The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1.869,

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

. THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
The Daily 7 elegraph, in a conspicuously headed
and leaded article, sets forth the intentions of the
Government with regard to the Irish Church Bill.
' The House of Commons will (we suppose our con-
temporary means will be asked to) reinsert the pro-
vision that the Church body shall pay off the building
charges before gaining possession of the glebe houses,
and will strike out the clause for granting manses
and glebes to the Roman Catholic and the Presby-
terian clergy. The Government will resist the
attempt to postpone the appropriation of the surplus.
The Ulster glebes cannot be recognised as the
property of the Irish Church, but Lord Gran-
ville's offer of a round sum of £500,000,
to meet the joint claim for the private
endowments before 1000 and the Ulster glebes,
will be renewed. With respect to the com-
mutation of the life interests of the clergy, the
Government will not accept LordCarnarvon's amend-
ment, but will substitute Lord Shaftesbury's proposal
to pay the actual value of the life interests. To-
day Mr. Gladstone will announce the intentions
of the Government, and as the bill was thoroughly
discussed when passing through the House, ho will
deprecate unnecessary discussion. It is probable
that important divisions will take place early in the
evening, and the Liberal members are, therefore,
exhorted to be in their places. By Friday night the
discussion will be at an end. On Monday the bill will
be presented to the Peers a second time. On Tuesday
there will probably be a conference between the two
Houses, and the Telegraph (though it has evidently
very great doubts on the matter) says : " We cannot
permit ourselves to doubt that the Lords will see
the wisdom of yielding to so emphatic an expression
of the national will as the revised measure must em-
body. If, however, the Lords should be so blind to
their own interests as not to accept the amended
bill, there remains but one course open to the Govern-
ment and the House of Commons. The measure
must be dropped, the session speedily brought to an
end, Parliament summoned for an autumn session,
and the bill, in its restored shape, backed by resist-
less majorities, again presented to the Peers." This
last sentence implies, we Presume. that Mr. Gladstona
win tame measures for preventing a second defeat in
the Upper House.
The Times publishes, a day after date, the letter
which Mr. Gladstone sent to the Ulster Orangemen.
Apparently our contemporary finds this letter does
not square with its confident announcements of the
last few days that the Government will give way to
the Upper House, for it makes no comment upon it,
and not one of its four leaders refers to the political
crisis. The Daily /Yews goes into figures to shew that it
is impossible for the Government, even if they
were willing, to accept the Lords' amendments.
The market-value of the Church property is
£15,000,000. The bill when it left the Commons
conferred about £10,000,000 upon the Church and
its members. The Lords' amendments up to Monday
evening had added £3,000,000 to that amount ;
Lord Stanhope's amendment would give at least
£500,000 more. Therefore the bill on leaving the
Lords handed over to this disendowed Church 131
millions, or nine-tenths of the property it possessed
when endowed. The surplus for other than Anglican
purposes is thus reduced to £1,500,000. From this
has to be deducted £1,100,000 for compensation in
lieu of the Regium Donum and the Maynooth Grant,
leaving a surplus of £400,000 for disposal. Tha Lords
finally determined to give glebes and manses
to the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic clergy; but
this would cost four times that residuum; so that the
Lords have pledged the nation to a measure which
actually leaves a deficit of £1,200,000. And this is
from a House which is led by that model man of
business, Lord Salisbury.
Turning to the other journals, we find the Morning
Advertiser is now able to answer its question " What
next ?" of the previous day. The Commons, it says,
will unquestionably throw out the Concurrent
Endowment Clause, and in all probability the Lords
will submit to this alteration. It remains to be seen
if they will yield to Mr. Gladstone on the other
points. The Star considers concurrent endowment
out of the question, and says : " Mr. Gladstone has
drawn the line of justice tenderly, but firmly, end it
will not be greatly departed from." The Standard
affims that the Lords' amendment is a compro-
mise, and therefore abhorrent to Mr. Glad-
stone. "It remains to be seen if the Liberal party
are sufficiently courageous and independent to
step in between the Premier and the Lords."
Whether it does so or not, " the Lords neither can
nor will yield any more, and the House of Commons
will have only itself to thank if the bill is shipwrecked,
owing to their determination to drive too hard a
bargain." The Herald, referring to Lord Stanhope's
amendment, says : " Should this proposal be de-
feated in the House of Commons, both England and
Ireland will be able to estimate the value of all that
fine foaming ' Liberalism, of which Mr. Gladstone's
majority are the docile representatives."
The Owl states that a meeting of the Irish peers
who usually support Ministers is to be held to-
day, for the purpose or considering- the Lords'
amendments, and it believed that a strong repre-
sentation will be male to the Premier urging
not to give way. The meeting cannot, however, be
influential in point of numbem, for (a fact which the
Owl seems to forget) the Irish peers nre eketed
mainly hy Lord herby and his fr:ends, the represen-
tative theory being a mere theory.

tiOmmission—his -Last public] employment. His last
considerable speech was in favour of concurrent
endowment.

THE ARREST OF MITRPRt AT BIRMINGHAM.

The " great Constitutional question "—as some
consider it—whether the arrest of Mr. Murphy r..t
the recent Birmingham meeting was legal, is to
come before the law courts. The Mayor of Birming-
ham and the chief of police have been served with
notice of action in the matter. Decision is wanted
on the question—ls a mayor or a magistrate acting
on the principle salus populi suprema lei, and without
evidence beyond his own knowledge and apprehen-
sion, justified in arresting one who is likely to
Produce a disturbance ?

dive through Europe, his hostile brother occupied himself
in preceding him at all the capitals, and persuading the
various Governments not to pay regal honour to the
Egyptian semi-sovereign. But even the great work of
expressing his hatred for his brother was not sufficient to
occupy Mustapha's whole soul. He found leisure for
divers useful employments, and, amongst other achieve.
ments, be managed to break the bank at Homburg. By
this feat he netted £12,000.