The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-05 00:00:00

MAY.

Newmarket Ist Sp ...2 to 811-18rpenden 2O, 21
Chester. lO, to 13 1 Bath ''4, 25
Winchester lO. 11 I Stamford
Salisbury l2, 13 : Croydon 2O, 27
York 17, 13' Epsom 6l to June 3
Doncaster 19, 20 1
JU
Croydon 8,9
Manchester r 9, 10
A Runt 1 .1 to 17
\Viudsor 2l, 22

sIE.
Newton 92, 23
llamptou 23, 24
Bibury Club 29
Stockuridge.„3o, and Joly 1

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JULY.
Newmarl:et 7, to $ I West Drayton 11, 1.5
Nottingham 1.'2, 13 1 Huntingdon-- ....... 19, 20
Chelmsford l2, 13 I Kincrsbury 4l, 92
Reading 11, 13 I GoodwooJ l6, 29

AUGUST.
Brighton 2, 3 Stockton l7 to 19
Brighton Club 4 Oxford lB, 19
Lewes ......... . .5, 6 York ',3 to 25
Ethan, 9, 10 Plymouth
Windsor ll, 12 Derby 3O, 31
Bromley l6, 17 Weymouth 3O, 31

SEPTEMBER.
Warwick 6 7 I Richmond 2O, 21
Abingdon q 9 I Western Meet (Ayr) 21 to 23
Doncaster 13 to 16 I Hendon 22, 23
Hampton 90, 21 I Newmarket Ist Oct. 27 to 30
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OCTOBER.
Bedford 4, 5 1 Newmarket 2n ' 0ct..10 to 14
Leicester G, 7 1 Ohcltenh:Lnl lB, 19
Bro►uley 6 7 I Newmarket H0t'u...24 to 29
NOV EMBER.

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Liverpool 8 to ll I Shrewsbury 14 to 18

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870.
FEBRUARY.
Birmingham 8, 9 Harrow
Derby 10, 11 Newton 25, 26

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M ARCH.
Liverpool 8,9, 10 13,•onlley ...... 81 and April 1
West Somerset ...... 1.16, 17 Cheltenham.. 31 and April 1
Warwick 22 to 24

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Aldershot 7, 8 I Kingsbury 18,19

The Post considers that what the Government have to
aim at in framing their Irish Land Bill is so to balance
.the rights of landlord and tenant as to make it the inte-
rest of both to pull together and labour for their mutual
advantage. This principle is I artly in operation already,
though not under legal LbFgation. Wherever there are
goo'l landlords there are good tenants, and the rela-
tions that exist between them cannot be a bad basis
for the legal settlement of the land question. But,
so long as it is in the power of landlords to turn
scores of families out of their holdings, we mast not
expect to see peace and contentment in Ireland. Unfor-
tunately, the leaders of the Irish people have committed
them to a principle that ought not to be sanctioned. They
have pushed them to an extreme to which the Govern-
ment cannot consent, and which, we believe, if it were to
receive the sanction of Parliament, would be almost as in-
jurious to the interests of the Irish people as the law
a;airst which they now protest. But, short cf fixity of
t3nure, there is tin.:-.le room for legislation which will
u.iite landlord and teraot in a common interest, by limit-
ing the arbitrary powers of the former without unduly en,
lircling the privileges of the latter.

The Peel Garet e declares that of the many minor
roforms that ought to be secured by the passing of the
Raform Bill of 1867, none is more clearly connected with
the general principles upon which the Lill proceeded, and
law have greater claims upon Liberals in general, than a
moasure for ri moving disabilities under which clergy-
m:in lie who have practically given up their profession,
and who„ in virtue of the monstrous axiom of
th indclih fly of orders, are excluded from va-
rious walks of life, and amongst:, the rest, from
Parliament, by thebare fact that they have been ordained.
The real difficulty, and the only real d:fficulty, of the sub-
ject arises out of the spread cf the voluntary system and
the prospect of the d:sestablishment of the Church of
England. How ought we to deal with the ministers of an -
entirely free Church ? Would it be possible, or if possi-
ble, desirable and just, to exclude from Parliament the
mombers of a particular profession merely because it
might appear to us that the duties of that profession were
not eltogether consistent with the duties of a member of
Parliament? What is required is merely to set right an
obvious and, indeed, an a lmitted injustice, by permitting
clorg3men who far any reason are desirous of leaving their
p...are, ion to do se, and to re: lune the character of laymen

