The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-29 00:00:00

nNE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHA N CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALXER, Secretary.
Office, 54, Cheapside, London, E.O

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully, received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50 Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hoare, Fleet-street ; and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTWE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

resident—Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon-
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, NI C.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, Isl.o.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
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HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
President—His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.
The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for
FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses.
Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
last six years.
..._..

GEORGE WOOD, Secretary.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT,
off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Naticns, who are received without any recommendation.
The receipts from all sources during the past year were
£879 less than the expenditure.
SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankere, Birchin-lane ; and by
the Secretary, at the Society's office, 86, King William-
street, London, E.C.

Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life
Governor, £lolos.

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise).
Instituted 1827.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of
destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions,
and of all denominations, whose parents were once in
prosperous circumstances.
One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In-
stitution ; ample room for about 30 more.
Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not
endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary
assistance.

Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the
Institution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and
its peculiar claims.

'l.'lte last Report can be obtained on application to the
Secretary.

THOS. TILSON, Chairman.
CHAS. LEA M.A.
AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A.,
lion. Secs.
ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Chearsithi, London, E.C.
ILLkers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
lane ; and Messrs. Heywood, Brothers, Manchester.

A. MORNING and EVENING DRAUGHT.
LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE is most agreeable
and efficacious, preventing and curing fevers, skin complaints,
and inflammation. It instantly relieves the most intense head-
ache and thirst, and if given with lime-juice syrup is a specific in
gout and rheumatism.-113, Holborn-hill, London, E.C.

MANCHESTER, Oat. 27.—1 n shipping yarns we
have had a better market to-day, with a fair
amount of business, at low prices. The prices ob-
tainable are miserably inadequate as compared
with the cost of cotton. In some c ises it is said
that spinners would have r.;quired 21. per lb. more
for cotton sold to-day than their goods would red-
liza to have left them free from loss. Yet buyers
are offering still lower prices, and spinners could
have done double the amount of business tran-
sacted if they could have met the demand on these
terms. This branch of the market closes better
than for some time past, in consequence of the
stocks which have been moved. In top yarns for
the home trade spinners have demanded id. per
lb. extra to meet the advance on cotton, but it has
been given only to a ,moderate extent. Where
buyers have immediate and pressing wants they
have been obliged to give this advance, but
they do not buy with alacrity, because there is
no confidence in the movement in cotton which
has led to the advance. In the cloth market
the inactivity reported last week continued
without abatement up to Saturday, with depressed
prices. The large business in cotton on Saturday
caused manufacturers to increase their prices, to
ewer the rise in the raw material, and to some ex-
tent this stimulated the demand for cloth, but the
business resulting was not of importance as to
amount. To-day_ we haie' again hadan inactive
and depressed market. The demand has been very
languid, and the aggregate business effected is re-
ported to have been small. Buyers appear deter-
mined to restrict their operations within narrow
limits, and have shown to-day but little disposition
to pay the advance asked by spinners for yarn. In-
dividual instances of resort to short time increase,
though there is no combined movement, and we
learn that a large firm in Preston, one of the largest
shirting-producing concerns in the district, have
given notice of limiting their machinery to three
days' production per week from next Monday.
CARDIFF, 26th.—The steam coal trade is charac-
terised by a degree of dulness rather unusual at this
period of the year, but this, to some extent, is owing
to exceptional circumstances. Yet, at the same
time, it must be admitted, that fresh orders do not
come to hand so readidly as usual. For several weeks
past merchants and shippers have had to contend
with the difficulty of a want of tonnage suitable for
the more distant ports, and unless a change speedily
occurs in the number of arrivals, the clearances
will continue to be below the average. The out-
put at the collieries in the district is more than suf-

ficient to meet the requirements of merchants and
shippers, and a large number of loaded waggons are
as a rule, on the sidings waiting the arrival of ton-
age, and the effect of this will soon be experienced
at the collieries, as the hands will be put on short
time. Shipments to the East continue below the
average, while to South America some heavy car-
goes have been sent. There is an improvement
gradually setting in in the house coal trade, the
shipments coastwise showing a favourable increase
during the past week. Operations at the ironwork s
are being steadily carried on, and there is every
prospect of the improvement referred to in previous
reports being maintained.
LEEDS, 27th.—The markets in the cloth-halls
this morning have been of a moderate character,
considering the season of the year. There was not
a large attendance of buyers, but those present
purchased a fair amount of goods in the aggregate.
The demand for heavy fabrics was confined to
small selections for present rather than prospec-
tive requirements, and little was done in ordinary
blacks, whether superfine or union. The chief run
was upon tweeds, but, as on Saturday last, a little
slackness in the demand for that class of goods is
observable, and buyers have little or no difficulty in
obtai❑ing what they want. A tolerably good sale
was effected in meltons and claret and gray mix-
tures were the easiest to dispose of. A few
samples of spring goods were made up, and the
market ruled firm as to pr:ce. The flax trade is
not very brisk, but prices of the raw material are
firm, with an upward rather than a downward
tendency. Yarns and threads are also firm in
price.

