The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, t 69.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times observes that when it is asked what an Irish
landlord ought in justice to do, the answer is given by
pointing to what an English landlord actually does. Ho
ought to take no advantage of his tenant. Briefly speak-
ing, the "relatipn.s between landlord and tenant" would
call for no interference at all on the part of the Legislature
if both tenant and landlord were in such positions as ad-
mitted of private contract on equal terms. The buyer
and seller of land, or the use of land, might be safely left
to make their own bargain, like dealers in any other
commodities. elDn this point it is not Ireland, but
England that furnishes instruction. The law is invoked
only to make an Irish landlord do for the future
what English landlords do already. If it be said that an
Irish landlord might, except for " fixity of tenure," still
distress a tenant by eviction—that is, a notice to quit—
the answer is obviLul. An eviction is only an injury
where it causes a loss; it is no calamity where it represents
merely au inconvenience. If an Irish tenant can only be
dispossessed after due notice, and on condition of receiving
full compensation for all claims connected with his tenure,
this liability will amount to little ; besides which, it is to
be remembered that such dispossession itself will become
far less common when it has to be paid for. A landowner
who, by turning out a tenant, can appropriate to himself,
without compensation, all the fruits of that tenant's im-
provements, may be under a tempt: ion to abuse his rights,
but that inducement will disappear when every eviction
hai to be paid for on the spot according to impartial
valuation.

The Standard declares that the advocates of secular edu-

cation have fairly thrown down the gauntlet. What are
termed "inaugural " meetings in favour of any given object
usually precede and usher in the period of agitation. They
arc intended to rally together and parade the forces here-
after to be set in motion. The opening meetings of the
National Education League, at Birmingham, however, aro
intended rather to typify the united purpose and agreement
of its members. The National League, with all deference fox
Mr. Dixon and his class, holds that all distinctive religious
teaching is " sectarian," and that only the education which
excludes such teaching is " unsectarian." Thousands of
people who would never dream of supporting a system of
education from which the religious element is eliminated
have been deluded by this despicable cant, which com-
mends the secular irreligious system to public favour on

the ground that it is " unsectarian." If the League were
to declare as its platform that it desires to see
the people educated without reference to either God
or Devil, it might suffer from its boldness, but it

would certainly deserve credit for its frankness. It is a
mere catchpenny trick to hold out the lure of " unsectarian
teaching " when the thing meant is education without
religious teaching. We do not believe that the public at
large have any sympathy with so pernicious an object, or
that they will lend their sanction to a scheme which con-
templates the training of our young so that ten or twenty
years hence England may be a nation of atheists. The
friends of religious education are fairly warned as to the
danger ahead, and we hope that they will take such action
as shall render the projects of the League innocuous.

The Herald thinks the appointment of Dr. Temple t•
the bishopric of Exeter is little less than an ecclesiastical
scandal. We are far from denying the good qualities or
depreciating the high abilities of the Head Master of Rugby
School. We admit that he holds that rank in the Church
which fairly entitles a man to aspire to a bishopric, if he
be in no way disqualified therefor. We admit that his
contribution to "Essays and Reviews" was not by
itself of a character to alarm the Church or raise
grave doubts of his orthodoxy. But we affirm that
his connection with that disgraceful work—dis-
graceful simply as an attempt to undermine the
faith of Churchmen proceeding from sworn and
paid servants of the Church—in the absence of any formal
or informal repudiation of his more guilty colleagues, or
any effort to sever his cause from theirs, should in itself
disqualify him for ever for a post in which ho will be
placed in charge of the faith, discipline, and worship of a
whole diocese. It is an insult to Exeter, to the memory of
a loyal and pious Churchman, that Dr. Temple should be
appointed to a diocese long guarded by the zeal and
influnced by the opinions of Dr. rhillpotts. It is not very
creditable to Mr. Gladstone that this high promotion
is so timed as to appear to be given in requital
of the services of an active partisan during the
late general election. Dr. Temple's orthodoxy is
more than suspected. His connection with a work formally
condemned by the Church is the distinction by which he is
best known to his future diocese. His immediate title to
promotion is his active participation in the mutilation of
the United Church, of which that diocese is a part. It is
impossible to deny that his appointment will be resented
by nineteen clergymen in twenty, and by nine-tenths of
the laity of that diocese ; and equally impossible to affirm
that Mr. Gladstone has dcne well in outraging their feel-
inpe and their consciences in order to bestow a splendid
reurard upon a political adherent.
The Church of England, says the Daily 11cu•s, may well
pray just now to be saved from its "friends." Its own
troubles are great enough in all reason, but it has merciless
patrons and champions who are determined to render it
much such a service as would be dune to a respectable but
d'stracted family if under pretence of justifying one-half
of its members all its domestic jars were set forth in the
county newspaper. We have lately been told that opis-
coral appointments ought not to be made the reward of
political services. Let us say in turn that
a still greater injury to the Church is the dis-
cussion of episcopal appointments not on their merits,
but with main reference to the prejudice which
may be created against a Minister too successful
not to be envied. The Church pays dearly for its connec
tion with the State when on the slender chance of
damaging an eminent statesman a deliberate attempt is
made to throw a great diocese into confusion, and to
destroy the usefulness of him who is called to be its chief
pastor. We have often been told of late that the Church
of England needs more bishops ; especially that the coun-
ties of Devon and Cornwall are suffering from a want of
episcopal superintendence ; and it is precisely these coun-
ties which will suffer in proportion as the agitation set on
foot to disparage the new Bishop of Exeter may succeed.
The public is in no mood to sympathise with the dislikes
and antipathies which one set of clergymen may feel
towards another. At present the band of the State
holds together in the Church men who denounce
one another as little letter than infidels, and in
so holding them is said to matte the Anglican Church
national. Those who think that this forcible connection is
of any value will, as wise men, discontinue all agitation
which tends to bring the claims of the civil power and of
the clergy into conflict. A rupture will conic, in all proba-
bility, before the Church is well prepared to stand alone,
and it is surely wiser to spend the time in hastening for-
ward the preparation than in en ;aging in contests fore-
doomed to failure. Political parties may possibly have
something to gain by attacks which, made on a bishop
designate, are meant to reach some one else; but the gains
of party are the losses of the Church.

