The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-30 00:00:00

TILE TURKISH QUESTION,

A letter has been sent from Constantinople to the North
East Correspondent, which says that Server Effendi's mis-
sion to Egypt was not quite so successful as had been
reportel. The firman had been extensively cir-
culated, but there was reason to suppose that it
would be restricted in its carrying out. It is said that
Ismail-Pacha's reply to the last Imperial act was of so un-
satisfactory a nature that the Commissary of the Sultan
refused to take it to Constantinople. It was taken to the
Porte by an Egyptian functionary. The letter in question
is not to be made public, fur fcar it should be prejudicial
to the Imperial interests.

An immigration agent states that he has settled
eighty families of Danes near Okalona, Mississippi, and
is confident that within the next ten years be will have
twenty thousand Scandinavian families in Mississippi and
Alabama. An immigration society has been formed
among the planters at Okalona, and fifteen hundred acres
have been given to the company, to be sold at a low price
to actual settlers.

" Mr. Koopmanschap, the Californian contractor
for the delivery of Chinese coolies, has proposed to the
North German Lloyd Company at Bremen to charter some
of their steamers for the conveyance of Chinese, not from
China to California direct, but ria the Suez Canal to New
Orleans. The steamers are admirably adapted for the
purpose, being built and fitted up for the conveyance of
German emigrants from Bremen to New Yolk, Baltimore,
and New Orleans, and often carry over 900 to 1,000 in a
single vessel ; but we understand that, as that branch Of
business is so remunerative, and they are, moreover, under
contract with the different overnniehts to carry the Ger-
man, French, and United States' mails every week, they
were obliged to decline the offer. —London and China Tele-
graph.
Fifty million envelopes are sold annually, and stamped
with the crest and address from upwards of 85,000 steel dies, at
Parkins and Gotto's, who make no charge for stamping or cement-
ing, and, having only one price, undertake to supply the nobility
and gentry with every description of writing paper and envelopes
of the best and molt fashionable kind, at extraordinarily low
charges. Monograms, crest, or address dies cut at less than half
price. Coloured stamping reduced from 2s. to ls. per 100. Arms,
monograms, and crests emblazoned. 60 stampers, die sinkers,
and kept upon the premises, all orders are exe
cute
d withg engraversr being
St
deep
ra
atch. Dance progmmes, invitations, at
home notes, MSS. books, return thanks, bordered and overland
papers, dish, dessert, and bouquet papers, and every description
of fancy and household stationery. Parkins, and Wm, maim.
y' 9, 2104 2; Wad-Argo,

The Times, in discussing the electoral situation* in
France, observes that there representative government is
an innovation; parliamentary interference is resented as
an intrusion, resisted as a disturbance. The struggle in
France is not one of classes, of interests, or even of parties
in our own sense of the word. It is the Administration
as a body that is always fighting for life. Let it be remem-
bered that it is the Government in France which
corrupts, which bribes or intimidates ; and it is not
only the individual elector, but the whole constituency,
that .is opep to the Government's seductions. Be it
remembered, too, the Government bribes, not at its own
cost or at that of its party, but at the cost of the whole
nation. The slightest hint by a prefect or mayor that
the construction of a breakwater or a pier, of a town-hall
or an opera honSe, at the expense of the State, is con-
tingent upon the vete of a town or district is more than
sufficient to determine that vote in the sense that may
best suit the men who have such gifts at their dispose].
An election is thus ruinous not less in its result than in
the means by which it is obtained. It calls forth as candi-
dates, not, as with us, the prodective, but the perasiti-
cal elements cf the community. It opens a wide .6.,,.4€1,
not culy for needy adventurers an 1 place-huntels, hot
also for begg:ng corporations and sponging districts. The
c yuntry pays for a representation which robs it, or helps
t, rob it, et its very birth. The Executive bribes, as it;
wore, the nation against the nation. The evil is inherent
partly in the conditions of a disorganised society, incapable
of independent action or combination, partly in a cen-
tralised Administration whose compact influence it is
difficult to withstand, and almost impossible to break
up. After all, had the French people the real free
exercise of their suffrage, what would they do
with it ? What has been for these last eighteen
years—what was, before the coup d' Oat placed
all the a.dministrative.machinery in the hands of Napoleon
—the vote of the French people ? Were the influence of
the Emperor fairly withdrawn, which of the extreme
parties - would have the upper hand? What has the
country to hope from " Arcadians" on one side, and
"Irreconcileables" on the other ? Could an election in
France really elicit the free will of the people ? Is it so
certain that the Emperor would not have in any future
leifislatitre the ee"oierwhelm
reckons in the present Chamber.

Now that so many of our bishops and clergy are rising
one after another to predict the impending separation of
Church and State, it is desirable, says the Daily News, to
get all the information we can as to the religious condition
of the greatest English-speaking country in which the
separation of Church and State is a fundamental principle
of the Constitution. Fortunately an opportunity for this
study has just presented itself of the most unexcep-
tionable kind. The Rev. Harry Jones, the well-
known and hardworking Vicar of St. Luke's,
Berwick-street, has been spending the autumn in
making a tour of the United States, and has
been week by week communicating his impressions of
that country to the clerical public in the column.;
of the Guardian. Like other Englishmen, Mr. Jones has
seen a good deal that surprised him, and a vast deal that
has both interested and instructed him in a study which,
in more senses than one, is the study of our posterity.
As an English clergyman, Mr. Jones, of course, had an
eye for all the matters in which the American system of
voluntary Churches is most supposed, on this side of the
water, to be necessarily defective. He had often heard it
said in England that the American Churches made no pro-
vision for the poor. But on no one point has his observa-
tion been more strongly corrective of previous impres-
sions than on this. Mr. Jones sees the agglomeration
of sects—all equal before the law—" the nearest
approach to a National Church." Our Beresford Hopes
and Newdegates, and our ecclesiastical authorities, are
never tired of drawing sad pictures of the religious indif-
ference and destitution which, they tell us, exist in the
United States under the voluntary system. The exact
contrary is the truth, this English clergyman being wit-
ness. The system has its defects, but these which are
charged upon it are not among them. We can imagine,
from the Broad Church point of viow, strong objections to
it; but as a means of satisfying the religious needs and
cultivating the religious sentiment of the people, it is
evidently more effectual than the system which exists
among us.

