The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-23
PRICE TWO CENTS.
ENGLISH LITERARY 'GossIp.-Tbe Londo, -.
p0ndent of the Nnur Norl- .vLI e.

ENGLISH LITERARY GossIP.-The London corras.
ponGent OF the New York Times writes:
Iurnlng from politics to literature there 10 p,oo
OF interest to communicate. Do not believe. how
ever those who tell you that Mr. Charles Dickens
Is at work on new monthly serial because il il
not true; such work, at least is not at present
menced, though, perhaps, before long the great
novelist may plot out a new taIe-at all eroSts -
VIII be some time before the public see the fruit Of
ms laoors. Mr. Thackeray, it is said, has il in con-
temptation to write history of Queen Anne. he ia
wen Versed In the annals of her Teirn and the Ete
hiiiioi o1 the epoch, and no could do it more
" .ntS' whether this is to be a separate book
OF 10 appear In the pages of the CorDb;U docs moi
seem 10 pe known. Apropos of the CoruhW Mr.
u. A. Sala finishes his papers on Hooartb in tba
heA' humoer' lie mas himself announced this in his
anonymous column, Literature and Art in the
Illustrated Netcs, wherein, with poor wit and had
taste, he speaks OF them dull verbositv' Those
curious in the quarres and friendships of the lite
Tary world will see with interest the Sala and
lhackeray alliance evidenced in the writings of
these gentlemen. Tur to Mr.. Sala's book, T,oice
honnd the Ctoch, published less than two wears ago.
ana you will see Thackerav termed as 'Od POlv-
Phemus whitening mankind through his specta-
cies turn TO the Vtrglnians of the same date, and
you VIII see Thackeray bemOaning the fact that
ms ms literary profession lends him to be classed with
carriage and Bob Bow street, the former ann
posed to be Sala, and the latter Brough Now MIR.
oala Is one OF Mr. Thackeray's paid retainers, and
we ma MN doing yeoman's service to his employer
In ms last column of the Illustrated London Ne1cs,
he speaks of the CoratW as this admirable maoa,
zlne;' while in the last Round about PaDer, 'Old
foiyphemus extends the finger of patronage to the
immaculate George Augustus and mentions him as
our friend Mr.. Sala Oh, the wheels within
wheels ~
The TEMPORAL Power OF THE PoPE-A Roman
Catholic Vie,0 of The Qaestion.-The temporal SOW
ereignty oil the eopes was an outgrOwth of European
soclety; ana not an institution of Divine prescrip-
ton. But the condition of European society must
greatly change before it dispense with special
provision Tor the Papacy. In Europe religion, or
!ather ecclesiasticism, (Which is different thing.
Is an interviewer with the political le Even in the
United States the rags and tatters of the old corr
nectlon of Church and State have not all disap
Pearea. We notice, every now and then the old
GoIohal ol PreJudices, and see people tripping and
at nateng l9r ack OF the power rightly to discrmi
nate what belongs to their political responsibilities
from what concerns their religion. The
problem Is working out here, however while in
Europe it rarely takes any other shape than dis.
Iegdtu ior regon In its just rights and prescrip-
tlons, or pseudo monkish oblivion of the claims of
political society on the energies and free will of
men of conscience " "
In the present posture of Europe and of what
use9 @ TO De called Christendom, the independence
OF the rope must BE- secured BY temporai guaran
ties In order foFEsthe Papacy to continue that
work OF civilization that it is carrying on all over
the World-nay, in order that governments amono
men may nave stablty-that cOnsciences NAV be
enlightened so as to understand the binding nature
OF obligations, and above all that wills NAV he in
nuenced to obey the just mandates of law, the Pope
as the highest arbter in spiritual cases. must he
tee III ms actions, and in his decisions in matters
oi conscience. If the great powers of Europe ne,
gieGt to secure this freedom for the Popes they
VIII De taught its necessity by stern lessons of de-
moralIzation within their own realms As what
extent snail be given to the territorial limits within
which the Pope is to have this independence, that
Is another question; but that there shall be suH
Gent guaranty against the constrant or bias of the
ropes actions. by any temporal ruler, is a neces-
sity.-N Y. Freeman's Journal