letter to the chairman of his committee, refusing to be nominated as a candidate for the office. Resolutions in favour of the can didature of Mr. Moncreiff were passed, and those present pledged themselves to do all in their power to secure that gentleman's election. An inquest was opened by Mr. Carter yesterday upon the body of James Bancroft, who was killed in the ex plosion at the saw-mills in the Waterloo-road a few days since. Ihe coroner said that very probably the case might resolve itself into a charge against the engineer of the works (Bushby by name), and as that person was unable to be present he could only take preliminary evidence to-day. The doctor in attendance on the engineer said that he was very severely hurt, and it would be at least three weeks befoi ohe could be examined. The inquiry, therefore, stands adjourned. THE SEE OF CANTERBURY.—A meeting was held at the residence of the Dean of Canterbury, on 'Wednes day, to take into consideration the advisability of drawing up a memorial to the Government praying for a change of residence of the future archbishops, or for some redis tribution of the diocese, in order that the archbishop may with greater ease become better acquainted with all parts of the diocese. The bishop of the see has no residence within fifty miles of his cathedral city. The late Primate but a few weeks ago was deeply regretting the inconve thence of his position, which precluded his seeing more of his clergy; and two memorials, the result of Wednesday's meeting, are to he prc:fented, the one to the Premier, and the other to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. They are signed by Lord Fitzwp'ter, the high sheriff of Kent, the Dean of Canterbury, and mtny of the Keutish clergy. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1868, khurert party have Degun to recognise the merits or Low Churchmen. It may be that the different schools of thought in the Church are not so widely separated as they have hitherto appeared to be, MR. DISBAKLI. The Standard appears to look no longer upon the Premier as a winning horse. The question is not, it says, whether the country shall be ruled by Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Disraeli. The Conservatives expound their views, and promise loyalty to their leader as long as he upholds those principles. The Liberals, on the contrary, pin their faith to Mr. Gladstone, independently of allegiance to principles. Mr. Disraeli is not the Conservative party, and if he were to die to-morrow the party would be exactly where it is. As long t's Mr. Disraeli is true to his party, his party will be true to him. This mutual trust and esteem is positively affecting. Has our contemporary a suspicion that the leader of the Tories is likely to bolt or kick over the traces, and that it will be necessary to take him out of harness, and substitute a quieter animal in the " old stage coach of the Constitution ? " MR. BRIC4IIT AT EDINBURGH. Mr. Bright is the hero of the hour at Edinburgh. On Wednesday he was waited on by a deputation from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. They wanted to impress upon him the importance of reforming the laws of Scotland as regards by pother, g.ime, and the roads. Mr. Bright, it is stated, " freely joined in conversation on these subjects ;" but we have no accounts to hand of what he said, except that he complimented the Scotch farmer on his " energy and independence." The short report to hand naively adds : " The deputation were extremely pleased with the thorough knowledge Mr. Bright dis played regarding all the tonics brought under his attention." BEVERLEY POLITICS. Sir Henry Edwards has been addressing the electors of Beverley. The chairman said that what ever good had been accomplished for the borough, Sir Henry had done it. An elector asked him what he meant, and another Tory offered to fight the elector. Sir Henry then essayed to make himself heard, amidst a tempest of hisses, cheers, and groans. His remarks were particularly free from all undue reti cence or studied precision. He believed Mr. Glad stone was a thorough Roman Catholic, and one of the worst description—a Jesuit. " Were the Irish Church to be disestablished, he warned them that the lever of Rome would be gradually applied, until in Protestant England there would be no room for a man to fall down on his knees and worship God as he plmsed. If they allowed men to enter the Ilouse who favoured the Ritualistic practices now going on in the Church of England he prophesied that the time would soon come when the ramparts of the Church would be broken, and they, one and all, would be banished from the face of the earth." lie alluded to the " snivelling Whigs," and " that insignificant member of the Opposition, Mr. Glad stone." Captain Kennard followed in a similar strain, and, st: a Igo to re te, a resolution was proposed and carried f iat these gallant gentlemen were lit and proper persons to represent Beverley in Parliament. It is not surprising to learn that several hands were held up against it. BRIBERY. " The London Committee of the National Reform Union, being anxious for the protection of electors in the exercise of their franchise, and for promoting purity of election, offers a reward of £lOO to any person or persons giving such information as will lead to the conviction of parties who exercise intimidation over the voter, or who gives, or offers to give, or who receives, bribes in any shape, for voting or refraining from voting at either county or borough elections." Such is the announcement in the London papers, an announcement which as it stands is a disgrace to this country. Not as far as the Reform Union is con cerned. That organisation deserves praise for the action it has taken. But the notice marks the relation which has existed between too many " honourable " members and their "worthy" constituents. It should be added that the Union is prepared to prosecute in any case without distinction of party. The necessity for some action being taken for the suppression of undue influence is shown by a letter addressed from " Menlough Castle, Galway," to the editor of the Irish Times. The writer, " Valentine Blake," signs " J.P." after his name. "It has been reported in several quarters that I have given my support and influence at the coming elec tion for the borough of