The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-22 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE,

ACTION AGAINST A 13ABBISTER.—In the Court of Com-
mon Pleas an action was brought by Mr. Yeatman, a
barrister, agaitst Mr. Price, the well-known Q.C., for
slander alleged to have been uttered under somewhat
peculiar circumstances. The plaintiff was the petitioner
in a divorce suit, and the defendant was counsel for the
respondent, and in his address used,words that expressly
meant that Mr. Yeatman was a designing man, and
skilled in getting up cases had trumped up a
charge of adultery against his virtuous and innocent
wife, merely for the purpose of obtaining a divorce, and
by that means removing the only obstacle that remained
in the way of his marrying a rich woman. The plaintiff
also alleged that during the hearing of th'e case Mr. Price
had made use of certain words alleging that witnesses had
been suborned for the purpose of bearing out the charge
of adultery. Witnesses were called on behalf of the
plaintiff ; but the jury virtually stopped the case by
stating that it was their opinion that the language was used
without malice, and that being so, of course no action could
be maintained. The plaintiff elected to be, and was non-
suited.

DISHONOURING A CHEQUE.—In the Court of Exchequer,
Mr. Talley, an attorney of Piccadilly, brought an action
against the London and County Bank for dishonouring
a cheque when there was sufficient cash of the
plaintiff's to meet it. Mr. Talley drew the cheque
on the defendant's branch at Knightsbridge, but
had also transactions with them at Reading, and a
sum of £23 4s. was lodged there in order to meet the
cheque now in question. The duty of the manager at
Reading was to have apprised the establishment at
Knightsbridge that this lodgment had been made, but,
instead of doing so, he notified that a Mr. Tallis, and not
Talky (the plaintiff's name), was to be credited. Under
these circumstances, the manager at Knightsbridge failed
to ilentlfy tl a plaintiff's er ft, and refused payment of
Vic cl.equ". It writ aomlted that the plaint'ff hal a ense
against the defendants, and a verdict (by consent) for 10
was taken.

THE rEIVILEGES OF POYAL RESIDENCES.— In the
Exchequer Chamber judgment was given in the case of the
Attorney General v. Dakin, which was a special case
stated pursuant to the 22nd and 23rd Vic., clip. 21. The
short question involved in the case was, whether Hampton
Court was such a palace or royal residence as to have
extended to it the general immunity belonging to resi•
deuces of the sovereign, as regarded the service of writ 4
within its purliLui. In the cc urt below the Barons were
of a divided opinion, Barons Martin - and Bramwell
holding the proceedings of the sheriff had been regular,
whilst the Lord Chief Baron held a contrary opinion.
Mr. Justice Lush, Mr. Justice Blackburn, and Mr.
Justice Mellor concurred in upholding the decision of the
court below in favour of the sheriffs ; and Mr. Justice
Willes read a contrary judgment of Mr. Justice Keating,
in which he and Mr. Justice Smith concurred. Their
lordships being thus equally divided in opinion, the judg-
ment of the court below stands.

WHAT ARE NECESSARIES FOR A YOUNG GENTLFMAN !
In the same court the case of Ryder v. Wombwell, which
gave rise to the above-named question, was argued. The
cause was originally tried before the Lord Chief Baron,
and the action was brought by a firm of jewellers in Bond.
street against the younger son of the late Sir George
Wombwell, to recover the price of goods sold to the defen-
dant, and the defence raised to the claim was that at the
time the goods were supplied the defendant was under age,
and that the articles in question were not necessaries
even for one in his condition of life. The articles
in question consisted of, first, a pair of crystal,
ruby, and diamond solitaires, price £25 ; secondly,
a white glass smelling -bottle, silver mounted, and
ornamented with coral, pearls, and turquoises, EG 10s.;
thirdly, an antique silver goblet, with inscription, a pre-
sent to the Marquis of Hastings, £l5 15s. ; fourthly, a pair
of coral earrings, £l3 13s. The solitaires were used as
sleeve-links, and they were formed of crystal set in gold,
and inlaid with diamonds, in the form of a horse-shoe, the
nails being represented by rubies. At the trial it was
proved that the defendant had an income of £5OO a year,
and that he lived alternately with his mother and eldest
brother. The Lord Chief Baron held that the smelling-
bottle and the earrings could not be meant for a gentleman,
and ordered those items to he struck out of the
account. For the other articles the jury gave a
verdict. Leave, however, was reserved at the ti ial to both
parties to move the court in opposition to the ruling of the
Chief Baron. Accordingly, a rule having been granted on
behalf of the defendant on argument, the majority of
the court held that the Chief Baron's direction was correct,
and that he ought to have withdrawn the question as to
the solitaires and the goblet from the jury, but Baron
Bramwell dissented from this decision, and held that the
Chief Baron ought to have with:lrawn the case altogether
from the jury, on the ground that none of the items in the
account could be held to be necessaries. The court took
time to consider judgment.

