The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1868

THE ENDOWMENT OF THE BISHOP Or
OXFORD'S TRAINING COLLEGE.

An attempt is being made to raise a fund for the endow.
ment of the Cuddesdon Theological College, which witis
founded by the Bishop of Oxford some fourteein
years ago, for specially training students about to
enter holy orders. "As a mark of respect and affection
for its distinguished founder, the fund so raised is to be
called the Wilberforce Endowment." Making this
announcement, the Guardian remarks :—" A few years
ago special training for the clergy was often scouted
as worse than useless ; but now even such imagi-
native writers as "S. G. 0." cannot in a long letter to
the leading journal, please the popular ear with any
more attractive suggestion for Church reform than "a
better training in those who occupy desk and pulpit."
We aro glad to see that the promoters of the " Wilber-
force Endowment Fund" do not ask for any large sum
of money. They aim at no more than making Cuddes-
don College as secure and permanent as possible—providing
for the sustentation of the buildings, and freeing its officers
from the excitement and temptation which must belong to
an income depending wholly on their popularity ani the
number of students within the college walls.

FATHER IGNATIUS AND THE JEWISH
RABBI.

The Rev. J. L. Lynn writes to the Guardian on behalf of the
converted Jewish Rabbi. This man was converted many
years ago to Christianity. He left the Continent for .A merles.,
and was ordained by the Episcopal Methodists to the minis-
try of their community. Ho has since then worked ener-
getically among the different dissenting sects in England.
A few months ago he visited St. Edmund's, Lombard-
street, although warned that Ignatius " would de-
ceive the very elect." The result was that the Rabbi
consented to join the Benedictines and throw up his situa-
tion if they would only provide him with the necessaries of
life. His son also wishes to join them. The Rabbi
has been delivering lectures at their religious house,
and his scholarship is much valued. Before Igna-
tius can receive him and Lis son, money is required. He
says, "My profession of the monastic life is not a
lucrative or a popular one, and the struggle to support my
work is a hard ore. Were this not the case, gladly would
I have received the Rabbi and his son without an appeal
to others for help. I have just heard that the society
to which the Rabbi has for some time belonged are
about to expel Lim for his association with us. Will
your readers, Sir, send me such assistance that we may at
cnce receive our Jewish brothers ? We propose to raise sub-
scriptions to the amount of £lOO a year: this would enable
us to offer the Rabbi and his son the help they need. A clergy-
man has kindly promised ss. a week, or £l3 a year as long as
they remain with us, and a Sister of the order has promised a
subscription (annual, I Lope) of £2. Will any charitable
readers of this letter send us enough to make up the £2 a
week, or £lOO a year, and so befriend two of that holy
nation from whom "as concerning the flesh, Christ came ?"
Subscriptions should be sent to me at the Benedictine Mis-
sion-house, 51, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, W.O.

PRESENTATION TO MR. GOLDWIN SMITH.

A farewell address from the council of the Reform
League was presented to Mr. Goldwin Smith at the Adelphi
Club, Adelphi-terrace, on Thursday. It was originally
intended to present the address at a public meeting, but
Mr. Goldwin Smith preferred receiving it in an unostenta-
tious way. Mr. Howell, at the opening of the proceedings,
spoke of the great services Mr. Smith had rendered to the
Liberal cause in this country. Mr. Passmore Edwards, in
the unavoidable absence of Mr. Beales, read the address,
which stated that the council of the League were desirous,
before Mr. Smith quitted England for a temporary
residence in the United States, to express their deep and
grateful sense of the very valuable serviceshe had rendered
to the cause of parliamentary reform, and political progress
generally, at a time when the predominant state of feeling
in our universities was lamentably anti-liberal, and imbued
with narrow and exclusive class and caste prejudices; and
when the majority of the upper and governing classes
so far belied the spirit and character of Englishmen
as to sympathise with the slaveholders' rebellion
in America, and risk the plunging of this country
into the most criminal and fratricidal of all wars. In
bidding Mr. Goldwin Smith God speed, the address stated
that England would lose in him at least one of her most
gifted sons and illustrious citizens, and concluded with
these words —" May our American brethren welcome and
cherish you." Mr. Edwards having handed the address
to Mr. Goldwin Smith, the latter gentleman acknowledged
the compliment paid him, and said, with respect to the
coming elections, that the old parties would combine to
keep out of Parliament the popular candidates. He spoke
of the uselessness of the Reform League, whose work, he
said, was not finished, but only just begun. He said,
although he was now about to leave England in the pur-
suit of his historical studies, he should still feel he was
an Englishman, and should duty ever call him home, he
would at once relinquish his position in the new country
and come back to the old, to take his share of active duty
in the service of his native land. Mr. Goldwin SmitF
leaves England for America next Tuesday.

