The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-29 00:00:00

:-SUN, 'LONDON% MONDAY PIVENENG, SEPTEMBER 29, 1862.

master would part with. Let a jury of labourers I
decide which master pays his labourers best,
treats them most like reasonable beings, fur-
nishes the most well-paid employment, and al-
together does the most to make it worth a
farm labourer's while to do his best to serve him.
Let the jury of labourers pronounce on the man
whose service they thought it a privilege to enter,
and, per contra, thought it most foolish for a labourer
to quit.

Now, why should not such a farmer have a
prize ? Why should he not have a " blue riband ?"
Why should he not have a bucolic coat of prize
colour, and buttons with a suitable embossing of a
portly JOHN BULL and a healthy hat-touching,
cheerful-looking swain ? Why should he not go to
church or to market in the orders conferred by his
peasantry ; his neighbours surely would not titter
at him; that would imply that the equals of Mr.
DISRAELI'S greencoat would do the same. We will
not suppose such jealousy in bucolic natures, or
imagine that they could suspect each other of that
course of conduct elegantly known as " currying
favour." If Mr. WALTER will boldly advertise his
prize and its conditions, he will surely do something
towards rewarding men surely worthy reward—
good masters. We mean, of course, on the Ms-
RAELI hypothesis, that " emulation is the origin of
all our excellencies," and that it will not do to leave
virtue to be its own reward. Perhaps, indeed, we
ought to have rather proffered our suggestion to
Mr. DISRAELI than to Mr. WALTER, since it is the
development of the former's hypothesis. We
thought of it, however, for Mr. WALTER, because we
are pretty sure it would prose the truth of his
argument, that the prize labourer is commonly the
servant of one whom no labourer, in his senses,
would willingly leave. The servant, in fact, of a
prize master.

CONFEDERATE PRIVATEERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN.

Sir,—When standing towards the Isle of Flores,
on the 10th inst., we observed a rakish looking
steamer steering direct towards us, changing her
course as we crossed her path. As she neared us I
hoisted the British ensign. The steamer then
changed her course, and stood towards an American
schooner, firing two shotted guns across the latter's
bow. The schooner then hove to, and boats from
the steamer took possession of her. They were two
miles' distance from my ship. Boats from the
steamer approached the island, and, as they passed
under our stern, the men in them desired me to
report that the steamer was the Alabama Confede-
rate war steamer, commanded by Captain Semmes,
late commander of the Sumter. They were landing
the crew of four Federal whaling ships which they
had burnt, and the men reported the schooner would
also be destroyed.—l am, Sir, your respectfully,
THE COMMANDER OF THE
Sept 26. CAIRNGORM.

His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief is
expected to proceed to the inspection of the troops in the
south-eastern district in about ten days.

The Marquis of Lansdowne left Lansdowne House
on Thursday, for his seat, Bowood.
The Marquis of Breadalbane, who has recovered
from his recent indisposition, has left his mansion in Park-
lane for Germany.

The Marquis of Clanricarde has left town for
Portumna Castle, Galway. The marchioness and Lord H.
de Burgh have gone to Marston House, Somersetshire, on
a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cork.
The Baroness Brunnow has left Chesham House
to join his Excellency Baron Brunnow at Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have
been receiving a succession of visitors at their seat, Ap-
thorpe, Northamptonshire.

