The Archbishop of Canterbury presided on Wednesday at the literary
Fund dinner. He made rather a good speech on the in- fluence of the Press in shading off sensation estimates of exciting -events like the Russian plague or the assassination of the President of the United States. The necessity of discussing such events, -and bringing all the new light possible to bear on them, im- mediately discovers all sorts of qualifications of the alleged in- jurious effect. The Archbishop made this latter point the occasion of eliding in a eulogium on "the brave and generous people of the South," which we rather applaud at a time when the panegyrists a the South are going round so fast to the other aide. Still we cannot think the genius of the South has any title whatever to the word "generous," though it is brave enough. It has been aggressive, imperious, and insolent from first to last, and the North have shown a generosity in the hour of victory which would have been simply impossible to a slave-owning oligarchy. 'The Archbishop became common-place when he passed to his 41 special subject."
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