The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1869.

could get, a sufficient acknowledgment of defeat;
but the proprietors refused to receive them back un-
less they repudiated the union, which they refuse.
The coach-drivers are organizing a strike for $3 a
day ; the journeymen potters are collecting funds
here to support the Trenton strike, and they have
collected $600; they express the determination of the
men to hold out against the introduction of machi-
nery ; the German cap makers are on strike for an
increase of 50 per cent., but they desire to carry
their employers with them by proposing to raise the
price of the article. Some of the shops have con-
sented to the advance, and a bill of prices, increas-
ing the pay 20 per cent., is to be presented for the
consideration of the employers. Strikes are very
general all over the country, showing labour to be

in- a very unsettled state, and this is attributed to the
universal cause of all our ailments in the opinion of
some—the paper currency. Mr. Edward H. An-
derson, son of Dr. Ande. snn, of Fort Lee, N.J.,
and Miss Josephine Allen, were married la-t Wed-
nesday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The
Seventh Regiment marched down Broadway on
Monday and proceeded to Brooklyn, to be reviewed
in Prospect Park by Di igadier-General 1. esserole.
A de'ach►ncnt of the batta'ion, Washington Gray
Cavalry, left on Tuesday afternoon for Boston, to
take part in the Peace Jubilee. They take with
them the original Pine Tree flag, and are accom-
panied by Generals M'Quade, Morris, and Tweed,
of the staff of Governor Hoffman. Journals are

fond of announcing startling conversions, and per-
haps you may have noticed, for it is more notice-
able on your side than ours, that any convert to
Rome is widely published ; but if the same indivi-
dual retraces his or her steps, little is hetrd of the
matter. According to some authorities here, one of
England's richest peers went over to the Romish
Church, but I believe that was more true than the.
report circulated here that New York's wealthiest
merchant, A.'l'. Stewart, had become a Catholic,
which story, after going the rounds, has been con-
tradicted. The President was received quietly, as
he gave but little opportunity for demonstrations,
but a hungry pack of office-seekers started instantly
in chase to West Point, and remained like terriers
at a rat-hole, watching their opportunity. Under
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his quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative manner,
the President feels deeply, and the narrow escape of
himself and family has had more effect than appears
on the surfac.. Mr. It. Young, instead of going to
Europe, as was formerlyreported,has gone toKansas,
and Mr. Ottarson has returned to the Tribune. Mr.

IVhitelaw Reid has assumed the place vacated by
Mr. Young. As regards the stage the attack on
the dancing girls continues. It is said that two
American actresses only are left on the New York
boards, and that one of them is a German. The
Spirit and the action taken by Mr. Butler has
raised the storm, and the blondes are now in the
shade, but whether they will continue there I can-
not tell. Mr. Peabody, after stopping at 16,
Waverley-place, the guest of Mr. Westmore, left
for Boston, where he arrived yesterday, and after
visiting Richard H. Dana (junior) he proceeded in
the evening to Salem. On Thursday the Annual
regatta came off of the New York Yacht Club, but
it rained and it blew, and although there was a good
gathering at Fort Hamilton, Staten Island, and
other points, the day was propitious neither to the
races from the anchorage off Staten Island and
round the Lightship, nor to the horse races in
Jerome-park. The prize for second-class sloops
was won by White Cap, and for first-class sloops by
the Sadie ; for second-class schooners by the
idler. The Phantom met with an accident, or
she would have won, as she was far ahead at the
time, and by the same squall the Palmer carried away
her foretopmast and gaff topsail, and the Sylvia her
jib-boom, flying jib, and jib topsail. The press
grieve over the fall of Governor Hoffman, who
signed the Tax Levies Bills, and no doubt it cost
him a great effort, and resulted from a very heavy
pressure ; but Major Hall, in his message to the
Common Council, takes high ground, and hits at
everybody. At the press for meddling with muni-
cipal affairs, at the legislators, whom he terms

"rural," and he says " concoct tax puzzles." These,
he declares, hamper the city authorities, to whom
they have left but few matters of government in
the metropolis, and on their shoulders Major
Hall piles all the blame for bad docks, ill-kept
streets, and whatever there is to find fault with.