Galway to Lord bt. Lawrence. I now wish publicly to have it known, and I think the press the best organ, that I have refused my support to any of the candidates since the retirement of Mr. G. Morris ; and that, having learned with pride of Captain O'Hara's candidature, I am determined to hand over all the support I am possessed of (commanding over fifty voters, including my tenantry) to that worthy gentleman." This is about the coolest thing in its way we ever read. Probably Mr. Blake does not understand that in " handing over " the fifty he may be falsifying the registers of the nation. At Blackburn, it is stated, the " Radicals " working in the manufactories owned by Conservatives have been seized by their fellow-workmen and sent out of doors. On appealing to the masters, these say they cannot help it. A subscription has been commenced for those thus driven from their work. TIIE IVESTSIINSTER ELECTION. The Rev. J. Kempe, rector of St. James's, Picca dilly, having hitherto refused to allow his name to be placed on Mr. Smith's committee, although ho intended to vote for him, has now changed his mind. Hitherto, out of consideration for his useful ness as a parish priest, he has not taken an active or prominent part in political contests. Yet exceptional circumstances may warrant, and indeed demand exceptional procedure. He says : " Such circumstances appear to me to have arisen in Westminster through the conduct of Mr. J. S. Mill, especially in subscribing to promote the return of Mr. Bradlaugh to Parliament. I feel it to be a duty from which I must not shrink, not only to mark my reprobation of that act, but also to do all I can to prevent the doer of it from acquiring power which there is so much reason to believe he would use neither wisely nor consistently with Christian principles. With this conviction I now beg to offer you my name for your committee, and to express my regret that I cannot promise you my active exertions also in your struggle with so ill judging and so mischievous an antagonist as I believe you have in Mr. Mill." It is clear now that the clergy discard the fiction that they abstain from polities. The Bishop of London's appeal has been answered, though in some quarters in a different manner from what he expected. THE " TIMES " AND THE " NATIONAL TEMPEIIANCE LEAGUE." The Times fell into a most absurd blunder a few days back. It was criticising the action of the National Temperance League in issuing an address to the electors on temperance. The "leading journal" denounced some of the su pp ose d s i ns o f the society very energetically, and held the address up to ridicule. It spoke of the extravagant enthusiasm of the League ; thought that it wanted curbing ; and spoke of Mr. Bowly, the president, as only wanting the power to go "through the land with a sword in one hand and a glass of cold water in the other, compelling everyone to turn teetotaller." A mis representation could hardly be farther from the truth than this, and Mr. Samuel Bowly naturally resents it. In a letter to his critic he says : " There is another organisation, viz., the United Kingdom Alliance, which has for its object the suppression of the liquor traffic by legislative enact ment, the supporters of which are quite able to defend the ground they have taken ; but as I am not a member of that association, and am thought by some ardent teetotallers to be rather too mild and tolerant even in my moral suasion, it is rather unfor tunate that I should be held up in the Times as an enthusiast ready to go forth sword in hand to compel people to abstain." THE CHURCH WITHIN. ca u Thes speacemaker.es Archdeacon the dangersl n ofofa thelettTauntonCerh Church. tor has hth come e new Stand a r d nihereforwardr considers s s t h a e_ attack upon the Irish Church nothing less than an assault upon the principle of establishment generally, and he laments the assistance the Church herself renders to this by her internal dissensions. Both sides assume that there is no faithfulness to the Church outside their own peculiar doctrine and dis cipline, forgetting that the Prayer-book and the Articles are expressly devised to meet the require ments, not indeed of the "Broad Church," but of the two great schools of religious thought developed by the Reformation—requirements which have their basis in two principal differences in the constitution and training of different men. One side assumes that a man cannot believe in thepriest's office without being a Romanist in disguise ; the other side denies the churchmanship of those who interpret the law of the Church of Eng land in a different sense. Principles cannot be put down, and the attempt to suppress them results only in further development and increased strength to such principles. Archdeacon Denison says :"I am unwilling not to do what little I may to press respectfully upon all who are in earnest m resisting the present assault the necessity of mutual forbearance and consideration, and of a disposition to believe freely and fully that others who read ' the Church' differently from our selves may be as faithful to the Church as we know ourselves to be. Without such forbearance and con sideration, and charitable interpretation, there is, I fear, no hope for the Establishment. With them I believe that nothing can destroy it." This letter of the Archdeacon's is a good sign. There are not wanting indications among partisans, that they may yet sit down, " clothed and in their right mind," to discuss their great differences patiently with their brethren. It is found out that Mr. Mackonochie, after all, is not a wershinoer ,of the. Virein Ataxy. and the Jiiah CHURCH MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE. A great meeting has been held at Cambridge, convened for the defence of the Irish Church. The lord-lieutenant presided, and was supported by the Duke of Rutland, Lord George Manners, Lord Royston, the Dean of Lincoln, and Professors Jeremie and Selwyn. A. great number of Liberals were present at the meeting, and the result was a row—a gentlemanlyrow; not such a one as that which took place at a recent meeting at Lambeth ; still, although there were ladies present, the meeting is de scribed as one of the noisiest held at Cambridge for many years. A Mr. Goodman, of St. Peter's College, a Dissenter, spoke in favour of the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and