The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-23 00:00:00

IIE NAT/Y.

On Thursday afternoon there was a meeting at
the Admiralty, Whitehall, of several of the leading
members of the Cabinet. There were present Vis-
count Palmerston, the Duke of Somerset, Sir G.
Grey, Lord Russell, and Mr. Gladstone. The Minis-
ters remained in consultation for upwards of an
hour.

Her Majesty's screw steam vessel Rifleman, 8,
Master Commander 1. W. Reed, commissioned for
survey in the Chinese waters, yesterday commenced
receiving her engines of 100 horse power in basin
at Woolwich. A corporal and six privates, Royal
Marines, have been appointed to the receiving hulk
Salsette for service in the Rifleman. The utmost
diligence is ordered to be employed in executing
and completing the fitting of the vessel, so as• to
hasten her departure, and enable her to arrive at
her destination before the stormy season in those
latitudes shall have set in.

The Severn, 51, 400 horse power, attached to the
second-class steam reserve at Chatham, is to be
brougnt forward for the first division, to take the
place of the Phaeton, 51, 400 horse power, which
has been despatched to the Gulf of Mexico. The
masts, yards, spars, and .gear of the Severn are to
be sent from Chatham dockyard to Sheerness,where
she is to be fitted, by the two mortar vessels selected.
from the fleet lying in Yantlett-creek, which are to
be used as dockyard transports. The Newcastle, 51,
600 horse power, nowattached to the third division
of the steam reserve in the Med Way, is to take the
place of the Severn in the second division.
The Orion, 91, 600 horse power, was yesterday
removed into the great basin at Sheerness and
placed under the masting shears for the purpose of
haven :g her masts taken out. She is to be supplied
with new boilers as soon as the opportunity occurs
for doing so. Her new boilers have been ready at
Sheerness for some time.
The Duncan, old lazaret ship, for many years
iniPloyed on the quarantine service at Standgate
Creek, Chatham, is to be broken up at Chatham
dockyard. and not at Sheerness, as previously
ordered. Her place will be supplied by the Mino-
taur, old 74 gun line-of-battle ship, now attached
to the sailing reserve in the Medway.
The new screw steam sloop Zebra, 17, 200 horse,
has been docked at Sheerness, to be brought forward
for the reserve. She is to have ratchet plates fitted
to her stern post.
The Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company have
entered into a contract with the Admiralty to sup-
ply forged iron armour plates for the Royal Oak,
51, screw frigate, building at Chatham, at the rate
of £35 per ton. The edges of each of the armour
plates are to be planed. In addition to the contract
of the Thames Shipbuilding Company, the firm of
Beale and Co., Parkgate Ironworks, Yorkahire, have
entered into a contract with the Admiralty to sup.
ply rolled armour plates for the same frigate.
The Jumna, 16, which is ordered to be fitted at
Chatham for a guardship and store depot in the La-
gas lagoon, Coast of Africa, is to be armed with two
light 32-pounder guns on each broadside. The
necessary fittings are to be made for the requisite
quantity of ammunition.
Lieut. Henry Chad Cattley; second in command
of Fane's Irregular Cavalry, who was gazetted on
Tuesday evening to accept and wear the insignia
of the Legion of Honour, for distinguished services
in the recent operations in China, is a son of the
Rev. S. It. Cattley, of St. John's, Clapham-rise.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander G. Skipwith,
I to the Castor, additional for service in the Brilliant,

for Royal Naval Reserve ; Commander Robert H.
Burton, to the Orpheus; Lieut. Arthur Jekyll, to
the Orpheus, additional for disposal on the Austra-
lian station ; Mr. Robert C. Jolliffe, to the Edgar ;
John B. Nicoll, acting assist.-surg., to the Swallow;
Wm. Lovely, assist.-paymaster, to the Forte, as
secretary's clerk ; Edward R. Nettleton, clerk, to
the Edgar ; Charles F. Goolden, master's assistant,
to the Trafalgar ; Hugh R. Gair, engineer from the
Indus, to the Asia as supernumerary ; George M.
Dooley, acting engineer on the Asia, for the Jasper,
confirmed ; John E. Warner, confirmed as second-
class assist.-engineer in the Marlborough, and John
Hancock (B), confirmed as second-class assist.-en-
gineer in the Majestic.

TEE ARIIII.

