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London, England, 1866-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON!, ON, F.RIOA V EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1866.

eiples of self-government and civil independence to
which the cause of order, liberty, and progress owes

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The Conservatives of Lincolnshire have been hold-
ing a festival at the Boston Corn Exchange. The
immediate occasion was a complimentary dinner to
Mr. MALCOLM, the Conservative member for the
borough, and the speeches were most of them of a
political character. Mr. MALCOLM was naturally
the princial speaker, and both he and Mr. STANHOPE
and Sir J. TROLLOPE, the county members, entered
at some length into the vexed question of Parlia-
mentary Refoan. They all admitted that there
was a necessity for some inprovement in our elec-
toral system, so that the Conservatives as a body
have made some progress, although they naturally
tempered that admission with several cautions and
conditions. At any rate it is something gained
that three or four Conservative members should be
brought to acknowledge the necessity of admitting
a fair proportion of working men to the franchise, ,
and although none of these gentlemen are members
of the Government their testimony is perhaps not
the less important for that fact. It would be diffi-
cult enough, no doubt, for a Conservative Minis-
try to carry a Reform Bill through the House of
Commons, since their opponents are not very
likely to receive anything they propose with
favour, but unless they are supported by
a fair proportion of their own followers the dif-
ficulty will be a hopeless one. Mr. STANHOPE, one
of the county members, in referring to the possibi-
lities of 1867, said that three courses were open
to the statesmen of the day. They might
endeavour, with the assent of moderate
men of both parties, to introduce a mode-
rate Reform Bill ; they might leave the ques-
tion untouched for the time, and devote themselves
to the remedy of the great evils which existed in
other departments ; or they might appoint a com-
mission to inquire into the whole working of the re-
presentative system, many important points of
which were almost unknown. Mr. STANHOPE
would not commit himself to decide upon the
relative merits of those three methods, and indeed
all the speakers were very careful not to pledge
themselves as to particulars. He said, however,
with truth that all things should he borne in mind
—" First, that no Reform Bill could be passed that
ought to place one party above the other, or unless
the feelings of both parties were consulted ; and
secondly, that if a Reform Bill could not be carried
they would have a session entirely thrown away."
The wiser and more prudent course for the Govern-
, ment to adopt would be to devote the working
months of the Session to the consideration of those
pressing evils which have been postponed, year after
year, and before Parliament is prorogued to lay
before the House and the country their scheme of
Representative Reform. By this means they would
avoid the charge of bringing forward a hasty and
partial measure ; they would be more likely to deal
fairly with the subject, and would have a much
better chance of understanding the public
feeling on the matter. It should be the
aim of all men who have really the
good of the country at heart to remove
this question as far as possible beyond the narrow
bounds of party warfare ; to discuss it on the
broadest grounds, and to consider it as far as
possible without prejudice and without passion.
It has been made too long the battle-ground of
contending politicians, the war-cry of rival fac-
tions ; and although professional agitators may be
reluctant to abandon a topic which has supplied
them with texts for numberless harangues, all
honest and earnest Reformers will rejoice to see it
settled in a comprehensive and truly national
spirit, leaving the Legislature free to redress those
other pressing evils which have been suffered of
late years to accumulate so terribly.

curious work, the object of which is to give an ac-
curate idea of ancient Swedish architecture, will be
executed under the direction of Captain Nerman.
The Charivari gives a specimen of a shoeblack's
wit. A poor ragged fellow, with his toes protruding
from one of his boots, put up his leg on the box of a
shoeblack near the Bourse to have the boot polished.
The shoeblack rubbed up as fine a polish as if his
customer had been a lord, but when he bad finished
the shining of the boot he looked up at his face
with a melancholy air, and said " Shall 1 shine your
toe-nails as well ?" May I add as an appropriate
pendant to this anecdote a conundrum once pub-
lished in London ? Why is a beggar with his toes
out of his shoes like the Emperor of Russia ?—Be-
cause the Emperor of Russia issues manifestoes, and
a poor beggar has manifest toes to his shoes.
The railway from Rochefort to Seintes and Cog-
nac will be opened for traffic in a few days.
The Epoque contradicts the report that M. de
Sartiges, the represesentative of France at Rome,
was about to retire from that position. From the
statements of some of the others papers there seems
to be some doubt upon the subject.
A telegram has been received in Paris announcing
the result of the trial of Risk Allah at Brussels. The
jury, after two hours' deliberation, gave a verdict of
negative upon the whole of the sixty questions sub-
mitted to them. The prisoner was therefore set at
liberty. He heard the decision with perfect calm-
ness, and was warmly congratulated.