Professor Selwyn and others against it. The result was not clear, and whether resolutions or amendments were passed is not known. Lord Hardwicice must feel almost inclined to say to the meeting he called to condemn the spoilers of the Irish Church : " I called them to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them " DR. MAZIERE BRADY ON THE REPORT OF THE IRISH entuten COMMISSIONERS. The least which the Irish Church Commissioners could have done was to be accurate. They pro posed no policy worth mentioning, or worthy for a Minister to propose. They reformed no abuses, and have really been nothing more than machines for the production of valuable information. But the information to be valuable must be accurate. Is it so ? Dr. Maziere Brady says " No." He has been rather surprised, it seems, at the exultation of "some distinguished officials of the highest rank in the Church" the Archbishop of Dublin to wit. His Grace has said that it appears from the report there is nothing now existing that can be called an abuse arising from the management or con duct of the governors or ministers of the Irish Establishment—that there are but seven sinecure rectories and but nine pluralists. These nine, it is said, either hold one of the sinecure rectories, or wcr3 appointed before the passing of the Act against pluralities. Dr. Brady, being much astonished at these representations, or misrepresentations, turns to the report, and finds that at least two pluralists have been omitted. Further, in calculating the number of livings under £3OO a year, the commissioners have omitted the emoluments of dignities in connection with livings, though they, in fact, form part of them ; have deducted all salaries to curates, &c. Thus they put down at, say £250, where the real worth of the benefice is treble or four times that amount. They also set down the value of lands at the poor-law valuation, which Dr. Brady contends to be ye:v n.uoh below the mark. THE DEAN OF RIPON. Dr. M'Neile has been making a great farewell speech at Liverpool, at a meeting convened for the purpose of presenting him with an address. Mr. Horsfall, M.P., took the chair. The Dean's speech took the character of a lengthy sermon. He denounced Roman Catholicism and Ritualism, pro fessing hostility to systems only, and not to indi viduals. He gave a lengthy exposition of the "Evangelical" creed, and avowed himself a Calvinist Referring to the late charge of the Bishop of Chester, the Dean pleaded guilty to some of the omissions condemned by that prelate, and said that had he remained in the diocese he should have obeyed his superior. He urged the Low Church party to attend to these matters. With regard, however to the administration of the Holy Communion, he said it was physically impossible for a eleravman on. assisted to prepare the bread and wine for 400 coniz municants. The doctor seemed quite in his element at the Liverpool meeting, and was well received, as he toldthem that men would be saved bypreaching, and not by sacraments. He will be less in his element at Ripon, where his voice will sound harsh and discor dant in the peaceful cathedral. A JUST APPEAL. The miscreants who blew down the walls of Clerken well Prison could hardly in their fury have contem plated the amount of suffering they would cause. Loss of life, of health,.of subsistence followed, and the day may be far distant when there will be none left who have directly or indirectly suffered by their deed. A correspondent of the Star tells a melancholy tale of a poor man who lost his sight by the explosion, and who seems to have bid farewell at once to the light of day and to everything that makes life happy or even tolerable. He was rendered unfit for work, and, being unable to support his wife, she deserted him, taking with her his only child. He was then obliged to ask someone to lead him round to his poor aged mother, who gets a scanty living by charring. They have since been struggling on on the smallest pittance, the parish having refused to allow him anything unless he will go into thehouse. He is very desirous of doing something for a livelihood, and for a few pounds he could buy a few articles to dispose of at a profit, as he is well known in the trade. The appeal will hardly be in vain ; at the same time those wretches who so strangely escaped the vigilance of the law may see a specimen of the results of their heroic deed. MAD DOCTORS' THEORIES. A member of the United Service Institution, one Fairfield, has been convicted at the Middlesex Sessions on a charge of stealing several hundred coins from that institution. The robbery appeared to have been a very artful one, and conducted with an ability which would have done credit to many a profes sional rogue. But, as is usual in these cases, the prisoner had two or three weak points in his plan to escape detection, and lie was constrained to plead guilty. Dr. Forbes Winslow here came to the rescue, and kindly granted a certificate of insanity. He was somewhat eccentric, the robbery had not been accomplished with that tact which belonged to a man of high-class intellect, and he had a notion that lying in bed was injurious to his liver. Therefore he was insane. The judge was not much affected by these arguments, especially as another medical man considered the prisoner sane, and a sentence of five years' penal servitude was passed. As the law now stands, Dr. Forbes Winslow is altogether out of court. lie may bring his crotchets before the notice of Parliament, but when they were stated to the House on one occa sion by an honourable member they were received with loud laughter. THE 44 COUNTESS OF DERIVENTWATER." The proper course has at last been taken, and " Amelia," soi-disant " Countess of Derwentwater," has been declared a trespasser on the Queen's high way. Why she should have been allowed to remain there so long, snapping her fingers at the authorities and playing with her sword when the policeman appeared, is more than we can understand. Of her claims to be countess we cannot judge, seeing that the very papers which she says would prove it have never been produced. But the story is a string of improbabilities. It commenced with the contradiction of a commonly-received tradition, the real Count before marriage—and it ends with an absurdity, that L ord to say the least--the