A splendid stained glass window, just erected at

he eastern end of the Guildhall, has been presented to

the corporation by the operatives of Lanes-shire and the
cotton manufacturing districts, as a memorial of the
exertions of the Mansion House Relief Committee during
the distress in the cotton manufacturing districts in the
years 1862 and 1865. The amount which was raised for
the purpose in penny subscriptions exceeded £l,OOO.

The arrangements for the Norwich meeting of

the British Association for the Advancement of Science
are in a forward state. The reception rooms will present
special conveniences for business, correspondence, reading,
&c. The International Archaeological Society will hold its
meeting this year at Norwich, contemporaneously with the
sittings o the British Association. Among the distinguished
foreigners who have accepted invitations to attend one or
other meeting may be mentioned Padre Secchi, from Rome.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is named as the presi-
dent of the section of Economic Science and Statistics.

I DEATH OF A ROYAL PAGE.—Mr. Batchelor, late
page to her Majesty, expired at his residence at St. A lbans-
street, Windsor, on Wednesday, in the 83rd year of his
age. The deceased gentleman was well knot nby a large
circle of friends and inhabitants of Windsor. Mr. Batchelor
entered the royal household in the nign of Ceor,e
and was page of the backstairs to George IV., William
IV., and her present Majesty. He r2tired from the
service on a pension in 1861. Her Majesty, with her
characteristic solicitude for the welfare of these who have
long been in her service, during Mr. Batchelor's illness sent
from Balmoral repeated inquiries after his health, and
most considerately called to see him on Wednesday, the
day of hor Majesty's return from Scotland. Mr. Batchelor,
however, was unable to recognise the honour clone to him
by his sovereign. Since his death her Majesty has nu,. t
kindly seat her condolence to the

LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY.

The struggle for political power in Europe
now in reality lies, it seems to us, as we said
last week, between Liberalism and Democracy.
In this struggle our sympathy is with Demo-
cracy as against Liberalism, with the masses
of the people comparatively uncorrupted, or
at any rate, guiltless of political crime, as
against the most irreligious class of modern
society guilty of the present political degra-
dation of Europe. The modern State, con-
demned by the Holy See, is the concrete form
of Liberalism, the highest expression of its
essential idea—namely, that material well-
being is the paramount aim of society as of the
individual. Liberalism, however, is of an ac-
commodating character, and can tolerate any
system, any form of error however various,
which does not directly and effectually oppose
its characteristic principle. But since Catho-
licism is open to no such compromise, and by
its very existence asserts the direct contrary,
between it and Liberalism no reconciliation
is possible.
The modern State may be defined as the Go-
vernment of the middle classes, to the exclu-
sion from any appreciable share in political
power of the Crown, the Church, the nobility,
and the people. Kings are merely nominal
rulers, bound, as the Emperor of Austria in-
forms the Pope, to ratify, at any sacrifice of
principle, of right and of justice, the decrees of
a Parliamentary majority. But modern Par-
liaments are composed, for the most part, of
representatives of the bourgeoisie, and of the
professional classes. Lawyers, professors,
stockjobbers and money-lending Jews dic-
tate at Vienna, for instance, terms which the
Upper Chamber of the Iteichsrath accepts
with servility, and which the Emperor is
compelled, under penalty of a threatened re-
volution, to ratify. The first work of Liberal-
ism triumphant in the State is to repeal every
law which bas its root in Christian dogma;
it would gladly preserve the outward sem-
blance and sanction of religion, but then it
must be a religion of undogmatic character.
Liberalism does not wish to appear bigoted or
narrow in its views, far less persecuting in its
character. It welcomes all forms of religious
opinion, but on the distinct understanding that
they must acknowledge themselves to be
opinions merely, susceptible of change and
modification according to time and circum-
stances. Such a union with religion, Liberalism
delights in, but as Catholicism is not an opinion
but a dogmatic faith, it is everywhere pro-
scribed in the modern State. The people,
as well as the Crown, the Church, and the ter-
ritorial interests, are put aside by the domi-
nant Liberalism of the middle classes. Now
they are reviled as ignorant and abject, or as
reactionary and superstitious ; now as being
under the influence of the Church, or of the
landed interest, or as inspired by an unreason-
ing attachment to the person of the Sovereign,
or even of the ruling dynasty ; or, on the other
hand, they are regarded with terror as Com-
munists, hostile to the existing state of things,
and awaiting but the opportunity for an attack
upon the sacred rights of property. Even in
England the lower classes of the people are
contemptuously spoken of as the residuum, to
be excluded from the franchise, or poiiited at
with scorn.