A letter from Vienna states that M. Beust and
M. Belcredi are arranging the details of the policy
which the new Austrian Cabinet is about to adopt.
The strike of the miners at Denain is completely
terminated. The majority of the men have resumed
their work, and the troops sent to the spot have re-
turned to garrison.
Another actress has very nearly fallen a victim
to the flames. The night before last, when Mdlle.
Lamy entered her box at, the opera the gas set fire
to her light dress. She opened the window to call
for assistance, but the current of air augmented the
flames. She, however, contrived to open the door
of the box, and fell insensible into the arms of the
persons who rushed to her assistance. It was time.
The fireman extinguished the flames, and Mdlle.
Lamy escaped with a little fright and some trifling
burns.

To-day, the Ist of November, All Saints' Day is
kept perhaps with greater solemnity than any other
day in the year. But little business is done on this
day. The churches were crowded at a very early
hour. Paris was comparatively deserted afterwards,
for all the world goes to the cemeteries to pay re-
spect to dead relatives and friends. November com-
menced in form and manner befitting its ancient
reputation, with one exception, it was not cold. But
at the hour when the sun should have performed his
promise of rising, gloom and fog prevailed, and the
aspect of affairs was anything but bright. The
weather improved, however, as the day advanced,
and quick-sighted observers might have seen the
sun for an instant.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON EDUCATION.—During
his visit to Newcastle, Archbishop Manning deli-
vered an address on the subject of education. He spoke at
length on reformatories, industrial schools, and kindred
educational influences, in their relation to Roman Catholic
children, and in their bearing on the statistics of crime—
founding his observations on the sentence of a report by a
committee of Newcastle and Gateshead gentlemen, to the
effect that " a child, even if he be a criminal, so long as he
is a child, ought to be treated as a child, and sent to a re-
formatory school, and not to a prison." He then went on
to say, "I deny that the time has come when education
should be detached from all dogmas and catechisms. The
Church of England is also against the separation of secu-
lar and religious education. And I boar the same testi-
mony to the Dissenters of England. lam not ashamed of
being a Dissenter, especially as the Archbishop of Canter-
bury has been called a Dissenter in Scotland. Dissenters
attach great importance to the education of children in
their religious creeds. At all events, Catholics desire their
children to be educated in the views of their church. if
any Roman Catholics wish to act otherwise it is the duty
of their pastors to stand between the children and the
negligence of their fathers and mothers. I think the time
has come for greater action in this matter." Dr. Manning
then went on to read and comment upon a letter which had
been placed in his hands, touching upon the state of edu-
cation in Prussia :—" I believe that the English people are
jealous of the State interfering with the management of
their own homes. The power has not been given to the
State to interfere between a Christian parent and his child.
It cannot even do so if it should try. The State may in-
struct, bat it cannot educate. Without the Spirit of God
there is no education. I therefore deny altogether the
power of the State to educate, and I am glad to find that
the Government in Prussia does nut interfere with parents
so long as they send their children to some school.
I had intended to give you more statistics, but
the effect of them is that children are often
driven into crime by the drunkenness, the vic3, and the
ill-usage of their parents. The State should not interfere
with religious training, end as long as I live I shall defend
such principles, and I feel every Catholic in England will
d
The feeling
kind." in England is against a compul-
soory the
education ofh this The archbishop proceeded
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to allude to the advantages of education, to the necessity
of greater exertions being made in the matter, urging on
the Catholics of Newcastle to ascertatn the number of un-
educated children in the town, and to adopt measures for
providing education for them : —" Let us remember that in
a city which is often held up to be badly governed such a
state of the education of children as exists in Liverpool is
not there found. lam ready to affirm that the schools in
Rome are sufficient for the children of Rome, and those
about the person of the Holy Father take a great interest
in education. By collecting statistics in Newcastle you
will find that 25 per cent. of the population should be re-
