The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

Witness—You see—
The Lord Mayor—You had better, Mr. Sothern, merely
answer Mr. Lewis's question.
Witness—You see, my lord, he puts them in such a way
that his object is evidently to make me contradict myself.
I have endeavoured to make people believe it true. I did
at one of these circles jump about like a dog, but I did not
bite a bit out of my trousers. (Loud laughter) I did, with
four other gentlemen, pursue a gentleman with knives at
one of these meetings. There was a summons taken out,
but it was withdrawn. The gentleman knew it was all a
joke.

Mr. Lewis—Then the gentleman who took out the sum-
mons knew what had been done was a joke ?
making such a foul accusation. It is entirely and utterly
untrue to say that there is not the slightest difference
existing between myself and my wife in the matter
It is a false and scandalous assertion.

Mr. LEWIS then addressed the aldermen, and con-
tended that the label Ives merely copied from an American

paper.

By Sergeant Ballantine —I believe that the spiritualists
aro impostors. I never admitted that I had ravished a
young lady. There is not the slightest pretence for
Mr. Ballantine—Your neod not reforto the libel, because
we alleged it was sent over by your client to America, ou
purpose to bo inserted in the publication there, in order to
come back to London.

The defendant said that such au expression was untrue.
Mr. Lewis proceeded with the address, and said that
the present proceedings were adopted in order that
the defendant's mouth should be closed. lia.d he pro-
ceeded by civil action then the defdndant could have been
put in the -witness-box, and had Mr. Sothern brought
the matter forward, ho would have adopted that course.
The Lord Mayor said he would not take upon himself to
say, but a jury must decido that question.
The defendant was then committed for trial, but bail was
accepted for his appearance at the sessions.
Arch

Lbishop Manning and Mr. Whalle

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—May I ask you kindly to insert in your jouratt
the two following letters, addressed by Archbishop Man-
ning to Mr. Whalley, with reference to that gentleman's
quotation, in the House of Commons on the Bth inst., of r
passage from the Eclectic Review, which ascribed to the
Archbishop, and those who net with him, the proposition
that "the English Government was an usurped Govern-
ment, the enemy of God," ecc.

1 omit less important documents in the correspondence
which ensued upon this assertion ; viz.—(1), the Arch-
bishop's first note of inquiry to Mr. Whalley, on the report,
of his speech appearing in tho Times; (2), Mr. Whalley't
reply, to the effect that he had quoted the charge re-
f erred to from the Eclectic Review; (3), Mr. Whalley's
courteous answer to the first of the two letters
now enclosed; in which, among other expressions
that do him honour, he stated that in the debat%
he had announced. the archbishop's repudiation "of the
words and sentiments referred to," though he only read to
the house a portion of the explanation sent to him. At
the same time he entirely consents to the publication both
of that letter of the archbishop and of the succeeding one
which now accompanies it.

1 omit also, on account of their length, the extracts fox-
warded to Mr, Whalley with the first letter, from a volume
entitled "Essays on Religion. and Literature, by Various
Writers," edited by the archbishop in 1865. They will be
found, p.p. 375-7, the author of the particular Essay,
" Christianity in Relation to Civil Society," being Mr.
Lucas.

I am, Sir, your faithful servant,

8, York-place, Portman-square,
21st February. _

W. IL ANDERDON.

8, York-place, Feb. 16, 1866.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your letter of
yesterday in reply to mine of the 11th instant.

It apptiars from your statement that the report of your
speech on the night of the Bth instant is substantially
correct.

The quotation of the words ascribed to me was in in-
verted commas. And the words were ascribed to me by
name. So I find the report to stand in various papers.
I have to-day obtained the August number of the
Eclectic Review of 1865, and examined the page you re-
fer to.

1. In the first place, the Eclectic Review does not ascribe
the words to me. It states them to be contained in a book
of which I was editor.

You, sir, stated in the house " These are the words of
Dr. Manning."

They are not my words, and 1 feel sure that you wil
see at once the course which in candour ought to be taken.
The volume referred to contains several essays, each
eignod the name of the author, who alone is re.spou-
Bible for its statements. No such words, nor any such
substance, is contained in the essay contributed by me.
2. But, it may be said, that, as editor, I should be re-
sponsible for suffering such words to be published.
The words aro not to be found in the whole volume, nor
the substance of any such words, but are visibly a falsifi-
cation of the passage which I now enclose ; which, as you
will see, has no reference to England whatsoever, but to
the infidel French Revolution, and the influences of it,
which have revolutionised to a great extent the modern
society of Europa and South America.

