The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1868.

THE ENDOWMENT OF THE BISHOP OF
OXFORD'S TRAINING COLLEGE.

An attempt is being made to raise a fund for the endow-
ment of the Cuddesdon Theological College, which was
founded by the Bishop of Oxford some fourteen
years ago, for specially training students about to
enter holy orders. "As a mark of respect and affection
for its distinguished founder, the fund so raised is to be
called the Wilberforce Endowment." Making this
announcement, the Guardian remarks :—"A few years
ago special training for the clergy was often scouted
as worse than useless ; but now even such imagi-
native writers as "S. G. 0." cannot in a long letter to
the leading journal, please the popular ear with any
more attractive suggestion for Church reform than " a
better training in those who occupy desk and pulpit."
We aro glad to see that the promoters of the " Wilber-
force Endowment Fund" do not ask for any large sum
of money. They aim at no more than making Cuddes-
don College as secure and permanent as possible—providing
for the sustentation of the buildings, and freeing its officers
from the excitement and temptation which must belong to
an income depending wholly on their popularity and thi
number of students within the college walls. ,

FATHER IGNATIUS AND THE JEWISH

RABBI.

The Rev. J. L. Lyne writes to the Guardians= behalf of tho
converted Jewish Rabbi. This man was converted many
years ago to Christianity. He left the Continent for .A merica,
and was ordained by the Episcopal Methodists to the minis-
try of their community. Ho has since then worked ener-
getically among the different dissenting sects in England.
A few months ago he visited St. Edmund's, Lombard-
street, although warned that Ignatius " would de-
ceive the very elect." The result was that the Rabbi
consented to join the Benedictines and throw up his situa-
tion if they would only provide him with the necessaries of
life. His son also wishes to join them. The Rabbi
has been delivering lectures at their religious house,
and his scholarship is much valued. Before Igna-
tius can receive him and his son, money is required. He
says, "My profession of the monastic life is not a
lucrative or a popular one, and the struggle to support my
work is a. bard or.e. Were this not the case, gladly would
I have received the Rabbi and his son without an appeal
to others for help. I have just heard that the society
to which the Rabbi has for some time belonged are
about to expel him for his association with us. Will
your readers, Sir, send roe such assistance that we may at
once receive our Jewish brothers ? We propose to raise sub-
scriptions to the amount of £lOO a year: this would enable
us to offer the Rabbi and his son the help they need. A clergy-
man has kindly promised ss. a.week, or £l3 a year as long as
they temain with us, and a Sister of the order has promised a
subscription (annual, I hope) of £2. Will any charitable
readers of this letter send us enough to make up the £2 a
week, or £lOO a year, and so befriend two of that holy
nation from whom "as concerning the flesh, Christ came ?"
Subscriptions should be sent to me at the Benedictine Mis-
sion-house, 51, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, W.O.

PRESENTATION TO MB. GOLDW IN SMITH.

A faren;ell address from the council of the Reform
League was presented to Mr. Goldwin Smith at the Adelphi
Club, Adelphi-terrace, on Thursday. It was originally
intended to present the address at a public meeting, but
Mr. Goldwin Smith preferred receiving it in an unostenta-
tious way. Mr. Howell, at the opening of the proceedings,
spoke of the great services Mr. Smith had rendered to the
Liberal cause in this country. Mr. Passmore Edwards, in
the unavoidable absence of Mr. Reales, read the address,
which stated that the council of the League were desirous,
before Mr. Smith quitted England for a temporary
residence in the United States, to express their deep and
grateful sense of the very valuable serviceshe had rendered
to the cause of parliamentary reform, and political progress
generally, at a time when the predominant state of feeling
in our universities was lamentably anti-liberal, and imbued
with narrow and exclusive class and caste prejudices; and
when the majority of the upper and governing classes
so far belied the spirit and character of Englishmen
as to sympathise with the slaveholders' rebellion
in America, and risk the plunging of this country
into the most criminal and fratricidal of all wars. In
bidding Mr. Goldwin Smith God speed, the address stated
that England would lose in him at least one of her most
gifted sons and illustrious citizens, and concluded with
these words—" May our American brethren welcome and
cherish you." Mr. Edwards having handed the address
to Mr. Goldwin Smith, the latter gentleman acknowledged
the compliment paid him, and said, with respect to the
coming elections, that the old parties would combine to
keep out of Parliament the popular candidates. He spoke
of the uselessness of the Reform League, whose work, he
said, was not finished, but only just begun. He said,
although he was now about to leave England in the pur-
suit of his historical studies, he should still feel he was
an Englishman, and should duty ever call him home, he
would at once relinquish his position in the new country
and come back to the old, to take his share of active duty
in the service of his native land. Mr. Goldwin Smitb
leaves England for America next Tuesday.

It is reported that the Lord Provost will receive
the honour of knighthood in acknowledgment of the loyal
reception given by the citizens of Glasgow to the Prince aad•
Princess of Wales.

The lion. T. B. Portman is officially engaged in
carrying on an inquiry in South Devon similar to that
which has been pursued in other counties, namely, the
employment of women and children in agriculture, the state
of education, and the dwellings of labourers.

