The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOIIIINLLS,

Tho Times has little interest in the result of this week's
debate as it affects the Irish Establishment. Those who
have keenly pursued some single object know what it is to
feel a certain lassitude when the quarry has been struck
and the chase is about to terminate. It is like a man who
holds something in his hand he could so easily reclaim
that he is careless whether he opens his fingers and for a
moment lets it go. But the decision of the Peers has an
interest of its own in its bearing upon the Peers them.
selves. Will they acknowledge the limits of the control
they can beneficially exercise over the legislation 0.
Parliament ? Will they recognise the recurrence
of one of those rare occasions when it becomes the duty
of individual members of the House of Lords to abstain
from insisting upon their own opinion in opposition to the
judgment of the nation? It is with unfeigned satisfaction
we receive the assurance that the vote of the Lords will
show the majority Conservative in the truest sense. A
single week has turned a considerable majority against
the bill into a small but adequate majority in its favour,.
and we have the best confidence that before
Saturday morning that favourable majority will have
increased to larger proportions. Five or six peed
who have held office under Lord Derby will throw the
weight of their arguments into the scale against the motion
to reject the bill ; the Bench of Bishops will spew their
patriotism in counsels of moderation ; while the number of
independent peers declining to follow Lord Harrowhn and
even resolving to vote against him, grows daily. With
such facts before us we await the result of the week's
debate with equanimity, assured that the policy of justice
will not be delayed, and that by yielding at the right COn-
juncture the reputation and authority of the House of
Lords will be established more firmly than ever.
The Standard declares that the House of Lords has
been subjected to an amount of pressure by the friends of
the Irish Church which is entirely without precedent'
What it desires to insist upon is, that it has been all
one direction. Whether we take the language of Church-
-men or Protestant Dissenters, of deputations from Ireland
or of meetings in England, its burden is in every cas°
identical. No one asks the House of Lords to amend the
bill in committee. All are unanimous in demanding tbst
the bill shall be rejected on the second reading. It, ia
almost made the condition upon which the Consetvatilve
party have received such wide-spread support 04
the bill shall not be suffered to pass into committee. 513 e
Peers are in a manner forced to deal with it in this manner'
and we trust that so important a consideration will not be
lost sight of by those who might be disposed to favour a
more tentative course of action. After all, we have it e°
unimpeachable authority that the Government will IY:4
recognise even the possibility of a compromise, and tht4
they " will not allow the bill to be tampered with in
way," because "its principle involves all its details." e
Peers are told that they must pass the bill as it star s,
and that they will alter it at their peril. We can harelil
the
be surprised that they should take up the challenge at
earliest possible moment rather than stave it di with,:
preliminary sham fight. As Mr. Gathorne Hardy
at Leamington, the Government employed their streng'",,
in the House of Commons with "inexorable harshnesa:,
rejecting every amendment which in the smallest deg;
mitigated the severity of the measure, and consecluenat;
it goes up to the House of Lords "in all its defertr'''''
iniquity, and injustice." They are warned that 01
must either pass the bill as it stands, or throw it out. i•
only the first alternative is possible, it is due to tbe
tyrannical behaviour of Mr. Gladstone and his nilaierittl'A
Church, arrives
Times,
Na,
ef after discussing
at
tishceuscsoinnogltuhseionthat position
thereof t h eisEs:awbal_isr
give,
the Episcopate. Some of the dioceses are very Otensivese'
some very populous, and in some the bishops just ass°4
happen to be very aged men, or otherwise disabled. '-
even comparatively young and newly-made bishops LUG,
even
it co%
plain that the work is too much for them, or that
sists too much of one sort of work, which does not reolo.l
either a scholar, or a theologian, or any governing potfee
There have been actual negotiations with GovernineY 1;11
relief, various expedients have been adopted, andis
obselete Act has been just brought into notice. The%
beginning to he a sort of unanimity that " seenethi ,
must be dons_" en
e" Even they who most objected to any
change whatever are now more open to nviter,
tion, if, indeed, they care about the matter.
The proposition of a new sort of bishops 00
not only ancient authority, but also good reasons
to recommend it. The Church of England happily_.'.
contains many clergymen with sufficent character, lefces
ing, manners, and private income to undertake the il
of visitation and corth.mation if invested with anther.. sr
for the purpose. But the creation of a new Orderf losc,
very serious affair, and, whatever may be said in de e,6
of it, a number of bishops expressly excluded fren32:,
higher and more governing offices would be practicali)„.o
new Order and a very distinct body of men. AlreadY toso3
pure episcopal rank has suffered some disparagement feel!
the offensive comparisons familiarly and now Pu"',is
made between " bishops" and " colonials." When tilt
the case we may guess what would soon be tboughwon.
bishops paid just their travelling expenses to go about etecs
firming or taking other hard or irksome work. if
are ripe for another rearrangement or reclistributis%
the
and good. That is a far less serious affair der,
attempt to create what would be virtually a new Or
of
The Star alluees to last week's dreadful catalognlceo,
accidents, and says that the disaster at Fermin_i:ejeatS.