if 'de, y think proper. This of course would apply to every
ole to win m the ex:eing restiLtion applies. If the ques-
tion should ever asiso whether, on public grounds, it was
des.ra,l h that Roman CatlnTe priests should be excluded
from P.u•liament, speeileal:y there would be no difficulty
in dealing with it according to circumstances.

A Parliament of Miners Las met at last, says the Tele-
graph, and a more useful assemb7y there could not be.
Tae place of meeting was the Public Hall at Wigan ; and
there were firty delegt.t s, or, as we should say, members
present. It i 4 stated tLa each delegate represented three
hu sdred const:tre ste, so that here wo have at once a con-

sAtnent body of 12,000 mincr prol ably heads of families
and among the mDst inte:li;ont and stirt:w.; of their
c'a-.;. The seLeme is yet in its infancy. We Ia c
Cr) most flu( u a'Jle a t eip:tiins of IvLat may re-

slit from the ni,.!eting of ti e:e C..usclii:t Fathers
0: Underground E:igland. They 'Lay be sure of

ncoiving any amount of public sympathy iv,

grievances, and aniitar.c) cf the most efficient, kind
from the best heads in England, if they continue as they
hwe begun. They complain, first, of the frghtful number

and nature of accidents in collieries, and they seem to be
of opinion that Government interference can help them.
We cannot say off-hand how the help is too be given. We
have a Government insection of collieries. Are the
twelve inspectors ineffici3nt men, or negligent of their
important duties ; or are there not enough of them?
Have the delegates comideied whether the working

miners are not themselves responsible for some

portion of the mischief ? One has certainly heard of care-
-le3sness, which seemed little short of insanity, on the part
of the miners themselves while engaged in their peri-
lous vocation. The delegates suggest a police in mines;
that is, we presume, the employment of special men,
whose sole duty it shall be to see that the most careless

or desperate of the workre3ple do not imperil their own
lives and those of their fellow-workmen. The delegates,
in the second place, ask to be paid by weight, and not by

measure. They are most earnest in their demani

t'aat compulsory education should be given to their
children under 12 years of age. They ask that,
until their children have attained the ages of 14
or sixteen, they should not be allowed to work more than
eight hours a day. Thoy want to reduce the hours of
labour, to assist men unjustly treated by masters—how
about masters unjustly treated by men ?—to help districts
driven to strike, and t) organise a system of permanent
relief for miners permanently injured while in the mine.
What they ask, in a word, is a " Mines' Regulation Bill,"
which shall embrace all these subjects, and some others of
less moment. Surely these poor, hard-working men have
a right to our most earnest and patient attention. But
for England underground, where would England above-
ground be ?