He tells us there are 212 miles of streets in New
York city, of which 81 miles are in Llock, and
five miles in wooded pavement. The rernain3er
are either subjected to cobblestones or await pave-
ment. After quoting President Lincoln's saying—
" Arrange a plan, and then peg away at it until it
is successful !" he adds, in like spirit, let the City
authorities patiently peg away' upon this matter
cf City improvements, for the solution of the two
great problems so vital to the interests of com-
merce and citizens' comfort. The Tite Barnacle
Ring of Illinois has shown how little behind us
they arc in the great West. Salaries and perqui-
sites are manufactured in Chicago, as audaciously
as in New York, and they are maintained by the
same style of organization ; it is, I presume, one
of thii drawbacks of universal suffrage.

Bishop Staley, of Honolulu, who has been in
London trying to raise funds for a new cathedral, will find
his flock in rebellion, ai they I:ave sent to the Episcopal
authorities in England to withdraw the reformed Catholic
mission and its missionaries, as they want a low-Church
pastor, who they are ready to support without assistance
from abroad.

Frank Leslie's illustrated paper gives a series of most
interesting sketches of the vegetable culture in the• South
by Joseph Becker. It is a pity that this excellent picture
paper should often coot tin articles couched in so un-
friendly a tone towards England, or it could scarcely fail
as America becomes better known to Britishers to obtain
a wide circulation among them, for it conveys ideas which
no writing can do. Frank Leslie also reproduces the most
stupid and malicious of the cartoons which lately appeared
in the English comic papers to satirise America. This is
the way in which the truly charming, amiable, and profit-
able relations between the countries are maintained. The
speeches and resolutions of "War-Horses" in Congress
are replied to by abuse and ridicule in England, which re-
produced in America generates a fresh crop, iind, the two
nations scream at each other like angry Billingsgate fish-
women. If a war which ended in maiming and burying
half a million of men, and doubling the National Debt of
both countries, could settle the hatred and establishamic-
able relations for a century, although at the intense suf-
fering and cost of the present generation, it might not be
an unprofitable bargain for the world at large. When it
is considered why there should be this sacrifice at all, it is
seen how purely this work is that of the Devil ; an immo-
lation to some hideous idol—though, unfortunately, in-
ste .d of attaining the object, the reverse would be the
result ; for it would but leave another war for another ge-
neration to atone for the successes and defeats of that.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times, in discussing Mr. Gladstone's speech at the
Mansion House, reminds him that the beginning and end

of all the main propositions of last year was the message
of religious equality to the religious communions of Ire-
land. But if we are to, observe equality—and from this
there can be no departure--we must either deprive the
disestablished Church of its parsonages and glebes, or we
must counterbalance these gifts by similar gifts to other
communions. If the Episcopal Church be allowed to retain
their parsonages and glebes, the Presbyterians will demand
the same. There is no question about their accepting
these gifts. They will insist upon them. Every hour
adds to the conviction that the feeling of the Roman
Catholics, laity and clergy, is the same. And what stands
in the way of this statesmanlike result? A prejudice so
feeble that it is the shadow of a shade, to be dissipated
the first moment the light of thought is brought to bear
upon it. The House of Lords, avoiding the falsehood of
extremes, will reconcile the promises of her Majesty's
Ministers with themselves, rejecting all proposals
for redistributing the funds of the Irish Church,

or fur permanently endowing the servants of re-
ligion in Ireland, but balancing the modest resi-
dences left to Protestant. Episcopal clergymen by the
proffer of similar advantages to Presbyterians and Roman
Catholics. More than this the House of Lords may not
do ; less than this they will not do. And our confidence
is increased I,y the language of the Prime Minister at the
Mansion House on Wednesday night, that when this
modification of the bill comes before the House of Com-
mons, supported by the votes of three-fourths, or, it may
be, four-fifths, of the Peers, and approved by the acquies-
cence of the country, it will he sanctioned as a judicious
and laudable settlement of the great question before
Parliament.

