The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

of their simple, easy, and—wherever it has been
honestly tried—effectual plan. We only hope that
in committee, and on the third reading, Mr. BER.
TULEY and the ballot members will vindicate their
SINCERITY and their GOOD FAITH towards their con-
stituencies.

We would just call the attention of Liberal mem-
bers and their supporters to the second reading of
Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S bill, which is fixed for to-
morrow. Sir JOHN has given his opponents all this
time that they might bring in their compromise
bill, which the Speaker's vote in their favour last
year requires of them. They have no bill. They
can only doggedly oppose. Last year they wanted
some other settlement than total abolition. " Pro-
duce it then," say the abolutionists. Instead of
producing their settlement, this helpless party still
calls for "some other provision," and has no bill to
tell us what it shall be. Mr. ESTCOURT has, on the
contrary, given notice of his intention to move the
following amendment for to-morrow :—" That it is
unjust and inexpedient to abolish the ancient and
customary right, exercised from time immemorial
by the ratepayers of every parish in England, to
raise by rate among themselves the sums required
far the repair of their church, until some other pro-
vision shall have been made by Parliament for the
discharge of those obligations to which by custom
or statute the churchwardens on the part of the
parish are liable."
The Tories, who add to their zeal for the POPE'S
temporalities equal zeal for the temporalities of the
dominant religious sect in England, are whipping
up, we understand, to the uttermost to carry this
ignominious resolution. They are not ashamed to
vote themselves incompetent to offer any scheme,
yet to obstruct the only proposal which can ever be
a final settlement. Will the great Liberal suffer this?
Will the real friends of the Church suffer the Tories
to drag them through political dirt, merely to save
them from these expenses of worship which the very
humblest sect of Dissenters freely meets ? It is
surely time that such a piece of ecclesiastical
tyranny—one so out of harmony with the
spirit of the age as compelling persons to pay
for the worship of their Maker—should come to
an end. The real question is a very simple
one, although Mr. ESTCOURT may wrap it up in a
sentence as long and roundabout as a collect ; it is
this—" Cannot Churchmen pay the expenses of
their worship as well and easily as Dissenters ? We
are ashamed of the Churchmen who, to-morrow,
will not be ashamed by their votes to say—No.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are ex-
pected in town to-day, from their seat in Scotland, for the
season.
The Countess of Ashburnham has issued cards
for an assembly on the 15th.
Lady Fitzwygram's morning concert in Con-
naught-place will take place on Wednesday, the 21st inst.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Mar-
chioness of Ely, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl Gran-
ville, the Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone,
the Countess de Persigny, Earl Cowper, Lady Frances
Gordon, the Hon. F. Calthorpe, Viscount Castlerosse,
Lord Dufferin, Mr. and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Town-
ley, and Dr. Quin.
Lord and Lady Camoys and the Hon. Misses
Stonor are expected to arrive at 31, Dover-street, for the
season, in the early part of the week.
The Rev. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Edgell and
family have left town for Stanford Hall, Leicestershire.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Biddulph and family have
arrived in Eaton-place for the season, from the Continent.
Mrs. Gardner's concert will take place on Friday,
the 6th June, at her house in Eaton-square.

Mr. Alex. Oswald has returned to Hampden
House, Green-street, from Paris, for the season.
_ _

Mr. and Mrs. Morritt have arrived at their resi-
dence in Lowndes-square, from the North,

Mr. Augustus Keppel Stephenson, of the Norfolk
Circuit, has been appointed Recorder of Bedford, in succes •
siun to Mr. R. Crouch, appointed a judge in India.
THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS.—The Japanese
Ambassadors and suite arrived at Greenwich yesterday at
12 o'clock, on board Mr. John Penn's steamyacht, and after
dig mbarking at the pier proceeded in five carriages to the
extensive steam-engine and boiler factories of Messrs. Penn
and Son, at Deptford. After inspecting various objects of
interest at this and other establishments, the distinguished
foreigners re-embarked, and returned to town The Am-
bassadors are expected to visit Woolwich dockyard during
the present week, a notice to that effect having been received
from the Admiralty.

