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London, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

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:nglish Churchmen will be inclined to paraphrase a

known exclamation by saying, " Thank God, there is
a use of Bishops." The Convocation of the Province
of Canterbury consists of two Houses, whereas that of
York consists of only one. The Lower House of the first
Convocation, on discussing the address to the Queen,
which is usually presented by both Houses jointly at the
beginning of a session, decided by a majority, on the motion
of Canon Selwyn, to add a " rider," praying the Queen
to withhold her assent from any measure affecting the
status of the Irish Church. A more monstrously uncon-
stitutional act was never performed by a representative
assembly since the days of the Stuarts. It was in vain

that this was pointed out, in vain that it was urged by
men like Deans Goodwin and Stanley that the
Queen could not promise to withhold her consent
from measures which were not before her. Hot-

headed men like Archdeacon Denison carried the day,
and the rider was appended. The bishops who, thanks to
their Parliamentat3• training, better understand the Con-
stitution, refused to accept the rider, and sent back the
address to the Lower House with this addendum struck
out. The Lower House, having made itself a laughing-
stock, then submitted to the snubbing so righteously
inflicted, the Bishop of Lichfield being one of the bishops
upon whom devolved the duty of correcting his unconsti-
tutional brother. Not the least extraordinary part
of this remarkable affair is that the outrageous
resolution should have been proposed by Canon.
Selwyn, whom many persons have named for the next
vacant bishopric. I should imagine that his prospects of
preferment must now be considerably clouded. Canon
Selwyn is Professor of Divinity, and is, I daresay, an.
excellent divine ; but a bishop ought to be, if not a state!;.
man, at least acquainted with the fundamental principles
of the Constitution.

A very sad affair has just happened in town. Mr. George
Henry Townsend, a well-known journalist, has committed
suicide. Mr. Townsend wrote on the Conservative side,
and during the late elections he worked very hard. Before
they had terminated so adversely for his party, he corn.
rnunicated to his friends that the late Premier had pro.
raised him first a post of £l,OOO a rearieff rEtriilint on its
becoming vacant, as it was expected to become, and that this
failing, he should have the post at the Inland Revenue held
by Mr. James Disraeli, who was then known to be suffering
from heart disease, and almost certain to die shortly. Un-
happily for Mr. Townsend, Mr. James Disraeli's death took
place after the power of appointment had passed from
the late Premier's hands. The present Government have
abolished the post, finding that the £1,200 a year conferred,
upon the occupant of it could not be earned. This disap-
pointment seems to have preyed deeply upon Mr. Towns-
end's mind; for although he gave no indication to his friends
which led them to fear any such event, he committed
suicide. The unfortunate gentlemen is to be buried
to-day.
The late Government appears to have excelled in the
art of outrunning the constable. Not only will the
Abyssinian expedition prove to have cost nearly half as
much again as Sir Stafford Northcote's estimate, although
it was concluded within the time assigned by the right hon.
gentleman, but Mr. Lowe finds himself burdened with a
miscellaneous civil service expenditure in excess of the
estimates by no less than £131,844. Two of these items
should be investigated. For instance, to whom, and for
what, is the extra £19,000 on account of " superannua.
tions and retired allowances " paid ? does the £lB,OOO
charged for printing and stationery include the copies of
Will-o'-the-Wisp, which Captain Brandreth ordered for
the sailors in the fleet, on the ground that the publication
would have an excellent effect upon their morals? After
these little incidents it is refreshing to turn to the state-
ment made by Mr. Childers last night, in reply to Sir
James Elphinstone, and to find that whereas it was the
Conservatives who, in spite of lavish expenditure,
discharged fram 4,000 to 5,000 dockyardsmen, the Liberals
will, in spite of closing Woolwich and Deptford, and
effecting a reduction of expenditure to the extent of a
million, not have to part with any of the dockyard hands.
The Times to-day very properly takes Mr. Bright to
task for the indiscreet speech which he made at the
Chambers of Commerce dinner, and on which I animad-
verted in my letter of yesterday. In a thoroughly good-
natured, but yet quite outspoken article, the leading
journal rebukes the President of the Board of Trade for
following the example of Miss Saurin by calling upon the
world to redress the wrongs which he is suffering from his
colleagues. Mr. Bright is told that those colleagues have
enough to do with the enemy in front, without finding
themselves blazed at from their own lines and defences.
The Brethren of the Trinity House find themselves once
more called upon to fight for their existence. They have
been attacked before the President of the Board of Trade

