The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-27 00:00:00

CANON LIDDON AND THE POSITION OF ENGLAND.

Canon Liddon writes to the Telegraph to defend
himself from the charge of national self-sufficiency
brought against him in reference to a recent sermon
at St. Paul's. The Telegraph complained that the
celebrated preacher seemed to convoy to his audience
the idea that the Deity had intervened to fence
round Great Britain with safeguards, as a proof that
Tie regarded it with exclusive favour. Canon Liddon
maintains that he did not say and could not have
said with a good conscience that he believed
.heaven regarded Great Britain with pecu-
liar favour,- though he thinks it must be
for some great end that we are so mercifully spared
from the sorrows which visit our neighbour?. Ile
does not consider our spiritual and moral condition
has merited our exemption from this war, but holds
that our safety is due, not to any precautions or
natural advantages, but to a mercy for which we
cannot be sufficiently thankful. Tie is the more

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BALMORAL, SEPT. 24.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and at-
tended by the Marchioness of Ely, drove out.
The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the

Queen.
The Earl of Fife, Lady Agnes Duff, and Viscount Mac-
duff had alPo the honour of dining with her Majesty.

Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Coun-
cil to be held at the official residence of the First Lord• of
the Treasury, in Downing-street, on Friday next, the 30th
inst., at two o'clock.
WHOLESALE PLUNDER.—AS an illustration of
the manner in which we, in common with some other
London journals, are plundered by provincial contempo-
raries, we find that our Paris Letter of Wednesday
week was reprinted by the Daily _Review of Edinburgh on
the 17th as an original c -mmunication from their own
correspondent. Some of our contemporaries who have
remarked a similarity between the letter of our correspon-
pondent describing the battle of Sedan and the accounts in
the New York papers, are not apparently aware that our
letter was telegraphed to New York by the American
Associated Press on the afternoon on which we published
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SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. •
• NEWCASTLE, MONDAY.
The President of the Health section, Mr. Robert Raw'
lin son, .delivered an address of considerable practical
value to a general meeting of the members and associates
this morning. On the subject of sanitary works, he said,
"They may be simple in country districts, but in towns
they become compound and therefore complex. Personal
care and labour are, however, required under all con-
ditions, and this fact has not, as yet, been generally
appreciated ; hence arises, from personal and municipal
neglect, much of the nuisance wrongly imputed to sani-
tary appliances. The physician and the sanitary engineer
must both, as a first lesson, learn the simple
laws of nature, that they may know their weak-
ness, as also in what may consist their power.
The grand phenomena of nature cannot be controlled.
Sanitary science, before it can be of practical use, must be
learned by statesmen. The strength of a nation is in its
health, and where there is the healthiest community there
bodily purity and morals will have the greatest develop-
ment. Empires, monarchies, and republics have this
lesson to learn. In the cities of the Republican States of
North America, the worst sanitary defects of the worst
cities of Europe are being repeated. The sanitary
engineer of the future will know nothing of
`refuse matter' other than as a useful product, which
properly applied to the soil, will add to the wealth of the
community. The aim and end of statesmanship ought to
be to ensure to every individual born in the State means
of health and of morality. Each Englishman's home
should not only be his castle, but his, hospital. Charity
will not then degrade but will elevate ; • and that alone
will be true charity which assists the poor to assist theta'
selves, and so to live, independent of almsbegging and
almsgiving. We are now proud of our charities of our
public hospitals, which cost £l,OOO per bed, plus the ad-
ditional expenses of administration, in which hospital-
beds sick men are treated at a money rate
three times greater than the wages they could ever earn
when in health. ' Our charitable institutions are the
glory of our land,' but happy will that State be which
neither possesses nor needs such form of glory. We
repeat at our great musical festival the angelic chant
`Peace on earth, good will to men,' but we read in
our daily papers of carnage such as the world never
before knew ; we cannot explain the terrible
phenomena, but stand aghast in dread, fear, and
wonder. The war epidemic is upon the nations
and must run its course. Sanitary science under such
conditions as are now in existence appears to have
laboured in vain. But it is our duty to work in hope and
wait. War and carnage are not the end of Christian
teaching ; we must strive to look beyond. the present, and
hope for better times. The poet, using his divine faculty,
states—

