CUPPINGS OT THE MONTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1337, 29 December 1864, Page 2

CUPPINGS OT THE MONTH.

[jFlrom the Spectator for October."} Mr, Gladstone, in his speech at Bolton on the opening of Farnworth Parlt, the present of Mr. Barnes to the town, remarked on the extraordinary change which a few generations had made in the love of man for Nature. The Greeks, he said, however much of beauty they might have observed in Nature, certainly had no sort of sympathy with the delight in detached, individual objects,—a trfee, or a stream, or a hill,-—which is so often part of the common life of the poorest Englishman. Indeed even a century or less ago " communion with Nature" would have sounded an unnatural phrase of gross affectation, while Wordsworth, who the poetic high priest of Nature, entirely disbelieved in. the capacity of people in general to enter into that communion, and wrote sonnets against their invasion of the Cumberland lakes. JVow, said Mr. Gladstone, it is a sensible part of the life of the working classes. It is certainly true and very curious that Nature, which up to Wordsworth's time, was more or less an external world, has for the last half-century been amalgamating itself as it were with the mind of man, and penetrating in some sense inside his character, widening and perhaps also rendering more vague and misty, and endowing as it were with a sort of soft dim beauty, the range of his feelings. The pagan world worshipped the powers of Nature,—we are in danger of worshipping its symbols. The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered his charge on the occasion of his primary visitation of his diocese. He referred, of course, like all the other Bishops, to the controversy concerning the inspiration of Scripture, and took up that kind of via media which is so popular among Englishmen, both because it looks moderate and is in reality less tenable than any other conceivable theory. Yerbal inspiration he gave up; he thought the writers chose their own words, but" all we ought to maintain was the absolute and universal authority of every portion of Scripture as written under the divine inspiration, which guarded the writer from error—the exact words in some cases being dictated as in the words of the Decalogue." This is a theory which combines, every conceivable difficulty,—denying undeniable inconsistencies of date and circumstance such as no harmonist has ever overcome between the Gospel of St. John and the Synoptics, and also inconsistencies of sentiment with God's own teaching, such as Deborah, for instance, indulged in when she vindictively commended the treachery of Jael and some of the Psalmists when they cursed the daughters of Babylon, without securing the neatness, and convenience of the verbal theory of inspiration. The Archbishop cares apparently little for the main point that men should accept God's revelation in their hearts, —in comparison with the pertinacious ecclesiastical resolve that they shall defer outwardly to what they inwardly pare away, smo&er under forced explanations cavil at, become sceptical over, but never really accept. At the Church Congress at Bristol, the Rev. Mr. Lyne, better known as " Brother Ignatius," created a great sensation, by appearing in his Benedictine garb, popularly described as an Inverness cape much too large for him, with sleeves and a hood. His head was tonsured. The clergymen present behaved like an infuriated body of John Bulls on the occasion, instead of treating the eccentricity of the costume with the mild amusement which would have been the most effective discouragement. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, however, at length procured him a hearing, and Mr. Lyne spoke with ability and real earnestness on the necessity of dealing more'effectively with the gigantic pauperism of our large cities, and the complete of the parish system, without " collegiate " institutions of unmarried clergymen banded together in aid of it, to invade this pauperism with any effect. The Earl of Harrowby succeeded the speaker, and while doing justice to his earnestness, gratified the eagerness of the meeting for some public reproof to the monastic offender by condemning the obnoxious habit and the shaven crown. The clergy, who evidently felt that if Brother Ignatius' uncomfortable dress failed to bring upon him also moral discomforts, a great scandal would have been suffered in the Church, were appeased by the Earl's mild expression of displeasure, and subsided into clerical calm.