PLYMOUTH, May 12.—His Royal Highness
Prince Arthur and suite visited the Earl and Countess of
Mount Edgcumbe, at Mount Edgcumbe, on Sunday after-
noon, lunching there, remaining in the house and park
several hours, returning in the evening on board the Vivid.
The Vivid went outside Plymouth Sound this morning with
the royal party, accompanied by the screw gunboat Clinker,
in order that the prince might witness Armstrong ehot
practice from the gunboat. His highness is expected to
visit Tregantle Fort and the Royal William Victualling-
yard this afternoon and to-morrow.

THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARKS.—The
s?venth season, to commence in the Regent's and Victoria
Parks on May 25, is expected by the committee to be a
highly successful one, and preparations are being made ac-
cordingly. n the Regent's Park the platform enclosure
will be enlarged, and chairs placed in rows therein, so that
the visitors, having paid ld. admission, may promenade or
be seated at plett,ure. Increased accommodat on and aid to
the band fund will thus be provided, no support to the band
having been derived from the chairs placed in front of the
platform by parties unconnected with the committee. The
Chief Commissioner has just completed a drinking fountain
of chaste design in the broad walk, and is now erecting a
commodious refreshment stand near to the platform. In
the Victoria Park Miss Burdetts' fountain will doubtless
have its thousands of admirers.

MURDER OF A BROTIIER.—A shocking fratricide
was committed in Newcastle, about midnight on Saturday.
A party of men, living. in the neighbourhood of St. Peter's
Quay, had been drinking at the Grapes public-house, at St.
Peter's, on Saturday night, and were ejected at 12 o'clock.
A quarrel took place between two of them, named John
Berry and Henry Shafto; and on another of the party,
named Wm. Redhead, encouraging Shafto to fight, Berry
asked Redhead to fight, and they immediately sgt to work.
Berry got Redhead down, and was using a knife, when
the brother of his antagonist and others pulled him away.
Berry seems then to-have placed himself in an attitude of
defence against a wall in the neighbourhood ; and on his
brother, Geo. S. Berry, going up to him to get him home,
he struck him such a blow with the knife in the lower part
of the body, that death was almost instantaneous. The as-
sassin gave himself up to the police. His unfortunate
brother has left a widow and ore child, and his wife is
again pregnant. The murderer has a wife and six children.
Newcastle Journal.

The commercial letters from New York yesterday
show that there is still a total absence of consideration with
regard to the way in which the present and pros-;ective
debts of the country are to be provided for. It was now
doubted if any tax bill would be passed before next Session
of Congress, so that meanwhile not only the expenditure
for the war, but for the interest on the liabilities already in-
curred, will have to be met by an increase of inconvertible
issues. Yet it is affirmed that a universal opinion prevails
that before long Europe will be a large customer for Trea-
sury notes and other Federal obligations. This belief has,
it is said, considerable influence in upholding prices, and as
the banks, in the absence of commercial paper, are lending
to almost any extent on Government securities, there is a
general readiness to speculate from the great rise which it is
fancied will occur whenever the sudden announcement
shall bo made from Washington that the subjugation of the
South has been consummated. the chief cause of uneasi-
ness to these or craters consisted in the apprehensions as to
possible reverses at Yorktown and Corinth, but it is re-
marked that "whatever battles may be fought, noth ng
will be heard of them unless we win." The reportoa oo_
cupation of New Orleans had not created much sensation,
and the question t s to the prospects of a Northern garrison
at that place during the fever months of July, August,
September, and October were, of course, a subject of tin.
easy contemplation. With regard to the Mexican ques-
tion, great indignation has been excited by the news Jf the
probable march of the French army on Mexico, and " a
possible quarrel with the French Emperor" is discussed as
if the Washington Government had no other matters on'
their hands. The niotives of the visit of M. Mercier to
Richmond were still deemed inscrutable ; but the journals
are full of conjectures on the subject. Gold was leaving
the country, and the rate of exchange was advancing, the
latest quotations being 1121.
THE BANK ROBBERY AT GENOA.--A Government
despatch just received from Spezzia announces the arrest
of the perpetrators of the audacious robbery committed on
the Ist inst. at the bank of Messrs. Parodi. The prisoners
are five in number, and had embarked on board a sailing
ship in the Gulf. Upon them were found various effects,
valued at more than 300,000 f. The men were furnished
with arms of different kinds,