The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

COVENTRY.

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to allow their opponents to have a
hearing at the
hustings, and this understanding Was
religiously
carried out, the result being that although there was
a good deal of gesticulation the proceedings were
carried on literally as a dumb-show, no one being
heard a yard from the hustings. Under these cir-
cumstances the formal proceedings of the nomina-
tion were got through in about 20 minutes. The
Mayor (Mr. Marriott). having read the writ and
put the usual question, Dr. Phillips proposed Mr.
Ferrand as a fit and proper person to represent the
city of Coventry in Parliament. Mr. E. Eardley
seconded the nomination. Mr. Coulson proposed
Mr. 11. M. Jackson as the Liberal candidate, and
Mr. L. Booth seconded the nomination of Mr. (I°lll-
- The Mayor then took the show of hands, which
appeared to be remarkably equal, but his worship
decided that it was in favour of Mr. Ferrand. A
poll was then demanded for Mr. Jackson, and ap-
pointed to take place this day at the polling booth
erected for the purpose. Both candidates said
a few words at the hustings, but they
were drowned in the groans and cheers of
the people, and they therefore deferred their
remarks until after the close of the formalities of the

day, when each addressed his supporters from the
front of his hotel. There is a good deal of excite-
ment in the town, but up to the departure of our
reporter no breach of the peace had, occurred,

with ivory. The tradition concerning it is that it
belonged to the Senator Pudens, and was given up
to St. Peter's use when teaching the faithful while
living in his house. The front is enriched with
very fine ivory bas-reliefs, representing the labours
of Hercules, divided by little gold ornaments, all
of such perfection of workmanship that they cannot
be supposed to have been executed later than the,
time of Augustus. The back, which is ornamented
with ivory mouldings, terminates in a pediment-
shaped top, also inlaid with ivory. The shrine in
which it is usually kept is of 219,160Romanpounds
weight of gilt bronze, and cost 172,000 scudi. It was
put up by Bernini, under Alexander VI., and con-
sists of a metal cathedra, enclosing the original,
supported by four colossal statues—representing
two Latin and two Greek doctors of the Church—
St. Ambrose, ',St. Augustine ; St. Athanasius, and
St. John Chrysostom. The casting occupied Aretusi
three years. Behind is a group of (somewhat
rococo) angels,inhrt eaeydrclouds,
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to their
address, the Pope announces that the Council will
be opened on the feast of the Immaculate Concep-
tion, without fixing the year ; it is thought it will be
in 1868. The bishops will shortly receive, if they
have not already received, the formal invitation to
attend, with a syllabus of seventeen questions,
resuming the matters for the deliberation of the
council, all relating exclusively to ecclesiastical
affairs.
The Pope goes, I believe, to-morrow for a few
weeks' villeggiatura to Castel Gondolfo. The
change of air is but slight; but though he has
borne up hitherto against fatigue like a man of
forty, he must greatly need some change after all
his late labours. His palace there, though a very
unpretending building, is delightfully situated in
the highest part of the little town, on the edge of
the crater forming the. Alban Lake. He certainly
has not spared himself ; every minute of time at
his disposal has been devoted to giving audiences.
Hearing that there were still many who desired to
see him who were yet restrained from asking for
an audience by motives of delicacy, he has arranged
during all these eight days to take his drive within
the walls, several times walking on the- Pincio or
along the Corso. Yesterday, again, he went all
down the Corso on foot; a whole host of omnibuses
and cabs, loaded with passengers for the railway,
forming a sort of guard of honour of the home-
liest kind. The enthusiasm was, of course, immense.
Before getting into his carriage again he turned
and blessed the crowd on all sides. A more signi-
ficant combination of faith in'one of the most in-
tangible acts of religion, with the everyday life of
our modern age could hardly have been witnessed.
There were no adventitious fascinations of entranc-
ing harmony, of mediaeval ceremony, or splendid
architecture, to make the scene imposing ;
nothing but a grey-headed old man, habited in a
simple suit of white cloth, standing in a narrow
street, surrounded by a common crowd of men and
women in their most ordinary travelling garb ;
and yet there were elicited the same veneration
and awe, the same religious affection as wreathe
round him when surrounded by all the prestige
called up by the most solemn exhibition of the
insignia of his exalted office, which men commonly
charb.cterize as constituting the magic influence by
which these sentiments are produced.
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vates, but are allowed a special designation of
soldati di distinzione, with the privilege of each
having a room to himself,
and wearing, when off
duty, a uniform of fine cloth. Among them is a
Borghese and a Rospigliosi.
We still hear of an occasional desertion or two
from the Antibes Legion, but, at the same time,

it is said above 300 soldiers who have desired to
be transferred into it from the French army, are
on their way to fill up the vacancies already made,
as well as any that may recur for some time to

