The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-19 00:00:00

THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE.

The annual meeting of the Hebrew Christian Alliance
was interesting this year, on account of correspondence
concerning the conversion of the Jews which has appeared
in some newspapers. The president was the Rev. C.
Schwartz, D. D. Letters of apology for non-attendance were
read from the Archbishop- of Canterbury, the Bishop of
London, the Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G. , &c. The chairman,
in addressing the meeting, said he could not refrain from
alluding to the correspondence which Las appeared with
reference to the society, and characterised the letter
of a vicar of the Church of England as a disgrace and
a shame to the Church ; for, instead of each converted
Jew costing, as had been said, £lO,OOO, the society
had, within the last twelve months, been the
means of the conversion of more than seventy Jews.
Tim secretary read the report, which states that the
objects of the Alliance are—lst, to promote the union of
llehrew Christians ; 2nd, to give testimony of the faith
towards their nrconverted Jewish brethren ; and, :3rd, to
spread the Covel by publishing various books, and in
giving ten-peral assistance to Jews. The report also corn-
Merits upon the different undertakings for the past year,
and expresses the. thankfulness of the Alliance for the de-
liverance cf the Abyssinian captives. Upon the motion
of the Rev. W. L. Resenthal, seconded by the Rev. J. J.
Steintz, the report mas ad, pted, with an expression of
thankfulness to Almighty God for the success which has
attended the • Society's efforts. The meeting was after-
wards addressed by the Revs. H. A. Stern, L. ilersehell,
G. W. Pierritz, and other gentlemen.

TEE BAND OF HOPE UNION.
The conferences of the Land of Hope Union, on Tues-
day, were closed by a large meeting held in Exeter Hall.
The chairman was Mr. Lucas Shadwell, J.P., who was
supported by Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., the Rev. Newman
Hall, and others. A pleasing feature in the gathering
was the attendance of between six and seven hundred
members of metropolitan Lands of Hope, who
rendered several sacred and temperance melodies.
The Lev. G. AV. M'Cree presented a condensed statement
of the work done in 1808, with total subscriptions less than
£7OO. The total receipts of the year amounted to
£1,585 es. 2d., and there was a balance in hand of
£lO5 7d., this balance including the sum of £lO4 15s. 6d.
to account of Prize Tale Fund. Lectures had been delivered
throughout the country, alssolving vievre exhibited, and
bands organised in various districts.

IRELAND.

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The Daily News publishes another letter from its special
correspondent in Ireland.- In it a visit to the house of the
Dwyer's, who shot down Mr. Scully, is described. "At
first (the writer says) I was suspected—and naturally
so. Dwyer, the occupier, was absent at a neighbouring
fair; but there were two women—one a daughter—and a
labouring man within. After a few sentences explaining
why I came, suspicion departed and courtesy took its
place. The daughter shewed me over thi, rooms ; she
pointed out the marks of the bullets. The centre pane of
the small window in front has the mark of a shot in it,just
as it was made. It went clean through, only slightly
fracturing the pane. Lower down there is the impress of
another shot ; but a bit of glass has been put over the
hole. One of the chairs has a piece taken away by a
bullet, and the internal wall opposite the attacking party
has several indentures—some of them very large. The
window, T am told, was -riddled to pieces, but the glass
has been replaced, with the exception of the two panes
which I have spoken of. The wall outside has been
recently whitewashed, but the bullet-marks are still dis-
tinct. To the right of the window the wall is literally
pockfretted with shot marks. Mr. Scully and his eight
assistants must have come well provided with ammunition.
But whilst they were firing into the ground floor the
occupants of the house were firing from the loop-holed
loft with more deadly effect. 'The exact spot
where Mr. Scully fell was pointed out to me, and
as he. lay wounded on the ground, I am informed,
he fired some shots into the house. I observed that Mr.
Scully's conduct was universally condemned, even by the
landlords themselves, and was somewhat astounded by the
answer, Sure, sir, be only went by the law after all.'
And I suppose you went by the "Lord." But the allu-
sion was only vaguely understood. ' I hope you will feel
more secure,' I observed, 'DOW that you are under Mr.
Moore.' God send it !' was the reply. The rent, I was
told, of the land about here averages from £2 to £2 10s.
an acre, but the recent addition to the police force
would raise it another pound cr more; and
that, sir,' said another tenant on the land, 'is too
much. We cannot - afford it ; we might as well leave
the country altogether. The police are not wanted now,
and I think they are sent. to punish and not to protect us.'
This was regarded as a great grievance. This second tenant
invited me into his house--I suppose I must call it so—and
desired his wife to fetch me a 'basin of new milk, as I
must feel tired after my walk.' I took some that I may
have it to say I shared in Irish hospitality on the town
land of Ballycolley. The railway to Cork and Queens-
town passes by the farm, and I am told that there is not
a train of emigrants to America from which the shout of
Success to Ballycohey !' is not heard as it clashes along."
The Bail of Derby's grounds were seen also by the
" The houses on the estate are clean-looking
and comfortable. I understand he gives every encourage-
ment to his tenants, in the way of buildings and drainage,
but I bare had repeated to me on his own farms what I
beadd in the town of Tipperary—that he gives a decided
and marked preference to Protestants and Englishmen
over Boman Catholics and Irishmen. There may be no
injustice in this, but it would not be made a subject of
comment if it was not a source of irritation."

