The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have th 3 honour to enclose the copy of
a letter which has been addressed by L.)rd R tne-
het to the South Middlesex Volunteers, and in
juitice to his lordship I beg leave to request its
insertion.

I am, Sir, yours, etc.,
LAMBTON YOUNG, Lieutenant and Hon. Sec.,
South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers.
Beaufort House, Walhim-green, S.W.,
Oat. 7, 1838.

To THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH MIDDLESEX RIFE

CORPS.

Gentlemen,—l hear with very great regret that
the- personal annoyance to wh:ch I have been sub-
jeCted in connexion with the prosecution of Mdme.
Rachel has been indirectly felt by you, as associated
with me in the Corps which I have for so long
and with so much pride and pleasure commanded.
I have, and shall continue to bear for myself,
the extreme injustice with which my name has
been usad on all sides, considering it beneath me to
add one syllable to the evidence I have repeatedly
given on oath as to my perfect ignorance of even a
suspicion of Madame Rachel's proceedings ; but I
think it is now no less due to you than to myself
as your colonel, to add to that expression of sincere
regret a short statement of the whole case as far as
it has gone to my knowledge or comprehension. It
has been my misfortune to have been singled out
of a great number of gentlemen who for the idlest
of curiosities strolled occasionally into Madame
Rachel's shop.

I wish here to affirm most solemnly that the in-
sinuations that have been thrown out, that her
ostensible trade was a cloak or adjunct to one even
less reputable, bore no shadow of foundation as far
as I am concerned ; nor, after diligent inquiry from
others, have I heard a whisper of the slightest im-
morality attaching itself to her establishment. On
one occasion of-my going there (then, as always, in
the open day) I have a recollection, though a very
indistinct one, of being annoyed at the vulgarity
of Madame Rachel in mentioning my name
(as for introduction) to an odd-looking female
muffled up in veils, but whose person and name did
not remain in my memory. I first heard of Mrs.
Borrodaile's claim against me about ten months
since, when to my utter astonishment I received a
letter from Messrs. Lewis and Lewis making a de-
mand on me for some £1,700 on her behalf. I
replied to that letter by telling the writers they
ought to be ashamed of themselves to make such an
application without possessing the slightest justifi-
cation beyond the statement of a lunatic, or words
to that effect. On receiving further notice of the
demand I at once placed the matter in the hands of
my solicitor, and directed him to communicate with
Mrs. Borrodaile's relations (whom I found to be
respectable), advising them to place some proper
watch over her actions and interests. I received
the thanks of herfriends in reply. Immediately after
this I received her wild and silly letters (I should
state that none of those addressed to William ever
reached me—those I had were addressed to me in
my proper Christian name), and I took no other
notice of them than by placing them in the hands
of Mr. Cridland, the legal adviser of Mrs. Borro-
daile's family. Being one day at the office of this
gentleman, I heard Mrs. Borrodaile was there, and
was asked if I should like to see her. To this lat
once assented,and for the first time came in contact
with and spoke to this extraordinary person. I
found her then just as wild in her assertions as she
was i❑ her letters, and however consistent or truth-
ful she may have been in the witness -box, she
assuredly then insisted to my face that she had seen
me fifty times. Beyond offering and rendering to
her family and a Ivisers all the assistance in my
power, I did nothing else, and waited the time
when Madame Rachel should take her trial, never
going near her shop from the moment I had reason
to suspect her improper use of my name.
from the first announcement of the police-court
inquiry to the present I have had to submit to all
the insults such a case might suggest to the most
common of men and the lowest of women—in one
instance going so far as an attack by a woman who
has been the pest of the police courts for years. I
was then requested by the police to make a charge
against her of assault, and she was convicted.
Nevertheless, the lovers of scandal thought them-
selves able to add the revengeful ravings of a sen-
tenced drunken prostitute to their list of charges
brought against me, which they supposed, and I
dare say hoped, would have been confirmed by the
elucidation of the Rachel case. Even my state-
ment that I had known this unfortunate creature by
sight for some years was construed into a personal
and more intimate knowledge of her. Many per-
sons, even now, seem to cling to the idea that there
is still a mystery—something yet to be discovered
in this wretched and shameful case, but it is only
because they don't like to find their prophecies
lamentably fallacious. There is, indeed, no mys-
stery, I know of none whatever—the case is clear
enough when stripped of the clouds by which, in
the interest of the defence equally with the prose-
cution, it has been surrounded.
If Madame Rachel could have proved that the
smallest coin in the realm had ever passed from her
to me—or that " William" (which she probably
believed to have been my name till she discovered
the error) ever existed, she who could evince so
much ability in other respects would not have failed
to procure her own acquittal. The writer (even
under dictation) of such disreputable letters as
those admitted by the prosecutrix c till be worthy of
little sympathy in the unprecedented folly of her
money losses. The purveyor of water from the
Jordan, the restorer of wrinkled countenances—
the trader alike on skins and reputations, has still
less claim to commiseration ; but I, who have been
most cruelly vilified, have been placed under a ban
of suspicions the most foul for nearly a year, with-
out the slightest ground or pretext, consider that I
am really the most to be pitied, and I can only
attribute the withholding of just expressions of ex-
culpation to the fact that certain writers have been
unwilling to,:unsayetheir innuendos, or honestly to
admit a mistake to which they have committed
themselves. _

