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London, England, 1865-11-30 00:00:00

conference with that body, and interest it, so far as

his dignity would permit, in a prompt and pacific
arrangement. This presumption was deceived ; none
of the members of the diplomatic body thought pro-

per to visit Admiral Pareja, neither upon his arrival
nor during the four days which elapsed between the
17th and the 21st, the respective dates of his note
and of the reply. If that had taken place—if, at
least, the diplomatic body had offered in writing to
employ its good offices at a useful time and oppor-
tunity, i.e., before the refusal of Chili on the 21st—
I can confidently assure you that Admiral Pareja
would have facilitated an arrangement by every
means in his power, for such was his wish and that
of the Spanish Government. Two favourable op-
portunities were therefore lost; the first before he
forwarded his note on the 17th upon arriving at
Valparaiso ; the second before the peremptory re-
fusal of Senor Minister Covarrubias had been re-
ceived. All that was done afterwards was, perforce,
tardy and inopportune, even looking away from the
form and matter of the communications. The de-
duction may be clearly drawn that if, inspired
be so laudable a desire, the foreign diplomatic
body had profited by these two propitious occasions,
it is very probable that the disadvantages com-
merce is now suffering might have been avoided,
and which we are sincerely the first to deplore.
" All these explanations—those contained in the
circular of this date, and the text of the annexed
documents (already published), contained in to-
day's Gazette, will supply your Excellency with suf-
ficient data to rectify the facts, and bring back to
its veritable bearings that public opinion which has
been led astray either by political (tames, or by the
material interests which find themselves injured.
N,

.o one can deplore more sincerely than the Go-
vernment of the Queen the disadvantages which
may be suffered by the subjects of friendly and allied
nations which maintain close commercial
relations with Chili. A striking testimony to
the solicitude it feels upon their account is
afforded by the text of the instructions given to
Admiral Pareja, in case hostilities should occur.
But, at the same time, no one can be blind to the
fact that right is on our side, and that now, when
unfortunately eventualities such as those in which
we are at present engaged towards the said Repub-
lic hare come to pass, no Government can take into
account, otherwise than by lamenting and averting
it so far as possible the damage which may be
caused to the commerce of foreign nations. We

have frequent examples of blockades which have
been prolonged for months, and even for years,
during which commerce has had to suffer incalcul-
able injury ; and, in the present case, no Govern-
ment can be surprised at the measure adopted
by the Government of the Queen, which
has preferred this preliminary act of
blockade to more serious hostile acts, en-
tailing the destruction of property and the effusion
of blood ; which constitutes an additional proof of
the moderation, desire for peace, and conciliation
which have always animated, and still animate, the
Cabinet of Madrid.
" These considerations cause us to hope that the
Governments whose subjects may more directly
suffer in their interests owing to the paralysation of
commerce, penetrated with the justice and right
which are upon our side, will exert their influence
with Chili no longer to refuse us the moderate satis-
faction we ask from her for the numerous and re-
peated insults she has offered to a nation which has
always admired her and treated her as a friend and
an ally ; and we entertain that hope with the greater
reason because the satisfaction we ask contains
nothing undignified or humiliating.
" I authorise your Excellency to read this de-
spatch to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and to
Senor Rosales, the Chilian Minister, in answer to
the animated observations he addressed to you at
the conference mentioned in your Excellency's de-
spatch of the 19th, to which I have had the honour
to reply.
" God preserve your Excellency many years.
(Signed) "M. BERMUDEZ DE CASTRO."

Dr. Pusey on his Hopes of Reunion.