A number of young officers who have been re•
cently gazetted to West India regiments have been
attached to the depots at Chatham for the purpose
of going through a course of rifle instruction and
battalion drill, previously to their proceeding to
join the service companies of their respective regi-
ments in the West Indies.

In consequence of the increasing number of of-
fences by persons fraudulently giving themselves up
to the military authorities under the false pretence
that they are deserters, instructions have been issued
from the Horse Gaards that all parties so offending
shall be prosecuted, under the provisions of the Mu-
tiny Act. In accordance with this order a man who
gave the name of Francis Smith, alias Hartup, was
yesterday charged before the magistrates at
.Ito-
cheater with having surrendered himself to the
military authorities, under the false pretence that
he was a deserter from the 2d battalion of the 23d
Royal Welsh Fusileers. The accused, it appeared,
had on several previous occasions put the authorities
to considerable trouble and expense by representing
himself to be a deserter from various regiments. On
one occasion he received food and lodging for the
space of two months before his fraud was detected.
He has also represented himself as a deserter from
one of her Majesty's ships, but after being detained
his statement was found in that case to be untrue.
The magistrates directed him to be imprisoned with
hard labour for two months.

THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY,

FOOLTVIOIf.

--100LWICH, Nov. 22.

Highnessiet:hteo-Gdaeyn
James RoyalY r Sc a
manding-in-Chief in the matter of the cadet inquiry at
Woolwich was oommunicated to the cadets by the Adju-
.eralGenCoemral
Sir Richard Dacres and Staff were present, and also the
Adjutant-General of Artillery and Engineers and other
officers. The announcement was to the following effect :
tanTth.Ge
tart-General,
:goo, nsiorf his
"The Duke has decided that the general tenour of com-
plaints made by the cadets is groundless and frivolous ; and
that they have committed acts which, in boys of more ten-
der years, would be visited with the castigation they de-
served, but which were not to be excused in gentlemen of
more maturo age. He wished them to understand that no
amount of scientific knowledge would bo of use, to make
them efficient officers, unless they learnt to subject them-
selves to discipline ; that their coming to the Royal Mili-
tary Academy was a voluntary act on their part, and they
must consequently submit to the rules in force at the limo
of their admission. He finally expressed his regret thathe
should be obliged to visit with punishment those who should,
iors
by their influence and example, have prevented theiori
whichi
from committing the gross breach of discipline
they have been guilty." who are ordered
Tea names of cadets were then read out,
and two of that
to be " rusticated" for the prosent term,
number for the next term

"°ltleeoffialinhee ‘r
a curious incident 0c-
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PRESENCE OF MIND.—At the theatre of Nice
a 3
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ni e o. g
if)
RI a‘c:ol:i ' e
extinguishedn e r en t o I a ,
actresses, Madlle. Mistrali Vetant, having gone too near the
foot-lights, set fire to her dress, but Ronconi, who was sing-
by pressing the dress between his hands. In so doing,
strange to say, he did not interrupt for a moment - '
the mor-
you he was singing, and the actress, on her part, deriving
confidence from his remarkable calm, went on •
icanugfrerwuid, n.
her
nights
rlhntssitdhlea
acpkser :OIL:
with the per-
formance as if nothing had happened. The audience were
so pleased with the self-possession displayed by Rononi
that they summoned hira thre '
'loud applause
e times before the curtain with