Mr. Knox, the magistrate at Marlborough-street,
soon hit upon the right view of the case. He at
once sent Rachel for trial, and stated that my
name had been most improperly imported into the
affair. But capital was made out of me, and the
public received a bias. I would specially refer to
the unwarrantable remarks of Sergeant Ballantine
at the Old Bailey, who, without a tittle of evidence
to justify it, had the audacity to imply improper
motives to me in my going into Madame Rachel's
shop. I should be sorry to change my morality
for Sergeant Ballantine's. If those who live in
glass houses should abstain from stone-throwing,
surely those who occupy regular crystal palaces
should be still more guarded in that respect.

I have given you, gentlemen, on my honour, a
full statement of all I know of the Rachel case. It
is but a simple act of justice to myself, as your com-
manding officer, and to you, as membera of the
volunteer regiment under my command.—l have
the honour to remain, yours faithfully,
Oct. 7, 1868. RANELAGI'.

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The Bishop of Capetown met his associates on Wed-
nesday, and those who are willing to assist him in the
work of his diocese, at the rooms of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, in Park-place, St. James's.
The bishop repeated the statement he publicly made in the
pulpit of St. Lawrence, Jewry, on the previous evening,
that he had been deceived by the Duke of Buckingham in
reference to the issue of a mandate for the consecration of
Mr. Macrorie as the new bishop for the diocese of Natal.
He had written several letters to the duke—some of them
letters of complaint—but had received no anslter ; and he
believed that the same reason which induced his grace not
to reply to him applied to the continued vacancies in the
bishoprics of Mauritius and Labuan. Very shortly he
intended to make a public statement on these matters.
lle regretted to say, moreover, that he had submitted the
name of a clergyman for the deanery of Capetown, vacant
by the preferment of Dean Douglas to the bishopric
of Bombay ; but this nomination had received no notice
whatever from the Secretary of State for the Colonies ;
and as he (the bishop) had to sail on Friday morning
from Plymouth, his diocese was Likely to be placed in
a position of extreme inconvenience. On the motion
of the Hon. and Rev. A. H. Douglas, rector of Hanbury,
seconded by the [lon. and Rev. Robert Liddell, vicar
of St. Paul's,_ Knightsbridge, a resolution was carried
expressive of thankfulness to the Bishop of Cape-
town fer his past exertions, and bidding him a hearty
farewell. In acknowledging the compliment, his lordship
said he never entertained any feelings of personal ani-
mosity towards Dr. Colenso, and only prayed that he
might be brought to a better state of mind. In answer to
a question from the Rev. Mr. Bennett, he said he could.
not say what the title of the new bishop (Mr. Macrorie)
would be, but it would, be thought, be wrong under any
circumstances to call him Bishop of Natal, the Queen
having conferred that title upon Dr. Colenso. As the
mandate has not been granted, Mr. Macrorie cannot be
consecrated in England, and the ceremony cannot very
well take place until the meet of the Synod at Cape-
town in Januarfnext; Mr. Macrorie was prezent at the
meeting on Wednesday, and made a few remarks. At the
close of the proceedings the Bishop of Capetown pro-
nounced the benediction, and heartily shook hands with
his numerous friends.

SE ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS.

