The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-03 00:00:00

IRISH OUTRAGES.

The Daily News thinks it may become necessary for
the Government to proclaim disturbed districts in Ire-
land, and to prohibit in them the carrying and posses-
sion of arms. A measure of this kind might possibly
do something to hinder agrarian assassinations,
and it would have force as an assertion of authority.
Whatever may be tho necessities of the passing
hour, the permanent peace of Ireland can only be looked
for as the result of wise and just legislation. Suppression,
as we have said, is easy for the moment, but the task re-
quires to be done over again perpetually. The redress of
real grievances is a longer process, and its effects are
slower in skewing themselves. A generation or a cen-
jury may pass before they are apparent. But the work
once done is done for ever. The allegation that
they are engaged in preparing a better future for
Ireland will not excuse any Government for remissness
in maintaining law and order, and security of person and
property, in the present. But to attend to the temporary
exigencies of the present only, in disregard of Ireland's
permanent interests, would be a blunder failing little
short of a crime. Her Majesty's advisers have correctly
appreciated their duty in this matter.

FREEDOM OF OPINION IN ESTABLISHED CHURCHES.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in referring to the Solicitor-
General's recent article on ecclesiastical unity and free-
dom, cannot be blind to the fact that there is a strong
sacerdotal party within the Church, and that it attaches
extreme value precisely to those opinions which he would
regard as furthest from the essential truths of Christianity.
If you make a belief in those opinions no longer essential
to membership of the Church, you alienate the
sacerdotalists who value them in proportion to their incre-
dibility. Many of them, it is probable, would abandon a
body deprived, as they would think, of some of its most
vital points of doctrine. The Solicitor-General seems to
anticipate such a result. " Those," he says, "to whom
the law is intolerable must find refuge in secession. This
has been the resource of high-spirited and conscientious
men before now, and perhaps it may he again. . . It
is not a thing to rejoice at; it is a thing
gravely to deplore ; but it may be the inevit-
able consequence of an inevitable ." change."
'Undoubtedly ; but it is rather awkward to find
such a consequence held up as one of the first and
most natural results of an attempt at wider comprehension.
If by admitting Mr. Spurgeon we alienate Dr. Pusey, we
shall have made an exchange, but not an extension. And
thus the practical problem becomes whether it is, in fact,
possible to arrange any terms on which not merely High
l3road, and Low Churches, but Dissenters of manyvariou;
shades of opinion, may meet in common to pursue the.
great aims of religious instruction in tolerable harmony.

'I..RAIIWAYS IN lAN .ERANCISCO.-110 projectors
of the street tramways may derive encouragement from
the success of the system in San Francisco. According
to a return published in the San Franciso News
Letter, the total receipts of the various companies
during the past year amounted to 1,088,523 dollars,
which sum represents a sale of nearly seventeen millions
and a half of tickets. Making every deduction for lost
and season tickets, the number of riders hi the street
cars may be estimated at at least fourteen millions. If
such results can be obtained in a city like San Francisco
the prospects in London ought to be brilliant.

CUBA.—Reportg from" Habana Btato that the
schooner Herald, from Nassau, recently landed a party
of thirty-six filibusters at Gibara, under the command of
General Goicouria. They were attacked by the volun-
teers, who killed seven of them. It is reported that the
survivors are in the Sierra Socarreva in a famished con-
dition. A band of Chinese insurgents have appeared in
the Saqua, jurisdiction, and burned the Peralta sugar ware-
houses The New York papers think that there is
an increased probability of the recognition of Cuba by the
*United States. The sentiment of the House Foreign
AFfairs Committee is unanimous that the time has arrived
when the Government and Congress should accord the
hnurgents belligerent rights. It is understood
t7-rat the committee w:11 adopt in the main the
re3olution presented by Senator Sherman , to
the Senate, recognising a state of war in the island of Cuba,
and preventing Spain from buying munitions of war, and
fitting out ships in American ports. A Habana despatch
states that Mr. Seward has sailed for Baltimore. Vie
wounded victims of the late outrage are improving.

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DADE:v.—The Carlsruhe Gazette of February 28th,
declares that.the Baden Government has no connection
with the proposition of Herr Lasler, and that its policy
has for its essential basis the interest of the country.
That interest, it believes, agrees with the aspira-
tions of the whole German nation. The recent
declaration of Count Bismarck has strengthened this hope,
as he admits that he does not consider the present partial
union of Germany definitive. The Government of Baden,
according to another account, intends shortly to commence
the great works at Rastadt, prescribed by the commission
on the Federal fortresses. The old masonry fronts are to
be iron-clad, and the old artillery is to be replaced -by
powerful modern gun.s, which have been made in
Prussia on the Prussian Government modeL When
the works at Rastadt are completed, other undertakings
will be commenced and several new fortifications con-
structed. Two detached forts are to be united, and two
tetes de ponts to defend the passage of the Murg, a small
river which throws itself into the Rhine. Prussia has
arranged all these plans as if the country already belonged
to her.

PARAGUAY.—The French Patrie, which is always
favourable to the course of Paraguayan indepen-
dence, compares the recent telegrams respecting the war
received in France and England. The former announced that
Lopez had directed his course towards the river Apa, and, as
usual (being from a Brazilian source), it declares the war
to be virtually concluded. The English version stated
that Lopez had abandoned his position at Pernadero,
leaving his invalids behind him ; that General Camara
had routed 600 Paraguy-ans at Conception, and that
Count d'Eu had started for that place, leaving a garrison
at Curtiquaty. The Pcdrie points out that if the town of
Conception mentioned is. the Conception situated on the
river Paraguay, Lopez has resumed the offensive, and
is drawing nearer to the heart of the country, in-
stead of fly-i:* towards its frontiers. He must too
have been strong enough to recapture Conception from
the Brazilians, who took possession of it some months
since. On the'other hand Count d'Eu has found himself
co unpopular in Cura2,-uaty that he dare not leave it with-
out a garrison, a fact which is not consiztent with the
ratisfiletion said to be experienced by the Paraguayans. at
the Encee33 of the Brazilians. The Patric PI, convinced
that Lopez is still pre-.i'!cnt dc facto and that he has taken
the field with great ent
A n important d

)fl regarding the relit
Amorlean sf.:hcols is reported by the Nclo Yolk
of the. 16th .ult. The Catholics of Cincinnati,
in imitation of their New York brethren, have been
endeavouring to secure the exclusion of the Bible
from the public schools. An injunction was granted
by one of the city courts, restraining the School
beard from enforcing the rules regarding the daily read-
ing of the Bible by classes; In an able review of the
arguments advanced by the counsel, Judge Hayens, of
the Superior Court, yesterday dissolved the injunction,
declaring that "the exclusion of all reliziouz instructicu
from the public schools is contrary to the provieicquici
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