The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 1111311i0AY EvENINGT, OCTOBER 30, 1862,

with chagrin and discomfort, we take it, by the
Prime Minister BISMARK, or by his royal master
KING WILLIAM. Such as the fact is, however—
there it is in the same compromising telegram,
however unpalateable to Prussian Monarch or to
Prussian Minister. Italy assumes her place as a
considerable power no less distinctly at the Piraeus
than she did a few years back (when her power
was more in anticipation than in realisation) on
the shores of the Crimea. Italy is represented there
by her war vessels in the waters of the Piraeus,
cheek-by-jowel with the naval divisions sent,
or about to be sent, to the same tem-
porary rendezvous by Austria, France, and
England. Prussia longing, but helplessly, so far as
maritime influence is concerned, to have a finger in
the pie—that pie which is just now about to be set
like " a dainty dish"—before what King P
Prince ALFRED of England, it is said. But then he
is a Protestant ! Yet hardly can that surely be ad-
vanced by the Greek religionists of that Kingdom
whose Crown is now going a.begging—hardly can
that be adduced as a sufficient and valid reason !

When Catholic Belgium, for example, possesses a
this moment, as she has possessed for so many years
past in the same happy and prosperous, en-
lightened an d beneficent reign, a Protestant sove-
reign, in the person of her constitutional monarch,
the beloved and popular King LEOPOLD ! Catholic
France but a few years back was ruled, in the
person of M. GUIZOT by a Protestant Prime
Minister ! Catholic Belgium has been ruled, as we
have said, in the person of LEOPOLD, and ruled,
too, during many long and memorable years by a
Protestant Sovereign ! Greece, with her Greek
religionists, can hardly in the presence of facts like
those, objeet to receive a new Monarch, coming to
her under happier auspices than she has ever had
occasion to welcome any Royal Chieftain—she can-
not object now to entertain the idea of receiving
this Royal Chieftain simply because he is not a
Greek in faith, but a Protestant ! Catholic France,
we repeat, showed in a remarkable manner her en-
lightenment and her liberality, by placing at the
head of all her administrators the Protestant Pre-
mier, M. GUIZOT. Catholic Belgium has shown yet
more signally her wisdom, as well as her liberality
and enlightenment, by exulting in the rule of a
Protestant KING, who has now during an en tire
generation presented to view upon the Con-
tinent of Europe the almost exceptional
spectacle of a truly constitutional Sovereign. Shall
Greece now disdain to evidence a like wisdom, libe-
rality, and enlightenment ? Rejecting Prince
ALFRED of England because, in faith, he is a Pro-
testant ? Objections quite as strong may be raised,
however, to each of the other candidates for the
crown of Greece whose names have already been
svllabled. True that the Due of LEUCHTENBURG
is a Greek religionist like the majority of the Greek
multitude whom he aspires to rule as his subjects—
bat then he is a Russian ! A potent cause for jea-
lousy, and reasonably so, among all the other (prin-
cipally among all the Western) Powers of Christen-
dom. Again, there is that native claimant of the
sceptre, whose name has already been bruited
about in some quarters pretty confidently, the
young Prince YPSILANTE. He, too, like
the Due de LEUCHTENBERG, is a Greek by religion
—besides being, unlike the Due de LEUCHTENBERG,
a Greek also by blood, by birth as well as by
parentage. But upon what foundation would such
a dynasty be based ? Upon a foundation as vari-
able and as shifty as a quicksand—instead of being
built up on the solid rock, and giving promise from
the outset of putting at defiance the force and
fury of the storms of any after outburst of a revolu-
tionary character. Among the Greeks themselves
the conviction appears to be already wide spread
that no heaven-born dynasty could survive a
period of more than a few months' duration,
altogether. Is there a talk on the othe.- hand of
any imperial aspirant like the Prince NAPOLEON
—hitherto baulked of a Throne carved out of the
Italian dominions at the expense of his Royal
father-in-law ? The Greek religionists might as-
suredly object to him because of his being a Catho-
lic, as there is now this idle babble about their
objecting to H.R.H. Priuce ALFRED on the score
of his being a Protestant ! If but the latter project
could be carried out—what a simplification to the
difficulties surrounding our rule over the lonian
Islands! A simplification accomplished, of course,
in that contingency by the absorption of those islands
within the new boundary lines of the expanded and
recognized kingdom of Greece. Another and a
grander advantage yet would obviously accrue from
any such a successful negotiation as would place the
second son of Queen VICTORIA upon the throne of
Greece—that settlement of the difficulty which has
now sprung forth in regard to Greece from the
recent revolution, insuring to Western Europe an
effectual and in very deed (to adopt the late
CZAR'S phrase) a material guarantee—but a
guarantee kr what ? That then where it is most
to be dreaded, and most to be regarded with jea-
lousy, a check should be put to Russian ambition in
the East ! A spoke being thereby put in the Wheel
of Fortune, contrived by the wily and audacious
genius of PETER THE GREAT—a wheel that if al-
allowed to roll on, by reason of either the complicity
or of the indolence of the rest of Europe, might even
yet realise the darker half of NAPOLEON'S prophetic
alternative, that before another half hundred years
from the date of Waterloo—Europe, if not Republi-
can, would be Cossack !