Are the Government quite aware, asks the Daily News,
that they are settling, by a kind of side wind, a great
ecclesiastical question which Parliament has hitherto
declined to face ? The demand for more bishops is one which
has been heard from various quarters for the last fifteen
years, but is one which Parliament has never seen its way
to grant, and just now would be less likely to grant than
ever before. Yet when Parliament meets it will
find that during the recess the whole question
has been settled, quite apart from its authority, and
that the increase of the episcopate has already
begun. The now curate bishops are, it seems, to be
bishops in everything but a parliamentary title to their
position. They are even to bear a territorial title, and are,
it is said, to be practically the acting bishops of dioceses,
or sub-dioceses of their own. It is announced that the
suffragan of the Bishop of Lincoln is to be called Bishop of
Nottingham : and there are rumours of Croydon or Maid-
stone as places from which the suffragan of Canterbury
is to take his style and title. It is impossible not to sus-
pect that this actual creation of new sees is an extension
and development of the original intention of the
Government in permitting the appointment of "suffra-
gans." There could be no possible objection to permit-
ting the bishop to have episcopal helpers, especially as
t.seir duties in bulling liberal ecclesiastical legislation
are likely to absorb more and more of their
attention ; but new sees and new titles have a little
alpeaeance of forestalling the action and superseding
tto powers of Parliament. Of course the new bishops
will be bishops of their diocese only in name ;
a-il we presume that all their official acts will be done in
the name of the bishops for whom they act; but even
tien Parliament may well complain that the Government
hss denied it the opportunity of deciding whether more
bishops were wanted or not, and has anticipated its deci-
sion as to the new sees to be created, and the new titles
t, he given. The public will look with s ,me curiosity and
interest for the explanations which will be given on this
question.

The Standard thinics it is a touchinz evi.!ence of the
1 trge-heartedness and catholicity of Liberalism that, at
t,e time when the pros;,:ects of the Government
scorn so omy aml despon,ling, its newspaper
organs are magnanirnon3 enough to concern thorn-
s ,7ves witit t'le f.:rtutriel of tho Consetvative rarty.

aithou;ht may seem ungracio,ls
coid watcr u;x.n these emotional ebul
we are bouni to say Ciat they are entirely superfluous.
There nithing in the pus tion of the Consertalive
ploy to call for Liberal t?ars or Liberal sympathy, more
~,:pccial!y whoa the pli!..flit of the Ministry make such
heavy demands upon hoth. We are overwhelmed with
condolences on " the very serion3 midertune that tho
Conservative pry begins the year without a loader."
The statement i 4 not strictly accurate. Wo are
ly ;" lined t> think that the plight of
.413 all the sympathy which
1,11 bestow. It will be
the Le;islatrtre a month hence
They have been lar,:ely trusted,
,fldence reposed in them. They
nity, and have turned it to no
worse. It seems to us that Mr.
)ed of all the comfort which the ;
,e to hostoxv, and that in the '
wished upon the Conservative
power.

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SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. ;

The Times observes that for the success of any scheme of
emigration we must look first to the enterprise mid
thriftiness of the intending emigrants themselves, then to

the efforts of the colonies which will benefit by their
labours, and, lastly, to the benevolence of the public at
home. We do not hesitate to say that it would be unfair
to tax the list too =el. Emigration ought to be made
self-supporting, and it is not difficult to devise arrange-
ments by which even the poorest labourer could be
made to pay the cost of his passage by work done
after his arrival in the colony. To convey him
as quickly and as cheaply as possible to a place
where his labour may be remunerative must be
the chief object of every emigration society; but to
accomplish this there must be a more complete organisa-
tion than exists at present. Where the emigrant is to be
sent out at the expense, wholly or in part, of others, it is
but • just that the payinacteri should have the right of
selection and dircAion. To accomplish this it would be
advisable to have trustworthy agents on both sides of, the
w.tter—at home to examine those who offer, and to choose
only these who are likely to do well ; ;broad to take
pozsassion of the emigrant immediately on his landing to
prevent him frcm spending his money or his time in a
crowded city, or falling into the hands of the wretches
who would prey on his ignorance and simplicity.
This hits been the course of the New York authorities, and
it i 3 to the excellent organization of the service by which
the emigrant is protected and sent on his way westward
that the favour which New York enjoys as 'a place of
debarcation is in a large measure due. Similar provision
might be made at the chief ports of the British colonies.
The new settler writing home to his friends would be able
to tell them that he had been neither overcharged nor
swindled, and the report which he would make of the faci-
lities of the transit would encourage others to I Alov in
his steps.

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