The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-17 00:00:00

MILITARY ITEMS.

The Army and Nary Gazette believes that the
office of Quartermaster-General will be abolished
next year ; states that 'Vice-Admiral Sir 11.
Keppel will probably return home in the
Rodney, and in that case will be succeeded in the
command of the China station by Vice-Admiral 11.
Kellett, C.B. ; believes that Mr. Cardwell has taken
the first step towards the preservation of the British
cemeteries in the Crimea, by inquiring what the
French have done, which, by the way, everybody
knows already; and mentions that Colonel Bowan
has at last returned to England, after more than
a dozen years' residence in New York, where he has
been looking after a law suit between our Government
and that of the United States repecting a contract
for arms supplied during the Russian war. Colonel
Rowan has gained the suit ; but one would like to
know the money cost of the victory.
The Brcad Arrow states that H.M. gunboats In-
solent, -Weazel, and• Janus are to be sold out of the
service ; that the military Manufacturing depart-
ments at Woolwich are henceforth to be under the
Controller-in-Chief ; and that Sir James Waller,
K.C.M.G., has been appointed Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Bahamas.

CHURCH 1TE2.18.

The Jan Bull gives a very different account of
the meeting of Deans from that 1E in the
morning papers a few days ago. The Dean of York,
for instance, was for a scheme by which the dean
and two canons should alp:-ays be residents, and the
other two canonries being suppressed, the revenues
should go to the establ:shment of a suffragan
bishop. The Eishop of Gloucester was even more
"revolutionary."
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The same journal mentions that "at the request
of an eminent Conservative statesman, the
Church Institution will probably draft a ball
to meet any . real hardships of I)iss'nters
in not being allowed burial in churchyards.
Its chief feature, we believe, will be the establish-
ment of a burial-ground in every union where any
service may b 3 used. It has been pointed out that
many Churchmen, whose parents and ancestors were
DiEsenters, have an equal grievance in not being able
to have burial by the side of their relatives solem-
nised according to the rites of the Church." It
would seem, therefore, as if the old belief
in the superior sancity of consecrated ground were
dying out. The high Church party are, strange to
say, greatly responsible for this. In order to keep
their churches as free as possible from episcopal
interference, not a few of them have decided to omit
episcopal consecration, and content themselves with
a simple dedication service. Of con r;:e, if this p :rty
thus casts a slight upon consecration, it is 11J t ti.; be
expected that the other parties in the Church will
att Leh much importance to it.

The Bishop of London is said to be taking
counsel's opinion r.s to the legality of Mr. Pod ell
and Mr. Le Geyt burning candles on a ledge above
the altar. But it is belie :ed that one of these
gentlemen themselves has already t:tl:en au oninio.
which proved adverse to the practice.

THE CONVERSION OF TEE JEWS.

The Rev. Richard Parrott, the vicar of Amwell,
writes to the Daily News on the conversion of the
Jews :--" I have always thought," he says, " that of
all shams that of the Society for the Conversion of
the Jews' is the greatest that could be palmed
upon a British public. It has been calculated
that it costs £lO,OOO to convert one Jew, and then it
is doubtful whether his conversion is genuine or not.
I hold that we haVe no special mission to the Jews
at all. Would the society kindly give the names
and addresses of all those Jews that have been
converted to Christianity within the last twelve
months "

Loma LYTTELTON OAS EDUCATION.
Lord Lyttelton presided on Friday at the distri-
bution of prizes to the London district in connection
with the Cambridge local examinations. In the
course of an interesting speech, he urged that all
schools should be placed under one management;
that the voluntary system should no longer be
depended upon solely;. that girls, as well as boys,
should 'Tem% a really good education, instead. of
bcing considered unfit forstudy; that crammingshould
be abolished ; that the routine and parrot system
should be discontinued; and that education in its
wider sense should be adopted.