death of Palmerston stole her papers. It sets aside also a settlement which was come to with the supposed representatives of her family, on the part of the Government, and ignores the confiscation which pre ceded that settlement. But still, that the case may be settled, we are glad that it is not to rest on the decision of the magistrates, but that it is to be carried to a higher court. ANOTHER METEOR. Another wonder for the astronomers, It is to be hoped that they were all watching very hard. Unhappily, it appeared out of their season. Another meteor is announced, a meteor in the daytime. These last few weeks have been very prolific of good things for those who watch the wonders of the heavens and the earth. An eclipse ; several earthquakes ; meteors—to the amateur innumerable ; a transit of. Mercury across the sun ; and now a meteor in the daytime. Just after three on Tuesday to one a ccoun t " d afternoon shape, oonitm a a n d d e accoitselfrdinvisgible, was very brigh tseeme, of a to end its career by an explosion." It lasted about three seconds. - A letter in the Siècle gives some interesting details off, a visit to the battle-field of Alcolea. It says the position chosen by both generals was the worst that could be selected. The most ridiculous blunders were made on both sides. " Garibaldian generals themselves could not have done worse." Novalinies made several direct attempts in front to force the bridge which was raked by Serrano's artillery. Many of the best of the royal troops perished here, and yet, whilst No valiches wasted his soldiers on this fatal bridge, two ravines at a little distance might easily have been passed, even by cavalry. Several of Serrano's cannon were mounted on waggons , an d mo ved ab out f rom one point to another. The personal bravery of the troops of the generals on both sides was unquestionably great. The folks of Cordova have cleared off all the relics from the field, and are selling them at a high price to the tourists, who, especially English, flock in great number• to the scene. Mr. Justice Blackburn has been selected by the Queen's Bench and Mr. Barcn Martin by the Exchequer to try election petitions. A telegram from Ireland states that Spiller, the associate of the Fenian Captain Maokay, was captured in Cork on Tuesday. He had not been seen since Mackay's arrest, when he attempted his rescue. It is said that a man finds a ready sale for life preservers at Blackburn, getting rid of about twenty of them two or three tames a week. They are for the purpose of urging polit'cAl convictions. On Manchester Excbat4 e on Wednesday what was described as an unusual scene took place. The Conserva tive candidates went on the exchange, and were about, it is said, to address the electors. Said electors were not all willing to hear them, however, and groans and cheers alternately drowned each other. The master of the ex change interfered and forbade &DY 40419kgitsatieg. 111ETROPOL17AN GOSSlP—Thursday. If Mr. Disraeli needed any proof of the failure of his No-Popery appeal, he has it today in the London streets. It is Guy Fawkes Day. The thoroughfares are crowded with guys ; but there is no " foreign prince " among them ;no effigy of Mr. Gladstone, even. Eighteen years ago, during the height of the " Papal aggression " panic, the streets were paraded with stuffed cardinals and friars and monks. But to-day we have—Madame Rachel and Mrs. Borrodaile ! That is the nation's first answer to the appeal to its bigotry ; the second answer will be made a fortnight hence, and will be equally significant. There is one borough which, contrary to its usual wont, promised to have a quiet election. Superfluous Liberals had been got rid of, and consequently the Conservatives declined to put forward any candidate, knowing well that they could not hope to win unless their opponents were divided. This borough was Greenwich, and one of the two candidates was no less a person than the paulo-post-future Prime Minister, Mr. Glad stone. The seat was kept for him in order that he might have one to fall back upon, in the not impossible event of his being defeated in South Lancashire. Perhaps the delay that would take place in the Liberal attack upon the Ministry if Mr. Gladstone failed to obtain a seat before Christmas, has something to do with the matter. Anyhow, it is resolved that he shall be put to the trouble of a contested election at Greenwich. Lord Stanhope's eldest son ,Viscount Mahon, a captain in theGuards,who was stand ing at Leominster in opposition to another Conservative, Mr. Arkwright, has been withdrawn from that place, and is now brought forward to do battle with the Liberal leader. Alderman Salomons, too, finds a competitor in Sir Henry Parker, an officer in the Indian army. Two other metropolitan contests excite great interest, at all events in London. In Westminster Mr. John Stuart Mill will have to fight hard for his seat. Mr. Smith, the newsman, will run him very close, for not only has Mr. Smith spent money freely, but Mr. Mill bas done some exceedingly indiscreet things, chief of which is his subscription to Mr. Bradlaugh's election expenses at Northampton, a proceeding which has induced Mr. Kempe, rector of St. James's, and a very liberal minded clergyman, to join Mr. Smith's committee. In Chelsea the retirement of Mr. Odger, the best of the few working men candidates, has caused a good deal of regret among his friends, and all the more because they keenly resented the unpardonable attack made upon their candidate by the Pall Mall Gazette. Mr. Dilke, one of the two remaining Liberal candidates, is the son of Sir Wentworth Dilke, M.P. for Wallingford, and pro prietor of the Athenceum. Mr. Mike aco3mpanied Mr. Hepworth Dixon, editor of the Athenceum, to the Salt Lake, and, leaving his companion there, visited Australia, New Zealand, and India, and has just published an account of his travels—" Greater Britain : a Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries." Mr. Duke's grandfather was not, as has been stated, the founder of the Athenceum. He bought it of the founder, who saw that he could do nothing with it, even though assisted by writers of the calibre of John Sterling. The price was Bd., and Mr. Dilke at once halved the price and doubled the size—a bold stroke. He paid his literary staff handsomely, and at a rate quite unknown in