ceiving education." Ho concluded a long address by point-
ing out what they might have been but for education and
the grace of God, by making a fervent appeal to all to assist
the cause of education, and by stating that it was not the
will of their Heavenly Father that ono of those littlo ones
should perish.
PROFESSOR 0 WEN ON Bat BEI; Y.—Professor Owen,
who is a native of Lancaster, a few days since at-
tended a luncheon given on the occasion of the launch of
an iron ship from the Lune Shipbuilding Company's yard in
that town. In the course of an address which he delivered
the professor took occasion to refer to the subject of bri_
berg. What duty to our common country, he asked, can
be more grave and of deeper responsibility than that of
selecting the best and wisest for Parliament ? It is not a
property, but a trust. What privilege higher, more noble,
than that on the right and honest exercise of which depends
the kingdom's well-being, well-doing, and its exemplary
influence on surrounding nations ? There is not a man
with a vote but has his share in the power of bettering the
whole world. It is a priceless privilege ;it ought to be so.
And lo ! we find in these days of free enlightenment—
with men charged, and at liberty everywhere to preach
the Gospel, and with all its plainest precepts, to show to
man his responsibilities for the blessings, privileges and
powers he enjoys, that so high a privilege has come to
have its price, and can be bought —that Englishmen, free
born born free not by any virtue of their own, but
through the blood and toil of nobler and better men—
are held to be matters of merchandise. Bribery, as it is
among the basest, so seems it to have been among the
rarer of crimes in past history. No other instance in Scrip-
ture, at least, comes now into my memory save that of
Judas Iscariot. The rich men, rulers of Jerusalem, tempted
the man there, as some rich men and would-be rulers have
tempted here—and as Judas then took the bribe, so have
the like of him taken it now. But here ends the parallel.
Our venal voters have not even the grace of Judas. He
knew his sin, and, knowing it, was filled with all he could
feel—remorse. They neither know their sin, nor feel their
shame ; else would they bring their " thirty pieces of sil-
ver," or whatever they valued their souls at, cast it in the
market-place, and go about and hang themselves. This is
their duty, according to the Scriptural example ; unless
they should have so much grace accorded them as to listen
to those who might convert remorse into repentance. So
much of that which burnt within me as I came, for the
first time with feelings of shame, to this my native town—
held up as it has been to the scorn of the world—it would
have been matter of reproach to me to have stifled and
withheld; above all, on such an occasion as this, when I
have been privileged to address—it may be for the last
time—the better sort, by and through whom the remedy
may be hoped to come, and the disgrace wiped out. For,
look you! when a pestilence arrives that kills the body,
the physicians of that lower part of our nature bestir
themselves ; and meetings aro organised in which the cha-
racter of the plague is set forth, its causes and fomenters
denounced, and the most reasonable means adopted or en-
forced to prevent its spread and eradicate it. Prayers are
ordained by authority, and churches supp7icate to stay the
plague. And lo ! a worse plague is among us ; wide-spread,
deep-rooted, killing the soul. It has broken out violently,
or has forced itself into notoriety—in the south, in the
east, and here in the north-west. Surely it is a condition
of a kingdom that calls for prayer, and fasting, and humi-
liation more loudly than cholera or cattle plague. It will
be met, let us hope, by association of the truest and best
men of every constituency, pledging themselves to purity
of election, banded to oppose and discountenance the
briber ; teaching, shaming, and if it be possible, reclaim-
ing the venal ones that would betray the trust and privi-
lege gained for them by the wisdom, courage, devotion, or
blood of our beet and greatest in haitory.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 2.

The Ministers, Count Belcredi, Baron von Beust,
and Count Majlath, agree on all points as to the
home and foreign policy to be adopted. The entry
of Baron Beust into the Cabinet has strengthened
the Austrian of conciliation towards Hungary.
PEST!!, Nov. 2.

The Hungarian Diet has been convoked for the
19th inst. The nomination of a special Hungarian
Ministry has been declared by the Government to
be dependent upon a modification of the programme
on the affairs common to Austria and Hungary, laid
down by the committee of 15 members elected by the
Diet.
The cholera has nearly ceased in Pestb.