All the insurance offices interested in the houses injured by the Erith explosion have announced that they do not intend to pay for any of the damage done. That is, we presume, they do not consider that damage from gunpowder in a state of ignition is damage from fire. If a bit of lighted charcoal burns down a house they will pay, if a saltpetre warehouse catches fire they will compensate the owners, but if the two combustibles happen to be together they hold themselves exempt from liability. We trust when the " moral claims" of the insurance offices next come up for discussion Mr. Gladstone will not forget the treatment of the poor people of Erith. The Bishop of Salisbury in his recent charge not only laments that excommunications for immorality and church discipline in general are obsolete, and looks forward to their revival, but desires the coming of the time when it may be possible bo to use Church courts and Church laws that " per--1 sons convicted of notorious sin may be put to open penance and punished, in this world that their souls may be saved in the day of the Lord." And he speaks of this as an appointment of "our Lord's." Where? Did our Lord impose an " open penance " on James and John lor their ambition, or for their persecuting spirit towards the people of Samaria, or on Peter for his denial, or on any of them for their cowardly flight ? He 'probably knew the Piiarnsaism of his time 'too deeply to doubt that " open penance " would mean secret sacerdotal pride and sin, aiul especially enjoined, according to tho Gospels we have read, —perhaps the right reverend prolate knows better—that all tho spiritual duties of tho soul, the'prayer and the fasiii: g, should be performed in secret, and not at any priest's command. : The Bishop of Salisbury also spends of the value of " retreats " for clergymen anxious to meditate upon the condition of their souls apart from the influence* of the world. He suggests that tho easiest and Iciast objectionable way to secure them would be obtain the loan of parsonages, and secure temporarily the aid of men well skilled in the treatment of souls. Ought not bishops' palaces to be just such retreots, and bishops to be just such skilled physicians ? Suppose his pjordship of Salisbury tries the experiment first, and then, if it succeeds, induces the archdeacons to follow ?

The strike of the colliers in Staffordshire appears to threaten serious consequences, the men as they get soured with tlie contest overstepping the legal line. Three outrages having been committed by them on men guilty only of working for lower wages; it has been necessary to keep a body of Lancers in readiness against an outbreak, and a body of 8000 workmen who marched into Bilston to hold a meeting were followed by 150 armed policemen. The men appear resolved not to yield, and are even said to have passed reoolutions forbidding their delegates to hold any further conference with the masters having a view to submission. The masters seem at least equally determined, and the the effects of the strike are being severely felt among the smaller shopkeepers of Birmingham. The struggle is of course quite hopeless, but it is not to tho credit of either side that they cannot agree sufficiently to establish a Committee of Reference.

The Pope has, it is said, hit on a new idea. I His Holiness thinks there is a course between raising a new army and coming face to face with the people of Rome. What if he revives one of the military monastic orders, say the Order of St. John? The Catholic fanatics of Europe subjected to the double discipline of the monastery and the barrack, excited at once by the passion for asceticism and a desire for a crusade, might form formidable soldiers, while a religious order would link itself easily with the Roman system. Monsignor de Merode might even be Grand Master. The notion is subtle, but his Holiness forgets one fact. The old knights of St. John had enemies to fight, the new soldiers will find out in a week that they are merely policemen. The " soldiermonk " is rather a grand figure, the tonsured Dogberry rather a grotesque one. Besides, there are more fanaticisms than one, and the Reds are even in that respect more than a match for the Blacks.

Sir Henry de Hoghton, Bart., has done a very foolish thing—we suppose with a humane end. He has concocted an address from the people of England to the people of America urging the latter to make peace, — and. has obtained, he says, 300,000 signatures to it in three weeks. It is very probable that if he had proposed an address to the people of America requesting them to extinguish slavery at any cost he would have got the same people in general to sign it, and without any consciousness of inconsistency. These foolish addresses from masses of persons who have never thought practically about the matter in hand at all, and aim vaguely at peace without considering the obstructions, like a man who aims at a robber through an opaque door, never hit any mark, and never ought to do. They are impertinencies born of the meddling tendencies of a fussy morality. The address is to be presented to Governor Seymour of New York, the great Copperhead, and may perhaps serve to revive in his mind the pangs of defeat.