those clays. He sank all his wife's fortune (#;10,000) in the undertaking before he saw any return for his money. It was for a time uncertain whether he would swim or sink. But at last the tide turned, and carried him towards the fair haven of prosperity, where he was safely landed and became a most prosperous man. Up to his death he used to write in his journal ; and between his paroxysms of gout his friends used to ask him if he could not, by way of diverting his mind, give the readers of the Athenceum another article on his favourite subject—the authorship of Junius's Letters. By the time that the journal passed into the hands of its present proprietor, Sir Wentworth Dilke, it had become a most valuable property, and it has increased in value under his hands. Connected with this journal is the Gardener's Chronicle, another paper which, though of necessarily limited circulation, is worth owning. • Mr. Roebuck has always been a fierce antagonist of temperance legislation. It was he who proposed to answer Mr. Somes's arguments for closing public-houses on Sunday by ejecting his saliva. This ardour is not altogether disinterested. If the public lament over Mr. Roebuck's perverseness, the publicans do not. They look upon him as their patron saint and favourite politician ; and Messrs. Bass, and, I believe, other of the great brewers, have subscribed towards his election expenses at Sheffield. Another new daily paper is just about to make its appearance. It is called the Morning Summary, and will consist of eight pages about the size of the Pall Mall Gazette, and contain a condensed summary of news, occasional notes, and two leaders. It will give no long reports. Mr. Alpass, formerly foreign editor of the Morning Chronicle, and afterwards editor of the Day, is to be the editor of this new venture. It will be somewhat Conservative in politics, but not pledged to any party. The first number is to appear on Wednesday next. The Echo, the new evening halfpenny paper brought out by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, is now advertised to appear "shortly." I hear that another evening paper is talked of. It will be published late, and confine itself to the events of the day, chiefly to London news. Mr. Walter, of the Times, is now entertaining, at Bear wood, Mr. George W. Childs, from Philadelphia, who is very properly described in the American papers as "the publisher, editor, and philanthropist." Mr. Childs is the largest newspaper proprietor in America. But while he is connected with several journals, his name is generally associated with the. Philadelphia Ledger, of which he is the sole owner. This paper, which was commenced by a small body of working men who could raise only a few dollars amongst them, is now one of the most prosperous publica tions in the Union ; and the building in which it is published, recently erected by Mr. Childs, is one of the finest structures in Philadelphia. Mr. Childs is a warm supporter of the temperance movement and other social reforms. During his stay in England he will be the guest of Mr. Walter, Mr. Dickens, Mr. Peabody, and other gentlemen, some of whom have enjoyed his princely hospitality in America. Last Sunday was All Saints' Day, a festival observed with a good deal of ecclesiastical pomp where high Ritual prevails. At All Saints', Lambeth, Dr. Frederic George Lee celebrated the anniversary of his dedication festival, and at the evening service sang the Dies Irce. The visitor un accustomed to Dr. Lee's arrangements would have thought that a funeral hymn was not particularly appropriate to a dedication festival. But Dr. Lee is one of those who pay respect to days that are not in the English calendar, and Sunday was the eve of All Souls' Day. At Christ Church, Marylebone, a sermon was preached by a very different type of man, Mr. Llewellyn Davies, broadest of the Broad, as Dr. Lee is highest of the High. Mr. Davies, referring to the large number of saints who lived in various ages of the world, spoke of four who bad lived in our own time—Dr. Arnold, Frederic Robertson of Brighton, Captain Hedley Vicars, and Abraham Lincoln. There is nothing new to say of the ecclesiastical appointments, except that three of the last four have given general satisfaction. You will remember that some weeks ago I mentioned Mr. William Bright as the most fitting man for the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History, and his promotion to that post gives great satisfaction at Oxford. As regards the archbishopric there are a good many surmises, and all the religious papers are quarrelling thereon. Of course the choice must be much more limited than in that of a bishop, since it would be considered highly improper to select an archbishop from the ranks of the lower clergy. The Low Church party suggest the Bishop of Bangor and the Bishop of Lincoln. The first is almost unknown ; the second is a respectable mediocrity. The High Church party have a better assortment, men of great ability and high reputation—the Bishops of Oxford, Ely, Lichfield, and Rochester—all able men. It seems to be thought that the Queen will insist upon Dean Stanley receiving promotion. The Social Science Association does not seem to be quite in such high favour as the two other congress-holding bodies, the British Association and the Clergy. The first named body has hitherto received no definite invita tion for next year's meeting, and is rather perplexed what to do. The attempt is being made to get up a Ladies' Improve ment Class on a large scale. It is to consist of ladies in all parts of the kingdom, who will write in a manu script magazine, to be circulated among them, the writers to meet in London once a year. I believe that Miss Davies, sister to Mr. Llewellyn Davies, is the originator of this movement. Her other project, the Ladies' Uni versity, does not, I regret to say, make any progress. It wants a few more subscribers of £l,OOO, like Madame Bodichon. Why does not Miss Burdett Coutts take it up ? She would not find it cause her a tithe of the annoyance that her colonial bishoprics have caused. 