come.
The performance of lAszt's oratorio was well

our difference arises from that fact. We ought to
feel that the whole cannot get along without the
parts, or the parts without the whole. We ought 1
to be one people—a united people—and this being
done, we shall be a prosperous and a happy people."
We believe the PRESIDENT'S proposition to be
based on error; and to lead, when followed into the
broad questions of the future, into clear and unmis-
takeable error. People will fight, and all the more
bitterly the closer the relations and the smaller the
numbers- From the unit of mankind, pater-
familias and his wife, to contending nations, we
have all degrees of factions ; but the mightier
the body over whom the seeds of rancour are
cast, the less bitter is the dispute. A man may
hate his brother, a wife her husband, but indi-
viduals do not hate nations, though they may dis-
like them. We contend, that differences are not
lessened nor more unlikely to exist because the boun-
daries of anation are narrowed. Mr. SEwARD'S
speech at Annapeas is confirmatory of what we
advance. In substance he observed that while the
Atlantic States have been quarrelling so as to create
suffering, confusion, and mutual disaster, the Pacific
States
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g uch might and rapidity, as already
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revolutionise the world. While the
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Northern and Southern Atlantic States had referred
their insane quarrel to the great West as an umpire,
it had sternly decided that it cares for neither, but
appropriates to itself the substantial advantages con-
ceded by the stupid controversies. " Henceforth if
you will insist upon continuing the insane divisions
of the East, I shall be found among the statesmen
and politicians of the West." Now, if this shows
anything, it shows that the quarrel instead of being
between the distant extremes is centred in the Eas-
tern States. Let Mr. JOHNSON lop off the parts—
beginning by the most distant territory, that of
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Russian-America just acquired, until nothing
Washington and Dis-
trictwill simply concentrate
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e the venom of the dis-
pute. It is not distance that mainly separates
people ; classes do so even more effectually. Men
may live in the same town, and yet know little of
each other, although each day they may pass each
other in the streets. If the angry and sharp cor-
ners of spirit were really created by distance, be-
getting prejudice and ill feeling, it follows that the
Pacific States hold in the greatest degree these
angry differences with the Atlantic States, or that
Maine most hates Texas. But what is really
the case? There is more bitterness in the
city of New York, in Baltimore, or in Phila-
delphia—not against each other, but among the
residents than exists between the widely sepa-
rated parts of the Union. And what we maintain
is, that the only effect of narrowing the area would
be to intensify the feeling. Whatever may be the
.ocal contention, a
genuine American can always

be raised from the paltry and narrow minded by
appealing to the grand destiny of his country.
Whether he comes from Oregon or Georgia, from
Kansas or Massachusetts, on this- he is agreed—and
it is the most deeply implanted of his national sen-
timents. Thus there is a strong and natural bond
of union through the whole nation, and the effect
is to lay a broad foundation of concord and
unanimity over all the States, which prevents
any bitter disputes, however widely they may
ramify, from reaching the soil and taking root
in the ground. Instead of the magnitude of
the country being a cause of difference, it has pro-
bably the effect of swayinc, the parts so as to prevent
the prejudices and ill-feeling from splitting the
nation into sections. Nothing is unmixed good,
and the wide separation has, in a measure, the result
Mr. JOHNSON states. There cannot, as we observed
iu our last issue, be a full community of sympathy
between the high civilisation of Massachusetts and
the primitive settlers of Oregon, but they possess
in common the strong American sentiment born of
the manifest destiny. We are persuaded that the
balance of advantage is on the side of magnitude.
The country, therefore, is not too large. These are,
however, mere present considerations, while the
true manner of regarding the question is in its
futitre bearings. If the country were too large, it
is clear that the war for the maintenance of the
Union was a mistake, and the South should have
been permitted to establish its Confederated Go-
vernment. The glory of the Union would have
departed, the death-blow been given to the mani-
fest destiny, and the grand and universal belief of
the American people would have ceased to exist.
With that bond of union destroyed, the sections of
the North American continent would have been
unshackled, and nmerouti independeut States

