The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-06 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY .EVENING, APRIL 6, 1869.

Y °linger aspirants whose ambition lies in that par-
'cular direction, and who, with the sanguine tem-
perament of youth kindling their hopes, look forward
to a halcyon future in this, in the one sense, highest
of the purely intellectual professions. Everything,
according to their anticipation, seems couleur de rose
in r gard diplomatist.
uthneiversit y ,th. e
embryo Im-
mediatelyciiplomatist joins one or other of the legations in the
upon quitting his University,
character of an attache. The Court of the Sovereign,
to which his chief is accredited, is open to him on his
first entrance into public life, and so are the drawing-
rooms of the best society in the capital in which his
residence is, for the time being, fixed. Intermediately,
may be, he has tried his hand, perhaps got it well in,
as a precis-writer in association with the working of
the Foreign Department in Downing-street. But, if
he chances to be the scion of a noble house, he passes
directly from the surveillance of a tutor to the
surveillance of an ambassador. He goes from the
cloistered shades or quadrangles of Oxford or Cam-
bridge to the home and the haunts of some starred
and ribboned Excellency. Life with him is still that
of la jeunesse, but it is la jeunesse d'oree. Operas and
balls, afternoon canters and evening decanters, flirta-
tions and presentations, are to be among the chief
events of the new existence. The tour of Europe is
to be made in the grandest way possible—tamely, by
removal from one metropolis to another, in bettering
capacities and bettering positions—attache, third,
second, first Secretary, Envoy, full Ambassador—
Munich, Brussels, Madrid, Vienna, St. Petersburg,
Paris. The couleur de rose deepening and ripening in tint
like the fluctuations in the hues of the dying dolphin
—" The last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is—
grey !" That is—until, with the silvering hair of a
veteran diplomatist, the active and successful career
is closed by a tender cushioning on a pension and a
peerage. Such, in brief, is the day-dream indulged
in by ingenuous youth in regard to the average career
of a diplomatist. Mark, now, the lamentable contrast
presented to view by the anonymous pamphleteer,
who has but just now, with uncompromising accu-
racy, told—not the secrets of the prison house,
but of the British Legation, as it actually is in the
chief cities of the various countries of the European
Continent. " A youth of folly, an old age of cards"
—there is, happily, none here, as a rule in the diplo-
matic career. On the contrary, it isa youth, and some-
thing more than a youth, of drudgery of a certain
kind, and unquestionably of that "hope deferred"
which proverbially " maketh the heart sick"—and
which is lengthened out, in the majority of in-
stances, into full maturity. First of all, be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and twenty-six the
young diplomatist has his first start in life as an
attaché—for four years—gratuitously ! After that
probationary interval of four years has fully run out,
he is then —at twenty-five years of age at the very
youngest—appointed to the dignity of Third Secre-
taiy—rec2iving the superb official income of £l5O
pr annum, and even that contingently ! After five
or six years' enjoyment of this magnificent annual
Ipayment of £l5O, and of this high position
of Third Secretary, the advancing diplomatist is
at thirty or thirty-one years of age pro-
moted to the rank of Second Secretary, with a
yearly income of from £250 to £4OO. When about
forty years of age—if he is particularly lucky —he
becomes First Secretary. His income then ranging
from £5OO to £l,OOO. If his constitution survives, if
he has a good deal of influence, but, better than
all, if he bas a run of luck, he becomes in the
course of time—perhaps after a dozen or even
fifteen years have elapsed—Minister or Ambas-
sador. Very mmy get dejected, get Lipped, get
broken in health and in spirits—take to the German
waters, dabble in homoeopathy, obtain a pension if they
can, and withdraw into retirement. Such, in a few
rapid sentences, are the contrasting romances and
realities of the diplomatic career, as imagined, upon
the one hand, by the stripling who intends, let us
say the day after to-morrow, to become au
" attache," and as described, from experience in
col I blood, by one who, the year before last, we will
suppose, was a veteran diplomatist. Enough for
the present moment, if the comparison thus startlingly
instituted be borne for a while in remembrance, and
more or less strongly realised. Subsequently the
consideration forces itself both upon the writer of the
pamphlet already mentioned as well as upon his reader
—as to how best the system, as it now is arranged, may
be judiciously modified, with a view to the opening up
of a more reasonably hopeful career to the majority
of the diplomatic servants of the Crown, and at the
same time of striking a rational balance between effi-
ciency and economy in the general scheme of our
diplomatic organization.