AMERICA'S TRIBAL NATIONS,
NOR 111) MEXICO'S ESIPIRY (SOUTH.
REVERED SAciums,—The Sovereign Native Chief
Saccomo, elect of all the white-faced Counterpoise-sacco-
mo's Christendom-chiefs of Asiatic Europe, under the trust
behalf, as based on the double eagle of Mexico united with
Rome' civic one, by force of 1519-21-July, reset 1762,
of the flux and reflux life-right of (the Indian Sovereign
Chief herein represented for) the neutral-tidal'd isle lake
of Tenustitan or M-x-ico, has learnt, from the sth Decade
of Peter Martyr, as of Welsh history, now of necessity
brought to light since the kirk-bank scramble for our
gold-ores, by robbers, under the term of the avoirdu-
PEA. -Grim Washington " Texas-hundred" partners of the
Romish Theatricum Ecclesiastical-suND of stage-playing
idealists to the astra-geograph spiral movement, touching
nature's starred seasons, by words of sound without sense-
manifestation, whereby the rights of the natives to their
in- seiz'ned elections—become a tinkling cymbal on the
zenith-shadow of the Z overhead, as marked by our 29th
September Nile-Q.-meter of the Great Spirit of Almighty
Clod, for his earthly Marayes-lake sustenance, of man.
• Tribal-sac'hemos and Sachims, learn that it pleased
the fiscal authorities of the East, thro'our gulf-stream efflu-
vium magnetic, to direct the minds of all to our north-
Bell- ot-regions in 1818, whence the cause of the Act. 58
Geo. 111. Regis, c. xx , in the month of May, to re-
decide upon our regional assynode perigee longitude, of the
Cone citation-polar, visible at 4 deg. south of the
equator, under longitude 60 W., whence this act be-
came the fulcrum of recognition of °Utrecht 1713, 26
Geo. 11., as of 1730, of Cherokee Carib chief election 1742,
by mecca to the Quaker Affirmation Act, for the Esqui.
maux-Labrador-Carib, holding the INlingan' f 4 xastgard font-
set of 60 w. from London, as the meridian line of Trinidad,
aecho-dos-Morros stileometcr of Paraguay, Al-cor rientcs
of the Sacramento and Herman;, of the ste-south polar
Terra-del-f Fuego's New Zealand.
Know ye then, Sachims, that Sir William Ouseley,
the Luther Established kirk-wall Queen's agent, placed
before me, the circumfrancia Lopez act of having obtained
the signature of 800 of the Sachims, as now guided
by the Romish Jesuit Calvin priests, (of Geneva's mexi-
:unites), promising allegiance that ye were not against the
Queen of Heaven' without being told who you are for.
And as the same trick was played off on the Indians of the
north, that their Kt. scholastic teacher of Malta's Rica-sold -
fort, isocris-life-gift induction of CARL. V. without right of
voice, but through Scotland as sister of Rome,' which
imposition has [since committee of the 1836 House of Com
mons Gladstone, chairman] passed over the native tribes,
without sect distinction, to the care of Quakers, when the
,£lOO,OOO rent accumulation, of the Indian lands of
Albany and Trinity Church, New York, with that of
Buenos Ayres erected the Smithsonian Institution on the
halved [1846 Congress Act] Washington district of Colum-
bia, whereby seizing the Indian responsibilities under a
mixed wig'd Christ Commission for an internal sentry-box
man, as the Sterling antagonistic to the Uaited States
Legislature of 1776, which this counterpoiss Sagamoth'ean-
edict for all America, on 1 Art. U.S., sec. 3, as the law of
England for the Indians throughout the world.
Sachims—lt is requisite to know that the Act of 1818
became the Regiscone shield of our tribes by the Crown
Colony-Clov'nr.-Hamilton thro' his Sheriff's, Captains
Buchan & Glasscock's medium on Louis 18th's 1818, French
Order's 3ty, placed the Caribess Indian lady, Mary March,
as " in habeas virginals tenerum corpus Christi," under the
.State sponsorship of Montague Charles H. Ackerley, c.,
acting lieutenant and crown surrogate of the Admiralty,
.as of the Board of longitude, before cited, for his ingress
and egress [on 1658 act], for the collection of all wills and
tostimentary documents, without distinction of sect, creed,
or colour, in 1820, for Newfoundland and Quebec, and at
Rio Janeiro, Brazils, 29th August, 1825, by Stuart de
Rothesay, Hamond, and A. Marcus Hill, secretary of em-
bassy, now Lord Sandya on £3,000 a year, the prin-
cipal, Ackerley, named as cube-root protector of the
Indian, on £9O half-pay R.N., now 40 years—the youngest
of Malcom & the Saxon Margarate's offspring, in Holland-
Brydges-Chamberlayne, whence " Constable of 3PSOot-.
Angl'lot land, as of llarischar Coll. & Dublin's trust.
Whence, Sachims, the cause of Ackerley's support of the
Indian chief of America, Peter Basquet, elected by all
the sovereign Powers Asiatic Europe as Rome's bailiff
(not its vicar's), in charge of Admiralty's red flag and
all the symbols of power, on the 31st of January, 1842,