The position in Italy is curious. Mazzini is outrunning the party of action, who for the most part are wisely and nobly sacrificing their individual jealousies to the good of the country and the French Convention, and running into the arms of the narrow Piedmontese party, who are clinging to Turin with all their might. Mazzini (if the published letter is genuine) denounces the Convention as treachery and imbecility, — treachery in giving up Rome, —imbecility in buying at a great price from France what Italy might extort by force of arms. The Piedmontese feeling is represented by a very clever letter of the Marquis Ricci's, who speaks of the removal to Florence as the change from Sparta to Athens, and predicts a softening of the national nerve under the sunny influences of Tuscany. Moreover, the Marquis in fact betrays his own disbelief in the unity of the nation by stating that Piedmont can never be otherwise than discontented under the change, and will have to be cut off finally like Savoy. It is clear, however, that ouly the extreme Mazzinians and the narrowest Piedmontese will act together in repudiating the Convention. The harbour ot Mobile is a greater less to the Confederates than was imagined. We hear on good authority that five blockaderunners crept out from Mobile for every one from Wilmington. Another Governor of Madras has, it is said, risked a recall from home. Sir W. Denison, according to a telegram received recently, has refused to carry out Sir Charles Wood's final orders on amalgamation, alleging that they are contrary to the " Royal wishes " and the Parliamentary guarantee to Indian officers. If the statement is true —and the Madras papers would not have invented that odd remark abotit the Royal wishes—Sir Charles Wood has no option except to recall the Governor. Whatever the difficulty in defining the rights of the local and the supreme authority, one principle must bo kept sieadily in mind. An order once sent from Eugland must be obeyed. If it is not, the tendency to individuality which characterizes nil Indian officials will very soon throw the Empire into anarchy. The excessive irritation which Sir Charles contrives to produce in every class with which he coines in contact is, however, noteworthy. The colonel who is always creating a mutiny is not a good officer, even if he always quells it. LordDufferin, it is said, is to succeed Lord Wodehouse as Under Secretary for India,—a good selection. Lord Duflerin besides being a good yachtsman, an observant traveller, and a Peer who can writo masculine English, really knows what a Mussulman is like when excited. As Commissioner in Syria he was singularly successful, and five years of the India House may quality him for the Yiceroyalty, which on the last vacancy rather went a begging. | The Marquis Pepoli, who arranged the Convention with the Emperor, and who married a Bonaparte, has made a speech to the citizens of Milan. He denied emphatically the rumour that the evacuation of Rome had been purchased by territorial cessions, declaring that every Italian " would be ready to sacrifico life and property rather 'than suffer such a .new disgrace." The Tiirineso in their momentary soreness are inclined to believe that part of Piedmont proper is to be sacrificed, and chatter suporstitiously about an u eagle " which recently alighted in Turin and remained two days, a sure sign, say the people, that the French are coming. Had they not better kill all their bees, which aro everywhere, and which, and not the eagles, nro the badge of tho House of Bonaparte? The French papers announce the death of Jasmin, the barber-poet of Languedoc. He wrote in the patok of his province, and his songs are almost as popular among his countrymen as those ot Burns in Scotland. The only remarkable fact of his history is, that after.being caressed and feted in Paris, diiiihg with Louis Philippe, and receiving a gold medal from the Academy, he returned

