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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The 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 band he could so easily reclaim
that he is careless whether he opens his fingers and for 3
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
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
shew the majority Conservative in the truest sense.
single week has turned a considerable majority against
the bill into a small but adequate majerity 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 peers
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 shew their
patriotism in counsels of moderation ; while the number of
independent peers declining to follow Lord Harrowby, and
even resolving to vote against him, grows daily. With
such facts before us we await the result of the week
debate with equanimity, assured that the policy of justice
will not be delayed, and that by yielding at the right eon"
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 a
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 case
identical. No one asks the House of Lords to amend tat
bill in committee. All are unanimous in demanding tila
the DM shall be rejected on the second reading.
It is
almost made the condition upon which the Conservative
party have received such wide-spread support that
the bill shall not be suffered to pass into committee. The
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
more tentative course of action. After all, we have it °T;,
unimpeachable authority that the Government will not
recognise even the possibility of a compromises and tea
t
they " will not allow the bill to be tampered with in
way," because "its principle involves all its details." 1e
Peers are told that they must pass the bill as it stancg4
and that they will alter it at their peril. We can bard,l6
be surprised that they should take up the challenge atut't;
earliest possible moment rather than stave it off wit"(i
preliminary sham fight. As Mr. Gathorne Hardy °Ai
at Leamington, the Government employed their streng''';
in the House of Commons with "inexorable harshnese'e
rejecting every amendment which in the smallest degrei,
mitigated the severity of the measure, and consequenb.:
it goes up to the House of Lords " in all its defortalt"'
iniquity, and injustice." They are warned that thel
f
only
t
must either pass the bill as it stands, or throw it out' the
the
firstb e ha viou alternative
of
tyrannical
Mr.
isGlpaodssstiohnlee,
andit is due due to
ori tP
The Times, after discussing the position of the Establish i¢
Church, arrives at the conclusion that there is a want 111
extensive;
the Episcopate. Some of the dioceses are very
some very populous, and in some the bishops just But
happen to be very aged men, or otherwise disabled- '01".
even comparatively young and newly-made bishops c°
plain that the work is too much for them, or that it airs
sists too much of one sort of work, which does not reit'
either a scholar, or a theologian, or any governing PnweirsO;
There have been actual negotiations with Governmat
relief, various expedients have been adopted, ie
obselete Act has been just brought into notice. There
beginning to he a sort of unanimity that "sonnetloa!
must be done." Even they who most objected to
.cx,
change whatever are now more open to conilr
tion, if, indeed, they care about the ra3tter.;
The proposition of a new sort of bislicPs 130
not only ancient authority, but also good reas°ll
to recommend it. The Church of England harp
contains many clergymen with sufficent character, leer_et,
in g, manners, and private income to undertake the officv
of visitation and cor6rmation if invested with autbol:t ;
for the purpose. But the creation of a new Order is
co
del3tbe
ef
very serious affair, and, whatever may be said in
of it, a number of bishops expressly excluded fronl
higher and more governing offices would be practicalVe
new Order and a very distinct body of men. Already too
pure episcopal rank has suffered some disparagen3eilt,fiircor
the offensive comparisons familiarly and now Pu":.-,io
made between " bishops" and "colonials." ‘V hen Wl:ilf
the case we may guess what would soon Le thot;sl'
bishops paid just their travelling expenses to go about cf:rx
firming or taking other hard or irksome work. If Mat'.-ell
are ripe for another rearrangement or redistribution,
the
and good. That is a far less serious affair than
attempt to create what would be virtually a new °r(ler of
The Star allnees to last week's dreadful cataloenweas
accidents, and says that the disaster at Fernds'idents•
perhaps, from the unhappy frequency of coalpit acct,...odet
less affecting to the popular imagination than the ,or
explosion at Bingley. What in the latter case atoll Nag
the unlocked safety lamp? A safety whistle Win has of
made so safe that it would not whistle. The boiler :e of
sound make, and was tested years ago with a prrotent
sixty pounds to the square inch. It had Hopkinson :. ;tellny
valve and safety alarm. It had Schaffer's patent
O
gauge and water-gauges. It had everything a" t the
could do for it. But science could not Previell 040
engine man from tying up the steam whiet'end the
canvas, so that its warning voice was silenced, :about
over-pressure it was meant to indicate cane I'o
warning, and resulted in nearly a score of deatdel4
complete the tale of the week's disasters came the °oge,
on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway, where a newornetise
ran off the line on its trial trip, and killed a Ineco
superintendent and an engine-driver; and the
.icideuts
strophes at Crewe on Thursday night. All those nefereece
were of the saddest and most shocking kind. In rtv lsl
to the first we must look for our unlocked safe
which''
probably in some defect of the permarent way'
ra one c)f
Board of "'mile ier-i.eeter i, about to scrutinise._ wog°
the cases of Crewe, it is to be found in th%sdng
stupidity of an engine-driver, who persisted in
'leo who
break van contrarf to the breaksnian's adsice, a /Loa,
was fearfully lacerated by a passing mail train•
rage of
does one week eebek so largely to the nvoeneosei
national disaster` ; but it is remarkable that in n° Co Av
except the as yet unexplained one on the Breectosble
Merthyr line, is there even an apparent absence °I
negligence. tore of iatha.
