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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13, 1869.

The virtuous indignation of some people is certainly
what the Yankees are in the habit of terming
cautionary. There is a contemporary who is accus-
tomed systematically—not fitfully, and at uncertain
intervals, but regularly and systematically—to mis-
represent, revile, blacken, vituperate, and openly de-
nounce whatever course is pursued, whatever is said,
whatever is done by the head of the French Govern-
ment. All this, moreover, is done in a sort of left-
handed manner, through the babblings of its Paris
Correspondent. Among all the capitals of Europe
there is, perhaps, not ono in which there is perpetu-
ally on hand a larger supply of idle rumours, mare's
nests, cock-and-bull stories, and so forth—however
those kind of absurdities may be most aptly
designated. At periods of change, that ordi-
narily large supply becomes, as a matter of
course, very considerably enhanced. Naturally
enough, its enhancement of late has been something
portentous. Rumours the wildest, the most pre-
posterous, the most utterly extravagant, were rife at
Paris in all directions. Each kiosk on the boule-
vards was an overflowing fountain of them. The
atmosphere was filled with the spray of their bubbling
pas b.bbling absurdity. The EMPEROR was dying.
The EMPEROR was dead. The EMPEROR was going
immediately to abdicate. The EMPEROR was going
to place upon the throne by his side,
his little son-and-heir as co-Emperor with
himself. The EMPEROR was going to have
another coup d'etat. He was going to recall to
power M. ROAMER. Somebody had been dressed up
to represent him, and driven into Paris in a close
carriage, only to be caught a glimpse of through the
coach windows—simply to reassure, for a while, the
credulous Parisians. Nothing was too preposterous
to be whiapere I about as the latest news from the
Palace of St. Cloud. And all this while not a single
one of these nonsensical rumours was afloat but what
the Paris Correspondent we are referring to carefully
repeated it in all its particulars, even though the
statements were often so extravagantly absurd
in them elves that he was constrained to announce
them purely—as rumours, to which he said he was
reluctant to accord any credence. If so—it natu_
rally occurred to his readers—Why, in the name of
Fortune, then, breathe one word upon the subject?
However this may have been, all the sinister insinua-
tions, all the fleering comments, all the de-
risive and depreciative whisperings and mut-
terings that were anywhere audible against
the Emperor of the FRENCH and his entourage were
eagerly caught up and industriously circulated. Not
a single one of them was allowed to escape. They
were passed on, across the Channel with untiring
zeal, and with what one was almost fain to regard
as most industrious and indefatigable malignity. Yet
—after all—now that the majority of these monstrous
rumours have been proved by time and events to
have been altogether without any foundation what-
ever, the very organ by which they were bruited abroad
on thisside of the Channel is nothingless than blatant in
the expression of its virtuousindignation, in regard to al
those in France who have been the authors or, at
any rate, the promoters of these extravagances. The
imputations directed against the EMPEROR are all
falsified. The Constitutional trending of his Go-
vernment is shown to be steady and deliberate. The
legislative session is to commence upon a day that
has now been announced. The EMPEROR'S determi-
nation to be true to his own programme as the ruler
of the state voluntarily substituting Responsible for
Irresponsible, or, as it is called, Personal, or in
other words, Despotic Government, is now as visibly
assured to the Parisians and to all Frenchmen, as the
fact that the EMPEROR'S illness was all along mon-
strously exaggerated, or that his restoration to health
has been completely satisfactory. Of the certainty
of the latter fact the EMPRESS'S departure for a
lengthened tour in the East, through Venice, Greece,
Turkey, Egypt, and, possibly, if not probably, after-
wards through the Holy Lands and the Papal States,
affords proof positive —as it is certain her MA-
JESTY would not have taken her departure at
any time, more particularly in the midst of
a political juncture of such extraordinary import-
ance as the present, unless the EMPEROR'S health had
been, indeed, entirely and completely re-established.
