The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

TTIE IRISH cHuncir DILL.

1 The unanimity of the Liberal party on the Irish
Church question was once more conclusively shewn
'on Friday night. The hope that as soon as the bill
got into committee the party would break up into
" a disorganised rabble,' has not yet been fulfilled.
Of the 344 members who supported the retention of
the second clause—which may be aptly termed the
clause of the bill-34] were Liberals. the Conserva-
tives voting against their party being Lord Bing-
ham, Mr. Orr-Ewing, and Colonel Vandeleur. It
will be remembered that all three hon.
members have gone in favour of the bill
in each division. The Liberals who voted
against the clause were also three—Mr. Briscoe,
Mr. Saunderson, and Sir R. Clifton. The two former
gentlemen were not present on the second division.
Although Sir Roundell Palmer spoke against Mr.
, Disraeli's motion, he did not record his vote ; Lord
Stanley, however, went into the lobby with the
minority. Mr. Dalway, who on the two previous
occasions went against his party, now supported the
Government ; and Colonel Grant, the Conservative
member for Elgin and Nairn, who voted for the bill
going into committee, now went into the lobby with
the Opposition. Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Butler-
Johnstone formed part of the majority. The number
of members in the House was 570, or nineteen less
than on the previous evening, and fifty-three fewer
than those present on the 24th of March. The
absentees from the Conservative side again outnum-
bered those of their opponents. The regular Whips
on both sides acted as tellers.

' THE SCOTCH PRESBYTERIANS AND MAYNOOTH.
An attempt has been made in the Edinburgh
Presbytery of the Scotch Free Church to condemn
the Irish Church Bill in respect ofas Maynooth pro-
visions. A warm discussion took place on the
subject, and in the result the condemnatory resolu-
tion was rejected by more than two to one, and an
amendment carried approving the arrangement
sought to be carried out by the measure. When it
it is remembered that this was done by the ministers
of an extreme anti-Romanist Church, in the most
Protestant country in the world, one can but fee]
how completely the " No Popery " cry has perished.