A hint might surely be taken by Sir RICHARD
MAYNE as well as by the Birkenhead Magistrates
from a curious little announcement coming to
England just now very opportunely in our French
correspondence. The announcement conveying, as
we cannot but think, this singularly well-timed
hint to those functionaries falls under our observation
in the manner following :—" The Firemen of St.
Armand, near Amiens," saith the correspondent,
" have established an exercise which they call the
tir h 1 draulic, in which the tube of a fire-engine
replaces the rifle. An iron target is erected, in
which a hole is pierced. The target is raised 15
feet from the ground by means of a pole. The
water, driven by a fire-engine placed at a distance
' of 25 feet from the target, is received into the cen-
tral opening, and falls by means of a funnel into a
cask capable of holding 25 gallons. The prize is
adjudged to the fireman who shall fill the vessel in the
shortest time. This period varied on the first trial
from 1 min. 43 sec. to 3 min. 30 sec. The firemen
are delighted with this new practice, and they
have returned thanks to their captain, who origi-
nated the idea." Now, Why, we ask—if lot (in one
sense of the term) seriously, at any rate very
earnestly—Why should not this really excellent
contrivance be adopted in this country, not merely
among our Firemen, but among our Policemen ?
The mere practice would be as surely exhilarating
to them as it is now proving upon exercise-days to
the firemen of St. Armand. And then—and then
—is not the deduction manifest ? So soon
as our conservators of the peace have fairly
got their hands "in" at the hydraulic tir
any attempt at a riot on the part of any section of
the great unwashed such as the roughs of Hyde-park
and Birkenhead, might be put down, if not in a
twinkling, at any rate, with a pretty tolerable
sprinkling ! Captain HANS Buss's suggestion

might then be carried out in the completest and
most effectual manner imaginable. Strange to say,
there is much dry humour in that same soaking
suggestion. The mere notion of a swarm of
bludgeoneering roughs being washed into unwonted
cleanliness, for once, by a well-directed discharge
from the hose of these dydraulic tirailleurs has
about it something positively refreshing.

ANO7HER PHASE OF " ESSAYS AND
hEVIEWS."

With a view, apparently, to a prosecution of the
Rev. Mr. Jowett, the writer of the article " On the
Interpretation of the Scriptures" in "Essays and
Reviews," the opinion of Sir Robert Phillimore has
been taken in a case which has been laid before him.
The following is the " Opinion :"—My duty is con-
fined to stating whether, in my opinion, certain
passages in the Commentaries by Professor Jowett
on St. Paul's Epistles, and certain passages in an
essay by the same author in Essays and Reviews,'
entitled, ' On the Interpretation of Scripture, are
or are not so contradictory of, and at variance
with, certain of the 39 articles and other formu-
laries of the Church of England, as to render
the writer of them punishable by ecclesiastical
law if he were in a position which subjected
him to the law. First, with respect:to the doctrines
of the Atonement, Satisfaction for Sin, Vicarious
suffering of our Saviour, I am of opinion that vari-
ous passages in the commentary entitled On Atone-
ment and Satisfaction,' are plainly at variance with,
and contradictory of, the 2d, 15th, 28th, and 31st of
the 39 articles, and also with various portions of the