UNLESS Lord STANLEY is a very vain man he must
be getting as weary of hearing himself praised for
common sense as other people, 2,350 years ago,
were of hearing ARISTIDES praised for his justice.
And yet we really know no other word which so
fitly and completely sums up Lord STANLEY'S char-
acter. His speech at Glasgow is the explanation of
the no-speech at Westminster during the debate on
the Irish Church. It is a warning to his party of the
absolute hopelessness of the position which they
are assuming, which has been taken up by Lord
Joiur MANNERS and Mr. HARDY, and, there is too
much reason to fear, will be taken up by the great
bulk of Irish Protestants. It is impossible to
reverse the verdict passed by a majority of 118 ; it is
impossible to set aside the wish of the people
expressed at the polling-booths last November. This
is as much a matter of . fact as that if the Conserva-
tives knock their heads against a stone wall it is the
heads that will suffer, not the wall. Lord
STANLEY went beyond facts ; he advanced
opinions which to his party must sound like heresy.
He said that " the actual and existing position of
the Irish Church is invidious, and not easily defen-
sible;" that " all merely titular distinctions and
marks of dignity are not for a Christian Church
worth fighting for or retaining ;". and that " funds
not really wanted may fairly be applied to any justly
national purpose." What more than this could be said
even by Mr. BRIGHT ? The EX-FOREIGN SECRETARY
and the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE
are agreed that the Irish Church cannot be
defended; that the right of the Irish bishops to sit
in the House of Lords is not worth a contest ; that
Church funds may be appropriated to other national
uses, which need not even be religious. True, Lord
STANLEY went on to say, " I do not think that
endowments which are wanted, and which are not
abused, ought to be swept away after three centuries
of possession merely in order to establish a theory
of religious equality." But no one proposes to
sweep them away; those which are wanted,
and which are serving a good purpose, will
still be available for the Church, and will be merely
handed over to commissioners, who will see that
there is no waste. Lord STANLEY thinks that " we
may still succeed in saving something out of the
fire." So does Mr, GLADSTONE; indeed, he saves
the very handsome amoulit of 71 millions out of 16.
We are not at all sure that Lord STANLEY'S
salvage would have proved quite so satisfactory
to the Irish Church. Nor are we sure that
the purposes to which he would have put
the residue of the money would have borne quite
such a close relationship to the original object of the
endowments as those which Mr. GLADSTONE has
selected. Lord STANLEY says only that the purposes
should be " national," a term which would include the
purchase of railways, the draining of bogs, and the
subsidising of packet companies. We are inclined to
think that even Irish Protestants would prefer
the appropriation of the money to the relief
of unavoidable calamity to any repetition

.of the Shannon and the Galway jobs. There
are other points upon which we cordially
agree with Lord STANLEY. _---Mr. GLADSTONE
has clearly made a mistake in liberating the
Fenians. It was the mistake of a generous nature ; it
was the mistake which did not appear to be such
until after it had been made ; yet not the less was it
a mistake, and one which, there is reason to fear,
will produce unfortunate results. We agree also
with Lord STANLEY in the desire that in carrying
out the important changes with regard to the
Church and the land which are now contemplated
nothing will be done gratuitously to wound the
loyal Irish Protestants. It is, unfortunately, too
true that we cannot afford to alienate Irish loyalists ;
at the same time even this danger must be incurred,
if necessary, in order to render the great bulk
of the nation loyal. Moreover, if the loyalty
of the minority depends solely upon the maintenance
of their ascendancy, "it is not worth the keeping,
let it go." But, probably, little importance is to be
attached to the cry for a repeal of the Union which
is now being raised by the ultra-Protestants of
Ulster and Dublin. They cannot fail to see that in
an Irish Parliament Protestantism would be as com-
pletely outnumbered as in the British Parliament
Romanisin is outnumbered.