It is reported that the Lord Provost will receive
the honour of knighthood in acknowledgment of the loyal
reception given by the citizens of Glasgow to the Prince and
Princess of Wales.

The Hon. T. B. Portman is officially engaged in
catrying on an inquiry in South Devon similar to that
which has been pursued in other counties, namely, the
employment of women and children in agriculture, the state
of education, and the dwellings of labourers.

In the first week of July last 916,000 paupers
were in receipt of relief in England and Wales; being an
increase of 37,000 as compared with last year. There were
913,000 in receipt of relief on the last day of the same
month.

THE BARNSLEY EXPLOSION.—The adjourned
inquest on the bodies of the two men who were killed by
the boiler explosion at the Elscar Works was resumed on
Thursday. From the evidence it was shewn that no
blame was attributable to anyone, and a verdict of acci-
dental death was returned.
The Liberte says that Queen Isabella cannot come
to any decision respecting her future abode. Her advisers
are unanimous in recommending her to leave the frontier,
and to take herself to Paris or Rome. Messrs. Baring and
Co., of London, and a French house, are said each to have
offered the Spanish Minister of Finance a considerable loan.

the Rev. W. Reyner Cosens, Vicar of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, is anxious to
place a memorial window, or rather, if possible, to fill the
chancel windows with stained glass, in memory of the late
Archdeacon Bentinck. The Archdeacon built the church
at the cost of .£16,000, and has left it £5,000 more. Ho has
also left as much as £30,000 to the great societies and charit-
able institutions of the Church of England.

LANDER, TRH AFRICAN DISCOVERER.—III the
Chapel Royal, Savoy, there is a monument to the
memory of Richard Lander, the distinguished African
discoverer. A member of the Royal Geographical Society
has bequeathed a small sum of money towards the resto-
ration of the monument, and the Rev. Henry White, of
King's College, London, the chaplain of the Savoy,
has invited such as are disposed to add their subscrip.
tions, so that the restoration may be carried out. The
chapel is open to the public every day between eleven and
one o'clock.

The Bishop of Ripon on Wednesday presided at the
fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Leeds Auxiliary of the
British and Foreign Bible Society, in the Philosophical
ilall. lie made an emphatic address in support of the inspi.
ration of the Bible, strongly urged the duty of every man to
read and study the word of God for himself, forcibly sup-
ported the claims of the society as a means of disseminating
the Scriptures throughout the world, and hailed with plea-
sure the fact that Churchmen and Dissenters, without any
sacrifice of principle,
could meet on the same platform to
advocate the same noble cause. •

InNorthWarwickshire,onWednesday,Mr.Newdegate
is reported to have said :—" If Ireland, however prompted,
presumes to dictate thewithdrawal of the National Church,
then I will say this to Ireland, ' You have repudiated the
chief condition of the Act of Union. Now repeal the
Union !' and then if the Union was repealed 1 would
say to her, ' Accept your position as a dependency.'
If Ireland is not content, then let Ireland bear a severance
of the union. What she now seeks is consistent only with a
severance of the union ; and if she will have that severance
of the union, we will consider the proposition ; but we will
not allow this—we will not allow a Boman Catholic mino-
rity to dominate over us here, being Protestants, and a ma-
jority of the United Kingdom."
THE STRAW TRADE IN BEDFORDSHIRE.—The
adjourned meeting for the purpose of taking into con.
sideration the depressed state of the straw trade, and to
adopt the best means for the improvement of the same,
was held in the Temperance Hall, Dunstable, on Wednes-
day evening. The mayor presided, and a large number
of inhabitants were present ; indeed, very many were
unable to obtain admission. The principal business was
the adoption of three resolutions--I. That a prize be
offered for the best shape of a hat and bonnet in straw,
the patterns to be sent in for the approval of the com•
mittee. 2. That a hat and bonnet be sent to the Queen,
the Princess of Wales, and the Empress of the French, and
to any other part of the world the committee may think
fit. 3. That the committee invite other trades t 4 ozuf
to the town.

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