The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-11 00:00:00

OXFORD.

at, lb, at. lb.
J. H. Woodhouse, Univ ll li J. C. Tinne, University.... 13 12
It. Tairtnirdin, St. John's ll 13 AC. Yarborough. Lincoln 1.2 0
I'. S. Baker. Queen's l2 12i W. D. Benson, }lalliol .... 11 9
It. Willan, Exeter l2 4A 1 S.D.Darbishire, Bal., stroke 11 9
D. A. Neilson, St. John's (cox.), 7st. 131 b.
CAMBRIDGE.

at. lb. I ...,. ie.
A. Rushton, Emmanuel ll 7F. M'Michaels, Downing 12 4
J. 11. Ridley, Jesus
J. W. Da e, St. John's l2 10 P. H. Mellor, Ist Trinity.. 11 10i
J. F. Young, Christ's

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H. E. Cordon, First
The betting rules much as i
Oxford last night, but there

'rittity (cox.), 7st. £lb.
did ; 70 to 40 was offered on
ras no taker.

The Herald says that it has been asserted by those
likely to be well infone ' on the subject, that the Irish
Roman Catholic bishops were not at first by any means
such fervent supporters of Mr. Gladstone's contemplated The Bishop of Salisbury's health during the last
measures in regard to the Irish branch of the Etablish- few days has continued to improve.
ment as the public generally supposed. The fact is, that The French papers attribute a mot to Lamartine,
the hope of a total transfer of the Church property to
for which, had he been still alive, they would scarcely, we
themselves or their successors, at a future, and, perhaps, • should think, have liked to make him responsible. Some
not very distant date, which was always in their contem.
one asked the poet whether he was not spending too much
plating, influenced their conduct ; and in their private
money in advertising his publications. "No," be is reported
conversations with select members of their own faith they
to have answered, "advertisements are absolutely neces-
pleaded, in justification of their want of sympathy for Mr.
eary. Even Divine worship" (in the original, le bon. Dieu)
Gladstone's proceedings, that they had no right to sanction . needs advertisine. Otherwise what is the meaning of
the disposal of funds which did not belong to them to any
church bells? "
other purpose than those to which they were originally
appropriated. The loss of the Maynooth grant, however, An English lion-tamer, yclept Cooper, has had
coupled with the determination expressed in one act of a narrow escape of his life at the Circus on the Boulevards,
Parliament that the levelling up system should not, uni' r Paris, In putting his head into the lion's mouth, the
any circumstances, be adopted, seems to have in some dotepteur had reckoned without his host, for the animal
measure altered their original intention of maiutainins; a immediately closed his ponderous jaws, and would have
dignified neutrality in the political contest. A very well soon turned his master into a veritable headless man but
written and obviously well-considered letter appeared for the timely intervention of an assistant, who, by firing
recently in the Freeman's Journal, under the signature of a gun, frightened the animal and made him release the
"A Priest," suggesting the terms on which the transfer of
head of the rio»zetcur. The too-venturesome tamer gut off
a share of the Church property to the bishops of the Roman with a few teeth-marks. ,
Catholic religion might be rendered acceptable to those On Tuesday, at especial meeting of the Dublin Town
dignitaries and productive of public good. We take it that Council, a letter was read from Mr. Bruce intimating that her
this •tter has received private sanction from superior Majesty would receive the Lord Mayor tend four other mem,-
authority, and that it has been inserted to test public hers of the Corporation on the lath inst., for the purpose of
opinion on propositions which the Catholic bishops would presenting an address with reference to the Irish Church.
not venture to propound themselves. Mr. Sullivan, having expressed regret that the loyalty of
The Standard thinks that the Duke of Somerset opened
over, the observation was
the Conservative members was at such a low ebb that none
a most interesting question on Tuesday night, when be . of them would volunteer to. goil,ov
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declaring that the
asked the Government for information as to theiapolicy in t repudiated from the other side, ..Ir
regard to the protection of missionaries in China. His • "majority had asked to strike from LlTer the Throne one
Grace's remarks as to the general behaviour of some of our of its principal supports." A valedictory address to the
et hissionaries, especially those belongine to a body called Duke of Abercorn was carried by 32 to 4.
ominously the "China Inland Mission," were very much Mr. Akroyd, M.P., Mr. E. Ashworth, Mr. Can-
to the point, though they might have covered a much delet, of Manchester, and the Rev. Mr. Stamper presented
wider field. The whole subject of the national duty in a memorial to Mr. Gladstone at the House on Tuesday