CIVILISATION IN CHINA.

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Sir Rutherford Alcock, the British Ambassador at
Pekin, Las addressed an in-portant letter to Mr. Med-
burst, the British Consul at Shanghai. Sir Rutherford does
not take a very hopeful view of the progress of modern
ideas in China. Mr. Medhurst had sent him a
despatch inviting him to press upon the Chinese Govern-
ment the uses and benefits of telegraphy. Sir Rutherford
replies that there is 'no probability of such repre-
sentation producing any effect. "So far, the effect
of all the arguments adduced, and the constant
representations made, of the advantages to be
derived from railroads and telegraphs, has not been such
'as to encourage any sanguine hopes of progress this or
any other direction." Our Ambassador states that there
is no evidence v. hatever at Pekin of that desire for
progress which the Chinese Embassy has assured Europe
is so ardent and general with the Government of China.
" If any hopes are built upon its existence, therefore, I
fear there is nothing but disappointment in store for those
who indulge in them. Projectors of telegraphic lines, rail-
roads, and other plans for the sudden development of the
resources of this country are but losing their time, while
the Government here sliervs no disposition to entertain
their projects. I think it is in the interest of all who are
so occupied, that they should know the truth, than be
deluded by false hopes and expectations of changes which
are still far in the distance. It seems to be forgotten that
all treaties hitherto made with China have been such as
were dictated by foreign Powers, and in accordance with
their views rather than those of the other contracting
party. The revision at present in contemplation will take
place under totally different circumstances. Nothing
new can find place therein, which is directly contrary to
Chinese views of their interests in relation with foreign
Powers. If the rulers of China cannot be made to see
the advantage to themselves and the nation, as well
as the practicability and safety of inland steam navi-
gation, railroads, and telegraphic, lines, or the working
of mines, and residence of merchants in the inte-
rior with ex-territorial privileges attaching, it is
very certain they will not yield to any force of argument
and reason, or earnestness of friendly counsel." "'There
remains," adds Sir Rutherford Alcock, " only coercion,
and this agency neither the British nor the American
Governments are likely to employ." This is certainly rather
unexpected testimony after the constant assurances which
have been made of the Chinese Government's desire for
progress. A document has recently been published at
Shanghai, purporting to contain the draft of important
changes which the Chinese Government will advocate
when the treaties with European Governments.
are revised. It stated that the Celestial Empire
was about to throw off its old traditions, and
enter upon a life of progress and civilisation. All
sorts of revolutionary changes are promised.. But of
course small hope of progress can be entertained after the
letter of Sir Thrtherforel Alcoek.

VISIT OF COI:7NT BISMAIICeS SONS TO ALDER-
STIOT.—On Tuesday two of Connt Bismarck's sons, who
have only very recently arrived in England from Prussia,
for the purpose of studying at Oxford University, visited
the camp at Aldershot, and spent the greater part of the
day in inspecting different parts of the camp. Instruc-
tions were issued to the troops, on the previous after
noon, from the Assistant Adjutant-General's Office, to
assemble in the Long Valley, at 10.30 a.m., for the purpose
of holding a review, under the command of Lieutenant.
General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., at
which the visitors would have been present, but, in conse-
quence of the unfavourable state of the weather, it having
rained continuously the whole morning, the order for the
men to parade was countermanded. The visitors arrived
at the camp from London by train at an early hour, and
were conducted through the cavalry barracks and camps
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LITERATURE.

