The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-11 00:00:00

THE SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR IRELAND.

Mr. John La Touche, a large landed proprietor in
Kildare, writes to the Times on the un-
certainty now existing in connection with
the landed interest of Ireland. He says
he is the possessor of a beautiful and valuable
fee-simple estate, extending to nearly 6,000 acres,
with a rental of between £4,000 and £45,000
a year. The rents are punctually paid,
the neighbourhood is good, and the estate
only requires a manor house to make it
perfect as a gentleman's residence. Yet he complains
that when this estate was Drought to the hammer
in Dublin he was unable to sell it at a price
that would at once yield the pnrchaser 41
per cent. for his capital. Mr. La Touche suggests two
things in the way of a cure for this and other evils
from which Ireland is now suffering—vote by ballot,
and the annual sojourn of Her Majesty or some other
member of the Royal Family. All that is needed,
he says, in respect to the latter, is to
excite the natural loyalty of the Irish
people in the presence of its lawful
object, for every Irishman feels aggrieved that his
country may not share equally with Scotland the
honour and benefit of the Sovereign's rule and pre-
sence. He hopes to see the wise and prudent mea-
sures of Parliament crowned by one gracious act on
the Sovereign's part—the purchase or acceptance of
a residence in Ireland.

SERVICE IN THE ARMY.
The bill introduced by Mr. Cardwell and Captain
Vivian, to amend_ the law of enlistment, has been
printed. According to the provisions of this
measure, no recruit will be allowed to enlist for the
first term of his engagement as a soldier for a longer
period than twelve years. He can, however, at the
conclusion of that period offer himself for re-engage-

By the death of George Horatio, Marquis
of Uholmondeley, many of the most prominent
charitable institutions of the metropolis will have
lost a liberal patron and an earnest friend. The
deceased nobleman succeeded to the marquisate on
the death of his father, April 10, 1827, and in default
of issue the family honours and estates are in-
herited by his only brother, Lord Henry Wil-
liam Hugh Cholmondeley: The late marquis
bore not only a high character for general
benevolence, •but as being a most considerate land-
lord. During the recent cattle plague, which causal
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serious loss to his tenanty.,-he came font
n a most-liberal spirit tolleir assistance.

THE AUTHORITY OF THE ENGLISH VERSION.

Dean Stanley recently announced in Convocation
that having discovered the present version of the
Scriptures to rest upon no legal authority, for the
future he should omit in his reading
the admittedly " spurious" verses in the epistle of
St. John. This declaration has caused some not
altogether unfounded alarm—not for what the Dean
of Westminster will do, but as to the tendency of
his doctrine. For if he can omit one verse, may not
Mr. Voysey refuse to read a whole chapter? and
may not High Ritualists use the Catholic version ?
Dr. Brewer, of King's College, writes to the
Standard, urging that the clergy have no
liberty in the matter; the Church acknowledges the
Royal supremacy ; and the Bible was re-translated
by command of James I. With the Dean of West-
minster, however, and those who, like him, regard the
Royal supremacy as nothing more than the
supremacy of the State, such an argument would
have. no weight.

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