The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

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LDRD STRATFORD DE RE DCLIFFE ON
THE RESULTS OF THE LATE WAR.
LORD STEATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, in the course of an
interesting speech in laying the foundation-stone of
the Memorial Church at Constantinople, said :
Its site was selected with reference to its object as a me-
morial, and we have only to look to the noble prospect now
stretched beneath our eyes in order to appreciate its fitness.
We may now anticipate the time, apparently near at hand,
when the British mariner, in approaching Constantinople
from the south, will recognize among its first objects the
tower of his country's church, and, welcomed by its appear-
ance, lose the feelings of a stranger in the most endearing
recollections. We may hope that his thoughts will rise in
grateful acknowledgment to those who have subscribed the
funds for its construction; to our gracious sovereign, to
her ally, the Sultan, who granted the site, to those who, in
various ways, have aided the progress of the work; and,
above all, to that Great Being on whose protection and
guidsnce we ultimately depend for its completion. 0 God,
how full of wonder are thy ways! The tempest goes forth
in destruction; but the skies are cleared by its appalling
energy, and na.ure soon reviving repairs its ravages with
increased fertility. War, which is but too often the
tempest of human passion, is also an agent of destruction ;
but its course awakens our highest energies, and in its
final consequences the hand of a wise and benevolent Pro-

vidence ma) not unfretpiently be traced. Ta that war
which was lately an object of such intense anxiety to all of
us dining so many successive months, we are indebted for
the plan which our Memorial Church is destined to aectom-
plish. The Sultan's grant of the land required fur it is •
link in the long chain of munificent concessions which
have distinguished his reign. It is a part of that far greater
and more comprehensive act of justice which crowned the
results of the war, in so far as moral principles, apart from
mere political questions, are concerned, by establiahin4
liberty of conscience in religious matters throughput the
Ottoman dominion. It was but natural that a triumph
so interesting and beneficial to mankind should spring
out of that gigantic straggle, of which the Crimea was the
main battle-field, and which, originating in the vindication
of national nglits, was productive of sympathy and union
between rival powers and repulsive populations. It is not
beyond hope that the same causes may eoetinue to operate,
aid that the reliaiou of Christ, the religion of peace, may
spread far and wile its civilizing influence, and ultimately
realize by its universal extension—l mean by the natural
prevalence of truth slid reason—hopes which 1 confess to
be the most ardent desire of my heart!

The noble lord concluded by a glowing tribute to
the memory of those who fell in the war, whose
names, without distinction of rank, will be engraven
on the walls of the sacred edifice.

MR. DRUMMOND WOLFF, of the Forel:to-office, has
succeeded Mr. W. Higgins as private secretary to Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton.
THR VACILMT SECRETARYSHIP in the military de-
partment at the East India Biome bas just been
tilled up by the appointment of Colonel W. E.
Baker, of the Bengal Engineeni, now at home ou
f urlougb, and recently connected with Use public
works department in Calcutta. This appointment,