....----

Dr. Pusey has addressed the following letter to
the editor of the Weekly Register :
" Christ Church, Oxford, Nov. 22.
" Sir,--I thank you with all my heart for your
kind-hearted and appreciative review of my Eireni-
con.' I am thankfal that you have brought out
the main drift and objects of it, what, in my
mind underlies the whole, to show that, in my
conviction, there is no insurmountable obstacle
to union of (you will forgive the terms, though
you must reject them) the Roman, Greek, and
Anglican communions. I have long been convinced
that there is nothing in the Council of Trent which
could not be explained satisfactorily to us, if it
were explained authoritatively, i. e., by the
Roman Church itself, not by individual theolo-
gians only. This involves the conviction on
my side that there was nothing in our Articles which
cannot be explained rightly, as not contradicting
any things held to be de fide in the Roman Church.
The great body of the faith is held alike by both ;
on those subjects referred to in our Art. XXII., I
believe (to use the language of a very eminent
Italian nobleman), ' your [our] maximum and our
[your] minimum might be found to harmonise.'
" In regard to details of explanation, it was not
my office, as being a priest only, invested with no
authority, to draw them out. But I wished to in-
dicate their possibility. You are relatively under
the same circumstances. But I believe that the
hope which you have held out, that the authorities
in the Roman communion might hold that 4 a re-
union on the principles of Bossuet would be better
than a perpetuated schism,' will unlock many a
pent-up longing, pent-up on the ground of the ap-
parent hopelessness that Rome would accord to the
English Church any terms which it could accept.
" May I add that nothing was further from my
wish than to write anything which should be painful
to those in your communion ? A defence, indeed,
of necessity involves some blame; since, in a quarrel,
the blame must be wholly on the one side or on the
other, or divided; and a defence implies that it is
not wholly on the side defended. But having
smoothed down, as I believe, honestly, every diffi-
culty I could to my own people, I thought it would
not be right towards them not to state where I con-
ceive the real difficulty to lie. Nor could your
authorities meet our difficulties, unless they knew
them. You will think it superfluous that I desired
that none of this system, which is now matter of
' pious opinion,' should, like the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception, be made de fide. But, in
the view of a hoped-for reunion, everything which
you do affects us. Let me say, too, that I did not
write as a reformer, but on the defensive. It is not
for us to prescribe the Italians or Spaniards what
they shall hold, or how they shall express their pious
opinions. All which we wish is to have it made cer-
tain by authority that we should not, in case of re-
union, be obliged to hold them ourselves. Least of
'all did I think of imputing to any of the writers
whom I quoted that they took from Our Lord
any of the love which they gave to His Mother.'
I was intent only on describing the system which
I believe is the great obstacle to reunion. I had not
the least thought of criticising holy men who held it.
" As it is of moment that I should not be mis-
understood by my own people, let me add that I
have not intended to express any opinion about a
visible head of the Church. We readily recognise
the primacy of the Bishop of Rome ; the bearings of
that primacy upon other local Churches we believe
to be matter of ecclesiastical, not of Divine law ;
but neither is there anything in the supremacy in
itself to which we should object. Our only fear is
that it should,through the appointment of one bishop,
involve the reception of that practical quasi-autho-
ritative system which is, I believe, alike the cause
and (forgive me) the justification in our eyes of our
remaining apart.
"But although I intended to be on the defensive,
I thank you most warmly for that tenderness which
enabled you to see my aim and objects throughout
a long and necessarily miscellaneous work. And I
believe that the way in which you have treated this
our bond fide endeavour to find a basis for reunion
on the principle debated between Archbishop Wake
and the Gallican divines two centuries ago' will,
by rekindling hope, give a strong impulse towards
that reunion. Despair is still. If hope is revived
in the English mind that Christendom may again
be united, rekindled hope will ascend in the more
fervent prayer to Him who maketh men to be of
one mind and one house,' and our prayers will not
return unheard for want of love.—Your obedient
servant, " E. B. PUSEY."

UNHOUSED IN GLASGOW.---We learn that 24,480
persons will be turned out of their homes should the Glas-
gow Improvements bill be passed. This number &es not
include a goodly population who will be removed by
the proposed alterations of the twelve streets to be
widened. No provision is to be made for the unlioused.—
BuiWing News.