The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-13 00:00:00

the nature of the policy pursued by the Four
Powers in the conduct of these negotiations. At
length, when disposed almost to despair of any
settlement whatsoever—good, bad, or• indifferent
—the country hears suddenly that the CZAR has
accepted from the Four Powers their conjointly-
arrangedu/timatissimum. Not a syllable is said even
then about the precise nature of the proposal
acceded to by the AUTOCRAT : but in the midst
of all the darkness, and the secrecy, and the
doubt of these most mysterious proceedings, we
hear them spoken of as matter of general con-
gratulation. Hardly, however, have Englishmen
found themselves felicitated upon the acceptance
of the ultimatissimunt by the Russian Government,
when they discover that that document insures to
the CZAR more concessions from Turkey to the
Greek Chriitians throughout the SULTAN'S do-
minions than even he (NICHOLAS) had, in his
most authoritative mood, demanded. And for
the acceptance of these enormous concessions by
Russia—England, and France, and Austria, and
Prussia are to be congratulated !

We have noticed the merits of Mrs. CHISHOLM
before ; but we advert, with no ordinary pleasure,
to the more efficient public honour done to them
at the London Tavern last Tuesday. The meet-
ing was convened to mark the respect and gra-
titude of her friends, " for her long, arduous,
and successful efforts in improving the condition
of emigrants to the British colonies, and especially
in promoting the reunion of families ; and to pre-
sent her with a testimonial previous to her de-
parture for Australia." Towards the testimonial

itself 8001. was subscribed at the meeting—a sum
which we trust will be multiplied many times.
Well, indeed, does Mrs. CHISHOLM deserve

an acknowledgment from the public purse both

of this country and of Australia. We could not,
however, wish the charm of her spontaneous

exertions to be broken by any reward not per

fectly spontaneous in its character also. The in-
cidents of the meeting were of a very pleasing

kind. The Chairman, the Right Hon. VERNON
SMITH, M.P., bore testimony to the surprising

energy of Mrs. CHISHOLM, having experienced its
effects against him politically in his first con-

test for the Borough of Northampton, and i

having then occurred to him that she would be a
most valuable advocate of any cause which she
undertook. He adverted also, as did other

speakers, in a somewhat apologetic style, to the
fact of her being a Catholic, and to the suspicion
hence engendered in some minds that she would

use her vast influence over untutored minds for

purposes of proselytism.

Much pains was taken

to satisfy the meeting on this point. The Chair-
man thought the very best answer was, that the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY belonged to the Society of

which the Lady forms almost the entire executive,

Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT called in as evidence for
her the Rev. J. C. MILLER, of the Rectory, Bir-

mingham, who, though at first prejudiced

against her, had watched her course nar-
rowly, and was so satisfied that she had
only philanthropic objects in view, that he
cordially joined in the testimonial. Sir J. L.
GOLDSMID stated that the Jews had so much con-

fidence in her, that they intended to send out a

number of Jewish women under her care to
Australia. It was wise, no doubt, to allay any

ungenerous prejudice which might have arisen.
_ .

We, however, feel rather inclined to reverse the
process, and to congratulate Protestants as well

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as Catholics on Mrs. CAROLINE CHISHOLM'S,

belonging to the latter.

We have had one Mrs.

CAROLINE FRY, belonging to the most ultra sect

of Protestants, to conciliate the good-will of
Roman Catholics by an exhibition of the highest
philanthropy in their most uncompromising reli-
gious opponents ; and they now present us with
a like noble specimen of Christian benevolence in
connection with the creed associated in our his-
torical recollections, chiefly with the burnings of
Smithfield and the Inquisition.

What Mrs. FRy,ithe Quakeress, was in prisons,
Mrs. CnisHoot, the Catholic, is in the emigrant
ship and the colony. We think that common
generosity must assume of such women as these
that their philanthropy is perfectly above secta-
rianism.
We could as easily imagine Mrs. FRY
pleading with the convicts to adopt the broad-brim
and the close bonnet, when their term was out, as
Mrs. CHISHOLM urging upon them the crucifix and
the rosary. Until a case was well substantiated,
we should refuse to harbour the remotest suspicion
that the nobler few of our race would " give to a
sect what was meant for mankind ; and we hold
this readiness to suspect energetic philanthropists,
like Father MATHEW or Mrs. CHISHOLM, of secta-
rian objects, to be indubitable evidence of the
narrow-mindeaness and sectarianism of the sus-
pecting party. We have had so much to
do of late with MACHALES and CULLENS,
with furious electioneering priests, and subtle
cardinals, that we really feel the greatest pleasure
in the fact that, in Mrs. CHISHOLM, Catholicism
presents us with a representative whose efforts
and conduct had gained universal admiration
before her creed became generally known. One
living saint is worth a thousand dead ones for
evoking kindly sentiments towards the faith they
honour ; and we doubt not that the disinterested
and successful labours of Mrs. CHISHOLM will
avail much in generating a more tolerant feeling
towards her fellow Catholics, and that, too,
in the minds of those who retain all these
objections to Popery itself. It is pleasing after
all to observe how real practical religion,
the religion which acts out the benevolence
of the Gospel, instead of contending about
points of doctrine, invariably in the long run
obtains the respect it deserves. Sceptical and
utilitarian, as it is the fashion to term this age,
no sooner does any individual, or any society,
show a zeal unquestionably Christian and benevo-
lent, combined with practical measures adapted to
the proposed object, than merit is at once acknow-
ledged and aid is promptly rendered. The saner
part of society, whom Mrs. JELLYBY reviles as
worldly and selfish, are only guilty of having
sense to distinguish between her and Mrs. CHIS-
HOLM ; between Borriobola Gha and a Ragged
School at their own doors, or an emigrant ship
conveying their poorer neighbours acrogs half the
world.

Mrs. CHISHOLM's half-romantic, yet thoroughly
business-like, exploits and labours, are knoWn to
all our readers. She has perfectly gained the
good-will of the rough untutored class she has had
to do with, and would be thoroughly safe amongst
a population of liberated convicts when her name
was known. She has found wives for numbers of
the men, and husbands for the women, under
every disadvantage, and with wonderful general
success. Her presence has been the precursor of
good order and morality wherever she has appeared
among them. Separated families have been re-
united
in safety and comfort, by her arrangements,
arrangements which, individually, very few of
them could
have
made ; and certainly the ladies,
who, in this land,
where the Christian law of mar-
riage is respected,
much indebted t 0 her, since she has
female emigration a re 500,000 too many, are
feasibility and respectability
given to
be said to have commenced a
' unlisnhoemmla baye, fionr.
deeed,
new era in the management of
emigrant ships.
Mr. LINDSAY, and other respectable shipowners,
have thoroughly adopted her vi •
ews ; and the
spirit she has diffused has proved a far more p
li tent Reformer than Government regulations. l'i
' I ought, indeed, to be regarded as a special favour
I of PROVIDENCE that, at a time when marine emi-
gration has become so enormous, and is likely to
such an Emigrant Ship Reformer
continue so large,
as Mrs. CHISHOLM should appear upon the stage.
1. By, example, by kindness, and by energy, she has
coercive measures
initiated a reform which no
could have achieved,
and which will advance
I rather than recede.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MUSEUM.—The follow-
ing articles have been sent to this country from India
for the East India Company's Museum a weapon
traditionally designated the sword of Roostran, a remark-
able blade of great antiquity covered with inscriptions ;
aid the golden chair in which the Burra Maharaja held
his state. These articles have been sent to this country
a theGovernor-General of India for the purpose of
b 3in
Hou's placed in the company's museum at the East India