The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

CONVOCATION.

The bishops forming the Convocation of the Province of
Canterbury met on Friday, under the presidency of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. A large number of petitions
were presented, praying that their lordships would adopt
some measures for a fuller representation of the clergy in
the Lower House of Convocation, by making the
elected members larger in proportion to the deans
and archdeacons who hold their seats officially, and the
proctors in cathedral chapters.—The Bishop of Lich-
field brought before the House the subject of pensions
for retiring bishops and clergy, and gave many instances
in which dioceses and important benefices were left with.
out episcopal and spiritual aid. He suggested that
incomes should be more equalised, and that a fund should
be raised out of the revenues of the Church to meet
such resignations, and that retiring bishops and incum-
bents should also be entitled to a portion of the income
of the sees and benefices they resigned. After some dis-
cussion, it was agreed that a committee of bishops should
be appointed to confer with the Lower House on the
subject.
The Lower House devoted most of its time to the con-
sideration of the Irish Church question, but before that
matter was taken up, Archdeacon Denison complained of
the treatment his petition on the Eucharist had met with,
and protested against the action which had been taken
upon it. He also expressed his regret for certain expres-
sions he had used, and withdrew them. The address to
the Crown agreed upon by the Upper House was then
brought down. To the original address the Lower House
had appended a prayer to her Majesty, asking that she
would not agree to the disestablishment of the Irish Church.
The Upper House, on the ground that this would be
asking her Majesty to take an unconstitutional course,
struck out the petition, and the Lower House had now to
consider the address as amended. Canon Blakesley
moved that the House should concur in this address
to the Crown. Archdeacon Moore seconded the
motion.—Archdeacon Denison thought the best plan
would be, considering that unanimity was most desirable,
that the House should ask for a conference with the Upper
House, and he moved that through the Prolocutor such a
conference should be requested.—Canon Selwyn seconded
the motion.—The Dean of Westminster urged that there
was no necessity for any conference. He would advise
the clergy not to take up the position by assuming that
there was but one or two alternatives to be adopted by the
Legislature ; for, he said, to do so would be adopting a
most dangerous course.—The question was debated at
considerable length, and at last, on the vote being taken,
it was found that there were 42 in favour of a conference
with the bishops on the subject and 22 against.
The Prolocutor, accompanied by his assessors, then
waited on their lordships to request the conference. On
his return he stated that their lordships had consented to
alter that part of the address which related to the Irish
Church. The paragraph will read :—" We look forward
with deep anxiety to the proceedings which may be
proposed to Parliament respecting the Irish branch of the
United Church of England and Ireland, and we trust that
the interests of true religion may not be lost sight of amid
the conflicts of political parties, and we pray that the
issue may be directed by the good providence of Almighty
God to that which all loyal hearts desire—the peace, the
enlightenment, and the good government of Ireland."—
Archdeacon Denison said he was willing to accept the
alteration, and would move that the request for a confer-
ence with the bishops should be disc"iarged.
This was carried nein. con. It was then moved and
carried at once that the address should go the Queen as
that of the "bishops and clergy."

A. petition was afterwards adopted, praying that the
Archbishop of Canterbury would use his influence against
the proposed measure on the Irish Church.

A Cincinnati genius advertises for a situation,
saying that, " Work is not so much an object as good
wages."

T.:" understand that a petition, numerously
signed by the members of Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, and
the Inner and Middle Temple, praying that the new law
courts should be erected on the Carey-street site, will
shortly be presented to Parliament.

LEGISLATION FOR INDIA.--We have reason to
believe that Sir Stafford Northcote's two Indian bills,
which were withdrawn last session, will be reintroduced
with certain modifications by the Duke of Argyll, and that
by a new clause power will be given to the Viceroy to alter
the position of a province from " regulation " to "non-
regulation," or the reverse.—Asiatic.

The Ffrench minor case was again adjourned in the
Irish Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday. It was stated that
the young lady is still ill, but her mother, Lady Ffrench, has
free access to her in tho Loretto convent. The Lord Chief
Justice agreed to hold over the matter until Monday next,
but intimated his intention to ascertain the young lady's own
will as to staying in the convent; she was in her 17th year,
and at lib( rty to choose her own residence.

M. Patry, a retired banker of Tours, killed his wife
on Tuesday evening. Jealousy seems to have been the
motive of the act, and there even appears some reason to
think that he may have shot not at her but at a suspected
lover. Madame Patry slept on the ground floor of the house.
At 10 in the evening the husband, hearing some one in the
room, came downstairs from the first floor, with a gun in his
hand, fired, and killed his wife dead on the spot. It is alleged
that at the same moment a gentleman who had left her
apartments escaped through the garden, jumping over a
ditch.

MR. MONK AND THE REVENUE OFFICIALS.—
Ott Friday a deputation from the members of the Revenue
Departments waited upon Mr. Monk, M.P. for Gloucester,
to present him with an address expressive of their
gratitude for his successful advocacy of their right to
the electoral franchise. The address, a work of great
artistic merit, illuminated in the style of the middle ages,
was presented by Mr. Hemel, the solicitor of the
Customs. Mr. Monk said he hoped that the new House
of Commons would admit the revenue officer to the full
rights of citizenship.
BEETROOT SUGAR.—The origin of the manu-
facture of beetroot sugar, now so extensively carried on
throughout France, Belgium, and the States of the Zoll-
verein, presents a striking instance of good educed from
seeming evil. Scarcely, if at all, practised in Europe
before the century opened, the manufacture sprang into
importance as the result of the remarkable fiscal contest
waged between Napoleon and this country, which began
with the celebrated Decree of Berlin, in 1806.
Resolved to isolate Great Britain entirely from the
Continent—to place cs Anglais under the penalties of
excommunication from the brotherhood of nations—
the Emperor sought to prohibit all commercial intercourse,
even of the least direct kind, between England or her
dependencies, and any of the countries then under his
control. The retaliatory Orders in Council of January
1807 were the consequence ; and the derangement and
destruction of trade were rendered total—much to the
profit of the smuggling fraternity, who now came into
wonderful activity and importance—by repeated decrees
and fiscal regulations effectually closing the Continent
against the product of England and her colonies.
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