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see!
Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder tha.
would be."
And in another verse the same poet embodies the hopes °f
men, who believe in revelation and do not despair, in
words with which I conclude this address—
" Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing PurP°se
runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened with the Pre"
gress of the suns."
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In the Municipal Law Section a voluntary Paper oval
I
read by Dr. Pankhurst, barrister, on " Would the Lora
Administration of Criminal Justice be Improved by the
appointment of Additional Stipendiary Magistrates, ands
Petit
the enlargement of the Jurisdiction of Quarter and
Sessions." The legal organisation of a highly developed
state of society ought to possess, said the writer'
the three following attributes—unity of con t
tution, uniformity of administration, and localisatio °
in point of application. He then proceeded to urg.,.
that the jurisdiction of the quarter sessions should be,e,
tended so as to comprise all offences committed within it:t
territorial area, with certain specific exceptions, and t
the jurisdiction of petit sessions should be expressl the
clearly defined, and some system advised of putting or
into some relation with each other, and with the Qua
Sessions, that by means of a procedure of circuit, or itia t
ration, a constant provision might be made on the slide
for the due and efficient administration of justice, Wl'
the judicial authority presiding over these COurre
should be judges of professional training and ade(Plo
experience. A complement to these amendments on of
administration of criminal justice would be a system f
public prosecution, and the establishment of a court
appeal in criminal cases. The doctrine of local jurie"o
tion could not, however, be carried out until the lale,
were codified ; but when these changes could be made tn
administration of justice would be systematic and uniferrt
and the incidence and application would be local, an
consequently, at once economical and prompt. of
The special question discussed in the Repressiende-
Crime Section this morning was one attempting t°
monstrate the kind of measure that ought to be adopted
with a view to the repression of habitual drunkennes_s:
Two papers were read, the one prepared by Dr. Dicks°A
the other by Mr. Dalrymple, M.P. The former d
with the question of asylums for drunkards, and the la
tr
explained the nature of the Bill which the rneill
for Bath has brought before the House of Commons. it:."
the discussion which ensued Mr. Safford, Mr. P.Atowf,,'"':
Steward, the Rev. John Matthews, Mr. „unce,r."'
Mr. Carr, and others took part, and there was pi TxactiCal
unanimous expression of opinion in favour of wen
being adopted to remove. the temptation drun'„;
ness at present existing, anci to Prolide Ineo,-aey
for restraining those wb,o, have given a'„'
to habitual intemperance. The desi•eability of 81:
branches of science being taught
engaged the attention of ih9edu4o,ll,
the health section discusse4 many
questions, most of which, however important sasr-ia
tementary eel:l°de
tion section,
interest.were of mere

National Pros Brit and F:iedial Security, formed the
uner,
subject of a voluntary paper by Mr. Francis F in
the Repression of Crime section. He stated, as a Vol;
chievous anomaly, that whilst by the adequate applies
of labour to the cultivation of the waste lands in the
United Kingdom such lands could be made to produce vwci)oo
commercial profit an annual value of at least £1,94,
sterling in ordinary articles of food, we Aear-
foreigners in some years nearly 250,000,00 set
ling for the very things which could be profitably
produced at home. At the same time hundreds of tho
sands of people were in distress from want of work, h°lete
ing precariously about the narrow lines which sePe:}o9;
indigence, pauperism, and crime ; and notwithstan leo
our large imports from abroad, the greater portion eves
g.
of the employed population were under fed and snifter if
from an insufficienc3 of nutritive food which Ilaigip2w,
proper measures were taken, be supplied from our
land.
of
" Disarmament and Arbitration " formed the title e,
paper by Mr. Thomas Beggs, read in the Jurisprudenc_
Department, where the Duke of Northumberland Poll..
sided. The author strongly urged the abolition of states
ing armies, and the settlement of international dislm
by means of arbitration. In this section, also, a 11°
tary paper was presented on the subject of "A Pnr
ment of Nations and International Abitration."
" By what means may the Labour Market througlic'uet•
England be more equally supplied, with sp V eiecial referen
to Local and Temporary Distress," was the special t
Con discussed in the section of Economy and Trade. e f
was introduced in a paper by Mr. E. W. Holland, Id bewhose suggestions was that the poor-law system should
altered so as to enable Boards of Guardians under ee'''e,
conditions to emigrate labourers who are dependent of
rates for support. Several voluntary papers treating toe
ou
" Calamities at Sea " were also read in this section ; °of
by Mr. Henry Jeula, of Lloyds, furnished a f Unaberber
statistics of casualties on the ocean. In 1869 the 114.°1 au
of crews saved from vessels was 1,069, agni,11%869,
average of 686 ; from steamers the number was 59 "" in
against an average of 29, while crews drowned were,
1869, 52, the average being 44. The lives reported,lcila
1869 were only 1,643, compared with an average or
—Captain William• Dawson, R.N , in a paper on
Social Condition of Merchant Seamen," contended that
the social condition of sailors could never be s
factory antil their employers and officers were led to entle,
tarn a just sense of their responsibility as regards TS,,,
spiritual as well as temporal welfare of their men'
" Partnerships of Industry" were discussed in 5 P,
prepared by Mr. A. C. Greening in a sub-division 0' Ae,
Economy and Trade department. Soto
tails of the co-operative movement were furnishel,„. ied
the conclusions arrived at were that the. results
that s
had fully proved the soundness of the principle,
of failure did not disprove it, and that the argr `mess
founded on the necessity of undivided power,
dfartrY•
Same interesting; a
it was true, did not tell against co- operation and i'
that
ol
The Duke of Northumberland, in the cow' se
sitting of the section in which he presided, a serve- ding
he thought that England could not dlo wither Lt a Stan' ie
army if for no other reason on aoeont ei her 001°11te
n ";
He also expressed his opinion that such a, -.military sre;
as that existing in Prussia was not ne‘je,ssary nor ng.go.,ne
sive, and would not have been so if i% had been in
at France at the present time.
The Ladies Conference held i'us last sitting this of
noon, when the questions of " `4"4men as Ins
Schools ; " " The Diet of Infwats and Young Childrlis-
and the " Rights and Wrings of Women ; wereares,
cussed. A large number of members of the C„,r°ll,,"ssil.
went to witness a latraeh from the yard of -1-'—
Richardson and Co. pectors
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