avho—on the rebel confusion, and loss of responsibilities,
refused to give up his Indian grant-personality for all,
thence became ex-communicated, threatened to be shot, and
deprived of the flag-union by Romish priests, as taken out
with Lord Ashburton in H.M.S. Warspite unknown to the
Governor of Canada, whence, being between two fires, was
sent to England by the Protestant magistrates to claim
Quo warranto writ for the restitution of his imperial Indian
power, as well as mile'age maintenance on public duty,
now 19 years.
Sachims—The repudiation in 1851 of my State under
Extradition act 1843, for the criminal law brought to light
through providence " Indian Mary March's sponsor" still
living, who as the abovenamed Ackerly has supported me,
Peter 8., [the Government N.B. interpreter for 40 years
Sir H. Dougles and Lord Seaton, to wit,] as in duty bound
under his first appointment as Lieut.-Capt. Cook and
Lieut.-Major Cartwright's surrogatorial successor.
Sac'homo's Jr Sachims. Ken I by the act of 1818 (24-32
still pending), ¢ 4.9, subjects or subject for equal rewards
to all parties on Polarexpedition. Ye will now think deep of
the danger of joining either party of the white faces or half-
caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby prohibited for their
own dignity, to notice the sub-proclamation as headed in the
gimes and Post " A Convention between, ENGLAND,
France, and Spain," and signed 16th Nov., 1861, whereby
you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com-
mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's
rights, as well as the alien's of contracting parties to keep
sectarian peace on their soil. By reasons as follows :-
1. The flag union (of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Chris-
tian Zoliverein trading flag „ and not a belligerent by
the Ordnance) issue of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower—
under my Water Gap-line limit RED flag as the war one of
empery.
2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether
St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the
word England from the 1782 court Christian sea charts,
adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the
Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union
courts of n-gal law of 1521, and under 1761 trust, which
has been already derided in the ang'lot Spanish Crte. as inad-
missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in-
corporated St. Denis, under the words "except Franco" in
March 3, 1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's
signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of
Nelchisidek on a moving earth error with it] the 17th
of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd
Belgium treaties of 1828-30 of sectarian illegality.
3, The Papal assumption of Sir W. Glre Ouseley in
collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion
in my name, seen by his Wabash'd Wa'ker succession
in Central America, for the Sigismond life-tenure as-
sumption of the house of Savoy, for the seizing of
Mexico from England's allies, caused his papist envoy, Capt.
Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their
nationalities to 4 wolves men,'—as made manifest by
late Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro-
spective arrangements. in violation of Ackerley's pivot-
trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all
parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the
MosruoE doctrine, [as that of the 'Manilla French channel
of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the
law's font, and recognised as such by Peel and 1/arby, and
the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the 'solo'
man of North Russian guarantee-elect of the 99 years
Dutch Loan Act of 1832, unconnected with religion.
Fourthly. The non-ratification in the London Gazette,
and not within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia-
ment on Indian trust, it being in the Supplement.
The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians,
aliois, and all others, that the Cabinets named in this con-
vention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr,
CANNING in a converse sense, being in total opposition t
th, legislative unity of the standard of weight and measure
of 1821 and 1835, for raising the revenue under annual elec-
tion of paid laymen, as well as for guiding the commerce of
the whole world.
Therefore the gist of this letter, for my rights, yours, and
all parties, is [for the monetary recognition of all dues from
America upon the principal of primary well •intention of
the whites and the evident decay of human nature, by tho
theft of the 1730 Indian nationalities in my regard],by brother
and sister association for the future, under the law of Eng-
land, as now disconnected with t Pope, .4; Churches, or
Sects.

PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Empry-Sagamo,
(Nephew of Sac'mo Jos. Brant, 1775—Sac'mo Peter foma
Brant, 1825, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspel.
C. H. ACKERLEY, P.C.,—sworn in,
—C. J.,Empyrate commissif,n of Review, 1825-37.
Hen. B's executor WOTTON' LYON BOWES, P.C.
23rd,—London. See The Sun, Nov. 16, 1861.

I'o YAL ENGLISH OPERA,
I%) COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management_of 31_fas. Louisa Pyne and Mr. Win

Harrison, Sole Lessees,

THIS EVENING "(3d time) THE TOY MAKER. Mr.
Henry Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirl-
Wall,
After which, at Eight o'ctock, TUN B LAS. Miss Louisa
I'vne, Mesdames Susan I'yne, Thirlwall, Tessi M‘Lean ;
Messrs. SAntley, A. St. Albyn, Patey, and W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Commence at Seven o'clock.

The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for
hocking, or fees to Box-keepers.
gr,m-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting- 3lanager, Mr.
Edward Murray.

TI EATII. it Y AL, HAY MARKET,
Leslce, Mr. J. S. Backston.
TITTR P.VENINo, the nertormances will commence with
THE WOVE' AND THE LAMB.
After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN% Lord Dun-
dreary, Mr. &Ahern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C.
Young, k.c.
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

1) OYAL LYCRum THEATRE.
Ili manazer -Yr. Edmund Falconer.
EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walt
1' lITS
er Lacy,
Airs. St. Henry.
ailt 111th time) the new
Ater wh'eh, at a quarter t?
; or, Savourneen
andf en
original Drama, titled PL EPF.I ()'DNY
Deel ish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles
Selby. Edmun . Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chitterton.
r*lces as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7. Box-ofßce open daily from 11 till 5.

o VAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
LeSAPe and Manacrer, Mr. A. Ilarria.
'lilts F.VENENCI. TIrE MERRY WIVES OF WIND-
ce in
SOR. Sir John loalgtaff, Mr. Ryder (his 3d appoaran
that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, H. Widdicomb, Ste.
To conclude with BLUE JACKS I'S.

Env Tut ATRE-ROVAL, ADELPHI.
lw Solo Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREASER.
31r. J.L. Toole i Ms-Y. Bedford, and Miss woolgar.
Atter which, the new drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ;
Or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written by the author of "The
Colleen Bawn." and in which Mr. and Mrs. D. Boucican't will
appear. A New Musical Introduction has been kindly pre-
sented by Signor Benedict, and will be performe f by the
Orchestra, which has been re-org,aniaed, and will be con-
ducted by Mr. Riviere, by whom the incidental music has
been selected and composed. The following artists will make
their 6th appearance :—Mr. G. Jamison, from the Winter-
garden, New York ; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea-
tres ; and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. Tito other prin-
tpal characters in the drama will be performed by Messrs.
lery. Stephenson Billington, Paul Bedford, Romer. Mrs.
iajri_l_tuton, Mrs. Marston, Ace., &c. Entirely new scenery by
Dalby and Thompson.
VTo conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Took;
isa K. Kelly,Doora&conen at
half-past 6—Commenoe at 7.
BIA-office open from 10 till 5, No charge for booking. i

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THE SUN•

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1861.

We present our readers to-day with a reviem o:
the position of everything—and that by at least as
independent a thinker as can be found in either
House of Parliament. Lord STANLEY, though'act-
ing with his party, has never fettered himself to
them. Naturally, he dislikes party politics; and if
it be impossible on some occasions, not to unite in
action when he would rather keep back, or take an
opposite course, yet his pleasure is in research, in-
quiry, and sound conclusions, and he has generally
managed without offence to his friends to utter his
sincere convictions. We all look, in his speeches,
for modifications of opinions current with the com-
munity at large, or with either party, but always
expect them to be formed from data which he has
personally studied.
Agreeing with all of us, that foreign politics have
been the favourite topic both with thinkers and
speakers for the last few years, more particularly
since the attack of France on Austria in 1859, he
followed the general example in placing these first.
Looking at the emancipation of the serfs in Russia ;
the late rapid advance of Spain from the abyss into
which she had sunk, the Italian movement, the vast
developement of the natural power of France,and the
struggles of Austria, he regarded the present as no
ordinary state of things, and it was quite reasonable
that the feeling should be prevalent that at any
time a war might break out which should involve the
whole of Europe. He does not dislike the recovery
by Spain of her influence in the Western world ;
we do not know that we should if she did not carry
with her that narrow, cruel, and detestable bigotry
and superstition which have everywhere been found
so permanently adverse to true liberty and the in-
tellectual progress of nations.
The course of Austria is pronounced suicidal, yet
our own failure in Ireland with a personal union,
and our governing there by corruption as the only
means of overpowering faction, while there were
two legislative bodies—does not bode well for a
parallel attempt in Hungary. Lend STANLEY seems
to forget the total difference, rather contrast of the
cases. Politically Hungary is as much the superior
of Austria as England was of Ireland at the time
referred to. Had JAMES 11. fixed his throne
at Dublin ; had a vast host of Frenchmen
subjugated England to him ; had he then for twelve
years governed England without a Parliament, by
his own Irish functionaries; had he kept down
England by Irishmen, Scotchmen, and savages
imported from our colonies ; had he then, in an
hour of distress, proposed to give England a cut-
and-dried constitution, of which Dublin should be
the centre—this would have been the true parallel
to Austria's scheme for Hungary. The Austrian
Archduchies together have not above a third of the

