The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS—THIS MORNING,
LORD DERBY ON PAUPERISM.
Lord Derby, says the Times in discussing his speech at
Liverpool, does not forget that physical disease and death
are not the only losses sustained in the battle of commerce
and the struggle for wealth. He contemplates the pros
pert of a few churches and schools, but a great many pub-
lichouses in the new quarter of Liverpool. When there is
drunkenness there will be pauperism, and When there is
p:tulierism there will be many things worse. It was beyond
jinraediate purpose to enlarge on the means of ra-
t ev'ng this kind of suffering, but it is in its application
;such wants that charity is now so much suspected. It
;b Is here, we are told, that there is so much room for
:Posture, and that you can never be sure that your
,?,110Y does not do more harm than good. We acknow-
-4.,,ge the difficulty, but we are inclined to suggest that
%an fault lies not so much in the applicants as in the
,;!L ors. If the only medicine administered in a hospital
Ins
a pleasant stimulant, it is probable should% Persons would apply for relief, and we soon
all outcry against the demoralization produced.
• lt is too much like the case of our moral hos-
Many charitable persons and institutions
ave only one remedy for the cure of the pauperism which
d°:fles before them—incessant administration of pecuniary
a•lb'it,,Rls• The disease, be it observed, is just. as unquestion.-
„,' in the one case as in the other. If a man is a be-
or a drunkard, or improvident, he is as certainly
„ from a moral malady as a man in a consumption
an ague is physically diseased. Charity equally de-
IMs that you should take measures to relieve him of
disease. But spiritual and moral practitioners are
A°g'en as devoted to a few traditional drugs as the doctors
da hundred years ago ; and when everything else fails
,Y are content to resort to the opiate of a pecuniary
je.
rl le Stanclard thinks that the Earl of Derby has not
onlyfo given the site for a new hospital and laid the
foundation stone, but he has placed society under -obli-
gations by delivering a short and sensible speech,
ih4lng, succint and eloquent terms, with several
a-eortant and pressing questions. In composition
f in substance the speech may serve as a model
Public oratory. It neither went beyond the occasion
how ll Short of it. It was long enough to complete, and
i,enough, as wall as good enough, not to be tedious.
" is true that the world has never yet run short of
SPeeches. But the world has suffered sorely from
atoll::dies unreasonably long and excessively stupid. As
01 aPecinacn of what excellent things can be said
comparatively ordinary occasion we turn to
3adlliirable address just given at Liverpool.
tilPPily there is charity as well as distress and suffering
uroughout the length and breadth of England • but the
1551.allisation which is chiefly wanted is that which will
frl;l4g the rich more in contact with the poor, so that
`elldlY counsel, good example, and neighbourly
iIY, combined with judicious oversight, may make
"aatever money is given of double worth.

ITALY.
B,rhe Post declares that the two parties in Italy, the in-
tr4r4.ectionists in the Chamber and the insurrectionists in
tcrwns and streets, play into each other's hands. The
interpellationsi furnish a pretext for the
iti'..llllB*---the risings furnish a pretext for parliamentary
a‘'etPellations. The double end is gained by throwing
the the public time and disturbing the public peace
tr. jurther aim is advanced of discrediting adminis-
,iative.
capacity and parliamentary vigour. And when
it this
to th can be done with a more special reference
army, to the weakening and discrediting of that
ti-.)ee to which Italy owes so much, the gain, in a rev obi.
spjtlarY point of view, is so much the greater. That, in
epf such attempts, y should be unmistakably pro-
cssive, is only anotherltal and cheering proof of the re-
Oi.erative power in political societies, of the readiness of
or°.lctY itself to correct the mistakes of misguided patriots
inefficient statesmen. Every day furnishes still stronger
roofsL of this recuperative power in Italy, and to its
~
mr,C,"-Inq the friends of tke Italian people must look for-
fr Id with a discriminating, but at the same time well-
't'°llnded, confidence.

COUNTY ELECTIONS.
ofl‘,4lle Daily News says that the.temporary political truce
th:ui Whiisuntide holidays has been broken in upon by
p to al skirmishes of two contested elections in two iin
4,4tant county divisions. Both South Leicestershire and
"1.,(i Isle of Wight are, or might be, independent county
eoastituencies. Of the candidates before theth they may
erurzi whom they choose. The Isle of Wight has a large
4,_lxlent in its constituency of independent persons, who
aoge ther above any locl influenc. Te
c2astitultenc of South Leicestershiare contain se a large
th ""er of y wealthy and independent farmers, who have
press r own political opinions, and who dare to ex-
-3,,f
t them. W are now entering on some new
()„1111' Us• The nieTests
Bill, the Parliamentary.
stis the Education Bill, are three great mea-
d of which the character and fate wid be decided
the next two months. The Liberal electors of the
voti\\Tght will not, we trust, send a representative to
te;' against these measures, nor will those of South
I.,,,,;osl.ershire. Let them regard the election I:at it
co"V is, a deliberate expression of their opint,,,, the
e nglict of the Government ; let them look upon ,t that
verY elector in these two constituencies is asked to say
nW,,hether, so far as he is concerned, it shall be supported
g„ll°,t, and there will be no fear of the result. Both
b.„'lltio Leicestershire and the Isle of Wight must be won
by fidelity of the Liberal electors, and by their sell-
s 9.. er
woe if need be.

