The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-06 00:00:00

and in fidelity to endeavour them. We should
fail in our duty to our Divine Master if we
were to aim at anything less than the con-
version of England, the redemption of all
our brethren from heresy and from schisms,
the reconciliation of our country, dear to me -next
after the Church of God, to the kingdom of Jesus
Christ. It is a paltry service and an earthly pru-
dence which aims at anything less than the whole
breadth of our Divine commission. "If you have
faith as a grain of mustard seed you shall say to
this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and
it shall remove ; and nothing shall be impossible to
you." Two things are certain—the one that Pro-
testantism, after running like other heresies its
course of 300 years, is dissolving and vanishing
away ; the other, that the Catholic faith is irresis-
tibly expanding on every side. These two operations
never rest. Everything which bears the semblance
of a theology or of a church out of the unity of
the only true Fold, is visibly changing and pass-
ing out of sight. In a generation or two the
Anglican religion will be like Donatism or
Arianism—a page in history. The immutable
and imperishable Church, in the midst of
a world-wide conflict which is rising higher
and higher every day, will be all the more visible to
the nations as the sole ark of salvation moving upon
the face of the waters. For this we will labour on
in perfect confidence that God will. accomplis h His
own work when and as he wills. When, the other
day, I had the happiness of kneeling at the feet of
the Vicar of our Lord, I venture to say that the
thoughts which arose in my mind were nei-
ther of the honours or promotion which were
laid upon me, but of the paternal love and
confidence which the Sovereign Pontiff had mani-
fested towards me. I could not then and I cannot
now look upon what has fallen upon me, except as
a heavy and formidable trust. I believe, very
reverend and dear brethren, that it is in that spirit
we meet to-day. lam confident that in your minds
the first thought and the last is neither of honour
nor dignity, but of the labour and responsibility
which rest upon you all and with you and for you
first of all upon myself. It gives me, therefore, a
true and heartfelt consolation to meet you as I do
to-day, and to receive from you this spontaneous
and unlooked-for assurance of the unity of heart
and will in which we are bound together. We are
not strangers to each other. In these last fourteen
years and more it has been my happiness to live and
to labour among you. There is not a mission in
London in which your invitation has not given me
year after year a share in your work. There is
hardly a mission in the diocese, the details of which
I have not learned from yourselves. And these
close ties of common labour, and, I may say,
of friendship and affection, have by the Sovereign
Pontiff been now knit together by a bond which
nothing can dissolve. To live among you and to
work with you in the intimate confidence and mutual
love of pastors and brethren, who are spending and
being spent for the flock ; in God's good time to be
laid by you in the midst of those faithful servants
who, after their toil was over, have already fallen
asleep ; and with them to be remembered by you at
the altar, this is all I desire and ask. Your act
to-day, with the help of the Holy Spirit of
God, will give me courage for anything. In ful-
filment of the promise I made you in June last,
I did not forget you when I received from the
Vicar of our Lord his parting blessing. I asked for
you a plenary indulgence and the pontifical benedic-
tion, which I will now convey to you and to all the
faithful here gathered together, with the prayer that
you may be powerfully assisted by the Holy Ghost
to save the souls for whom Jesus shed His blood,
and over whom He has set us that we may give
account to Him at the day of His coming.
The Archbishop then retired from the Church,
attended by the clergy, and the proceedings ter
urinated.

The whole of the arrangements, which were
under the control of the Rev. Dr. Gilbert, were
admirable, not the slightest confusion or over-
crowding in any part of the Church occurring during
the whole of the imposing ceremony.

The Temperance Movement.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The friends of the temperance cause are
much indebted to you for the leading article
in your paper of Saturday. You do them in-
justice, however, when you state that they "en -
deavour to enforce total abstinence on a whole
country." Their object is not to enforce total
abstinence, which would certainly be " per-
fectly useless," but to persuade the community that
abstinence from strong drink as a common beverage
is the most efficient means of reclaiming drunkards
and of preserving the sober from habits of intem-
perance. The fact that one-tenth of the inhabitants
of this country have already become total abstainers
is sufficient to encourage temperance reformers to
further efforts, and to convince them that their work
is not so utterly " hopeless" as many imagine.
Yours, respectfully,
A TWENTY-SIX YEARS' TEETOTALLER.
London, Nov. 6, 1865.

