The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-06 00:00:00

THE DEAN OF RIPON.

Dr. M'Neile has been making a great farewell
speech at Liverpool, at a meeting convened for the
purpose of presenting him with an address. Mr.
Horsfall, M.P., took the chair. The Dean's speech
took the character of a lengthy sermon. He
denounced Roman Catholicism and Ritualism, pro-
fessing hostility to systems only, and not to indi-
viduals. He gave a lengthy exposition of the
"Evangelical" creed, and avowed himself a Calvinist
Referring to the late charge of the Bishop
of Chester, the Dean pleaded guilty to some of
the omissions condemned by that prelate, and said
that had he remained in the diocese he should have
obeyed his superior. He urged the Low Church party
to attend to these matters. With regard, however
to the administration of the Holy Communion, he
said it was physically impossible for a eleravman on.
assisted to prepare the bread and wine for 400 coniz
municants. The doctor seemed quite in his element
at the Liverpool meeting, and was well received, as
he toldthem that men would be saved bypreaching, and
not by sacraments. He will be less in his element at
Ripon, where his voice will sound harsh and discor-
dant in the peaceful cathedral.

A JUST APPEAL.
The miscreants who blew down the walls of Clerken-
well Prison could hardly in their fury have contem-
plated the amount of suffering they would cause.
Loss of life, of health,.of subsistence followed, and
the day may be far distant when there will be none
left who have directly or indirectly suffered by their
deed. A correspondent of the Star tells a melancholy
tale of a poor man who lost his sight by the
explosion, and who seems to have bid farewell
at once to the light of day and to everything
that makes life happy or even tolerable. He
was rendered unfit for work, and, being unable to
support his wife, she deserted him, taking with her his
only child. He was then obliged to ask someone to
lead him round to his poor aged mother, who gets a
scanty living by charring. They have since been
struggling on on the smallest pittance, the parish
having refused to allow him anything unless he will go
into thehouse. He is very desirous of doing something
for a livelihood, and for a few pounds he could buy a few
articles to dispose of at a profit, as he is well known
in the trade. The appeal will hardly be in vain ; at
the same time those wretches who so strangely
escaped the vigilance of the law may see a specimen
of the results of their heroic deed.

MAD DOCTORS' THEORIES.

A member of the United Service Institution, one
Fairfield, has been convicted at the Middlesex
Sessions on a charge of stealing several hundred coins
from that institution. The robbery appeared to have
been a very artful one, and conducted with an ability
which would have done credit to many a profes-
sional rogue. But, as is usual in these cases, the
prisoner had two or three weak points in his plan to
escape detection, and lie was constrained to plead guilty.
Dr. Forbes Winslow here came to the rescue, and kindly
granted a certificate of insanity. He was somewhat
eccentric, the robbery had not been accomplished with
that tact which belonged to a man of high-class
intellect, and he had a notion that lying in bed was
injurious to his liver. Therefore he was insane. The
judge was not much affected by these arguments,
especially as another medical man considered the
prisoner sane, and a sentence of five years' penal
servitude was passed. As the law now stands, Dr.
Forbes Winslow is altogether out of court. lie may
bring his crotchets before the notice of Parliament,
but when they were stated to the House on one occa-
sion by an honourable member they were received
with loud laughter.
THE 44 COUNTESS OF DERIVENTWATER."

The proper course has at last been taken, and
" Amelia," soi-disant " Countess of Derwentwater,"
has been declared a trespasser on the Queen's high-
way. Why she should have been allowed to remain
there so long, snapping her fingers at the authorities
and playing with her sword when the policeman
appeared, is more than we can understand. Of her
claims to be countess we cannot judge, seeing that
the very papers which she says would prove it
have never been produced. But the story
is a string of improbabilities. It commenced with
the contradiction of a commonly-received tradition,
the real Count before
marriage—and it ends with an absurdity, that Lord
to say the least--the death of
Palmerston stole her papers. It sets aside also a
settlement which was come to with the supposed
representatives of her family, on the part of the
Government, and ignores the confiscation which pre-
ceded that settlement. But still, that the case may
be settled, we are glad that it is not to rest on the
decision of the magistrates, but that it is to be carried
to a higher court.