The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times considers the result of the electoral contest in
the four Paris districts has, in the main, answered the
general expectation. With the exception of M. Rochefort,
the most violent partisans have been set aside, and the
moderate Democrats have been elected. The struggle, as
our readers are aware, was no longer between the
Emperor's Government and the Opposition, for the
official candidates had withdrawn, and left the field
open for the competition of the various parties
hostile to the Imperial power. The interval
between the general appeal to the people in June and
the present supplementary elections will constitute ono
of the most important periods in the history of the Second
Empire. It is the period in which a revolution was con-
templated and in which it was neither crushed nor foiled,
but simply abandoned. With the exception of M. Roche-
fort, the election has been favourable to men who, although
professed Republicans, will not hesitate to make common
cause with those twenty-seven of the Left whose manifesto
offers a rallying point for nearly all shades of rational
Liberali,m in Franco. With a Chamber so constituted the
forthcoming session can hardly fail to possess an interest
altogether unparalleled in the annals of Imperial
Parliaments. The empire, which has just conquered
the revolution without fighting, is now almost at the
mercy of the Opposition. It would not be ea=y to esti-
mate the strength accruing to the parties arrayed against
the Government from the wisdom and moderation of
which they have given so signal an evidence, It is to be
hoped that they will persevere in a policy which has
hitherto so admirably befriended them. If the members
of the Left abide by the resolution announced in their
recent manifesto, respecting the reforms to be introduced
into the electoral and municipal laws, they will by
that alone win more than half tho battle of self-govern-
ment.

It happens, singularly enough, says the Telegraph, that
the same treaty is denounced on both sides of the Channel
by angry advocates of partial monopoly, and that the com-
plaint on one part both explains and answers that made
on the other. Coventry and Macclesfield complain that
they are driven out of the home market by French silks
and ribbons; Lancashire, feeling bad trade, yet uncer-
tain as to the cause, thinks that foreign competition
should somehow be checked ; Birmingham brass-
founders grumble at the greater cheapness and excel-
lence of Belgian chandeliers ; London lath-splitters
and cabinetmakers think it anything but fair that
wood should be cut and the furniture made up abroad.
Of the movement in England generally, however, it may
be said, that no one great interest has committed itself
unreservedly to an advocacy of protection under the
guise of reciprocity. Most of the outcry against the
commercial treaty with England proceeds from one
powerful interest—the cotton industry of the North.
The manufacturers of woollen and mixed tissues are dis-
satisfied, but are not bitterly hostile, and may be regarded
as in many cases neutral. All France, outside theso
two interests, is favourable—in some cases en-
thusiastically so—to the Treaty. Meanwhile the
Protectionists on both sides the Channel may
be presented with one crumb of comfort. If they will
compare the trade between the two countries as it stood
before the year of the Treaty with what it is now, they
will see that its amount has about doubled. Each country
is consuming every year more and more of the products of
the other. Nor is this increase counterbalanced by any
deduction from any third country—for the people both of
France and of England manage to use an increasing annual
quantity of the commodities sent from all other countries.
How, in the face of these facts, can it be said that we
are becoming poorer ? Do we get the goods without
paying for them ? and, if not, where does the money come
from ?

The Daily News thinks that the deliberate judgment
of the Archbishop of Canterbury on Dr. Temple's appoint
meut to the Bishopric of Exeter has appeared at a timely
moment. It could hardly have been published with pro-
priety pending the election by the Dean and Chapter ; bui
now, artificial and partial as the movement against Dr.
Temple has been, there are probably some excellent people
to whom the Archbishop's reassuring words will be words
of peace. The clergy in the deanery of South Mailing
who signed the address to his Grace have now the'
assurance of the highest authority in the Church, not'
only of Dr. Temple's earnest, self-denying, energetic,
Christian life, but the double assurance that "his own
works contain no statements contrary to the faith of the
Church of England," and that "he is an earnest and in-
telligent believer in all the great doctrines sot forth in our
Prayer-Book and Articles." The Archbishop's opinion
that Dr. Temple should take steps as " soon as possible for
allaying the anxiety which has been called forth "is of
less importance, as Dr. Temple will, of course, act accord-
ing to his own high sense of his duty, and the Archbishop's
letter should itself leave but little anxiety to be allayed.
In his head-mastership of Rugby School Dr. Temple has
gained, the Archbishop says, that " unwavering confidence,
in his Christian excellence " which has made the school
BO wonderfully flourishing, and which " led the Primo
Minister to judge that he might fairly be raised
to the Episcopate ; " and there is every reason to believe
that ho will be equally successful in winning the same
confidence in his headship of the Western Diocese. Ths
Archbishop's letter, written as it was " with a sole=
feeling of responsibility," and with the hope that it "may
tend to allay the feelings of irritation which have bees.
lately roused," is quite worthy of his position. It should
be the last word on the whole subject. Written imme-
diately before the Archbishop's serious illness, it will b'
read with all the more respect as a word of peace spoken
almost from the sick-bed itself. So moderate, prudent,
and conciliatory a judgment will but increase the univer-
sal hope that the Archbishop may long be spared to give
counsels of wisdom and moderation to the Church.
The Standard believes that the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty has a right to whatever exoneration he may gain
through the statistics he has offered to Mr. Morley with
respect to the closing of Deptford and Woolich dockyards.
It may be feared, however, that his explanation will be
considered somewhat evasive, and at best it is a denial
:tither than an apology. But the history he writes, of
these reductions and dispersions, will certainly have no
effect in diminishing the public sympathy with a population
pauperised and a cluster of towns brought to utter misery.
The point is, not so much the wholesale discharge by
thousands a year of shipwrights and labourers, and the
breaking up of poor and populous neighbourhoods, the
ill-chosen time, the driving away from the country of so
much skilled artisanship, but the evil inflicted upon such a
multitude of families by this kind of sudden and sweep-
ing retrenchment. Of the entire number of workmen not
more than twelve hundred have been re-employed ; and
when we, allowing for pensions, emigrations, deaths, and
so forth, compare this total with that of twenty thousand
in full work on the Thames banks scarcely two years ago,
and when we reflect what a variety and extent of col-
lateral interests must have been affected by the change,
we may form some idea of the blight which has afflicted
this unfortunate population. A clergyman told a meeting
in the vicinity the other clay that it would be fatuous ever
again to expect anything but impoverishment in those dis-
tricts. Of course he could not speak for all time to come,
but at present the prospect is far from cheering. We are
glad to have Mr. Childers's details, although they contain
little comfort, and were evidently prompted by Mr. Morley
in the most good-natured spirit of party understanding.
What consolation they will bring to the inhabitants of the
dilapidated districts is quite another question.

