The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1868.

A RITUALISTIC OBSERVANCE OF PALM
SUNDAY.

Though the recent decision of Sir R. Phillip
more, respecting the legality of certain rubrical
observances, would seem to have had a some-
what dispiriting effect upon the leading ritual-
ists of London, causing them to refrain from
many of those practices that have brought
them so prominently under public notice, their
brethren in the provinces threaten not to be so
easily deterred. In the Manchester Guardian,
on Tuesday, a very loiq, account is given of
certain ceremonies obseryed in the Church of
St. Alban's, Cheetwood, the incumbent of
which is the Rev. T. E. Sedgwick. We
(Westminster Gazette) transfer a portion of the
report to our pages, as though muci,: that was
done was evidently incomprehensible to the
writer, who has invested it with a ludicrous
air, it will, nevertheless, have an interest for
Catholic readers : _ _

" At the conclusion of the sermon Mr. Sedg-
wick disappeared for a few moments, and as
the huge candles on each side of the gilt cross
at the back of the altar were lighted all eyes
were directed to them. These candles are
several feet long, and they are placed in mas-
sive gilt candlesticks of about the same length.
They appear to rest upon the raised ledge or
super-altar behind the altar proper, or com-
munion table. The large ornamented gilt
cross between the candles was on Sunday
covered with black crape or gauze, through
which the outlines of the cross and its orna-
mentations were distinctly visible. The method
of covering this cross appeared to be the same
as is adopted in concert halls and places of
public recreation to preserve mirrors and pic-
tures from damage. During the reading of the
offertory sentences Mr. Sedgwick reappeared
upon the raised stage or chancel, carrying a
long rod, at the top of which was fixed a light.
Turning his face from the people to the altar
he proceeded to light the candles before alluded
to. Before the celebration of the Eucharist
commenced, Mr. Sedgwick took the cup from
the credence table and carried it, in a raised
position, level with the crown of his head, to
the centre of the altar. There was not the
customary visible mixing of the cup ; but it
appeared to the on-looker that there was a
mixing, though it was probably done in a man-
ner not condemned by the Dean of Arches.
After the cup had been placed on the altar,
and before the consecration prayer, the curate,
who was the chief celebrant, removed it from
the altar, and midway between the altar and
the credence table a small portion of liquid,
which appeared to be water, was poured into
the cup by Mr. Sedgwick. There was a smaller
number of communicants than is usual at this
church—probably a score—but this may have
been caused by the frequent celebrations there
are at this season. Mr. Sedgwick, in announc-
ing the services for Holy Week, stated that
there will be two celebrations on each of the
four early days of this week and three cele-
brations on Easter Day. Several novel services
were announced for this week. In additionito
the two celebrations, there are short sermons
for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday ; and
on Maunday Thursday services of a special
character will occupy nearly the whole of the
day and night. On Thursday evening there is
to be a meditation ' and an instruction '—
one at ten o'clock and the other at midnight;
and the church is to remain open throughout
the night, when there will be what are called
watchings.' At the consecration of the ele-
ments, and again at the Benediction, several
members of the congregation not only knelt,
but made the sign of the cross on their breasts
in the manner practised in Roman Catholic
churches, and then prostrated themselves,
bringing their foreheads to within an inch or
two of the floor of the church. The custom
of carrying a branch of a tree on Palm Sun-
day, which is observed by members of the
Church of Rome, was adopted on Sunday by
some members of the congregation at St.
Alban's, with this difference, at the Roman
Catholic Churches the congregation assembled
without the branches, and received them after
the benediction of the palms ; while the
St. Alban's worshippers who carried branches
took them with them to the church. This cus-
tom was referred to by the preacher at the
evening service, the Rev. E. Allen, rector of
Sacred Trinity, Salford, who informed the
congregation that it was the practice of the
ancient English Church to have a benediction
of the palms immediately before the celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion. In every seat
in the church printed instructions " How to
observe Lent " were placed. It is addressed
from " St. Alban's Clergy-house," and points
out
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but leaving off before they have quite satisfied
their hunger." The document proceeds :to
lay down that " you ought at this season to
abstain from all public places of amusement,
parties of pleasure, and from marriac,e." The
wearing of mourning or half mourning
during
Lent is recommended as " • a right and good
thing ;" and members of the congregation are
urged to " try to keep from your chief sin
entirely during each of these forty days."

