The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-20 00:00:00

THE LAST OF CONCURRENT ENDOWMENT.

This time last week the Daily News remarked
that it did not attach the smallest importance to the
arguments of the 7imes in favour of concurrent
endowment, because, if it were found desirable, the
limes would, at a few hours' notice, be provided
with arguments against concurrent endowment.
Events have fully justified our contemporary's esti-
mate. On Tuesday the leading journal published a
very strong article in favour of that scheme. On
Wednesday it published Mr. Gladstone's decisive
letter refusing to have anything to do with it;
and the leader writers were for that day told to keep
silence. On Thursday the Times declared that "it
was too late." Yesterday the Times not only forgot
that it ever advocated that policy, but argued against
it. The Lords are rebulied for the way in which they
have " haggled" about every sixpence and thereby
rendered inevitable the proposal which our contem-
porary forinerly urged, but of which it now speaks
as follows :

"Whatever chance this proposal might have had under
different circumstances, the great obstacle to it on this
occasion has been that we were called on to endow simul-
taneously a Church of the people and a Church not of the
people,_ and to endow each, not for its own sake,
but because we were endowing the other. At a
great probable cost, and yet charged with sacri-
legious confiscation and every other enormity, we
were to create several new establishments, for
which the nation is either too old or not yet
old enough, and to repudiate as to their control that
responsibility which we certainly could not escape as to
their principle. . . . On the present occasion, as the
Lords shaped this measure, there was everything to excite
suspicion. The Irish Church was to be emancipated
from its State bondage, and re-endowed with nearly the
whole of its public endowment upon the express con-
dition that something should be done for another Church
—indeed, for two other Churches, as independent,
and more or less hostile. . . . It (the Irish Church)
could not succeed. It could not hope to obtain terms
which would, indeed, have stultified the whole measure,
and made Mr. Gladstone the most ridiculous of poli-
ticians."

Rather hard upon the Peers, this, considering that
they supposed the Times represented the opinions of
the nation. At the same time they ought to have
known better. They ought to have remembered
this time five years, when the Times declared in
favour of war against Prussia on Friday, was doubt-
ful on Saturday, • because the rumour was that
Ministers would decide against war at tlie Cabinet
Council that day: and denounced war on Monday
because Ministers had so decided.

FOREIGN NOTES.

MR. PEABODY'S GIFT TO TILE SOUTII.

The Southern Education Fund, established by the munifi-
cence of Mr. Peabody, who has just raised the total of the
gift to two million dollars, is administered by a board
composed of the leading men in America. General Grant,
Mr. Fish, Admiral Farragut, and the Episcopal Bishop of
Ohio are amongst the number. The plan pursued is to
give aid to the support of normal schools for educating
teachers, and to make small grants for elementary education
to communities which promise to raise as much more by
voluntary effort. Hitherto four of the Southern States
have received no aid from this fund. The Board decided
that those States which had suffered most from the ravages
of war, and were most destitute of educational means,
ought to be assisted first. Mr. Peabody concurs in this
policy. He says he has the same sympathy with everyone
of the States, and were all alike needing assistance, he
should wish each to share alike in the benefits of the
trust. As the portions aided respectively grow in
prosperity and become self-sustaining in their systems
of education, their respective allotments of the fund are
to be applied to other destitute communities, and thus its
benefits will, he earnestly hopes, reach every section of
the vast field committed to the care of the trust. For the
present, however, the greater part of the fund must in
fairness be continued to those States who have received it
hitherto, and who most need it. But when the final dis-
tribution is made, Mr. Peabody hopes that Maryland,
Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas will share according to
their needs.

FILIBUSTERING AT NEW YORK. tr.
Though Colonel Ryan, the filibustering leader, with
a certain number of men, seems to have got clear off from
New York, his regiment was broken up, a large number
captured, and the rest prevented from getting away. One
hundred and thirty-eight were taken prisoners. These
have since been released with the exception of two
leaders, who are still in gaol. Two hundred
others took refuge in Long Island, opposite New York.
These committed great excesses, slaughtering cattle for
their subsistence without granting any compensation to
the owners, and indulging in violent quarrels and fights
with each other. It is uncertain how many got away
with Colonel Ryan, but as an effective reinforcement to
the insurgents, the expedition has been a failure. The
Cubans at New York are much depressed with the result.
They declare that the fitting out of Colonel Ryan's regi-
ment cost them $200,000, and that had it been landed in
Cuba, it must have gone far to turn the tide against the
Spaniards. It is not likely that they will try any further
experiment of the kind.