MR. WHALLEY AND TIIE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.
Mr. Whalley recently denied very indignantly
that he had been induced by pressure from his con-
stituents to vote for the disestablishment of the Irish
Church. A member of his election committee, how-
ever, declares that the hon. member did have some
gentle pressure put upon him by the electors of
Peterborough ; and that this pressure caused him to
deviate from the line which lie seems to have
marked out for himself. Mr. Whalley says that for
a long time he had felt the Irish Church to be a but-
tress of Popery. But if we may believe a correspon-
dent of the Telegraph, it was not long ago that he
thought that the disestablishment of the Irish Church
would be prejudicial to the English Establishment.
The account of Mr. Whalley's conversion is a curious
insight into the psychological workings of the mind
of a member of Parliament when in the right path.
Mr. -Whalley's committee, we are told, were afraid
that their member was not " sound," and so they
telegraphed to Mr. Whalley that they wanted to see
him. He met them, and they set before him that
he must—if he would continue member for Peter-
borough—vote for Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions. " I
can't," Mr. Whalley is reported to have exclaimed,
Accounts have been received of a great robbery which " What would my Orange friends think of me ?"
" What they like," replied his committee; " but you
took place at Philadelphia between six o'clock in the
must vote straight, or we shan't think you worthy of
morning and four in the afternoon of the 4th inst. The
building occupied by the Beneficial Saving Fund Society support at the poll." Mr. Whalley, as the House
of Commons knows too well, can talk long
of Philadelphia, situated at the south-west corner of and fast, and he was about to enter
Twelfth and Chesnut-streets, was entered by robbers, and into an argument to show that with the Irish must
completely stripped of everything valuable in the shape go the English Church. But his committee would
of money, bonds, Sze., that the institution had on hand. hear no argument. Would he vote for Gladstone or
A rough estimate places the value of money, bonds, &c., not 9 lle would abstain altogether. But with that
carried off by the burglars at 1,300,000 dollars, of which even the committee were not satisfied. And the
about 400,000 dollars were in the coupon bonds, which are hon. member for Peterborough at last gave the
cot registered, and which can, of course, be easily cold fur required promise. What do Mr. Whalley's Orange
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ca =h by the burglars. About 8,000 dollars in breen backs friends think of him
were carried off, and the balance was in untransferable 1 CIII7IICII ITEMS.
bonds, dzc., which will be of no use to the robbers. The rob- The John Bull states of the private meeting of
hers effected an entrance through a window, encased with the Irish Church Conference, held this week,
sheet iron, and on the discovery being made everything about that the Primate presided, and there was the
the room was in a state of confusion. A large vault fire. - greatest unanimity as to the course to be pursued to
proof safe was broken open, and its entire content; con.- insure the present and future welfare of the Irish
aisting of all the bonds, money, &c., in charge of the Church. The Bishop of Derry made a long
society, were abstracted. These valuables were contained speech, which our contemporary publishes in full.
in numerous tin boxes, which were taken out one by one, One of the arguments which he used in favour
and broken open, and their contents secured. A small of maintaining the Establishment was that
safe stationed within the large one, having four locks, and the Roman Catholic clergy got so much more
money out of their people than the Protestant clergy
which contained papers of the greatest value, was lifted got out of theirs. To most persons the argument
wouldshop
out into the floor, the lock picked, and every paper takenseumexatondtender . in the contrary directioil ; but
from it. The carpet of the room was torn up in diffe-
rent places, and torn envelopes that contained valuable the other speakers were
s sl'erdie eloquentArchb i
si
lni os pn .of Dublin,mo ng
bonds, &e., were strewed around in all directions. The who declared that they might be vanquished, but
robbers had evidently been at work for several hours, for it they would not be accomplices in their own over-
was found that a large piece of timber, evidently prepared throw ; and the Bishop of Cork, who said
for the purpose, had been fastened in an upright position on that he would fight so long as ho had two
the floor, near the safe door, by means of iron hinges screwed legs left to stand upon, and when he had no legs
to the floor, and behind this was a prop, securely planted he would fight upon his stumps. Bishop Gregg is fond
of homey language. With reference to his previous
against this upright post. This contrivance was used to
afford a sort of support to the drill used to dill a hole into apapein.soinoriuosrkspaewrh, four. reporters of different
Bishop said that
the safe door, by which the burglars (who evidently knew the nicc Bill Gladstone
andt pubdlicly that
his bill
their business thoroughly, and were professional hands),were may go to the —." The most•s erneeveracnmd enabled to pick the lock. The combination lock of the safe : did not add the word " devil." He left that prelateor i was knocked off, and a hole drilled through the chilled steel , hearers to do. Ile knew that they were quite
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forming the panels of the safe door, about three inches to capable of doing it.
the right of the place where the combination lock was. This } With reference to what Mr. Gladstone calls the
hole was drilled to the depth of about three inches. A paper " absence of responsible episcopal Government " the
containing powder, and different sized. "bits," a large brace,
i Church Review says : " The grievance and scandaltie.edilthdat
the bishops are being consulted as to ssthne
and a bottle of alcohol, were found in the room, which had of the abeyance of episcopacy in so many English
been left behind by the daring robbers. The only bond left dioceses
inparlilat tmenhte parnedseAnt ir.mcolimdsetnotnehahs beeiti.li mentioned
bestia
behind by the robbers was a 51,000 one, which was found on
the floor. The mortgages that the saving fund had on hand for a liability to which, under the present sy s'teel
were not carried off by the robbers, and a number of certifi- we must always be exposed. This is a
satisfactory
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cates of shares of stock were left behind. In a box in the announcement. Along with this question we hope
safe was a largo quantity of silver ware, consisting of knives, that an increased normal episcopacy will be com-
forks, spoons, &c., and which belonged to different de- bined, and that the Government will accept the
positors. The scoundrels left this behind, it being too bulky . opportunity of compensating in some way in
for them to carry off in addition to the large bundle of England for the hard measure dealt to the sister
" bonds, &c., taken. Nothing of value was left in the Establishment in Ireland.
safe except a few pennies. Among the losers is ex-Judge
Campbell, who had a box on deposit that contained over
4,000 dollars. A lady named Al.Caully had a box in the
safe which contained diamonds valued at from 15,000
dollars to 20,04 dollars, ono solitaire having alone cost
5,000 dollars. Other depositors had silver and gold coin
and silver plate on deposit, and until the books of the
institution are examined it will bo difficult to aggre-
gate the value of the property carried away. It
is almost incredible how the robbery could have been
committed. It was done in broad daylight on the great
thoroughfare of the City, and on a clear day, u hen hundreds
of persons were passing to and fro. In emerging from the
buildinglthe robbers must have had a large bundle of papers,
and how they could have been engaged for hours
at their
nefarious work and then escaped with so much plunder un-
observed, is difficult to underetancl. The institution was
used to a great extent by servant girls, &c., to deposit their
scanty means, and many hundreds have lost all they pos-
sessed by the robbery. The immediate effect of the robbery
was to cause the bank to susprd payment.

