The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-21 00:00:00

WHITEHALL, MAI 20.

The Queen has been p!caseel to presoht tLo Iloverowl
George Anderson to the church awl pArish of Cartnyl., iit
the ixesbytery of Arbroath, awl county (4 Forfar, v..c:Jut
by the death ul Doctor _Patrick 8,11.

The 67th Regiment, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, was inspected on
Southsea-common yesterday by Lieutenant-G..nleral
Sir G. Buller, K.C.8., commanding the south-wes-
tern. district.

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The Times remarks that Mr. Forster, in the space of a I The special correspondent of the Daily News, who 6
short. tech, has laid before the country a.sinciple and investigating the agrarian outrages in Ireland, Calls
forcible statement of his educational policy. Some of attention in his latest letter (dated from Cork) to the
the principles he enunciates, especially with regard to the wholesale emigration which is still going on. " Standing
importance of religious influence, may win him con- on the quay of Cork, loaded with cattle, pigs, sheep,
eideration in quarters from which he has most reason to poultry, and butter for exportation, and pressed by
fear opposition. He bases the interference of Parlia. . crowds of emigrants, whose labour probably contributed
;lava with educational institutions on a just fotmda• to the wealth that was leaving the country with them, it
lion when he observes that all endowments are was not possible to avoid asking oneself whether there was
practically entrusted to the State. Nothing but anything in the operation of the received doctrines of
the authority of the State can insure the application political economy, and of the legislation founded upon
of the founder's bequests to the uses he designed, and it is them, to account for the strange scene presented. There
in reliance on this authority being duly exerted that en- were firkins of butter being shippedoff to variousparts of the
dowments grow up amid a settled civilisation. It becomes, world ; cattle, sheep, and pies to England ; a few horses for
therefore, not only the right of the State for its own inte- France. No doubt there were men who reared the animals,
rest, but its duty towards former public benefactors, to and women who helped to make the butter on the quay,
see that funds left for useful purposes are usefully and going with the produce, and it may surely be asked, Is it
appropriately applied. The simple task which the Govern- not an anomaly that this labour power and this produce
ment has undertaken is to modify the existing charters so could not be brought into direct contact at home ?--
as to render the schools serviceable once more, and this that the agricultural labourer and farmer's daughter
can doubtless be best done by introducing the study of could not eat their Tipperary and Cork butter in Tippe-
those sciences which have come into existence within the I rary and Cork, but must do so in a foreign land ? If we
last 200 years. There were once only three learned pro- were left to the mere reasoning of common sense, it would
fessions, and the old grammar-school training was tlte seem to conclude that the people of Ireland had the first
best possible introduction to the study of them. There lien on the products they made, and that only what was
are now other professions, and a corresponding course of left after supplying their own wants should be exported
training needs to be provided. We have not the least in exchange for the products of other countries, not
doubt that it will be provided in answer to the demand, obtainable'in Ireland. But here the producer and the
even if there were no endowments to foster it. Large I Product arc mingled in a common mass of exportation, the
funds, however, are lying idle, which cannot be more former leaving home for the express purpose of obtaining
naturally applied than to this purpose. But the very his share of those very things which he has produced, and
revolution in knowledge which has rendered such inter- wh'el arc being carried with him over the wide sea. It
ference necessary warns us against attempting a secotd may be said that they, or those they have left behind,
time to stereotype any scheme of education or study. have received the representative in money of the food
What we need is a system of free self-adjustment under that is leaving the country to feed foreign mouths; but
careful supervision. I am afraid that the greater part of the money goes,
like the cattle and people, across the sea, to supply
the wants or minister to the pleasures of absentee
proprietors. It is the business of statesmen to
discover the cause of the truly affecting scenes which
are taking place in this land every week. That
over-population is the cause can hardly be true,
for I am told there is a real deficiency of labour
in the country. lam told that in some of the poorest dis-
tricts agricultural labourers get 2s. 4d. to 2s. 6d. a day—
ten shillings a week and food. It may be that what the
farmers call scarcity of labour means a rise in the price of
labour. But the two things are very different. If there
be enough of labour to do the work at any price, it cannot
Draperly be said that labour is scarce. Labour is then
tear, not scarce. In the decade between 1851 and
1861 the population of Tipperary fell from 330,000 to
248,000, or 82,000. The emigration from Ireland in 1865 was
100,000 ; in 1866, 98,000 ; in 1867,88,000 ; and I apprehend
it will be greater in 1869, with a diminished population,
than it has been for some years back. Surely this is not
a sign of prosperity, and it is for statesmen, whose busi-
ness it is to know how wile the limits stand `between a
splendid and a happy land,' to staunch this perpetual
drain of a nation's life blood. Whatever the outcry raised
against Ireland for the number and atrocity of its agrarian
:rimes, it must be confessed that it presents no
unfavourable contrast to either England or Scotland
as regards ordinary crime. In 1867 there were
18,970 persons committed to prison in England,
and 14,207 convicted. In Scotland 3,005 were com-
mitted, and 2,510 convicted ; in Ireland there were
1,561 committed, and 2,732 convicted. The offences
against property with violence stand thus for the same
year :-- England, 1,940 ; Scotland. 445 ; and Ireland, 215.
Ireland, therefore, is not a country in which either life or
property can be said to be insecure. But the life of a land-
lord who exercises his unquestionable legal rights to what
is deemed the oppression of a tenant is not secure in
Tipperary, for there is an unwritten code of laws in the
hearts of the population that is in the teeth of the laws of
the Statute-book."