The outrageous character of the speeches delivered
on Sunday evening at the political assemblage at
Belleville, and the no less outrageous character of
the printed arguments set forth before and since
then in the columns of such journals as the Rappel,
the Revell, and the Reforme, are evidences of a very
flagrant kind, of the feet that already, under the
existing regime in France, that country bas not only
liberty, but licence, in the way of public speech and
in the way of public writing. Incendiary publica-
tions, like the Rappel, would not be tolerated a
single day in this country. Public Opinion
would at once suppress them as pestilential abomina-
tions. Conceive for a moment the atrocity of a poli-
-01041 antagonisro that dares to associate the

name of the SOVEREIGN with the perpetra-
tion of the barbarous murder of • a whole
family at Pantin by the monster TRAUPIIANN
No—the indignation excited in our mind by the in-
sidious and sinister character of the inflammatory
insinuations directed against the EMPEROR dur-
ing the period of his own sharp bodily suffer-
ing, and during the critical political in-
terval necessarily following immediately upon the
inauguration of the constitutional changes upon
which he had adventured—the indignation excited in
our mind by all these dastardly imputations has con-
tinued consistently throughout, beginning, as it did,
with the first whispering of the first Rumours, not
with these last rattling malignities which have ap-
peared in the columns of the Rappel.

TILE Congress season is over. Savans, sociologists,
and Churchmen have all held their annual gathering,
and we can sum up the advantages which have been
gained by their meetings. In spite of the opposition
of the bigoted, and the sarcasms of the superfine, the
Congress idea becomes more firmly established every
year. A dozen years hence even the Saturday Review
will be ready to admit that when men meet
together to discuss evils and to suggest remedies, they
are more likely to probe the first and to discover the
second than they would be if they walked on singly
and without system. It is especially worthy of re-
mark that in each Congress there was manifested a
growing disposition to give the first consideration to
practical questions. Even in scientific matters this
disposition was seen. Here was abundant room for
speculation. In-discussing the age of the earth and the
origin of man, there was opportunity for any amount
of hypothesis ; but the subject which gave rise to
most controversy, a controversy that even yet is not
ended, was the condition of the agricultural labourer.
In fact, the savans invaded the territory of the
sociologists. The Congresses at Bristol and Liver-
pool were practical from beginning to end. It might
have been expected that the theologians at least
would have wandered off into speculative
arguments. Yet they refrained, and seem-
ingly without difficulty. In fact, they might
well do so considering the range of practical topics
brought before them. Hence it came to pass that the
few bigots who attempted to infuse their sectarian
views into the meeting utterly failed, and the very
man against whom they made a would-be formidable
demonstration, elicited more enthusiastic applause
than any other present. This applause did much to
roll away the reproach which has seemed more than
once to attach to an influential theological party—
the reproach that they will not work with men from
whom they differ in some points. It is now, we
trust, an established fact that with regard to prac-
tical measures there is no reason why men of all
parties should not combine, no matter how much
they may differ on speculative questions.
There were one or two matters discussed at Liver-
pool which may well bear enforcing. The first which
we will mention is the relation of the clergy to the
temperance movement. We have long regretted that
this relation has not been more close. The coldness
with which the clergy have looked upon the move-
ment has done no little to estrange the people
from them and the Church, especially in dis-
tricts, such as Cornwall and Wales, where
temperance has assumed the dimensions of a
great popular movement. In those districts the
clergy have seen their influence pass away because,
while the ministers of the dissenting bodies saw a
great practical evil and applied a practical remedy,
the clergy of the English Church urged an objection
which was altogether fantastic. To say that the
baptismal vow ought to be sufficient to keep men
from drunkenness is one thing; to contend that it is
sufficient is another thing, and is utterly opposed to the
experience of everybody. The Roman Catholic Church
has been far wiser in this matter. Attaching as much
importance as tho highest Anglican can do to the
binding character of the vow in question, she has
yet found it expedient to devise from time to time
other vows, vows of chastitY, obedience, and
abstinence. It was simply absurd for a clergyman to
go to a drunkard and remind him that
thirty or forty years ago certain persons whom
he may never have seen since, promised for him
that lie should renounce the world, the flesh, and the
devil, and that, therefore, he ought not to get drunk.
