The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-26 00:00:00

TB E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY' EVENING, _ NOVEMBER 26, 1869

METROPOLI7AN GOSSIP —lhursday.

The death of Mr. Justice Hayes will relieve the judges
from an embarrassment. It will be remembered that Mr.
Disraeli, in order to carry out the provisions of his Bribery
Act, appointed three judges, of whom the late judge was
one, in order that there might be the same number
who might devote themselves to hearing election
petitions. During the present year the three
senior puisnes have been pretty busy, but the
three next in seniority, who have been chosen
for the ensuing year, will have nothing to do. Under these
circumstances it is possible that Mr. Gladstone, who has
already saved the country £6,000 a year by not filling up
Lord Justice Selwyn's place, may think it desirable to save
a further £5,000 a year by not filling up Mr. Justice
Hayes's. Should the Premier decide otherwise, there will
be no lack of Liberal lawyers to accept the vacant ermine.
Of course neither the Attorney-General nor the Solicitor-
General will take it ; they look for something higher.
Notwithstanding Mr. Disraeli's denial that he was ever
connected with the Representative newspaper, the general
impression is that the Guardian is right when it tells the
right hon. gentleman that he knows better. Perhaps many
of your readers have forgotten a speech made in the House
of Commons by the leader of the Opposition, on the 18th
of February, 1853, on which occasion he attacked Sir
Charles Wood for some remarks which the latter had made
to his constituents at Halifax. As Mr. Disraeli then dis-
tinctly claimed to belong to the press, I will take the
liberty of quoting one or two sentences. He said: " There
is no doubt that there is a considerable prejudice in this
country against the present ruler of France,
because he has terminated what we esteem
a parliamentary constitution, and has abrogated
the liberty of the press. It is unnecessary for me to say,
that it is not probable I shall ever say or do anything
which should tend to depreciate the influence or to
terminate the power of Parliament or the press. My
greatest honour is to be a member of this House,
in which all my thoughts and feelings are
concentrated ; and as for the press I am myself
a gentleman of the press, and have no other
scutcheon." Now it may be said that Mr. Disraeli was
simply.speaking as a novelist, and not as a journalist, but
this explanation can hardly hold water, for when the right
hon. gentlemen alluded to the Emperor Napoleon as
having " abrogated the:liberty of the press," he must have
alluded to newspapers. As it is, Mr. Disraeli has not come
out of the contest with flying colours.
Of the elections, immediate and proximate, which are to
come off, the greatest interest attaches to the impending
struggle in Southwark and to the Irish elections.
In the South London borough there is reason
to expect a complicated and interesting struggle. The
working men seem bent upon running a candidate of their
own, and I am well informed that a large body are fully
disposed to sink all differences arising from individual pre-
ference and to unite upon the artisans representative
who may secure the suffrages of the greater
number. The middle - class Liberals will have
their candidate, perhaps two. A ballot is spoken
of to decide whether the Liberals shall unite upon
returning Mr. Odger or a middle-class representative, but
in some quarters I know there is little disposition to give
way on either side. With a working-man candidate and
Sir F. Lycett or Mr. Labouchere in the field,
the Liberal interest will still be safe—so hope-
less is the Conservative minority ; but should
both the latter persist the weaker side will not be without
hope. With respect to the Irish elections, the voting
for Tipperary is now going on, and the dates for Queen's
County and Longford are not yet fixed. But all these
Irish elections present this one noticeable feature—
the unanimity of even middle class candidates and land-
lords in yielding to extreme demands. The chosen of
Waterford has pronounced for fixity of tenure; Mr. Heron
has not been able to make himself popular in Tipperary
by still greater concessions ; whilst Mr. Pease, the
candidate for Queen's County, who was thought "below the
mark" has found it necessary to give in his adhesion to
the favourite land doctrine. These facts go to prove
more than that fixity of tenure is the popular remedy for
the land grievance. They shew that the control of Irish
elections is passing from the hands of those who formerly
pulled the wires, and that the people are beginning to
manage their politics for themselves.
There is a talk of " Captain " Bertrand Payne coming
out as the Conservative candidate for Southwark. This
gentleman is at the head of the well-known publishing
firm of Moxon and Co., and is a captain of volunteers, in
which capacity he has had some serious differences with
his men. Mr. Payne is a Roman Catholic, and it is, there-
fore, somewhat remarkable that he should be on the
Conservative side.
The special services are the most prominent feature of
London life during the present week. If the largeness of
the number of worshippers attending them, and the
unanimity with which clergy of all schools have engaged