population subject to the Hungarian Crown ; they
have far less than a third of the political know-
ledge, rights, and spirit of the Hungarians; and,
therefore, it being the statesman's bu3iness to take
realities as he finds them, it seems to us most
unstatesmanlike to attempt to amalgamate where
long custom has made real amalgamation
impossible. On the other hand, we have
little doubt that had the insane young EMPEROR
but done his duty to the Hungarians, in the time of
his successors, if not in his own, Hungary and
the other States might have united as closely as
England, Scotland, and Ireland have done. What-
ever may be the failure, however, Lord STANLEY
lays the whole at the door of Austria. He prefers
great empires as the best checks to future con-
querors, but if Austria break up the fault will be
her own.

His view of the Italian position is, that the Em-
peror of the FRENCH sees his account in keeping
both Italy and Austria dependent on him, and that
that is the key to his policy. But he concedes to
France, in consequence of what she has done, some
right to determine the results of the victory, and
to share its fruits. He reminds us that we cannot
fairly expect to have the benefits of non-inter-
vention and of intervention also. Some-
thing, therefore, must be indulged to France
if she wishes to carry out her old policy
of keeping Italy from becoming her rival.
Lord STANLEY must remember, however, that we
have a right to hold the EMPEROR to his own pro-
fessions, which were, the liberation of Italy to the
Adriatic without the acquisition of territory for
himself and France.

The United States must of course come in for a
full share of attention i
wsoprdeeechferneolwl..
The
Lordship seems to have
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while he cannot blame the North for endea-
vouring to recover half its territory, while he
hardly doubts that the North could, in time,
subjugate the South, he yet thinks that two powers
must be the result ; and that the North will be
then a more united, and, perhaps, a not less power-
ful nation. He, of course, cordially agrees with
the policy of absolute neutrality approved by this
country. Such a non-interventionist is he, indeed,
that he does not much like an expedition to Mexico.

He thinks it wall not pay. It ought not, however,
as we have ships there, to cost us much, but it might
in the long run cast a great deal in the discourage-
ment of trade, if Englishmen did not feel that
everywhere the protecting arm of their Govern-
ment could reach them.
But we are favoured with a few words on home
affe.irs absorbing as foreign politics have become.
The Conservative Reaction, his Lordship thinks,
is an unhappy phrase. He denies that there is any
reaction. In England we are accustomed to accept
measures once passed, and take them as settled
facts. No one thinks of repealing any of the great
measures carried in the teeth of Conservative oppo-
sition during the last thirty years. There is, there-
fore, no reaction. But Lord STANLEY does not
recollect a time when the country was EO much dis-
posed to remain where it is, that is in regard to
political reforms; and he attributes this to the
working of a more liberal suffrage than our own in
France, America, and the colonies. He does not
think that our electoral representation can remain
as it is, but that some years will pass away before
any Government meddles with it again. He urges
attention to what were always more interesting to
him—administrative reform. The patent laws, the
transfer of land, promotion by purchase in the
army, the Admiralty, the simplification of the sta-
tute law—will find us plenty of work at present,
though he emphatically asserts that " the question
of Reform cannot die."

Then the Church-rate question ; on that his views
are unchanged—in the interest of the Church
itself he should vote for abolition as the only
possible settlement. He exposed the groundless.
ness of the cry that the Church was in danger.
Ecclesiastical institutions have a strange vitality,
and in England he showed that the aristocracy
were too strongly bound up with the Church to
let her sink. They had a direct money interest
in it, most of them having the gift of several livings.
In Scotland-and Ireland, where the establishment
was but a small minority of the people, he had by no
means the same confidence in its durability. The
chief danger of the Church he held to be that from
within—that of the two great parties who could
not refrain from bitter war with each other.
Lord STANLEY concluded a long speech about
every conceivable public topic by adverting to the
increased wealth of the country, and his hope of
reduction of taxation. Tea and sugar he would
specially like to operate upon, and also to get the
Income-tax down to a per-tentage which would
make the injustice inseparable from it less irritat-
ing. It is rather singular that Mr. Bass, who
was speaking at Derby on Wednesday, took the
same view. He wished to repeal the war taxes on
tea and sugar, and to reduce the Income-tax, too,
by twopence this year. We do hope the great
brewer will be as successful in removing the bitter-
ness from taxation as he is in giving it to his un-
rivalled beverage. If so, he will deserve our double
thanks.

