The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-10 00:00:00

THAMES.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—EIiza. Smith, aged 26
years, was brought before Lushington, charged
with stealing nine yards of cotton, value 4s. 6d.,
from the shop of a linendraper, No. 3, Cannon-
street-road.

Thomas Walsh, a draper's assistant, said the pri-
soner came into his employer's shop and asked him
if he would entrust her with a tally-bill ; that meant
to supply her on credit with goods to be paid for
by instalments. He said his principal was
not a tallyman, and the place was not
a tallyshop. The prisoner said better houses
in the trade were tally-shops, and as respect-
able men, such as Mr. Michael Magnus, were tally-
men. He told her he had nothing to do with
tally bills or giving credit on the tally system, and
she left the shop, taking with her aS she did so a
piece of cotton print containing nine yards, and
valued at 4s. 6d.

Alfred Woodcock, a police-constable, No. 60 11,
saw the prisoner running away, and pursued her.
He overtook and arrested her. She was extremely
violent, threw herself on the ground, and made a
determined resistance.
Prisoner—lt is my first offence.

Mr. Lushington ordered inquiries to be made
about the prisoner, and remanded her for a week.

ASS AULT ON A SURGEON BY A PAUPER.—Charles
Chambers, a pauper of the City of London Union
in the Bow-road, was charged with assaulting Mr.
Charles Buncombe, surgeon and medical officer of
the union. The prisoner is verging on blindness,
and although well treated and increased in size and
strength since he entered the union-house, he has
shown a refractory spirit. Yesterday Mr. Bun-
combe was going over the building, and the prisoner
asked what the dietary sc.& was, to which Dr.
Buncombe answered sour on Wednesday. The pri-
soner said he was not going to stop iu the house to
be murdered, and Mr. Buncombe told the nurse to
stop his beer, on which the prisoner struck the sur-
geon on the head, and knocked his hat off.
Mr. Lushington did not think the prisoner had
any real ground of complaint, and sentenced him
to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour, for the
purpose of showing him that he must pay respect
to the officers of the union, and not raise hands to
them.

PRESENT MIGRATION OF RACES IN 711 E

UNIIED STATES.

Last week we noticed the extraordinary migra-
tion now in progress among the black and white
races in the Southern States ; movements which
have falsified predictions. Yet, they are not only
natural, but, when the circumstances are studied, it
appears strange that they should not have been fore-
seen. Man's laws sometimes interfere with Nature's
laws, and when they do, the result is pernicious.
There could not be a free flow of population in the
Southern States while Slavery prevailed, and the
inhabitants were likely to be artificially placed.
Large estate-owners, with numerous retinues of
slaves, kept the negroes on their land, to which
they were confined, son succeeding father. The
prediction was, that on the shackles being removed
the migration of the blacks would be northward,
to jostle the white labourers, to interfere with emi-
gration, and to leave the far South to become a desert.
The attraction was supposed to be Northward on
account of its greater wealth, higher wages, and
the dread the emancipated slaves would entertain
of the master from whom they had been filched. It
was asserted, too, that they would cease to work and
take to begging and stealing. The current of
migration is, however, the other way—from Mary-
land and Virginia, from the Carolinas and Ken-
tucky the blacks are passing by thousands, into
Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas ; and,
as time progresses, so does this migration, and daily
it becomes clearer that soon the natural order will
prevail ; that the negro will occupy the rich,
low, and (to the white), unhealthy portions of
the Mississippi Valley towards the month of the
river, the low coast lands of Texas, Alabama, and
Georgia, where their labour can be most profitably
employed to theinselves and to the country. Where
they congregate, to a certain extent, they must rule
—led, as they will assuredly be, by the few whites in
whom they have confidence. Louisiana, Mississippi,
and Texas must flourish from the impulse given to
the industry of these States through this influx of
suitable labour, for suitable it has proved, both under
slavery and freedom. The negro now is said to be
the best field hand for such lands, producing more
cotton and sugar than any other gang of equal num-
ber. As cotton and sugar have paid handsomely
for the last two years, both will be cultivated to au
increased extent, and we may anticipate great pros-
perity for the States washed by the Gulf of Mexico.
But this does not represent the whole movement.
The poor whites are as much unsettled as the negroes.
Formerly they picked up a living in an indolent,
reckless way by shooting and fishing—their hunt
being sometimes after a fugitive slave, and by occa-
sionally undertaking some light work, while hang-
ing listlessly around the large plantations. Feeling
'compelled to labour they choose other than their old
fields, because in such localities they feel the degra-
dation—that false pride of an aristocratic race
in which they have been nurtured—and also that
other climates are better suited for their labour.
Thus Kentucky and Tennessee, Virginia and the
Carolinas, are losing whites as well as blacks, the
former seeking homes in Missouri, Kansas, Arkan-
sas, and Texas. Thus, too, the separation is becoming
marked, and Nature is forcing each race to the place
best suited for it. Here is a simple solution of an im-
portant as well as intricate problem; one which for
generations has puzzled the great Republic. But a
third class remains to be considered, upon whose
fortunes the migration is exercising an unpleasant
influence. The old estate-owners of Virginia and
the Carolinas are dismayed at losing not only their
black but their white fellow-citizens in such num-
bers, as threatens to leave them, in the Census to be
taken this year, a population diminished from 1860.
Our belief is that another tide will soon begin to
flow which will recuperate the landlords, if they
tenaciously hold on. To Europeans, the prospect
of settling in the vacant places of the Atlantic
States w:11 be attractive. Virginia offers great in-
ducements to a certain class of emigrants, being an
old, indeed the oldest, settled State, surrounded by a
high civilisation. We long ago speculated on some
such movements, and we feel confident that eventu-
ally the benefit will be great, both to individuals and
to the nation. If immigration flows freely into these
Atlantic Statesfrom Europe, and the present migra-
tory movement continues, a great change will be
wrought in political feeling and Southern ssnti-
ment, and we can well understand that when those
now born rise to manhood that they will be unable
to comprehend the state of society existing in the
South prior to the great civil war.—Anglo-American
7 imps.

