The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-02 00:00:00

PICTURE GALLERIES.

Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to view
may be obtained from Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
British Artists—Suffolk-street. April to July. ls.
British Institution-52, Pall-mall. Pictures by British
Artists, in February, March, and April ; and by Ancient
Masters, June, July, and August. Is.
Buckingham Palace Pictures. —May be viewed by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain.
Cartoons of Raphael—South Kensington Museum Mon
day, Tuesday, Saturday, free; other days, 6d.
Crystal Palace—Sydenham. Modern Pictures and Sculp-
ture. is.
Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and Dutch
Pictures. Open free daily, except Friday.
Flaxman Gallery—University of London, Gower-street.
Foundling Hospital—Guildford-street. Open Mondays,
10 till 4.
Gallery of Ancient Masters-49, Pall. is.
Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays and Fri .
days Free : other days, 4d.
Guildhall—City. May be seen on applidation to the ball
keeper.
Hampton Court Palace.—The galleries are open free daily,
except on Friday.
Monument--Fish-street Hill. Every day. 6d.
National Gallery—Trafalgar-square. Open free, Mondays
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
National Portrait Gallery-29, Great George-street.
free, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Trinity House—Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Models of
lighthouses, &c. Daily, 10 till 4.
Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till
10 p.m. ls.
SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT.
Cremorne Gardens —Chelsea. ls.
Crystal Palace Park—Sydenham. Open daily, Is.; Satur-
days, 29.6 d.
Greenwich Park—Greenwich. Onma rAo
Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily.
Highbury Barn and Gardens —llighbury. 6d. and is by
refreshment tickets.
Kew Gardens—Kew. Open free, daily at or_e o'clock.
Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily.
Rosherville Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. 6d.
Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by
members order.
Windsor Great Park—Windsor. Open free. Windsor
Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fri-
days, by tickets obtainable at the Lord Chamberlain's
Office, in the Castle.

Her Majesty's ship Salamander will leave Ports-
mouth to-morrow (Thursday), with supernume-
raries and mails for the Channel Squadron at Gib-

raltar.

Brevet-Col. T. L. J. Gallwey, the Commandant
of the School of Military Engineering, Brompton,
has received leave of absence until the 20th of

December.

The training ship in the grounds of Greenwich
Hospital, formerly used for the instruction of Ad-
miralty pupils, will be sold by public auction this

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

In the town of Bradford, observes the Times, with its
100,000 inhabitants, there has been abundance of capital
ready for investment, and abundance of labour ready for
employment. It needs only, to satisfy both operatives
and capitalists, that employment should be found ; and
accordingly the commercial authorities of the place
have just gone half round the world to find
it. Not in England alone, not in Europe, not even in
America, but probably in a certain region of
Asia. In one of the remotest provinces of the vast
Empire of China lives a population exactly calculated to
meet the wants of Bradford. Nobody can tell how many
millions of people Sechuen may contain ; but what is really
known, or, at any rate, asserted on plausible authority, is
that every one of these Western Chinamen would, if he
could, become a buyer of Bradford manufactures. What,
then, should impede the introduction of these communi-
ties to each other? The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce
says the thing can be done, and the Bradford Chamber of
Commerce accepts the report of the Shanghai Chamber,
and the end of it is a memorial to Lord Clarendon begging
that the Chinese Government may be induced to fulfil
its present obligations honestly, and to undertake a
few more if the occasion should be found to require them.
We have not a word to say against this proposal. Such a
trade as the Bradford people have in view must needs be
as beneficial to one nation ss to the other. The craving of
the Chinese for woollen stuffs expresses, we may be very
sure, a natural appetite, end there is no reason why York-
shire weavers should not be employed in satisfying it.
We must only observe that there are two ways of
doing a thing, and that we fear the right way has
not always been taken in our dealings with China. It
is not quite enough to say that if the inhabitants
of Sechuen want to buy, and the inhabitants of Bradford
want to sell, all barriers between them ought to be
removed. Our existing trade with China is the result of
• force put upon the Chinese Government. Hardly a gene-
ration has elapsed since we hewed our way into this
secluded Empire, and perhaps the ruling classes would
not be sorry to see our backs once more. Of course, the
Shanghai merchants think the Chinese in the wrong, and
of course the Bradford manufacturers side with the
Shanghai merchants ; but it would be vain to disguise that
the Chinese might possibly make out a case for themselves
if they had a good opportunity.