In the first week of July last 916,000 paupers
were in receipt of relief in England and Wales; being an
increase of 37,000 as compared with last year. There were
913,000 in receipt of relief on tho last day of the same
month.

THE BARNSLEY EXPLOSION.—The adjourned
inquest on the bodies of the two men who were killed by
the boiler explosion at the glscar Works was resumed on
Thursday. From the evidence it was shewn that no
blame was attributable to anyone, and a verdict of acci-
dental death was returned.
Queen Isabella cannot come
to
`decision Breaspecting her future abode. Her' advisors
Theaoy zL i be rte ys that
are unanimous in recommending her to leave the frontier,
and to take herself to Paris or Rome. Messrs. Baring and
Co., of London, and a French house, are said each to have
offered the Spanish Minister of Finance a considerable loan.
rhelley. W. Reyner Cosens, Vicar of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, is anxious to
place a memorial window, or rather, if possible, to fill the
chancel windows with stained glass, in memory of the late
Archdeacon Bentinck. The Archdeacon built the church
at the cost of £16,000, and has left it £5,000 more. He has
also left as much as £30,000 to the greatsocieties and charit-
able institutions of the Church of England.

LANDER, THE AFRICAN DISCOVERSTL—In the
Chapel Royal, Savoy, there is a monument to the
memory of Richard Lander, the distinguished African
discoverer. A member of the Royal Geographical Society
has bequeathed a small sum of money towards the resto-
ration of the monument, and the Rev. Henry White, of
King's College, London, the chaplain of the Savoy,
has invited such as are disposed to add theirlsubscrlp.
tions, so that the restoration may be carried out. The
chapel is open to the public every day between eleven and
one o'clock.

The Bishop of Ripon on Wednesday presided 4 the
fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Leeds Auxiliary of' the
British and Foreign Bible Society, in the Philosophical
Hall. He made an emphatic address in support of the inspi.
ration of the Bible, strongly urged the duty of every man to
read and study the word of God for himself, forcibly sup=
ported the claims of the society as a means of disseminating
the Scriptures throughout the world, and hailed with plea-
sure the fact that Churchmen and Dissenters, without any
sacrifice of principle, could meet on the same platform to
advocate the same noble cause.

InNorth War wickshire,on Wednesday,Mr.Newdegate
is reported to have said :—" If Ireland, however prompted,
presumes to dictate the withdrawal of the National Church,
then I will say this to Ireland, You have repudiated the
chief condition of the Act of Union. Now repeal the
Union!' and then if the Union was repealed 1 would
say to her, 'Accept your position as a dependency.'
If Ireland is not content, then let Ireland bear a severance
of the union. What she now seeks is consistent only with a
severance of the union ; and if she will have that severance
of the union, we will consider the proposition ; but we will
not allow this— we will not allow a Roman Catholic mino-
rity to dominate over us here, being Protestants, and a ma-
jority of the United liingdoin."
TH E STRAW TRADE IN BEDFORDSHIRE.—TIIO
adjr.urned meeting for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the depressed state of the straw trade, and to
adopt. the best means for the improvement of the same,
WAS held in the Temperance hall, Dunstable, on Wednes-
day evening. The mayor presided, and a large number
of inhabitants were present ; indeed, very many were
unable to obtain admission. The principal business was
the adoption of three resolutions-1. That a prize be
offered for the best shape of a hat and bonnet in straw,
the patterns to be sent in for the approval of the com-
mittee. 2. That a hat and bonnet be sent to the Queen,
the Princess of Wales, and the Empress of the French, and
to any other part of the world the committee may think
fit. 3. That the committee invite other trades to come
Into the town.

