The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-22 00:00:00

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T I' SUN, LONDON EIIIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1869.
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-trenwndons " grinding," entered' the & -,service,
are constrained to spend their time and brains
on copying letters all their lives. They begin
on £lOO a year; they get £lO added each
year to their salary, and promotion not rewarding
their efforts, they ultimately reach £3OO. This £3OO
a year is paid to an educated gentleman to do work
which ought to be done for £lOO, both the public
and its servants being wronged by the system. The
remedy proposed by " Public Servant" is to divide the
service into two departments, those who are expected
to do copying and such like work forming the one,
and those who work with their brains the other.
Certainly this plan—which is supported by Mr. Mill
and Sir Charles Trevelyan—is more equitable than
the present want of system.
DM BAINES, M.P., ON ART.
Leeds is a favoured town in respect of art. Not
only is it notable as having had an excellent exhibi-
tion some time back, but its school is thriving and
appreciated. When it is remembered that " the
northern towns have long been caricatured as
wanting everything in the way of culture and
refinement, the progress Leeds has made will be
appreciated. Mr. Baines, M.P., spoke at the School
of Art annual meeting, held on Wednesday. Con-
gratulating Leeds on the position it had attained, he
added : " In Germany there was a saying that every
child who could speak ought to be ableto sing, and that
every child who could read ought to be able to draw ;
and he thought if we could act upon this principle in
Eritain we should do an immense amount of good.
We would be able. to teach young people in such a
way as would render them infinitely more likely in
after years to come forward as advanced pupils into
our schools of art and much more highly qualified for
bringing about general improvement in the taste of
the community."

THE LATE MEMBER FOR LAMBETH.
" William Roupell, Esq., M.P." who was in 1862
sentenced to imprisonment for life for forgery, has
had a comparatively short imprisonment. His health
seems to have suffered from his confinement, so he is
released on ticket of leave. Probably Mr. Baron
Bramwell would remonstrate against such a-release ;
and it is certainly only in these latter days that such
a plea would be answered by release. But the once
member for Lambeth is hardly likely to trouble the
police again, and, taken altogether, his life is not
such as would lead any other man to commit his
" mistake " because he came out of prison at the
end of six years instead of dying there.
MR. DODDS, M.P.
It is not often that successful candidates get their
election expenses paid. That generosity on the part
of electors is, always excepting Mr. Bright's case,
usually reserved for the defeated competitor. Mr.
Dodds, the member for the new borough of Stockton-
on-Tees, has not only won the seat, but had a present
of C.:1,1W presented to him to cover his expenses;
expenses which he declares were occasioned by
" frivolous and vexatious opposition." As his oppo-
nent polled only 867 to his own 2,470, there seems
some ground for this charge. Lord Ernest Vane
Tempest will not have even the small satisfaction of
thinking that he made his rival pay for his victory.

TIIE DOCTRINAL SUIT.
The suit brought by Mr. Sheppard, of Erome,
against Mr. Bennett, the vicar of that place, has
advanced another stage. It will be remembered that
Mr. Bennett wrote an article in the third series of
" The Church and the World," the High Church-
men's Essays and Reviews, in which article he
stated the doctrine of the Real Presence in the
broadest and most unmistakeable language. One
expression, indeed, he has been induced by his friends
to recall. This book being published in London, the
Church Association,with Mr. Sheppard for their nomi-
nee, instituted proceedings at Westminster, in order to
compel the Bishop of London to issue a commission
of inquiry by way of ascertaining if there were prima
facie ground for indicting Mr. Bennett for heresy.
The commission, which may be said to have acted
the part of a grand jury, found that there was, and
their report has been forwarded to the Bishop of
Bath and Wells, in whose diocese Mr. Bennett is.
Lord Auckland will by letters of request at once
transfer the case to the Court of Arches, and it
will sooner or later come on for hearing before Sir
Robert Phillimore. So tir, we believe, Mr. Bennett
has taken no active steps in the suit, and as he has
1;,,oly so vehemently denounced the jurisdiction of
t:Ce Privy Council—to which Court of Final Appeal the
promoters of the suit will surely, if necessary, to carry it
--in matters of ritual, he is scarcely likely to recognise
the jurisdiction of that court in matters of doctrine.
Important as the case of Martin v. Mackonochie has
proved, and intense as is the excitement to which it
has given rise, the case of Sheppard v. Bennett
involves far more important issues.