The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-22 00:00:00

arnuT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Ire Times, in referring to Mr. Moore's agitation on
behalf of the condemned Fenians, thinks it would be ridi-
culous to suppose that any sincere desire to conciliate com-
passion from the conqueror to the vanquished can actuate
oratory which declares the diadem of England to have
never been anything but the black cap. If individual
Englishmen are generous and merciful now, the State is
no less generous and merciful in its relations. -If Mr.
Moore requires a more direct instance, let him meditate on
one single and remarkable fact—himself inveighing against
England's bloody Government in Trafalgar - square.
But it is no restraint of tho liberty of frco
speech to say that the streets of London shall
not be used as debating clubs. A sweep is forbidden
to announce his trade, and Christianity may not bo
preached in public thoroughfares. A member of Parlia-
ment who proclaims that the sole thing wrong in Fenianism
was its not being likely to triumph, is plying a trade a
good deal less honest than a chimney-sweep's, and less
honourable than an itinerant preacher's. The sooner
means arc found by the police to teach him that he hai
no privilege to publish sedition at the foot of Nelson's
Monument the better both for society and for himself.
Were Mr. Moore's thesis the most virtuous and
public-spirited in tho world, he would still have
no right to expound it in Trafalgar-squr.re ; but his
professed object is of the most doubtful utility, and the
means he adopts to promote it arc simply fiagitio as. The
organised agitation in which he has engaged to bring about
the prisoners' release is equally criminal and foolish. If
anything is needed to teach Ministers firmness, they may
contemplate the effervescence which every mail from Ire-
land testifies is now going on there in the public mind on
this very subject. The least semblance of yielding an inch
to dictatorial claims like Mr. Moore's would leave the
Government at the present crisis destitute of all moral
force for the preservation of the peace between Protestants
and Catholics.

Mr. Wheelhouse, M.P., says the Herald, speaking a day or
two ago at a meeting of a Conservative Working Men's
Association at Leeds, touched upon the great subject in
which the industrial community is interested so deeply at
present—the stagnation of trade. On every side he had
heard complaints of manufacturing distress, and the
impression conveyed to his mind was that, not only
was there at present "a state of trade unexampled
for its ;tightness," but a wide-spread apprehension
that this was "a chronic tightness." It was necessary
that there should be an entire reconsideration of
our commercial position, and an investigation into the
causes which had brought about so unsatisfactory a state
of things. Some persons wish to preserve partial freedom
of trade, the freedom of foreign goods to enter our porta
untaxed, and to call that free trade if it is impossible to
obtain the whole advantage of the principle which the
phrase would properly describe. Others object to this
arrangement, and declare that if free trade cannot be
obtained completely the next best thing is to have
reciprocity. This opinion is being denounced just now as
"the Protectionist revival." At that time the Protec-
tionists sought to protect themselves at the expense, toy
some extent, of the country. With their belief that it
was for the good of the country at large that they should
be protected, even at that expense, we need have nothing
to do just now, but it is worth while to remark that the
modern Protectionists, still to be found amongst the party
considered as the representative of the agricultural interest
are anxious to protect the manufacturing classes at the
expense, to some extent, of themselves. This difference is
one for which, let us hope, if they are to be called Protec-
tionists, they may have the credit.
The Daily News declares that the Election Commis-
sioners have caught several mysterious strangers and shown
them to the world. It is true that the process has been
one of some difficulty. The Beverley inquiry had reached
its twenty-fourth day when, on Monday morning, the
" mysterious stranger "of one of the Beverley elections
was put into the witness-box. He proved to be a very
ordinary and respectable personage, with no mystery.about
him, and no relations to the unseen powers of politics. At
Bridgwater some still more characteristic revelations have
been made during the course of the past week. On Thurs-
day last a member of the present Parliament appeared in
the witness-box. Mr. Alexander Brogden, M.P. for Wodnes-
bury, seems to be just such a man as election agents delight
to honour. The Commissioners made some justly severe
remarks on Mr. Brogden's conduct and evidence, but we
may congratulate the public on the candour of his confes-
sions. He has shewn us another of the methods by which
these things aro managed, and proved how gentlemen
who find the money for bribery help and shield each other.
There is no need to moralise on these revelations. They
merely tell the world publicly what everybody knew
privately before. Of course the candidates find the
money, though blind justice never can sco evidence that
they do so. It is clear, too, that Mr. Disraeli's new Act is
no more efficient than the old ono in preventing, and
not much more efficient in discovering or punishing, cor-
ruption. One witness at Bridgwater said ho had received
money at all previous clectiong, but had not taken any at
the last election because of the New Act. The Commis-
sioner replied that it was the first time he had heard of
the Act doing any good. Probably that will prove to bo •
about the extent of its influence. We have tried punish-
ment alone, and it has failed—suppose now we try pro-
vention also. We may then newly illustrate the proverb
—Prevention is better than cure.