LAST WEEK'S ELEC7 lONS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The elections last Tuesday proved, as we antici-
pated, decisive. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana,
which, with Nebraska, form a Northern tier of
States, running almost from the Atlantic westward
to the Rocky Mountains, rang out on that day no
uncertain sound, :and with the night, closed SEY-
MOUR'S last hopes of success. Of the 24 members
of Congress elected in Pennsylvania, 18 are Re-
publicans; of the 19 from Ohio, 13 are Republi-
cans ; of the Indiana 11, 8 are Republicans ; while
Nebraska has done for that party all she can, elect-
ing from it her Governor, and her single mem-
ber in the Federal House of Representatives.
Governors were elected in Indiana and Nebraska,
but not in Pennsylvania and Ohio, for GEARY was
chosen in 1866 Governor for three years in the for-
mer, and HAYES last autumn for two years in the
latter, and both therefore haveanother year of office.
The Auditor and Surveyor-General were elected in
Pennsylvania, and Senator BUCKALEW will be re-
placed by a Republican, as well as Senator HEN-
DRICKS, of Ohio. In Pennsylvania the reported
majority—the returns being still incomplete—
was 10,000, and in Ohio one telegram announces it
to be 20,000, and another 30,000. The first ma-
jority reported from Indiana was 8,000 in favour
of the Republican candidate for Governor, Mr.
BAKER ; but a later return reduced that to 2,000,
a very probable result, as Indiana is bounded by
Kentucky, and it was said that the Southern dis-
tricts would be inundated by Democrats from that
State. The Democrats have elected T. H. HOAG
for the Tenth Ohio District to Congress, defeating
the present Republican Representative of Impeach-
ment notoriety, J. M. ASHLEY. General SCHENCK
has secured his re-election against C. L. VAL-
LANDIGRAII for the Third District of Ohio,
and Judge BINGILAM for the Sixteenth District.
It is acknowledged in the United States that
GRANT will, to use an American term, run a long
way ahead of the State ticket, which means that he
will command votes in thousands withheld from the
Republican candidates for State appointments, and
even many cast for Democratic candidates under the
influence of personal and local feelings. The Eng-
lish do not distinctly separate in their minds the
State and the Presidential Elections. Throughout,
the Republicans have calculated with confidence on
some States voting their Presidential ticket, who
might defeat their State tickets, as they regarded
the Presidential ticket as far stronger than any
State ticket could be, GRANT being the most fa,
mous, and COLFAX among the most popular of their
public men. These majorities, then, the Republi-
cans expect to be doubled or even trebled in the
Presidential Election next month. The elections
have therefore lost all the interest of uncertainty,
the remaining excitement being wholly centred in
the comparative strength of the present and the
coming Republican majorities in Congress, as well
as in the Legislatures and Executives of the different
States. But beyond all question the fact is con-
ceded that the Republicans are to rule in Wash-
ington, in the White House, in the Senate,
ald in the .R3p..eientitives. The importance
of the decision h but little understood in Europe.
General GRANT'S election now so assured that no
man could change it except himself is decisive of
many events. It secures few the United States a
strong, undivided, and permanent Government.
We say permanent, because GRANT, now in the full
vigour of his physical and mental faculties, but
commences in all probability a long reign, which the
people every four years will be asked to continue
or to change ;—undivided, for he is in accord with
Congress, therefore there can be no duel between
the Executive and Legislature—strong, because
permanent and undivided. The effect will be to
soothe down the South, as weakness and uncer-
tainty evoke lawlessness and opposition. Even
Tuesday's decision will have a tranquillizing influ-
ence, for these distracted States will know that the
reconstruction policy of Congress must be carried
out, and their leaders are not disposed to resist
fate. Few will dispute the assertion, that it is
better with vigour arid honesty to reconstruct these
States even on a bad principle than to let them drift
into anarchy, servile war, and chaos, on no principle
at all. Once settled, beyond civil the Southerner
will turn from politics to agriculture, trade, and
labour. Money will be forthcoming in his aid, and
the South will rapidly resume its productive place in
the world. The next point in importance is the re-
form now certain in the Civil Service, for it includes
not only the honest levy of the national imposts, but
the annihilation of such gigantic systems of fraud
as the whisky ring. We have so often discussed
this subject that we need not here pursue it further
—but touch on a topic intimately connected with
it and of general interest to Europe. It has been
again and again repeated that the Chicago plat-
form, when properly interpreted,- means repudia-
tion, but if we desired to bring forward an instance
of the impossibility of so framing a resolution that
it could not be asserted to mean the exact reverse
of what its authors intended, we would select this.
Not many months ago we took some pains to explain
how the article came to be worded "not only ac-
cording to the letter but the spirit." It arose from
the anxious desire of some of the delegates to place
beyond question their intention, which•appears im-
possible to do, although every man who supports
GRANT clearly knows the platform upon which his
candidate stands. Not only then is GRANT pledged to
a Civil Service Reform, emphatically the platform he
has distinctly laid down—for people must not forget
that a trusted friend announced the objects GRANT
would endeavour to accomplish if elected a people's
President, and not that of a party—but through
the Chicago Convention, he is pledged to an honest
discharge of all national obligations. The one fol-
lows directly on the other, for the reform is but the
first step in a policy which will enable the United
States to bear with ease its financial burdens, and
with that ease will disappear the desire to evade
any partion of the national obligations. Thus the
execution of his own intention will best enable him
to carry out .the• Republican policy of good faith.
Broadly, GRANT'S election will be but the sequel to
the surrender at the Appottomax Court House. An
interval of years will have elapsed, chequered by
changes and misfortunes, but the nation will have
come round to the same position, with GRANT in
the front, demanding the fulfilment of the terms
the North fought to accomplish in the civil war.
Essentially that object was the maintenance of the
United States as a nation, and the election the
Republican candidate will ba the emphatic de-
claration of the Northern people that they
intend to maintain the objects contended for
in the war, and uphold the sovereign power of the
Unicin, in contradistinction to the principle upon
which the South justified secession. Great as are
these considerations, there are others only of lesser
importance ; among them the individual characteris-
tics and aspirations of GRANT himself. As a tried
and famous soldier, like all who know war best, he
hates it most. One motto he has already engraved

on his shield, and earnestly is it to be hoped he

will emblazon it in letters on the walls of the room
wherein he sleeps that it may be the last words on
which his eyes rest, and the first which greet him
in the morning, " Let us have Peace."

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