to his native town, Agen, and went resolutely on with his business, put his decorations on the counter, and called one of I his collections of poems " Curl Papers. He is said to have been a vain man, but the sort of vanity which dictated such & course is of rather more value than many virtues, The distress in the cotton districts seems to be on the increase again. The number of persons relieved in the first week of October is greater than that of the same week m September by 4900, while the number ol hands out of work has increased from 102,000 to 185,000. The number of persons now m receipt of relief is believed to be 114,000, and although the Belief Committee still has a balance of £214,000 it is expected that further applications must be made to the public. The Public Works Act is in full operation, but the local authorities are in places slow to avail themselves of its provisions. The baby is home again, to the delight, we ! presume, of all England and certainly to the immense relief of all newspaper readers. The child landed at Hull, aud its arrival produced an outbreak of flunkeyism beyond even English precedent. The Mayor actually went in his robes to visit a baby not twelve months old, the Sheriff's wife gave him a fur rabbit, which, say the reporters, he "appeared to appreciate," a vast crowd assembled to see him pass, and " the cow which supplied the infant Prince with milk during his passage from the Elbe to the Humber was purchased by Mr. Alderman Abbey, of Hull," that dignitary obviously considering the animal likely to be historic. The Queen should put a stop to this kind of folly, which if it continues will lead to a sharp reaction against the worship now paid to the Royal Family. Already a journal which once declared that the wind would blow gently on a tree because the Queen had planted it, is indulging in pretty sharp ridicule, and aldermen who now buy cows because they feed Royal babies will soon be ashamed of caring about the babies themselves. It will not do to let the English people raise their princes into idols. Tney always break them in the end. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who distinguished himself honourably by giving Brother Ignatius a hearing in the Church Congress at Bristol, and dishonourably by one of the most censorious and uufair charges ever delivered by an English bishop has sought to disburden himself from the credit of the fair play, and to conform his conduct to his own teaching, by inhibiting Brother Ignatius (the Rev. Mr. Lyne) from preaching in his diocese. Brother Ignatius holds peculiar views about inonasticism, and dresses in a very silly dress, but he has always professed the deepest attachment to the English Church, and we have never heard that his orthodoxy has been questioned. Dr. Thompson gives no reason for suppressing him except that the Bishop of Norwich (Dr. Pek--1 ham) has already silenced him in the diocese of .Norwich, —an excellent reason, we should have thought, for listening to what he had to say. Brother Ignatius is, it seems, only a deacon, and, as the Bishop of Gloucester says with holy horror, " a deacon both unapproved here and inhibited elsewhere," —and so we suppose the inhibition will be contagious, and run through all the dioceses. The liberty of the English clergy was never in greater danger. Inhibitions to preach are becoming frequent for the most trivial cause. Before long every sign of life stands a chance of being tabooed for eccentricity or heresy, How can a clergyman anxious to stand well with the world regulate his conduct better than by crying aloud with the Bishop of t Gloucester, " Touch me not!" to every ecclesiastical person and doctrine which is £ * both , unapproved here and inhibited elsewhere ?"

Mr. Cobden is fighting the Scotsman. That journal recently affirmed that Mr. Cobden had repeatedly expressed a wish to see a Press which should refrain from discussion and confine itself to reporting events, and Mr. Cobden asked the editor to quote any such speech, offering to give €29 to any hospital if he could produce it. The Scotsman, in reply produces a speech at Holmfirth in which Mr. Cobden said: —" People would resort to news-rooms not to read the leading articles — for I regard the leaders of far less importance thau the articles of news in the paper. I believe these original articles, so far as guidance and direction are concerned, are the least useful and interesting parts of the papers—facts and intelligence being more sought after by readers." The tone of that passage implies that Mr. Cobden dislikes original articles, but does not prove that he hoped to see the Press refrain from them, still less does it bear out the assertion that he actually said so. Unless the Scotsman can produce a much clearer utterance thau this it has acted hastily in attributing to Mr. Cobden an opinion which, whether lie holds it or not, he is much too worldly wise to have admitted in public. A commercial panic has occurred at Rio. Messrs. A. J. A. Souto and Co., the principal banking firm of Brazil, were on the 10th of September compelled to suspend payment, an event instantly followed by a wild run for gold. House after house was compelled to suspend, the Bauk of Brazil was in danger of stoppage, and the Government, after authorizing it to issue notes to the amount of three times its deposits, adopted the almost unprecedented step of suspending all claims whatsoever for six days, creating in fact a week's holiday. This gave the people time to reflect, and the panic soon cooled, but not until it had broken up firms whose liabilities will amount to nearly £11,000,000. They will moat of theui pay good dividends, and there seems no reason for the exaggerated rumours current about " forced circulation " and "Brazilian greenbacks." The country is jnst as solvent as it was before Messrs. Souto and Co. collapsed. The general news from America is very important. The Richmond papers wore crying out in desperate anxiety as to the fate of the capital. Let troops be brought to Richmond without delay from anywhere," writes the Richmond Examiner of October 4, " for Virginia is the pillar of the Confederacy. At present the lines are secure,buttheir safety canuot be fairly left to Lee's present army, which has too great a load on it already. An increase to our forces from some quarter is the sure need of the hour, —the hour of final trial which is close at hand." And it demands that the negro women and children " who eat up everything," should be sent out of Richmond at once. This does not look as if Grant's movements before Richmond were " unmeaning operations," as the jVimes called them the other day. There is still more candid confession of weakness, almost of desppir, in a speech of the Southern President at Macon, —which is discredited, though very doubtfully, at the South, reported in the Daily Macon Telegraph and Confederate of September 24. The speech is said to have been made on the 23rd of September, and though it begins by