Doctor Cumming says the Standard, has met with tho
proper reward of his gratuitous temerity. He has written
to the Pope, and he has received an answer, not com-
municated, however, to himself. Just as it is the affec-
tation in certain royal circles for a crowned head to
address inferior third persons aloud through the medium
of an attendant courtier, so his Holiness replies to this
heretical correspondent from northern latitudes through
the "Archbishop of Westminster." Pius IX. has heard of
"Doctor Cumming of Scotland "—we fear this limited
description will scarcely satisfy the Doctor's ambition—
and also that he has written to Rome for instruction on
certain points on which he professed not to have found
complete satisfaction at home. The newspapers, of all
things, have been the Sovereign Pontiff's informants on
these matters, and conveniently availing• himself for once
of their assistance, he proceeds in the most fatherly
way to dispose of Doctor Cumming's well known
pretensions to be heard at the (Ecumenical Council.
We think we shall be expressing the opinion of the vast
majority of English Protestants when we say that in inviting
this haughty and unyielding rebuke from Rome, Doctor
Cumming has been guilty of unwarrantable assumption,
which may not uncharitably be ascribed less to genuine
religious zeal than to restless vanity and a litigious temper.
The Pope tells Doctor Cumming that he ought to know
that Rome cannot argue over again any matters she has
once pronounced to be settled. We beg in turn to inform
Doctor Cumming, and—availing ourselves of the indirect
method of which we have just witnessed the example—
through Doctor Cumming, the Pope, that he ought to
know that Protestants, as a body, do not care one jot what
Rome may have pronounced, is pronouncing, or ever may
take it into its head to pronounce, upon faith, morals, or
any other conceivable subject. That is, they do not cars
qua Protestants.

The Telegraph, in discussing Pere Hyacinthe's manifesto,
observes that, although still comparatively young, he stands
among the chief pulpit forces of the Romish Church.
Joining the order of barefooted Carmelites, he speedily
won distinction by his scholarship and his culture, no less
than by his extraordinary power of speech. At an early
age he promised to add a bright star to the galaxy of
French pulpit eloquence. But, from the time of his first
utterances, he was regarded with suspicious glances by
leading dignitaries of Rome. He was seen to be tainted
with Liberalism. To the historic church of Notre
Dame the intellect and tho religious fervour of
Paris flocked when attracted by such eloquence
as that of the barefooted Carmelite. And the
eager crowd was not disappointed. Lettered and unlettered
academicians and epiciers, felt the fascination of the bril-
liant preacher. After the great church had been filled in
every part, a man of short stature, and singnlarly bright,
prepossessing faco, would ascend the pulpit and address
the expectant multitude. His oratory was strikingly
natural, It was very much like the best speaking of the
forum transferred to the sanctuary, and made holy by the
infusion of sacred themes. It was the reverse of ecclesias-
tical. About the Church the Father did not say much ;
about doctrines he said still less ; and about the clergy ho
said little that was not a rebuke. In words of burning
eloquence he taught men that they owed duties to
each other as citizens, and that as fathers of
families they were dowered with rights which even the
Church could not take away. The claim of the clergy to
"direct" the conscience of the wife, and to set aside the
authority of the husband, was a pretension which Nro
Hycintho denounced with that peculiarly cutting, because
personal eloquence, which men can wield when a.skiling
the members of their own order. Hence the men of France

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

TUESDAY.