Arrangements are ordered to be carried out on an
extensive system in Woolwich Arsenal for the pur-
pose of fulfilling the design of the War Department,
long contemplated, of superseding the use of timber
for gun carriages throughout the two services, and
establishing that of iron in its stead. A large number
of carpenters employed for many years in the Royal
carriage department have in consequence been dis-
missed, and, by virtue of the regulations, those who
have served ten years and upwards are entitled to a
scale of pension ranging from ss. 'a
week. Many of
the men are young and unencumbered, and will be
able to obtain employment elsewhere without
loss of time, while many, it is feared, will have great
difficulty in supporting themselves and their families
on account of their. advanced age. Their discharge
was felt to be a matter of necessity, otherwise the
work would have to be performed by private firms.
The spacious workshops occupied by the carpenters
and tin-workers are now undergoing a complete
change. They will be transformed into smitheries
and engineers' factories, and are being supplied
with riveting machines, steam hammers, punch-
ing machines, shears, and all the appliances ne-
cessary in the manufacture of iron carriages
and slides. A fuse-box of a new pattern, approved
by the War Department, is also to be introduced,
and the entire stock on hand is ordered to be re-
modelled, which will entail some considerable amount
of employment to those retained. A number of
additional mechanics and labourers have been taken
on in the Royal gun factories to complete the
4 Woolwich guns" in course of construction, so as to
enter upon a test of their merits as early as may be.
A ROMAN CATHOLIC JUDGE ON FENIANISM.—At
the quarter sessions for the county of Limerick, Mr.
John Leahy, chairman of the county, a Roman Catholic,
in addressing the Grand Jury, congratulated them on the
:act that so far as their city was concerned, it ap-
peared to him to be free from what was known as
Fenianism. alb's, he should say, was highly ered;table to
Limerick. There was no appearance whatever of that vile
-and wicked conspiracy within its walls, which was not to
bo much wondered at when the character and intelligence
of its inhabitants was considered, for no respectable or in-
telligent man would identity himself with it; even the
humbler classes of any respect would not do so. It was
confined to drunken, idle fellows, disaffected young men
without character or reputation, a lot of brainless shop
boys, who, because they read of the penal laws enacted in
former days, and which ought to be long since forgotten,
assumed imaginary wrongs, and, fanned on by a false
spirit of patriotism, wished to exhibit themselves before
the world. His Worship then spoke of: the wicked inten-
tions entertained by the Fenians, and said that while they
were of a nature only calculated to make sago men laugh
—about drilling, pikes, and so forth—still they were of
a character to cause apprehension to persons of weak nerves,
whose properties were threatened to bo taken from them,
and who were actually under the impression that it would
be. It was satisfactory to know that Fenianism hadn't its
existence in this country; it had been going on for a long
time in America, among a reckless and bloodthirsty class—
men without means or. chamctor. True, there was emigration
from this country to America, but none of the farmers who
had a stake at home went there; the soars of some did go,
who could not get a good field for labour at home, and num-
bers of young men also went out in the search of lawful em-
ployment. This admitted, he should say that some of the
greatest criminals betook themselves there to avoid punish-
ment for tho offences they had committed at home, and those
were the class who chiefly composed the Fenians in Ame-
rica. Men had gone to America and Australia,, and re-
turned home in a short time very wealthy. How did they
get rich so soon ? Fellows failing to get on either in Ame_
rica or Australia by proper means, betook themselves to
some digging, and by getting up earlier in the mornings
than their neighbours became rich by cutting their throats.
In conclusion, his worship adverted to the news received
about the Fenian meeting held in America, and read the
speech of Mr. O'Mahony, especially dwelling upon the
portion where ho announced the contributions towards the
funds. This in itself showed that money-making Was at
the bottom of the whole plot.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-HALF-CROWN DAY.-Sa-

turday the admissions on payment were 804. do. by
season tickets, 3,793 ; total visitors, 4,597,