The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-24 00:00:00

THE faISR- CHURCZ BILL IY THZ LORDS.

The following amendments to the Irish Church Bill
have already been entered on the Lords' paper:—
EARL GREY.-1. To negative the ordinary motion for
postponing the preamble. 2. If the above should be
agreed to, then to leave out from the preamble, page 1,
lines 9 and 10, the following words : "But not for the
maintenance of any church or clergy or other ministry,
nor for the teaching of religion ;" and also to leave out the
next following paragraph, lines 11 to 15.
LORD COLCHESTER.—TO add to clause 13 (" and the
persons who from time to time shall exercise and dischaige
archiepiscopal functions in the said church shall he per-
mitted to assume and use titles in respect of the districts
or places within which they exercise such functions without
incurring any penalty by law attaching to persons
assuming ecclesiastical titles in respect of any place or
district without being by law thereunto authorised.")
Loi) BOMILLY.—CIause 21, page 9, line 12, at end of
clause insert (" Provided always, that in all cases where
any point of doctrine or discipline of the Church of Eng-
land shall come into question and be decided by any of
the civil courts in Ireland, the appeal shall lie to her
Majesty in council in England and not to the House of
Lords.")

EARL RUSSELL.—CIause 68, line 26, after ("applied")
insert these words: (" to the benefit of the Irish people:
And whereas it is desirable to satisfy as far as possible,
upon principles of equality as between the several reli-
gious denominations in Ireland, all just and equitable
claims : And whereas provision has been made in
the foregoing parts of this Act to satisfy the
just and equitable claims of the representative
body of the present Established Protestant Church of
Ireland, in respect to churches, graveyards, ecclesiastical
residences, and glebe lands : And whereas the Presby-
terian Church in Ireland and Roman Catholic Church in
Ireland have just and equitable claims, such property
shall be applied-1. To the building of churches or
chapels, the building or purchase of ecclesiastical resi-
dences, and the purchase or grant of glebe lands,
not exceeding thirty acres, attached to each such resi-
dence to the Presbyterian Church and clergy in Ireland.
2. To the building of churches or chapels, the building or
purchase of ecclesiastical residences, and the grant of glebe
land., not exceeding thirty acres, attached to each such
residence to the Roman Catholic Church and clergy of
Ireland. 3. To the purchase or grant of lands when
applied for by petition of the inhabitants of any parish or
parishes for the purpose of graveyards for Protestants of all
denominations and members of the Roman Catholic Church.
And be it enacted that at the end of ten years, when the
commission hereby created shall expire, any surplus which
the commissioners may report to her Majesty to be still
remaining may be applied in the manner hereinafter
directed.")
EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.—In the event of the secularisa-
tion of the surplus revenues having been affirmed, to move
that all the paragraphs numbered 1,2, 3,4, 5, under
clause 68, page 31, be omitted, and clauses be substituted
to provide that such surplus be treated as a fund for the
granting of small loans at a moderate interest and on
adequate security to the peasantry of Ireland. To insert
clauses whereby in the commutation of life interests con-
sideration may he given to the greater longevity of the
clergy.

BANQUET TO THE BISHOPS AND CLERGY

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The annual banquet given by the Lord Mayor of
London on the anniversary of the Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel, to the bishops and the clergy of all
denominations, was given on 'Wednesday at the Mansion
House. The company included the Archbishops of Can-
terbury, Armagh, and Dublin ; the Bishops of London,
Llandaff, Gloucester and Bristol, Rochester, Hereford,
and Columbia ; the Bishop designate of Labuan ; the
Rev. Canon Oxenden, Metropolitan elect of Canada;
Archdeacon Hale, the Rev. Dr. Barry, Principal of
King's College ; the Rev. Drs. Kynaston, Ilaig•Brown,
Binney, &c.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been given,
the Archbishop of CANTEREURY responded to " Prosperity
to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel," with
which toast his Grace's health was coupled. "The Society
(said the archbishop) had two objects—to minister to the
spiritual wants of Englishmen who emigrated to the
colonies and distant lands, and to propagate the Gospel
amongst the heathen. Everyone who was acquainted
with the East of London must have observed what
a number of persons from almost every country
in the world were congregated there. Anyone
who visited the Oriental Strangers' Home in Whitechapel
might see these specimens of all the races of the East.
London, in fact, was an epitome of the human race. It
was impossible they could neglect their duty in the civi-
lising—and there could be no civilisation without regene-
ration—of those distant portions of the globe. But they
stood in need of union at home as well as abroad, and
the number and variety of persons who were assembled on
the prosont nreasion was a sort of attestation that
the great work of the Church of England was going
on, and that it was honoured and respected even
by those who did not belong it. With regard to
the colonies, the strongest ties by which they could be
bound to the mother country were moral ties, and of
moral tics none were so strong as religion. Was it not a
proof of the connection between the m that a bishop of the
Church at home had been a bishop for twenty-three years
in the colonies, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and the First Lori of the Admiralty had won their spurs
in the colonies? The Scciety for the Propagation of
the Gospel deserved the honour they received that
night, if only for its contribution to the consolidation
of the British empire, but still more so for its zeal in
extending the blessings of the Gospel to the ends of the
earth."