So much for Lord STANLEY'S speech. And now
what of Lord STANLEY'S position ? It is a signifi-
cant circumstance that the Conservative papers sup-
press this speech. They know full well that it would
justify what independent journals, as well as the
Liberal organs, have long been saying, that though
Lord STANLEY is with the Conservative party, he is
not of it. He has, unfortunately for his own
fame, become involved in Conservative tactics.
He has taken part in " dishing " his opponents, and
in his colleagues' leap into the dark. He it was who
in 1866 denounced the degradation of the franchise
involved in Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposal to reduce the
qualification to £7 ; he it was who then proposed £8
as the means of saving the Constitution ; and he it
was who in 1867 accepted household suffrage as the
only safe resting place. But with regard to this
Irish Church question he has not hopelessly
committed himself. He said last year that
if anyone was prepared to uphold the Church
in its present position, he was not that" one.
He says this year that the Church is " invidious, and
not easily defensible;" and that the battle is lost, and
the time is come to capitulate and make the best
terms. He makes a speech so liberal that the
journals which have been accustomed to praise him
as a Heaven-born Minister, dare not publish, much
less refer to it. How much longer will he continue
to occupy havesent position, which is as " anoma-
lous "as the Irish Church itself ? We have the
authority of Sir WALTER SCOTT, that—

" On Stanley, on,'.
Were the last words of Mariniun."

and the STANLEY of to-day would do well to bear
them in mind, He cannot stand still. Ile must
either advance, and take his seat among the men
whose opinions he shares ; or he must consent to
follow the lead of the new champion of Con-
servatism, the darling of the squires and the clergy
of a past generation. :And while we -wait for
his answer, what shall vve..say of the party which
in the course of forty-eight
hours is advised by Lord
JOIIN MANNERS to hoist the standard of " No-
Surrender," by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON to " level up,"
and by Lord STANLEY - that, not only is the battle
lost, but that a large
is not worth fighting for ?
portion of the subject of conflict

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WINDSOR CASTLE, April 5.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice
went out in the grounds this morning.
Prince Leopold also went out.

LATEST INTELL MENU

(RELJ'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

MALTA.

VALETTA, April 5.

The Bordeaux and the Algiers, two monitors of
800 tons, for the Sultan, and constructed in France,
on their way
arrived here yesterday, to Constan-
tinople.

Her Majesty's corvette Rapid, from Naples, also
arrived yesterday, and will be followed to-day by
the Caledonia, having on board Lord Clarence
Paget.

The Rapid, in beating in, tailed on the rocks.

GIBRALTAR, April 5.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta left for Southampton at 1 o'clock this morn-
ing, where she may be looked for about the evening
of the 9th inst.

SUEZ, April 5.

The Caruatic left at 10 a.m., and the Nubia at
3 p.m., yesterday, for Bombay and Calcutta re-
spectively,

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 6.

The North German steamship Weser, sailing to-
day for New York, takes out English gold coin to
the value of £lB,OOO, and French jewellery to the
value of 94,500 fr.

PHILADELPHIA, April G, 3 a.m.

The Republicans have carried the elections in
Connecticut by a majority of 500. Marshal Jewell
has been elected Governor of the State.
One member of Congress has been gained by the
Republicans.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, April s.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :--

41 per Cont.
End of month... - Italian Fives 55 80
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 321 Mexican ,Loan ... 241
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 275 Spanish Threes
Credit Foneier ...1490 Home Debt —
End of mouth... _ Deferred —
RAILIVAYs. Cash
Orleans .. ... 955
Northern .............................. ... / 1371
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.....
Western ...........
Eastern ............. ........
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard ...................................... •
North of Spain
Saragossa .........

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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, April 5, Evening.
Prince Arthur arrived in Kingstown early this
morning.
At half-past 11 the Lord-Lieutenant and suite
went on board the yacht,
and presentations were
made. A deputation from the Kingstown Com-
missioners presented an address.

At 12 o'clock a special train brought the Royal
party to town. At Westland Row a❑ address was
presented by the Corporation of Dublin. The
Prince received a respectful welcome from the
citizens.

An inquest was held at Lyons to-day, and the
jury found that Lord Cloncurry came by his death
by falling out of a window. He had been under
close re-traint for some time.

Capthin Al'Donald, one of the candidates for
Queen's County, committed suicide to-day in Kings-
towu by cutting his throat.

CRYSTAL PALACE.---ONE SHILLING DAY.—Mon-
day, April s.—Admissions by season tickets, 2,003; ditto
on peymeut, 2,234; tntaul visitors, 4,237.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM Pd RIS.