TIIE OPERATIVE BRICKMAKERS.—In the Court of
Queen's Bench'an action was heard concerning a deposit-note
for £B7 is. lid. given by the Barnsley Banking Company
to the Barnsley Society of Operative Brickmakers at a
time when there were three or four more members than
those who were joined as plaintiffs. Those persons
had given notice to the bank not to pay the note without
their assent. The case was tried at Leeds, when the
plaintiffs were nonsuited. Mr. Seymour, Q.C., now moved
for a new trial, but the Lord Chief Justice said all the
parties to the contract must be joined as plaintiffs. He
thought there would be no difficulty in the bank paying
over the money. Rule refused.

GREAT SAVINGS BANK ROBBERY IN
PHILADELPHIA.

THE REFORM OF ECCLESIASTICAL LAW.

The objection chiefly urged against Lord Shaftes-
bury's bill for the reform of procedure in cases of
complaints against " criminous clerks " has been
that any irresponsible persons might, for the sake of
harrassing a clergyman, institute frivolous suits
against him. The slightest deviation from the letter
of the law would bring down law costs, if nothing
else, upon his head. Lord Shaftesbury, writing to
the Times on the subject, points out that he has pro-
vided against that. lie has inserted a clause making
the petitioner liable for the whole or any part of the
costs of the respo silent. In the case of unfounded
charges this woul i be a severe fine—severe enough,
Earl Shaftesbury thinks, to deter men from vexatious
cases,

A painful case of elopement has been reported to
the Liverpool Courier from Manchester. A magistrate and
lady, the wife of a brother magistrate, have fled to the Con-
tinent together. The lady is said to be the mother of four
young children. Her husband and his brother havo left
England in pursuit of the fugitives.

RFPRLEVE OF THE CONVICT WH.TsuutE.--On
Saturday morning Major Cartwright, Governor of
Gloucester Gaol, received a communication from the
Home Secretary, directing a reprive of the convict
Charles Wiltshire, who was sentenced to death a fort-
night ago fur the:murder of Harriet Nurse, at St. George's,
Bristol. This decision, it ?I presumed, has been arrived
at solely in consequence of the medical evidence given
at the trial, and apart altogether from the prisoner's
attempt on the life of the warder.

AN AMERICAN GRACE DARLING.—The happily-
named Grace Darling, in England, made herself immortal
by her heroism in rescuing the wrecked. Rhode Island
has a similar heroine in Miss Ida Lewis, daughter of the
keeper of the Lime 'Rock Lighthouse. Dy day or night,
in storm or breeze, she springs alone into her boat to save
life. She is said to have saved the lives of a dozen
persons—twc of whom, soldiers, she rescued a few days
ago. All honour to her. As we cannot give her an
obelisk or a statue, we give her a paragraph,--ivew york
AMC& APTii