The man knew this before, or if he did not know it, it
was not likely to produce any impression upon him
when informed of it. It requires a much stronger
bond than the promise made by deputies a generation
back to restrain a man who has once been
brought under the influence of the drink-
fiend. That stronger bond is supplied by
the total abstinence pledge, and no wise clergy-
man really caring for the souls of his people will
despise it. Of late years the clergy have been be-
ginning to acknowledge this. The Archbishop of
YORK—than whom there is none of the bishops
more quick to discern the Signs of the times—has
movement. It
wgiaav entimcoeu,nitnedneaenz
tthoatthhe temperance
e did so. When a Roman
Catholic Archbishop appeared on a temperance plat-
form in company with Nonconformist ministers, when
Rome on the one side and Dissent on the other,
acknowledged the importance of temperance, the
English Church, if it would not lose its hold on the
masses altogether, was compelled to give its adhe-
sion, far too tardily, yet, as we trust, not too late.
Another practical question discussed at Liverpool
was the granting greater liberty of action with regard to
Church services. This freedom was once contended
for by the Low Church party, in order that they
it, in order to add
Prescribed services. The
Hmiigghht
Cohmuiret poh
prtiartonys
advocatenoofwthe
other services. There is no reason why both parties
should not have their wish, and no doubt, before long,
both will be acting in similar ways. Everybody
knows that the " dearly beloved'' does not meet
all the wants of all classes and on all
occasions. There are times when the present
order of morning and evening prayer might
be advantageously modified. A short service
for children, a short service for men of business on
week days, special services for missions, harvest
festivals, school-feasts, consecration of churches—all
these might be either added to the Prayer-book,
or left to the judgment of the bishops
or of the parochial clergy. There ought
to be greater power given to omit and select
from the existing services. For instance, there can
be no reason why men of business, anxious to attend
the daily
service, should have to go through twice,
or even once, a day the prayers for the QUEEN and
the Royal Family.
A third practical question which
has been advanced by the Congress is the weekly
offertory. It has been the more helped because its
opponents came forward, and, we believe for the
first time, openly avowed their dislike to it, and stated
their reasons for that dislike. The reasons could not
stand the light of a free discussion. We trust
that the antagonism has now been modified. At all
events the objections urged against the offertory will
cease to have weight with those persons who are
open to conviction. Altogether, the Liverpool Con-
gress, which, at one time, threatened to be the
occasion of strife, has tended to peace and unity.

On the 6th instant we published, on the autho-
rity of a morning contemporary, in whose columns
it had previously appeared, a statement to the effect
that Samuel Deadman, who was tried with another
prisoner at the Kent Assizes in January, 1868, for
the murder of Jane Jackson, at Bromley, had lately
died, having made a full confession of his guilt.
'We are now authentically informed that there is
not the slightest foundation for this statement.
Mr. Deadman is alive to claim protection against
reports so injurious as that we have mentioned.
We publish this rectification with sincere pleasure,
and deeply regret that our columns should have
given currency to an imputation so grave and
unjust.
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The encounters with poachers have excited some attl-m.
tion. Sergeant Chadwick has apprehended a man named
John Rameden, a collier, of Stable-row, St. Helena, on sus-
picion of having been concerned in the affray near Bolton.
His head is covered with bandages, the man having sus-
tained some half dozen scalp wounds, besides a cut on the
upper lip. Ho alleges that on Sunday night, while in a
state of intoxication, he lost his way, and rambled up the
Belmont-road, where he was attacked by two men, who
attempted to rob him of his watch. There is no change
in the condition of James Berry, and his brother Henry
is also reported to be in a critical state. Some furthpr
particulars have been gleaned by the police, from whi'l
it appears that the poachers had with them three dogs,
which attacked the keepers with great ferocity. Fortu-
nately, however, the keepers' legs were well protected
by leather coverings. One of the poachers was left be-
hind, as was thought, insensible, but whilst Gabriel Berry
and Bentley were removing their wounded comrades, he
either managed to crawl away or was removed by the re-
mainder of the gang. James Berry, though a terribly
wounded, was one of the most active of the keepers for
several hours after the affray, actually driving over to
Darwen to give information to the police.
Another outrage by supposed poachers is reported from
Blackburn. A farmer was standing on the new bridge,
Hurst-green, when three men passed with a dog, and the
farmer, for asking them "What's your game ?" was set
upon, beaten, kicked, and thrown over the bridge, a depth
of 30 feet, into the brook, receiving such dreadful injuries
that his life is despaired c