The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-10 00:00:00

A STRANGE CRIME.

, A shocking murder, the circumstances of wticti
aro involved in mystery, was lately committed in
Catchina, one of the suburbs of St. Petersburg.
The police, having been informed that a murder
had been perpetrated •in the house of the Grande
Perspective, occupied by M. Glebow, his wife,
and his mother-in-law, proceeded to the spot, and
found the latter, a woman about 40, lying in a small ante-
chamber with her throat cut. The relatives of the victim,
on being interrogated, declared that the deceased had
gone to vespers on the preceding evening, and had returned
in high spirits ; that the family had supped at eleven
o'clock, after which M. Glebow and his wife retired to their
chamber, but at what time the widow went to bed was
uncertain. In the middle of the night Mine. Glebow,
the younger, was awakened by the cries of her young
son Theodore who usually slept in the apartment
of the mother-in.law, and, on entering the room,
she found the latter in the state above-mentioned,
with the child lying over the body and crying. She
immediately informed her husband, who went to give
information to the police. As no doors had been broken
open, nor any property carried off, the crime is sup-
posed to have been committed by one of the inmates of
the house.

The Birmingham Gazette, writiug upon the milers'
strike, says there is now some prospect of its being
brought to a conclusion to the satisfaction of tho
masters and the men. A meeting of the nailmasters
of Hales Owen has been held at the house of Mr. P.
Trewolla, when it was decided that a requisition
should be drawn up and sent round the districts where the
Men are on strike, for the signatures of masters willing to
pay the '64 list. The lint has been stint roucd during the
present week, and has been most extensively signed. Most
of the masters seem quite willing to gay the 20s. to tho
pound, but do not relish the idea of holding a public meeting.
The men, on the other hand, seem quite determined to remain
on strike till the masters have held a public meeting, and
positively decline to meet less than 30 masters.

Mr. Wheelhouse, M.P., delivered an address at a
meeting of the Leeds Conservative Association. He said
that few speeches bad been made since the end of the
session, because the Liberal members did not wish
to discuss their future policy. He believed that
the Irish land question would he treated in a very different
spirit from that of the Irish Church. He thought the Li-
berals would be false to their principles if they made a dis-
tinction, and for his part be should like to have as Radical a
measure as possible proposed, in order to see if these gen-
tlemen would be silent when their own estates were brought
into question.

An institution of a somewhat novel character has
been added to those now existing in the Church of England.
It is under the direction of a Council of Reference, consisting
of Lords Lyttelton, the Earls of Glasgow and Strathmore,
Lord Eliot, Lord Richard Cavendish, the Hon. C. L. Cour-
tenay, Sir H. E. F. Lainbert, the Hon. H. Walpole, the Hon.
C. L. Wood, the Hon. and Rev. H. Douglas, the Hon. and
Rev. R. Liddell, Mr. R. Brett, Mr. R. Few, Dr. Gully, and
other gentlemen, and its object is "to afford to the working
clergy opportunities of refreshmlnt to body and soul at the
lowest reasonable cost." The institution is near Malvern,
and the Rev. James Skinner, M.A., Vicar of Nowlands, has
teen appointed warden provisionally.

THE DEAN OF LIMERICK'S PLAN FOR THE SUS-
TENTATION OF TILE IRISH CHURcH.—A plan for the future
sustentation of the Church of • Ireland has been put for-
ward by the Dean of Limerick, in a sermon in the
Limerick Cathedral. He said—lf the Church of Ireland
is to be maintained at all, it is on the principle of
all its members combining for the purpose, and
giving each one in proportion to his means.
There is a plan which you have seen referred to in the
newspapers, and which has been suggested by the Irish
Church Act itself, called commutation. It means that the
Government, in place of continuing to pay the incomes
of the existing clergy during their lives, should hand over
the sum which it is supposed will be sufficient to pay each
annuity to the governing- body of the Church, and let
that body be the future paymaster. You may ask of
what use will that he I answer at once, of no use at all,
if that is all that is done ; only an injury, in making the
clergy dk.pend for their incomes, not on Government
s..ff.urity, but on a voluntary a3soe7ation. But while thus
by itself it gains nothing, or worse than nothing,commuta-
ii6fi may be turned to a means of immense benefit if, by
the strenuous and united efforts of all classes, clergy
and laity, put forward for a few years, the sum
thus handed over by the Government to the
Church could be preserved untouched a 3 a future
endowment. The interest of £5,000,000, even at
the low rate of interest that is to be had from the public
funds, is £150,000 a year. Let £250,000 a year more be
raised by subscriptions, not for ever, but for a very few
years, during the lives of the existing clergy, and firer
you have that annual income of £150,000 a year secured
by endowment for ever to the Church; enough to give
£l5O a year each to one thousand clergymen in the Church I
of Ireland.