perhaps, from the unhappy frequency of coalpit
less affecting to the popular imagination thane he a for
explosion at Bingley. What in the latter casstlicAs
the unlocked safety lamp? A safety whistle wh'co of
made so safe that it would not whistle. The boiler. Woe of
sound make, and was tested years ago with a patentprey
sixty pounds to the square inch. It had Hopkinson s
steote
valve and safety alarm. It had Schaffer's Patent coca
gauge and water-gauges. It had everything tha't sot the
could do for it. But science could not Pveriee with
engine man from tying up the steam whisti_na the
canvas, so that its warning voice was silenced, and
over-pressure it was meant to indicate °
est
f deaths.
warning, and resulted in nearly a score o 0001
complete the tale of the week's disasters carne ells
engine
on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway, where a locostly°
ran off the line on its trial trip, and killed a t
'vo cats'
superintendent and an engine-driver; and the incidents
strophes at Crewe on Thursday night. AU those
reforeees
were of the saddest and most shocking kind. 11103. WO
to the first we must lo,:k for our unlocked s 3
which 1:
probably in some defect of the permanent 10.,0 one °
Board cf 'rade ic,p(-ctor is about to scrutinise.
b: wog°
the cases of Crewe, it is to be found in t
stupidity of an engine-driver, who persisted i°
vsb°
break van contrary to the breaksinan's advic, /10-ely.
was fearfully lacerated by a passing mail tranii;veoge
does one week contribute so largely to the easel
national disaster ; but it is remarkable that :i3uurecna sod
::e eept the as yet unexplained one on th of 0101)
Merthyr line, is there even an apparent abssuce
negligence. ~,re of tiall;eti
The Post thinks that the most striking fe3,7l3ileols P'"
agitation to which the passage of the Irish hognesie.
in the Commons has given rise is supplied by t.e,
Trel
and conduct of the Orangemen in the nort err°'10yeltY!
Hitherto they have been conspicuous for tleigstsr
but it would seem that when the action of tbs -1"15 00 anoi
is not to their liking they can be as sedittrisu_sinsol
Fenian or Ribbonman. When they see the s !:(I).bably for
their religion on the point of perishing, they
that the sole consideration for their loyalty
wlblisbii °5O.
and they unhesitatingly declare that the digests
virtos dig
sf the Church will be considered by them O,S a, Ore
ution of the political union between Ir elt,at. 'up amts
ilritain, and that they will once more 3 tYl
1 t'';ll°
u fcnce of their religion and their politica
srai.
which they affect to consider are in jee,...r „Told
vild httie used at the Orange rneetiM7 Strongest
curve notice were it not that probably 710q00170.
see which will be used in the goose „coy, l'b
is Irish Church Bill will rest on; he inexpec:_, the Irist.o
'lcing the animosity of the most oyal sectio ;01, to
tong
eople. Are the Protestants, it will b: 35 the t
estate d in the doubtful hope of conciliating i
_essio
ill( lies? Such an argument, whateveor rayagoie.ecto bo`i
mske upon sentiment, ought not t
_iiestes
lice judement iu a case which involves ti
pale °
Olt t°
rice to a nation. iositieS
lie Di(! el:7e, in referriog to the cur
fro c' seen
is country I y Lieutenant Warren, elfto.
-cry es that the relics from Jerasaleroare
roaeteo
there,
terestiog, and are, some 0. It IAIL4tb
t its storing history. The cataPu
t:.ries of its final siege, and 3°'ll° 1"-; ict°te3
denrtill,e;
''::St.:l6)llllllJlcaleer'tl'abruoilrdseinravgtes lebolor'tttho6enf IJYtthtdetowaanrrtacisw3ePhiis" f its isu
°%-te,
:ilarrsd condition seems to tell again the storYr.., 140
isro\V. The In, st numerous relics are of Pottef ''venetAdvet
interesting as throwing an of c,e-tbe
antiiiuity around articlesof familiar use. Al7copy °two
looking like a teapot is evidently a traditionl otaY ja
vases in which the women of Solomons Courtpow .4
carried their oerfumcs, and the ordinary. le ulvivrgins 13:;116
use are as nearly as possible those which
the sasbioe.l,4
have carried to nocturnal weddings in
anc.:_t fag the
quarter of Jerusalem. One relic of these.
ancient tt%
will be viewed with more interest than
e
articles of glass are some bottles which wceartc.
atio
serve
their t
ecal
Scripture ; here are the material evn_y
asH:".t
whole of the exhibition, which o Trshses,
a et be for 1,0,
many lost traces of ancient life m_
f Yinustration
vole
t 4
rass.sesThoifs cjueriroutstaslcetintstotmoidirevnscl:f_itisr,rl,l3ll
ncient ~0006, •
Biblical narratives is the Exploration of ,,es,d rot;
among which the Palestine
litleiagtinnoinneg' ofh "then bienstteressoturoc.fes itso
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