The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

fact, amid our own land's race and history. It is the
thought of Oneness, averaging, including all: of
identity—the indissoluble Union of these States."
He is aware of present shortcomings, and that much must
be lived through ere puro Democracy can obtain sway on
earth." "I, as Democrat, see clearly enough (none more
clearly) the crude, defective streaks in all the strata of the
common people; the specimens and vast collections of
the ignorant, the credulous, the unfit and uncouth, the
incapable and the very low and poor. The eminent
person (Carlyle), in his conscientious cry, sneeringly
asks whether we expect to elevate and improve
politics by absorbing such morbid collections and
qualities therein. The point is a formidable one, and
there will doubtless always be numbers of solid citizens
who will never get over it.. Our answer is general. and is
involved in the scope and letter of this article. We believe
the object of political and all other governments to be,
among the rest., not merely to rale, to repress disorder,
&e., but to develope, to open up to cultivation, to encou-
rage the possibilities of all beneficent and menly outcrop-
page, and of that aspiration for independence, and the
pride and self-respect latent in all characters."

The Nation says :—" We luore that those Con-
gressmen who have endeavoured to free the country from
inter-State railroad monopolies will not overlook the re-
cent remarkable decision of the New Jersey Court of Errors
and Appeals, of course in favour of the Camden and Am-
boy Company. A railroad which, by forming a connec-
tion with another road, was able to carry through pas-
sengers and freight from New York and Philadelphia, is
subjected to an injunction not till January 1, 1869,
when the monopoly expires but perpetually ; and
for any continuance of the interference,' it is de-
clared to be the duty of the Court of Chancery to
cause from a quarter to a half of the track of the
Raritan and Delaware Company to be taken up, so as to
render connection impossible. The extravagance of this
decision will not be regretted by those who wish the anti-
monopoly cause to be made clearer and stronger than it
is. We shall only add that the competition now de-
nounced affects the carriage of freight rather than of pas-
sengers, owing to the length of the offending route ; and
that the blow aimed at it by the Court of Error falls
far more heavily on the people of New Jersey than it
does on 'foreign' merchants North and South. The
district through which the Raritan road is laid maY
be described as an oasis at each end and a wilderness
in the middle. This wilderness, offering peculiar attrac-
tions for certain kinds of cultivation and for various manu-
factures, and being bound by the same rails to vast depo-
sits of marl, has all tho elements of regeneration in itself
or close at hand. No ono who has travelled over the road
at the interval of a year, or even of a few months, can fail
to have marked the growth and improvement of the
country—due to its accessibility to two great markets in-
stead of one, and promising to add materially to the wealth
and populousness of the State. To check this progress is
absurd and ought to be impossible, and if Maryland can
ask to be protected in a Republican form of government,
how much more has New Jersey a right to petition for the
same boon at the hands of the Government ?"

Rev. Robert Lowell states that the New York
census returns show that the Episcopalians are gaining
more rapidly than any other denomination in that State,
in proportion to its numbers, and he says, "Let it be
understood t hat the growth of the Episcopal Church is not
chiefly in the city, but in the country. What would sur-
prise a great many people is the fact that in Massachusetts
—the home of the Pilgrims—the growth (positive and
comparative) of the Episcopal Church bas been as won-
derful as here ; and in Massachusetts, too, this remarkable
growth is chiefly in the country."