The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-22

s'the five loaves and two fshes," or, in other
words the substantial principles of ''the
almighty dollar, are the principles that will
carry the Democracy TO Washington.
THE UNDER-TOw IN ENGLAND.
From the NJ 7. World
The bold and earnest sermon on the fall of
the Papacy preached by Archbishop Manning
in the pro- Cathedral church of his province
will have been read with deep interest by
thousands of educated Americans There
comes to us in our special telegraphic des-
patches from London a striking aud most
significant commentary upon one of its most
striking and significant passages. In speak
ing of the reflex action which he believes
the overthrow of the temporal power of the
Pope will have upon all established
order in Europe Archbishop Manning said:
-'Englshmen believe England to be we'll
governed: let them look to the classes
below those that have anything to lose." The
scenes in London streets, as faithfully re-
ported in the special kilograms of the World,
may well fix these words of the great Roman
Catholic prelate upon the minds of all English
men who ''have anything to lose." We do
not agree with the Archbishop either in his
belief that the overthrow of the temporal
power of the Papacy is really wrong done
to religion, or in his anticipation of damage
both to religion and to society from the reflex
from that overthrow in the social and political
system of monarchical Europe. But nothing
in our judgment, can be more sound than his
inference from the events which have actually
occurred in Rome to the events which
he holds to be preparing throughout Europe
and in England. The Archbishop stands
among the purblind political leaders and senti-
mental liberals of England (neither of them,
be it said, a class without its
in Ito Nh
raeli's Cardinal Grandson among
the half-hearted aud near-sighted
peers and palaverers grouped about him in
that extraordinary novel of Lothian, which
is less novel than an apocalypse of the
actual English society of our day. The
classes in England which ''have anything to
lose cling passionately to the false prophets
who, in the Times and in Parliament, per-
petually prophesy unto them Smooth things"
| For them the house of Ucalegon burns I'M
needed, so angry is their anxiety as to the
| fre-worthiness of their own comfortable four
walls. For them the tide of rising ngrevolution
moans and surges, as afar off, beyond what
they furiously insist upon being assured are
the impregnable sea-walls of their own decay
ing political institutions. The people below
those who "have anything to lose have
other eyes and other ears. They are begin
ming to recognize a nearer kinship with them
selves in the disinherited millions of the Con-
| tinent than in the fortunate thousands of
their own land. When this recognition, now
in its dim dawning, betrayed by scenes such
as London lately saw, gets up to noon,
the Archbishop's words of warning will recur
as words of prophecy, we fancy, to many
upon whom they will fallidly and disregarded
! now.
A contrast more complete than exists be-
tween the point of view from which English
life and English politics are seen by the Ca
tholic Archbishop of Westminster and the
point of view from which they are seen by
the ultra Protestant Earl of Shaftesbury, it
would not be easy to imagine. Yet how
striking is the coincidence between the fore
shadowings of the eloquent preacher at Ken
sington and these words, recorded by the
PdH Mall Gazette as having been uttered by
the favorite peer of Exeter Hall in August of
the current year.
'LoId Shaftesbury, speaking at Ryde on Friday on
! behalf OF the London City Mission, said that he
believed that the next census would show p0pula-
ton in London Of 600 900, serious proportion OF
| whom were in state OF moral and social degrade
ton so great that in his opinion, unless something
were done to improve them, the British Constitution
! would not be worth quarter of a century's pur-
chase. Hlslordship. thought that most OF the evil
attributable to the fact that all who could afford
1t lived out OF town, away from their poorer neigh
6ors: The n t ignorance ana poverty Of the large
anything that could be described. When times of
trouble come-and they would come-the lawless
classes would emerge from their doors by thousands
and they might depend upon 1t that unless the mass
| Of people were brought under the influence OF the
Gospel, the great city OF London would some day
| present a spectacle of connagration, plumber and
bloodshed that would astonish the civilized world.
RETIRED NAVAL OFFICERS.
| From the n. T. Times.
The present system of retiring officers of
the navy is complained of by them as work.
ing injustice to very many who deserve some
thing better of their country. If an officer
becomes disabled in battle or by sickness
while on service, it seems very proper that
he should be relieved from the performances
of duties for which he is physically unfit, and
that los pay should, in that case be proper
tionately reduced. Some such system of re-
tirement or pensioning is practised in every
civilized countryawhich maintains a national
| armament Very often these ratirad nfficars