Till this is granted, he says, Ireland is worse treated
than a colony, for we have established a Catholic
university in Canada.
So far, Dr. Manning argues instructively and
weightily, for he is master of his subject and his
facts. But when he leaves the education and Cl lurch
questions, and proceeds to deal with the laud ques-
tion, " in comparison with which (he says) all the
others are light," his mode of treatment alters sadly
for the worst. He has obviously never examined
the subject for himself, but takes his ideas and
beliefs from the universal statements of angry and
ignorant sufferers whom he has met in England,
or from intemperate and utterly untrustworthy
party speeches and pamphlets, whose assertions he
receives as gospel. He goes so far as to declare
authoritatively. that in cases of emergency, of which
we conclude the hungry man must be the judge,
robbery is quite permissible. "A starving man
commits no theft if he saves his life by eating of
his neighbour's bread so much as is necessary for
the support of his existence." But what if he
is starving merely because he has been obAtinately
idle or wilfully improvident? Is he still entitled to
help himself to his more frugal or more industri-
ous neighbour's store ? "Every people has a right
to live on the fruits of the soil on which they are
born ?" What, even if they have multiplied so
recklessly and cultivated the soil so villanously that
there is not enough for all ? They may have a right
to live somewhere, but w by in a particular country?
Why not as well in a particular county or a par-
ticular parish ? Dr. Manning echoes the thought-
less complaints of those who cry out against emi-
gration as a great evil and. a grievous wrong, when
he might have known, if he had thought or in-
quired at all upon the matter, not only that this
emigration has been the greatest conceivable bless-
ing to the emigrants, but was an absolutely indis-
pensable step towards improving the condition
of those who remained at home. He repeats,
without a scruple as to the wrong he may be doing
by propagating untrue and exasperating state-
ments, the wild assertions of Mr. Butt and others,
that upwards of " a million of human beings have
been driven from their homes by force, without
pity and without refuge." A little investigation
might have informed him that a very considerable
number of these " enforced" emigrants voluntarily
surrendered their farms (their landlords forgiving
them large arrears of rent) and went gladly to join
their prospering relatives across the Atlantic ; that
a far larger number, so far from being dispossessed
"without pity and without refuge," were care-

fully removed at the expense of the proprietors,
and provided with homes in America ; nay, in
some instances accompanied thither by parties
charged to see them comfortably housed and started
in their new life ; and that this process, which he
represents as so cruel and unjust, was in very truth
the best way, the kindest way, and the only way,
in which these poor creatures could have been per-
manently benefited and relieved. Dr. Manning
thinks it hard that the Irishman should have no

land, or not land enough, yet he deplores and de-
nounces the natural proceeding of expansion over
God's wide earth which removes that Irishman from
a country where land costs £3O an acre and labour
gets 7s. a week to a country where land can be
bought for ss. an acre and labour earns 7s. a
day. In all that the Archbishop writes in favour
of securing the tenant in the produce of his in-
dustry or his outlay, it is needless to say, we
fully concur; the only controversy concerns the
best and fairest means of doing it. We should
earnestly recommend the issuing of a new edition
of the pamphlet with the omission of the sixteen
last pages.—Pall Mall Gazette.

961,000. Week's exports to France, 5,000 bales ;
since Ist September, 136,000. Exports to other
Continental ports, 8,000 bales ; since Ist Septem-
ber, 209,000. Total foreign exports for the week,
50,000 bales; since Ist September, 1,256,000.
Taken for home consumption for the week, 17,000
bales ; since Ist September, 367,000. Stock at all
ports, 300,000 bales. The steamers leaving to-day
for Europe take out $500,000 in specie.
Joseph Howe, M.P., William Annand, President
of the Executive Council, J. C. Troop, and H. W.
Smith—the last two being members of the
Parliament of Nova Scotia, have issued a cir-
cular, stating the effect of incorporating Nova
Scotia in the New Dominion, for the information
of the Government, Parliament, and people of Eng-
land. These gentlemen are delegated from Nova
Scotia, charged with an address to the Crown and
a petition to Parliament, from the Legislative As-
sembly of that Province. They assert th a the six
delegates who came to Eugland last year from
Nova Scotia misrepresented the public sentiment,
and grossly deceivel the Imperial Parliament.
Only three ventured to appeal to the people at the
late election ; one was beaten by an overwhelming
majority, another polled 400 votes out of 1,500, and
the third—the late leader of the Government of
Nova Scotia—was returned with a small majority
at a ruinous cost, under protest for bribery and
corruption, and was c3inpelled to go to Ottawa
without a single follower elected in favour of con-
federation. The result of the elections was the
return of 18 members for the general Parliament
opposed to confederation, and but one in its favour;
and for the local Legislature 36 against confedera-
tion and but two in its favour. The actual legisla-
tion at Ottawa was even more hostile to their interest
than they anticipated. The duties were increased from
10 to 15 per cent., the Canadian breadstuffs were
protected against those of the United States largely
consumed in the maritime provinces ; stamp and
newspaper taxes were imposed, though before un-
known in the province, as well as the Bank circu-
lation, which raised the rate of discount from 6 to
7 per cent. From the tone of the petition to Par-
liament the Blueno3.es are very angry indeed at
being handed over to the tender mercies of the new
Dominion, which they name with an evident sneer,
and if our information be right, they are agitating
for absorption into the United States ; indeed, a
paper has been started called the Bluenose to advo-
cate annexation. If they must lose the full free-
dom they before enjoyed, it is evident that they
prefer the United States to Canada.

