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

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and in the world, the filling up of the mystical make of their power will be felt at once. It
body of Christ, and the binding of humanity to it. is in this that the danger lies—if there be
These are the things which the Siecle will read, danger. But as a compensating balance we
and will not understand. have the customs and traditions of the people,

People are going away, and I also am making my
preparations, like the rest of the world. lamin a
hurry to rejoin you again. I shall then finish the
work which I had boldly undertaken ; but, at any
rate, I am provided with the means of giving to
our adversaries all the explanations which they
can desire. Alas ! would that they would accept
them in the same spirit in which I offer them.
Ilow soon, then, should we not become good
friends !

which for a long period cannot fail to exer-
cise a controlling influence. It will take
some time before the classes enfranchised begin to
realise and understand the new influence they
exercise in England, and their habit of looking up
to and supporting the old and tried leaders of the
nation cannot be• removed by new men, nor until
new parties have obtained consistencies and objects
for which to strive. It is probable, therefore, that
the full effects of the revolution will not ba felt till

Must I needs tell you, in order to re-assure the
Etendard, and the other papers which have put
themselves so much out about my journey, that I
have seen the Holy Father ? Everything took
place as I had described beforehand, without any
consideration to my great position as journalist,
and yet in a manner very consoling to me and to
us all, since the Holy Father deigned to give us
his blessing, and since I was able, with my own
eyes, to satisfy myself as to the good state of his
health.

a considerable period has elapsed, and if the nation
be wise, it will utilise that period by making pro-
digious efforts to educate the people for the exercise
of the power ccnferred. Mr. LowE seems to consider
that the middle classes have acquiesced in the transfer
of political power from their hands, and that hence-
forth it will be exercised by a union of the highest
and lowest classes of the community. Whatever
may be Mr. LowE's way of putting it, we hold with
him that the first effects will be to strengthen the
power of the Upper Ten Thousand, and that high

I was not alone ; the companion of my au-
dience was an excellent Belgian—very devoted to
the Holy See, a friend of our friends of the Bien
Public of Ghent. I could not, therefore, make
an attempt to dissuade the Holy Father from
coming to Paris nor to present him with my views
against the seasonableness of the Council. The
Holy Father remained standing all the time, and I
a part of the time on my knees. I beg pardon of
the Parisian journalists at having so ill represented
them, and at having given no advice ; but it is
always thus. When lam in the presence of the
Holy Father it never enters my head to search
for something to say which would cause me to be
put outside the door. In fine, I heard his sweet
and paternal voice ; I saw his smiling countenance.

rank and great wealth will, for the moment, have
an undue weight. But in this lies the safety of the
nation. While the working classes are in the period
of probation they will be led either by those to whom
Mr. LOWE has alluded or by demagogues, who on
their shoulders will endeavour to make politics a
path to wealth or place. Until the peoplo
are thoroughly qualified to select the best men, it
is to be hoped that they will adhere to the old and
tried leaders of the nation, who, however obstruc-
tive in the way of progress and reform, have none
of the low, selfish, and mercenary objects in view
that actuate professional demagogues. We have all
sorts of predictions of what the results will be, but
little reliance can be placed on any, least of all of
those who have introduced the measure. Had the

When I excused myself for my intrusion, he-
said that in that morning's Mass, he had read the
Gospel in which our Lord interrogates St. Peter
three times, asking him : " Do you love me ?"
And he added at the third interrogation St. Peter
was moved, because he did not yet understand
that Jesus not only wished to be assured of his
love, but also, I think, to teach him that patience
was one of the essential virtues of his office. Such
was my audience, and I went away well pleased.
Either I do not know you any more, or you will
not be less pleased than I. Adieu, my dear
friends. If you have seen the Grand Turk you
will give me your impressions.
P.S.—I give a brief detail which, perhaps, you
will not find in other letters. During the grand
office of the Centenary and of the Canonization,
the Holy Father desired to have beside him
Mgr. the Archbishop of Toulouse, which was the
diocese of Ste. Germaine Cousin ; Mgr. the
Archbishop of Sarragossa, the diocese of St.
Pierre d'Arbues ; and Mgr. the Archbishop of
Tarsus ; because this prelate was born in Tarsus,
of Cilicia, the diocese of St. Paul the Apostle of
the Gentiles.

Tory party been informed by a prophet in whom
they believed, a few years ago, that Mr. DisrtaELl
would pass such a bill, they would have considered it
a duty demanded by patriotism that Mr. DISRAELI
should be made away with, and a revolution averted
that tolled the death-knell of England. Since then
" a change has come o'er the spirit of their dream"
—a change so great that when the Tory leaders
awake in the morning they must, like the water
carrier in the tale of Haroun-al-Raschid in the
" Arabian Nights," find a difficulty in believing
that they are Tory leaders. Is it the Earl of
DERBY who is engaged in Americanising the institu-
tions of England ? Is it the country party who are
supporting him in this process? Strange as is the
fact, it is almost stranger still to find Mr. DisRAELI'S
last speech before the bill passed, a defence of the
consistency of himself and of his party.
One good effect we predict. It is above all
things important that our race should work in har-
mony on both sides of the Atlantic. America will
hail the Americanising process in their kindred, as
assimilating the nations and drawing them into a
closer bond of union. They bow to the voice of the
people if assured it is the people's voice. But they
feel little inclination to recognise the measures of
a privileged class they regard as enemies. Each
nation will henceforth exercise on the other a still
more potent influence, and the people here will look
to their better-taught cousins over the water
for example and guidance. The danger of a rill)"
tare will be lessened, and even steps may be taken
with safety which before would have been viewed
with jealousy and annoyance. There is a kindred
feeling between the peoples, which may be trusted
to work out good, and will in time have great
weight in restoring the entente cordiale so rudely
shaken through the unsympathising attitude of the
ruling class in England during the late war. nub
if that class has ceased to rule in England, the feel-
ing it generated may confidently be expected t°
cease to exist in the United States.—Ang/o-Aineri-
can 7 imes.