regard to the missionary system is one of great impor-
night, asking him to support Dec. Selwyn-Ibbetson's
tance, and has scarcely obtained the notice which it de- bilk Mr. Gladstone said the bill did not accord with the
serves. What the country should know is distinctly recommendation of Mr.
i Villiers's Committee, and sug-
whether, either in China or elsewhere, it is in the power of
grated whether the magistrates, if they had all the licens-
any individual who gout into the interior to change
ing power, might not be aibitrary. Mr. Candelet replied
the religion of the natives to appeal to the nearest that be thought the difficulty was met in the ninth
British armed force to back him in his arguments clause, which was adopted from Mr. Gladstone's Wine
or to relieve him in discomfiture. Unless some clear Act. Mr. Gladstone promises to consider the memorial.
understanding is come to on this point we can never be The memorial was signed by four thousand persons, includ-
sure of peace in any part of the world. If it is left to the leg one hundred members of Parliament.
discretion of every individual missionary whether any
given Chinese town shall be sacked and burnt by the naval THE GREAT FIRE AT NEW ZEALAND.—The fire
forces of her Majesty, and a certain numberof itsinhabitants which broke out in the town of Timaru on the7thel
slain, it is impossible that we can either spread peace or December last, was one of the most destructive that havethe
religion through the Chinese empire. We say this with taken place in New Zealand. Nearly the whole.ef
the utmost respect for what is good and noble in the mis- chief buildings and stores in the place were consumed.ieru
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sionary system. In the interests of Christianity itself it Among them were the Bank of New Zealand, the et A
is clear that we must no longer resort to the gunboat as Herald office, club-house, hotels, insurance offices, &c.
the ultima ratio between the British missionary in a Chi- heavygale of wind from the N.W., which prevailed at the
nese town and his native hearers. It cannot he doubted time, was the principal cause of the conflagration extending
that one such an affair as that at Yangchow is calculated as it did. The total loss of property is estimated at
to do ten times as much injury to the cause of the religion £27,000 to £lOO,OOO, only £32,000 of which is insured.
which was there propagated as all the good which the ar
.0.1.11. GLADSTONE'S IRISH CHURCH BILL.—At a
China Inland Mission could achieve, working at its
highest power, in half a century. conference of the National Associaticn, held at Dublin on
The Star enters upon the question of representative Wednesday, a resolution, proposed by the Very Rev. Dr.
peers at some length, and says that it would be better to Moran, and unanimously adopted, declared that, while
let it rest unless it can be settled by giving to the people of disapproving of some of the details of the Irish Church
Scotland
e ection of anpeers ad the ps wille le oeitherf Irelabringnd such
the m righajority ots in tf
he Bill, the association places full confidence in the wise and
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the peers into harmony with the peoples, or secure the just policy of Mr. Gladstone, and in the good feeling of
return of peers who will not caricature the opinion the English people. The Bishop of Galway spoke of the
of the country for which they sit, We can see no Premier as the greatest of modern statesmen, whose name
mgoade. od reason why d
be this
no ch
occasion ange should
restrict the not he ahould descend to posterity as the greatest benefactor to
franchise, because the nature of the case confines the religion and society.
candidature to men presumed by the custom and
PURCHASING OF THE IRISH RALLWAYS.--So far
theory of this country to be inevitably capable, as soon as
they reach manhood, of legislating competently for their as I can gather, the Irish peers and commoners are not in
countrymen. When constituencies are free to range over remarkably good spirit's at the result of to-day's interview
the whole area of the adult male population, it is conceiv- with the Premier and his two colleagues, the Chancellor
able that the suffrage may prove a responsibility too heavy
for some who possess it e but restricted in their choice to of e the Exchequer and the Irish Minister. Lowe frequently
hereditary wisdom, the Irish and Scotch peoples could not interposed carefully-studied questions of a not particularly
go far wrong. They might safely lee trusted
in to pertinent character during the spokesman's masterly
an intelligible basis a representation which its present statement of the whole Irish railway case, and, when
state is a ludicrous parody of everything that the partici-
Lord Clariricarde concluded, other interrogatories which
patien of nobles in government ought to be.
