The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-20 00:00:00

ri...EATRE-R0 i AL, HAY MARKET. Heroding HEROD. Yet even this was not enough
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. for the right hon. member for the Dublin University.
THIS EVENING, FISH OUT OF WATER.
After which, 4th time, a new and, riginal comedy, entitled Reviving the stale old argument that the con-
FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr.
Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and tinuance intact of the Protestant Church Estab-
Miss Louisa Angel. lishment in Ireland was part and parcel of the Act
Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. Of Union, was one of its most essential articles or
To conclude with MRS. WHITE.
Commence at 7. conditions, Mr. WHITESIDE thereby most eloquently
appeared to be striving (in so arguing) to afford
TH E DUKE'S MOTTO.
THE HUNDREDTH AND FIFTH NIGHT. some plea of justification for the arguments of our
old friends the Repealers ! Supporting it, as the right
THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under hon. gentleman announced that he did,and as we be-
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
lieve him to have done most conscientiously, simply as
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an ()Menai
9ketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, IL Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. the depository of truth, he was nevertheless ready to
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic admit [indeed, he could hardly do otherwise] that
Drama, in Three Acts, and Prologue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. the Irish Church, is, all the while, the Church of a
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
snaported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham, minority of the population. That, as we conceive,
il; v‘ iddi3ombe. F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and being in truth rather a mild way of putting it !
Elaworthy.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Throughout the whole period of the discussion of
this grave and even vital question—as to the posi-
NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— Lion, that is, in which the Irish Church Establish-
Sole Pronrletor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the Second and Third Acts of THE went stands relatively to the great mltss of the
GREEN BUS HES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Bil-
ling,ton, and Miss Avonia Jones. . Irish population—the argument maintained in
After which (7th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled the columns of this journal have been consistently
THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster,
Stuao rt, Stephenson, Sett n ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Bil- and persistently one and the same. Since
lingtn.
To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. the earliest debate of the matter, after the
L. Toole, &c.
Commence at 7. completion of the Act of Union, until now, the
MHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," arguments put forth in these co'umns of Me Sun,
Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
have been precisely of the same character and ten-
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:an be had Every Evening of dency, in regard to it. The anomaly could not be
G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. denied, could not but be recognised. A love of
—-- - - -- --- fair play has ever urged us to insist upon the
The Weather—Sun Office, May 20, 1863. reasonableness (to say no less) of the demands
-•- made from time to time, hitherto in vain, for its
THERMOMETER. diminution. And this merely with a view to what
This morning
This day at Two o'clock 5B we yet feel perfectly well assured is inevitable—its
Barometer-30.02. extinction. To talk of Civil and Religious Liberty
Wind—N.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy weather. while this flagrant injustice is being rigidly and
pitilessly perpetuated is simply preposterous. The
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. maintenance of the Irish Church Establishment
rim DAY.—Morning, 3h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56m. upon the same scale upon which it has hitherto been,
Co-moitnow.-Morning, 4h. 14m.—Afternoon, 4h. 32m.
and is still being, maintained, is about as reasonable
an arrangement of its kind as the organisation of a
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port a whole army, merely for the feeding of a
single regiment—and that regiment scattered
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sparsely all over the country, so sparsely as to ap
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1863. pear, here and there, like so many isolated sentinels.
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More than that, it is to organise this elaborate
The Irish Church Establishment has long been and gigantic commissariat for the exclusive feeding
cognised by millions of thoughtful men in this of that one widely-distributed regiment, in the midst
luntry as one of the most flagrant anomaliesamong of a dense and impoverished population.
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