The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

Mr. Lowe and the Working Classes.

The following correspondence has been forwarded
to us for publication :
,t 10, Clarendon-gardens, Maida-vale, W.,\
Jan. 1, 1867.
Sir,—lielieving you will kindly pardon the
liberty I take in thus addressing you, I venture to
do so, not with the presumptuous object of question-
ing the views you have seen fit to take on a subject
of profound importance to the present interests and
future welfare of this country, but with the more
simple one of asking, in all earnestness and anxiety,
if the great meetings, unprecedented in numbers,
order, and enthusiasm, held during the recess, have
not induced you to modify your harsh, unjust, and
unfortunate opinions about the working classes ex-
pressed during the last session of Parliament—
opinions which have tended more than aught else to
rouse a spirit of stern, inflexible resolve, and which,
if allowed to foster among the masses a sense of
wrong and insult, may lead to consequences which
few expect and none desire. But surely you will be
ready to confess that the recent gatherings have been
characterised by uniform decorum and good con-
duct, by an entire absence of drunkenness, violence,
turbulence, and the other vices enumerated by you ;
that on those occasions at least the industrial pool_
lations have evinced an honourable eagerness to
sacrifice time, means, comfort, and convenience in
a cause which they were sufficiently enlightened to
consider sacred and beneficial.
t, As a member of the Reform. League Executive,
I should certainly deem it neither wise nor neces-
sary here to indicate the moral to which such im-
posing and convincing demonstrations of self-con
trol and intelligence appear to me unmistakably
to point; but I do unhesitatingly submit that under
these circumstances, if your public utterance have
not hitherto been actuated by mere caprice, the
enemies of English freedom,
moment has arrived when you may well undo what
threatens to be a fatal work, and gracefully retract
Eacuegulsiashtiocnhsarwahciteehr,oannlyd English institutions could
hail with pleasure or satisfaction.
" Again apologising for thrusting myself upon
your notice and trespassing upon your time,
" I have the honour to remain ,
humble servant, " your obedient JOSEPH GUEDALLA.
"The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P."

4, 34, Lowndes-square, Jan. 2, 1867.
"Sir,—For many months the Reform League has,
by resolutions, handbills, and speeches, accused me
of charging the entire working class of this country
duct. The passage in m
with venality, drunkenness, and other miscon-
of March 13,
y seec
1866, on which this accusation h
professes to be
grounded, only states that such things do unhappily
exist in the constituencies, and that where they do
exist they are to be found among the poorer rather
than the richer voters. A. comparison of these two
statements will show—first, that I was speaking of
the constituencies, not of the working class at large ;
and, next, that I only pointed out where such vena-
lity and other misconduct as does exist is most likely
to be found.
" The Reform League, having thus fastened upon
me assertions which I have not made, has loaded
me with the most virulent abuse, and has striven
to make me an object of the hatred, perhaps a mark
for the vengeance, of my fellow-eountrymen.
" With such a body and its leaders, of whom
you appear to be one, I have no courtesies to inter-
change. When I think proper to give an opinion
on the recent popular demonstrations it is not to
the Reform League that I shall offer it.
" You call on me to retract not what I have said,
but your misrepresentation of what I have said.
You can hardly be serious in making
I decline to accede to it, and leave the case to the
judgment of the country. I shall send this corre-
spondence to the newspapers. such a request.
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,
" Joseph Guedalla, Esq." " ROBERT LowE.

ADDITIONAL MAILS TO BOMBAY.—Commencing
with the mails to be despatched from London on the 20th
January, via Southampton, and on the 26th January, via
Marseilles, all the correspondence addressed to India (with
the exception of newspapers, book packets, and patterns
of merchandise addressed to the Presidency of Madras or
to Lower Bengal) will, until further notice, be sent to Bom-
bay, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation com-
pany having, as an experiment, appointed additional steam
vessels to sail from Suez to Bombay, simultaneously with
the packets which leave Suez about the sth and 20th of
each month for Madras and Calcutta. Newspapers, book
packets, and packets of patterns addressed to any place in
the Presidency of Madras or in Lower Bengal, and in-
tended to be sent via Southampton, will continuo to be
despatched from Suez by the packets
and Calcutta. proceeding to Madras

MAILS FOR HON]) UR AS.—The mails for Honduras,
which of late have been forwarded from England by
private ship, will, for tho present, be made up on the 2d
and 17th of each month for transmission by regular packet
to llavannah, and thence to Honduras by a schooner which
will be provided by the colonial Government.

Apostle. The foundation of the Papal power has its
origin in an expression of Christ recorded by
the evangelist Matthew--" Thou art Pierre
(stone), and upo❑ this stone I will build my
Church." The word Pope (says a French writer)
is derived from the Greek, and signifies father
and ancestor. In former times the title was given
to all Catholic bishops. It is only since the time
of Gregory VII. that it has been given to the
Sovereign Pontiff. In previous times the title of
Lord Pope was given to Catholic bishops, but at
a Council held at Rome in 1073 a prohibition was
issued against the assumption of the title. The
Pope is styled the Very holy Father, and when
addressed, either verbally or in writing, he is called
Your Holiness. Since the time of Gregory the Great
the Popes have styled themselves the Servant of
the Servants of God. By theological authority the
title given to the Pope is Vicar of Jesus Christ
and the Successor of St. Peter. •

A very interesting archm3logical discovery has
been made in the town of Luzarches, Seine-et-Oise,
at a locality which in the time of the Romans was
covered with villas and country houses. While
some workmen were ploughing they broke a vessel
which contained 350 vessels in bronze of very
ancient date. Among them are coins of Antoniuus,
Marcus Aurelia, Lucius-Verus, Vespasian, Alex-
ander Severus, and Domitian, from which it is sup-
posed that they were buried at the period of the
first invasion of the people of the North into Gaul.
M. Paul Duport, a dramatic author of note, has
just died in his 68th year. He assisted in writing
"La Fille del'Avare," a piece which was once very
popular.
The lucky persons who happened to be passing
along the Rue Coquilliere the night before last had
an opportunity of seeing a curious shower—a heavy
shower of gold pieces of 20 francs. Some of them
fell upon the outside passengers of the omnibus which
goes from the Batignolles to the Bastille. These
useful coins were thrown from a window of the
Hotel de la Marine, which is at the corner of the
Rue Coquilliere. During this strange shower of
Napoleons, to the amount of more than 600 f. were
picked up. The motives of the persons who thus
circulated the coins are not known. Some say the
intention was to make a really useful present at this
joyous season ; others, supposed to be in the secret,
assert that it was the result of a conjugal quarrel,
and that the lady and gentleman threw the money
about to spite each other. Be this as it may, this
shower of gold pieces can be characterised [as an
agreeable episode of the rain of Napoleon.
Early this morning the snow began to fall with
great violence, and it snowed uninterruptedly for
eight hours. In the country around Paris the snow
is at least a foot in depth. About mid-day the sun
broke forth, and the sky was as clear as in summer.
At the window at which I was writing this after-
noon the sight was curious. The ground in the
shade was covered with snow, but the sun shone
so brightly upon the panes of the window, and it
was so hot, that I was obliged to change my posi-
tion. There was a misprint in the account of the
snow in Savoy, which it may be well to correct.
The snow was two metres in depth some instances
—not two inches, as stated. It was more intensely
cold at midnight last night than it has been this
winter.