ROCIIDALE, 26th.—Though winter is fast ap-
proaching there is no improvement to note in the
general condition of the flannel. Indeed, some
manufacturers, owing to the slackness, are begin-
ning to run short time. To-day's market was only
thinly attended by buyers, and plain flannels were
only in ;poor request, but there was a little better
demand for fancies. The Yorkshire goods and
wool trades were also flat, and little business was
done. Prices, however, of flannels, Yorkshire
goods, and wools are all firm.

GENERAL MCLELLAN'S LETTER.

The following was General M'Clellan's letter to
the great mass meeting assembled in his honour at
New York on Monday night, the sth inst :
" New York, 03t. 3, 1868.

" Douglas Taylor, Esq., chairman, &c.: My dear
Sir, —I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt
of your invitation to preside over the Democratic
meeting of Monday next. I have long since de-
termined to abstain from further participation in
political life, and therefore find myself compelled to
decline the honour you proffer me. I should, how-
ever, be glad to attend the meeting as a private
citizen did not engagements of a domestic nature,
rendered imperative by my long absence from the
city, upon the day in question, prevent. I gladly
avail myself of this opportunity to express my con-
tinued hearty sympathy with the Democratic cause,
and my ardent wishes for the success of those consti-
tutional principles for which the recent war was
undertaken by the North. Separated as I thus am
from the distinguished soldier who has been chosen
as the leader of our opponents, I know you will
agree with me in the highest respect for the services
he has rendered our country. But it is my convic-
tion that the measures of the party which has placed
him in nomination are but continuations of the
strife, and can never restore peace or constitutional
supremacy, and thereby complete the work he and
other brave soldiers so ably commenced. The war
was only the first epoch in the history of the
struggle in which we had been so long engaged. The
work of the soldier, I trust, is forever ended, and it
remains for the people to fulfil the great object for
which they or their sons and brothers were called
to the field—a restored union of States and hearts,
an invigorated Constitution, to be firmly and faith-
fully supported, the maintenance of national credit
inviolate, the re-establishment of national and State
rights in all their integrity, and thus true harmony
and a lasting peace. These are the objects for which
every citizen should now strive, and believing these
to rest in the success of the Democratic came, by
the election of the eminent statesmen selected to re-
present the party, it is my intention to sustain that
cause as a private citizen. With the request that
you convey to the gentlemen of the committee and
my other friends, for whom you act my sincere
thanks for the compliment they have paid me, I am,
most truly, yours,

We are happy to see, from an order in Council,
that the importation of hay from the United States
is no longer interdicted, at least as regards Ireland.
This is the text :—" That from and after the 19th
inst, the Order in Council of the 15th of September
last, relative to hay which is shipped at or imported
from any port of the United States of America, and
which is brought to or arrives at any port or place
in the United Kingdom, shall cease to apply to Ire-
land."

EXCLUSIVE, VERY hiPORTANT, RARE,' AND VALUABLE
aro the properties of I.amplough's Pyretic Saline, curing tho
worst headaches, sickness, skin, or binary affections. Pleasant,
stlatable, and, invigorating. Sold by all Chemists.—[Advt.]

The Daily News holds that amidst all the changes which
have overtaken the episcopal office in modern times the
see of Canterbury has preserved some faint traditions of
medieval dignity. Though shorn of the privileges which
once belonged to the first subject of the realm, the Arch-
bishop still holds a position little short of princely, and
might, if he chose, exert an influence of which it is diffi-
cult to overrate the extent. A vacancy in the metropoli-
tan throne calls, therefore, for something more than the
mere obituary which follows the death of an ordinary
bishop. The interest of the event belongs to the
future as well as to the past. The administration
of the Archbishop has been marked by great
moderation. The Daily News recommends the Bishop of
Lincoln as belonging to the type from which archbishops
are selected. Mr. Disraeli, however, has no dislike to dis-
tinction when there is nothing to be gained by ignoring
it ; and if the exercise of his patronage should immediately
precede his departure from office, he may possibly
prefer the credit of making a good appointment
to the convenience of making a merely safe one.
The appointment of the Bishop of Lichfield would be the
most popular throughout the country. The Bishop of
London would, under ordinary circumstances, be the first
in the thoughts of a Minister, but his health is too preca-
rious. The Bishop of Oxford has abilities which would fit
him to occupy the highest place in the Church, but we
cannot imagine any statesman thinking his appointment to
this vacancy desirable.

The Telegraph says that in the placid and prosperous
current of the Archbishop's career there is not much with
which to furnish the elegiac muse; his career was that of
an extremely fortunate, judicious, and pious Churchman,
and his character was of that equable and uncoloured kind
which escapes censure by declining speciality. Com-
menting upon the appointment of his successor, the
Telegraph remarks that we want in the days of
irresistible change approaching, not foolish prelates
who will try to stem the stern flood now gathering,
but wise ones, skilful to lead it in the channel of a
right and religious mood. Divines must make up their
minds to move with the current, for they will find that
the effort to stem its passage is as vain as the attempt of
King Canute to keep the sea from wetting his footstool.
With the pious and accomplished Dr. Longley the quiet
times for Church and privilege have passed away. The
keen, investigating, critical thoughts which have been
gathering are preparing their instrument while we write,
and will by-and-by take it in hand.

