The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-09 00:00:00

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A woman is in custody at Glasgow charged with
the abduction of a little boy aged 3, the son of a gentle-
man residing in that city. The police state that the
accused is a woman of the town.
THE FENIAN AMAZONS OF BROOKLYN.—A meet-
ing of female Fenians has been held at the residence of
Mrs. Jane Davis, No. 100 Court-street, for the purpose
of organising the sisterhood to assist, pecuniarily, the men
in the field. All reporters of the press were excluded,
but it is understood that a complete organisation was
effected.

IMMIGRATION.—During the week ending May 14th
there arrived in New York 9,017 passengers from abroad.
Of these, 2,955 were from Ireland, 2,452 from Germany,
1,326 from England, 1,081 from Sweden, 370 from Den-
mark, 259 from Norway, 100 from France, and 257 from
other countries.

NEGRO CADETS.—In the judgment of the military
authorities, the elevation of Senater Revels was a less
momentous step in the advance of the coloured race than
the apparition of a negro cadet at West Point. If reports
speak truly the enterprising coloured lad may expect to
have something more than the stated curriculum of our
military school to pass through, and the resolute expres-
sion which appears to be visible on his countenance will
probably find occasion to be deepened should he succeed
in commencing his studies. Let us hope that the scruples
of the officers in command will not unduly affect the seve-
rity of the preliminary examination, since it would be
difficult to explain why a race that has shown its fitness
to occupy the bar, the bench, the pulpit, and the seat of
the legislator, should be debarred from monitory com-
mand,—NewYork Tines.

MR. DISRAELI AND MR. GOLDWIN SMITH.
On this strange quarrel the Daily Telegraph makes the
following observations :—" In the letter which Professor
Goldwin.Smith has addressed to Mr. Disraeli, and which
we publish elsewhere, another note of insult has been
struck in a most unseemly squabble. The quarrel
between the Professor and the leader of the
Conservative party is of old standing. Years
ago Mr. Smith accused Mr. Disraeli of unscru-
pulousness ; and in his lectures on Pym, Cromwell,
and Pitt he aimed more than one shaft of sarcasm at the
same well-abused statesman. Mr. Disraeli retorted by.
calling Mr. Smith " that wild man." Seizing the occa-
sion of Mr. Disraeli's accession to the Premiership, the
Professor published a letter in which the statesman's
early flight from Radicalism to Toryism, his attacks on
Peel, and his sudden conversion to the Conserva-
tive principle of household suffrage, were reviewed
with a wealth of invective to which the political
writing of the age can present few parallels. Returning
to the charge, Mr. Goldwin Smith, in the second edition
of his lectures, said that the days of Bolingbroke were not
the last time in which `statesmen of easy
virtue ' and ' unscrupulous ecclesiastics ' leagued
themselves together to attain their common ends.
Finally, in a public speech, referring to the
conduct of Mr. Disraeli, he said that the Irish
Church was so bad as to require in its supporters
even stronger stimulants than fanaticism.' To that
long string of insults Mr. Disraeli replied by sketching,
in his Lothair,' an ' Oxford Professor' who was a
Democrat on paper and ' a social parasite' among men.
The sketch was bitter, but it was certainly not unpro-
voked. Mr. Goldwin Smith, however, is so incensed
that in a letter to Mr. Disraeli he brands the aspersions of
the novelist as ' the stingless insults of a coward.'
Assuredly, the two literary magnates have engaged in the
most extravagant and doubtful of competitive examina-
tions—in which the initiative has been taken by the
Professor ! "

The Daily News espouses the side of Mr. Goldwin
Smith :—The author of " Lothair " is probably by this
time convinced that he made a political and literary mis-
take when he published that strange story. But mistake
is the severest word that can be used with respect
to the greater portion of its contents. What-
ever may be thought of Mr. Disraeli's sketches
from the life of his 'own Duke and Duchess,
of Cardinal Grandison, of Monsignor Catesby,
or as one reading has it—Capel, and of many other thinly
disguised portraitures, they do not trespass beyond the
conventional limits of social satire. There is one line,
however, which before dying Mr. Disraeli will,
we trust, wish to blot. He has drawn a cari-
cature of an Oxford Professor, under which,
lest his readers should fail to recognise the ori-
ginal, he has indirectly but intelligibly written, "This
is Mr. Goldwin Smith." He has added, almost in so
many words, " Mr. Goldwin Smith is ' a parasite.'" This
calumny, more ridiculous than what is else most ridicu-
lous in Mr. Disraeli's fantastic story, is not too severely
rebuked by its object when he denounces it as the
slander of a coward. It recalls the vituperation
of Runnymede. Mr. Disraeli has been engaged
in many wordy conflicts with Mr. Goldwin Smith.
The fact that he has betaken himself, in this solitary in-
stance, to poisoned weapons, thews a consciousness of
having been foiled and worsted with more legitimate arms.
He calls Mr. Goldwin Smith a parasite, because he
knows that character to be of all others the most
foreign to the nature and odious to the feelings of
his adversary ; and thinks that the imputation will
give the greatest amount of pain. He is probably
mistaken. The folly of the accusation, in the truth of
which Mr. Disraeli himself does not, and never did,
believe, takes the sting out of its malice. " Coward "is
a word which is not ordinarily applicable to Mr. Disraeli.
But he has earned it in this case, and, writhe and wriggle
as he may, he cannot escape the strong hand which brands
him with it.