The Post considers that the laws regulating our Mer-
cantile Marine are almost, if not quite, as complicated and
chaotic as those relating to the conditions of the employ-
ment of labour and to education, and regrets to hear that
the Board of. Trade do not intend to recommend to Par-
liament to make provision for any inspection of merchant
shipping. This determination is, however, entirely in
accordance with the caveat emptcr principle which Mr. Bright
has already informed us he means to push to the very
extremity of application; and it is only consistent that
the Minister who told us that it was our own fault if we
bought butter with suet in it, and pepper mixed with iron
filings, and that if we were killed in a railway accident
it was owing to our own negligence and default in
making a bad contract for conveyance, should
now say to the sailors and officers of the Mer-
cantile Marine that their lives are in their own
hands, and that if they choose to fruit themselves in
rotten ships it is no affair of the Board of Trade; and to
the owners of property in freight, that it is the business
of underwriters, and not of the Government, to look to
such matters. Let the Board of Trade procure a return
from the Lifeboat Institution, and from Lloyd's, of the
number, character, and ownership of the vessels and their
crews who are lost because they are rotten to the core,
or because they have neither boats nor even sound
ropes with which to throw a grapnel to the lifeboat
that comes to their aid, or because they have pumps
absclutely out of gear and useless. Let the Board of Trade
do this and it will find that with a good and clear clause
there will be no occasion for " the army of surveyors "
whose dim shadows Mr. Lefevre shrinks from, and that
unscaworthiness, if: it be a comprehensive, is certainly any-
thing but an elastic term. Every seaman can define it as
simply and as positively as a butterman, if he chooses, can
exhibit the difference between butter and suet; and if
the Board will take the trouble to look at the laws which
they declare they are about to amend they will find that
owners of shipping have no operative responsibility at all.
The Daily _Xeres remarks that a begging letter writer,
who is really a genius in his way, and has invented a new
fraud and a new torture in one brilliant combination, has
just been brought to prison and confession at Philadelphia.
The trade in begging letters has of Into ceased to pay;
the public are on their guard against them, and various
societies exist which hunt out and punish their
authors. But this artist revived the trade in a
form which combined the efficacy of a threat with-
out its danger, and the force of a charitable appeal
without the fear that it would be handed over to a society.
It occurred to him that, as begging letters were useless
addressed to the living, it might pay to address them to
the dead. During the last two years the public has Leen
occasionally warned by shrewd solicitors into whose hands
the letters had fallen; but on the whole the scheme
answered so well as to bring in a revenue of fifteen hun-
dred a year. Sprague has not only confessed, but has
given a tolerably full account of his frauds. There is
every reason to believe that all the begging letters
which have come to England addressed to persons
lately deceased have come from his single hand. Alto-
gether he seems to have run a very successful swindling
career for many years under many aliases and by many
schemes. But this last scheme was the most execrable of
all: It was worse than trading upon charity ; it was
poisoning the wound which death had made with a poison
which would prevent its healing. Happily the exposure
of the cruel fraud will release those- who were its victims
from the worst portion of their loss. They will not regret
the money of which they have been defrauded, now that
their confidence in the dead has been restored by the
exposure of the fraud.