It does at first sight appear difficult, if not impossible,
remarks the Post, to reconcile the generally-received maxim
that the regard shewn for human life is the index and
measure of civilisation, with the deplorable yet notorious
fact that murders of a peculiarly revolting character are of
almost everyday occurrence, even in the most civilised
countries. The true explanation of this strange phe-
nomenon, perhaps, is that the dangerous classes—
using the term in its widest sense to compre-
hend tho criminally and homicidally disposed, to
whatever rank of society they may belong—are still as
savage and reckless as they ever were; while the well-
disposbd and moral portion of the uoinintinitr are growing
more humane in each successive generation. Thus, at a
time when in England and France there is a manifest
reluctance to enforce the punishment of death, except in
the ease of the worst and most aggravated murders, we
have to record such fearful tragedies as those at Hounslow
and Wood-green, and the Tropmann affair. Each of those
cases is remarkable, not Merely for the deliberate ferocity
with which the crime was perpetrated, but for the strange
inadequacy of the motives by which the murderers were
actuated. The class of homicides who only aim at killing
their victims and hope to escape from punishment them-
selves may be deterred from the commission of the greatest
of crimes by dread of a sufficiently adequate penalty. But
it is quite clear that those who have made up their
minds to add the crime of suicide to murder are not likely
to be deterred from carrying out their resolves by the feat
of death. This consideration, however, only affords an
additional reason for not abolishing what is confessedly
the most terrible and the most dreaded of all human
punishments in the case of every murderer who can be
brought to justice and convicted. The abolitionists profess
to rest their case upon philanthropy, benevolence, a reve-
rence for human life. ' But surely they must see that to
expose human life to the attacks of the homicidally dis-
posed, who, as the statistics of crime prove, are as prone to
murder now as at any preceding period, would be a strange
method indeed of shewing reverence for human life and
demonstrating their philanthropy and benevolence,
ritsiliiiing that the court considered Oaptain Bullman
altogether free from even the suspicion of intended foul
play, we must assume, says the Tdcgraph, that it deemed
him incompetent, because he neglected the proper means
of exercising control over his crew and anted precipi-
tately in abandoning his Ves4el. The qualifications,
moral and iliclitisite to tnake a really good
master manner are so varied, that we can hardly
feel surprised when cne member cf the class
now and then falls short of the standard. If poor
Captain Bullman wanted nerve, or melf.poscession, or that
power of inspiring conadttice which is so essentialin a man
thus placed, he has suffered severely for his defects, and
our mercantile navy has been relieved of a shirmaster who
has possibly mistaken his metier. But, on the ground of
precipitate abandonment, we may point out that
a great deal is to be said on both sides. Is
it quite fair to blame a captain for thinking mainly
of his personal safety ? A man so placed is
quite justified in doubting whether he will be of much
use in his vessel after all his crew have left it, and he knows
that casualties of that kind are the very raison litre of
marine insurance. The decision in Captain Bullman's case,
however, will do good in one way—it will foster the idea
of a legal supervision. Take them for all in all, our merchant-
navy officers have greatly improved within the last few
years ; and most of them well know that neither roguery
nor negligence will generally pay, while steadium ;WI
cleY?tion are.. 1012.12. m tn. .w.pl7 torardect

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent impravements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVLLLE & Co„ who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."