The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-15 00:00:00

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.

THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.45,
NOT SUCH A FOOL AS FIE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And
BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

THIS EVIZNING, at 7. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Mr
Ashley and the Misses Hari is. With THE WILLOW COPSE
Mr. Benjamin Webster.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLB ORN.

T }HS EVENING, at 7, STATE SECRETS. After which, THE
LADY OF LYONS: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin
,tc. And THE LOTTERY TICKET.

• ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and 3lanageress. Mrs. Saranborough

THIS EVENING. at 7.30. AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr
Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And ISO. Concluding with
THY CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ZOOLOGICAL G kIIDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6cl. Children
under twelve. 6d.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS.
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
open fromll to 4.

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LOZVDON, MONDAY, NOV. 15, 1869.

A FAREWELL charge is an unusual event, and it is
not often that Bishops khow when they are address-
ing their clergy for the last time. Death removes
them from their office unawares. The late Bishop of
EXETER occupied the rare position we have men-
tioned, for when a man is well on towards ninety he
may be pretty sure that another triennial period will
see. him either in the grave, or at least in his
bed. But no prelate now living had appeared
before his clergy and spoken to them, con-
scious of that being his final exhortation until the
Bishop of OXFORD held his visitation at his cathe-
dral last week. Neither the Bishop of WINCHESTER,
nor the Bishop of BATH and WELLS, nor the Bishop
of ST. ASAPH contemplated resignation at their last
visitation. It has remained for one of the most
successful as well as eloquent of Bishops
to perform the unwonted task of reviewing his
own episcopate. For twenty-four years Dr. WIL-
BERFORCE has presided over the important diocese
of Oxford. During that time he has seen one of the
most eventful periods in the history of the English
Church. When he ascended the throne at Christ
Church, Oxford, nearly the whole Church was
shaken to its foundation by the Anglo-Catholic
movement, and its resulting secessions to Rome.
NEWMAN had just gone over. The Bishop's own
brothers followed a little later, and quite recently
their example has been imitated by his daughter.
His brother-in-law was one of the most
active of converts, and is now the foremost
of English Romans -by virtue of his office
of Archbishop of WESTMINSTER. Three years after
Dr. WILBERFORCE'S consecration these secessions
produced their not unnatural result in the violent
anti-Papal-aggression agitation. The Bishop of
OXFORD was strongly suspected of keenly sympathis-
ing with the Romanisers within the English Church,
and it is only recently, only because there has grown
up a school far more extravagant than the Oxford
Tractarians of a quarter of a century back, and
compared with which the Bishop and his friends seem
ultra-Protestant—that he has ceased to be suspected.
Latterly there has grown up another school, with its
headquarters at the Bishop's own cathedral city. If
Oriel and Christ Church were supposed to have taken
their inspiration from Rome, Balliol is thought tc
have taken its inspiration from Tubingen. If the
Regius Professor of llebrew is at the head of
one school, the Regius Professor of Greek is
at the head of the other. If Dr. PUSEY i.
chief rabbi in the first, Mr. JOWETT is chief rabbi
in the second. It cannot be denied that the second
school has increased far more in proportion than the
first. The first, indeed, is still by much the more
numerous ; but seeing what a change has been made
in one decade, who will venture to limit the change
that will be effected in another ? It is, however, the
Romanisers rather than the Rationalists whom
Bishop WILBERFORCE most fears. "Faith," he
says, " endured among us a far ruder shock from
perversions to Rome than from the scientific dis-
coveries by some supposed mainly to endanger its
continuance. . . . Hatred of science is unworthy
of a Christian man. Nor need we be afraid of the
result if some seek to array science against Chris-
tianity. The assault of such enemies against the
sacred deposit of the truth, the Church has from the
first endured, and can endure again and again."
Only internal corruptions can make her fall be-
fore her enemies.