'The complaints against the police are getting louder and louder, and if Sir Richard Mayne does not carry out his reported intention of resigning, public discontent will drive him from his post. His mandate for rnuzzlings dogs excited a good deal of angry feeling, and before it has sub sided he has issued another edict forbidding children to bowl hoops, even in the unfrequented roads. At the same time that the guardians of the public peace make war upon dogs and infants, they allow the London rough to have full course. He will knock down a passer by in a leading thoroughfare and walk off with his watch and purse with perfect impunity. There are dis tricts of London in which he is absolutely monarch of all he surveys, whose right there is none to dispute. The police will not venture into his domain. Nor is this all. The police are not only ineffi cien t ; they are also untrustworthy. It will be remernbe;e4 that some four years ago, in consequence of the disgraceful scenes which occurred every night in the Haymarket, a Lill was passed through Parliament closing the refreshment-houses in London between one and four a.m. But while the refreshment-houses were closed certain other houses were allowed to remain open, with the full connivance of the police, who allowed the fast men and the gay women to betake themselves thither, and actually themselves went in and out constantly. The matter was kept quiet for a time, but the scandal has at last been brought to light, and the result has been that the detachment of police guilty of this dereliction of duty have been drafted to another part of London. Competition seems to have gone hard with the drivers of public vehicles. There have always been omnibuses running over Waterloo Bridge, but lately an opposition has been started in the shape of a one-horse penny 'bus, the conductor of which bawls along Wellington-street till lie is hoarse. Another enterprising individual, or com pany, has started more of these penny omnibuses, and now the old two-horse 'busses have to reduce their fares. Of old the cabmen who drive to 'Waterloo Station used ir to call out to pedestrians that they might have a lift over the bridge by paying the toll ; now they offer the ambitious traveller the dignity of a seat in ahansom for one penny. This part of the town was bad enough before. There are sharpers and loose women, thaugh well known to the police here, congregated about the neighbourhood at all hours of the day and tight ; the double nuisance of avoid ing the Scylla of the pickpocket and the Charybdis of 'busses nursing each other is almost intolerable. We have had a late autumn this year. Despite early frosts and high gales, the trees have kept their leaves well. But the premature cold drove away a large number of persons to warmer climates, and Englishmen have been crowding into Cannes, and Nice, and Menton. The South of France would seem to be very attractive. A friend of mine advertised once only for a governess to accompany his child there, and received about a hundred answers. At Cannes, land which when Lord Brougham first made the place known was worth one franc the metre, is now worth twenty-five francs. The event of the literary week is the appearance of Good Words for the Young. This is the last venture of that most enterprising firm Messrs. Strahan, and it ought to be a splendid success. It is really a most charming magazine. The illustrations are simply perfect, and the letterpress most admirable. The poetry is especially good, and " Old Mother Tabbyskins" is the best and quaintest poem ever written for children. This new periodical ought to be in every household where there are children, and I am inclined to suspect that they will some times see those children of larger growth, papa' and mamma, devouring it. Of new books there are two anticipated just now with some interest — Mr. Browning's new poem, in four volumes, " The Ring and the Book," and Mr. Dilke's " Greater England" above mentioned. Mr. Greg is about to repub lish the articles which he has contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette under the initials " W.R.G." Mr. Hepworth Dixon has in the press " A Book of Studies." Mr. Trol -1 lope is editing , a book on British Sports and Pastimes, to which he, Mr. Lawdley, Mr. Leslie Stephen, and other writers contribute. Sir Ed ward Creasy will shortly have out a new his tory of England down to the end of the Plantagenet dynasty. Mr. John Henry Parker, who spent several months in Rome investigating the early Christian and mediaeval monuments in that city, is bringing out an account of his investigations. Canon Jenkins has in the press a History of the Church. Two works relating to Cornwall are announced—a new edition of the Rev. R. S. Hawker's poems, and Mr. Blight's Cromlechs of Cornwall.—To conclude with an item of dramatic news, Mrs. Howard Paul is, report affirms, about to appear in ; the character of Macbeth, and will also take the part of Hecate in the same play. THE SECRET MEMORIAL OF A CHINESE SE4 TESMAN. ( From the Anglo-American Times) Early in the summer of this year there was cir culated privately a translation of a secret memorial then just addressed by Tseng-kwo-Fau, the Go vernor-General of the Two Kiang, to the Emperor of China, ou the revision of the treaty with Eng land. It is of great interest, coming from one of the ablest and most powerful of Chinese states men. It was not intended to meet the eyes of foreigners ; but while no doubt can exist of its authenticity, through some unexplained cause it has been made known. This document bears out what has been advanced regarding the objects of Mr. Burlingame's mission, and it shows a wonder ful advance in knowledge, at least in the statesmen of China. The strong position taken by Tseng kwo-Fau against railways, telegraphs, and steamers is in accordance with Chinese policy—literally, the essence of Conservatism. Let any one read Stephen son's life and he will learn whether the writer of this secret memorial would compare unfavourably with the Toryism of England in the time of the railway projector. The principle of making all in terests subservient to those of the people manifest at least a proper intention on the part of the Go vernment, and what is now required is a greater breadth of knowledge. If Tseng-kwo-Fau knew the history of Railroad and Steampacket Companies he would find, as a rule, that they benefited the general public at the expense of the capitalists, and that it is essentially the masses, whose wellbeing he considers paramount, that would profit. The Chinese statesman errs in the old errors of