The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

MR. BOUVERIE AND MR. MILL.

We have now the reply of Mr. Bouverie to Mr. Mill's
long letter, in the matter of Mr. Chadwick and the Kil-
marnock Burghs. Mr. Bouverie writes to the Times by
date October 23 :

I have seen in the Times of to-day an extremely long
letter addressed to myself by Mr. J. S. Mill. I have
received no copy of it from him, and so, not wishing to
pursue a controversy which seems likely to assume the
aspect of a squabble, I write a line to you to correct one
mis-statement in that letter, and to make one observation,
to conclude the matter.

It turns out that I am the object of so much righteous
indignation because I am alleged to have said in the House
of Commons that the leader of the Liberal party was
" incapable of leading," and I called the Liberal party a
rabble."

I never did say the leader of the Liberal party w*
" incapable " of leading ; I spoke, on the sth of March, on
the weakness of the Government, and said it was the fault
of the Liberal party in the House ; I spoke of "leaders
who would not lead ;" and, speaking of the state of the
Liberal party in the House of Commons, I said " we were
little better than a rabble."

Here is the description of that state by Mr. Mill himself,
;n the closing paragraph of his letter:

" It is in the renewal of the tactics which made the last
House of Commons a spectacle of dissension and want of
principle—spewing us representatives trying to slip out of
the engagements their constituents conceived them to be
bound by, and others yielding a shameful obedience when
called to order by the dread of losing their seats ; while in
cases where this powerful motive was not in operation, men
elected under the same banner proved by their conduct
that there was as irreconcilable a variance in their intentions
and political feelings as if they had sat on opposite sides
of the House. What gave this deplorable character to
the last House of Commons was, that its so-called Liberal
members were rallied under the cry of supporting
Palmerston, as we are now told they ought to be rallied
under the cry of disestablishing the Irish Church."
I leave your readers to judge of the difference between
Mr. Mill, who graphically describes the thing, and myself,
who ventured to give it a name. They will remember—
" That in the captain's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

At the last assizes the Judges attended service at
St. Mary Tower, Ipswich. The other day the Under-
Sheriff said that the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice
Keating resolved that they would never enter it again, be-
cause they there saw ceremonies foreign to the Church of
England.
THE COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER.—At the
general quarter sessions for the county of Northumber-
land, held at Hexham, and at which there was a large
attendance of magistrates, Earl Grey, referring to the
encampment of the Countess of Derwentwater on the
highway at Dilston, inquired of Major Brown (the chief
constable) what he had done in the matter. Major Brown
said that the police had not interfered. Earl Grey said
it was the police officers' duty to deal with any one
infringing the law. It was the duty of the police to
apply the same rule to the lady as they would to anyone
else. Major Brown : She is summoned now, and
if she does not appear I suppose there will be a warrant
issued.

LORD MALMESDURY AND HIS TENANTRY.—The
Earl of Malmesbury sends to the Bournemouth Visitors'
Directory a letter which he lately wrote to Mr. Harland
Burke, the Liberal candidate for Christchurch. Mr.
Burke was reported to have said at a public meeting that
several of Lord Malmesbury's tenants looked upon them-
selves as personally bound to vote as " my lord " would
wish. He mentioned the name of a Mr. Elliott, who, he
was told, was the agent of Lord Malmesbury, and was
working against him as the agent of Sir H. Drummond
Wolff, the Tory candidate. Lord Malmesbury at once
wrote to Mr. Burke, demanding to know as to the accu-
racy of the newspaper report, and calling for information
respecting the alleged victims of landlord tyranny. To
this no answer had been received up to the time Lord
Malmesbury sent his letter to the local paper. Mr.
Elliott writes to deny that any undue influence has been
used.

THE ABORIGINAL BLACK CRICKETERS.—Having
completed their programme (which included no less than
forty-seven matches, extending over a season of unprece-
dented length, viz., from May 25 to October 17), these
interesting strangers left London on Sunday last for Ply-
mouth, where they joined the ship Dunbar Castle, direct
for Sydney. During their stay in England the demeanour
of the blacks has been most becoming, and all their en-
gagements have been fulfilled (frequently three matches
per week) with undeviating punctuality. This is
the more commendable when the fact is stated that they
had frequently to travel immense distances ; for instance,
from Rochdale to Swansea between Saturday night and
Monday morning, and from Swansea to Bradford (York-
shire) between the cessation of play on Wednesday even-
ing and Thursday at noon. The expenses of the expedi-
tion have been so heavy as to leave but a very small
margin of profit to the enterprising gentlemen, Messrs.
Hayman, Graham, and George Smith, who, however, are
hoping to recoup themselves in the colonies on the arrival
of the blacks, who have now earned, and deservedly so, a
European reputation.
TRANSLATIONS OF IRISH AND ENGLISH PRELATES.
—The translation of the Dean of Cork to the see of Peter-
borough has drawn attention to the fact that translations
of dignitaries of the Church between Ireland and Great
Britain have been very rare since the Reformation. It is
just 300 years since the earliest recorded example
occurred. Between the years 1567 and 1693 four Scottish
bishops were translated to Ireland, three to Raphoe and
one to Killala ; six Irish bishops also were translated
to English sees, but they were all Englishmen, or at all
events of English extraction, and men who appear to have
used Ireland and the Irish Church merely as a stepping-
stone to advancement. Such a man was one Hugh Curwen,
who gave up the Archbishopric of Dublin for the (at that
time) far easier post of Bishop of Oxford. It appears that
there have been four translations from English and Welsh
sees to:lrish ones. Bishop Evans, in 171 G, was translated from
Bangor to Meath ; two years later Bishop Nicholson went
from Carlisle to Derry ; and the Primacy tempted two
prelates to cross the Irish Channel—viz. Hugh Boulter,
13ishop of Bristol, in 1724, and the Hon. William Stewart,
Bishop of St. David's, in 1800. In the latter case it is
remarkable that a bishop gave up a permanent seat in the
House of Lords for an occasional seat about every
four: h year at that time,, as one of the Irish represen•
tative bishops.