The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-07 00:00:00

THE EPISCOPATE.

According to the Church News, Bishop Harper,
who has become Metropolitan of New Zealand; in the
place of Dr. Selwyn, now Bishop of Lichfield, will be
succeeded in the bishopric of Christ Church by Mr.
Randall, of Newbury, son of Archdeacon Randall.
We announced some months ago the probable eleva-
tion of Mr. Randall to the episcopate.—*The Bishor
of Salisbury has come to London in order to obtain
medical advice.—The Bishop of Bombay, who was
consecrated only on Sunday, sails for his diocese to-
day, a laudable instance of promptitude.--Mr.
Macrorie has received a very enthusiastic reception
at Madeira, on his way out to Natal. -

THE OVEREND AND GURNEY PROSECTri
Dr. Thom, who has undertaken on his sole rest a-
sibility the arduous work of prosecutor in this
important case, writes that he has received many
spontaneous offers of support, written in the general
interest of commercial honour and integrity. One
correspondent, an M.P., sends 2100 ; another, a poor
man, sends half a dozen penny stamps. Dr. Thom
adds: " This unsolicited assistance from nearly all grades
of society, besides sustaining me personally under my
arduous labours and heavy responsibilities, cheers me
also with the prospect of sifting the scandal in all its
ramifications to the very dregs, through the more
thin.able to-operation of Mr. George Lewis and Mr.
Oswald. Howell." He proposes that a committee shall
be appointed to receive and administer any funds that
may be sent to him.
A correspondent of the Morning Advertiser pre-
sumes that the bar at the London Guildhall has been
abolished, inasmuch as the defendants in the
0 verend and Gurney prosecution were accommo-
dated with chairs in front of the clerk's table. Or is
it that because the defendants are accused of gigantic
swindling that they are allowed a privilege which is
never granted to the petty pilferer ?

DR. SANDWITH ON THE TURCO-GREEK SITUATION.

Dr. Sandwith, the hero of Kars, and a defeated
candidate in the academic Liberal interest for Maryle-
bone,writesto the Morning Star his anxiety respecting
the approaching conference. He fears that Lord
Clarendon is not free from pro-Turkish sympathies,
and he remindshis readers of the scandalous parttaken
by this country in 1863, when Lord Russell
employed British men-of-war to sink any Garibaldian
sympathisers with the Montenegrin Christians, who
were then endeavouring to free themselves from the
Mahometan yoke. Another instance of this partiality
was shewn by the withholding of Lord Hobart's official
report on the finances of Turkey. When some M.P. asked
for this document, he was assured on high authority
that the finances were in an admirable condition ; so
the Turkish loan went off merrily. No sooner had
it done so than the report was issued, and it shewed
a hopeless state of confusion. Again: when the Turks
bombarded Belgrade our Consul-G eneral wrote some-
what indignantly against the outrage,. and he was
thoroughly snubbed for so acting against the policy
of his Government ; and when at last it was deter-
mined that each European Power should send a
commissioner to act with judicial impartiality
between Servians and Turks in marking out
the neutral ground between the town and the
fortress, Earl Russell sent Major Gordon (who
at that time was receiving £l,OOO a, year from the
Sultan as an employe') to act as British Commissioner.
Further : when Dr. Sandwith was travelling in
Turkey, he was told by one of our consuls that
orders had been sent from headquarters not to write
against the Turks. Sir H. Bulwer, who was for
several years our Ambassador at Constantinople, has
declared that " wherever the Turk is sufficiently pre-
ponderant to be implicitly obeyed, laziness, corrup-
tion, extravagance, and penury mark his rule ; and
wherever he is too feeble to exert more than a
doubtful and nominal authority, the system of
government which prevails is that of the Arab
robber and the lawless Highland chieftain." As for
the Greeks Dr. Sandwith does not believe that they
are so foolhardy as they seem to be. In reality there
is no more acute and calculating people. They know
the weakness of their bulky antagonist ; they know
that his provinces are volcanic • that Servia is practi-
cally independent ; that Montenegro is now armed
with rifled guns • and that these States will menace
the communications of Omar Pasha.