prophesying that Sherman's retreat from Atlanta wiU resemble Napoleon'* from Moscow, the whole tenor of it is confession upon confession of the exhausted state of the South. Hood can only drive Sherman from Atlanta,'he says, if " the absentees of his army" return to their posts, and to them, and to the women who influence them, he makes a strenuous appeal. "You have not many men between eighteen and forty-five left," says Mr. Davis m the speech imputed to I hira f "tbe boys, God bless the boys 1 are as rapidly as they become old enough going to I the field." "We want our soldiers in the field, and we want our sick and wounded to return home. It is not proper for me to speak of the number of men in the field, but this I will say that two-thirds of our men are absent, some sick, gome wounded, but most of them absent without leave" He concludes by saying that if Early had been Bent to reinforce Hood at Atlanta instead of into the Shenandoah Valley, Lynchburg must have been taken, and a complete cordon established round Biehmond. The speech, if genuine -:s an extraordinary confession of exhaustion, desertion from the army on an enormous scale, and general failure of resources. There is, however, good evidence that Georgia will never treat separately with the Federal Government, and probably all the other States of the Confederacy will act in the same spirit, for none is so disaffected towards Mr. Davis as Georgia. Governor Brown of Georgia, in declining General Sherman's invitation to a conference, admits to the full the State s great grounds of complaint against the Confederate Government, and even the possibility that the South as a whole may be conquered,—but he repudiates with scorn the idea of deserting the other States. Georgia will triumph with her Confederate sisters, or sink with them in common ruin. " Georgia may be overrun," says Governor Brown, but she will never be subjugated, and her people will never treat with a conqueror upon her i soil." On the whole, the other State autho- | rities seem not less determined than Virginia herself, and though the numerous desertions seem to imply that the common people are less tenacious, there is enough to show us, as Lord Stanley says, that if the South should be conquered, the political difficulties of the North will be only begun. Probably a military Government of the Slave States would be necessary for some time, if only to protect the slaves against their former masters. In Louisiana the planters openly boast that military Government once exchanged for civil they would immediately have slavery again under another name. The passion for slavery seems to be stronger than the love of country, stronger than the love of life.

General Butler has written a letter about the coutest for the Presidency which shows a very imperfect appreciation of the depth of root, or rather fang, which slavery has attained in the South. He regrets, he says, the strong resolution of the Baltimore Convention against slavery, because while it alarmed many, and alienated many votes it was needless, for slavery is practically dead. " The war will extinguish slavery whether we wish it or not. The war has extinguished slavery by rendering the slave worthless." But the worth of the slave would revive with peace, and the passion for slavery once excited never dies. General Butler has studied Louisiana to little purpose if he thinks that a resolution against slavery by the Northern people is a mere work of supererogation. This iniquity, like all great iniquities, will die hard.

