The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

ANOTHER ARCHDEACON ON THE
RELIGIOUS POSITION.

ne Yen. Archdeacon Musgrave commence& his
annual visitation of the Archdeaconry of Craven on
Monday. Addressing the clergy of the district at
Skipton, he spoke of the Act for the compulsory
abolition of Church-rates as a measure which, under
the specious pretext of a compromise, swept well-
nigh everything away without any appreciable
compensation in return. He, however, recommended that
wherever circumstances were favourable the new law
should be brought into full and practical opera-
tion. The aggressive sacerdotalism of the Ritualists
he designated as the most daring and defiant of all
the disturbing elements within the Church. Much as they
might see in the composition of Parliament to cause them to
doubt its fitness to deal with questions of theological
dogma or ritual, it might become a necessity to invoke
its interposition if the Church were to be saved from
internal convulsion and disruption. It was, perhaps,
too late, he observed, to repeat to any advantage the
ominous warning- in a former charge with reference to
the then impending onslaught on the Irish Church, or
to analyse the influences under which public men were
confederated in a common sacrilegious revolution and an
unhallowed sacrifice to the exigencies of political expe-
diency. Still, all was not lost when man had done his
worst to humble the Church, and sever its connection
with the State, and despoil it of half its possessions. The
Church would not be left without resources for its spiritual
work, or without authority to form its future con-
stitution and government, without the security of law to
enforce its rules within its own communion. Holding
still to the same pure faith embodied in its formularies,
free from the suspicions which hung around it in the days
of its ascendancy, carrying on with unimpaired fervency
the duties of its sacred mission, there was encourage-
ment to believe that it would rise to more than former
blessing.

PLAYING AT THE GAME "TAKING

UP."

Apropos of the Disabilities Bill against the Mayor of
Cork, it may not be uninteresting to learn how a Lord
Mayor of Dublin treated an order to appear at the bar
of the Irish House of Commons. Alderman Green,
then Lord Mayor, had presided at a public meet-
ing held to obtain various political objects, amongst
which Parliamentary Reform was prominently de-
manded. The resolutions imputed corruption to the
House of Commons, and declared that it did not represent
the feeling or possess the confidence of the country. These
resolutions were brought under the notice of the House,
they were voted to be false and calumnious, and to
constitute a breach of privilege. The Lord Mayor's
name being subscribed to the proceedings of the
meeting, he was ordered to attend at the bar of the
House. This order he disregarded, and the Sergeant-
at-Arms was directed to arrest him. Green
avoided the Sergeant until the day arrived for holding his
weekly court in the Tholsel. He arrived privately at the
Tholsel, and was holding his court when the functionary
of the House of Commons entered, and proceeded to
arrest him. Green immediately ordered his staffmen to
seize the Sergeant for contempt of court, and having
signed a warrant, he sent him direct to Newgate. The
House were rather surprised when it was announced
that their Sergeant-at-Arms was in durance vile, and still
more astonished when it was intimated that the Lord
Mayor would lock up every person whom they sent on a
similar errand. The sheriffs and city magistrates sided
with the Lord Mayor, and the volunteer corps of Dublin
expressed a determination to support his authority. Even-
tually the Sergeant was released, but the Lord Mayor
was not arrested.

By telegram from Belfast we learn that, at a
meet-ng of the committee on Tuesday it was resolved that
her Majesty be invited to be present at the inauguration of the
Albert memorial in June. If unaccepted then, an invitation
will be forwarded to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The
building is one which does credit to the town and is its
greatest ornament. It will cost £5,000.

REVIEW AT READING. —On Tuesday one of
the largest military gatherings ever known in the neigh-
bourhood of Reading took place in Bulmershe Park, the
seat of Mr. J. J. Wheble, where a great concourse of
civilians assembled to witness the manceuvres. The corps
taking part in the review were the Royal Berks Militia,
commanded by Colonel Lord Norreys ; the Bucks Militia,
under the command of Colonel Lord Carington ; the Ist
Berks Administrative Battalion of Rifle Volunteers, com-
manded by Lieut Colonel Loyd Lindsay, V.C., M.P., and
Major Sir Paul Hunter ; and the Eton Corps.
TILE GREAT CONVENT CASE.—The committee
organised to raise funds for the purpose of indemnifying
and protecting the community of the Convent of Mercy,
in Hull, from the effects of the late trial —" Saurin v.
Sta/r"—have postponed for the present the collection of
subscriptions, stating as their reason that it is impossible
to arrive at any correct estimate of the amount of loss
the community may sustain until the whole of the pro-
ceedings shall have terminated. The committee, however,
have by resolution recorded their opinion that it is the
duty of the Catholic body to indemnify the Sisters from
any loss that may ultimately fall upon them, and the
committee intend to resume their duties whenever the
amount of damages shall have been ascertained.

