The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-17 00:00:00

THE SEVENTH DAY.

Among the many mysterious old charities and
endowments which flourish in secret corners, pro-
bably few of us were aware of the existence of
Joseph Davis's Charity for Sabbatarian Pro-
testant Dissenters, which possesses a net
income of nearly £6OO a year. It is now being
brought into notice through the medium of the ine-
vitable law case which lies in wait for all such inde-
finite funds. Joseph Davis, it would seem, was a
Protestant worthy of the seventeenth century, who
preferred the Jewish Sabbath to the Chris-
tian Sunday, and who,, after the amiable fashion
of those times suffered imprisonment for his opinions.
His name appears in the pardon granted, in 1672, to
John Bunyan and some hundreds of others. Ile
died on the sth of May, 1706, devising his manor in
Essex to seven trustees, and afterwards his son
conveyed some property in Whitechapel
for a meeting house for the Sabbatarians, the
surplus of the rents being applied to pious uses.
These two deeds constitute the trust deeds of the
charity. A dispute having arisen respecting the
division of the money, the case was brought
into court. It was contended on behalf of the At-
torney General that the bequest had been merely
a device for propagating the tenets of a particular
sect, and that after providing for vested interests
the surplus should be applied to useful purposes.
The Vice-Chancellor having remarked upon the
singular nature of the trusts, said that a scheme
proposed by the trustees appeared to him to be the
best arrangement, and he should therefore confirm
it, directing all costs to come out of the fund.

THE LATE FENIAN INVASION.

The -volunteers of Canada are being highly com-
plimented by their countrymen for the marvellous
promptitude with which they overcame the Fenian
bands, who, though unskilled and weak hearted, were
nevertheless formidable in numbers, and well sup-
plied with weapons and ammunition. Very different
views appear to prevail on the subject of the
attack in the Dominion from those in Eng-
land. As to General Grant's proclamation,
for instance, the Canadians altogether fail
to see the importance given to it in England.
They cannot regard as a discharge of international
obligations intervention only undertaken at the
moment when an overt act of war had been accom-
plished. General Lindsay, in a speech in which he
said that the volunteers, without the aid of the
regular troops, had alone vanquished General O'Neil's
forces, expressed the general feeling when he added
that the proclamation was of no use, inasmuch as the
Fenians did not heed it. It was wrong and negli-
gent, the Canadians moreover argued, for the Presi-
dent to allow the Fenian organisation to be fostered
and prepared for an attack on English territory
under his very eyes. The arrest of General O'Neil
was praiseworthy, but even that did not affect the
lawless raiders, who were allowed to advance so far
that the Canadian fire alone drove them back. Ano-

ther opinion expressed in Canada is that England
ought to give that country every credit for its loyally
to the Crown shewn in the late expedition. The
Fenians, it is said, are the enemies of England, and
not of Canada. The former nation ought, therefore,
to retain her full power and moral influence in the
Dominion henceforth, if she wants the people to
spend their blood and their treasure in fighting ex-
ternal enemies of the British flag.

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