New-York tribune., 1875-12-27
BRITISH AFFAIRS.


RAEII MINISTRY.
uRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDON, Dec. 11.-It is believed that the worst is
tnovn of Continental dislike to the Suez bargain |
and the worst does not seem very bad. There is
nothing to show that the French Government is
disposed to echo the angry growls of the French
press Lord Odo Russell is understood to have sent
home from Berlin assurances that the talk between
Prince Bismarck and Prince Gortschakoh peace
full The story of the Porte having demonstrated
with the Khedive was a stock-jobbng invention.
II was from the old Russian" party in Russia that
the most opposition was to be expected, and have
now heard what they have to say. Their organ is
The Moscou Gazette. and that paper has been per
mitted to publish a couple of nfammatory articles,
which after all, are not belligerent. There is loud
barking but not much disposition TO bite. The up
hot of them is, as was foreseen, that England has
led the way in the partition of Turkey, and must be
content with what she has got. For the Russians,
rejecting their own methods of procedure, make
40 doubt that England has resolved to seize Egypt
.t the right moment. The tone of Lord Derby indi-
rates purpose very different from that, hut will
not be safe take Lord Derbys uttcrances as ind-
eating the purpose OF England. Being Foreign MINI
ister he looks abroad more carefully than he looks
about him at home. But if the meaning of the Suez
purchase be not something more than he now repre-
sents it, the English people would little for it.
No commercial transaction would have reused such
enthusiasm as we saw fortnight ago. Ii would
not be wise to fIitter it all away before Parliament
meets. Mr. GladstOne's first fury against the busi-
ness might break out again, and his friends, who
have thus far succeeded in preventing an explosion,
may not be equal further exerions Strange that
man acute in perceiving other things can never
perceive what the rest of the world is thinking
As to the probability of a general outbreak the
IL od IL 10 ufo
Some importance may be attached to the remark of
Gen. Ignatie that there would be hOstilities for
q year 10 come-which means year and a half,
since nothing is less likely than general European
con1agratiOn at the beginning of Winter. This re-
mark there is reason to believe, was really made.
Its value depends the mood the Russian Embassa-
dor was in at the time. He is capable-n imitation
Of Prince Bismarck-of blurting out TRUTHS and
also capable of blurtng out falsehoOds he wishes
taken for truths. OF late it has suited him to be
frank; as when he foretod the coming bankruptcy
of Turkey TO incredulous ears.
There has been singular decline of public interest
in the Prince of Wales's Indian tour Long letters
are arriving by post from the special correspondents,
all of which are not published, nor are those pub
lshed, far one can judge, much read. Fewer
special kilograms appear. Not even the Princes
elephant-shooting and the glowing accounts of the
courageh he displays IN the junges have aroused
great enthusiasm. Inc CHAIRMAN Oh tne ldChutS
Liberal Club dinner has gone far as TO express his
disapproval of pig-stcking, and to remind the
Prince that before he exposes his life in encounters
with mad tigers" he ought to remember that he
has wife and children at home. The peril from
peculiarly deadly viper in Ceylon bearing the pleas
ing name of tic prOlOnga, seem TO have been hardly
less than that from tigers and elephants. and
already the British taxpayer has TO hear
that the 100000, whatever it was, pro-
vlded for the Princes journey will not be enough.
Dr. Russell was writing home a month ago that the
question of presents" had become embarrassing.
Experience, says our courtier-correspondent,q quite
iustifes those who believed that the sum voted by
Parliament would prove inadequate The Prince
has had to make more gifts than he expected there
is run" on his "treasure-roOm" this sounds
quite like q California bank story, and, notwith-
standing the extreme pains and care of tie officers
charged with the distribution, Large deficit" is
feared Already we hear of more presents having
been ordered from London-mOre books in prepos-
terOus bindings, If mere gaudlness and bad taste
and coarse workmanship would please people who
were born with a knowledge of coors to which no
European ever attains. There are Oriental bindings
las there are Oriental manuscripts which are mira
Giles of beauty. What can be said of the produc-
tiOns Of Messrs. Sotheran & Co., which the Prince
has been advised to select as specimens of what Ed
gland can dof Perhaps the less said the better.
Here is another example of Christian charity and
brotberly love from Church of England and Epis-
copal point of view. Mr.. TheOphilus Smith is
member of the Church of England, and he either
went OF wanted to go one occasion TO a Noncon-
formst service His vicar wrote him, IN the course
of letter refusing for himself TO take part in the
same service, that it altogether contrary to
the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England
that either her clergy faithful lay should attend
o service in dissenting chapel" Whereupon Mr..
Smith applied to the Bishop of Winchester to know
whether he should subject himself to spiritual cen
sure by the act he proposed. The Bishop of Win
chester is DR.. Harold Browne who had some reputa-
ton for Liberalism when he was Bishop of Ely. lie
was one of those English churchmen who thought an
alliance or fusion possible with the Old Catholics,
and who attended the Old Catholic Congress at
Cologne in 1872. His translation to Winchester
to have made him heir to something OF the
intolerance Of his predecessor Bishop Wiberforce.
The fellowship he found possible with foreign Cath
olics he denies to English Dissenters. He adopts
the view Of Mr.. Smiths vicar. 1t appears TO him
that mo well instructed churchman can attend the
service Of other communiOns.D His reason is that
If the English Church is not the church Of this
land, she is a usurper and an impOstOr" Hence she
must be a proselytizng church. and hence she must
not encourage other churches and so on. He so far
relaxes the rgOr Of this judgment TO allow that
q churchman may attend the funeral Of Noncon-
fornist relation. If it were only friend, suppose
he must not CO. Some degree Of consanguinity
seems absolutely necessary. Or would connection
by marriage avail 10 protect him from Episcopal
thunderboltsi 1t is not likely that this mandate or
rescript will be universally Obeyed. The Bishop
must know that many Broad churchmen would far
sooner attend Dissenting chapel than Ritualistic
nd hay baN tn do actually