The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1868.

kind, that it landed us at one bound in Household
Suffrage! At any rate, we have got to an end of the
anti-reformers—by whomsoever we may chance to
be governed. We have got to an end of the anti-

reformers as absolutely and as undeniably as we have
got to an end of those anti-Free Traders, the Pro-

tectionists.

ARCHDEACON DENISON is a man six feet high
and of physical and mental energy to match. He is
for ever speaking, writing, holding meetings, getting
up petitions. This activity is the more praiseworthy
because, as he confessed at the Conservative
banquet at Bristol last winter, he had never
taken up a cause which he had not
lost. He would seem thus to be a sort
of politico-ecclesiastical JONAH, save that, unlike
JONAH, he never sleeps, but works twenty-five
hours out of the twenty-four. He has just been
holding a clerical conference at East Brent—a sort
of ruralised edition of the prayer-meetings at Exeter
Hall. The subject was, that the PREMIER might
he led to make a wise appointment to the
metropolitan see of Canterbury. Mr. DITCHER, the
Archdeacon's old prosecutor, was there. He prayed
with fervour. The Archdeacon, of course, was pre-
sent, and he prayed with vigour. It is as much
contra bonos mores to mention names at a prayer
match as in the House of Commons ; so we do not
know whom Mr. DITCHER prayed for, nor
for whom the Archdeacon ; but we are quite sure
that in their hearts they prayed for very different
persons. The appointment of an archbishop involves
the appointment of a bishop. Did the rival suppliants
pray for the minor as well as for the major officer ? If
so, we should be curious to know if Mr. DENISON
prayed that the Archdeacon of TAUNTON might be the
new Bishop. We are certain that Mr. DITCHER
prayed that he might not.
The Archdeacon is, we have said, a vigorous man ;
a logical man he certainly is not. His statements of
fact are utterly astounding ; his arguments are
enormous petitiones principii. For instance, he has
just declared in one letter that the Established Church
of England and Ireland is the principal national gift
of GOD to the nation. The Irish nation, who ought
to be the best judges, declare that it is anything
but a gift, and is the reverse of national. The
Archdeacon's blunder ought to prove a fatal bar to
his promotion in the eyes of the PREMIER, who declared
that Church to be not " national," but " alien." In
another of his letters the Archdeacon says that the
real question for every elector of 1868 is, " Will I
maintain the National Church ? that is, will I
maintain the Reformed Faith, or will I help
to injure it, and, so far as I may, to destroy it in
these islands ?" In other words, he means to affirm
that those who desire to disestablish the Protestant
Church in Ireland wish to destroy it, whereas they
believe that nothing is so fatal to its prosperity as
its establishment. How can it be otherwise ? Mr.
H. A. BRUCE has just told us that he attended for
six successive Sundays a church in Ireland
situated in the midst of a population almost entirely
Roman Catholic. Each Sunday the clergyman of
the " national " Church devoted his sermon to an
attack upon the religion professed by the great bulk
of the nation. What would A;hdeacon DENISON
say if Archbishop MANNING'S Church were treated as
the national Church of England, by being established,
and if the Archbishop spent Sunday after Sunday in
denouncing the " Reformed Faith" ? A missionary
Church all of us can respect, but a Church
considered by the State as national, and imposed
upon the nation in opposition to the people, is an
" alien " institution which we should denounce if it
existed in Poland or Spain, and which was denounced
by the very Minister who now upholds it, though
he admits that his condemnation was " historically "
right.

LATEST INTELL MENU,.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 8, Evening.

The Government has decided that certificates of
deposits in the Government Deposit Bank falling
due after the 25th inst., and all coupons of the pub-
lic debt payable on the 31st of December and Ist of
February next, will be received in payment of sub-
scriptions to the loan just issued.

THE BRAZILS.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 9.

The London, Belgian, Brazil, and River Plate
Royal mail steamer Buenos Ayres arrived here
yesterday at 11 p.m., and sailed this morning at
10 a.m. Her dates are—Buenos Ayres. Oct. 1 ;
Monte Video, 3d ; Rio de Janeiro, 12th ; and St
Vincent, the 26th. She landed two passengers, and
specie to the amount of £4,182.

The Humboldt arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the
9th, and the Sycho Brake on the 12th.

BUENOS AYRES, Oct. 1.

Exchange at Buenos Ayres was—sovereigns,
1221. Paper dollars National Bonds, 47, declining
Wool quiet, and depressed.
Exchange on London, 19i.
Three days later news from the seat of war an
ncunced that the capture of Assumption was
hourly expected.
The gunboats Vanguard, Light, and Valetta
were reconnoitring under a heavy fire. It was
rumoured that the American Admiral Davis was
about to proceed up the river to demand satisfaction
from Lopez.
A street railway had been opened in Rio by the
Emperor in person.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 8.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Syria sailed at 3 30 p.m. yesterday, and the Nyanza
at 6 a.m. to-day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on
the 13th and the latter at Southampton about the
21st inst.

FRANCE.
Bo URSE, Nov. 7.—Three o'clock.—The marke
closed as follows :

4f per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 97i
Credit Mobilier 281 25
End of month 277 50
Credit Foncior 1515
End of month —

Bank Sharos 3123
Ital'an Loan —
1 End of month —
' Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spauish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred ......

RAILWAY

Orleans .
N orthern .

Cash
. 905
3200

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.

Western .

Eastern
Sardinian

Austrian .

Lombard.

3981

North of Spain
Saragossa,

7IIE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.

PROFESSOR FAWCETT AT BRIGHTON.

Professor Fawcett addressed the electors of Brighton
on Saturday evening. In reply to the attacks made
against him in the Brighton papers and elsewhere,
on the ground of his being an advocate of co-operation,
he explained in detail what was meant by the term
co-operation, its leading principle being the joining
and combining together of the conflicting interests
of labour and capital. He shewed in particular
instances how this object could be brought about,
and how, wherever it was carried out, it had the
effect of allaying strifes and strikes, and, by pro-
moting concord, increased the wealth of the community
at large. He defended himself for the votes
which he had given on educational and other
social questions, and more especially for having
proposed a measure which had for its object
the transferring of the hustings expenses from the
shoulders of candidates to the constituencies at large—a
measure which, he urged, bad been cordially supported by
such men as Mr. Mill, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Baines,
and had only been defeated at the last moment by a Tory
ruse. If e further declared that, though he had been
accused of being a "philosopher," he was guiltless of
placing himself in the same category with Adam Smith,
Edmund Burke, or De Tocqueville, but that, in his
opinion, the nearer a candidate approached to the
character of a philosopher, in the right and true sense of
the term, and studied the principle of political economy,
the more fitted he was for the duties of a senator ; and he
concluded by a contrast of the characters and conduct of
the two great rival statesmen, Messrs. Disraeli and
Gladstone.