The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TL URSDAY EVENING, JUNE 3 1E69

fresh exile under the courtesy designation, just pos-
sibly, of Mr. BROWN. Insinuations, conjectures,
sneers, gibes (however you may call them) of this
character, are of course in themselves little better
than mere impertinences. They revive rather vividly
to our own remembrance the way in which the now
Emperor, the then President,was habitually spoken of
in the leading columns of no obscure journal, of no
Hock-ley-in-the-Hole Gazette, of no Little Britain in-
telligence). as —M. BONAPARTE. The impertinence,
then,was equally childish with these other im-
pertinencea which: are now being indulged in, of a
different kind, in regard to that same personage.
Flouted we were then ourselves, as " the base ex-
ception"—so the phrase ran—simply by reason of
our declining to join in the choral revilings di-
rected, in that remote epoch as it seems
to us noIV, against—M. BONAPARTE. Through-
out the whole of tle;lre last twenty years
during which the Third NAPOLEON has held
possession of supreme power in Paris, we cannot but
recogn:ze in Lim the earnest and thoughtful ruler of
France, the faithful and unfaltering ally of
England. Personal Government is alien to our-
selves, hero in these islands, where for seve-
ral successive centuries Constitutional Government
has been the national glory and the national boast. In
France, however, Personal Government has been
repeatedly a terrible but unavoidable necessity. It
was so in the early days of the short-lived Republican
Government which preceded Prince Louis Naro-
',ma's election to the Presidency. It was as
Dictator of France that General CAVAIGNAC,
sword in Land, replaced the Provisional Government,
and that, as eaea—ensea— of th. France,
he swept the Red Democrats from the streets of Paris
at the mouth of the cannon and at the point of the
bayonet. Conjectures es to the course Lkely to
be pursued under any supreme emergency by
the present EMPEROR, betray anything but
an appreciation of his character, which are
coupled with the notion of his ever, by any possi-
bility, emulating the conduct of his royal prelecessor.
The hiding behind the stove, the shaving off the
whiskers, the huddlng on the disguise of the pea-
jacket, the ridiculous assumption of the name of
SMITH, are not precisely the kind of incidents likely
to be recorded in the closing chapters of the
romantic history of the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. The
Orleans King, immediately before his undignified
downfall, boasted that Le was firmly in the saddle.
Without boasting, NAPOLEON will be—is—firally in
the B Iddle. If there is to be any kissing of the dust
now, horse and rider will come down together—
it will be like the fall of a Centaur. " How
long will LOUIS NAPOLEON remain in power?" used
to be the inquiry put on all hands immediately after
the Prince was first of all elected to the Presidency.
I'o that inquiry, we answer now, as we answered
then a score of years ago—As long as he himself re-
mains in existence ! Of that, at leas', we are satisfied.
If he falls, he will fall " dying in harness," as the
phrase is. Whenever there is a talk even of any
angry feeling against him on the part of the Parisians
—at once We hear of the EMPEROR riling, without
attendance, and riding slowly too, through
the most disaffected quarters of the French
metropolis. It is, as if upon these occasions he
were eager to afford his foes their opportunity. It is,
at the least, disarming antagonism by an exercise of
magnanimous confidence in the honour of his re-
puted assailants. Neither the EMPEROR'S reign
nor his personal popularity do we regard as
at this moment in any way seriously jeopar-
dized. Concessions will be made to Public
Opinion by the most astute and sagacious of living
sovereigns, and the NAPOLEONIAN Dynasty will be
rooted more strongly, thereby, than ever in the affec-
tions of the masses. Those. at any rate. are our an-
ticipations.

