The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-30 00:00:00

THE DUTY OF ENGLAND.

thely News observes that, when the settlement
tones, France may be quite sure of the good offices
pf England to spare her any needless humiliation ;
but Wd must. go into negotiation as neutrals, nor
as allies. liiiperiat France went to war against
.our earnest efforts and protests, and she must not
come to us to guarantee' let
_against its consequences.
We are as much the friends of Getinany, as of France,
and as we did not stand between Pinssia and an unjus
attempt to despoil her, we cannot atteinpt to thrust our-
selves between her and the just fruits of her victory. As
for the Imperial dynasty—that must take care of itself,
Our good offices will be between France and Prussia
=but we have no power to interfere between
Fran& and the Emperor. Even if we had the power
Pradee Might not thank us for using it. Our friendly
ielati6ns With France began before the Empire, and will
survive its fall, and that friendship rests on the only basis
on which at friendship can rest, that of letting
our friends' private affairs alone. The second
Empire has always seemed to its a national misfortune to
France and a danger to Europe. We- have never believed
in C:.-esar ; we have only accepted him because a ma-
jority of our neighbours appeared to believe in him.
Their disenchantment .is a painful one, but it
is nob for us to hinder it. On the contrary,
all the Liberal feeling of England and of Europe regards
the Empire as the real cause of the disasters of France,
and believes that the very calamities which attend its fall
may regenerate the nation by reawakening its public
Ixplut. rekindling its love of freedom, and rousing it to talc
its own government and its destiny into its own hands.

DEATH OF LORD SOHERVILLE.—We have to
record the death of Aubery John, thirteenth Baron
Somerville, in the peerage of Scotland, which took place
on Sunday afternoon last, at Somerville Aston, near
Bvesham. His lordship was born in 1838, and in 1868
succeeded his cousin, who was killed by being thrown
from his horse in the hunting-field, in Leicestershire. The
deceased, at the time he succeeded to the title was a
squatter in Australia, where he had an extensive sugar
manufactory. His death was somewhat sudden. On
Friday last he returned home from a dinner party un-
well; and was attacked by bronchitis and inflammation of
the lungs, from the effects of which he died.

ITARVEAT IPc THE NonTH.—Since the 18th inst.
rain has fallen in greater or less quantities every day over
the northern counties. impeding- to some extent the harvest
operations. Around Invernrie and Kintore, in Aber-
deenshire, as in other early districts of the county, cutting
will soon be generally completed. Several farmers in
these localities have their crops all in the stook, or at
least all of the root. In the Laich of Moray not a few
have the grain crop all reaped, while some have a good
deal in the stockyard ; in. the earlier districts of Aberdeen,
Banff, Moray, Nairn, Inverness, and Ross-shires, cutting
will be completed in a few days. In the Highland glens
harvest has not been commenced, and will not be general
for a week or ten days. There, however, the moisture
came more in season, and the grain will be better filled
generally ; while there is also more straw on the acre. So
far as bulk is ooncerned, there seems to be a heavy crop
of barley all over the counties above named, and a fair.
yield of wheat. The oat crop is rather under an average.
The recent rains have done much good to turnips and grass.
.—Scotsman.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER ON THE WA E.--•
Bishop Temple preached at Okehampton Church on Sun-
day, and made an eloquent appeal to the congregation on
behalf of the sick and wounded in the war. He remarked
that, whatever might be said for the rulers of the two
countries who had thus gone recklessly and suddenly to
war, it could not be denied that a vast inajority of the poor
soldiers who were fighting were simply obeying the orders
of their rulers, and had not either the knowledge or the
power to prevent the war from being fought. Let it be
granted that the rulers had made a fearful mistake in
going to war, let it be granted that the war ought never to
have been fought at ail, still the vast majority of those
who suffered from it were quite innocent of any blame on
that account. Of course it was quite true that the chief
duty of doing what was to be done for the sick and
wounded ought to rest noon the nations that had gone to
war, and it must rest there, for whatever might be done
in England it would fall far short of the demand. The
appeal was liberally responded to by the large congrega•
Lion assembled.

MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN I%PN-11:ILL AND LADY
EMMA CAMPBELL.—The marriage of the Right Hon. Sir
John M`Neill, G.C.8., and P.C., of Granton House,
with the Lady Emma Augusta Campbell, only sister of
his Grace the Duke of Argyll, took place on Friday last,
at Inverary Castle, in presence of a distinguished circle,
including the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the
Marquis of Lorne, M.P., Lord and Lady Archibald
Campbell, Earl and Countess Percy, Lady Elizabeth
Campbell, Lady Charteris, Miss Callander, Lord
Colonsay (brother of the bridegroom), Sir George and
Lady Home, Mr. J. Campbell (Islay), &c. The of&
plating clergyman was the Rev. Dr. Candlish, of Frog
gt. George's, Edinburgh, the bride being a member of
that congregation. After the ceremony the marriage
pchedule was signed, first by the contracting parties, then
by the rninistar, and lastly by the Duke of Argyll and
Lord Colonsay as witnesses. Sir John and Lady M`Nrll
thortly afterwards started for Roseneath Castle. During
the dayphie Grace's beautiful yacht Columba and the other
craft in the bay were gaily decked with bunting in honour
)f the occasion.—North British Daily Mail.