the merchants and shipowners of Liverpool, Newcastle,
and Gateshead, and the Board has called upon the Corpo-
ration for their answer. It has not yet been published,
but I am enabled to give you a sketch of the arguments
for the defence ; they will interest your mercantile readers.
The Elder Brethren contend that the charges now brought,
more especially by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce,
are substantially the same as those made by Lord
Clarence Paget in 1858, when he moved for a royal
commission. That commission was granted, and
it is contended that the report shewed there was
no ground fur the charges. The Brethren say that
if the expense of lights, buoys, and bea.cons were transferred
to the Consolidated Fund, the 28 per cent, which foreigners
now pay for their share of the benefit of them would be
lost to the country, as it must follow on free trade prin-
ciples that if the British shipowner were relieved the
foreigner must be relieved also ; and the effect to the
British shipowner would be that he must bear his share
of the increased public taxation. The abolition of light-
dues is sought for by the memorialists on the principle of
reciprocity with other nations which levy no light-dues,
but it is well known that though light-dues are not
charged as such in France or America, there are port
and tonnage-dues levied which include them, and are
full k'a'A'aga-thlc• foreign ports would
be remitted even if the light-dues were abolished in this
country. The Brethren complain that the memorialists
draw a very unfair contrast as to the charges for lights on
twelve months' working of a vessel between the Tyne and
Havre and one making a voyage to China. True, the latter
pays only once, say about £l5, and the former a very
large sum ; but each vessel pays only in proportion to
the times she reaps the benefits of the lights. The China
vessel earns one freight, the Havre vessel perhaps
twenty, and if she happens to go a trip in ballast
she pays no light-dues at all. Steam navigation
is conducted with such precision in the present
day that vessels usually are enabled to steer a
straight course from port to port, and many lights
which are indispensable to a sailing vessel, which is influ-
enced by winds and tides, and frequently carried far out
of her course, are never sighted by the steamship, so that
it would be but justice in some cases to modify the charges
for lights on the steamer. It must be borne in mind that
many of the existing lights, especially the floating-light
vessels, have been called for by the shipowner, they are
solely for his benefit, for through them night navigation
is rendered as safe and easy as that by day, and the coaster
is thereby enabled to make many more voyages per annum
than she otherwise could do. Those who reap the benefit
should pay, and it would not be fair to add these dues to
the alreadyheavy burdens laid upon the back of the British
taxpayer. Such is the substance of the Brethren's defence,
which I leave to the consideration of those better acquainted
with the controversy than I am.
The Postmaster-General had an easy victory at Radnor
yesterday, and it is difficult to understand Mr. Phillips's
object in contesting the election. The seat at Scarborough,
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his son. By the unseating of f ajorKnox at
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Sligo, journalism has lost one
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Liberal party, and it will probablf .be
Ktaken by
the Irish Times. The Westbury election going on as
I write, and the Falmouth petition is exciting compsterable
representatives, the Major e mg proprietor of
here, Mr. Fowler being a well-known City man.
reriemstpression is that he will lose his seat.
The Victoria Government has !leterminf..d upon taking
Mr. Verdon, has been
instructed to arrange the prelitni-
up the emigration question, and its agent in this country,
naries for a line of steamers to. run from. England to
Melbourne every month, carrying emigrants in large
numbers.

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