At all events, it is a fact that, wherever the
Liberalism of the middle and moneyed classes
dominates, there the rights of the people, reli-
gious and political, and their economical in-
terests—a dangerous provocation under the cir-
cumstances in which we are living—are sacri-
ficed to the Materialism and to the selfish in-
terests of the dominant class. Such obvious
injustice increases the danger, lest the rise
of Democracy should lead to a terrible retalia-
tion, to a war of classes, to a war, even, of ex-
termination.

The revolution of 1848 in Europe was a
democratic revolution, intermixed, unfortu-
nately, with a large element of destructive
socialism, enough at least, to foreshadow, if
the evil be not averted in time, the impending
danger. Nevertheless, the democratic move-
ment of 1848 was a great benefit to Europe.
In Germany it broke the chains of the Church,
and conferred liberty on the people. It struck
terror for awhile into the heart of Liberalism.
It forced Kings and Governments, in trembling
and fear, to respect the rights of their sub-
jects. It overthrew the gigantic structure
of fraud, corruption and impiety which Liberal-
ism had raised in France. The reign of Louis
Philippe was, indeed, the apotheosis of the
middle classes. He reigned in their name,
and by their will ; he was avowedly the
citizen King. The Church, the people, the
noblesse were proscribed. Materialism, moral
degradation, and intense selfishness displayed
in legislation brought about the Democratic
outbreak against the mean and sordid tyranny
of the middle classes ; and universal suffrage
gave liberty to the Church, to education, and,
if it did not give liberty to the people in
France, it destroyed the worst of tyrannies--
a selfish class legislation. Democracy, the
government of the many for the benefit of
the many, is, we have no hesitation in saying,
infinitely superior to Liberalism—the govern-
ment, that is to say, of a class notoriously
the most selfish, tyrannical, and anti-Christian
in modern society. But Democracy is also
tainted with its peculiar sips, and we cannot
speak of it apart from its incidental evil, Com-
munism ; and what is Communism but the
natural offspring of Liberalism ? Liberalism
has proclaimed that material enjoyment is the
end towards which society should aim, and
the people, relieved by Liberalism, as far as
its power ,goes, from the, presence and re-
straints of religion, demand at least as a
material guarantee for happiness a redistribu-
tion of property. But the danger with which
society is threatened is no ground for giving
our support to Liberalism. On the contrary,
it is a greater reason for its abolition. For
the longer Liberalism governs Europe, the
deeper will Materialism and Communism sink
into the hearts of the people. So if Liberalism
cannot be induced, out of fear of disastrous
consequences to itself—if not out of higher
motives—to rehabilitate the Christian State,
we must do our best
,to aid the peoples of
Europe in a Christian movement to throw off
the yoke of Materialism. The danger to be ap-
prehended is lest the Democratic movement,
which is spreading throughout Europe, should
partake more of a Communistic than of a
Christian character. But the Church has
power still over the peoples, and the issue of
things under a Democratic revolution in
Europe offers better hopes than are afforded
under the permanent domination of an im-
pious Liberalism. Who can deny that in revo-
lutionary Italy or in Austria—the latest apos-
tate from the principles of a Christian State
—the transfer of power from the hands of the
irreligious class to the people would not serve
the interests of justice, order, and religion ?
In England itself, where practical sagacity
suggests to many a political compromise, the
lines which divide Liberalism and Democracy
are being gradually obliterated. By the Re-
form Bill of 1832, and by Catholic Emancipa-
tion, which was a concession to popular power,
the Constitution of England was considerably
modified, a blow Vas given to outward religi-
ous unity, and the first step taken to free the
State from its identification with heresy. Poli-
tical power was transferred in a large degree
from the Crown, the aristocracy, and the
Anglican Establishment, to the hands of the
middle classes. But this shifting of power was
tempered, as is the case almost always in Eng-
land, by compromises and counterbalancing
influences, as in our day the democratic move-
ment against the predominant Liberalism is
met by large and speedy concessions. Liberal-
ism, under its chosen leaders, Earl Russell and
Mr. Gladstone, drew up a Reform Bill of its
own, whose "hard and fast line" was intended
to admit to the political franchise only the
lower section of the middle classes, or those
on the border line whose interests and political
feelings were more closely allied to the pre-
sett holders of political power. But Mr.