The result of the elections in Connecticut will
be a considerable damper to the rejoicing of the
Republican party over their New Hampshire
triumph. The Democrats carried the State by an
increased majority. Last year they polled 47,575
votes against 46,588 Republicans, winning the State
by a majority of 987 in a total poll of 91,163. The
Republicans, elated by the New Hampshire triumph,
and convinced that nothing is so successful as suc-
cess, fully expected this year to turn the tables.
Immense importance, too, is attached to these elec-
tions as indicative of how the nation will speak next
November.

The Judges of the Supreme Court have decided
not to pronounce a judgment on the M'Ardle case
by a vote of six to two, until the jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court in cases arising from the Recon-
struction Acts has been settled, which is now the
case by the bill being passed over the President's
veto. The opinions of the Judges differed as to
whether the bill abolished the jurisdiction of the
Court in the M'Ardle case then before it. But
the vote shows that the majority of the Court con-
siders that it does, and it manifests the wish of the
Judges to avoid a collision with Congress.
The obstreperous character of the present Con-
gress is shown in their refusal of the appropriation
for the payment fcr Russian America to which we
alluded last week. Mr. Seward has in vain exerted
all his influence to induce the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs to reconsider its action, and a de-
legation in the interest of the Russian Minister
has also unsuccessfully urged a reconstruction on
the committee. That body but reflects the opi-
nion of the House, which desires to control the
treaty-making power in common with everything
else. Whether the United States will retire from
the Icebergs, and Alaska again revert into cold
bleak Russian America or not, Ministers of State,
Presidents, and Senates, will have received a lesson
which will make them cautious how they enter into
treaties involving money, without first securing
the sanction of the Ilouse. But we trust for the
honour of the United States that the bargain will
be concluded by the payment of the money i❑
May.

The New York Tribune has published the follow-
ing telegram from Washington, which, if true, and
Mrs. Bond be appointed, will tend to complicate
the Senate's Court-dress regulations. We would
recommend them to discuss the subject with modistes
before they presume to legislate in the matter
e‘. Mrs. Frances Lord Bond is the name of a woman
who aspires to represent the United States Govern-
ment at the Court of St. James's. She has been
trying to persuade the President to appoint her for
months past, and notwithstanding she is recom-
mended for the place by numerous members of Con-
gress, without distinction of party, she has failed to
get the appointment. She hes recently obtained
from Vice-President Wade a letter strongly urging
her claims for the coveted position. She is now
working assiduously for the rejection of General
111,‘Clellan, and should she succeed she supposes
that the President will appoint her for the reason
that she is the only person that the Senate will
confirm."

The arrival of the Bremen steamship Baltimore,
which was telegraphed off North Point on the 23d
March, has furnished the citizens of the capital of
Maryland with a delightful sensation. Every one
hurried on board, and Captain William Voackler
and his officers became the fashion. The 2Gth was
a grand day at Baltimore, business was suspended,
and flags everywhere unfurled, and beneath the
fluttering bunting a procession more than three
miles long moved throng% the city to do honour to
the occasion. At its head was the Governor of
Maryland, and 7,000 Maryland troops were there.
But those most eagerly-welcomed were the officers
and crew of the new steamer, who walked in the
line amidst enthusiastic greeting. Never was the
utility of a steam line more publicly recognized,
and if but a portion of the success anticipated be
realized, the North German Lloyd's Company will
have no reason to regret having thus met the wishes
of Maryland and Virginia. The Baltimore will be
the next steamer, touching at Southampton, May 4,
on her way from Bremen to Baltimore.

