The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-04 00:00:00

LORD WHARNCLIFFE ON TEE
GOVERNMENT POLICY,

Two letters of interest were read at the great Conserva-
tive banquet at the Sheffield Working Men's Conservative
Association on Thursday night. Mr. Disraeli wrote I
have to acknowledge the receipt, through your courtesy,
of an invitation, from a largo body of the working men of
Sheffield, to a banquet at the Cutlers' Hall, on the 2nd
December. Feeling honoured by the invitation, admiring
their energy, and sympathising with their aim, I regret
that engagements oblige me to forego the gratifying die.
tincticn of being their guest."
Lord Wiunxcuara, in apologising for non-attendance,
and expressing his best wishes for the success of the
meeting, "as rallying together the supporters of Con-
servative principles among the working classes in
Sheffield," added: We have now had a year's ex-
perience of the effects of so-called Liberal Government,
and we may congratulate that Government upon some
very patent results of their endeavours to govern the
country on their principles. Those principles are not
difficult to sum up—one word will suffice—clap-
trap. By inflated promises and injudicious utterances
on the part of men occupying prominent positions ih
the Government, by a display of clemency intended at
the time to purchase Irish popularity, they have succeeded
in turning Ireland into a hot-bed of sedition, accompanied
by more overt acts of treason and violence towards good
citizens than has been the case for twenty years.. They
have succeeded in penetrating the colonies with such feel-
ings of distrust with regard to the wish of England to
maintain her connection with them, as to have called
forth remonstrances from the leading colonists of London,
and to have created soreness and ill-will between our
dependencies and the mother country. It is not until
next month that the taxpayers of England will feel the
effects of Mr. Lowe's Budget of 1869, and the operation of
that financial policy upon their pockets will appeal more
directly to their intelligence than any words of mine. We
heard a vast deal about retrenchment when the present
Government took office. It has felicitously reduced
our forces at a time when Ireland is almost in a state of
siege ; it has so administered the public ofEces as to appoint
individuals to posts for which their own speeches proclaim
them to be signally unfit, and has thereby created
places for other adherents. Under the guise of reduc-
tions, which have pressed with the greatest hardship upon
subordinates, they have managed to provide easily
for their higher political supporters. And this is called
a Liberal Government. I hope that the people of
Sheffield will not be led away any longer by professions
unaccompanied by performances, that they will recognise
the hollow sham of the present administration, and will
support, when called upon, those who really labour for the
benefit and desire the maintenance of the Constitution of
their country.

A man who goes under the names of Smith, Short,
Rcse, &c., is extensively victimising tradesmen in various
parts of the country. He advertises himself as a money
lender. Before he lends money, however, he requires the
first year's interest in advance. The interest being sent on,
the principal fails to appear, and the inquiries of the police

at the residence given only elicit the fact that the bird Las

NEWSPAPERS UPON THEMSELVES.—TWO curious
pieces of self-criticism appear in the religious literature
the week, both of them relating to newspapers. The first case
is that of the conscientious proprietor of the Church Herald,
who announces that he has suspended its publication "cn
account of the objectionable tone of its articles." The second
is that of our Roman Catholic contemporary, the Tablet,
who, having by some accident pronounced last week
that " all the natural virtues collected together in one
individual would be sin, in the absence of with,' now un
equivocally accuses its own sentence of heresy, declaring
the doctrine to be good Calvinism and excellent Luther-
anism, but positively condemned by " the Church."
Whether it is the Twelve Days' Mission in the one case,
and the approach of the (Ecumenical Council in the other,
that has produced these " searchings of heart," we know
not; but we will trust that so high a virtue may suffer no
relapse.

INCIDENTS AT A CONSE ediately
after the sermon of the Bishop of Chester at the consecra-
tion of Dr. Goodwin, as Bishop of Carlisle, two incidents
occurred that somewhat disturbed the solemnity of the
occasion. Dr. Jacobson had no sooner pronounced the
benediction than a a countryman, dressed in a well-stained
",smock," stalked in front of the lectern, and in a louder
voice than had been heard in the choir that morning,
said:—" Ladies and gentlemen, I am here to speak about
the second coming." He somewhat startled people who
had come unprepared for any revelation ; but the sound of
his own voice frightened him, and he was led away by a
verger who knew him to be a fool rather than a rogue, the
poor fellow muttering something about thinking his time
to speak had come. A few minutes afterwards the choir
boys,. mistaking a pause that took place over some neces-
sary formula, distributed themselves among the congrega-
tion with the offertory bags. They were at least an I on:
too soon, and some difficulty was experienced in leading
them back to their seats. Afterwards the ceremony pro-
ceeded smoothly.