The Star describes the late Primate as of a fine presence,
a benignant aspect, and a good voice. Like his prede-
cessor, his disposition was amiable and his manners con-
ciliatory, and, like him also, he possessed no great force of
character. This was, perhaps, his chief recommendation
,to those who elevated him to the primacy. To put a
strong partisan, a bold and uncompromising ecclesiastic,
in the foremost place in the English Church, would
not have suited the views of statesmen who, above all
things, desired to see moderate councils prevail in the
Establishment, and to strike the balance evenly between
opposing parties. The cast of his mind appeared to tend
towards what are called Evangelical opinions, and to the
practice of a sober ritual ; but, at the same time, he
was not so pronounced as to prevent friendly and even
cordial relations with that school of thought which is repre-
sentedby the Bishop of Oxford and Dr. Pusey. It would be
hazardous to venture a prediction as to his successor.
It remains to be seen whether the Premier will be guided
by purely party considerations, or whether he will elevate
to the vacant archbishopric the prelate best qualified to
serve the Church of England in this crisis of her history.
The forces which are at work in the Church are probably
too powerful to be guided or restrained by the authority of
any primate, however great his sagacity; but a good man,
a true Protestant, one who blended the traditional feelings
of an English prelate with some regard for freedom and
progress, might exercise a salutary influence on the religious
future of this kingdom.

The Times says that to any one who does not lose sight
of the material interests of the country amid the more
exciting questions of party politics, such an incident as the
reception of Lord Salisbury at Manchester is very
gratifying. That nobleman is known under two aspects—
first, as a staunch and unbending Conservative, whose
vigorous oratory has never been wanting when any measure
of a democratic or latitudinarian character has been advo-
cated by the party opposed to him ; secondly, as a man of
powerful practical understanding., a remarkable talent for
administration, and an enegetic will in carrying out what
an acute judgment tells him to be best. Lord Salisbury
was, by the admission of men of all parties, an excellent
Indian Secretary. That country has never failed to
obtain the services of able men in various departments.
An immense share of the political and administrative
talent of this kingdom has always been attracted to it.

The Post remarks that the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce has very properly acknowleged the vigour and
ability displayed by the Marquis of Salisbury during the
term he held office as Secretary of State for India. Few
men are more capable of speaking with authority on Indian
affairs. With regard to India, with the exception of
Manchester, few places seem to trouble themselves any
more about it than they might be expected to do if it did
not belong to us, and as if we had not incurred those high
responsibilities concerning its welfare which Lord Salisbury
reminds us of—to say nothing of its immense value as a
GEORGE B. AP CLE LL AN. I possession.

The Standard is gratified at the reception accorded to
Lord Salisbury by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
It is creditable to the Manchester merchants, that in the
height of a political excitement in which they are perhaps
more violently divided than at any period in their history,
they can still find time to regard the distant interests of
our empire in India. It is even more creditable to them
that they should be able to lay aside their differences and
unite in a cordial recognition of a statesman who has
played a leading part in our recent political history. And
it is highly honourable to the Marquis of Salisbury that
he has won this rare compliment from the merchants of
Manchester in the very crisis of it great political contest,
that, as a Conservative statesman, he has extorted the
praise even of his opponents for his vigorous and en•
lightened administration of the affairs of our greatest
possession,

According to the Standard if we desire to estimate the
loss which the Church of England has sustained in the
death of its metropolitan, we have but to glance at its
present position. Party feeling never ran higher than it
did during Dr. Longley's tenure of office, and it is due
solely to the mingled firmness and gentleness with
which he exercised his authority and influence that
the strife has not been far more bitter, and the
results far more disastrous. For Dr. Longley
was a statesman as well as an ecclesiastic,
and he knew that in a comprehensive body like the -)
Church of England the rein must not be dran -too .
tightly, or too obviously in one direction. He succeeded
to the see of Canterbury at a period when the administra-
tive incapacity and blind partisanship of his amiable and
well-meaning predecessor had brought matters to a serious
pass. Upon his translation to Canterbury, Dr. Longley
was naturally besieged by the extreme men on both sides.
He succumbed to neither. He gave each party credit for
sincerity and good motives, but he rebuked the short-
comings and intolerance of the one section, and the
arrogance and provocativeness of the other. At the
same time, he never forgot that he was the con-
stituted champion of the Church against external
aggression or coercion, whether on the part of the State
or the Legislature in Downing-street or in Parliament. It
was no slight achievement that the spiritual head of a
Church so heavily trammelled should be enabled by sheer
force of a personal invitation to assemble the representa-
tives of the Anglican Communion throughout the world in
conference at Lambeth. That gathering of 170 bishops
from the uttermost ends of the earth marks an era in the
history of the English Church, and witnesses to the hearty
fellowship and religious unity which still pertains among
the daughter Churches she has planted up and down the
world. It was a grand conception, and it was amply
realised, and the wise, kindly, far-seeing prelate, who
imagined so vast a scheme, will always be remembered in
connection with its happy fruition.