The Post, after remarking that the Attorney-General
did not indicate an over-friendly feeling towards the
has in his Bankruptcy Bill adopted "pure and simple"
purchase scheme followed. All that could be extracted
the Scottish system, says that if creditors whose debts are from Mr. Gladstone was that he considered the subject of
great or small will really attend to their own business— great importance, and that he would give it full considera:
if they appoint as trustees men content to. receive fair tion. This meagre stereotyped official promise is not likely
to afford much satisfaction to the Irish people.—London
remuneration for the work actually done—if no bills of
professional men are paid until they have been taxed—if
all accounts are submitted to a searching audit in the Correspondent of the Irish Times.
VELOCIPEDE SCHOOLS.—'The nightly scenes at ii
office of the accountant in bankruptcy, then the introduc-
tion of the Scottish system in this country may be re-
garded as an unmixed good. The details of the measure Burnham's and Witty's schools in Brooklyn constitute
itself cannot be correctly appreciated until we see them quite an interesting entertainment. The expert riders of
some months hence in print,Brooklyn are multiplying rapidly, and at both the above and until we see the com-
panion measure for the abolition of imprisonment for debt,
which also is promised. If the delay which is anticipated velocipede arenas the displays of skill and daring are
should take place, the Government will deserve much blame, numerous. The funny side of the picture is also exhibited
and, possibly, the H use of Lords may be induced to
take the matter into its own hands and consider a' nightly in thee form of the collisions, falls, narrow escapes,
Bankruptcy Bill which, without consolidating the old and the wobbling movements of the tyros in the art. The
law, will in a contise convenient acid efficient shape give attendance of spectators each night is such as to crowd
the public the benefit of the advantages which hav now
been shadowed forth by the Attorney-General. Last year, both halls, the gallery at Burnham's being specially de-
when Lord Cairns's large bill, containing than five
hundred clauses, was- withdrawn voted to tl.te, use of ladies and those of flee other
accepted, as an instalment, Mr. 'Ain't'.
The
same . . o.a s short bill relat•
tt.,r lament. gladly i sex accompaaying them, while at Witty's hall the
leg to trust deeds.
we same 17:ocess may again ljave to
he repeated, and,
hope, with the same ladies. have the front seats. Mr. Burnham has
riding as a feature of the
introduce velocipede
success. However this may' he, au.ct'•
credit for the candid manner ad.eir
.R. Collier deserves exeseises of his Ltd classes; and Mrs. Burnham already
which he proposes to deal NnVithenil etoy reform,
ight.ened spirit with ' rides with a degree of modest ease and skill surprising
and the public will be satietied if 'illiei'rtuext of his bill to those who iwazine that ladies cannot ride a two-
justifies the commentary which we have now made he. wheeled velecipede without objectionable exposes. The
anticipation.
i exercise is especially adapted for ladies, and it is simply as
The Daily News considers that the btcilsltsofisthle Solicitor- ' an exercise that Mr. Burnham has introduced it. None
General for the repeal of university
than a reprint of the measure which he introrceedTerset but ladies are admitted to the hall during the ladies' class
yeeramr.isslvteis caosmpruelso,-oarisasthreeegacrd; the universities, and‘ exercise, and those who leave seen Mrs. Burnham ride are
Fay offices of distinction and eonieeTteisin. enltinoltivis al. in a fever to learn the art themselves. The ordinary dress
versities to Nonconformists, using that word In %11. used by ladies. in these calisthenic exercises is just suited
largest extent. To the colleges, which are privet: for use in riding the bicycles, not half as much exposé of
foundations, it gives the liberty, withdrawn from the nether limbs being made as in the ordinary walking
them
statutes aby
nd thadmitting Dissentere Act of Uniform
s,ishoty,
uld theof revisindis g t
o sed
heii attire. Never before in the history of manufactures in
to do so. 'flee measure has passed yb be
eyondp the this country has there arisen such a dammed for an article
stage at which discussion is useful. 'flee second as now exists in relation to velocipedes. They are
reading of the bill is sure to be carried by a large manufactured now at the rate of 1,000 a week, and that it
majority. What is needful is, that at every stage about the tenth part of the number of orders received foe
the tide of opinion shall run strong and high enough in
the Commons and in the country to float it, in Lord them. One contract was made this week for the gn anti- •
Russell's apt phrase, over the bar of the Lords. , facture of 5,000 boys' bicycles.—Neav York Times.