The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-30 00:00:00

PART CLUBS.

On Sunday, the eighteenth, an interesting incident
took place at the Folies Berger-es. Citizen Peyronton, a
delegate of the Fovian Club, proposed to the meeting a
motion signed by M. Ledru-Rollin, asking that the
Government of the Defene.shoulcl make a sortie en masse
to force the Prussian lines and deliver Paris
in a very short space of time. This proposal was
followed by the greatest tumult and the utterance of con-
tradictory opinions. M. Ratishonne spoke with great
earnestness, and said that it was sought to convey a
censure on the Government, under cover of this pro-
position. The Government had never wished to capitulate,
at any rate they did not want to learn anything from the
riflemen of Belleville. This speech was followed by Leine
applause. A stormy meeting took place at the
Blanche Club, which was numerously attended. A great
many accusations were made, the first against one of the
mayors for having made -an enormous profit out of the
sale of meat and other articles of food. Three young men
were charged with taking no part in the army or the Mobile
or the marching battalions, and it was added that there
was no good in sending such a complaint to the mairie.
At this point serious disputes arose in the assembly, and
one speaker said that the Brothers who interred the dead
would be of much more use in the ranks of the army.
Among the complaints made an excited orator
spoke strongly against the observance of discipline ?
It was a disciplined army, he said, who capitulated at
Sedan, while France .was saved in 1792 by the aid of un-
disciplined armies; and how could a free Republic agree
to be bound down by the slavery of discipline.
These remarks were received wish applause. The
Assembly united in blaming the Government
for many things. Among others for nominating
the intendant who had provisioned the place of Sedan. It
was also declared wrong on the part of the authorities to
talk of an honourable peace ; they should think of nothing
but victory or death. Unless Paris was saved in forty-
eight hours, it was resolved that they should proceed en
masse to the Hotel de Ville and proclaim the commune.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—During the year which
is drawing to a close the House of Commons has lost
eleven members through death, all of whom were Libe-
rals. Last year the number was the same, in the propor-
tion of seven Liberals to four Conservatives. The repre-
sentatives of the people who have been thus removed in
1870 are—Mr. Briscoe, 78 years of age ; Hon. F. H. F.
Berkeley, 75 : Mr. Kirk, 75; Mr. Corbally, 73 ; Mr.
Gurdon Rebow, 71; Mr. C. Wykeham Martin, 69; Mr.
Clement, 65 ; Serjeant Kinglake, 65 ; Mr. G. H. Moore,
59 ; Sir J. Simeon, 55 ; and Mr. E. Denison, 30.

THE EASTERN CHURCHES.—The Porte is con-
siderably embarrassed by the communications between
the orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, and the free
Bulgarian Church. The Porte wishes on the one hand to
to gratify the Bulgarians by yielding to their wishes re-
specting the independence of the Byzantine patriarchate,
but on the other it hesitates to interfere with the interests
of the Orthodox Church which rest upon rights
guaranteed by treaties and supported by powerful
foreign protectors. A proposal has been made for
an 'Ecumenical Council, which should regulate the rela-
tions of the, orthodox church, and especially of the
Bulgarian cpmmunity, the detached branch of that
church. The Grand Vizier has authorised the assembly
of this council, but in a letter to the patriarch he advises
him to prepare a programme of the questions to be dis-
cussed, that extraneous matters may not be introduced.
The council, according to news from Constantinople, will
probably meet in April.
AN IRISH LANDLORD AND HIS TENANTS.—Sir
H. Winston Barron, of Waterford, has issued the follow-
ing address to his tenants :—" My dear Friends,—l con-
gratulate you on the passing of an Act of Parliament that
will give you security of tenure and security for any
improvements you make on your farms. Recollect that
whatever money you expend in draining, in buildings, in
reclaiming land, or other improvements must be by law
re-paid to you before you can be dispossessed of your
holdings. It is therefore clearly your interest to improve
your farms. All the profits of the improvements will be
for your benefit and that of your children. No one can
deprive you of this profit. I, therefore, believe this new
law is a good law both for landlord and tenant. It will
secure the landlord his rent—it will secure the tenant
his capital and induce him to improve his farm ; and there-
fore enable him to pay his rent with greater ease and raise
his condition in life. But it will do more—it will by
degrees improve the wealth of the nation, and develop the
resources of Ireland. Thank God, agrarian crime is unknown
amongst you, but where it has been resorted to, I have no
doubt that it will soon disappear, when the new law is
known, and its practical effects are properly understood.
There are very few of you that have not got leases. I am
willing to give those who have not got them leases for
thirty-one years, which is much longer than is usually
granted in other countries. It would greatly
improve your position and wealth if you would
follow the example of other countries in your farming.
There the farmers sow more green crops, more vetches,
more clover, more turnips, marigolds, carrots, and cab-
bages. Our climate and soil are badly suited to wheat—
both the climate and soil are well adapted to stock of all
kinds. I have taken some pains to improve your stock. I
beg to impress upon you the great advantage of well-bred
stock. In these few plain words my sole object is to raise
your condition—to improve your position, and to induce
you to place full confidence in my anxiety to benefit you
in any way you may point out —Faithfully yours, H.
WINSTON BARRON. To my tenants. have reason
to believe that few of you make sufficient manure in your
yards ; therefore, your crops are bad, and your land ex-
hausted. I beg of you to increase your manure and to
buy guano, or some of the phosphate, for your green
crops. Avoid taking too many crops off the land—this is
ruinous to yourselves and your children ; it starves the
land and injures it for years."