CONVOCATION AND—BISHOP TEMPLE.
Both Houses of Convocation discussed the Bishop of
Exeter's election on Wednesday. In the Upper Houge,
the Bishop of Ely having presented a petition on the
subject, the Bishop of Lincoln moved that " a joint com-
mittee of both Houses be appointed to examine and report
upon. the laws of the ancient Church universal, and 0,15'1
the laws of the Church of England, concerning the election,
confirmation, and consecration of bishops, and that the
committee be instructed to offer such remarks, and recom-
mendations thereupon as it may deem requisite." WI
lordship said he made the motion because there was doubt,
on the subject whether the bishop had any voice in epis-
copal elections. It was now said that all protests to be
effectual ought to be made before confirmation. He had
made a protest with regard to the election of pr.
Temple, and it was in connection with that
point, without wishing to give pain to anyone, that Mc
rose. He had had the honour of consulting the Bishop o,
London on his protest, and it was sent,for special reasons,
to the Bishop of Oxford, now the Bishop of Winchester,
on account of the part he took in the ever-memorablo
occasion of the proceedings in connection with " Essay's
and Reviews" in 1864. The protest was sent for like
reasons to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Ist"
seconded the motion, and also to the Bishops of Norwich,
Rochester, Peterborough, and other prelates, and ho
believed also to the Bishop of Ely himself. The Bishop
of Ely would remember that at that happy meeting
which was held at the Bishop of Rochester's Palaco
at Danbury, it was urged that their protests or e:cpres"
sions of dissent ought not to be presented before
the time of confirmation, because it was thought that
before that time the archbishop of the province would
not be in a position to give any attention to them.
The right rev. prelate entered at great length into details
connected with the early history as given by ecclesiastical
writers of election, confirmation, and consecration of