Mr. Gladstone uttered the most complete of his political manifestoes at Manchester on Friday week last, too late for notice in our last impressiou. In it he reiterated his belief that the working classes had gained a political claim 011 the nation by the admirable fortitude shown in the cotton distress, and appealed to them not to indulge the political " lethargy " which had apparently fallen upon the people. He iuvited especially the expression of public opiuion against extravagant expenditure, remarking that when Government, not Parliament, is the only check upon public expenditure "thst is a state of things calling for public attention, if indeed it be the desire of the people that their concerns should be honestly and safely administered/' " The principle of decay and corruption," he said, " is continually at work to iucrease the temptations in the administration, of public money," and apparently Mr. Gladstone expects this state of things to be mended by Parliamentary reform. A good representation of the working classes would do much for the people,—but the last thing we should ourselves expect it to do would be to economize our revenue and cut down our expenses. Dr. Colenso has had a long correspondence with the Archbishop of York about the meaning of that prelate's permission granted to " A Layman" to dedicate his work on the Pentateuch to his Grace. Br. Colenso thinks that permission at least implied that no deadly and fearful errors were contained in " A Layman's" book, and he points out that the u Layman" has admitted the principle, though not the full application of his own method of criticism. The Archbishop of York says he only granted permission because the " Layman" had published a good book once before, that he now regrets lie gave that permission, and that lie has had no time to read I the book so dedicated to him. The Arch- ' bishop would fiud in it nothing much more dangerous than some of the essays he himself edited, where the same " principle 1 was partially admitted. But the Archbishop would probably scarcely wish to own, under the pressure of orthodox tests accumulated in 1801, all the critical principles he accepted cheerfully in 1802. The Australian colonists are dreadfully nettled by Mr. Cardwell's refusal to abolish transportation to "Western Australia while Western Australia chooses to ask for convicts. The people are openly talking of measures of " retaliation," and as a first step Mr. James M'Culloch, Chief Secretary of Victoria, has informed the Colonial Office that the offending colony wiU be sent to Coventry. All intercourse with her of any kind will be prohibited, and as a preliminary the Peninsular and Oriental Company have been informed that unless their steamers cease to call at King George's Sound their subsidy will be withdrawn. We have discussed the affair in another place, and need only add here that the serious part of tho affair is not the anger manifested at transportation, but the attempt to declare a war of legislation, against an independent colony for conduct approved by the Imperial Government. The New York journals publish & singular rumour from Mexico. The Emperor, they say has started on a tour, and Miranda, backed by the Archbishop, has seized half the capital behind him, and holds it successfully against all attacks. The Archbishop may be,

and probably is, bitterly disappointed to find that though Hapaburgs are willing to drive their subjects to the feet of the priests they prefer not to kneel there themselves, —but thir story is incredible. French generals are not caught napping in that style, and General Bacaine would shoot an Archbishop for massacring French soldiers just as soon as a brigand. There is not time for Rome to have ordered this annoyance to Napoleon in punishment for the Convention. We regret to record the death of the Duke of Newcastle, which occurred at Clumber on the evening of the 18th inst. Though not a man of the first intellectual rank, the Duke was a man of much value to the State as an upright, diligent, and patient administrator. As a young man he followed Sir Bobert Peel in his policy of free trade, braving thereby a rupture with his father and serious injury to the ftarily wealth, and he showed the same civil firmness during the Crimean war. The public considered him to have failed as Secretary at War, but it begins to be understood that he was the scapegoat of a vicious system, and that he devised most of the reforms afterwards carried out. His great defect as a Minister was one common to all the Peelites, a lack of revolutionary vigour, an inability to construct, unless time were given him for patient thought and effort. Hia speeches were never striking, but they were always clear and sensible, and he had very little fear of public opinion, His. domestic life was unfortunate, his wife having fled from him, but he is said to have warmly attracted his few intimate friends. He is succeeded by his son, a man of no political note. Sir Kutherford Aleock seems determined to have his little war in Japan. He has collected a formidable force of seventeen war steamers and 1,500 soldiers, and intends to push into the Inland Sea. The Prince of •Nagato objects, and has fired on the Cormorant for making the experiment, and it is intended therefore to silence his batteries. Serious work is expected, the Japanese, as we are informed, having been for some time steadily arming themselves. No less than 300,000 stand of arms and some rifled cannon have been, we are told, shipped from England this year, all for Japanese nobles, and all invoiced as "hardware." The Times publishes an account of the great powder magazine at Purfleet, which shows that the. alarm felt by the public at immense stores of powder there collected is not unwarranted.. Tho magazines contain 42,000 barrels, or say 2,000 tons, forty times the stock which caused the Erith explosion. It is calculated that if it exploded every house in London would sustain an impact equal to 3 lb per square yard, the force of the Erith shock being only 3 oz on the same surface. In other words every door and window would perish, and every shaky wall come down. The precautions taken are of course most elaborate, but so much powder ought not to be stored in one place. There are two dangers against which precaution can never be complete. Lightning may strike a boat taking powder on board, or a workman dwelling on the catastrophe may, under an access of mania, fire the powder. The risk to the capital is unjustifiably great. ' A series of extensive frauds has been discovered in the Bankruptcy Courts. In April last the Lord Chancellor requested the Commissioner at Leeds and a London accountant to examine the books of the Leeds Office, and many errors were detected. The inquiry was then extended to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, and the result has been the discovery of sums "improperly retained " by official assignees and messengers to the amount of £14,000. The inquiry is to be immediately extended to the London Courts. The only marvel is that the officers having made up their minds to " retain " any retained so little. It is nobody's interest to look after them except the creditors', and creditors are regarded by the officials of bankruptcy courts as persons whose business ia to take what they can get and be thankful.