The Standard alludes to Mr. Sumner's dialogue with the
special, correspondent of the New York. Herald, and says
that it confirms all it has said as to the true origin of the
Alabama claims. It is now evident-from Mr. Sumner's
own words (if we may suppose him to be correctly
reported), that the rejection of the Alabama Treaty was
due to the political circumstances of the Republican
party. It was not rejected because of any fault of
England, but because it was the work of President
Johnson's Government. Mr. Sumner clearly implies
this when he expresses his surprise that we should
go on negotiating the treaty with Mr. Reverdy
Johnson after General Grant had been elected
President. As to the objection against Mr. Reverly
Johnson, what has England to do with that? How were
we to suppose that he represented nothing, seeing that he
had been appointed by the American President, and con-
firmed in his appointment by the unanimous voice of the
American Senate? It is monstrous to expect that Eng-
land is to look behind the character of every ambassador
who is sent to us from America—that we should inquire
whether or not he represents anything, or how many he
represents. We had no option but to accept, as the
American representative, the individual who was sent
over to us in that character. And Mr. Sumner is guilty
of a curious inconsistency in approving of one portion
of the work which we did through Mr. Reverdy
Johnson, and in rejecting another. Surely if Mr.
Reverdy Johnson was not competent to arrange the terms
of the Alabama negotiation, lie was equally incompetent
to settle the San Juan difficulty, or the naturalisation
question. having accepted those two treaties with
England, negotiated through Mr. Reverdy Johnson, Mr.
Sumner is clearly restrained from objecting to the
character of his own agent, as a ground for the rejection
of the Alabama Treaty. Upon no principle of interna-
tional or moral equity can this be fair, nor is it easy to see
how even Mr. Bright can believe that it "serves us right"
to have these new claims advanced against us merely be-
cause the Americans cairegt agree among themselves as to
who should be their representative.
The Daily News declares that Dr. M'Neile attributes to
Mr. Gladstone by insinu tion closed ears, a hardened
heart, and a temper blindly elated by success. Dr.
M'Neile's dark forebodings as to Mr. Gladstone's mental
and moral condition are at present only suspicions. They
will become melancholy certainties when Mr. Gladstone
shall have proved himself insensible to the remonstrances
and reproofs of his ghostly adviser at Ripon, who is pro-
bably waiting with the utmost anxiety for the 31st of this
month. Then it will be known whether his shot has taken
effect. If on that day Mr. Gladstone rises, not to move
the third reading of the Irish Church Bill, but to announce
its withdrawal, to make profession of penitence and
to read his recantation, Dr. M`Neile will have made a
notable convert. Should the Prime Minister proceed with
the measure the explanation will be only too obvious. His
mind is closed and his heart is darkened. If Dr. M'Neile
were a Christian confessor of the first century standing
before some heathen magistrate who would be as likely as
not to reply to his remonstrances with the summary sen-
tence—Ad leones, his boldness would be respectable. But
a courage so cheaply exercised as his scarcely palliates the
rudeness with which it is accompanied. If Saint Paul
had commenced his pleadings before Agrippa or Felix by
attributing to them closed ears, hardened hearts, and
tempers elated by pride, it may be a question whether the
one would have trembled, or the other have been almost
persuaded to become a Christian. Mr. Gladstone is not
precisely an Agrippa or a Felix ; and Dr. M'Neile is far
enough from being a Saint Paul, in whom, setting aside
more remarkable gifts and endowments, some critics have
recognised the qualities of a perfect gentleman. The
Irish Church Bill of Mr. Gladstone, in contributing to
make the Irish people contented citizens of the United
Kingdom, will do more than a thousand polemical letters
to reduce to a minimum those evil influences of Roman
Catholicism on which Dr. M'Neile monotonously insists.
The Herald, in commenting upon the pastoral of Arch-
bishop Leahy, says that late as the exhortation comes, and
odd as are the motives upon which the Archbishop bases his
recommendation of the precept "Thou shalt do no
murder," we welcome the pastoral with the heartiest and
most unfeigned satisfaction. We must take it that the
Archbishop knows the people with whom he has to deal,
and that in pointing out to them that if they go on killing
landlords they will cover their English Liberal friends
with a certain amount of odium, and so destroy their chance
of obtaining a satisfactory reform of the land laws, he
presents to them the only argument which is likely to
have the slightest effect, and we may hope that a repre-
sentation coming from such a quarter will convince
the peasantry of Tipperary that they ought not to com-
mit murder in order to assert the right of the tenant as
against the landlord. It is not, of course, very compli-
mentary to the Irish tenant that his spiritual advisers
should deem it necessary to have recourse to such argu-
ments. Nothing that English writers and speakers have
ever said of the Irish people has been half so offensive to
them as these appeals to them by their natural leaders not
to commit murder because the crime will probably preju-
dice their own objects ; but that is a question between the
Archbishop and.his flock, and we are too glad that he has
stepped out to denounce murder at all, and too ready
to admit his influence over the population, to
examine very critically into the reasons which he
gives for such a proceeding. Murder, in fact,
says the revered Archbishop, is not only wrong, but,
under present circumstances, it is extremely foolish, it
will not pay. If you will only wait, tenants of Tipperary
and other Irish counties, and trust to the great statesman
now at the head of the English Government, a Samson
yetunshorn by Delilah—let us hope that Rome may not
prove Mr. Gladstone's Delilah—you will get all you
want. You want for yourselves the property of your
landlords, but you take a rude and awkward method of
obtaining your object. Give up the notion of helping
yourselves and confide in the great leader of the English
Liberal party. If you will only keep quiet, and not
frighten his more timid followers, he will next year com-
plete the destruction of the upas tree by confiscating
for your profit the property of the landlords, as he has
this year confiscated for their benefit the property of the
Church.