The Standard thinks that the correspondence between
the Bishop of Lincoln and Dr. Temple will be read with
deep pain. Strongly as we have condemned the nomina-
tion of Dr. Temple to the see of Exeter, we have never
taken the extreme ground of a certain section of his oppo-
nents—that he has, in his own person, given expression
to opinions which are distinctly heretical. Dr.
Temple's reply to the Bishop's appeal, the kind
motive and generous consideration of which he
frankly acknowledges, is almost repulsive in the
coldness and dogged determination of its tone. Dr.
Temple will not stir ono inch out of the path he has
traced out for himself. He says that he is convinced that
if he were to comply with Dr. Wordsworth's request he
should be only laying himself open to fresh demands. Dr.
Temple prefers to remain silent because it is more safe for
him, and he is afraid that if ho speaks he may commit him-
self, or be caught tripping. We fail to understand his
reference to "the law of the Church," unless it is intended
to remind us that he has not been condemned by any
legal tribunal. He will not say one word which may
justify the retraction of the sentence under which he now
suffers. Strong in his legal position, and in the counte-
nance of the secular power, he forces his way on to the
bench of bishops, and takes his seat, by preference, as a.
branded heretic. He will be a bishop anyhow, but as a
matter of personal liking he prefers to go into Exeter
diocese with the weight of opprobrium still hanging to
him. The law is with him, and he wrests it to the
uttermost, to the shame and the wounding of the help-
less Church. And they talk of Dr. Temple's " high-
mindedness !”

The Herald says that the judgment delivered, or to
speak, perhaps, more appropriately, the sentence recently
pronounced, by the Dean of Arches in the case of "Lee v.
the Rev. James John Merest," is undoubtedly one of very
great severity ; but in so characterising it we do not mean
to imply that it is more than adequate to the offences
which the defendant was proved to have committed.
It is, of course, only becoming in laymen to bo
diffident in offering opinions upon the proceedings that
take place in courts of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and
we are perfectly ready to assume th Lt the learned judge
could not, consistently with the conscientious discharge
of his duty, have visited the delinquency in question with
a milder punishment. The charges against the defendant
were two, viz., that he had obtained a presentation to the
vicarage of Upton-Snodsbury by a simoniacal bargain ; and
that he had been convicted at the assizes for threatening
to publish a libel with intent to extort money. The
reverend gentleman did not appear, either by counsel or
in person, to defend himself against his accusers. It has
been Mr. Merest's ill-luck to be found out, and this he
seems to owe to his indiscretion. He entered into an
engagement with his brother clergyman, the Rev. Murray
Richard Workman, which both of them knew perfectly
well must, in order to succeed, to kept '
completely
dark. Whether he was fairly treated or not by
Mr. Workman, in the carrying out of the illicit
contract, we cannot judge, but ho have done
wisely to have put up with a g:rea,e, deal rather than risk a
discovery.
The results to him are lamentable enough,
seeing that he has to undergo a sentencei of deprivation
from the ministry, and from thepei.cTo..ncelolf
all clerical
functions in the province of Canterbury:i w
the living which ha was so anxious _ obtraiinie gift
for the
next presentation, into the hands of the co

The Telegraph declares that if there is one member of
the present Government who, more than any other, would
reduce " governing" to a minimum, that man is Mr.
Bright. " Let alone " has been the motto of his school :
it was the watchword of the great free-traders ;
they detested all Government intervention, and.
believed that, hi the long run, individual energy:
commercial experience, and unfett-red t!a•Te would
create naticnal prosperity mGre
surely than any o:-T' cia I :cgulatiun ur pr.,
tooted industry. When Mr. Bright was first appointed
President of the Beard of Trade, he fr,quently pointed
out that he found nothing to do but to give advice ; and
even that function of his office hehas minimised by leaving
railway directors in a great mca.sure to themselves. Lately,
a correspondent found himself engaged in conversation with
a querulous costermonger at the East-end, who bemoaned
the hard times, and said, " Why, look at Mr. Bright ! ho
used to promise us great things. Well, he were appointed
President of the Board of Trade some nine months
ago, and I'm blessed if ever since trade hasn't been worse
than it wor before. Much good he has done." We recom-
mend this vein of argument to Conservative orators and
wits ; well worked amongst the people, it would do great
good. The belief that " Government ought to do some-
thing" lies deep down in the popular heart ; and there 's
no knowing what might be gained by making Mr. Bright
answerable for dulness of trade, and Mr. Gladstone respon-
sible for a bad harvest.