The Bishop of LONDON responded to the toast of " The
Clergy of all Denominations," and said that the only
rivalry the Church of England desired to carry on with
other Churches was the rivalry as to who should do most
to win sinners to Christ.

Mr. MOWBRAY, in req)ondiog for "The House of Com-
mons," referred to the great oratorical powers displayed
by the Upper Chamber in the late debates.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in proposing " The
Lord Mayor," said that his lordship bad two public capa-
cities—as Lord Mayor, and member for Lambeth. He
(the Archbishop) regretted that Lambeth was not like
London, with a mayor and corporation of its own. He
believed that Lambeth would be the better for it, and he
believed the Lord Mayor—the member for Lambeth—
thought so too. He gave the health of the Lord Mayor,
not only in his twofold public capacity, but also in his
private capacity, for he had many opportunities of meet-
ing him, and he knew how ready he was at all times to
assist in works of benevolence and charity.

BICYCLE ACCIDENTS.—BicycIe accidents are now
becoming prolific in the list of casualties. On Wednes-
day morning Mr. Charles Frogmore, jun., residing in
East Surrey-grove, Peckham, fell from his machine in the
Kennington•road, and was picked up insensible. The
previous night Mr. Samuel Gowers, after riding on a
bicycle from Sevenoaks, was run into by a horse which
was frightened by a train in Southwark-street, and sus-
tained injuries to his leg.
THE HARTLEY COLLIERY RELIEF FUND.—A
mass meeting of miners has been held at Lower Gornal,
to consider what steps should be taken as to the above
balance. A resolution was passed to the effect that the
meeting protested against the balance being given to any
hospital, but that it should form the nucleus of a general
fund for the relief of orphans and widows of miners killed
whilst following their employment, and for disabled miners.
A second resolution expressed the willingness of the men
to 'subscribe to any such fund.

GUN ACCIDENTS.—A couple of gun accidents
are reported from Exeter. Mr. Stone, a jeweller, was
examining a breech-loader in his shop, not knowing it was
loaded, when it went off. Two gentlemen were looking on
at the time, but they fortunately escaped injury, as also
did Mr. Stone ; much damage, however, was done to the
shop. At Alphington, near Exeter, a lad 16 years of age,
who had come from London to spend his holidays, was
loading a walking-stick gun, his sister standing by, when
the weapon went off, the charge lodging in the lad's
knee. The wound is a very serious one. The girl had a
narrow escape.

THE SWISS TIR AND THE VOLUNTEERS. —The
English Volunteers received some short time ago an invi-
tation from the Council of the Swiss Federal Tir to attend
the next festival gathering to be held at the Canton of
Zug. Since the invitation the general particulars of the
Tir have been sent for the information of those Volun-
teers and their friends who will journey to that interest-
ing country and take part in the contest. The shooting
at Zug will be for 300,000 f., divided into many prizes,
and a large number of these prizes are open to " All
Comers," with military rifles. " Military " means rifles
with uncovered fores'g'.ts, backsights on the barrel, and a
fair pull of trigger. There is a "grand distance" target
of 1,000 feet, besides targets of 300 and 400 metres, and
the entrance fees are very low, the "series" being in five
shots each, and each series costing about ls. 3d. It unfor-
tunately happens that the "Tir" is held concurrently with
the Wimbledon shooting, the Wimbledon meeting com-
mencing on the sth proximo, and the Swiss one on the
11th. The first stage of the Queen's Prize will close on
the 9th, and all the unsuccessful shots in the stage will be
at liberty to go, and could reach Zug on the clay of the
opening. For those who do not shoot in the Queen's a
cheap route is offered by Messrs. Cook, the continental
agents. In passing through France with arms at a period
like the present some permission is requisite, and inquiry
should be made of French officials or at the French
gitibalsY.