to flash his orders to the extremities of the country.
From this great terminus the rail will branch into
every region of the vast Continent, while the seat of
Government will stand mid-way on the most useful
river of the world, draining a valley of unequalled
fertility and extent.
Mr. JOHNSON may feel that the whole cannot get
along without the parts, but this is no argument for
lopping off the parts. It is an argumentfor strength-
ening and knitting them together. We hold with
him that Americans ought to be a united people,
and that when they are, they will be even a more
prosperous and happy people. It may be a pity
that the Continent is so large that its magnitude
delays the fulfilment of the time when it can be
well knit together, but the continent must be
taken as GOD has given it, and whatever is
its magnitude, it must be preserved intact.
It is this future that distinguishes the citizens of
the Republic from all other communities. The
scheme that gives to North America its vast advan-
tages over other continents—the hope that sheds a
bright light over things to come, which, if lost to
the world, would be the extinction of the most magni-
ficent design ever conceived, and of the one great
chance given by the ALMIGHTY for the speedy regene-
ration of mankind. Above all things, should Ame-
ricans be thankful to PROVIDENCE for this. Nor is
that splendid destiny confined to the race now in-
habiting the Continent, for it is so broad in its ope-
ration as to embrace the welfare of mankind. In
this deielopment all people may see a glorious in-
heritance for themselves or their children if adver-
sity befall them. Where on earth is such an asy-
lum opened—where does there exist so unbounded
a field for enterprise ? The political refugee, the
family broken in fortune, are received and incorpo-
rated on terms of equality by the greatest and freest
of nations, and a place supplied for their industry
from the unlimited resources of its soil. Is it of no
interest to mankind that the Continent should be
maintained under the Government which has shown
itself the most liberal and enlightened, offering to
humanity the greatest boons. Contrast these States
with such a country as Mexico, and learn how jtaring
factions nullify the most bountiful gifts. See
how the finest countries are shut up, barred by
the follies and vices of their inhabitants; then com-
pare how the United States develope the gifts con-
ferred on them. The one neutralises the advantages,
and, while refusing to avail itself of the good, re-
pulses those who would. The other, by every means,
extract these resources, and invites the assistance
and participation of others. Thus foreign nations
will learn in how large a measure they are interested
in the unity of North America, ruled from one
centre by the Anglo-Saxon race. The country may
be too large to be easily and advantageously go-
verned for the advantage of its present inhabitants ;
but it is the asylum of the world, and as such we
hope that it may yet extend from the Isthmus to
he Pole.—Anglo-American Times.

LOUIS VEUILLOT'S FIFTH AND LAST
LETTER ON ROME.

I hope the inspiration will come to some one to
write a volume on all that is passing in Rome, to
collect documents, to catalogue names, and give
some sketches of places and faces. It would be
an historic monument of the first order; for th6se
days at Rome are a revelation of the state of the
world and a starting-point for its regeneration.
Never has a Sovereign Pontiff witnessed what Pius
lx. has witnessed. Two or three times, perhaps,
in the course of centuries, there have been as many
bishops here ; but so many priests come from such
a distance, that has never before been heard of.

Spiritual Rome rejoices over it; material Rome is
proud of it ; it has put revolutionary Italy into a
state of alarm.

I should not be surprised if some blow, prompted
by fury, were attempted. I should not be sur-
prised, moreover, were nothing of the kind to
happen. Things come to pass whose motives, on
the one side or the other, are not according to the
ordinary course of reason. Revolutionary acts are
below human sagacity—the acts of Pius IX. are
above it. The first originate in pure chance,
as certain light-fingered gentry try a bolt hap-
hazard in the night ; the second are prompted
by an inspiration from above, and are guided
by Providence. Pius IX. acts as did that saint
whom God commanded to pass over the sea, and
who, having come to the shore, and finding no
skiff, spread out his mantle on the agitated waves
and passed over on it. I ask pardon of the Siecle
for making use of this illustration. It will not be-
lieve that this happened. Yet it was St. Francis
de Paul, I believe, who did this miracle ; and
Pius IX. has done, does it, and will do it. I
grant that the Siecle will see nothing of it. The
Council will, nevertheless, be held.
0 marvels of God ! Peter being ordered to take
Rome from Satan, in order to give it to Jesus
Christ, took it with his staff. Pius IX. being
ordered to defend and preserve Rome against the
most prolonged and cunning attempts which Satan
could have made to get hold of it, again defends
and preserves it without any other weapon than
his staff. Of a verity the Siecle has good reason to
be astonished. Let us have pity on its astonish-
ment. For my part, I comprehend it, and to a
certain point share it.
Mgr. the Bishop of Tulle gave us the key to
this mystery yesterday in a discourse which he
delivered at San Luigi de Francesi. We were then
not all the French who were in Rome, but as
many as San Luigi can hold. It was the first day of
a triduo of solemn services in honour of Ste. Ger-
maine Cousin, the shepherds of Pibrac, canonized
on the Feast of the Centenary. To hear the
eminent prelate—as great a poet as theologian
—the crowd had to undergo two hours of musical
Vespers in the midst of the most stifling heat of
Rome. This music, it must be confessed, is hor-
rible, and the wearied congregation appeals against
it to the Pope and to the Council with right good
heart. At last the bishop appeared, and then we
heard the veritable " music" of Rome and of the
festival. This " music," I hope to make you under-
stand. Ido not try to analyse it. The speaker in
no way altered his ordinary method. You know
he speaks in the pulpit as he does at his fireside,
touching on all things without method and without

