The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1861.

THE LAST OF " _ESSAYS AND

REVIEWS."

The following correspondence between the Bishop
of Worcester and the clergy of Birmingham has
just taken place :

" To THE RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD, HENRY BY
DIVINE PERMISSION, LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.
" We trust it will be satisfactory to your lordship to be
told that on the questions of theological importance which
now agitate the Church, we are happily of one mind, and
unite in most earnestly deploring and strongly condemning
the attempts recently made by individuals holding dhtin-
guished positions in the Church (some of whom are engaged
especially as teachers of youth), to introduce as the permis-
sible teaching of ministers of the Church of England the
doctrines called ' Neologian,' which; we have reason to
believe, are all but exploded in the very country where they
had their origin, and which aro now revived in a volume
entitled 'Essays and Reviews.'
" We believe that this mode of teaching, although it may
skilfully avoid the impugning of any express article or creed,
does strike at the root of revealed religion, and is even more
dangerous than more direct and, flagrant contradiction.
That your lordship will be found to agree with the opinion
on this subject already expressed, prier to your lordship's
consecration, by your lordship's right reverend brethren,
we cannot doubt; and with this conviction we anxiously
look to your lordship's powerful aid to drive away this and
all other such heresies from amongst us."
The following is the reply of his lordship :
" Cambridge, April 26.
"My Reverend and dear Brethren,—l have received with
great gratification the address which you have done me the
favour to present.
"The kind thought which prompted such an address, and
the kind words with which you welcome me, give me great
support and encouragement in entering upon the duties of
what you truly call an arduous and most important office.
No one could feel more than I do the need of such support
and encouragement ; and I beg you to accept my warm and
heartfelt thanks.

"It will be my earnest endeavour to deserve the confi-
donee which you are prepared to place in me, by giving
myself wholly to the work whereunto it bath pleased God
to call me; and I pray that He will give me grace and
strength to serve Him in it faithfully.
" My best attention shall be given at all times to the
questions affecting the large and important district in which
you have been called to minister.

" I learn with great satisfaction that you are all of one
mind in deploring and condemning the recent expression
by ministers of the Church of England of opinions which
appear not only to be opposed to the teaching of that Church,
but to strike at the root of revealed religion.
" If the opportunity could have been given me, I should
readily have joined the Archbishops and Bishops of Eng-
land in their recent statement that some of the opinions
expressed in the volume entitled 'Essays and Reviews,'
appeared to be essentially at variance with many of the fun-
damental doctrines of our Church, and that they cannot
understand how such opinions can be held consistently with
an honest subscription to its formularies.
" I thank you heartily for the assurance of your prayers
on my behalf, and I join earnestly with you in the supplica-
tion that the Holy Spirit of God, dwelling in our hearts,
may unite us all in one holy band of brotherhood, striving
together for the faith of the Gospel, loving our Lord Jesus
Christ in sincerity, and working to make ready his way by
turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the
just.

" I am, my reverend and dear brethren, your faithful
and affectionate brother,

" H. WORCESTER."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER RACES.-WEDNESDAY.
THE CUP DAY.

The Members' Plate of GO sovs, added to a sweepstakes of
3 sovs each, the latter to go to the secon I horse; weight

for age ; certain penalties and allowances. Seven fur-
longs. 3 subs.
Mr. Copperthwaite's Twilight, 5 yrs, 9st llb (ino.4lb ex.)
(Withington)
Mr. Frank's Zulieka, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Asborne's Lopcatcher, 3 yrs, 7st 71b.... (Challoner) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Twilight.

The favourite jumped off in front, but they had scarcely
gone gone a hundred yards when Zulieka was indulged with the
lead, which she held to the distance, when Twilight went
a-head and won in a canter by two lengths; three lengths
dividing the second from the third.

Helter Skelter Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added;

second to save his stake ; winners extra. Half a mile.

9 subs.
Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, aged, lOst 21b (G. Fordham) 1
Mr. Smith's Sheffield, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b.... (H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Logan's Lustre, 6 yrs, Bst blb (L. Snowden) 3

Chateau Lafitte and The Gift also ran.
Betting-7 to 4 on Miss Julia, 4 to 1 agst Chateau
Lafitte.

The horses were started just behind a round-about, which
obscured the view, greatly to the annoyance of the people
on the Grand Stand. When the signal was given Miss
Jttlia got away with the lead, Sheffield being second, and
the light weight last. No further description is required,
for as the race began so it ended, Miss Julia winning by
half a length. Lustre was a bad third, the other two
tailed off.

The Chester Cup of 200 sovs, added to a Handicap Sweep-
stakes of 25 soya each, 15 ft ; second to receive 50 sovs
out of the stakes ; tho winner to lay 50 sovs to the race
fund; winners extra. Cup Course, about two miles and
a quarter. 188 subs., 101 of whom declared and paid 5
sovs each.