GRIM-VISAGED war has smoothed his wrinkled
front. The reports from America, which grew more
and more gloomy after the almost unanimous rejec-
tion of the Alabama Treaty, have suddenly mode-
rated. A new reign—let us hope not a brief one—
of friendly sentiment has been inaugurated.
After Mr. SUMNER'S speech and the decisive
vote by which it wf...s followed, the hostile tone of
opinion in the United States became more and more
marked. The American journals amused themselves
with attempts to frighten us by semi-declarations of
war, and succeeded, apparently, in frightening them-
selves by rumours of an impossible alliance against the
United States. But the arrival of Mr. MOTLEY has
dissipated all doubt as to the peaceful policy of
President GRANT'S Cabinet, and the example of
their ruler has had a very perceptible effect upon
the people. But for greater reserve of tone
and the absence of prophecy, the speech of
the new American Ambassador was so friendly
that it might worthily have represented Mr.
REVERDY JOHNSON. And the telegram from New
Yorii, which we publish to-day, shows that
his pacific utterance has been fully endorsed in
America. The New York Tribune leads the way
with a tribute of friendship to this country. It
might appear that one journal did not represent the
United States, and that too much importance ought
not to be attached to such a comment. As a rule
this stricture would be just; but in this instance
special significance is to be attached to the conver-
sion, for such it is, of the Tribune. It is a represen-
tative Republican paper. With the exception of the
notorious Herald, its policy towards England
on the Alabama difficulty has been more
hostile than that of any other journal.
It supported Mr. SumNrn's demands even when
Americans generally had awakened to a sense of their
extravagance; and its present attitude leaves the
Herald in solitary glory. Public opinion in America
may now be regarded as unanimously friendly to this
country.

This remarkable change cannot but be satisfactory
to Englishmen, who, it may be fairly claimed, have
set the example in conciliation. It is specially satis-
factory at this moment, for the much-looked-for
correspondence between the two Governments on
the subject of the Alabama claims has just been
published, and it must be admitted that the informa-
tion it contains is not in itself of a reassuring
character. The history of the treaty com-
menced by Lord STANLEY and . finished by
Earl CLARENDON shewa clearly that the greatest
conciliation was employed on the part of the British
Government without success. The .policy of the
Conservative Foreign Minister was continued by his
successor. From the summary of the correspondence,
which we publish in another column, it will be seen
that the details of the treaty were almost entirely based
upon the demands of Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON, When
negotiations were re-opened about fifteen months
ago, Mr. SEWARD commenced by insisting upon the
preliminary settlement of the naturalisation diffi-
culty. It was regarded as of great im-
portance in America, and its settlement
would pave the way for the solution of the
Alabama problem. A naturalisation protocol was
drawn up. Then the San Juan affair was
settled to the satisfaction of the -United
I States Government. Finally, the Alabama nego-
tiations opened about October. Mr REVEUDY
JOHNSON suggested the principle of settlement by a
Commission, he altered the place of meeting from
London to Washington, and other details, all of
which were con:-.•eiled. Put this treaty was
rejected by the Ministry at Washington and
another was drawn up, to which the British
Government also assented. This second con-
vention was the subject of Mr. SUMNER'S speech.
If concessions such as these were regarded • as too
small, it might fairly be doubted whether anything
tlLyt 11%; co-4ld do would give satisfaction. But the
new friendly overturoe of the .American people may I

now be accepted without reference to the past. There
is much room to hope that, notwithstanding this
gloomy record of futile concessions, the difficulty
may yet be settled. There is justification for the
confidence that the difference cannot lead to war.

THE " Moderator " of " the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland" has just delivered an
address which is well worthy the attention of all
persons who take an interest in ecclesiastical matters.
Speaking to " the Right Reverend and Right
Honourable" members of that body, he discussed at
great length and with much eloquence the position
of the Scotch Establishment in particular, and of
established churches in general. Dr. NORMAN
MAC LEop's views appear to be almost identical with
those held by Dean STANLEY, who was a listener
during the debates of the Assembly. Of his own
Church Dr. MACLEOD has great hopes and a high
opinion. lle says he never doubted that the Church
of Scotland wes worthy of its members, but he has
doubted sometimes if its members were worthy of
the Church. Nevertheless he cannot shut his eyes
to the fact that his Church has many enemies. The
United Presbyterians hate it because it is established,
the Free Church because it is Erastian ; Episcopacy
denies the validity of its orders and sacraments;
and Romanism, " strong in proportion as it is dis-
tant from Rome," opposes the Church on much the
same grounds. Dr. MACLEOD keenly regrets this,
because where there is so much hostility
there must be danger, and because in that danger
he sees a serious peril to religious liberty. Like
Dean STANf.EY, he ardently desires a national
Church—a Church which will embrace the whole
nation in spite of differences of opinion. Such a
Church he believes to be the true and only safeguard
against " the tyranny of political ecclesiasticism," the
only " guarantee for toleration, genuine liberty, and
that measure of calm conservatism which is as
essential as eager democracy for securing true
progress and advancing the Christian civilisation
of the country." It is with these convictions that he
sees most regretfully the fate which has befallen the
Irish Church. He would have reformed that Church,
but have maintained the connection with the State.
Its downfall as an Establishment, and the fast
increasing hostility to State Churches, he deems due
to the union of Voluntary and High Church
principles ; in other words, to political and
ecclesiastical aspirations.

