The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 21, Two o'clock.—The numerous
ministerial changes continue to be much discussed,
but as regards the market no good effect has as yet
been produced, offers having so far prevailed, and
all quotations show a decline on Saturday's close.
French Threes have receded 20c., at 69f. 30c.
Italian Fives have fallen to a similar extent, at
54fr. 65c. Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Es-
compte lose Mr., at 1,415 fr. and 775 fr. Credit
Mobilier, however, have advanced to 492 fr. 50c., or
3fr. 75c. higher. Railway shares are also quoted a
fraction lower.

Three o'clock.—An advance has taken place on
shares of Credit Companies. The last quotations
are as follows :

per Cents 9B 75
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 30
Do. end month 69 30
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 500
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1425 -
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3600
Italian Loan 54 65
Do. end month 54 76
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

For Account.
903 75
1181 25

Orleans
Northern

Lyons and Mediterranean 9OB 75
Southern 566 25
Western 577 50

Eastern —
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3BB 75
North of Spain —
Saragossa —
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman.

Archbishop Manning and the " Westminster

Gazette."

The following letter was addressed to the editor
of the Morning Star on Friday last by Archbishop
Manning : ,

"Sir,—ln. one of your leading articles of to-day,
you have made a free use of my name.
4, Trusting to I know not what rumours, you have
stated-1. That a paper called the Westminster
Gazette is under my direction. 2. That a certain
article in its last number was written by me.
,‘ Both these statements are absolutely untrue.
I request you therefore to state with equal publicity
—l. That I am neither directly nor indirectly con-
nected with the Westminster Gazette. 2. That I have
never written a line in it ; and that, as to the
article in question, I neither know by whom it was
written nor have read a word of it.

"I should not have thought it necessary to take
notice of your statements if you had not used my
name to cast odium upon the Catholic Church in
England.

"I leave it to your sense of honour and of deli-
cacy to make the reparation which your article of
to-day requiros ; and I request you to insert this
contradiction of its statements in your next number.
—I am, sir, your obedient servant,

" 44 HENRY E. MANNING."

The leading columns of the Star, referring to the
above communication, contained the subjoined
apologetic and explanatory amende

We have received a letter from Archbishop
Manning emphatically denying the authorship, and
indeed repudiating any knowledge, of the article in
the Westminster Gazette to which we yesterday re-
ferred. We publish Dr. Manning's letter with
great pleasure, and are gratified to hear that he had
nothing to do with the production of an article con-
taining such a doctrine. It is due to ourselves to
add that we nowhere stated that the article was Dr.
Manning's, or written under his inspiration. We
found it attributed to him, and commented on as
his, in the leading columns of at least two of the
London daily papers, journals both of them parti-
cularly free from polemical bitterness or unfairness
of any kind. We saw it stated in these and seve-
ral other papers that the Westminster Gazette owed
any importance it has to its being established und.n.
Dr. Manning's patronage. But we did not, even
with these examples before us, state or assume that
the article was Dr. Manning's. We asked whether
it was his, and showed how strangely inconsistent,
if it were his, his doctrine would be with his recent
speech at Birmingham. And we are bound to say,
too, that we have received distinct assurances that
doctrines like that of the Westminster Gazette had
been preached by Dr. Manning. Of course, we
accept none the less cordially his emphatic repudia-
tion of the article, and are glad to do all in our
power to contradict the reports which attributed it
to his inspiration."

The following is the leading article above referred
to as having appeared in the Star of Friday morn-
ing :

Within the last seven days Archbishop Manning is
supposed to have been twice, and is known to have been
once, before the public. And there is a contrast which
troubles us between the supposed appearance of the Arch-
bishop last Saturday and his undoubted appearance last
Tuesday. The former was in the columns of the West-
minster Gazette. In that journal, which owes its import-
anc3 wholly to its reputed connection with 1),.. Manning,
there appeared an article which was simply the most un-
blushing defence of intolerance that has been made in this
country for many years. And that article is said every-
where to have been written by or under the inspiration of
the Archbishop. But his speech at Birmingham was con-
ceived in a spirit not only different from but quite irre-
conciloable with the argument which the Westminster
Gazette put forth. It is impossible to imagine a more com-
mendable speech or a more objectionable article ; and the
public may fairly demand to know to which of the two we
are to look for the Archbishop's real sentiments. Was he
a sheep in wolf's clothing on Saturday, or a wolf in sheep's
clothing on Tuesday ? Or will ho disown all connection
with the Westminster Gazette article, and give it the benefit
of his archiepiscopal annihilation ? Unfortunately for
persons who try to look two ways at once, every public
man is amenable in those days to a very vivid and exact-
ing public opinion; and, unfortunately for Dr. Manning,
he is decidedly identified with teaching much more con-
formable to the tonour of his article—if it was in any sense
his—than to that of the speech which wo know him to
have actually delivered. The situation is a very awk-
ward one for him, and a very awkward ono for his
communion in this country. The article in the Westminster
Gazette revives all the worst prejudices which wore put
aside when the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill was
passed. Unless it is disavowed, more will be needed to
efface the impression produced by it than even so florid and