Toryism, that the public weal is not to be ad vanced at the expense of a class, and as no im provements can be made without victims, the world becomes stereotyped, ossified, precisely as China has been for a thousand years. The secret memo rial gives the sincere opinions of the writer, as it was intended only for his own Government, and when it is contrasted with similar docu ments written a decade ago the advance is very marked. The cool reception given to the Embassy in England must have had an injurious effect at Peking, as it strangely contrasts with the warmth of the American welcome. The newspa pers of the United States are unanimous in con demning the reception here, which they attribute to jealousy, selfishness, and the dread not only of the English monopoly of trade being infringed, but that the monopoly of bullying has come to an end. The argument in the 'limes was so transparently absurd that no child could be deceived by it, and has only raised a feeling of contempt. What the effeci, has been at Peking we cannot tell, but no • doubt the document has been translated into Chinese, and shown up as barbarian argument. We give the memorial as it appeared in the West minster Review, omitting only the reviewer's re marks, which, being interpolated, we cannot say whether the sentences are consecutive. The objects of the Chinese are thus summarized :-- " He has carefully perused the confidential note from the Tsuug-le-Yamen point by point. The Ya men has with great pains acted up to the true method of taking the times and circumstances into account, viz., to devise the most unanswerable and irresistible arguments, without, at the same time, damaging the great interests at stake ; and to cherish the thought of wiping out our shame without at the same time allowing the other parties to suspect it. . . . He conceives that in inter course with foreign nations the great requisites are good faith and integrity, and still more decision. What we cannot accede to, must be refused from the first, and this refusal must not be departed from ; what we can accede to - , ought to be an nounced in the plainest and shortest terms. There should not be alternate concession and refusal (lit. now spitting out and now swallowing) or the slight est appearance of indecision, which would give the other party an opening for their sophistical argu ments. Foreigners in the East and West for seve ral hundred years have been making and unmaking kingdoms, each kingdom wishing to deprive its neighbour's subjects of some advantage, with the hope that its own subjects might ultimately profit thereby. Their object in coming to China, set ting up places of business everywhere, and trading largely in goods, is to follow out their nefarious devices of depriving others of advan tages, and they wish to damage our merchants. Ever since the commencement of the troubles (i.e., the Taeping rebellion) the people of China have suffered long and severely (lit. have long suffered file and water.) The additional opening of some (lit. of three or five) parts of the river (the Yang-tse has been contracting their means from day to day—they suffer in mute agony, and will be driven to extremity ; if trAe in salt is conceded to foreigners, salt merchants will suffer in business, if the building of godowns (in the interior), the establishments already existing will suffer. If small steamers are allowed in the interior, native craft of every size, sailors and pilots, will suffer ; if they are allowed to construct telegraphs and rail- roads (owners of) carts, mules, chairs, an inns, and the coolie's livelihood will suffer. The same may be said of all their demands, with the exception of the coal mines. It would enrich China to borrow foreign appliances for ex tracting cash, and it would appear to deserve a trial. As to the remainder—small steamers, rail roads, &c.—if the foreigners are allowed to intro duce them, they (the foreigners) will monopolize . the whole of the profits of the country ; if our people are allowed to join with foreigners in intro ducing them, the rich would get the profit at the expense of the poor; neither plan is practicable." Referring to the unwillingness or inability of the provinci governors and other officials to act up to the concessions granted by the Peking Government in barrier taxation, he says—" Should foreigners press (for these concessions) with instance, it will be sufficient to intimate to them that even were (tile authorities at) Peking to put so much force on thew selves as to consent, there would still remain your ministers in the provinces who would strenu ously oppose them ; and even supposing these to have been gained over, the millions in China in the depth of their poverty would revolve thoughts of change (novas res), and bear such an enmity to foreigners as would be beyond the powers of the officials of China to check. The Princes and High Ministers of China can be at no loss for words is pleading for the lives of the people of China. There would be no empty cases belli were we to take up arms to defend the people in the event of a catas trophe on these points. No fear or remorse can have place where the principles actuating us are ill accord with everything from heaven and earth, and our sainted Emperors down to the inhabitants within every sea ; fur our sainted dynasty is beneficent, and has a respect for the rites of hospitality to those from a distance, and has no wish to arrogate to itself the vast expanse of the outer ocean or to treat (the powers there) as ministers doing homage. With respect to the question of an embassy, the terms of amity between us and other nations will necessarily bring about constant intercourse. There are, however, subjects of anxious consideration as to the possibility of disgrace accruing from the ac tion of our Envoys and as to the expense. It would appear proper that the high ministers in the capita l and provinces should from time to time recommend persons, after careful investigation of their charac ter and abilities, so as to keep in readiness a constant succession of men fit to serve the State, without refer ence to the rank or age (scil. youth) of the parties. it would be wholly within our option whether an embassy was sent or not, and the other powers should not consider it a cases belli if none were sent. . This is the initiative of a constant