A marriage is about to take place between the
Hon. Charles A. Murray, C. 8., her Britannic Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Court of Saxony, and Miss Edith Fitzpatrick, fourth
dauglatez of the Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Queen's County, Ireland.
FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF ELLESMERE.—The
funeral of the Earl of Ellesmere took place at Worsley
Church on Saturday. The chief mourners were Earl
Grosvenor, Lord Brackley, Lord Egerton, and Lord Wil-
' ton. The tenantry and fifteen colliers from each coal-pit
joined the procession. The service was read in the church
by the rector.
THE NEW ARCHBISITOP OF CANTERBURY.—Dr.
Longley, who has accepted the Primacy of All England, is
the fifth son of the late Mr. John Longley, Recorder of
Rochester, and subsequently resident magistrate at the
Thames Police-court. He was born at Boley-hill, Roches-
ter, in 1794. He was educated at Westminster School,
whence he proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, where he
graduated in 1815, taking a first class in classics. In
182 E he was appointed public examiner, and, having filled
the office of tutor and censor of Christ Church, he was pre-
sented by his college to the incumbency of Cowley, a small
benefice in the immediate neighbourhood of Oxford. In
1827 he was presented by Mr. C. B. Wall, M.P., who was
at college with him, to the rectory of West Tytherley, near
Stockbridge, Hampshire, and held it until 1829, when he
was elected by the trustees to the head-mastership of Har-
row School. In 1831 he was married to the Hon. Caroline,
eldest daughter of the first Lord Congleton. In 1836 the
see of Ripon was founded, and Dr. Longley was appointed
the first bishop. On the resignation of Dr. Maltby in 1856
Dr. Longley was translated to the bishopric of Durham,
and on the death of Dr. Musgrave, in 1860, to the Arch-
bishopric of York. As soon as the necessary forms can be
completed ho will be enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral as
the Primate of All England. It may be mentioned that
there have been five precedents for a translation from the
throne of York to that of Canterbury. In 1396 Thomas
Fitzalan, otherwise Arundel, was translated; in 1451 John
Kemp, in 1575 Edmund Grendall, in 1747 Thomas Her-
ring, in 1757 Matthew Hutton. In every century since the
14th, with one exception, Primates of England (Arch-
bishops of York are Primates of England only) have be-
come Primates of All England. Dr. Longley preserves the
tradition for the 19th century. The confirmation of the
Archbishop nominate will take place at St. Mary-le-Bow
Church, Cheapside, immediately after his election by the
Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.

Mr. Thornhill, M_P. for Derbyshire, when at
Zurich, on his way to Italy with Mrs. Thornhill, slipped
and fell on the polished floor of the salle a manger of the
hotel, breaking his ribs. He was detained at Zurich for
some time, but left on Saturday for Paris, returning home
instead of continuing his journey southward ; for, although
much better, he requires English medical care to put him
quite right.—Court Journal.

POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.—Notwithstand-
ing the depression of trade and the distressed condition of
the manufacturing districts, the Post-office banks are rapidly,
attaining a business of enormous magnitude. The acknow-
ledgments for deposits, which are sent from the General
Post-office to the depositors, are printed with consecutive
numbers, and ➢lr. Tidd Pratt states that two months ago
he saw acknowledgments the numbers on which showed
that there had been already more than 360,000 deposit:.
Each post-office issues its own set of depositors' books,
numbered consecutively, and many post-offices are known
to have issued books to more than 500 depositors, several
of them to more than 1,000, and there are above 2,500 Post-
office banks open. Trustees of old savings banks, who have
in many instances maintained their establishments at con-
siderable exercise of time and labour, and from purely bene-
volent motives, are rapidly determining to transfer the la-
bour and responsibility to the shoulders of the Government.
An instance will best show the accommodation afforded by
the Post-office banks :—A man who had deposited money
in one of them in London, and who had to go to the north
of England and wanted his money there, wrote for the
amount in the usual way to the General Post-office on a
Thursday night, and on the following Saturday morning
the money wa3 paid to him at the post-office of the town in
which he was staying.

BRISTOL AS AN EMIGRATION PORT.—Mr. H.
Berkeley, M.P., and Mr. John Millington, shipbroker, of
Bristol, had an interview on Tuesday with Mr. Walcot, one
of her Majesty's Commissioners of Emigration, to urge the
claims of Bristol as a desirable port for Government emi-
gration, and also to solicit that the Ivanhoe, a vessel which
has been chartered by the Commissioners to convey 350
emigrants to Melbourne, may be allowed to embark her
emigrants at Bristol. Mr. Walcot intimated that with re•
gard to the Ivanhoe the Commissioners could not disturb
their present arrangements. As to the matter of Govern-
ment emigration generally, Mr. Walcot expressed himself
favourably disposed to the claims of Bristol, provided simi-
lar facilities were offered to those afforded at other ports.
The matter is being taken up by some influential citizens of
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Bristol, and steps are being taken for providing the aceom-
modation now afforded at London,
Plymouth, Southampton,
and Birkenhead.
cei!information of a robbery at the Roman Catholic
Chapel,AT A CHAPEL.--The police have re-
Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. It appears that
some person or persons effected an entrance into the chapel
by means, it
is suPPesed, of the roof, and carried off the sil-
ver chalices and otherfaticles, said to be of the value of gO.