bishops in the ancient Church and down to the Reforma-
tion. He said he was very anxious that his remarks
should not apply to the Bishop of Exeter (who, it may be
remarked, was sitting by his side), for whom he expressed
an anxious hope that he might well perform his duties in
the diocese over which he had been appointed to preside
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol seconded the :notion.
He had not protested against the Bishop of Exeter's ap-
pointment. What he had done was simply to express his
opinion against the electios. He was merely a non-content.
—The Bishop of Llandaff expressed his doubt in the
validity of the protests.—The Bishop of Ely said he had
been charged, as being a consenting bishop to the con-
secration of Dr. Temple, with aiming at the PrimacY.
He could not die in peace after behaving in such
a manner. As to the point under discussion he ad-
hered to the opinion that if any protest were necessary
it should have been made at an earlier date than it was
made, for it ought always to be borne in mind that there
must be a material difference between canons of doctrine
and canons of discipline. Canons of doctrine were always
to be obeyed, but canons of discipline, even though
passed by CEcunienical Councils, had frequently, though
not repealed,' fallen into desuetude, and ceased to have
any effect.-The Bishop of Oxford having been a member
of the Exeter Chapter, denied that the pains of pramunire
had the slightest right in deciding the election of the
bishop.—The Bishop of Lichfield agreed with the motion.
He felt constrained to say, in sorrowful earnest-
ness, to his right rev. brother, the Bishop of
Exeter, that the work " Essays and Reviews" had
made it difficult for scattered pastors in distant lands to
pursue their work, and had carried the seeds of infidelity
to the furthest corners of the earth. It was that circum-
stance which had induced him to protest against the con-
secration of Dr. Temple. At the same time, he trusted
that the right rev. prelate's work and words would bear
testimony in the future to his doctrine.—The Bishop of
Hereford expressed his entire concurrence with the reso-
lution before the House.—The Bishop of St. David's did
not think the motion would do any good. He did not
think appointments should rest with deans and chapters;
nor would he have the Crown influenced in its choice by'
the opinions of the Episcopal Bench.—The Bishop of
London said he had been likened to Judas Iscariot,
Pilate, and Macbeth, for consecrating Dr. Temple ; and lie
and the Bishop of St. David had been called Annanias and
Sapphira; but which was Annanias, and which Sapphira,
was not stated. He would only say that if he had refused
to consecrate the Bishop of Exeter under the Archbishop
of Canterbury's Commission, he should have committed
the Archbishop to an act of disobedience, and have com-
mitted the Church and State to a contest which
must have been fought out with most disastrous results.--
The Bishop of Exeter then rose and said: " I did
not rise to say anything on the motion,
because I thought upon the whole that it would be
better if I did not express any opinion about it, as
I any so young a member of this House. But I wish to
take this opportunity, before your lordship puts the ques-
tion, of expressing my deep sense of -gratitude for all the
kindness which my brethren have extended towards me.
It will, of course, be my duty by the whole course of my
life as far as God gives me strength and light, to justify,
by the work I may be able to do in Exeter, my appoint-
ment there. I have in the past taken no step without the
most serious and careful deliberation, and, although it
must, of course, weigh very heavily on any man's mind
that there should be so many of his brethren who do
not agree with the decision at Which ho has arrived as to
the course proper for him to take, yet I know that any
one who has so conducted himself would at any rate feel
that the opinion of others could be, after all, no more than
one element of consideration of the grounds of his conduct
and that he must hold himself responsible to God for the
decision to which his conscience brings him, and cannot
plead that other people thought differently for doing that
which he himself does not think to be right. I have
done my very best to do what appears to be right to
do under the circumstances, and I hope I shall be able to
still continue to do my best. I feel confident that
as I have been received with great kindness, the
future course of my life and action will be to show my
brethren that that kindness will not be thrown away;
that I am really desirous of promoting the service of our
Lord; tbat,l }save really that one hope in all that I am
doing ; and that if unfortunately I cannot take tee same
views as others at every point, it is not that I desire not
to do so, fob• I do .desire it. At all events, the reroem-
branee of the kindness I have received will be with me as
long as I live, and I am sure that those who have shown
me that kindness will recognise, as time goes on, how
deeply I felt it." The motion was then put and carried.
In the Lower House Archdeacon Denison moved, and
Dr. Jebb seconded a protest against Dr. Temple's appoint-
ment. The motion was not allowed to be discussed.
Further on in the proceedings Archdeacon Freeman
made a very important announcement indeed.
He said that without having been authorized to
make a formal announcement to the House, ha
had received permission from his diocesan to make any
use of the information he pleased ; and lie had therefore
to state that Dr. Temple's essay would not appear in any
future edition of the " Essays and Reviews," if, indeed,
another edition should ever be called for.—The Dean of
Exeter also read a letter from Canon Cook, stating, on

the best authority, that so far from Dr. Temple's essay
having been written as an introduction to volume,
the editor (Mr. Parker) bad observed to a frieuu, after the
greater portion of the book was printed, that he had just
received an essay from Dr. Temple, which he thought
would do very well for the opening paper.—Archdeacon
Denison said that after this announcement, and after the
appointment of the committee by the Upper House, he
would surcease from his opposition, and he accordingly
withdrew his gravamen.—Dr. Jebb, however, was not
at all satisfied. The concession of Dr. Temple had
come too late, and the gravamen ought to be presented.—
Canon Blakesley was much pleased to see the spirit in
which the announcement of the venerable archdeacon had
been received; but he must remind his reverend brethren
that, after all, it went no further than the prefatory
notice which had appeared in all the editions of the book.
Those, therefore, who were now satisfied were convicted of
inconsistency.—Dr. Jebb again attempted to address the
House, but he was, not without some difficulty, suppressed
by the Prolocutor, and the session terminated, as usual,
with the Latin benediction.