THE RESTORATION OF CHESTER
CATHEDRAL.

The Earl of Derby presided on Tuesday over an influen-
tial meeting at St. George's Fall, Liverpool, held for the
purpose of supporting the movement for the restoration of
Chester Cathedral. The assemblage was one of the
largest that at any time has been collected
within this capacious hall, and comprised a very
large number of ladies and clergymen. Amongst those
upon the platform were the Bishops of Manchester,
l'eterborough, and New York, Canon Kingsley, and a
number of the most influential of the resident gentry and
clergy. After a fine performance, by Mr. Best, of the
"Hallelujah Chorus" upon the grand organ, the Earl
made an argumentative appeal in favour of restoring the
Cathedral. The facts of the case (said he) are few and
simple. Chester Cathedral, one of the oldest buildings of
any kind in the north of England, has been lately dis-
covered to be in such a state of decay that many repairs
on a large scale are necessary if it is not to fall to pieces
altogether. The cost of these repairs, confining them to
what is absolutely required for safety, is £25,000. If other
works are added of an ornamental character—if artistic
effect is looked to as well as security, that will require to
be doubled. The Cathedral Commissioners have made a
grant of £lO,OOO, conditional, I understand, on a sufficient
fund being provided from other sources to meet it. For
the rest, the promoters—the Dean and Chapter—will
have to apply to the public, and I believe I am ac-
curate in stating that there is no fund at their
disposal on which any part, certainly none on which a great
part of the burden can be thrown, Now, undoubtedly
£50,000, or even £30,000, is a large sum of money, and
there may be many benevolent persons who would think
that they may. be employed in a more practical and useful
manner than in repairing a fabric, however ancient and
venerable, which comparatively few persons enter. I
do not agree with such an objection—though . I can
understand its being taken, and though I do not at
all suppose it has been put forward as a mere
excuse by those who wish to keep their money in their
pockets. I contend that to repair a building like Chester
Cathedral, even at a heavy cost, and though there may be
many other claims upon our purses, it is a duty which we,
the residents of this part of England, owe to the public.
And I say that, quite irrespective of the question whether,
or to what extent, or how, it can be utilised for ecclesias-
tical purposes. On that latter point you will, no doubt,
hear a good deal before we separate. I shall leave that to be
dealt with by those who have some experience in such discus-
sion. What I am to contend for is, that we Englishmen
of to-day, with a thousand years of civilisation behind us,
and with a future opening, if not before our country, at
least before our descendants scattered over many countries,
of which it is difficult to foresee the limits, have duties
to discharge, and one of the most obvious and most
pressing of those duties is not to suffer destruc-
tion, through carelessness or neglect, of any national
memorial, which, once destroyed, can never be replaced ;
I think we see already how, as the world
grows older, the longing to penetrate backward
into the remote past becomes more and more intense.
There are few thoughtful men, I suppose, who have not
some sympathy with it. Of all the memorials of antiquity
that of architectural work is the most durable, and that
about which there can be the least deception or mistake,
and accordingly we find that respect for such memorials
is an universal and increasing characteriztic of an advanced
civilisation. If, for instance, we were to hear that any
ruler of Egypt proposed to pull down one of the pyramids
for the sake of the materials, there would be an outcry of
remonstrance tbroughout Europe. Everybody would feel
that the thing which it was proposed to destroy was in
some sense the common possession of the human race.
The middle ages have left us two sets of build-
ings, each essentially typical and characteristic of
the time that produced them—the feudal castle and the
cathedral. You have comparatively few specimens left
of either. They signalise an age which, with all its good
and with all its evil, is irrecoverably gone, and which you
can no more revive than you can resuscitate the Roman
Empire. You should preserve what you have ; you should
guard from destruction that which, if destroyed, you can-
not re-create. As inheritors of the past you should feel
that you are trustees for the future.
The Dean of CHESTER (Dr. Howson), who was warmly
cheered, gave a statement of facts connected with the res-
toration, and read letters from the Archbishop of Yerk,
the Bishop of Chester, and from the Premier, expressing
warm interest in and appreciation of the restoration
scheme. Mr. Gladstone regretted his inability to attend
the meeting.
The Bishop of MANCHESTER dwelt upon the liberality of
our forefathers in erecting so many magnificent ecclesias-
tical establishments, and proceeded to argue that work
such as they were met to promote that day would be a
most powerful means for promoting unity in the Church
of England, the representative Church of the nation.
The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH drew a contrast between
the cathedrals and churches as they existed thirty years
He contrasted the dull, monotonous cathedral life of 30
years ago with its activity in this age, when the naves are
crowded with enthusiastic worshippers, and when churches
are made architecturally beautiful, and rich and poor
are allowed to worship side by side. From this he
argued that the Church of England would surely
increase its hold on the affections of the na-
tion, especially if in imitation of the restoration
scheme of the Dean of Chester she was wisely beautified
and strengthened by the judicious admixture of old and
new materials, built on the lines traced out by the self-
denying old founders—then would the people say, "Destroy
it not, there is a blessing in it."
The Bishop of NEW YORK spoke of the interest felt by
all classes of Americans in the cathedrals in the " Old
Country," and the regret they would feel should those
venerable structures be ever allowed to fall into decay.
Canon KINGSLEY corroborated the remarks of the last
speaker, and said that he had been strongly moved at
witnessing the deep interest, not merely sentimental, with
which crowds of American tourists visited Chester Cathe-
dral, and the deep interest and pride they evidently felt
in the building.