It is impossible not to respect, and to a certain
extent, sympathise with the views of so catholic
and philosophic a mind as Dr. MAcLr.on's. It is the
more impossible, because it is clear that he is right
in his account of the origin of the present move-
ment. But how can his theory of a State Church
be realised in a country like Ireland, where there
are two races of antagonistic creed ? How by any
possibility can the Church of one-sixth of the popu-
lation, and alien to the other five-sixths, be made
national ? In Scotland there is no such irreconcilable
hostility between the various sections of Presby-
terians, and yet they have found it impossible
to live together, have violently separated,
have undergone what Dr. MACLEOD describes
as an earthquake. Nay—for the question must
be faced sooner or later—what hope is there of the
long continuance of a national Church even in
England, though one half of the population belongs
to it ? The fall of that Church is every day
being brought nearer, not so much by foes without
as by members within. High, Low, and Broad not
only can find no modus vivendi, but are endeavouring
to thrust each other out. What real union is there
in a Church whose members are arranging them-
selve3 into two separate and intermilitant organisa-
tions like the Church Union and the Church Associa-
tion ? It would be bad enough if these associations
merely existed, but they also fight—they make war
upon each other. There is far more hostility between
them than there is between the Union and the Roman
Catholic Church on the one hand, or between the
Association and any of the Nonconformist bodies on
the other. The clergy belonging to one faction
will not admit into the pulpit, will not allow to
-1,-, Li- .0
is no homogeneousness, no solidctrite in such a
Church. There are but two alternatives, either the
two factions must devise some compromise by
which they can live ,I;ogether in peace, if not in har-
mony, or there must be a disruption. Those among
us who would most lament that result are the most
bound to set this inevitable issue before the rival
factions. It is not we, but they, who will be respon-
sible for the catastrophe. It is not we, but they, who
will have forced the nation into putting an end to a
Church which, professing to be united, is utterly
disunited, and into substituting for it two or three
Churches which, no longer tied together by the
chain of the State, will, if they choose to quarrel, at
least be prevented from any longer forcing their
disputes upon our courts of law.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, May 31.

her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Beatrice and Prince Arthur, went
out in the afternoon.

LATEST INTELL IGENOE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, June 2,
The Guion steamship Manhattan arrived out

to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 138; ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1391; the lowest, 138+.
Sterling Exchange on London lo9k.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1221.
66 " 1885 llBl.

4i " 18G7 ll9l.
10-10 4i
Illinois '
Erie 2Bk.

Cotton—Mid. upland 3oc.
Petroleum—Stand trd White 29le.
Flour, extra state, $5.70e. to $6.30c. Corn, old
mixed, 9.6 e.

WASHINGTON, June 2.

According to the ref crt of the Secretary of th,
Treasury the public debt of the United States on
the Ist inst. amounts to $2,631,750, being a de-
crease during the past month of $13,250,000.
The cash in the Treasury i 3 $2,000,000 less than
on the Ist ult., amounting namely to $124,000,000,
of which $104,000,000 are in coin, and $20,000,000
in currency.

NEW ZEALAND MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, June 3.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Ruahine,
from New Zealand, &c., has arrived here with 150
passengers, £70,000 in specie and 2,040 bags of
coffee from Rio.

Her dates are—Sydney, March 22; Wellington,
30. She rounded Cape Horn on May 21, and was
detained at Rio repairing engines. From St. Vin-
cent she experienced strong north-easterly winds,
and across the Bay of Biscay fine weather.

On April 21, the Ruahine spoke the ship Sheer-
water, an.' on the 23d the barque Ironsides ; on
the 17th May the ship Zeleca, 28 days from Liver-
pool, and on the 19th the barque Passmore.