The Eider-Dane party appears to be excessively irritated with King Christian. Its organ, the Dagblad, argues openly that as the peace seta aside the treaty of looJi the throne devolves on one of the Princes 01 Hesse as nearest male agnate. - The paper will be prosecuted, a stupid step, as it gives its proprietors an opportunity ot legally assailing the King's title. The true counterargument is that the King reigns by virtue of an Act of Parliament, and that the people show no disposition to repeal that Act. King Christian were the most selfish xrince in existence it would not him to sacrmce Schleswig till he had done his utmost to retain it. Kings do not lilie losing duchies. It is difficult to convince the great Peers that the place of Eugland in this world is simply that of its workshop. They seem to think that honour, and status, and power to influeuce the march of events are near y as important as money. The Duke of Rutland, better known as Marquis of Granby, and stoutest of Protectionists, on Tuesday protested before the Newmarket Farmers Club against the Manchester doctrme. Ireo trade, be believed hod done little for En„ land, but whatever its results, he denied that extended commerce had crippled her. power to go to war. If she bad more to protect, ahe had more to protect it more.atop, more men, and raoro „ never was more capable of J? , righteous can«e. The honourable ill?gu.il old gentleman! he justifies tree trade intht very sentence which denounces it! He need notbe afraid. England will bevery peace; ful till something touches her pride, andthtn the neace party and their doctrines and fears for commerce and dread of taxation will go to the winds together. . This ways having spasms of non-mtenenhon, but if ia in a?prv mess none the less. > , An attempt to rouse m ' a Tenetia i» reported by telegraph. ° fifty persons dressed m red shirts from the Tyrol at Vdioeaid £ rmwe the people. That foiling they fled or were arretted It is Italians believe the Q u ; ,dr ''' I t^"\"" i( ,„ taken bv a popular emevte, and the invasion L probVy IXvice of the prieate to excite A C"v"tol has issued final orders W extension Per,^ Settlement to the Nonh-WMt l-''Ov.nce» ; The rate to be tod » half the renV whatever that may be, t me u allowed to occupiers of J , f tates. The permanent rate '^f thin I™,,'* to yield £1200 a ye#r, a rector, sup-

ported by three senior and two junior fellows who should work together on system and under the rector's guidance. He does not wish to keep them celibate or force them against their will to live together, but only to avoid the existing waste of power. The only objection we have to offer ia that the waste of power created by putting so many clergymen under control would be greater than tho waste caused by overdivision. Half the energy of tho " fellows " would be thrown away in resisting the rector, and no law could ever define their respective jurisdiction. Mr. Hope says the scheme works in America, which is possible; but in England, where we have a hundred sects, 'not one has ever attempted to divide the ministerial power. It is hard enough for a rector to " guide" curates whom he can get rid of, but Heaven heln the parish priest who has to make five "fellows pull in one team! Mr. Hope forgets that obedience is not a virtue lauded bytheEnglish Church.