The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1870

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian,
referring to the Bill for the Repeal of the Ecclesiastical
Titles Act, says : - If Archbishop Manning returns from
Rome, as is expected, with a cardinal's hat, he will, on
being presented at Court by the Duke of Norfolk,
claim to take precedence not only of his Grace
as premier peer of England, but of Archbishop Tait as
premier prelate. As Prince of a foreign State, this
would not so much provoke comment ; and as the law
now stands it could only be in that capacity that he
could be received. But the Government Bill L ow
pending in the House of Lords will remove the
style and title of Archbishop of Westminster ;
and he will consequently present himself as Cardinal Arch-
bishop thereof. At present Cardinal Cullen takes pre-
cedence at the viceregal court and table of the Duke of
Leinster, the primate, and the Chancellor of Ireland.
But he is not recognised, and cannot be by the law as it
stands, as Archbishop of Dublin. When the Titles Act
shall have been repealed, he will as a matter of course
assume that appellation, and thus the same question will
be raised, in all probability on both sides of the Channel.

CZECH NOTIONS OF AUSTRIA'S FUTURE.
The New Free Press of Vienna says that a curious
memorandum on the present Austrian crisis has been pre-
sented to Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne at Paris, by the
well-known Czech leader, Dr. Rieger. In this document
the political aims of the Czechs are described as the re-
storation of an independent Bohemian kingdom, comprising
Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia, and the subse-
quent annexation to this kingdom of Prussia Silesia, the
Lansitz, and the Slovak districts of Hungary. These
objects, Dr. Rieger thinks, cannot be attained by
revolutionary agitation, but only by a war in which
Austria would become the ally of France against Prussia.
The first consequence of such an alliance would, he thinks,
be the restoration of the Bohemian kingdom, which
would in that case be the natural ally of France, as they
would both have the same enemy—Prussia, and the French
armies could arrive in Bohemia more rapidly than those of
Prussia could at Frankfort.

SE WARDS BIRTHDAY.

AUBURN, May 16.

Some fifty young ladies of Wells College, Aurora,
arrived here to-day, accompanied by Henry Wells, Presi-
dent, and other officers of the College, to visit Mr Seward,
on this the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birthday. After
a collation Mr. Seward dismissed the young ladies with a
pleasant speech, and turning to Mr. Wells, and the friends
who had assembled to witness the festivity, said : " Mr.
Henry Wells—l give you my sincere thanks for this new
and most touching demonstration of a life-long friendship.
Many years—more than thirty years—ago, you came to
me in the Legislature in Albany every week in your
periodical arrivals from New York to 'meourage me in
studies which seemed too arduous for one so inexperienced.
as I was. On the other hand, I encouraged you in laying
the simple foundations of a commercial institution which,
under your persevering care and. management, has since
crowned you with riches, while it has increased the wealth
and prosperity of the United States and many foreign
countries. How little did I know then, or for a long time
afterward, that the riches you were then accumu-
lating were being laid up in store, not for your-
self, family, or successors, but for the nation and
mankind, I knew you first as Henry Wells, the assiduous
special carrier; I greet you now as Henry Wells, a public
benefactor. This fact might teach, }is how hazardous are
the judgments which we pronounce upon contemporaries
in active life. What a crowd of tlitughts the very men-
tion of an improved system of fem'ale education suggests !
We are a people of forty millions, moving on to become
quite soon four hundred millions. We are - classified in
more than forty states and territories—theoretically fra-
ternal, but practically distrustful, sometimes inimical, and
lately, I lament to say, hostile. We are separated from
' neighbouring countries byprejudices, jealousies, and hates
' hardly less than by mountains, lakes, rivers, and seas.
We seem to be equally unwilling that they shall be united
with us, or that they shall be dependent on any other
Power, or even that they shall be independent. Our
public councils are confused and passionate. We seem to
be incapable of willing our national will without tur-
bulence, and working ohr national work without vio-
lence and war. Leaving'unsaid everything that concerns
extension of the Republic, it is manifestly the mission of
the United States to harmonise these several civilisa-
tions of the American continent and blend them
into one. They have already attained great similarity.
All the American States are Christian, and practically
they are all Republican nations, with universal suffrage
of all sects and conditions of men. Although some of
these States still retain loose commercial and political
connections with Europe, it is nevertheless true that only
American ideas, generated and fostered in the United
States, pervade the continent, and only American
systems of commerce find a secure place upon it. We all
know that Christianity is charity, and that republics re-
quire peace and fraternity. There must be a fault in our
education. Everybody holds that intellectual education
is an indispensable condition of universal suffrage. No
education can be complete for our national purposes that
cares for the mind only and leaves the heart untrained.
Man may perhaps train the mind successfully, but the
heart must run wild. That is denied the assiduous and
tender care of women. That education, there-
fore, is not universal which unequally trains
the two sexes. No education is effectual which
is conducted exclusively in schools, colleges, and univer-
sities, leaving ignorance and prejudice,i bigotry and vice,
at the fireside and in the family circle. It is there that
the child is most-inquisitive, and of course it is the mother
who always dwells there, who chiefly must give him the
knowledge he solicits. The education of woman, however
it may be allowed to differ in regard to the faculties cul-
tivated, must, nevertheless, be as extensive and as
thorough, at least, as the education of man. Society is
continually protesting against our inattention to these
great but simple truths. We have everywhere, at home
and abroad, questions of woman's rights, wrongs, powers
and prerogatives, and of the proper balance of the sexes
in social life and in the State. Whatever may be the
course or end of these debates, I think you may rest as-
sured, Mr. Wells, that the proceedings which you have
taken in founding a corporate university for the thorough
education of women separately, to be conducted by women
alone, is a practical, bold advance in the right direction.
May your days be prolonged to witness its beneficial re-
sults of instruction and example."