THE PUBLICJIEALTH.—The rate of mortality in
London last week was 23 per 1,000, as compared with 25 in
thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
rate in Birmingham was as low as 16, and in Glasgow as
high as 36. In the metropolis 2,025 births and 1,421
deaths were registered. The latter approximated closely
to the estimated mortality, and exceeded by 133 the
number recorded in the previous week. The deaths from
zymotic diseases were 293, the corrected average number
being 321. Three deaths from smallpox, 21 from measles,
53 from scarlet fever, 7 from diphtheria, 91 from
whooping•cough, 9 from typhus fever, 21 from enteric
fever, 13 from simple continued fever, and 19 from
diarrhoea, were registered. The expected number of
deaths by horses or vehicles in the streets is 70 in 18 weeks;
the actual numbers registered in the 18 weeks of this year
amount to 66. Seven persons were killed by horses, 2by
carriages, 4 by omnibuses, 8 by cabs, 20 by vans or
waggons, and 25 by carts. The mean temperature during
the week was 50.5, or 01 below the average. Between
the highes'; day and the lowest night temperature there
was a range of more than 34 degrees.

NETHERLAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. —An
international exhibition of articles of domestic economy,
&c., is to be held in Amsterdam from July to October,
under the superintendence of the Society for the Encour-
agement of Manufactures and Mechanical Industry in the
Netherlands. Its main object is to bring to the know-
ledge of the working classes such articles of daily use as
combine usefulness and durability. Articles of luxury,
art, and ornament will not be admitted. Among the
Classes of goods for exhibition are tools and imple-
ments, household necessaries, plans of workmen's
dwellings, lodging and boarding-houses, &c., pre-
served meat, and clothing of various kinds. The
Lord Mayor is the chairman of the London Com-
mittee, and several well-known names are in the list.
The Dutch railway companies have agreed to convey
goods in Holland free, and some of the steamboat com-
panies will also carry articles free to the exhibition,
charging only return freight. Goods from British exhi-
bitors, if forwarded carriage paid to Hull, to Mr. Ringrose,
the Netherland Consul, will be sent and returned free
from AmsterdaM, so that every arrangement has been
made for the convenience of intending exhibitors.

SUDDEN DEATH OF TILE LATE EDITOR OF THE
"MORNING CHRONICLE."— On Tuesday an inquest was
held at King's College (London) Hospital on the body of
Mr. Thomas Joyce, aged .r.").5, late editor of the Morning
Chronicle, and more recently the editor of the Levant
Herald. A constable of the F Reserve said he was on
duty in the Strand about ten o'clock last Friday night,
when his attention was called to a gentleman lying
insensible on the pavement, near the corner of
Helmet-court. Thought he was labouring under
the effects of drink. He tried to rouse him up,
but could not succeed. He then sent for the stretcher,
and with the aid of Other constables conveyed thedeceased
to 130w-street station. On arriving there, a medical man
was at once sent for, who, finding deceased still insensible,
ordered his immediate removal to the hospital. John
Farrell, a porter, said about ten o'clock last Friday
night he was passing along the Strand, and when near
Helmet-court lie saw the deceased, who was carrying
a large black bag, reel off the pavament and fall heavily
. into the road. He ran and lifted the deceased up, and
found him to be in a fit. With assistance he placed
him a7ainst the wall, and then got some cold water and
a:mini:led over his face, but he could not bring him round.
A police-constable, the last witness, then came up, and he
said to him, " Here is a gentleman in a fit ; lie had better
be taken off to the hospital at once." The constable said
lie believed be was drunk, and would send for a stretcher
and talc,' him to the station-house, which was accordingly
d ,ne. He himself was convinced the deceased was
not d 1• unk, nor did the vomit smell of drink. The
coroner said it was much to be regretted that
when policemen found a person lying insensible in the
street they at once jumped to the conclusion that the
person must be drunk. They should use more judgment.
M-. John Lennox,. house physician, said a post mortem
examination showed an immense effusion of blood on the
right bide of the brain, which had produced an attack of
apoplexy, from which cause the deceased had died. lib
life could not have been saved had medical aid been at
ad when he fell in the street. A. verdict of "D. 1.54,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times observes that the Mayor of Cork has
relieved Parliament from the discharge of a very unwel•