liturgy upo❑ these subjects. (The learned civilian
quotes at some length the passages commencing—
" The doctrine of the atonement has often been ex-
plained in a way at which our moral feelings revolt,"
&c.) I find that the writer in these and in other
passages, and as it seems to me, by the whole tenor
of his argument does contradict the doctrine contained

in the 39 articles and the liturgy, and sets up an-
other and a different doctrine in the place of it. Se-
condly, as to the inspiration of Holy Scripture. In
the essay on the Inspiration of Scripture, the pas-
sages contained in pages 342, 343, 345, with re-
spect to this subject are certainly at variance with
and contradictory of the doctrine of the Church of
England as contained in her formularies, according
to the recent judgment of the Dean of Arches in the
case of the Bishop of Sarum v. Williams,' and Ten-
dall v. Wilson.' Thirdly, as to the creeds; the Bth
of the 39 articles says that these creeds ought
thoroughly to be received and believed, for they
may be proved by the most certain warrants of
Holy Scripture.' It appears to me that the lan-
guage of Professor Jowett in pages 353, 345, in
Essay on the Interpretation of Scripture, plainly
contradicts this article. Fourthly, as to the
Divinity of our blessed Lord; and fifthly, as
to the personality of God the Holy Ghost. I
doubt whether the doctrines of the church
upon these subjects are so distinctly contradicted
in the passages referred to as to found a charge in
criminal articles against the writer. Sixthly, as to
the doctrine of Original Sin. Though it seems to
me clear that the writer does not agree with the
doctrine contained in the 9th of the 39 Articles,
yet I doubt whether there be passages contained in
the Commentary or the Essay, which a court ad-
ministering criminal justice would hold to be cer-
tainly and unquestionably contradictory of the
articles and formularies. Seventhly, as to the har-

mony of the 0 d and New Testaments. I have con-
sidered the passages in pages 553-554 of the Com-
mentary. I incline to the opinion that a lenient

court might hold that these passages admitted of
an interpretation which would not necessarily place
them in opposition to the 9th of the 39 Articles."

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have
arrived at Stafford House, St. James's.

The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland arrived at
Stafford House on Tuesday, from Cliefden, near Maiden
head.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
have returned to their residence in Stratton-street, from
Ireland.

The Earl of Eglinton attains his majority on the
3d of December, when there will be great festivities on the
earl's estates in Scotland, more particularly on his lordship's
large estates in Ayrshire. The marriage long arranged to
take place between the noble earl and Lady Sophia Pelham,
only daughter of the late Earl of Yarborough, will be
solemnised shortly after the coming of age of the earl.
The Earl and Countess of Craven have been
receiving a succession of visitors at Ashdown Park during
the past week.
The Marchioness Dowager of Lothian and Lady
Alice Kerr left town yesterday for New Battle Abbey, near
Edinburgh.
The Countess Cowper has been entertaining a
select party at Wrest Park during the week. Amongst the
company present were the Earl and Countess Spencer, Earl
of Shrewsbury and the Ladies Talbot, Viscount and
Viscountess Boyle, Hon. Major Anson, Mrs, L. Fox, Mr.
Henry Greville, Hon. Charles Edgcumbe, &c.
Viscount and Viscountess Barrington have left
Beckett House, Berks, for Brighton.
The Bishop of Oxford passed through town yes-
terday from Hacknoss Hall, Yorkshire, for Hughenden
Manor, Bucks, on a visit to the Right Hon. Benjamin
Disraeli.

The Earl of Wicklow has arrived in Cavendish-
square from Brighton.
Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
and the Hon. Misses Canning will leave Grosvenor-square
in a few days on a Continental tour.
Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby leave town
early next week for Torquay.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P.,
has left town to join Lady Mary Wood at Hickleton Hall,
Yorkshire.