in them, be any test of success, then these services have
been most successful. There seemed at first a danger that
they would be confined to certain well-known "advanced"
churches, and that they wsuld be attended by the upper
classes exclusively. Services only at churches like All
Saints, Margaret-street (where the Prince and the Princess
of Wales are frequent attendants), and St. Mary Magda-
lene, Paddington, which is attended by worshippers be-
longing to the professional classes, would have failed to
meet the object which the promoters of the nilssions had at
heart. But when the clergy in the East-end and in
Southern London joined in the movement, thero was good
hope of a successful issue. That hope has been abundantly
realised. The churches standing in the poorest and most
crowded districts of the metropolis have been thronged
day after day, in the morning before daybreak, and late at
night, by the poor, many of whom probably had never
entered a church before except to get married. It is impos-
sible to estimate the value of the impression produced by
the clergy who conducted the missions. But that the mis-
sions have not been useless may be judged from
the following incident, related by one of the preachers.
After one of the services a poor woman came
up to him, and placing a packet in his hands, said: " I was
so miserable this morning that I intended to use this, but,
after hearing you to-day, I cannot, and so I give it to you."
The packet consisted of deadly poison.
I believe that the mission originated with Mr. Benson,
of Cowley, near Oxford. This gentleman, who is one of
the most energetic of the clergy in Bishop Wilberforce's
late diocese, has established in his parish a Brotherhood,
called the " Evangelist Fathers' They take vows, wear a
monastic dress, and hold themselves ready to go to any
part of the world, or to do any work of evangelisation
which may be assigned to them. But the London Mission
has been by no means confined to the High Church clergy.
Mr. Hugh Allen, once notorious as the opponent of Mr. Bryan
King, has taken part in the movement, and has had a
daily celebration in his church, as well as other services.
The truth is that the clergy of London are fast awaking to
the terrible truth that at least one-third of the inhabitants
are as really heathen as the savages of the least known
island. They are beginning to see that there is room for
all parties and sections, and work enough for them to do
without attacking each other. Nor is this all ; they see
that it is absolutely necessary to devise some special
remedies for this terrible state of things. Five-and-
twenty years ago the aspirations of High Churchmen did
not extend beyond reading " Dearly Beloved " morning
and evening. Now, they see that it is essential
to use greater latitude and have greater variety. Thus it
comes to pass that at the very time when the Dissenters
are adopting very largely alliturgy, Churchmen are resorting
to extempore prayers, to prayer-meetings, and special ser-
vices. For some time past there has been a special service
for working men at the beautiful church of St. Mary, Red-
cliff, Bristol, held at 6.30 a.m., and it hasbeenattended daily
by about fifty of the persons for whom it is intended. This
movement will, no doubt, spread in London, and in course
of time we shall see a latitude that would have
shocked the originators of the Tractarian movement. While
Convocation has been fifteen years settling special lessons
for Ash Wednesday, and has not even yet settled them,
the clergy have taken the whole question into their own
hands, and have devised, for instance, an entirely new
service for Good Friday, and are now, as we have seen this
week, resorting to special services, in the hope of winning
the souls whom the Prayer Book has failed to reach.
It is by a sad coincidence that this, which is one of the
most remarkable movements of the day, should have
reached its culmination at the time that the prelate to
whom London owes so much was lying upon a bed of
dangerous sickness. No one has done more to evangelise
our heathen capital than did Bishop Tait. The magnificent
fund which he originated will be a lasting memorial of his
energy ; will be a witness to the fact that in these days
the chief pastors of the Church were willing to spend and
be spent in the service of their Master.
I lately paid a visit to a Roman friend at the Oratory, in
Brompton, and was surprised to find how large was the
liberty allowed to the inmates, so far as regards reasline
non-Roman books. The library contained • such works of
Carlyle's, Buckles, Leckey's, and yet all were accessible to
all the Brothers. Still on Roman subjects, I may mention
that nothing has been done as yet to give Cardinal Wise-
man a tomb worthy of his reputation and position. It is
nearly five years since he was buried in the Roman Catholic
Cemetery at Kensal-green, and yet, in a recent visit, I
found nothing but a black wooden cross and an uninscribed
stone to mark the resting-place of him whom the Roman
Catholics revere as the restorer of the hierarchy in England.
I am aware that it is intended to commemorate the Cardinal's
achievements by a splendid cathedral hereafter, but ass
Archbishop Manning has declared that he will not lay one
stone until he has enough funds to carry the building a