Disraeli met the Democratic movement, and
threw open the franchise to a large section of
the people which has little or no sympathy with
the Liberalism of the middle classes, and is at
open war with its class legislation and its class
interests. The Anglican Establishment, as a
class interest, has no claim on the support of
the people. Its strength lies with the middle
class. It is the embodiment of Liberalism and
the most complete expression that exists in
England of the religious aspirations and
opinions of the class to whom hitherto, at least
since the Reform Bill of 1832, the government
of the country has belonged. Mr. Gladstone
is scarcely a representative of Liberalism pro-
per. He is "stepping westward," he is advanc-
ing with the democratic movement, which is
destined to be the destruction of Whiggery, of
Liberalism proper, of the bigoted and exclu-
sive rule of one class ; but no fitter repre-
sentatives of political and religious Liberalism
exist than Earl Russell and Dean Stanley.
And both regard the abolition of the Irish
Establishment, and a fortiori of the Anglican,
as the greatest mistake that could be com-
mitted, and only to be conceded under the pres-
sure of political or party necessity. Dean
Stanley sees in the Anglican Establishment
the symbol of all that Liberalism holds dear.
It is a State-created religion, undogmatic in its
character, expansive, and flexible, ' open to
almost every becoming variety of opinion,
and with a latitude of interpretation and a
toleration of differences which are of the
essence of Liberalism ; moreover it combines
forms hallowed by usage with a progressive
spirit equal to the adoption of the newest ideas
on religion which the age we live in may sanc-
tion or science suggest. The maintenance of
such an Establishment, in Dean Stanley's
opinion, and in the opinion of pure Liberalism,
unmodified by the ruder sense of justice and
of the fitness of things which Democracy im-
ports, is to uphold in England, and to sur-
round with a peculiar and attractive sanction,
the essential idea of Liberalism, that religion
is not a dogmatic affirmation of positive truth
revealed by God, but the sanction of the mo-
mentary prevailing opinion entertained by the
cultivated classes as to the relations of society,
with its Creator. Hence, to abolish the Angli-
can Establishment, is to deal a heavy blow
and a great discouragement to Liberalism, to
destroy the outward symbol of a false and de-
grading idea of religion, and to prepare the
way for the advance of truth.— WeBl7ninster
Gazette.

FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI IN SPAIN.