come duty, and has disappointed many curious
persons, who had expected the pleasure of fol-
lowing a proceeding unexampled in recent times, if not
absolutely unprecedented. Mr. O'Sullivan has resigned
his office. This solution of the difficulty he had created
came at last in a very dramatic fashion. There can be
no reason for concealing the fact that the whole subject
was beset with difficulties. It is a minor point, though it
is worth remark as a preliminary objection that the oppor-
tunities of delaying the progress of a Disability Bill are so
numerous that it was impossible to look forward to a speedy
deprivation of Mr. O'Sullivan. But even supposing the
procedure could have been as swift as it must have been
slow, Parliament would still have prosecuted the measure
with extreme relutance. We must not be supposed to
hint the slightest doubt of the prudence, or indeed,
of the necessity, of the course the Government adopted.
It may be possible, and even advisable, to provide an
improved form of procedure against the chance of a
similar case recurring, but substantially the character of
the process cannot be altered. We cannot suppose
that mayors will ever be subjected to a more direct

control of the courts of law. Moreover, it is impossible to

believe that the public mind would approve such a limita-
tion of municipal freedom as would be involved in subject-
ing mayors to the control of the judges, but there seems
no sufficient reason why the suggestion thrown out by Mr.
O'Reilly on Tuesday afternoon should not be considered.
All of us must, indeed, hope that the necessity of taking
steps to remove another mayor may not soon arise, and
there will doubtless be a great disposition to let the law
and practice remain unchanged, but the experience of the
past week ought not to be allowed to pass unregarded, and
its proper fruit would be an amendment of procedure is
ease a similar difficulty should hereafter arise.
The Standard declares that the process of vindicating
law and order in the city of Cork, as devised by the
Government, has had a ludicrous termination, very much
to the relief of Mr. Gladstone, even more than to that of
""' In fact, we are not sure that the ex-
Mayor of Cork will not gain new courage and confidence
by the result of the extraordinary proceedings of which he
was made the subject, and from which he emerges not as the
victim, but the hero. Everybody, we are told, ought to
be satisfied with this mode of getting rid of an unpleasant
business. As to the lesson which the O'Sullivan Disability
Bill was intended to teach, that is as much needed now AS
ever it was. If it was ever necessary that the mayors
should be brought under some sort of control at the hands
of the Executive, that necessity certainly becomes no less,
but greater, by the result of this O'Sullivan affair. We
are not even safe against the renewal of O'Sullivan's
pranks, for though Mr. Maguire gave the House a pledge
on O'Sullivan's part that his friend would not again seek

re-election as Mayor of Cork, we cannot admit this to be
a sufficient warrant that such a thing will not happen.
It would be absurd, even if Mr. O'Sullivan himself bad
given such a pledge, to make that a ground for suspending

the action of the Government against mayors who talk

treason and advocate murder ; but when, upon the pledge
at second hand, without any apology, or retraction, or
even consciousness of offence, the only measure which the
Government is able to take in vindication of law and
order is forthwith suspended, it is difficult to believe that
the authors of the O'Sullivan Disability Bill were at any
time sincere in their affectation of resentment at the Cork
Liberals. The Ministry which did not scruple to empty
the gaols of Fenian convicts as a preliminary to their
Irish policy may fairly be suspected of not wishing to
injure their popularity in Ireland by excess of zeal against
such patriots as the Mayor of Cork.
The Daily .News rejoices that the Mayor of Cork has
shewn himself merciful. When Mr. Maguire on Mondal
afternoon read the letter in which his worship announced
his retirement from office, the feeling of relief was strong,
and almost overcame the disappointment of the crowds
who filled the Ministerial and Opposition benches, and of
the strangers who had assembled in the various galleries
of the House in anticipation of a scene. It would be
disrespectful to compare her Majesty's Ministers and
the burgesses and knights of the shire who form the
eighth Parliament of Queen Victoria to the drunken
and disorderly persons whom it was the habit of
the Mayor of Cork to release in the early morning from
the consequences of their indiscretions. Practically, how-
ever, the letter which Mr. Maguire read did discharge
the Government and the House of Commons from a situa-
tion scarcely more enviable than that of the prisoners in
the Bridewell at Cork. It is something to have got rid at
once of Mr. O'Sullivan and the O'Sullivan Disability
Bill ; and this double deliverance is due to Mr. O'Sullivan
himself. If he had been obstinate he might have very
seriously embarrassed Ministers and Parliament. Nothing
in his tenure of office has so much become him as his
retirement from it.