On Monday last we transferred to our columns a
letter—which was accidentally not acknowledged as
from the Norfolk News—addressed to the Clergy, on
Church-rates. It will be seen that a correspondent
C. K. has criticised a part of it; but, though the
address was from another journal, as we entirely
agree with its arguments, we volunteer a few
words in defence of " Quo WARRANTO"—to whom
also our columns are open if he see fit to use them,
and who is certainly quite competent to defend
himself.

C. K. entirely mistakes, we apprehend, the point
of " Quo WARRANTO'S" dilemma, which, if he had
read his letter with ordinary care, he could not
have done. By Church-rates, " Quo WARRANTO"
means compulsory rates—that which distinguishes
rates laid by the English Church from religious
contributions paid by the Jews, and by all Chris-
tians in England, with the exception of the Epis-
copalian sect. That sect in this country is now
fighting tooth and nail to retain the power of
coercion. So in love is it with coercion, that many
Churchmen who are willing to give up taxing Dis-
senters are angry with the latter because they are
unwilling to leave them the power of coercing their
brother Churchmen. Lord EBURY is prepared to
leave the rate-laying as it is, but to take away the
power of rate-levying, that is by coercion. But,
say all the pro-rate men, that would be as bad as Sir
JOHN TRELAWNY'S Bill. In fact the rate, in the
sense in which there is any struggle, means coercion,
and coercion is the rate. Nor does it make the
slightest difference, whether a " majority" is the in-
strument of coercion or not—it is still coercing money
out of unwilling pockets into the exchequer of the
Christian Church; and the question raised by
Quo 'WARRANT° is, can a Church which needs
such rates be divinely founded ?
We should have thought that any man with the
humblest knowledge of his New Testament, or with
a particle of religion in his bosom, would have at
once felt that a divinely founded Church would not
need the constable, the policeman, and, in the last
resort—as once at Rathcormac—the deadly bullet and
bayonet in its service. We need not quote texts
which we hear every Sunday, and with which all
are familiar, to show that of all religions ever
taught on earth that of the blessed SAVIOUR is
most abhorent from force. When, therefore, C. K.
asks—" What is there to prove that, because money
is required to keep oar churches in repair, and to
provide for their services, therefore the Son
of GOD was not the founder of our re-
ligion ? " We reply ; Nothing. But the
question as a reply to Quo WARRANT° is irrelevant.
It should have been, " what is there to prove, that
because money must be collected for our Church by
the policeman's truncheon, the constable's distress.
warrant, and the soldier's bayonet—therefore the
Son of GOD was not the founder of our Church P"
We apprehend that the answer is not far to seek.
It is strange, indeed, that clergymen should so
blind their eyes, through ecclesiastical pride or the
more venial fault of bad habit, to the crime against
religion, which sensible and candid laymen see
so plainly: They all know that the amount is not
the object with either Dissenters or Churchmen.
Coercion is the point. And laymen understand, if
clergymen do not, that nothing can make it appear
Christian to compel payment for Christian worship.
Laymen, now, do not believe " that GOD puts it into
the heads of Christians to force men to
pay for worship." They think that what
GOD puts into men's hearts is willingness
to pay the cost of their own worship and of
the worship of the poor too. Is it indeed,
not notorious that the Methodists, who teach ten
times as many poor people religion as the Church
does, pay for all without coercive rates ? The state-
ment before the committee of the House of Lords
was, that every Methodist, rich or poor, paid his
penny a week, and that so sacredly was the obliga-
tion felt that if any were literally too poor,
their better off friends gave them the money.
We are not Methodists,—but we frankly
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or did not care to pay for. We hear much of mob
tyranny. We know of no more hateful form of
it, than when the majority of
a parish turn them-
selves into a mob to seize the d
goo s of all who
object to paying for their worship.