Bishop WILBERFORCE has been essentially a v'a
media prelate. He has not, like the late Bishop of
EXETER, attempted to exclude from the mini-
stry all persons who do not hold the doctrine
of Baptismal Regeneration, nor has he, like
the present Bishop of MANCHESTER, suppressed
ruthlessly, and with almost brutal intoler-
ance, the least excess in ritual. What is
the result of this moderation, tolerance, and equity
Simply that Oxford has become the model diocese of
the kingdom. In none other is Church work so
extended and so vigorous, in none is there so
thorough a Church tone. The theological training
college at Cuddesdon, the sisterhoods at Clewer
and Wantage are among the most striking
instances of energy. But beyond these are
the innumerable churches which have been
built or restored, and (which is far more
important) the innumerable services which have been
added, and the immense army of candidates who
have been confirmed, all uniting to bear witness to
the untiring energy of the Bishop who is now taking
leave of the diocese. The mere money value of the
work accomplished in the way of church and school
building—amounting to over two millions sterling—
appears extraordinary when it is remembered that
this is an agricultural diocese containing
no very large town, none larger than Oxford and
Reading. But the money represents a very small
proportion of the work accomplished. The devotion
of time and thought and labour far outweigh the
pounds, shillings, and pence. That this is so, is due
in large measure to the example set by the head of
the diocese. Bishop WILBERFORCE has always been a
worker, and he has expected other men to work. They
have nobly followed a noble example. Thus the
Bishop who is to succeed him will find that he has
come among among men eager to strengthen his
hands, and in that way the always difficult task of
ruling such a diocese as this will be rendered more
easy. Yet it can never be really easy to fill the
place of such a man as the outgoing Bishop of
OXFORD.

General J. BANKIIEAD NIAGRUDER made his name
historic as a Confederate General during the great
Ci%il War. No officer of the United States Army
threw his sword more readily against the Govern-
ment he had been trained to serve, than did this
Virginian. lie was true to his State and true to
his section, if false to the I Tnion—a choice which
nearly broke the hearts of such men as LEE and
STONEWALL JACKSON to make ; but he had to make
it, and he loyally abided the result. The world
can recognize a noble and gallant soldier iu General
MAGRUDER; But can New England ? —and that
is the question we desire to answer. Leas than a
month ago that gentleman stood on a lecture plat-
form, before au intelligent audience crowding a great
hall. On his entry he was welcomed by a burst of