THE FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Telegraph, in referring to the disastrous fire
Constantino le says. one great aid to such a catastrophe
of wae dryness which prevails in Stamboul at this time
thin Year; the excessive heat parches every-
aotirg, and makes everything like tinder. As to the
bur tr " of fire. the pans of lighted charcoal everywhere u
Trig without a cover. the innumerable " kebab-
gr:'rB," and the pipes for ever pulling with s
inakc,-'11,13 of glowing tobacco and a fire-ball upon them,
Agaiii the
origin of conflagration intelligible enough.
as
to its water-supply, Constantinople is most
drl).erfectly provided. The Turks catch the surface
aua4nae In the adjacent valleys by means of reservoirs,
cad cogllect a litth store from the rains into the
kui,,cisterns dug under the town by the Byzantine
; but in the dry season this is a very iasuilieipt
gt/i'd best athe moues, by a special law liaVe the first
of what then dribbles down by the aqueduqs.
brie rest of the thirsty capital is watered by carriers who
Shlt8!'11113 upon their backs from Scutari ; and Captain
babl„, if he were in charge of the fire bri 1 ga(.e, would pro-
?, go mad fromsomothin,, the reverse of hydrophobia.
astly
bluwi , at this time of year'the Etesian winds are always
to fn7ng from the Black Sea down the Bosphorus, ready
Tt 17,1,.',1t0 fury any little blaze which may break for,th.
ha,it txtus be seen, that without attributing any inang-
the,, Practices to Djins or GiaourE, all the conditions of
I\z„,(' melancholy accidents are carefully provided by
4. Lure and man between them.

h; THE INFALLIBILITY QUESTION.
re a iew days have elapsed since the Standard ex-
sed the opinion that the chances were strongly against
gins
the Ninth's infallibility being proclaimed in the
:(I'`croan Basilica on the feast of Saints Peter and
It
f appears we gave the partisans of the doctrine
4,1140°5 too much respect for decency. We said it was
,t inconceivable that in discussing a matter of such
selves consequence, the majority shou avail them-
Pla of the summary weapon the Pope has despotically
pute,t in their hands, stop the mouths of their opponents,
p pea thronob the names of more than half the
a.tes who have Qinicrib:d themselves to speak, and
'll-IMate the debate by the rude machinery of our powering
t?illeies• The inconceivable has been actually brought about.
it "3 we added, the situation suddenly changed,
of Ivjt idle to think that all could • be settled by the 29th
hin's Month. The change of si:uation has occurred.
c". 2) d'EgUse was performed on Friday last, and the
Will be long remembered. The majority declared
tarlselves, with a touch of fine satire, "sufficiently en-
said lied, and bluntly refusing to hear what was to be
trine the subject by some fifty opponents of the doc-
exh', Pronounced the general discussion, as it is called,
by allsted and clowd. Rome settles the matter not only
en s,eaking but by refusing to let anybody else speak.
however of the Fathers being already sufficiently
the Pone .fixed a solemn pr ,cession for Whit
tut " in order to implore increased enlightenment."
si 4 "1Y then have had any argument at all? A proces-
hauyetr,lit have settled the dispute long ago. It would
been more simple and more sincere.

of The disgraceful disturbances at the parish church
a Thtou-in-Mackerfield were repeated on Sunday, and
re "`"'ev- Mr. Oldham, the minister, was escorted to and
r°ol his residence by a number of policemen.
%The General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian
on commenced its annual deliberation at Belfast
sizavtonday,
extend
under the presidency of the Rev. Professor
Yth, moderator. The sitting will probably over ten days.
Th° Governor-General of Canada has publicly
thankedresponse
the volunteers and militia for their prompt
Grel;°°B° to the call to resist the Fenian invasitoA.
but etal Lindsay spoke on the same occasion, and. at
0-.. , ed the easy defeat of the invaders to the accuracy f
'4nog of the Canadian forces.
XILLE
Port,, nDY A TRAIN.—At Botley Station,. on the
the
p.--,To.uth line, on Monday, Mr. Moore, an inspector in
in ZPl?Yment of the South-Western Railway Company,
down--
P, Ping out of the way of one train was knocked
''Y another, and instantaneously killed. He leaves
Wife and several children.
No p
fth ,DIJCATION FOR DUSTMEN.—In many part.s
of the -e Inetropolis (a correspondent writes) the plan is
wi Ate(' of placing a card with the letter D on it in the
re lid.fts of houses where the services of tht dustman are
till,nered, but it is little attended to. One of the greatis
1.1;44, ontractors was lately told of the inattention of h
the and added that his foreman strongly impressed on
adieurn,the necessity for attending to the sig., nal, but be
lette '; one
We know how it is ; the men don t know
teach 311 another." He was asked, " Why don't you
never
_Pieta their letters ?" and replied, " That would
they 'l°. If they could read and write, or even read,
4,2"1w0u1d soon get better situations." ,
tig.le London correspondent of a Manchester paper
ri6 • 'lle rumour prevails that after much consider.a-
sai:la,d re-consideration, a majority of the Comm.ise-
hetw4 have agreed to report in favour of a compromise
0,..,_
one the neutral and denominational system. .
e.Vca
.e school exists in a parish the principle of mixed
u. tion is to be maintained ; but wherever there are
o,7schools one is to be distinctively Catholic, and the
-erred distinctively Protestant (or neutral if it is pre-
tiori), though both are to be subject to the inspec-
all .faild control of a Government board. - The object of
pf.i.._this alteration is, in fact, to bring the practice of
thin instruction on both sides of the Channel to some-
"g °f the same standard.