The Post declares that the President of the Poor-law
Board has taken the first step towards a reformation which
has long been needed, and which cannot with safety be
much longer delayed. It is alarming to observe with what
rapid strides pauperism is advancing upon us without any-
thing to account for its increase except its inherent
vitality and the funds provided for its relief. During
the last ten years the population of London
has increased one-sixth, while the pauper part
of it has increased one-hilt. The minute of
the Poor-law Board, just published, while inviting
the co-operation of the charitable societies, draws
a distinct line of demarcation between its field of action
and theirs. There aro things the Poor, Law must do,
and there are others that ought to be done, but which are
beyond its powers. The action of charitable societies
should begin at the point at which the Poor Law leaves
off. They should hold the same sort of relation to the
parish which equity holds to law—relaxing its rigidity
and dispensing charity where the Poor Law fails
to do so. The minute of the Poor-law Board
chews how great waste ma .y in some degree
be avoided. If the societies will concur with the
Board and with each other in establishing a register by
which each may know what the other is doing, the pro-
fessional beggar will bo cut short in his career, and the
deserving sufferer will be properly relieved. The charity
of the societies will supplement the relief of the parish ;
and thus united .action will enable us to distinguish be-
tween the idler who should be sent to the stone-yard to
earn his dinner, and those claimants who have failed to
achieve independence in spite of honest and persevering
endeavour.

It has been computed, remarks the ITcrald, that during
recent years one men a year out of every 280 employed
in the coal mines of this country has been blown to pieces,
burned, drowned, or crushed to death at his work. Seeing
that the total numl:er cf persons engaged in and about
the collieries is more than 280,000, the meaning of
this calculation will be evident at owe. It
implies a loss of more than 100,0 lives a year.
There arc signs, howev,-r, of a movoment amongst the
colliers which, if properly developed, might perhaps bring
about seine effectual mitigation of various evils under
which they labour. An agitation has been set on foot for
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 22.

Her:Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, drove in the Home
Park
this morning.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians left the
Castle this afternoon for London.

LATEST INTELL LGENW3

(RELrER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.
The Anchor steamship Caledonia arrived out yes-
terday.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 12G1; the highest quotation dut
ing the day was 126 - ; the lowest, 1261.

Sterling Exchange on London 109•

5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l.
,i " 1885 1131•
,c " 1567 ll6l-
10-40 cc

Illinois l3Bi.

Erie

Cotton—MM. upland 2slc.
_ .

Petroleum—Standard White
Flour, extra state, $5.10c. to $5.70c. Corn, 01a
mixed, sl.loc.
BALTIMORE, NOV. 22.
The North German Lloyd's steamship Ohio
arrived here at 8 a.m. yesterday.

BOSTON, Nov. 22.
The extra Cunard steamship Aleppo arrived
out at noon yesterday.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 23.
The Inman steamship City of Brooklyn, from
New York on the 13th inst., arrived here at
7.10 this morning. She landed mails and pasov
gers, and proceeded for Liverpool immediately
All well. Specie nil.
GREENCASTLE, Nov. 23.

The Allan (Glasgow) steamship Moravian, from
Portland, arrived in Lough Foyle at 7.40 al's
morning. She brings 21 cabin and 57 steerage
passengers. The London mails were landed.