applause, and who do our readers suppose were those
who thus greeted an unrepentant rebel ; none others
than the best citizens of Boston, the concentrated
essence of New Englandism, and the focus whence
spread the thought, the opinion, the spirit which
• gave rise to the war, to the desolation of Southern
homes, to the subjugation of Southern States, and to
the annihilation of Southern slavery. It was a
strange meeting for one of a band, another of whose
members had threatened to call over the roll of his
slaves on Bunker's Hill, to be there with New Eng-
landers listening with respectful attention to what
he had to say. Curiosity to see a real Confederate
General had, perhaps, something to do with filling
the Music Hall, yet the incident is of importance,
as marking the progress of reconciliation. His first
words went back to the time when, as a young offi-
cer of the United States Army, he was stationed in
Boston, and was as familiar as any of the inhabi-
tants with the city as well as its suburbs. He did not
discuss a subject bearing directly on the United
States, but he spoke freely on one of deep interest
to the neighbouring Republic, and probably against
the prejudices of the mass of his audience. MA-
GRUDER was the last of the Confederate Generals
wbo held a command, for he was far off in Texas at
the time of LEE'S surrender, and for a period it was
doubtful whether in the Lone Star State he might
not still continue the war against the Union. But
his army dissolved, as defeated and hopeless troops
without a Government and without an exchequer
are apt to do, and the Confederate General crossed
the frontier into Mexico, where he met MAXIMI-
LIAN, who changed his intention of proceeding by
way of Vera Cruz to Europe. He took service under
the German Prince and shared his fortunes, making
him the subject of his lecture to the citizens of
Boston. As might be expected from a man of
MAGRUDER'S temperament and military training
he became deeply attached to MA-XIMILIAN, whom he
described as the friend and admirer of the United
States, whose first design it had been to imi-
tate its policy in the administration of his own
Government. lie had declined to accept the place
of Emperor until elected by , what the General de-
clared to be the fairest and fullest election ever held
in Mexico. The country was entirely unfitted for
a Republic, and the only way whereby it could be
Americanized was to let some intelligent foreign
Monarch govern it, with an enlightened despotism,
and in the interests of America. Now that the
Union had been restored there was no need for
fear, or for asserting the absurdities of the MONROE
doctrine. These are not the opinions current in Bos-
ton, and we like MAGRUDER'S lecture all the better
for his bold enunciation of them in that city, whether
true or false. But we like still better to see this gen-
tleman loyally uphold, and in the finest spirit of a
soldier, the character and memory of the SOVE-
REIGN into whose service he entered. He sketched
MAXIMILIAN'S early career, and his marriage with
CARLOTTA. In person MAXIMILIAN stood six feet
two inches, his figure being as perfect as that of
APOLLO. The expression of his face was beautiful,
his complexion fair, speaking his German descent.
His golden hair and beard and bright blue eyes com-
bined to make him one of the most comely of men.
As for CauLorra, he could scarcely express his ad-
miration for her beauty, grace, and loveliness. He
rapidly traced the differences with Mexico, which
ended in the intervention of England, France, and
Spain. The claims of the European nations were
just, especially those of Great Britain, being
founded upon the robbery, by JUAREZ, of her Mini-
ster in Mexico, . when the sum of $60,000 was
abstracted by force from the Ambassador's house.
The English were got rid of by Mexican diplomacy,
and the Spaniards by bribes to their commander
PRIM, who was promised, among other things, the
place of EMPEROR instead of MAXIMILIAN, whose
name had thus early come up. The French alone
remained firm ; conquest, not mere redress, being
Caeir object. MAXIMILIAN'S intentions were pure
and noble, and he was well calculated had there been
anything good in it to redeem that distracted and
demoralised country; but the withdrawal of the
French made a formidable enemy of JUAREi, who
only a few days previously had neither a friend nor a
dollar. MAGRUDER evidently considers that it would
have been a wiser policy in the United States to
cave supported MAXIMILIAN; but Mr. SEWARD
.eems to have arrived at the opposite conclusion,
and although MAXIMILIAN was not a party to the
design of the Emperor NAPOLEON to establish in
America a Latin counterpoise to the Anglo-Saxon
race, yet be was its representative, and as such
could not have been regarded with favour by the
United States. To expect anything from a Mexi

can but cruelty and dishonesty would be sadly to
misread all the experience of the past. As a mat-
ter of course, when a Mexican captures his prisoner
he shoots him ; equally, as a matter of course,
when Mexico floats a loan it repudiates the bonds,
and a man would be alike a fool who entrusted his
person or his money to such keeping. MAxlmr-
LIAN'S chivalry, generosity, and belief in mankind,
(especially such a precious sample of it) bordered on
folly. Extremes meet ; and his extreme goodness
ch
dtoieudteod thebec oohnieud
an
lasting
ofastingreproach to the nation he
hoped to save, to supply a theme to blast the
Mexican character for centuries to come. JUAREZ
was justified in hurling him from the throne,- for
the injured Indian was not a party to the Ger-
' man's election ; but Mexico was, Had that coun-
try had even a spark not of nobility, only of com-
mon sense, seeing what was stamped on the
whole career of MAXIMILIAN—that he bad unself-
ishly given himself up to advance the interests of
its people—after defeat, when alike helpless in
their hands or out of them, it would have per-
ceived that the worst use to make of him was to
shoot him. It is amusing to watch the efforts of
this despicable nation, in its Present financial ex-
tremity, to raise more money. It (tomes whining to
Europe for funds, with the usual blits which seldom
fail to attract English gudgeons, wio are mercilessly
plundered and insulted on the moraentary wants of
the Mexican Indian savage being supplied. Secre-
tary SEWARD has lately gratified himself by the
sight of his fine handiwork to the North in Alaska,
and to the south in Mexico. lie may be right,
alike in his Northern and Southern policy, but
neither, just now, presents any special attraction,

and a masterly inactivity might have proved better,
for both gravitate one way, independently of feeing
with piles of gold the Russian AUTOCRAT, or of
needlessly consigning to a cruel death the noble-
minded MAXIMILIAN.— A ngiO.American Times.