The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-08 00:00:00

" My Lerd,—l have received and laid before the
Queen your Excellency's despatches to that of the
17th of November inclusive, reporting your pro.
ceedings at Pekin subsequently to the restoration
of peace ; and I am to acquaint you that her
Majesty entirely approves of your eonduct as ex-
plained in these despatches,
betweenave
this a salutary
country
n effenc and China ;
on the
futurer
" Her Majesty's Government trust that the per-
sonal intercourse which, you have' had with the
P
and they greatly commend the measures which you
•took on introducing Mr. Bruce to the Prince, to
ll
impress the Prince with a due sense of the impor-
tant functions which that gentleman will hence-
forth have to discharge in China.
" The publication of the treaty and convention,
in the formal manner described by your Excellency,
was a 'Well-devised measure to ensure the real
state of the case being generally knoien by the
population of Pekin, so that no question may
hereafter arise as to the circumstances under
which those engagements were concluded, or as to
the nature of the obligations contracted by the Em-
peror of China.
"Her Majesty's Government further consider
that you rightly advised:Mr. Bruce to defer fixing
his residence at Pekin until the spring ; but there
is no reason why a British Ambassador should not
reside in the Chinese capital as free from molesta-
tion, and in the.enjoyment of the same honour,
privileges, and facilities; as an ambasse4lor of the
Emperor of Russia; and while her' Majesty's Go-
vernment do not anticipate that any inconvenience
will result from the temporary delay in the esta-
blishment of the British mission within the walls
of Pekin, neither do they apprehend that when the
season arrives for Mr. Bruce's residence in the
capital he will be subject to any hindrance on the
part of the Chinese authorities.
" I am glad to take this opportunity to
instruct your Excellency to convey to Mr.
Wade, to Mr. Parkes, and to all the gentle-
men, whether belonging to your own imme-
diate establishment or to those under the supervi-
sion of Mr. Bruce, whose talents and exertions have
been called into action during the late events in
China, her Majesty's. Government's entire approval
of their conduct in the several capacities in which
your excellency has seen occasion to employ them,
and their hearty acknowledgment of the zealous
and able manner in which they appear uniformly
to have executed your Excellency's instructions,
regardless of any danger or inconvenience to which,
in doing so, they might be exposed.
"I am,
" f. ItUBsELL."

(Signed)

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.

We have received from Derby a " Declaration
and Protest" of the Church of England Clerical
and Lay Association for the Maintenance of Evan-
gelical Principles in the Midland District, in which
the recent volume of "Essays and Reviews" is
condemned as mischievous, heretical, and having a
tendency to undermine belief in all the most essen-
tial truths of religion. Three quarto pages are
devoted to extracts from the work, designed to
support the verdict pronounced, and four more
contain the names of those who have signed the
declaration. There are more than three hundred
signatures ; a very large proportion, if not the
greater number, being those of the clergy. The
first name is that of the president of the association,
Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., Sandibrook-hall,
followed by those of Mr. T. I' Bainbrigge and Mr.
Henry Cox, magistrates of Derby ; Mr. T. 11.
Leary, head-master of the grammar school ; Dr.
W. Ogle ; Mr. Rowland Smith, banker ; the Rev.
Sir Christopher Lightfoot, Bart. ; Sir Oswald
Moseley, Bart., S:c. All the subscribers ale not
members of the association, but some add their
names as expressing their concurrence in its state-
ments and protest. The paper concludes with an
appeal.o the bishops, heads of colleges, principals
of theoregical institutio.ls, and all others occupying
positions of antliorit3 in the Church or in schools,
to consider the dangerous character of the publi-
cation, and to direct against it in their respective
spheres of duty such special action as may be most
effectual to counteract its pernicious influence. A.
memorial to the Archbishop of Canterbury against
the same volume has just been adopted at a meeting
of the clergy of the deaneries of Kimpton and
13lockley, in the diocese of Worcester. An address
to the archbishop is also receiving signatures in
the diocese of Oxford.
On the other hand, doubts are expressed in some
quarters as to the advisability of arousing so much
attention to a work, and engaging in its perusal
minds unprepared for its study. A correspondent
of this opinion writes to our High Church contem-
porary, the Guardian, this week :
"My own adventures the other day in the streets
of a remarkably decorous and unexcited cathedral
' town have led me to these reflections. I had occa-
sion to call on the principal brewer, an active and
intelligent man of business, and a good churchman.
Five minutes had not elapsed before he led the
conversation to the ' Essays end Reviews,' a work
which, it appeared, he had eagerly devoured in
consequence of the tumult that was being raised
against it, and with which he professed himself
highly delighted. I sauntered thoughtfully up the
street, and could not resist refreshing my orthodoxy
by breathing the air of a long-established book-
shop, the S.P.C.K. depository, and the very focus
of everything churchmanlike and respectable in the
town. What was my surprise to see several copies
of the same inevitable -volume lying on the counter,
and to learn that four or five had been sold that
very afternoon! Now, I ask, whose fault is it that
these delicate and difficult problems are being thus
wrested from the hands which ought to deal with
them, and placed in the hands of people necessarily
unacquainted with the first principles of theological
science ? Whose fault is it if a profession already
seriously denuded of men of ability and learning
bids fair to deter altogether from its service those
who value free thought and fair discussion ? And
whose fault is it if a question of the deepest inte-
rest and of the most vital importance, and on which
much fresh light has providentially been thrown of
late, is relegated back to darkness and doubt amid
anathemas and protests, such as, in an earlier age
of the Church, induced a heathen bystander to _
de-
clare he could liken the religious controversies of
Christian divines to nothing else than the savage
conflicts of wild beasts in the amphitheatroYe time
On the other hand it may be said that n
for limiting the influence of the work
of the lay sub-
its opinions is past, and the number Counties
protest, Counties'
scribers who have signed the Midlanddeliberate and
protest, of course not without a by itgnorins
,ntenances this view. n
con-
scientious examination of the work they condemn,

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