The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

MR. RATHBONE AT LIVERPOOL.

The minority clause in Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill
gave a Liberal member to the Conservative borough
of Liverpool. Mr. Rathbone, M.P., whom the
minority of the town chose as their representative,
has been making a speech on his past career and his
future hopes in the House of Commons. He com-
menced, as all Liberal members do commence, with a
compliment to the House of Commons; a eulogy oK
Mr. Gladstone, and an expression of wonder at the
genius with which the Prime Minister conceived ant
carried through Parliament the beneficent Irish
Church Bill. Then the Bankruptcy Bill came in for
a note of admiration ; the Endowed Schools Bill
was spoken highly of ; and expressions of grief
were made at the non-passage of the Uni-
versity Tests Bill. As to the future the
land bill is the great measure—the work of difficulty
ahead. On this point Mr. Rathbone told his hearers
that in Ireland the tenant made all the improvements,
and exhausted his capital upon his land. To him,
therefore, eviction-was tyranny, ruin, and total loss. Mr.
Gladstone must set the matter straight by giving at
least tenant right. Mr. Rathbone felt confident that
the Premier could remove this mountain into the
sea. Then on education, Mr. Forster was un-
doubtedly the man. Mr. Lowe would do the work
of !economy ; Mr. Cardwell would set the army in
order, reform the War Office, and sweep clean the
Horse Guards ; Mr. Bright would put navigation
and shipping law right ; and Liberalism would go on
conquering and to conquer.

TILE MEMBERS FOR CARLISLE.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Mr. Edmund Potter have
been giving the usual account to their constituents.
The former expressed the opinion that the dis-
establishment of the English Church was looming
in the distance, and that the clergy were digging
their own graves with the greatest expedition. He
ridiculed the opposition to Dr. Temple, and said that
Protestant earls, Puseyite parsons, Evangelical
vicars Ritualistic rectors, learned doctors of
• the High Church and Low Church, impelled by one
impulse, had raised their voices to run down and decry
a man who was about to be appointed by the head of
the Church. He strongly advocated the Ballot and a
reduction of expenditure—especially a reduction of
the standing army. Sir Wilfrid Lawson thinks that
a collision between the House of Lords and the people
is coming, and cannot be delayed long.
• THE QUEEN AND THE PHILANTHROPIST.

All Englishmen will be delighted to learn that
during the long illness of Mr. Peabody, the Queen
was very solicitous regieding the well-being of
her people's great benefactor. The Daily News
states that before Mr. Peabody left England on his
last visit to his native land, the Queen had expressed
a strong wish to see him and have some conversation
with him. " The Queen, in fact, wrote a letter to
him, requesting him to let her know of his return to
England, whenever that should be. Immediately
upon his arrival here, Mr. Peabody communicated the
fact to her Majesty. The Queen was aware that he
was in delicate health, and conveyed to him her wish
that on her return from Balmoral he would visit her
at Windsor, when, without being obliged to dine
with her, or to go through anythin,c, which might
be a fatigue to him, she could see him quietly.'"
But this was not to be. The disease made rapid
progress. On hearing of Mr. Peabody-'s dangerous
state the Queen proposed to visit•him at his resi-
dence; but, to her deep regret, the rapid approach
of death rendered this impossible.

o at; unv rime to one munaatton OT Tne
towships were the only ones who were given up to
research ; and at that time they were celibates. But
we have outgrown all that. Laymen are now the
best philosophers. To offer them a bribe to wrench
their religious opinions—for that is the idea of the
Daily .21eics of the restriction of the fellowships to
members of the State Church—is unworthy of the
universities.

LET YOUR MODEKATION BE KNOWN UNTO ALL

MEN.

The Church Herald is a newly-started paper, ori-
ginated to serve the interests of the Church, and,
therefore, one would suppose (if all experience of
Church papers did not prove the opposite) bound to
speak with moderation and respect of the powers
that be. The Herald has always vilified the English
Bishops for not refusing to consecrate Dr. Temple.
The following is in equally good taste, especially as
the subject of it is lying on a sick bed, and has been
at death's door :

The King of Piedmont, Victor Emmanuel, who styles
himself "King of Italy" (having basely and shamefully
robbed his neighbours, with the connivance of people
who ought to know right from wrong) has for some
days' past been at death's door. Of this kingly person
it was cleverly remarked that he has " the manners
of a moss-trooper and the morals of a he-goat "—no
doubt a very accurate description of him. At all
events he is a perjured thief. And as perjury and
theft are frightful sins, it is to be hoped that erg he goes
to his last account he may mercifully obtain absolution
and the Sacraments. For lie certainly needs them. We
must confess that though there runs in his veins the blood
of our right noble and ancient race, the Stuarts, we are
invariably repelled when contemplating this Piedmontese
Harry VIII. of the nineteenth century—with the exception
of Garibaldi and Juarez—the most revolting character of
the present day."