The new ecclesiastical appointments have been
.nnounced. The Dean of Cork is to be Bishop
of Peterborough ; Professor Mansel is to be Dean
of St. Paul's ; the deanery of Cork has yet to be filled up,
though Dr. Alfred Lee is not unlikely to get it. The
first-named appointment will excite a good deal of com-
ment. The nomination of an Irish dignitary to an English
zee is a very rare event ; we do not, indeed, remember
any recent instance. If any objection is made on this
ground, the Irish will certainly retort that Irish deans
have as much right to an English bishopric as English
deans to an Irish archbishopric ; and that if it was fair to
appoint Dr. Trench, the Dean of Westminster, to Dublin,
it must be right to appoint Dr. Magee, the Dean of Cork,
to Peterborough. On no other ground can any objection
be taken to Dr. Magee, except, indeed, by those who
think that all the ecclesiastical appointments should be
given to one party in the Church, and by those who look
upon Church preferment as the reward of political support.
Dr. Magee is one of the most eloquent, if not quite the most
eloquent preacher of the day. Although the grandson of
an archbishop (whose work on the Atonement is still a
theological text-book), he has risen from the lowest to all
but the highest rank in the Church by his own exertions.
He began his career as curate of St. Saviour's, Bath,
on a stipend of about £BO a year. His eloquence
soon caused him to be sought out by the proprietors of the
Octagon Chapel in the same city, and there he ministered
for several years to a fashionable congregation, who en-
joyed his oratory at.ease as they sat with feet before the fires
in the cosy pews with which that most unecclesiastical of
buildings is furnished. It was in this chapel that he
preached a sermon in reply to Mr. Kinglake's remarkable
discourse on "Christian Socialism." From Bath he went to
the Quebec Chapel, London, on the appointment of Dr.
Alford to the deanery of Canterbury. Dr. Magee did not
remain there, but returned to his native country, having
been appointed to the rectory of Enniskillen.
In 1864 he was appointed by Lord Palmerston to
the deanery of Cork, a preferment of no great pecuniary
value, but one which had before led to a mitre. Recently
Dean Mageehas spent much of his time inEngland, and has
repeatedly preached at Whitehall, St. Paul's, and other
well-known places. He preached the British Association
sermon at Norwich, and last week preached the Church
Congress sermon at St. Patrick's, Dublin. Both were
masterpieces of eloquence, and of the second, the Bishop of
Deny (who shares the prize of eloquence with Dean
Magee) said that he never expected to hear it surpassed
this side of Heaven. Dr. Magee is a moderate Low
Churchman. It is possible that in this appointment Mr.
Disraeli intended to accentuate the union between the
two branches of the Established Church.
The new Dean of St. Paul's is one of the most learners
men in the English Church, and though of a very different
school from that to which Dean Milman belonged, having
none of his broad sympathies and general accomplish.
ments, is a man who clearly deserved preferment. Henry
Longueville Mansel was born October 6, 1820, at Cos-
grove, Northamptonshire, and is, therefore, exactly 48
years old. His father was rector of Cosgrove. The son
was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at St.
John's College, Oxford. He took a double first in 1843,
was elected Fellow of his College, and was ordained deacon
in 1844 and priest in 1845. He became tutor of his
college, but subsequently removed to Magdalen, where he
was appointed Reader in Moral and Metaphysical Philo-
sophy. In 1858 he was named Bampton Lecturer, and
these discourses are even now a memorable event in the
history of Oxford. The subject of them was " The Limits
of Religious Thought," a somewhat tough subject ; yet
'such was the fame of the preacher that St. Mary's Church
was every Sunday thronged by an overflowing audience,
and the very scouts and " gyps " were seen listen-
ing to the Professor's abstruse remarks upon the condi-
tioned and the unconditioned, the relative and
the absolute. The fundamental idea of these
lectures was, that God had not revealed himself to
man absolutely, but only relatively, and that man's con-
ception of the Deity was not a true conception, but only
such as the Deity wished him to have. This somewhat
startling theory drew forth a very severe attack from
Professor Maurice, and a fierce pen-and-ink war was the
result. In 1859 these lectures obtained for Mr. Mansel
the Waynflete Professorship of Philosophy. He also became
chaplain to the late Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Jenne, and
an honorary canon of Peterborough Cathedral. Recently
he was appointed Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical Hiktory
on the premature death of his predecessor. The appoint.
ment was not considered a particularly suitable one, as
Mr. Mansel's line was purely philosophical and metaphy-
sical. He has written several works, among which the
best known are the Bampton Lectures above mentioned
and an edition of Sir William Hamilton's works. At the
Oxford University election of 1865 he` was one of Mr.
Hardy's most strenuous supporters.
The preferment of Dean Magee and Professor Mansel
leaves two other appointments in the hands of the Pre-
mier: that to the deanery of Cork, which rumour assigns
to Dr. Lee, and that to the Professorship of Ecclesiastical
History, which it is not improbable will be conferred upon
Mr. William Bright, a first-class man, the winner of
several prizes, and the author of a " History of the
Church, from the Edict of Milan to the Council of Chalce-
don." Mr. Bright is, we believe, engaged at the present
time upon a life of St. Athanasius.

THE DERWENTWATEB. ESTATES.—There Is no
change in the position of affairs at Dilston. The self-
styled Countess of Derwentwater occupies her little tent
on the side of the road leading up to the castle, and de-
clares that she will not move from there until her " claim"
is settled. On the opposite side of the same road is a tent
occupied by four men whom the authorities have in-
structed to watch the " Countess." Numbers of people,
many of them persons of considerable position in the dis-
trict, visit the place, to have a look at the claimant to the
Derwentwater estates.

IRISH LAW APPOINTMENTS.—The Freeman's
Journal, under the heading of " Clearing the Decks,"
mentions a rumour that the Attorney-General, Mr.
Warren, is to become judge of the Probate Court, in the
room of Judge Keatinge, who retires; that Mr. Harrison,
the present Solicitor-General, takes the late Judge
Berwick's place in the Bankruptcy Court; and that Mr.
the Church Commissioner, will be Attorney-General,
and will seek Mr. Warren's seat for the University of
Dublin. No name is mentioned for the Solicitor.
Generalship.

Sheridan had a great dislike of anything like
metaphysical discussions, whereas Tom, his son, had a
liking for them. Tom tried one day to discuss with his
father the doctrine of necessity. " Pray, my dear father
(said he), did you ever do anything in a state of perfect in-
difference ; without motive, I mean, of some kind or
other?" Sheridan, who perceived what was coming, and
by no means relished such subjects, from Tom or from any
one else, replied, " Yes, certainly." " Well, then, my dear
father, tell me what it is that you can do with—mind--
total, entire, thorough indifference?" " Why listen to
you, Tom !"• The rebuff so disconcerted the querist, it is
said, that he never troubled fathsoll,2LA
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