The Telegraph alludes to the American practice of
" interviewing" notabilities which is not yet adopted in
this country. We treat our public men with scant courtesy
enough on the hustings, and generally at election times ;
we sometimes pelt them not only with ribald questions,
but with rotten eggs. Yet we do not follow them to their
homes; we let them alone at their firesides. On the
hustings the candidate can turn away an awkward yiery
with a good or bad joke. When Lord Palmerston, then
"sulking in his tent," was asked at 'Tiverton
hia tormentor Roweliffe, a local butcher,
whether— he,,would accept of lce under Lord Derby,
he declined- to- preaz-ge himself further thsAn that
iia " :1-eVer, iftlar-.4.4:llinuntaL

post in a Rowcliffc Administration." Yet, if interviewing
were allowed here, we can well conceive that the late Pre-
mier, face to face with any journalist, would not come oft

second best. There are living statesmen, too, who cer-
tainly would not fare ill in a conversational tournament.

Anybody who observes Mr. Lowe's delight in bewildering
a deputaticn can fancy the pleasure that he would
draw from the intrusion of a reporter commissioned
to put into short questions every foolish idea
of the Opposition press. When Plato wished
to record the wisdom of Socrates, he imagined
interlocutors whose role was to invent fallacies;
and Mr. Lowe's Heaven assuredly ought to be a place
wliere he should be continually surrounded by foolish
people with a mania for perpetual interrogation. Indeed,
many statesmen must lament that their enemies are not
more inquisitive; their combativeness must occasionally
fail. If they were wise, they might occasionally invite or
invent an interviewer. Mr. Lowe might send down to some
Opposition member or journalist, and insist on his coming
to his office by appointment, at twelve o'clock sharp,
to talk Toryism in detached bits, and to listen
to its refutation in detail. In America the im-
pudence of journalists and the publicity of even
tie private lives of the leading men render such an order
unnecessary; .here an enormous power of political repartee
is running to waste. Down at Hughenden a vast reserve
of unuttered epigrams lies unused. Nobody has intruded
into Hatfield to ask Lord Salisbury whether he is going to
take the leadership in the Lords. Lord RnBqsell's opibion
on the escape of the Alabama has not been sought. At
present, such is our delicacy and reserve, we do not discuss
the details of our great men's lives until they are long
dead, and then it is au American authoress that must show
us the way.

The Standard thinks that the winter campaign of the
Anti-Sunday Trading League has commenced with a half
promise that Government intend to deal with the subject,
if possible, next session. At the Lambeth meeting, held
this week, in preparation for the New Year's movement, a
resolution was passed inviting the seventy thousand
tradesmen at present doing business on the Sabbath to
keep their shutters up from Saturday night until Mon-
day morning. They in all likelihood would be
provided that the change did not interfere with their
profits. But, relatively to this point, they have to consult
the four or five hundred thousand of the poorer orders who
persist in making their purchases at the very time tabooed
by the League. Sunday trading and labour there must
and will be, and the only question is with respect to its
limitations. Undoubtedly a very large proportion of
both, as at present carried on, is unnecessary and perni-
cious, demoralising and offensive; and in so far as the
agitation can sweep it from the alleys and slums, from the
Dudley-streets and Old Clothes-lanes of London, it will
b 3 doing a work of good. The bird, rat, rabbit, and dog
markets, held in the vilest neighbourhoods, and especially
attractive to the young, are nuisances of the most egregious
character, while, on the other hand, the poor depend in a
great measure for a fresh and sweet Sunday meal upon
what they can buy on Sunday morning. It is in the power
of those who are directing their influence against tbi3
traffic to confer a valuable boon upon tho humbler classes,
or to irritate them into a suspicious and unreasoning op-
Position. Let us hope that the principle of moderation,
now that the question is being once more shaped for con-
sideration by the Legislature, will prevail, and that no
attempt will be made to worry the poor in their domestic
life under pretences of benefiting them in a.-way they do
not understond and would not like.
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If the Cannon-street colonists needed any spur to make
them take our advice, and quietly yield up their self-
constituted functions, it is, remarks the Post, to be fount
in the resignation by Lord Bury of the chairmanship of
their committee, und in the repudiation of the interfe-
rence of the body by the Australian colonies, to say nothing
of the virtual collapse of the New Zealand rebellion. The
colonista cannot do better than imitate the example of
Lord Bury. As it was the Now Zealand enzeute that
called into existence the association of colonists and
colonial sympathisers which holds its meetings in Cannon-
street, so the subsidence of that imeute might fairly be
expected, when taken in conjunction with the other con-
siderations specified, to suggest the desirableness of a ces-
sation of this particular agitation. We trust we may,
therefore, consider that the two projects of a
confederation of the scattered members of our colonial
Empire and the proposed conference of colonial
delegates have been disposed of ; but, at the same time, it
is not to be regretted that they have Leen fully and fairly
discussed. It can no longer be maintained with any show
of truth that the Colonial Empire of Great Britain is on the
verge of disintegration, that the colonies are discontented,
or that we are either neglecting or tampedv4 With the
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