The Earl and Countess De Grey are expected to
leave Studeley Park, near Ripon, on Saturday next, for
town, in order that his lordship may resume his duties as
Under. Secretary of War.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell have arrived at Farrance's
Hotel from Floors Castle, Kelso, N.B.

Mr. Newman and the Misses Newman have left
Farrance's Hotel for Torquay, Devon,
The marriage of Mr. George Russell, son of Mr.
Russell, auditor-general of the Court of Chancery, and
private secretary of Earl Russell, to Lady Charlotte Innes
Ker, younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rex-
burghe, took place in the Episcopal Chapel, at Kelso,
Roxburghshire, N. 8., on Tuesday last.
'[he Earl and Countess Russell and Lady
Victoria Russell return to Chesham-place the week after
next, from Woburn Abbey, Beds, in order to be present at
the wedding of the Hon. Elizabeth Theresa Lister,
youngest and posthumous daughter of the late Lord
Ribblesdale, with Mr. Melville, son of the late Sir Henry
Melville. The earl and countess give the wedding break-
fast, the fair fiancee being step-daughter to the noble earl.
A marriage is arranged to take place between
the Marquis of Tullibardine, son of the Duke and Duchess
of Athol], and Miss Moncrieffe, eldest daughter of Sir
Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieffe.
M. Thouvenel has been appointed chairman of
the French Eastern Railway,vice Drouyn de Lhuys. This
is a curious change.

La Patrie announces the arrival of King Otho
at Venice, where he will be joined by the Grand Duke of
Oldenburg, brother of the Queen, and by Louis, the ex-
King of Bavaria, his father.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A SCOTTISH MISER.—Last
week there died in the Fever Hospital, Dunfermline, a man
fifty-five years of age, named Andrew Hutton, better
known in the western district of Fife as the " African
Chief." For a number of years he has lived in the most
miserly manner, hardly allowing himself enough of food
to sustain life, and the little he did take was of the
coarsest description. Many amusing stories are told of
his parsimonious habits. The immediate cause of death
was eating the leaves of ash trees. He had been walking
along the edge of a field bordered by these trees, on the
fallen leaves of which the cows were feeding greedily. He
thought the animals seemed fat, and that if the leaves
were good for them they could not be bad for him. He
accordingly gathered a quantity and took them home, and,
after boiling them, fed on them for several days. The con-
sequence was that he was taken ill and removed to the hos-
pital, where he died after some days of great suffering. On
searching his house after death the relatives came upon
.an
old tea-kettle, in which was found a cheque for £7O, the in-
terest on which had been accumulating for 17 years' and
a
book showing a balance of £6l at his credit in the National
Security Savings Bank. Several £1 notes and a great
quantity of loose money in half-crowns,
shillings, and
smaller coins were also found in the most out-of-the-way
places. Hutton was also possessed of considerable property
in Dunfermline. He was a great reader, and well versed in
several languages.—Edinburgh Courant.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The total
visitors up to four o'clock yesterday were 61,591, of which
6,2,'5 were by season tickets, 1,139 by shilling and day
tickets, and 57,251 by payment at the doors. Their Impe-
rial Highnesses the Prince and Princess Napoleon were
again present, and, accompanied by Mr. Fairbairn, spent
the whole of the day in the building,

LATEST NEWS.

TURIN, OCT. 29.

The Italia of this evening says:—
" We have received intelligence asserting that
Tristany, with 20 companions, had surrendered
himself at Veroli to a French detachment.
" The band of brigands, commanded by Tardio,
has been destroyed. The chief alone succeeded in

escaping."

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 28.

According to it dvices received here from Athens,
disturbances took place at the Fillet's while the
ship having King Otto on board was still in
sight. Four persons were killed.

The National Assembly will meet within eight
days hence, and will, it is said, offer the crown of
Greece to Prince Alfred of England.

PARIS, OCT. 29.

The Patrie of this evening contradicts the ru-
mour that a French squadron is preparing to sai]

for Greece.