The Herald says that the proposals of Lord Grey, Lord
Westbury, and the Duke of Cleveland cannot be dis-
missed without consideration upon the bare ground that
they involve the endowment of the Roman Catholic
Church. By common consent the principle of such an.
endowment has already been surrendered, and Lord Grey
and his friends ask the House to advance further in the
only path open to it. Shall we consent that the Irish
Church shall be starved on condition that the Roman
Catholics shall not take over a stiver beyond the
Maynooth commutation money ; or shall we con-
cede more liberal terms to the Roman Catholics
as the price of gaining infinitely larger terms
for the Protestant Church ? Let no one suppose that it
is not a hard and bitter alternative which is offered by
the advocates of concurrent endowment. The question is,
whether it is not the least of two evils, one of which
appears to be inevitable. The staunchest Protestant may
well reflect whether it is not worth while, whether it is
not a very onerous duty, to make concessions which, how-
ever painful and repugnant they may be, will be com-
pensated by such a provision for the Irish Church as will
enable it to discharge its responsibilities with vigour
and efficiency when it is thrown upon its own
resources. We can sympathise very earnestly with
those who regard it as a matter of conscience
to protest against the diversion of Protestant money to
the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. But we
are face to face with a situation in which to refuse a com-
promise is to sacrifice everything, and we venture to urge
that, under all the circumstances, the first duty of the
friends of the Irish Church is to endeavour to gain for it
the best terms they can. If we thought it possible to
secure its property intact, we should counsel them not to
yield one inch. It is because we see no other way of re-
taining for its use even an appreciable portion of its
revenues that we are compelled to urge the necessity of
accepting some such compromise as we have indicated.
It is announced, says the Standard, that Messrs. Bright
and Forster have ceased to be members of the Reform
Club. The alleged cause of this portentous secession is
the blackballing of an American gentleman whom the
two Cabinet Ministers had proposed as a member of the
club for one month—a recognised practice with the Re-
form. Who is right and who is wrong we aro unable to
say. Messrs. Bright and Forster entertain such very
enlarged views and such very narrow prejudices on
American questions, that it is quite possible they might
overlook, in their admiration for his talents, the want
of some of those social qualifications which every club
has a right to require in those who aspire to its mem-
bership. He might even be a gentleman of colour
and still not generally acceptable. On the other
hand, it is difficult to believe that the club would have
blackballed a thoroughly well qualified candidate merely
because lie was an American, and recommended by
Messrs. Bright and Forster. It is true that there are
rumours of a somewhat iron tyranny now in vogue in the
headquarters of Liberalism, under which freedom of
opinion is a crime, and the severest measures are

threatened against members not possessing absolute and
unquestioning confidence in Mr. Gladstone ; and this may
be a pratical remonstrance. Whatever is the result, let
us hope it will end with thc coif unorifio. of Messrs.

Bright and Forster, and that Mr. Sumner will not add
this new outrage to the long list he has already handed in

a. compensation and apology. As for the Reform Chub,
will probably survive the secession. If it has lost Mr.

Bright and Mr. Forster has it not gained Lord Granville
and Mr. Gladstone.