than this

service.

long way towards completion, it is pretty certain that the
present generation will not live to see it erected ; so for
many a year to come the first Archbishop of Westminster

will have for memorial only a deal cross and a flag-stone.

Anglicans would have treated the Cardinal less shabbily

Travellers by the Underground Railway who should
happen to emerge into daylight at Portland.-road Sta-
tion would be struck by a very remarkable building
which is being erected in Great Portland-street. It is of
brick and stone, and in the Moresque style, and is of very large
size. This is the newJews' synagogue,which, when completed,
will far exceed any other building of the kind now in
England. The cost of it will be about £24,000, and I
believe that Sir Antony Rothschild, brother of the member

for the City, is providing most of the funds. In syna-

brogues the sexes are not only separated, but are placed in
different parts of the building. The men occupy the floor
and the women the gallery. The south-east end, elevated
above the general level, is the echol, or sanctuary, a domed
recess, within which is the aron-hakkodesh, or sacred
receptacle for the scrolls of the Pentateuch. In the centre
of the building is the al anemar, a raised platform, whence
the precentor, surrounded by the choristers, conducts the

SU,. • •••••.•
The appointment of the Rev. Frederick Farrar as one of
the Queen's honorary chaiilains is another indication of the
Sovereign's preference for clergymen of the Broad Church
school. Independently of that consideration, Mr.
Farrar well deserves the honour, for he is a most accom-
plished man. He has been mainly instrumental
in introducing scientific teaching into the school curricu-
lum at Harrow. For this and other services to science he
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is known
also a$ a writer of tales for schoolboys, of sermons, and
of a work on language. But his most fascinating book is
his " Seekers after God," written for Macmillan's "Sunday
Library." He has been rapidly rising into prominence at
Harrow, and being still quite a young man has probably
as good a chance of a bishopric as any man of his age.
Thd new Master of RUgby, Mr. Hayman, is known to the
literary and scholastic world chiefly as the author of a
very fine edition of the Odyssey. I presume that his testi-
monials were of a very high order. They must indeed
have been magnificent to have beaten those of another
candidate, Mr. Walrond, who, though a layman, was
strongly recommended by the Archbishops of Canterbury
and York, the Bishop of Chester, the Deans of Westmin-
ster and Durham, Dr. Temple, Dr. Scott, of Baliol, and Pr-
ofessor Jowett. He was supported also by Mr. Goschen, Sir
Edward Ryan,'Sir J. G. S. Lefevre, and a large number of
distinguished university professors.
For some time past the clerks at the various post-offices
in London have been practising the art of telegraphy, so as
to be ready for the approaching transference of the tele-
graphs to the Post-office department. Dummy instruments
have been arranged, at which the clerks have been working
and learning the signs and manipulation. At present when
a shopkeeper allows his shop to be used as a post-office he
is paid £l3 a year and a commission upon all the stamps
that he sells. But of course he will expect to receive a
much larger payment when he undertakes the telegraphic
work in addition. I believe that the sum has not yet been
fixed.