confusion, rolling the waves of his thought like
those great rivers which seem less eager to return
to the sea than to catch the reflection of the mar.
vels of the Creation, in the midst of which they
hide. Several of us took notes, and we shall succeed
in restoring some beautiful fragments on the
mystery of Rome, on the mission of Peter, on
the great work which he accomplished, dome

server might doubt whether the Commons were
alive to the revolution inaugurated iu the passage
of this bill, while they spent the last few hours
before it left their House in raking up forgotten
speeches, and throwing at each other's heads, paper
pellets of hustings harangues. These came back in
an unwelcome guise to their authors, but as there
were few not more or less stultified, honourable
members in every direction were fairly hit, and the
bill passed—maintaining its character ' as being the
most damaging measure to the political consistency
of 'reputations ev.T discussed in that or any other
Parliament. Such a bill, the work of such a party,
is a truly marvellous piece of tergiversation. In
the face of the Tories bringing in and passing a
reduction of the franchise to Household Suffrage
political inconsistency should be silent. The Liberals
are stultified—the dwellers in the Cave are stultified,
but more than any, are the Tories stultified. The
Commons could not have wasted valuable time to
so little purpose as in endeavouring to fix the degree
of inconsistency attaching to any member or party
to this bill. The truth is that it is a pill which the
people have compelled the House to swallow much
against the inclination of all. There are few
honourable members who do not
.cordially detest
Reform and look upon any extension of the suffrage.
as a step in the wrong direction. More especially
is this the case with the party who introduced and
passed the measure. The tendency of a Parlia-
ment is towards usurpation, the direction it takes is
to centre the power in its own hands, and to narrow
the electors to the smallest number. The Commons'
House of England appropriated to itself all it could
safely take, and is now disgorging some of its un-
lawful, gains under a pressure it finds irresistible.
It is a mere waste of time for the robbers to accuse
each other of doing that which none like doing, but
all feel compelled to do. The reason that the
Tories introduced and carried their bill is trans-
parent. It was conceded that a measure of Reform
must be passed. Each Ministry wrecked, was the
prelude only for a greater agitation and a larger
demand. Besides the satisfaction and comfort of
retaining office, the Government held that if they
t
could succeed in passing their measure they would
stop the agitation, and arrest what they considered
the downward course. If Mr. DISRAELI had brought
in a bill that satisfied his Tory backers, and de-
clared that on that measure his Government would
stand or fall, their fate would have been at once
sealed, but the artful dodger was not thus to be
caught. his is an elastic Conservatism, which has
no idea of planting its foot on a principle and
firmly adhering to the letter. Mr. DISRAELI de-
termined to be guided by the pressure he felt with-
out— rte yield as little as he possibly could, yet still
to yield all absolutely necessary to secure his bill.
The skill with which he has accomplished his object
will hand him down to posterity as a wonderful Par-
liamentary tactician. But though the history of the
measure is interesting and curious, the subject of real
importance is the extent of the revolution it will work.
The etep taken by the House is a long one in the
Democratic direction, and some of the principal
speakers recognised the necessity of making a cor-
responding move in the education of the people. Mr.
LowE said—" From the moment you entrust the
masses with power, their education becomes an ab-
solute necessity." It might be supposed from this
that Mr. LowE advocated the simultaneous educa-
tion of the people with the extension of the fran-
chise. But he did not commit so gross a mistake,
being well aware of the necessity of commencing
instruction long before entrusting power, and
that education must precede the extension of
the franchise, if the people are to be taught how to use
it. A session only, is required to alter the laws of
England, but it takes a generation to extend educa-
tion among the masses. When the attempt is made
to bring both simultaneously into operation there
must be some danger, for though they ought to
move together, it is very patent that they do not,
and that it is necessary to give education a long
start in advance. 66 It is not quality, but quantity
you require," added Mr. LOWE—a statement to
which we demur. Quality is required, as well as
quantity, and indeed more. What he meant was
that every one should receive at least a little school-
ing, and in this he is right. Mr. OSBORNE observed
.6 Register, register,' hence-
instead of our cry being
forth it will be ' Education ! education !' for de-
pend upon it, you cannot Americanise our Franchise
without borrowing other things from that country,
and one of these things must be the education of
our people !" We have little doubt that the first
measure of the Reformed Parliament will be to ap-
point armies of inspectors and legions of school-
masters, and perhaps, to make education compulsory.
The effect, however, cannot be felt -for many years
to come, out) thy use the iiewly-enfranchised wilt