The Telegraph says that on Tuesday afternoon the
Mayor of Cork went out of existence like a damp squib.
At a quarter to three o'clock he was the most prominent
man in the kingdom ; ten minutes later, lie was an ob-
scurely successful Irish butter merchant, "and none so
poor to do him reverence." When the House met at two
o'clock for the special purpose of abolishing his civic and
seditious highness, everybody was asking everybody else
what the renowned potentate would do—just as, during
a great continental crisis, we ask each other what will
be done by the Emperor Napoleon or Count von
Bismarck. But precisely as a theatrical manager might
advance to the footlights and announce that bard
necessity forced him to delay the appearance of an exciting
drama which an eager crowd had come to witness, so Jr.
Maguire killed the feverish anxiety of the assembled
Igislators by reading a letter from the culprit. Even if
no further legislation should be attempted, the indelible
record of the present transactions in the journals of the
House of Commons, and the effect of the submission
announced in the words of the law-breaker himself, will
read a much-needed lesson to Ireland—will, in fact, be
more instructive and more directly available than any of
the precedents that have recently been hunted up. In
the fullest shape, the objects of the bill have been
attained ; while from a grave and most difficult duty the
Government has been relieved by Mr. O'Sullivan's
prompt and abject performaftce of the "happy despatch.'
The Star thinks that, looking back at the awkward
affair which is now most happily concluded, there are two
reasons for satisfaction at the course of events. One is
that the amicable and satisfactory settlement has been
arrived at by a real submission on the part of the Mayor
of Cork, advised by his own and his country's best friends.
Irishmen are nothing if not gentlemen, and the idea of the
chief magistrate of an Irish community flouting the British
Government, and, however unintentionally, encouraging
the assassination of British princes, at a moment when all
that is great and potent in England is straining every
nerve for the accomplishment of Ireland's regeneration
according to her own ideas, ought to be as repugnant to
the people of that country as it would be to insult an
hospitable host or to reject an amende honorable. Ihe
other topic for congratulation is the general unreadinesg
which has displayed itself amongst English people to rush
into arbitrary measures. The O'Sullivan Bill was a just
and necessary one, but there is no doubt that it was
brought in by the Government mainly because they con•
ceived it due to the feeling which had been excited in
England by Mr. O'Sullivan's offences. But what was the
result? No sooner had it been announced than those who
had been fiercest in their denunciation of Mr. O'Sullivan
began to pause. They asked themselves whether this was
exactly the sort of thing an English Parliament ought to
be doing. If the bill had continued necessary it would
have been passed, but it would have been amidst
the reluctance and regrets of all parties. Long
may these hesitations be characteristic of England.
Long may we be able to say, as we can in this instance
with truth, that when It comes to a question of punishing
a man for his politics Tories are as unwilling as Liberals
to inflict even such pains and penalties as are essential for
the maintenance of public peace and decorum.
The Herald remarks that after the interval of a veil
long " week" Mr. Layard redeemed his pledge, a little
after midnight in the sitting of Monday, to make known
to the members the famous projection of Government for
Placing the new courts on the six acres of terra incognita
standing between Howard-street and the Embankment.
The conjuror who faced an audience to whom he had PO'
mised to enter a pint pot had scarcely a more difficult Per'
formance before him. But then Mr. Layard is no common
prestidigitateur. What he wants in skill he most certainly
makes up in assurance, and he must be encouraged by
the feeling of having at least as much confidence in
his own acuteness as he has little in that of OP
body that hears him. Never, we should think+
on any subject non-political, did a Government
make a greater mistake. The scheme which was to set
everything right proves to be the culmination of resthetie
and financial absurdity ; it is impossible they can perse-
vere with it ; and, as with some other blunders, our best
expectations for them must be that time, which has
crushed them under so many misfortunes, may be allowed
gently to drop the curtain over this. When Mr. Layard
tells us that he will give up all that ten years of weary
work and great expense have produced, and risk another
Iliad of architectural woes on the chance of erecting n
fine structure cn a site which has no recommendation on,
the side of the Strand, and permits of no better facade
than one built upon a street separated from the river by 3
dead wall, we are obliged to tell him the humiliating- tritn
that be deliberately presents us with a project which 013 i:
fiscates every possible advantage, and afflicts us with
every possible disadvantage which the utmost ingenuity
can connect with the erection of a great public month"
meat.

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