Mom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS. MONDAY, April 5.
'The speeches on the great Budget debate accumulate
far too rapidly for my brief space. But I ought not to
omit to notice the great moderation which characterises
the speeches of the Opposition leaders. M. Thiers set the
example in an address which was as temperate as it was
was vigorous, and M. Jules Favre has followed suit. His
language was perfectly free from offence, but he did not
hesitate to give the question, " Has the conduct of the
Government since 18(13 given satisfaction to the
legitimate aspirations of the people?" a most decidedly
negative answer. M. Thiers dealt with general principles ;
M. Jules Fevre went into details. The vague and arbi-
trary law of " public safety " involved danger to the per-
sonal liberty of every Frenchman. Under the pretext of
providing for the public safety any person might be cast
into prison. " Every day it happens that those who
defend the rights of citizens at the bar of Justice finds
themselves powerless to obtain redress for the wrongs of
their cliente. Let us now look at the liberty of the
press. In thirteen months you have instituted 118 prose-
cutions, and what have been the results for the writers of
the incriminated articles? Nine years, one month, and
twenty-three days of imprisonment, nine months of inter-
diction of civil rights, and £5,400 fine ! And do you
think you have disarmed your critics by such rigour? One
may affirm as a general rule that those who persecute the
press only dig for themselves the grave into which they
must one day fall." This hit was received, according
to the official report, with "mingled sensations." I should
think so. Then M. Favre turned to freedom of election.
He gave M. Rouher the full benefit of his declaration that
official candidatures were indispensable to the Govern-
ment. But were this proposition true, nothing could be
imagined more discreditable to those in power than the
maintenance of that system. If a Government is obliged to
designate and recommend the friends of the Emperor, the
reason is that it is not strong enough to face public
opinion freely expressed. The Constitution has given very
considerable prerogatives to the executive power ; but it
has also reserved for the nation a right that cannot be
alienated. Whilst, however, the Emperor cannot
alienate this right, he endeavours to nullify it
by seating his personal nominees in the Chamber. M.
Fame then gave some instances of the means employed to
turn elections. A sum of £240 had been granted to one
commune for public improvements, and the juge-de-paix
was ordered to solicit in return the gratitude of the elec-
tors for the only candidate of the Emperor. A letter was
at this point handed to M. Favrelrem M. Bethmont. It
was from a prefect, announcing a subvention, and asking
the electors in return to support a candidate. The speaker
then gave the Government a pretty broad hint about
the recent disturbances at public meetings. At Paris,
he said, a singular spectacle was witnessed. Although
political discussions are forbidden in public meetings,
nothing else takes place, and in the. very presence of the
Commissary of Polico ! " What is the reason of such
toleration? The truth is now disclosed. The violence
of the speakers was useful to the secret designs of
the Ministers. The meetings have been dissolved,
and all what remains of them is a pamphlet which the
Government is circulating in profusion. The pi oneding
is not new, but will not be always efficacious. The revo-
lutionary spectre is being exhibited to all France, but the
country no longer fears it." M. Baroche replied. His
. speech was very amusing, and was received with great
applause on the right, but it added nothing to the sub-
stance of the discussion.

A strange, and to the Government a discreditable, hie!.
dent occurred at the opening of this and the previous
debate. During M. Thiers's speech on Friday the great
orator of the Left complained that judges who failed
to convict for political offences were overruled
on appeal, and disrespectfully spoken of by the
Government agents. In one case a Procureur-
General, whilst supporting an appeal against the court
which first dared to acquit in the Baudin case, said :
" Justice at Claremont has shewn itself unintelligent and
short-sighted." M. Rouher, interrupting, denied that any
such expression was ever used. M. Girot-Pouzol then
rose and said he had heard the words himself. M. Rouher,
in a rage, exclaimed, "Hold your tonge ; respect the
Chamber." The deputy thus addressed did not hear this re-
buke, but was amazed to find it in the Journal Officiel next
day. On the opening of Saturday's sitting he brought up
the expression, and a lively scene ensued. M. Rouher's
words were stigmatised as monstrous ; but M. Rouher
refused all explanation. There the matter rests ; but I
may add that M. 'Tiers was right. The words of which
he complained were spoken in court. The Minister of
State has been guilty, not only of a gross act of rudeness,
but of a wrong, which he refuses to rectify.
It is again rumoured that M. Emile 011ivier is rising in
favour at the Tuileries. Reports of Ministerial changes,
in which M. 011ivier will play an important part, are
again current, but I cannot set them down as being of any
importance. There are always rumours in Paris, and
these Ministerial speculations are merely the waifs and
strays of the day. A very little consideration serves to
dispose of them. M. 011ivier attacked ' the iipperial dee-
.tion policy in a fine speech, which has done much to retrieve
his reputation. M. de Forcade la Roquette defended it, and
declared that the Government neither could nor would
give up official candidatures. The Emperor has written a
letter applauding the speech of his Minister, and therefore
condemning that of M. 011ivier. Is it likely that his
Majesty will stultify himself by at once taking the
Paris deputy into his confidence ? As to M. Rouher,
his position remains neither better nor worse than it was.
But whenever the Emperor chooses to part with him it
will not be at a time like the present, when, of all the
Imperial Ministers, the eloquence and talent of M.
Rouher alone can control the Corps Legislatif.
A judicial phenomenon has just happened.,Lere. A
man has been condemned to death. A few weeks ago an
old woman, who lived as housekeeper in the Rue Mont-
Thabor was murdered by a man to whom she refused to
lend some money.. This fellow had known his
victim from his childhood, and thought he might
get assistance. But instead of money he got only
reproaches for his evil ways, and thereupon stabbed
the woman to the heart. No extenuating circumstances
could be found in this case.