The condition of Mr. Barker, who was injured by
his horse falling upon him at the Agricultural Hall, is, we
regret to say, hopeless. He improved a little on Tuesday,
but in the night alarming symptoms set in.
A PLEASING PROPOSAL—The Manchester Guar-
dian calls attention to a circular, whose originality attests
it to be the production of no ordinary genius. The
cacoethes scribendi, the passion for admiring great men,
and the universal languishing (begging pardon of Repub-
licans) for Royal favour are severally to be satisfied by
this new proposal. The circular is sent to lord lieutenants,
lord provosts, high sheriffs, and mayors; each of these
magnates is requested to write a life—a eulogy it is to be
presumed—of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort ;
and the contributions, written on " Bath post papei,
quarto size," being bound in " a superb volume." will be
presented to her Majesty. Copies of the original auto-
graphs will also be widely circulated. The Manchester
Guardian, remarking that men in office are made fools of
occasionally to serve the vanity or knavery of others,
thinks a warning necessary against compliance with this
ridiculous request.

COMIC PAPERS.
(From Punch.)

WELL-INFORMED CIRCLES. —Not Betting Rings,
" The Religious Difficulty "—Long sermons.

TELL HER, SOMEBODY.—Mrs. Ramsbotham says that
she can't understand why there is so much small-pox In
Paris, seeing that the Emperor has for so many years
adopted a vaccinating policy.
A QUESTION FOR AYRTON.—M. Vandal is the Director-
General of the French Post Office. Here, we have made
our M. Vandal First Commissoner of Works. People
don't like asking Ayrton questions, but there is a question
for "the noble savage" suggested by this arrangement—
which is most out of place, a Vandal presiding over a
nation's letters, or a Vandal in authority over its arts ?

A HARD LIFE.—Who can wonder at Mr. Gladstone
wishing for a little relaxation, and going to the Derby,
after reading that in one day (not long before the Epsom
week) he received four deputations on the subject of the
Education Bill !
BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS I—The House of Rothschild
has issued the prospectus of a new Spanish loan on the
security of the Almaden quicksilver mines. Let investors
look at the present position of Spanish bondholders and
be wise. Spanish Governments may lend on quicksilver,
but they pay in remarkably slow gold.

A GREAT AND GOOD PAINTER. —Sir Edwin Landseer
was humanely right in what he said at the annual meet-
ing of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. Cropping a dog's ear is " a cruel and injurious
practice "—one which we hope will never crop up again.

(From Judy.)

Why did not Macgregor win the Derby?—Because he
could not pass Muster.
Talking of a great general, who was braver than he was
wise, a friend of Judy's said, " He did not invent gun-
powder, but he's not afraid to smell it."