The Post declares that the statement made on Wednes-
day in the House of Commons—that the wrongs and wants
of Ireland would not have been listened.to by the Govern-
ment and Parliament of the United Kingdom but for the
course pursued by the Fenians—is wholly at variance
with patent facts. For the argument it is assumed that
Irish grievances are considered with a view to their being
redressed, because and only because, they have been, as it
were, shouted through a Fenian speaking trumpet; and
the Irish Church Bill is described as a concession
extorted by apprehensions, arising out of the Fenian
conspiracy—as a measure in every line of which
the fear and trembling of England may be read running.
The public interest in the matter is all we have to
do with, and in that sense we are bound to protest
against an imputation affecting the character of our legis-
lation, and the honour and independence of the Legisla-
ture, without entertaining any irrelevant considerations.
It is said, however, and was said in the House of Com-
mons, that the Fenian conspiracy has done a vast deal of
good for Ireland ; and, as good sometimes comes out of
evil, that may be. Fenianism, we do not doubt, has done
its work ; but it must be added that the reaction is, at
least, as marked as could be wished. The head-centres
and the triumvirates have fulfilled their mission, though
not to the end they seem to have proposed to themselves.
Their reign is over. They were fairly tried ; they richly
deserved their fate ; the punishment they are undergoing,
heavy as it is, fella far short of the misery they have im-
posed upon Ireland ; and, for our part, we can discern
nothing in their case to entitle them to any remission of
the sentence of the law.
The Daily News calls attention to Mr. Gladstone's
iiannngad Likeif tolsvrt
avowal that he would be grateful for any improvements
which the Lords might make in the Irish Church Bill ;
and that any changes which they might introduce would
be respectfully considered, though they might at first, and,
as he significantly added, perhaps at last also, seem inad-
missible. It will be allowed, it imagines, even by those
who have been encouraging the notion that the
Government was not indisposed to concurrent
endowment within certain limits, that Mr. Glad-
stone speaks the mind of the Ministry. The
indirect opponents of the Irish Church Bill in the House
iittoieht,leeiluf:eiharceoahllicielelseLnno;ogtr:t o
'Talbot,
within Mr.sha Gladstonesperes
play, alone.he
of Lords, who would transform substance while retain-
"is but the shadow of himself." The people behind him,
who have already spoken through their representatives,
tishegaiev,e,pas, wwililsefinedoumnseealtarsofwislpietaekli
the Peers, " are his substance, sinews, arms, and
strength "—they need not add, finishing the quotation,
" with which he yoketh your rebellious necks." The
good sense of a majority of the House of Lords has
led them to acquiesce in the decision of the nation, so far
as their preconceptions have allowed them to understand
it. They have sliewn what Roman Catholic theologians
would call an implicit acceptance of it, though they may have
made an innocent error of interpretation, which further
information and a docile spirit will enable them to correct.
Be this as it may, the Government has taken its ground.
In President Lincoln's phrase, it has put down its foot.
Another Ministry, another House of Commons, and, we
may also say, another England, will be necessary in order
to give effect to the policy of concurrent endowment in
Ireland.

The Times reminds its readers that thirty-five years age
Lord Brougham declared the appointment of a public
prosecutor was then contemplated by Government, and
ever since the measure has been from time to time taken
up, to be for a brief period strenuously advocated by this
or that distinguished lawyer, and then quietly dropped.
It might, indeed, possibly have continued this spasmodic
and chequered career of activity and repose for another
five.and-thirty years but for the interest felt in the
extraordinary miscarriage of justice which the want of
a public prosecutor now threatens to occasion.
Apart from, and in addition to, the magnitude of
the pecuniary stake, the Overend and Gurney trial
is of vast importance as constitutins, a new epoch
in the history of commercial morality. It was, we
believe, the first case—certainly it was the first case of
general interest—in which the directors 'of a company
were treated as criminally responsible for misconduct
which had been previously looked upon as .only matter for
a civil action, and, considering the incalculable mischief
' which in these days may be done, and is constantly done,
by the neglect or dishonesty of directors, it is of the last
consequence that all possible light should be thrown upon
the point at which the criminal responsibility of a
director begins. Nor should. it be forgotten that
the social *position of the accused greatly increases
the public scandal that must result from a gross
failure of justice in their case. It is no secret that they
have powerful friends and connections in ,very high
places; it is inevitable that a large portion of the public
will, rightly or wrongly, attribute their escape to this fact,
and believe that the arm of the law is strong only against
the poor. When all these facts are taken'into oonsulera•
tion, who can for a moment doubt that such a national
disgrace as the break-down of the Overend and Gurney trial
would be impossible if there existed a public prosecutor,
or, if this be a perilous innovation, some official bound to
exercise, even in the most modified faun certain dudes of
tulniumeatal •