The sayings of the llon. Ben Wade are now con-
sidered so important that correspondents dog his
footsteps to pick up the pearls that drop from his
lips. This is the last jewel from that source
" Now they talk of taxing these bonds (the Five-
twenties). When a man talks that way, look him
in the face, and you look in the face of a peniten-
tiary bird. I would not trust such a man as that in
my sheep-pasture after dark. None but a Demo-
cratic demagogue would have the face to propose

such a thing."
There is a rush from the Eastern States for Cali-
fornia. In Springfield, Massachusetts, Mr. Ryan,
agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, sold
Eil tickets last month ; and Mr. Smith, agent of the
ri'ral line, sold 75. The strong tide of emigration
is not among the ignorant and those who know
nothing of the land to which they are flying, for
two-fifths of that number had been in California.
Simultaneously with this movement West there is a
rush from California to the new mines in Dacotah.
The Californians seem again to be smitten with the
mining fever, and the newsplpers rais a warning
voice, as some of the citizens appear inclined to
hurry out into the cold before winter even has
broken to be early at the mines.
The increase in the tide of German emigration
to America is visible to the most casual observer.
Several thousands last week passed through Berlin
to embark at Bremen. The number this year is
much greater than during the last, and continues

steadily to rise. The flue lines of steamers now
running direct has given an impetus to the exodus,
and the new line just opened to Baltimore will
throw into Maryland a number of able and willing
hands, where they will be warmly welcomed. While
the Irish emigration is decreasing, that of Germany

is growing so large as to threaten th Germanize
North America, where there are already six millions
of the Teutonic race ; and if the treaty just con-
cluded be loyally carried out on the part of the
Prussian Government it will have a good effect
both in relieving the North German Confederation
of some of her surplus labour, and of filling up a
few of the fertile uncultivated tracts of the United
States. A strong tide of this emigration is setting
south, and already crowds are passing through
Washington.

The New York Union League Club has just held
the last meeting in the old Club House in Union-
square, previous to its removal to its grand new
quarters on Maddison Avenue, corner of Twenty-
sixth-street. The apartments were crowded, and
the Hon. John Jay, President of the club, addressed
the meeting. Ho reviewed with pride the record
of the institution, which has associ tted itself so in-
timately with the great Northern triumph ; and he
concluded one of the finest addresses ever delivered
by the eloquent speaker amid tumultuous applause
in these words :—" Let us rather trust and believe
that the memories we may leave behind us may serve
to animate to new devotion, and more perfect con-
fidence in our institutions, those who shall succ.led
us, and our confidence in the Republic can hardly
be deemed presumptuous when a statesman like Mr.
Gladstone writes to our associate, Mr. Cyrus Field:
—' Looking to your past, there is nothing
which we may not hope of your future.' "
Somebody abstracted Colonel Frank Howe's care-
fully-prepared speech,- and in this helpless state
he was loudly called for. In the emergency
he bethought him of presenting the Anderson Glee
Club, and escaped under this cover to reappear
later in the evening with " the carefully-prepared
speech," which occupied a minute and a half in
delivery. Horace Greeley, with whom a coolness
had for some time existed, come forward on this
occasion to pay a high and well-deserved compli-
ment to the Union League, which he asserted to be
one of the two truly patriotic clubs. It is not only
"one," but the leading one, and we believe it is
destined to be more than the leading club of
America ; that is, of the world.
In alluding to the Report of 'the Secretary of the
Navy to the House of Representatives on the cost
of the cruise of the Miantonomah, the Springfield
Republican tells this story :—" Two years ago Mr.
Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pre-
sented his budget to the House of Commons, in
which was an item of forty pounds odd, to reim-
burse the captain of one of her Majesty's ships of
war for conveying the younger son of Earl Russell,
Premier of the kingdom, to the Pirleus. This bill
was actually sent in by the captain, approved
by the department, and included in the estimate for
the fiscal year. The singularity of the pro-
ceeding is heightened by the fact that the
Russells are immensely wealthy, and on that very
year whole streets and sections of land in the
heart of London, which had been leased for 99
years, were falling back into the hands of the family
with the shops and houses erected on them." The pa-
per goes on to state that the appropriation was made
Parliament, for the English have too good taste to
cavil, but not without significant notice. Now know-
ing nothing of the circumstances, we feel confident
that Lord Russell's son must have been ordered
as an officer of the Government to proceed to the
post, otherwise no such charge would have been
allowed or could have been made by Earl Russell.
The captain gets a certain allowance for entertain-
ing at his own table any Government officer, whom
the exigencies of the service require to be conveyed
in a man-of-war, and whose rank is so high as to
warrant his messing at the captain's table. If the
captain took him as a guest no charge could be
made, even if the commander was dishonest enough
to attempt it. If the passenger went as a friend of
the captain there are no means by which he could
have saddled his expenses on the public revenue.
He could only go as a Government officer ordered
to the post, and why his expenses should not then
be paid by the country, whether he be the son of
Earl Russell, of the Queen, or of a dairymaid, we
fail to perceive. It is a mere matter of routine, not
of sentiment or of wealth. There is no man in Eng-
land, in an official position, who would attempt
to saddle his private expenses on the country. The
land belonging to the family might make a very
-wealthy man of the, Duko of Bedfnrd, the hurl of
the house, yet leave Lord Russell a younger son
and his family very poor. We know nothing about
his lordship's means, but the heart of London, Rus-
sell-square, Bedford-square, and all that great sec-
tion around the British Museum, might swell
the rent-roll of the Duke, while one of his
younger brothers might be living in a garret. The
Republican advocates a moderate appropriation to
pay the expenses which fell upon the officers of the
Miantonomah, who were compelled to dispense a
generous hospitality in their ship, and to bear the
whole burden during their European cruise. Allud-
ing to the above instance, it prefers the American
method of the two. Now, the English system is to
saddle upon the officers the entire expense of such
entertainment. All commanding officers receive
from the country an allowance to meet such charges,
but wherever it is the misfortune of regiments or of
ships to be compelled for the honour of their coun-
try to entertain liberally, the expenses fall on the
body of the officers, who have to bear the outlay
generally without reference to their rank. Of the
two the public purse in America is more likely to
be saddled with the expense than that of England.

