The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-15 00:00:00

111 R. JOAN STUART MILL UPON THE
aIIINAMEN IN .AMERICA.

Mr. John Stuart Mill, in a letter to a gentleman
in San Franciso, has expressed his opinion that if
the Chinese immigration to the States attains
large dimensions, it must be injurious' .to the
present population, in that it will diminish their wages
and reduce them to a lower physical state of
comfort. On general principles, this state cf things, were it
sure to contive, would, Mr. Mill thinks, justify the exclu-
sion of the immigrants, on the ground that, with their
habits in respect to population, only temporary good is
done to the Chinese people by admitting part of their
surplus numbers, while a permanent harm is dcne to a
more civilised and improved portion of mankind. At the
same time,Mr. Mill urges that the Chinese may not be unsus-
ceptible of improvement, especially when brought in contact
with the institutions of the 'United Stat Os—" the most
potent means that have yet existed of spreading the most
important elements of civilisation down to the poorest and
most ignorant of the labouring masses." He also thinks,
as the Chinese do not come in families, the immigration
can hardly reach a magnitude requiring force to stop it.
He denounces, in conclusion, the Coolie system, under
which the Chinese aro contracted to the service of par-
ticulp.r persons, as a form of compulsory labour—that is,
slavery.

THE WILL OP .TI7E LATE BISHOP OP

.EXEl'Ell.

The will of the late Bishop of Exeter has been provec
and is sworn under £60,000. He directs the sum of £lO,OOO
to be paid to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter for the en-
dowment of a theological college in conjunction with that
body. He givei to his son Henry £lO,OOO, which deceased
had covenanted to pay for certain uses, to be paid out
of moneys to be raised from the insurances in the Equi-
table, Rock, Law, and University offices, the residue
of the policies to be sunk in his residuary estate. His
executors are to pay to each of his daughters, Mary
Stevens, widow, and Sybellit du Boulay, the annuity of
£lOO during life, the latter free from marital control; and
£2,500 to Charlotte Cassandra Cherry, his:daughter, wife
of Benjamin Cherry, of Brickindon, Herts, but any
advances made in the lifetime of the deceased to be
stopped out of the legacy. The sum, as settled by deed in
1865, of £18,500 is to be divided between his four married
daughters and his sons, 'Charles Edward and John
Scott Phillpotts, in pursuance of marriage settlements.
He bequeaths his real and residuary estate to his
three sons, William John, Henry, and Arthur Thomas
Phillpotts, absolutely three equal fourth shares—the
remaining fourth share to be hold by trustees for Georgina
Lukin, widow of his late son, Edward Coplestone Phill-
potts, rector of Lezant (near Launceston); to enjoy for her
life, or during her widowhood, with remainder to her
children. In regard to' the action of quart inipedit
brought against the deceased by the Rev. Mr. Marshall
respecting the living of Tregony, against which the deceased
hld appealed to the House of Lords, and the appeal was
then pending, the testator directed that in the event of
his dying before the buit was terminated, considering the
importance to the Church that the points involved should
be decided, the executors were to prosecute the suit to a
definite termination.

LOR.D JOHN _MANNERS, 111. P., O.Y
_POLITICAL TOPICS.