I am assured that the statement respecting the failure
of Columbia Market is not well founded. The munificent
foundress of the institution, I have good reason for know-
ing, considers it anything but a failure, and is well pleased
with the result.
Considering that we are now only a month from Christ-
mas week, the literary world is singularly stagnant. Gari-
baldi's work upon Rome in the nineteenth century is
anticipated with some eagerness, and with not a little
anxiety by these friends of the General who think that
the sword rather than the pen is his weapon. The book
has been translated by Mrs. Chambers, wife of
Garibaldi's old friend, Colonel Chambers—a colonel,
• that is, in the Italian, and a general in the United
States army. A trenchant anonymous pamphlet
entitled "No more Sole Patrons and Soul Auctions," has
been published by Stanford, and comes, if I mistake not,
from the pen of Sir John Bowring. The writer points out.
the great mischief which arises from the present system
of appointing incumbents, and from the sale of livings,
and would have the clergy elected by a body in which the
patron should count for two votes, the bishop of the
diocese for one, the churchwardens, as representing the
parish and the incumbent, should reckon for two, and the
communicants, as the essence of the congregation, also for
two. The patron would nominate his candidate in the
first instance, and would thus have priority, and if there
were a majority of votes in his favour the candidate
would be elected. If the majority were adverse, then
the communicants, the delegates, and the people's church-
warden would present their candidate. If he failed
to obtain a majority then the two candidates, together
with one naked by the Bishop, would be put up, and the
one having the largest number of votes would be elected.
The writer believes that the present system of patronage
cannot possibly last much longer, and that the fate of the
Irish Church Establishment, which fell at the first blast of
the ram's horn, should be a lesson to English Churchmen.
In order to strengthen the funds of the Alexandra
Orphanage for Infants of Hornsey Rise, and to defray the
cost of the new building recently erected, a volume,
called " The Alexandra," is to be published. The con-
tributions are by well•known authors connected
with popular literature, among whom are Mrs.
S. C. Hall, Tom Hood, Andrew Halliday, and many
others. The illustrations are by distinguished artists, all
of whom, as well as the writers, render their services
gratuitously. The work is well got up, and I can only
re-echo the hope of the committee that success will attend
their efforts.

MISCELLANEOUS NE WS.

SO UTIMAII.K.

There is every prospect of the Liberal interest in
Southwark being dangerously divided at the forth-
coming contest. Mr. Labouchere is in earnest; the
working men seem determined to put up either Mr.
Odger or Mr. Bradlaugh ; and now it is confidently
affirmed that Sir F. Lycett will go to the poll. Ills
chances of success are not few. Ile will have the
undivided support of the Nonconformist electors of
' as well as that of the numerous body of
of whose cause Sir Francis is a warm
teetotallers,t heboro ugll
advocate.. A ballot, such as that adopted in the case
of Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Ernest Jones at Man-
chester, is earnestly enjoined by Liberal electors of
all sections, so as to avoid a split. The Conservatives
are on the alert, and it seems likely that Mr. Morgan
Howard will stand. Colonel Beresford says he has
no intention of contesting the borough.

the very hola stop of throwing them off, puhlie
opinion should be consulted. It was not for Lord
Granville alone, but for the people of England
to declare what should be done in the matter.
He announced that a correspondence had been
entered into between Earl Grey, Lord Carnarvon,
and Sir Bartle Frere, and that a document was preparing
which, it is hoped, will present a complete solution
of the New Zealand difficulty. Mr. Wilson suggested
weekly meetings of colonists. Other Australian
representatives were not less decisive in
their criticism. Mr. Westmoreland, of Jamaica,
protested against the whole colonial policy of the
Government. His colony was in a deplorable
condition. Sir George Grey followed suit. He
called for an unequivocal declaration of Earl Gran-
ville's intentions, and demanded that the whole sub-
ject be at once referred to Parliament. A resolution
condemning the doings of the Government was unani-
mously approved.