The Telegraph says people still consider that a minister
of religion is a man who holds himself commissioned by
Divine authority to preach. the Gospel and administer the
rites of the Christian Church. Face to face with this
still potent belief, we have the extraordinary fact that the
sacred right is openly offered for sale ; that the greatest
publican and sinner in. the City of London may buy the
next right of presentation to a living, and may exercise
the power of appointment. The Church of England has
a great task to accomplish. It has first to civilise, then
to Christianise, the millions who live coarsely and
brutishly in what we may call the back settlements
of our rural districts, and yet more sinfully in the hack
lanes of our towns, with Physical and moral foulness all
around them. And how can the Cin,roli fulfil that ter-
tilde task through the hands of men whose right to be the
apostles of the Cress has been bought—literally bought in
the market with hard money? There are in the Church
as true soldiers of Christ as any that have been sent forth
to preach ; why should such men, living exemplars of self-
denial and heroic labour, he classed and linked with the
teeters who represent nothing but their own families or
their father;,' els?, ? Yet, when we have exhausted our.
indignant questions, we shall he asked, " Where is the
remedy to be found ?" The question unfolds a gigantic diffi-
culty ; but no trouble, no perplexity, can daunt the earnest
heart or the clear intellect in such a cause. Sfficter rules
regareing the residence and work of incumbents--a larger
license to the bishops to refuse the inductiO:of very young
clergymen—mere liberal laws as to the.minimum salaries
and personal rightA of turates—w(,u!d: diminish the evil. ;
And diminution would lead to more; for we not con-
cral c:»ivietion that eventually=-we must "reform it '
altogether." Such a hideous abuse—such a cynical confer-,
Edon. in the very act of the clergy, that scepticism is right,
and the portals of Truth are kept by hypocritically dis-
guised mercenaries—is a wordly canker in the midst of the
Church ; it converts the Temple into a mart ; it deadens
and degrades the ministry, and makes the preaching of the
G ospel 'a mere official and pharisaical act.

LAIV AND POLICE.

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THE POLICE AND THE BETTING-lIMISES.—At Guildhall,
on Thursday, Charles Peck, landlord of the Red Lion Inn,
Poppin's-Court, Fleet-street, was summoned for using his
house for the purposes of betting.—Another case of a
rimilar character was heard at the same time. Richard
Sill, of the Crown beerhouse, Deptford, was charged with
using a room in the Green Man public-house, Bucklers.
bury, for betting. The magistrate (Sir E. Carden) gate
judgment on both together, and said Peck's offence was a
very serious one, as he was a licensed victualler, and had
not only allowed betting in his house, but had betted- him.
Self. He had taken into consideration the fact that Peck
would lose his license, and would therefore fine him £5O
and five guineas costs, to be levied by distress warrant.
Sill was fined 225 and fir e guineas costs. Sill's fine was
paid.