interchange of civi lities ; subjects for negotiations (lit. the business of an Envoy) will gradually accumulate, and though one or two persons may prove unfit for diplomati c work, how can we tell that such statesmen as Sa wa Pau-cli'ao Fu-ki and Hung-hao may not arise? The duty of an Envoy is to represent the dignity of the Government and to smooth over difficultie s. On the whole therefore (the despatch of an Envoy) may be conceded. "As to the opening of the interior for th e spread of religion, your minister would observe that the Roman Catholics began by attracting men by mercenary motives ; but lately, through th e poverty of the missionaries, this inducement ha s not been held out so much, and their arguments ac cordingly not so much welcomed. The Confucian doctrine was somewhat obscured after the Ts'in and Han dynasties, whileßuddhism has gained strengt h ' Buddhism had its rise in India, and it is now stir planted in a great measure by Mahommedanis i l there. Roman Catholicism arose in the East an d West. Now Protestantism has sprung up in t he East and West, and opposes Roman Catholicism w ith much power. It is very evident that the different re ligions fluctuate from time to time in their vigour,: Confucianism bas not suffered by attrition thro u g h myriads of ages, and it has regenerated China 111 government, morals, manners, and doctrines. What ever method they may like to spread (other reit: ' gions) they will get but few converts. As th ere are many places of worship in the towns and ci ties of every province there is no room for run eh greater extension ; should, therefore, thol powers reiterate strongly their demand, they will probably not press fcr more if a promise were ma de _ that a protective document should be issued fcr their religion whenever called for, and no further ar ttel _ would be needed in the treaty. With respect It; the points which are not highly obnoxious, we n ° only should not contend over them much— w . ° should grant them if asked. It is only as to ran: roads, steamers, salt, and residence (in the interior) for trade, as destructive to our people's interest:, that a strenuous fight should be made. No dec isive or bards words should be used; but the poi nts , should be discussed in a pleasing (or concilia tory) manner. Candid argument will move them, whi le ` °e he are firm against the changes. Let them know that the ancient policy of our rulers was to preserve the e al l s is by showing consideration for the subjects ; and It et also the traditional policy of our dynasty. (Let them know that) there are many considerations ke be taken into account in China. Foreigners si;" now in the ascendant ; but we cannot, to the n ts glect of the misery of our own people, follow a ll t 11:s windings to which complaisance would lead Should times ever alter and China be in the ascen dant, while foreigners are weak, we then shall wis i l to do no more than protect the Chinese, nor sh ag we we seek for military glory beyond the seas. l'S st all their perversions and wiles, they know wo when logic is correct there is no escape from it l ° o that when the mass of the people are inlign ant cannot work against (or molest) them. 51:0u,,,r they (foreigners) be affected. by our sincerity . . k: g . frankness), things will go smoothly (lit. acc oral to rule). A telegram dated Berlin, October 29, states' 44 Th e news pu bli s h e d by s ome journals, that the rate °t postage for letters between North Germany and Olt Britain would shortly be lowered, is semi-officially "*" Glared to be without foundation. The preparatory neg.°4- tiations between the English and North German Cou 3l i sioners in Berlin for settling the bases of a new Poste treaty will only commence in November." The Nonconformist papers state that the WetB; loyan Conference has refused to allow a request, raa cie h the Canadian Church, that the Rev. W. M. ruas- : - should ho the President of the next assembly, the 113;1:0 rend gentleman being at present in Canada. Ilis is also to be dropped from the "legal build ° o f This condemnation is to be carried out in consequenceir. Mr. Punshon having, on leaving England, married 1118 ceased wife's sister. hotte f [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills. —Nothing —With the shortening days and foggy atmosphere the liu,",:se system will be certainly more or less deranged, and notably invaluable Pills exert a greater and more beneficial iefloe o f over loss of appetite, dyspepsla, bilious errorF, irreo the bowels, and nervous !disorders than any other ra°`llT-De9 Their mode of action is thoroughly consonant with reason' I , o f completely purify the blood, relieve both head and storasc,ro,o all faulty functions, and expel all oppressive accumulations 'frail the bowls. With the blood pnrified and all poisons pag ell a che l/ the system, regularity must prevail throughout the bodY , T o o and pains must cease, healthful energy must supplant west and the shaky nerves must regain their wholesome tone. Births. KAYE—On the 2d inst., at Riseholme Rectory, seti . coin, the wife of the Yen. Archdeacon Kayo, Or a f A LISTER—On the 4th inst., at Leytonstone, the Wife Lister, of a son. STREET—On the bth inst., at 10, Albion-street, stet' park, the wife of John lamtield Street, Esq., bi lff.- at-law, of a son. Marriages. 110 06 LEON—MONTEFIORE —On the 4th inst. at Thano' , Highbury New-park, Philip, son of Lewis ool?, the of Upper Woburn - place, Tavistock-square, to A lice' eldest daughter J. Monte dore, Esq. 0 . Job , u ., MACDONALD —EWBANK —Oa the 4th inst., at at. Paddington, Macdonald, Esq., Captain Rolis rines L. 1., to Rebecca, widow of the late Georbe bank, ' Esq. Deaths. r GILBERT —On the 2d inst., at Bartly Lodge, ilan t° ' g Gilbert, aged 85. I,olf GARDNER —On the 4th insf., at the Thurlow Arius, Norwood, Mrs. Ann Gardner, aged 67. W eller ROSSER —On the 4th inst , at Sandhurst College, '', Major Charles P. Rosser, 28th Regt., aged C). p ort SoAMES—On the 3d inst., at Newlands, Staustead, "-- 5 0 John Soames, Esq., agen 75. • Th 013- WRIGHT —On the 4th inst., at Brighton, the Rev. P. Wright, of Reigate, aged 65. isrolitVl‘C° London : Printed and Published by W ELLIAg it---40 I)2i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUB SUN 01 01, to t/ Strand, in the Precinct of the Se vo y , in the (32 Middlcsex.—Friday, Noyenaber 6, 1513