A crowded meeting of Conservatives was held on Mon-
day in the Temperance Hall, Leicester, under the auspices
of the Leicester Working Men's Conservative Association,
Mr. C. Brooke, of Enderby Hall, presided, and the four
county members and the leaders of the party in the town
and neighbourhood were present. Several resolutions,
proposed and seconded by working men, embody-
ing the principles and intentions of the Conserva-
tive party in the future, were carried, amidst loud
cheers. In the course of the evening the county members
addressed the meeting. Lord John Manners spoke at some
length on the duty of Conservatives in the present crisis.
After passing a high eulogium on the character of the late
Lord Derby as a statesman and an English gentleman,
and contrasting his conduct for consistency with that of
the present. Premier, the noble lord went on to refer to the
principal topic occupying public attention at the present
time. He denounced the Government for disestablishing
the Church in Ireland, contending that it had tended to
produce anarchy instead of good order in that country, and
congratulated'the meeting upon the good results which had
followed the /passing of the Reform Act in 1867, in which
he laid claitri to a share. The change that had taken place
he looked upon as full of hope and encouragement for the
future. Working men would find the country party to
be their best friends at the present crisis, as they were
in the days when the Ten-hour Factory Bill was passed.
ladical policy had had just the oppositd effect to that
which the Liberal party had professed it would have.
The trade and commerce of the country had been
injured, foreigners were beating us out of the market,
and even in the town of Leicester there wore at least
two establishments where German fancy- hosiery
goods were sold. Being interrupted by the cry of " Free
trade," the noble lord went on to argue that up to the
present time we had not had anything of the sort; what
we had had was the system of free imports. Years ago
Lord George Bentinck prophesied that such a system
would fail to satisfy the public mind, and that the reaction
would come, not from the agricultural classes, but
from the manufacturing operatives. Although that
eminent statesman was in his grave, the pro-
phecy was now fulfilled, for it was from Manchester
itself that the cry had now come for a change. Referring
to colonial questions, Lord John denounced the conduct of
the Radical Government for the apathy which they had
shewn towards the wishes of the colonists to remain a part
of the empire. He then touched, at some length, upon
the state of Ireland, insisting upon the misery, mis-
government, assassinations, and other evils which
Ireland was at present suffering from, and which,
he said, wore in the main caused by the do-nothing
policy of the Government, who allowed disloyal people
to have their own way, instead of protecting those
who were faithful to the Crown. Under the Conservative
Ministry Ireland was making good progress, but it was his
belief that she would not do so under the present regime.
Mr. Gladstone's policy had proved a thorough failure.
Finding that Ireland was going from bad to worse
under their rule, and that they could not con-
trol the people by peaceable means, the Govern-
ment now talked of suspending the Habeas
Corpus Act, and had actually ordered to the island ships
of war from Portsmouth, and regiments from Aldershot.
Out, he would say, on such hypocrisy, which was the
natural result of having previously truckled to
the Fenian element. Turning to the question
of national education, the noble lord made some
severe observations on the efforts of the National Edu-
cation League to introduce secular education, and quoted
statistics to shew that the present denominational system
had been of immense benefit during the last quarter of a
century. That it had defects he did not deny, but let
those defects be remedied by legitimate means. He
hoped never to see the day when religion should be
divorced from the State. As regarded the land
question, ho would only only say he did not know what the
provisions of the Government measure might be, and he
thought the Government were in the same predicament.
He concluded by referring to Conservative working men,
who, he said, were not "phantoms,* as described by the
Quarterly Review, nor "phenomena," as described by the
Times. If they were phantoms they were clothed in flesh
and blood, and if phenomena they were very well worth
studying.

CABINET COUNCIL.--At the Cabinet Council held
in Downing-street on Tuesday, there were present :
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley,
the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl
Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the
Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen,
the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C
Fortescue.

THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.—MICIdaIId, the
distinguished geologist, one day gave a dinner, after dis-
secting a Mississippi alligator, having asked a good many
of the most distinguished of his classes to dine with him.
His house and all his establishment were in good style
and taste. His guests congregated. The dinner-table
looked splendid with glass, china, and plate, and the meal
commenced with excellent soup. "How do you like the
coup ?" asked the doctor, after having finished his own
plate, addressing a famous gourmand of the day. " Very
good indeed," answered the other; "turtle, is it not ? I only
ask because I do not find any green fat." The doctor shook
his head. "I think it has somewhat of a musky taste,"
says another ; " not unpleasant, but peculiar."—" All alli-
gators have," replied Buckland; "tho cayman peculiarly
so. The fellow I disseseted this morning, and which you
have just been eating —" There was a general rout of
guests; every one turned pale. Half a dozen started up
from tho table ; two or three ran out of the room, and only
those who had stout stomachs remained to the close of
an excellent entertainment. " See what imagination is,"
said Buckland. "If I had told them it was turtle, or ter-
rapin, or bird's-nest soup, salt-water amphibia, or fresh, or
the gluten of a fish from the maw of a sea-bird, they
would have pronounced it excellent, and their digestion
would have been none the worse. Such is prejudice."—
"But was it really an alligator ?" asked a lady. "As
good a calf's head as ever wore a coronet," answered
Buckland.