DISHONEST SERVANTS.—At Marylebone Police-court,
3n Thursday, two servants were brought to justice
through the agency of a patrnbroker, who had given them
into custody when they came to pledge silver plate, on
suspicion that it hail been stolen from their employers.
In one of the cases a footman in the service of Mr.
-Justice llannen was the delinquent, and he was committed
v.or trial.

IIAXLWAr FATES.—At Tow-street, on Thurschy, a case
some interest to railway travellers was heard. A
traveller, from Wandsworth, took a return ticket from
Waterlo) to Cannon-street ; but instead of alightiz:g
at Waterloo he rode on to Charing-cross, refusing to
pay the difference of fare for the longer dis-
tance, as the return fares for both distances
%Vas the same. lie was summoned for the extra
threepence by the South-Eastern Company, who main-
tained that he was liable to a penalty of 40s. by their
bye-laws, and that each ticket was stated to be only avail-
able for the station for which it was issued. The magis-
trate thought that in taking the ticket the passenger
accepted its conditions, and inflicted a fine of ls. and
costs.

EXTRAORDINARY ACTION AGAINST A SURGEON AND A
POLICE INSPECTOR.—At the County Court at Hitchin,
Flerts, unusual interest was excited by the trial of a case
in which a highly respectable family named Joyner were
plaintiffs, and Mr. Shillitoe, a leading surgeon in the
district, one of the defendants. It appeared that on
the 3rd of November, 1863, a newly-born child was
found abandoned on the steps of the Hitchin Infirmary,
near to plaintiffs' house. From certain rumours which
reached. the ears of Inspector Young, of the Fleas con-
stabulary, he, in virtue of his office, entered the dwelling-
house of the said Daniel Joyner in his absence, and
proceeded to interrogate his wife as to her own and her
daughter's health, and ultimately charged them with the
offence. He then left the house in charge of a police-
constable, and shortly afterwards returned in company of
Mr. Shillitoe, who subsequently subjected wife and
daughter to a surgical examination for the alleged purpose
of ascertaining whether either of them had been recently
delivered. In consequence of being compelled to submit
to this gross and needless indignity, the present actions
were brought to vindicate their character and to recover
compensation. The jury returned a verdict upon the two
plaints before them for the Plaintiffs ; damages £2O on
each plaint.
ROBBERY AT NEWCASTLE BARRACKS. —A man named
Morgan has been charged at Newcastle with stealing
£166, the property of officers of the 08th Regiment, at
present stationed in the Newcastle Barracks. The prisoner
was employed as a messman, and absconded
on Saturday last. John Richardson, mess-sergeant,
said that he employed the prisoner to clean his
things. To the best of his belief he placed the
purse, containing the money he had received from the
officers, under his pillow on Saturday night. On looking
there next morning it was gone. The prisoner bad access
to the room, and when apprehended at Sunderland
some of the cheques w ere found upon him. He was
remanded.

THE EARL AND COUNTES3 PEW:Y.—There was
:4, great demonstration at Alnwick a day or two al.-ro in
honour of the arrival of Earl Percy and his bride at the
Castle from their wedding tour. Addresses were presen' ed
to the Earl and Countess from the Chamberlains and
Common Council an.l the inhabitant:, of Alnwielc, the
Duke of Norththumberland's tenants, and others. ,There
was a large proces3i9p, in which 250 mounted tenants, the
Militia, and Volunteers took part; and afterwards the
auspicious alliance of the Houses of Percy and Campbell
was celebrated by a public dinner.
THE EMPEROR AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY.—
The Empuror is so highly displeased with the choice
recently mace by the French Academy in filling up vacan•
cies, that be has written to the perpetual secretary to say
that he $ll%ll be g;ad to dispense with the usual ceremony
of receiving the ilex academicians. In truth both M.
Ilarbier and M. d'lfaussonville have never spared the
Eonaparte dynasty, and " the relations -between the
Church of Rome and :-.llc First Empire," which the latter
`gentleman is now pnblahing, is a vi,•lent indictment
brought against the Emperor Napoleon for his haughty •
and insolent dealing's with Rome.

A LOVING RoziN. —A few il:zys a,r the son of
Mr. G. J. Wood, of Wollaston-villas, was in the Chesnut
Walks, when he disco.:Tered a half-fledged thrush that had
by some means Lallen out of its nest. The lad carried the
nestling- hom and placed it in a cage, with the intention
ortearin; it by hand, amt soon afterwards a robin came
tappiri

• ill its infr;th
for the young thrush. The cage was then placed outside
the window, and ever since the robin has continued.to fly
to and fro with food for the stray nestling. It brings
svorms and crumbs at frequent intervals, and when a piece
of hard bread has come in its way the robin has been seer
to moisten it in the little pools of water collected in the
yard.—Dorset County Chronicle.