JAPAN.

lioNaKoNG, May 11.

Intelligence received here from Japan states that
a powerful naval force is being moved by the
Nutado's Government against the rebes who oc-
cupy llakodadi. It is asserted that the latter are
supported by French officers. The Nutado is
expected to reside at Jeddo.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 2.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cont.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of mouth 7l 55
Credit 31obilier
End of month 255
Credit Fourier 1620
End of month —
RAILWA'

Bank Shares 2920
Its Fan Fives...., 57 50
End of month..,
Mexican Loan 2i 25
Do. Bonds l6l 25
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt —
Deferred ......
YB.

Cash
Orleans .... 920
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.— 6l7i
Western
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian 765
Lombard 495
North of Spain
Saragossa
Homan 64

POLICE IN TELLIGEIV CE.-7 his Day.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

_a_ o,,,vman, at
Notting-bill, was charged by the Royal society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as follows :
The prisoner was seen by Sell, one of the officers of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, driving a horse attached to a cart laden with bricks
and paving stones; the horse being very lam and bear-
ing marks inside the thighs, showing that it had been
severely flogged to get it along, the officer stating that
they were scored exactly like pork.
In answer to a question, the officer said that the horse
was quite unfit for work of the kind.

The prisoner said it was the first day he had been out
with the horse.

A fine of 20s. was inflicted on the prisoner, and a
summons ordored to be taken out against the owner of
the horse.

THAMES.

How THE POOR ARE TREATED. —A poor matt came before
Mr. Paget and complained of a trick practised upon him
by a tradesman keeping a general shop. He was a dock
labourer with a large family,
and on Tuesday when he
came home he sent his little girl for a quarter of a hundred
of coals and a halfpenny worth of vinegar; the cost of
both would not exceed 41d. The girl put down a shilling
in payment, and ths bhopkeepor took it up, put
it in the till, and returned three halfpence
change, saying, " Toll your mother that makes us
right." The girl asked for 'he coals and vinegar, and the
shopkeeper replied, "Tell your mother she was 103 d. in
my debt. I have given you the throe halfpence, and now
the debt 13 discharged. If your mother wants coals and
vinegar she must send money for.the articles."
Mr. Paget—Did your wife owe the shopkeeper ?
The applicant—She owes him a fuw halfpence, whether
it is lOid. or not she can't say.
Mr. Paget—Do you charge the shopkeeper with stealing
the money?
Applicant—No Sir, I can't say that; some few halfpence
is owing, no doubt. What I complain of is that, while I
was wanting a few coals to cook a bit of food, my last
shilling should have been taken from me in that manner.
Mr. Pliget said it was sharp practice. He did not think
any respectable tradesman would have done such a thing.
The applicant could bring an action in the County Court
for the recovery of the money. Before Le did so he had
better examine the account between him and the shop-
keeper, or he might charge him with felony, but if he did
so and failed an action could be brought against hint for
false imprisonment,
The Applicant—l had better let it alone. Thank you,
air. Ile then departed.
THE IRISHMAN AND THE SURPLICE.--William Dowlan,
an Irishman, who said he had only been in this country
three weeks, was brought up on remand before Mr. Paget
charged with the unlawful possession of a surplice, the
property of some person unknown.
Harris, a police-constable, No. 383 K, said the prisoner
told him a gentleman at Brighton gave him the surplice.
He had made inquiries, and ascertained that to be false
The surplice was stolen from the Spicer-street Roman
Catholic Chapel in Spitalfields.
A priest of the church, who attended, was sworn, and
said there were three surplices hanging up in the Sacristy
a few days ago, and he had since missed one of them.
He believed the surplice now produced was the one missing.
Harris—The prisoner offered the surplice for sale to 20
or 30 Jews before I took ham. They did not know what
to do with it, and all refused to purchase it.
The Prisoner—l took the surplice out of the vestry of
the Roman Catholic Church. I saw three hanging up,
and I took one of them. lam sorry I told a lie when I
was here before. Let me go back to Ireland, and I will
will never come here again the longest day I have to live.
Mr. Paget could not part with the prisoner at present-
He remanded him for another week.