True Love. By Lady Di Beauclerk. On) VOl.
Pp. 270. Hurst and Blackett.
Daughter of a Duke and sister of a Duke, the
Lady Di Beauclerk is already favourably known es
au authoress by her sparkling maiden work descriP'
tire of " A Summer and Winter in Norway.,, 11cr
ladyship now appears before the world of readeri
in the character of a novelist. "True Lore" is the
title of the one-volumed tale in which she sets forth
her imaginings. . According to Shakspere, " the
course of true love never did run smooth." Tae
True Lore here described is, wepresume, the excel'
Lion proving the rule set forth in the familiar dieline
of the great Dramatist. For it—this True Love of
Sydrey Yore and Edith Murray, the hero aril
heroine of the story—could hardly by aly poSSi'
bility run smoother. The narrative opens'
oddly enough, inside an omnibus in the
streets of Nottingham. A drenching storm of raja
is falling. A poor factory girl, wretchedly ill clad,
is one of the chance pas:engers—the last cower
being a young man, who plunges into the vehicle ie
breathless haste at the moment it is starting. These
two are the most prominent characters introduced
to our notice in the book—the factory girl being
Edith—the young man Sydney. Both of theta
have the world before them-- have their fortunes to
make, and with the poorest possible prospect Of
making it. Yet, before a very few months have run
out, Sydney has come into a largeproperty, and the
poor factory girl, Edith, turns out to be the onl9
daughter and heiress of a mining engineer, who hes
made a fortune of £30,000 or £40,000 in Mexico.
They are, of course, happily married, when the
story has been brought to its conclusion—not,
however, until a murder has been committed, the
result of which has been that Sydney inherits fro3l
his aunt, Lady Vere, 'a considerable estite•
There is a Rev. Mr. St. Clair, a High Church
clergyman, a ritualist, and a fortune-hunter, whe
is noticeable among the imaginary personages
troduced to the readers of this book, who must he
protested against as a most odious caricature'
Every touch in his delineation is expressive of pre'
judice, spite, and illiberality. Having no s 3 w'
pathy whatever ourselves with the class or sect of
which he is designed to be a characteristic ex'
emplar, we cannot but regard the limning
of such a type of the Leaders of Ritual'
ism as singularly ungenerous and extravagant'
Some of the little finnical points in his portraiture
are simply ludicrous—a;, where speaking of his per*
sonal cleanliness, it is absurdly remarked by ner
authoress that the characteristic spoken of is one cer-
tainly not applying to the Romish priesthood. 'l-1
sweeping comment—a splashing of mud that ought
assuredly not to have been cast from the fair hands
of Lady Di Beauclerk. The other persons intro.
duced into the narrative form, altogether, a Verf
motley groupe, including among them, as they do,
such people a 3 Mrs. Nupkins, a low eating-house;
keeper ; Jemmy Shaw, an irreclaimable drunkarit
and blackguard, one who eventually becomes the
murderer of Lady Vera; that same fribbling,
giggling, Lady Vere, a would-be leader of fashion
among the provincials ; her insignificant sister, 3
widow like herself, by name Mrs. Jones ; the latter
doll of a daughter Dorothy, intended to be the be'
trothed of her cousin Sydney, but who in the end
becomes the namby-pamby wife of the Ritualistic
Mr. St. Clair ; Mrs. Shaw, Jem's putative aunt,
but in reality his mother—together with several
other characters more or less insignificant. Tag
are the puppets dangled upon the thread of the
narrative in this play of marionnettes. The only 11;6-
dent of anything like an exciting nature in the tale
is the murder already referred to. There are private,
theatricals, morning calls, sketching parties, and
other tame little doings related in the course of the
twenty-one chapters into which the book is sub-
divided. Towards the close of the story MI
episode carries Sydney for a while across the
Atlantic, but nothing whatever comes of it
in his instance in the way of adventure. A fashion'
able contemporary, we observe, has made a toured'
allusion to this tale of " True Love," as told hi
Lady Di Beauclerk, as affording evidence that wit
has not died out among the ladies of England since
the days of Lady Mary Wortley Montague. V°
compliment is so outrageously extravagant in it 4
way that it simply recalls to our remembranci the
reply made by the Prince de Ligny, who had ben°
trying unsuccessfully to make a piece of water is
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his grounds, when wine one arid him there heu,
been a man drowned in it—" C'dtait un flatteur !2.
No—the book adds nothing whatever to Lady Pt
Beauclerk's literary reputation. It simply . shows
that the writer of a charming book of travels al
dash off currentecalunzo a very indifferent imaginal
narrative.