A bicycle race, the distance being from Chester to
Liverpool, about eighteen miles, was run on Saturday after-
noon. There were twenty competitors, and the prizo, a
silver model bicycle, was won by Mr. W. H. Eaton, an
amateur.

The Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige
confirms the reports of great preparations in all the military
departments of France. All the strong places of the north
are being provisioned. On the other side of the Rhino the
same activity is being displayed.
The Echo understands that the son of the Paella of
Egypt will be presented to the Queen during the week. The
same journel is " enabled to state that the announcement of
Miss Cappenter's return from India which has appeared i:
a contemporary is at all events premature."
Prince Arthur has arrived in Ireland. On land-
ing at Kingstown he was loudly cheered by the people.
lie proceeded at once by rail to Dublin, where the streets
were filled with people, who also gave him a warm recep-
tion. lie sat in a carriage with Earl Spencer and a brilliant
staff, and drove direct to the Viceregal Lodge.

John Martin, a saw-handle maker, who was
charged with having thrown a bottle full of gunpowder
against the house of his cousin, a non-unionist workman, at
Sheffield, in March last, was tried for the offence at Leeds
on Saturday, before Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, and on convic-
tion was sentencei to 14 years' penal servitude.

The banquet and presentation to Mr. Miles, the
,Insuccessful Conservative candidate for Bristol last Novem-
ber, will take placo on Monday, the 19th inst. The cere-
mony, which will come off under the auspices of the "Bris-
tol Working Men's Conservative Association," was post-
poned from Easte:-Monday in consequence of the death of
Lady Miles.

Mr. Price, who unsuccessfully contested Brecon in
the Liberal interest at the last election, has given notice
that he does not claim the seat under the petition which has
been presented against the return of Mr. Gwyn. The Cambria
Daily Leader states that in the event of Mr. Gwyn being un-
seated, the Liberal party will request Lord Hyde, sou of the
Earl of Clarendon, to stand. It is also said that Mr. Giffard
will be the Conservative candidate.

The report of the Special Committee on breech-
:oading rifles, together with minutes of evidence, etc., was
published on Monday. The result of their investigations
transpired a few days since. They recommended the Henry
45-inch bore barrel, combined with the Martini breech
mechanism, and the ammunition most approved of is the
"Boxer" case, with Mr. Henry's combination of lubricating
wad and bullet.
Inspector-General Armstrong, RN., has been q-
)ointed Director-General of the Medical Department of the
Navy. The new Director-General will not enter on the
duties of Oleo until the 15th inst. The apt ointment w:11
give general satisfaction to the service, more particularly as
it was recently rumoured Oita other interests were brought
to bear to override the claims of Dr. Armstrong is favour of
another officer of less service and experience.
The estimate issued on Monday
showing -the
nnanoial position of the various Civil Services for which a
vote on account is required for the year upon which we
are entering, does not, as far as n e perceive, promise
any great result from the exploits in economy
of which we have recently heard so much. The sum voted
for the year 1868-69 was £9,171,534 ; the estimate for the
year 1860-70 is £9,558,408, thus showing an increase of
£586.874.