The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-23 00:00:00

IRISH CHURCH SUSTENTATION FUND.

A preliminary meeting of laymen was held on Wed-
nesday, Lord Harrowby in the chair, to consider what
steps should be taken to help the Irish Church Susten:
tation Fund. A letter received from the Archbishop
of Canterbury was read, stating that steps ought at once
to be taken to form a committee of laymen. His grace
offered to give £l,OOO in yearly instalments of £lOO. Alet ter
was received from the Archbishop of York,saying he would
be most happy to help the committee in any way he could
whenever he was in London. After a meeting of two
hours, to which reporters were not admitted, those pre-
sent adjourned to Friday next.

An English gentleman of property has become a
member of the Greek Church at Constantinople, and was
at the same time consecrated as "a pope " of that
Church. It is said that he will shortly proceed to Bir-
mingham in his new capacity, for the purpose of making
converts.
The death is announced of Sir William Richard
Carter Chaytor. The deceased, who was born in 1805,
was the second baronet, and succeeded his father in 1847.
From 1831 to 1834 he was member for the city of Durham.
He is succeeded in the baronetcy by his son William, who
was born in 1837.

11./l/.411. •••• • •
..Princess Louise has warmly acknowledged the
present which the inhabitants of Kintyre sent her. Her
Itoyal Highness " looks forward to the time when she
will be able to be among those who, in making her this
beautiful present, have already given her so kind a
welcome."

We are sorry to hear that Sir Edwin Landseer's
illness is of such a character that the English public may
despair of seeing any more pictures from his delightful
pencil. Overwork—how often we hear that word now-a-
days— overwork again ; like Leech, and Maas°, and so
many more.—Guardian.

It is proposed to affix the seal of the University
of Oxford to a petition from the Chancellor, Masters, and
Scholars of that University, to the House of Commons
against the bill to alter the law respecting religious tests.
The matter will come before the Convocation of the Uni-
versity of Oxford on Friday next.

On Tuesday, at a meeting of the Royal Humane
Society, on the motion of Sir William Fraser, Bart.,
seconded by Mr. Frederick Gray, it was unanimously
resolved that a deputation of the society wait upon the
Vice-President of the Privy Council, to suggest that where
practicable, the art of swimming be taught in all schools
established under the recent Act.

Mr. Robert Crothers, who was a sergeant of the
Gth (Inniskilling) Dragoons at Waterloo, has just died in
Manchester, at the age of 94. The funeral took place at
St. George's Church, Hulme, and by permission of Colonel
Shute, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, it was conducted with
military honours. The ceremony attracted a large con-
course of spectators.

The marriage of Miss Duncombe, daughter of the
Hon. Admiral Duncombe, M.P., with the Hon. Ashley
Glyn. eldest son of Lord Wolverton, was solemnised on
Tuesday at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the presence
of a very large circle of relatives and friends. The Hon.
and Very Rev, the Dean of York, uncle of the bride,
assisted by the rector of St. George's, officiated.
Edward Fitzgerald, who has been in the employ
of the Liverpool Corporation for twenty-three years, and
whose father had been in the same employ fer fifty
years, was on Tuesday committed for trial at the sessions
by the Liverpool magistrates for embezzling sums
amounting to £483. The defalcations were discovered by
another man being put in Fiterald's place, he having
become ill.
On Monday evening the house of Colonel Somer-
set, C.B , of Stoke Park, Stapleton, about two miles
from Bristol. was entered by thieves between nine and ten
o'clock, while the family were sitting in the drawing-room
and the servants were in the lower part of the house. The
thieves ransacked three bed-rooms: and carried off a num-
ber of medals and other valuable insignia which had been
earned by Colonel Somerset and his late father in the
service of their- country, and a large quantity of jewellery
valued at about £5OO.

SHOPPING. —Mouldy Gentleman : " That's a proper built
coat you've got hold of, 'Arry. Where did you come
across it?" 'Arry (of the Sw*ll M4`l3) : " Why, at a
clothes' shop, of course." The Mouldy : " What was the
damage; then ?" 'Arry : "Don't know, I'm sure; the
shopinan wasn't there.'
ON THE SAFE SIDE, ANYHOW 7—Miss Deborah (a precise
old maid, of strictly Evangelical principles), loq. : Why,
Rebecca, you never cleaned those windows, and they were
actually dirty on the Sabbath Day." Maid-of-all-work
(anxious to be equally strict) : " Indeed, mum, I hadn't
no time ; but I'll do em to-morrow, if I'm spared ; and,
if not, on Wednesday."
SPUTTERINGs FROM JUDY'S PEN.—English colours :
Neutral tints. Popular mode of Prussian travelling :
Sedan conveyances. It was said that the Beggars' Opera
made Rich gay and Gay rich. Perhaps the Greenwich
beggars' chorus has made Glad feel dizzy and Dizzy glad.
Madame Tussaud has added Von Moltke to her collection
—in the Chamber of Horrors, of course.