But I have communicated the facts of this correspond-
ence to the author of the Essay, who will take such steps
as ho may think fit with the editor of the Eclectic Review.
Ido not complain of you, sir, for being misled. Tho
confident tone of the Eclectic Review would lead any truth-
ful and honourable man to believe that the passages in in-
verted commas were quotations faithfully made.
But I feel that your own sense of candour and of honour
will dictate what is due to me.

I do not yield, sir, to you in loyalty t 3 my Sovereign;
and my life, which has been neither short nor private, is
ample witness of my words. I feel what you have said as
a wound ; and I ask of you to undo the wrong which I
readily believe you unwittingly did. I ask it not for my
own sake only, but for the sake of those whom you say
my name may influence ; for you have cast it with what-
soever weight it may have into the wrong scale, and made
it weigh in a direction towards which no word or act of
mine has ever yet so much as inclined.—l have the honour
to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
11. G. Whalley, Esq., M.P.

f llEmir E. MANsixo.

8, York-place, Portman-square, London, VV.,
Peb. 19, 1866.
Sir,—l have this moment read in the Parliamentary re-
port of the debate on Saturday last the personal explana-
tion made by you on the subject of the words you had,
through error, ascribed to me; and I beg to thank you for
the prompt and candid course you have taken.
You will, I feel sure, acknowledge the justice of what I
now add.
It would have been more satisfactory if you had stated
that the words had never been spoken by me, or SO much
as known by me.
And in order to preclude the possibility of mistake, or of
any other person being misled, as you have unconsciously
been, which both on private and public grounds I consider
of much ;impedance, I request your consent to the publi-
cation of my last letter, together with this note, in which
I gladly express my assurance that you made the original
statement in full belief of its correctness, and my sense
that in the course you have so promptly pursued, you have
made me an honourable reparation.
I have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant,
fi H. E. MANNING.

H. G. Whalley, Esq., M.P.

SLIPS OF TILE PEN,—Gen. Taylor immortalised
himself by perpetrating one of the grandest bulls on record
in which he attained what a certain literary professor calls
" a perfection hardly to be surpassed." In his presidential,
address he announced to the American Congress that the
United States were at peace with all the world, and con-
tinued to cherish relations of amity towards the rest of
mankind." Much simpler was the blunder of an English
officer during the Indian mutiny, who informed the public)
through the 71,1718.1, that, thanks to the prompt measures of
Col. Edwards, the sepoys at Fort Machison " were all un-
armed and taken aback, and, being called upon, laid down
their arms." There was nothing very astonishing in as
Irish paper stating that Robespierre "left no children be-
hind him, except a brother who was killed at the same
time ;" but it was startling to have an English journal
assure us that her Majesty Queen Victoria was "the last
person to wear another man's crown." Addison lays it down
as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it
grows thin of people. Filibuster Henninpen seem to have
agreed with the essayist, or he would hardly have informed
General Walker, in one of his despatches, that "Doctors
Rice and Wolfe died of the cholera, and Dr. Lindley
sickened, after which the health of the camp visibly im-
proved." Intentionally or not, the stout-hearted soldier
suggests that the best way of getting rid of the cholerais to make short work of the doctors. Among the
obituary notices in a weekly paper not rnany.
n monthspub-
ago, there appeared the name of a certain
He
Bean, with the following eulogium attach.;
y and steady
attached to o
was greatly esteemed for his strict pro
a This is a worthy
Sunday Tames from its first number.,,
pendant to Miss Hawkins's story of the undertaker
writing to the corporation of London,
" I am desired to
sbulbs
conduct through life, he having been to the
subscriber
inform the Court of Aldermen Mr.
Al
ermen
not far short, Gill died
last night, by order of Mrs. Gill
is
; and,ussaud's announcement
point of absurdity, is Madam© T
of the exhibition of the effigy of the notorious Palmer,
"who was executed at Stafford,
with two hundred other
celebrities." The modernhion of naming florists'
flowers must be held
ons gardening paper:—"Mrs
Legg©will saible for the very dubious
paragraph we fromextract
be looked after , she may not be so certain
was nevertheless very fine in the early
part
fof the
on season.ed buil(
res p f
as some, but she
Lady Popham is useful, one of the
d-
I, not quite round in the outline, but
makes up well.—Chambers Journal.
General Grant
expected to visit this country
in May.
Ile will probably be accompanied by General
Sherman.
old-fashioned