The other evening journals assert, on the eon-
rary, that the squadron will leave at the end of

the present week.

3 25 P.M.

The Bourse has been flat.
Rentes closed at 701. 65c., or 20e. lower than

yesterday.

TURIN, OCT. 29.

The frigates Victor Emmanuel and Tancrete are
about to leave Naples and Messina for the Piraeus

and Patras.

VIENNA, OCT. 29.

The Emperor has ordered a naval division, con.
sisting of one frigate, one corvette, and two gun.
boats, to proceed to Greece, for the protection ol

Austrian subjects in that country.

FRAN CE.

BOURSE, October 29.—A further decline of j. in
Consols, added to the uncertainty felt as to the re-
sult of the affair in Greece, caused a further fall in
this market at the commencement of business,
Threes for the Account rapidly receding to 70f. 50c.
In a short time after, however, a rally took place,
and brought them up again to 701. 75c., at which
they are now. Credit Mobilier and Spanish Mobilier
are quoted rather lower, as are also several of the
lines of railway. The Italian Loan has also lost
ground, being now at 75f. 45c. The market closed
as follows :
It per Cents. 9B 10
Do, end month 98 20
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 70
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1195
Do, end month 1197 50

Bank Shares 3240
Credit F oncier 1250
Piedmontese Fives 72 40
Italian Loan 72 70
Roman -
Austrian
Spanish Threes s2k
Home Debt

RA ILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1052 50 .. 1052 60
Northern ....

New ditto oo • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1180 .. 1182 50
Geneva 360 .. 360
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 617 50 .. 617 60
Ditto to Barcelona 360 .. 355

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 29.

The Royal Mail steamship Norman arrived here
this afternoon with the above mail and 35 passen-
gers. She left the Cape on the 22d ult., St. Helena
on the Ist, and Ascension on the sth inst. She was
detained one day in Table Bay by a heavy gale,
during which the American barqut Lucy Johnson
and the English schooner Susan were wrecked.

After landing her mails the Norman proceeded
to Southampton.

At the Cape the cold wet weather had been suc-
ceeded by warm sunshine and genial showers. The
harvest prospects were good, and business had
slightly rallied. It was hoped that this improve-
ment might be progressive and permanent. The
communication was again open to all parts of the
country, and large quantities of articles of daily
consumption were being forwarded to many districts
where supplies had run short.
Trade in manufactures had also revived.

The import market had suffered no material
change. Money was easy. The revenue returns
for the quarter ending June 30 showed a net de-
crease of £38,495. The new regulations for the
continuance of immigration from England had been
published. Free passages were to be granted on y
to agricultural labourers, artisans, and domestic
servants, who were to be brought out at £6 each.
The Governor had refused to adopt the resolutions
passed by the House of Assembly for introducing
negroes captured by British cruisers. His Excel-
lency also objected to introducing Caffres from
beyond the border.
Her Majesty's ship Ariel had returned from her
cruise on the Slave Coast, duffing which she had
captured 26 slave dhows, and liberated a great
number of captives. She also captured the Persian
Gulf, a pirate vessel, which fired upon her boats in
Mombas harbour, wounding Lieut. Fellowes and
two men.

Information had been received from the Zambezi
of the retreat of the Oxford and Cambridge mission
party, through fear of being attacked bi the natives,
whom they did not wish again to fight. There was
a dispute between the Rev. Mr. Rowley and Dr.
Livingstone respecting who is to blame for this
fighting having arisen.
Mr. Robert Moffatt died near Kuruman on the
Bth of August.
The tribal titles dispute between the Lieutenant-
Governor of Natal and the Legislative Council had
been compromised.
Extensive fires had occurred at Port Natal, caus-
ing much loss of property.
The following vessels had arrived out :—The mail
steamer Athens, on the 10th of September ; the
Roderick Dhu, the Northern Light, the Lord Coiling.
wood, the Gloucester, the John Mayall, the Express,
the Amphitrite, the Marengo, the Joanna, and the
Odin during the month.