Perhaps some of your readers might like to
hear of the ceremony at Madrid on the Sunday
within the octave of Corpus Christi at the
Royal chapel. This chapel is on the first floor
of the palace, and the corridors or galleries
are splendid. On this Sunday a procession of
the Blessed Sacrament takes place round these
galleries, at which the Court assists. Every
one who is decently attired is allowed to go up
by a private staircase and walk in these gal-
leries, but ladies are obliged by etiquette to
wear black dresses, short sleeves and low
bodice, black ornaments, and veil—no bonnets,
nor colours. Every one that can go to see
this feast, air the procession is over, inspect
the tapestries, which are unequalled either for
size or beauty. The galleries are very lofty,
still these immense pieces of tapestry hang from
the ceiling to the ground, a great portion
being rolled up below. Some of them repre-
sent the war at Tunis under Charles V. You
have the galleys rowed by men all life-size,
and so natural that you can scarcely persuade
yourself they are tapestry. One notable piece
is the Sacrifice of Abraham, where you see
young Isaac carrying the wood for the sacrifice,
the altar, and the angel appearing to Abraham.
Another represents Abraham sending forth
Agar and Ismael, some scenes from the Italian
wars—one more beautiful than the other. As
these rich works of art are only to be seen
this one day,
crowds continue to fill the galle-
ries until evening. The courteousness of
palace etiquette in Spain allows the humblest
person, if cleanly attired in the national dress,
to see all these artistic beauties, and they are
only required not to touch anything and ap
pear decent—no money nor douceurs required.
It is the same at the splendid Museum and at
the Royal Academy. The latter is not always
open, but the Museum is. Upwards of 5,000
paintings of the best masters are to be seen
in a building built purposely for them.. The
different schools are arranged in different rooms
to avoid inconvenience. The processions of
the Corpus last the whole octave. In the
provinces they are far more splendid than at
Madrid, but we must not forget to state that
the Queen generally goes to the (in English)
Mansion House, in the Calle Mayor, to see it
pass, but it is at a very early and inconvenient
time. In the provinces they usually extend
large sailcloths from house to house in the line
of the procession, to save the clergy, who are
obliged to go bareheaded, from the intense heat
of the sun. The procession is always accom-
panied by the civil and military governors of
the place, together with the authorities. If it
is less poetical than in France, it is more really-
religious. Generally speaking, only those con-
nected with the Church, besides the authori-
ties, have any part therein. Sometimes some
members of confraternities follow; but women,
unless simply following behind, never have
any part therein. The military bands and all
the troops in the place take part in the pro-
cession. Generally the persons of most dis-
tinction hold the cording of the dais. On the
feast itself and the octave day the procession
is very grand, but during the intervening days
it is on a less magnificent scale. In some
provinces, the evening of the Vigil, bands
are playing in the
*principal squares, together
with illuminations and all kinds of, Southern
amusements. The people assemble, sit, talk,
eat ices, and pass away a few hours until about
midnight in the cool. These Vigils are very
and are called Verbenas.
general in Spain,
There is one for St. John the Baptist, SS. Peter
and Paul, the Feasts of Our Lady, and almost
all the principal feasts following. In the fine
season people of all classes indiscriminately
assemble on the same walk, but never inter-
fere with each other. No intrusion or rude-
ness. All amuse themselves, and the greatest
sobriety and decorum prevail ; indeed, the sad
vice of drinking—the bane of all English diver-
sions—is unknown in Spain. A tipsy man is a
novelty, and a drunken woman a thing unheard
of. Houses on the line of the processions are
always carefully adorned with
pretty hang-
ings, mostly coloured. In this they vary from
the French, who are particularly given to
white ones—often not too white, consequently
not graceful. In Spain, too,
they hang the
balconies, not the walls, as in France.—Cor-
respondent of the Westminster Gazette.

At the recent memorial services in West Spring-
field the fact was mentioned that that town, with a popula-
tion of only about 2,000, furnished 208 men and expended
$50,381 for the United States service in the Into war. Of
44 who died only three are buried in their native soil.
West Springfield has also a patriotic revolutionary record.
Of a single company raised in that town and Westfield in
1780 sixteen were slain and scalped by the Indians in one
battle, and lie buried in one grave on the banks of the
Mohawk. Capt. Levi Ely commanded that company, and
his grave stone in West Springfield tells the story.
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GEN. GRANT AND SPEAKER COLFAX-
ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR NOMINATION.

General Grant and Speaker Colfax accepted the
nomination of the Chicago Convention in the fol-
lowing letters. The " famous correspondent" of the
New York Tribune has a little story to tell how
Grant wrote his. On the Monday morning gentle-
men of influence called at his headquarters, and the
conversation turned on the nomination. "By the
way," said General Grant, " I have to write that
letter ;" and, as he said so, he turned to his desk
and wrote it in a few minutes. After it had been
written, he called in the members of his staff and
read it to them. Only one word was objected to,
and the General yielded and changed it. The whole
thing did not occupy more than ten minutes, and
it was copied and put into the mails within half an
hour. The .Arew York Citizen discussing this under
the head of " Itoorback" about Grant, reminds the
correspondent of the line, which says—
" Your easy writing is very hard reading."

There is a pretty little story also about Colfax,
who, when surrounded by eager and influential
friends, broke away at the receipt of the third ballot
to send a special messagi to his mother, apologizing
on his return for his absence that she was so anxious.
It is noticed that both the letters end with the word
peace," which is considered a good omen.