The Figaro states that the Emperor, though nearly re-
covered, still takes his meals alone, and is very sparing as
to the dishes he partakes of.
The Prince Imperial will, it is said, make an excursion
to the borders of the Rhine, having for his object to
visit the fortresses which aro on ik banks. This voyage
will take rime as soon as General Froissard returns from
his hcliday tour.
No one socm3 to be quite certain as to the moveioents
of Count Beast, and it is difficult to persua.ie
people that ho is not here, although the telegraph froth
Vienna has assured us to the contrary. Count Met-
ternich raid a visit to the Emperor on Sunday and leaves
to-day for another journey. Lord Clarendon has also taken
der at ter:.
There is a 3 yet no sign of. the Ministerial intentions
respecting the convocation of the Chambers, and, as a

matter of course, in the absence of positive information,
the most extra-rdinary rumours arl current. It is sup-
posed that the Governmmt fears to face the national
representatives, and that the Emperor is inclined to regret

the concessions which he has made. Another coup d'etat is
even talked of as in contemplation, and the frequent inter
views of the Prefect of Pk Yee with the Emperor arc attri-
buted to this (wise. AccorCing to this comfortable
sun- o Pim, the lists of the proscribed are already pi-e-
-ra-sea, and es e:ytking is in readiness for another 2nd of
December. Other active imaginations have arranged tlle
details of a campaign against PruLtsia, an alliance being
formed by France and Austria, and the cases MU being
the entrance of all the Southern States of Germany into
the Northern Confederation. Count Boust has, of courses
been summoned to St. Cloud to assist in the development cf
this military enterprise. However extravagant or ground-
less these reports may be, they have, at least, one significa-
tion. They show how restless and uneasy is the public
mind, and how little dispes3d to put faith in the pursuit
of a liberal and conciliatory policy by the ruling powers.
Tho convocation of the Corps L6gislatif is, in fact, the
prevailing topic of the day. The interest of the Senatus-
Consultum has quite died out, the speculations respecting
the Regency are suspended, even the Emperor's health is
scarcely spoken of. Messieurs les D6putes, if not bodily
assembled for action, are certainly just now the ruling
spirits of the capital. Everywhere you hear the same
thing, and the papers this morning are full of it. The
Temps does not fail to notice the awkward manner in
which the two Ministerial journals have treated M. de
Keratry's letter._ The Constitutionncl finds nothing to say on
a subject one would think deserving of some notice ;
the Patrie, as I remarked yesterday, is driven to ask the un-
compromising Breton whether he did not receive his salary.
The Opinion Nationale plainly tells the Government that
it is making a great mistake, and that if it shrinks
from awkward questions and interpellations, it is giving
currency to the most mischievous rumours. The editors
of the Opinion Nationale and of the Liberti do
not conceal the uneasiness with which they watch the
Imperial relations with the army. M. de Girardin plainly says
that he considers the present impunity granted to the press
organs of the irreconcileables proceeds from a sinist .2r motive.
The substitution of General Palikao for Marshal Canrobert
is regarded as another ominous sign of the times. In con-
nection with this subject I may mention a notable evidenca
of national progress. Formerly, "Paris &est la France'
was the recognised fact, but now, in the event of possible
complications, the strength of the provinces is freely
reckoned on the side of popular liberty,

It appears that at Venice there is little expectation of the
Empress's arrival, and that the preparations have been
given up in consequence of the uncertain news from Paris.
At Rome it is looked upon in the light of an affront that
her Majesty should pay a visit to a Mussulman country,
and not pay her respects to the Holy Father in passing.
The Empress it is well known is very anxious, to carry out
this pious purpose, if she has the opportunity for so doing
presented to her.
Prince Napoleon is likely, I hear, to return to Paris
shortly. He has had wretched weather for his marine
excursion, and should he return, he will silence the reports
that have been current as to his official exile.

A duel took place this morning between M. do la Pon-
terie, chief editor of the Paris, and his former secretary,
M. LOret. The latter is now the private secretary of the
Prefet of the Bouches du Rhone.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER
MEETING.
TUESDAY, Sept. 28.

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