New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-06
BRITISH TOPICS.
HOME AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

| PROF. JOwErr To PREACH IL LONDON.
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRRsPoSDEST OF THE TRrBUNEl
IQNDov, June 23.-Not 10 speculate on probab-
ties which day or two will correct into cortanties
one way or the other will only say that the Lib
erals seriously apprehcnsve about the reported
victory Of Lord Beaconsfeld in the Cabinet respect
! ing the application TO the House Of Commons for n
vote of money for preparations. 1t comedies so
nearly with the expected passage of the Danube by
the Russians that the vote, If granted, will be re-
garded in Russia offensive menace. presume
that is what Lord Beaconsield wants 1t is believed
that he urged that five millions should be asked but
| that, at the circumstances of Lord Salisbury
| and others, the sum has been cut down
10 two. Whatever be the truth to details, it is
well enough known that very animated discussions
| have taken place in the Cabinet meetings held this
week, and e is feared the Government is on the eve
of new departure of some kind. The Angl0-Turk
party are aghast at the defeats their friends have
suffered in Minor and at their present inability
to arrest the advance of the Russians. They think
! that If anything is to he done By the Mohammedan
minority IN England to prevent the collapse of Iur-
| key, now is the time to do it. And as the Prime
! Minister of England is with them, they have never
lost hope Of finding means or later to commit
the country TO some desperate enterprise. Paflia-
uent will adjourn ia six weeks. If any money is to
! be had, it must be had before the adjournment. 1t
must also be had before any crushing defeat of the
Turks has occurred, such to the practical English
mind, might seem to make all spending in their be-
half useless. If the Turks, in addition to some
promise of help from England, could also drive Lord
Salisbury out of the Cabinet. they would rejoice
No one believes that Lord Salisbury will remain in
the Ministry should the policy which he has rldlcued
rs policy of attack upon nightmircs carry the day
The decision Of the Government to withdraw the
| 1 rl.f l.trfl ta
Duke Of Richmond and deprecated by Lord Gran
Vile. No doubt the Government are strong enough
at present to do as they please but they acting
In this for the benefit of their opponents There are
fcw subjects in which greater amount of irritation
exists than on the question Of buuals Ii is certain
that the demand of the nOn-c0nfOrnists for equal
rights in the parish cburch-yards must be granted
sooner ar later The longer it is refused, the greater
tie growth of the discomfort not only with the at-
tude of the church on this particular question: but
with it, general demeanor and with its relations to
the State. The bill winch the Government have now
dropped for the session, was not its first shape
bill TO grant di5senters what they claim. The
pretence Of dealing with the question only pre-
toncc. The bill was makeshift. and il Is open to
the Duke of Richmond to say that the adoption of
Lord Harrowby amendment has completely changed
it's character But il also open to hun TO modify
the ueas,r, in the sense to which the next cOnser
yativc BODY in the Kingdom have now lent their
sanction. He would have saved some of the credit
10 ~ won by graceful concession, and which is lost
by another posiponement
The clergy. who are seldom politicians, have hada
share in supporting, perhaps in suggesting the
decision of the Government. the Church Defence
Institution which represents for the Church OF Eng
land the police which the Jesuts at Rome represent
for the Church Of Rome, has procured nearly $4,000
signatures TO a protest against compromise. Alto
gether the clergy muster about 20 000 if recoect
r-atly and It follows that gone seyeu-enths Of the
ordained priests of the State Church for to
the knife against concession. They claim the
church, ard their property. subject to equal
rights which they admit for forms sake only; and
they declare themselves opposed to any Legislation
which shall permit persons not ministers OF the
church to oiliciate in our" cLurchyards TO use
forms and ceremonies therein which are not sane
toned by the English Church. The country patson
IS still power, and the Government are, possibly,
wise in their generation when they prefer his sup
port to the cold approval, which is all they could
hope to win from Non-Conformists by policy Of
Justice. ] suppose there never was 4 Tory to whom
tomorrow did not seem more important than next
week OF eternity say nothing.
The strong summing up of the Low Chiel-Justice
IN fayoring Mr. Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant did not
save them from an adverse verdict Expressly eX-
onoratlng the defendants from any evil intent, the
lury nevertheless, found that the book they crcu-
lated was of a Kind to delraud public nails and
that was taken by the court rs equivalent to YER
dict of guilty. The verdict was entered according
n. The professional feeling is that the jury are
wrong but the general feeling il that from al Eng
li,h point of view, it is substantially right. said
long ago that II British jury sure to take this
view The purpose OF NJ" Bradlaugh was
thoroughly honest lie believes 1t essential to
fine interests of the lower classes that check should
be put upon population and he regards the methods
indicated in Mr. Knowlton's d" Fruits of Philosophy
AS the bed-way, or as a good-way OF establishing
such checks. His view, is, 1t may be said, phllo-
sophical view; which Is one more reason
why # should fail to commend itself to the average
shopkeeping mind. good deal OF cheap morailty
has been talked by the press since the verdict but
the Low Chief-Justice" encouraged the defend
ants to move for a new trial, and discharged them
without bail to come up for Judgment at the end oil
week. Meantime the motion to set aside the YER
diet viii be heard.
word must be said about the death of man so
famous a. Admiral Rous but it will not be very
sympathetic word. To the integrity OF his charac-
ter a tribute is due but the he made for forty
years of fine abilities deserves eulogy-deseryes
something very different from euogy. lie devoted
his life tn the Turf He saw the Turf steadily be-
coming the home of rascaty; but he never with
drew from it, 1t is nothing to say that he himself
was honest Undoubtedly he was; but lie was the
champion OF men who were anything but honest,
and his reputation became shield for practices
against which he vainly protested If Admiral kous
and Lord Falmouth and half dozen other men lid
withdrawn from the Turf, on the ground that II had
become a mere instrument of gambling on a gigantic