The Post thinks that the most striking „reb
agitation to which the passage of the Irish u'i-012-aske
in the Commons has given rise is supplied by the, irelanj:
and conduct of the Oraegemen in the north
.°l,_„o,itY
Hitherto they have been conspicuous for their
(fil'isl,tore
but it would seem that when the action of the. Le° as any
is not to their liking they earl be as seditiouseocy .
Fenian or ltibbonman. When they see the sul)ri..awy feel
their religion on the point of perishing, they Fc°,'',.appeaff,
that the sole consideration for their los-alty nb'i;'sbteenb,
and they unhesitatingly declare that the d;
.sest.artu"aidoot
.f the Church will be considered by them as a vit
~vd area,
fltion of the political union between Irelana Atlo,_
of which they affect to consider are PO would tot
Britain, : lid that
u defence of their
hl language used at the Orange meetings _ war%
religion y onceth their
pmoloirteicfval
1, serve notice were it not that probably On agos:
rument which will be used in the House akoerna:_of„ro.
I risk Church Bill will rest on the inexp.e(ll the Tree
•,:iwg the auimosity of the most loyal section ked, to 1/0
oir, I, din doubtful hope of conciliatin
reeion _
c. Are the Protestants, it will be aslie winthit
Injr
110 Wed
ek •ni eel sentiment, ought not to e
aaeet in a ease which involves a (111
Such an argument, whatever
be a
quests
es
kliearbed7l;:, 1.1,;et

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.I. iI e L'Ill:l :‘:(?, li 1 referring to the cu from
s-- .oe,
)3 country I_,y Lieutenant Warren, from l'ies„atiest
g•;er ves that the relics from Jerasalem itself are tbe —.O
'Ct.:)l•liiry‘ndhistaorrey.
~,,,tei ii-et:ti is , some of them, W133°11011 •
:::wisi, art,. cedar
or at least ofT
awed
of its final siege, and some frai,l'ae,lL, of
,11
tea,
rir)endblciocn
illittiiilo,iliing s la:
the
ea i
ncaatr
the
aepwsutlhoti r
ye h balls of
st iot
lo:::
serve ant only to raise our ids
ate
seemsefto tell decor r
the Judxan capital, bo .
brow. The
_,,iii,ii most numerous relics are of potter)", 1111 Os
yui interesting as throwing an air of yeller%
antic
.00..iiin
,ty around articlesof familiar use. Anearthen ve°o:6
ivasle tulike a teapot is evidently a traditional coPY°f,sve
which the women of Solomon's Court 1131;
carrised
use their oerfnines, and the ordinary lamps 13(310. a
are as nearly as possible those which the virgius Os
have carried to nocturnal weddings in the fashioo.oo
quarter of Jerusalem. One relic of an ancient fs°9l3loo
will be viewed with more interest than these. Am°l3s dia
articles of glass are some bottles which were used DY "e.
aristocratic. classes of Jerusalem to catch sod Intl
serve their tears. This curious custom has left its troc,i; e,
Scripture ; here are the material evidences of i. 3aii
whole of the exhibition whicl is only qs yet d' 8133- t
beginning, has an interest of.' its ONVD: It shows thlci
many lost traces of ancient life rna y_et be found, le
that one of the best sources of Yillustration for
_t_.
among
narratives i the debris of ancient or
which the Palestine Exploration Eund propoes r
seek it,