A correspondent from New York alleges that we
confounded the New York Citizen with the Irish
Citizen, started by Mr. John Mitchell some six
months ago, on his return from France. It was
not our mistake, but that of the English papers,
in commenting on the letters written by Mr. Mit-
chell to Mr. Martin, which appeared in the New
York Irish Citizen. It was there asserted that the
letters had been published in the New York Citizen,
and we naturally turned to files of that paper, sur-
prised that such letters had escaped our notice. At
the moment we had forgotten a fact, announced
some months before by the Citizen, that Mr. Mit-
chell had just started the new paper. We have to
thank our correspondent for forwarding to us the
letters in question. Mr. Mitchell predicted that
they would make for him many enemies, especially
among the paid organizers, a prophecy which we
venture to say has been fulfilled ; yet he will find that
truth prevails, and that the honesty of his inten-
tions when better understood will counterbalance
any injury to him that may accrue.
Mr. George Bemis, of Boston, has taken up the
challenge of " Ilistoricus," to whom he replies in
the columns of the New York Times. He states
that on examining the Blue-book containing the
correspondence relating to the blockade, he finds
that Lord Lyons' despatch, enclosing printed copies
of the President's Proclamation, is dated April 27,
and is marked officially, Received May 14. " His_
toricus" asserted that a copy of the President's Pro-
clamation was received in London on May 3d ; while
the Proclamation of Neutrality was only issued on
the 13th May. Mr. Bemis declares the copy did not
arrive in London on the 3d May, but that a mere
compilation framed on rumour, and i❑ many impor-
tant particulars grossly inaccurate, was published
in the Times on that date. " Historicus,"
we presume, has been so busy settling the allowance
upon the Countess d'Alteyrac—having been ap-
pointed arbitrator in the case by the Lord Chief
Justice—that he has no time to attend to any reply
to his own attacks. He has laid down the law, and
being, like the Pope, infallible, that is enough for the
of polloi be has addressed. Some have insolently
asserted that the whole theory of his international
law is erroneous and his conclusions worthless.
Some have pointed out that if he directly contra-
dicted himself in fewer instances than Mr. Seward,
it was only because he wrote less,' the proportion
being about equal considering quantity. Perhaps
he may deign to come down from his high horse
and notice the crawling little things around him.
It appears that it was Senator Sumner himself
who led in the crusade which resulted in the pro-
hibition of American Representatives appearing
in court dress before sovereigns. It would be a
fitting punishment if nominated to St. James's,
where he will have to face the position he has him-
self created. An evening party at the White

House, where the President has to go through the
" pump.handle" process, differs widely in cere-