The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-31 00:00:00

THE IRISH CHURCH.

The determination of the Irish Church Convention
to refer the question of revising the Prayer-book to
a select committee, resulted in a pitched battle
between the High and the Low Church. The
proceedings were characterised by an extra-
ordinary and spirited interchange of amenities•
The remarks of one reverend speaker were
interlarded with such phrases as " double-faced "
and "dishonest" Sundry other expressions, equally
painful and suggestive to Churchmen, were indulged
in, and the proceedings, which should, to have any
weight and influence, have been conducted in a
temperate spirit, were on the Whole characterised by
"a wrangling about nice distinctions of ritual and
doctrine."'

THE IRISH PEOPLE.

Irishmen, and especially the intellectual members
of the farming classes, have reason to feel grateful to
the Saturday Review for an article laudatory of
their country and its peculiar virtues, which has
appeared in that periodical this week. No country
so accessible to English, holiday makers is so
systematically avoided by them, as the Green Isle,
and yet, according to our contemporary, a ramble
through Ireland, although it will tend to shock,
some Anglo-Saxons when they see to what vile. uses
feudalism and the laws of the Kingdom
may be put, will, nevertheless, prove in-
structive and interesting in no immaterial
degree. Familiarity with the Irish peasantry,
according to the Saturday Review, will enable
the honest traveller to appreciate their worth,
and to comprehend some of the vexed questions of
the country that otherwise seem so insoluble to
Englishmen and Scotchmen. If visitors will cease
to believe in the literature of the professional agi-
tators, they will find satisfactory assurance that in a
"Red" era such as ours is, Ireland is singularly little
infected by the ideas that generally thrive in
thwarted populations. The high standard of virtue
mah.tained by even the serfs in the
country, and the devotion of small
peasant farmers to " huts " which are called
homes, and which are thought of as citadels, the
hopeful spirit of even the most poverty stricken of
the landlords, who, as a class, are worthy creatures,
though generally labouring under delusions as to
their present responsibilities, and the anxiety of all
to try and appear in a fair light and as hospitable
friends, to the stranger, are characteristics so certain to
be met with everywhere in Ireland as to make it a most
remarkable land,to travellers, who in most other terri-
tories round the globe would fail to find so many
bright peculiarities pertaining to a single people.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCT. 28.

Princess Louise was prevented from accompanying the
Queen to the Glassalt Shiel owing to a sprained knee. As
perfect rest is required for her Royal. Highness at present
her Majesty's return to the South may be delayed for a
few days longer than was anticipated.

The Prince and Princess of Wales attended Divine ser-
vice yesterday.

A letter in the Allgenteine Zeitung notices the difficulties
under which the government of Lorraine by the Germans
is being carried on. A police commissioner, who has 30
villages under his control, has to make a circuit of 18 or 20
miles, and can go nowhere without an escort of l7hlans.
The German officials in the occupied departments are
quite cut off from political news; English newspapers
have hardly been seen in the Upper Rhine for three
months.

The French correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says
that three of the generals who are entrusted with superior
commands belonged formerly to the so-called " Maison
Militaire du Roi Louis Philippe et des Princes," and were
bitterly opposed to the Revolution of February. They
are Bourbaki and Polh6s, who were ordnance officers of
the King, and Fiereck, who was formerly adjutant to the
Duc de Montpensier.
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