Mr. Barber's Ben Webster, 4 yrs, 7st 81b.. (L. Snowden) 1
Mr. Godding's Chere Arnie, 4 yrs, Est 81b (H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Whittaker's First Lord, 4 yrs, 7st 81b.... (Bullock) 3
Mr. zilby's Millionaire, 4 yrs, Est 121 b .. (J. Snowden) 4
Mr. F. Swindell's Wallace, 4 yrs, Bst, 21b (Challoner) 0
Mr. F. Swindell's Weatherbound, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b
(J. Adams) 0
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Satellite, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (Fordham) 0
Mr. J. Ingham's Predictor, 4 yrs, 7st 21b.... (Clements) 0
Captain Little's Man-at-Arms, 4 yrs, 75t.... (Challoner) 0
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Optimist, 4 yrs, 7st.. (A. Edwards) 0
Mr. T. Hughes's The Brewer, aged, Est 121 b.. (Mitchell) 0
Mrs. Osbaldiston's South Australian, 4 yrs, Est 61b

(Watts) 0
Mr. Hargreave's Herne, 6 yrs, 6st 21b (Doyle) 0
Mr.F. Swindell's Sawcutter, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (in 51b extra)
(T. French) 0
Mr. Windsor's Flirtation, 3 yrs, sst 71b.. (T. Whiteley) 0
Mr. Angell's Bridegroom, aged, 6st
Horses struck out of the Chester Cup :

May 6—Fitzavon, at 6 p.m. ; Wild Rose, at 1.45.
May 7—Schism, Precise, Somersault, and Cashio, at
5,50; Horace, at 8.50.
May B—Sparrowhawk, Doefoot, and Yorkminster, at 9
a.m. ; Jealousy at 1 p.m.
Betting at starting-3 to 1 agst Chere Arnie, 4to 1 apt
Ben Webster, 5 to 1 agst 'Wallace, 6 to 1 agst Man-at-
Arms, 10 to 1 agst Satellite, 100 to 6 agst Herne, 20 to 1
agst Flirtation, 25 to 1 agst Optimist, 33 to 1 agst Millio-
naire, 40 to 1 agst First Lord, 50 to 1 agst any other offered.

THE 0U7R.9 gE ON CMPT. 31.4CDONALD

-BARON SCHLEINITZT NOTE.

The following is a translation of the note which
has been addressed by Baron Schleinitz, through
Count Bernstorff, to Lord John Russell, relating
to the recent Macdonald discussion in the House of
Commons :

" I have observed from:the public journals, with
as much surprise as deep regret, the manner in
which Lord Palmerston replied to the questions
addressed to him in the House of Commons on the
26th of last month on the subject of Captain Mac-
donald. We could not expect that he would take
in this matter the same view as the Prussian Go-
vernment, but we might have taken it for granted,
that the First Minister of England, fully cogni-
zant of the circumstauce3 stated by us, would abs-
tain from heaping groundless repror, ches ( Vorwurfe)
on the Government and laws of Prussia. He him-
self could not do otherwise than acknowledge that
the conduct of the Prussian officials .had been in
accordance with the Prussian laws. And, in
truth, the Prussian Court placed_ upon the affair of
Captain Macdonald the mildest interpretation
allowed by law, and merely inflicted upon him a
small pecuniary fine. Those whose signatures
were affixed to the offensive 'protest have been, it
is true, condemned by the judge, but they have
escaped punishment, because the Royal Amnesty of
the 12th of January of this year has affected them.
Finally, the Prussian Government, which did all
in its power to shorten the time of Captain Macdo-
nald's confinement, has expressed without reserve to
the sritish Government its regret for the occur-
rence itself. How, in so clear a case, the Prussian
Government can be reproached with having ne-
glected to do what wa- incutirlient on it as a great
Power, and as a Government in friendly relations
with England, even Lord Palmerston's speech has
not succeeded in showing.
" When this distinguished statesman makes men-
tion of me in terms for which I cannot but be per-
sonally grateful to him—when he makes appeal to
my knowledge of the mode of thought and habits
of the English people—l cannot before all things
repress the observation that during the several
years of residence in England which my official
position afforded me, nothing filled me with greater
admiration than the sense of right and law which
is everywhere firmly rooted in the English people,
and which is also manifested in respect for judicial
sentences. I cannot suppose that the English people
will deny this respect to the sentence of Prussian
judges, in a case where, in the person of an English-
man, a violation of the laws of the country in which
he has been residing had to be punished, and where
the legal advisers of the English Crown themselves
acknowledge that the proceedings have been in
accordance with the lags of the land.

"In carrying out the laws of the country, the
judicial condemnation of the subjects of another
appears to me not to be a circumstance which should
disturb the mutual relation of two Governments, a
close friendly union between which is in the interest
of both. I cannot, however, conceal from myself
that accusations of such a kind as those which Lord
Palmerston, without ground or justification, has
raised against the Government and the laws of
Prussia, are well calculated to excite in the Prus-
sian people an ill feeling against a Government, the
leader of which has no hesitation in designating the
condition of Prussia as lamentable. If such an ill-
feeling should result in an alienation of the Govern-
ments of Prussia and England—which I should
deplore in the highest degree—the Prussian Govern-
ment would at least bear no blame in the disturb-
ance of the good understanding with England,
which it has always honestly laboured to foster and
promote.

"I beg your Excellency to read the present
despatch to Lord John Russell, and to deliver to
him a copy of it.

" SCIILEINITZ.

(Signed)
" Berlin, May 1, 1861.
" To his Excellency Count Bernstorff, &c.,
London."