THE PROSECUTION OF THE VICAR OF
FROME FOR HERESEY.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the
Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, Sir William
Erle, and Sir J. Napier) have given their decision in the
case of " Sheppard v. Phillimore and Bennett," an appeal
from the Arches' Court. The question was whether the
Dean of Arches was bound, under the Church Discipline
Act, to accept letters of request from the Bishop of Bath
and Wells, without any reason being assigned why certain
charges against the Rev. Mr. Bennett, vicar of Frome,
were not heard in his own court before they were sent to
the Appeal Court of the Province of Canterbury.
The Lord Chancellor pronounced the judgment of their
lordships, and, after dwelling on the facts and referring
to the argument on the part of the Dean, said the case
had been ably argued on the part of the learned judge.
The point was as to the construction of the 13th section of
the Church Discipline Act, which empowered theßishop of
a diocese to send a case to the Arches' Court to be, as stated,
" heard and determined according to the law and practice
of the court." heir lordships were .... ',at it was
obligatory on the Dean of Arches to accept such.letters
of request when sent to him by a bishop, without the ease
being heard in his own court in Cie first instance. Their
lordships would recommend to her Majesty that the
appeal he allowed and the case remitted to the Court of
Arches, to be heard and determined according to the law
and practice of the court. No costs would follow the
appeal.
Mr. Walter Phillimore craved permission to say one
word on the part of the Dean of Arches. The Dean had
no other desire than that right and justice should be done,
and, after the intimation of their lordships on the impor-
tant question which had been raised, he would proceed to
hear and determine the case on the letters of request sent
to him.

The Lord Chancellor said their lordships were quite sure
on that point. They had inquired into the practice
whether it was necessary that the judgment should be
formally given, and finding it was so, the judgment now
given would be submitted to her Majesty, in order that
the case might be remitted to the Arches' Court.

The case will now be heard in the Arches' Court.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

Both Houses of Parliament are sheaving them-
selves unusually industriou.s. The Lords have
not for years sat so long, spoken so well, or trans-
acted so much business as they have done this year.
Probably, they will before long resort to the innova-
tion of Wednesday sittings. The Commons began
morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays at an un-
precedentedly early period of the session, in order
to carry the Irish Church Bill through ; but now
that this is accomplished the sittings are still con-
tinued, and will be held during the remainder of
the session. Thus measures not introduced by the
Government have a chance of passing. But more
work accomplished by the Commons means more
for the Lords. Thus when Sir John Coleridge has
succeeded, as he no doubt will succeed, in carrying
his University Tests Bill through the Lower House.
the Upper will be called upon to consider if it shall
reject the measure or adopt the policy which is now
in vogue of accepting a certain amount of change
" lest a worse thing should befall." The Bankruptcy
Bill has actually passed the Commons, and thus we
are now humanly certain of having carried into law a
reform which has been mentioned in every Queen's
Speech for about half-a-dozen years.

THE LORDS AND THE DILL.

The Lords have succeeded in carrying their first
amendment against, the Government by a large
majority. The date of discstablishment is thereby
postponed until 1872, But, if the Owl is rightly
informed, Ministers will not accept that amendment.
We doubt the accuracy of the Owl's informa-
tion. There is none of the amendments which
has so much show of reason on its side—
its object being to allow the Churcli time
to reconstitute its government ; none which so little
affects any vital principle. A refusal to yield on
this point would seem to imply an intention to yield
on none, and would thus render inevitable a collision
between the two branches of the• Legislature.