The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-13 00:00:00

'LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, cec,

The literal& papers. contain some interesting, but no
very important information. The Athenteunt is" glad to
hear" that., the Rev. Alexander Dyce (notwithstanding
his illness, which has been aggravated by the damp season),
is just coMpleting his edition of the works of Ford, the
dramatist.—The hanging committee of the Royal Academy
this year comprises Messrs. Watts, Leighton, and Hart.—
M. Gounod's " Tobias ""has been recently given in Am:
sterda,m, but it was indifferently performed, and made no
impression. Schumann's "Faust" has also been lately
"done" in the Dutch capital by one of its numerous
musical societies.—Speaking of the death of Lady Mur.
chison, the Athenceum, says : " She was a very good
naturalist, and it is well known that Sir Roderick was
first persuaded by her influence and her accomplishments
to undertake those scientific studies which have raisvd him
to his present place.
From New York the following literary news comes to
Mr. Richmond introduced to the New York
Assembly on the 19th inst. a bill, said to have originated
with Mr. Greeley, which requires every newspaper, maga-
zine, or other periodical that publishes advertisements to
print conspicuously in each issue a statement of the
number of copies circulated of its last preceding issue.—
Messrs. G. P. Putnam and Son will shortly publish an
illustrated account of Admiral Farragut's late cruise in
European waters, prepared by his private secretary."

IRISH BENEFICES.

The Royal Commission on the Irish Established Church

have now issued a list of 200 benefices in Ireland, in none
of which did the Church population at the last census, in
1861—men, women, and children—amount to so many as
forty. The rectory of Mansfieldstown, with an income of
£2lB a year, is described as having no Church population
at all. Five benefices are described as having only one
person belonging to the Established Church—Baldongan
with au income of £39, Rochestown with £l4, Reiske with
,;255, Subultur with £44, Derrygalvin with £BO. Three—
Xilcorkey with £3O, Templemichael (Tipperary) with
£B4, and Coole with £loB—have three Church people in
each, according to the census. Four livings have four
Church people in each—Cahercorney with £Bl, Mace.
town with £7, Polerone with £192, Newtownlennan
with £285. Three have five Church people each—
Drehidtarsna with £4B, Grange Monk with £l3, Rath.
kenny with £134. Three have six Church people—
Garristown with £9B, Kilconly with £9B, and Latteragh
with £llO. Four have seven Church people—Ballymac-
william with £lBB, Kilclonbrook with £27, Killenny with
£35, Killardry with £2OO. Five have eight Church people
,—Craiganaleiry with £9B, Dysart with £240, Killascobe
with £lBO, Templepeter with £4O, and St. Michael's (Cork)
with £B6. Seven have nine Church people—Cloghane
With £125, Clonmult with £163, Crecoragh with £69,
Kilfintinan with £44, Kilmocar with £59, Lisronagly with
£172, Templeree with £l5O. In all these 35 benefices the
number of Church people is expressed without using two

figures. The income of the Whole 200 livings with less
than 40 Church people in any of them amounts to £37,097
a year. Eight of 35 benefices above mentioned are marked
AB " episcopally united in 1833."

THE 110 N. REVERDY JOHNSON IN

EDINBURGH.

On Thursday the Hon. Reverdy Johnson arrived in
Ainburgh from Glasgow, and proceeded to the Douglas
Hotel. On Friday night he was the guest of the members
of the Royal Scottish Academy at their banquet, previous
to the opening of the annual exhibition of paintings and
sculpture.

Sir GEORGE HARvirr, the president of the Academy, who
occupied the chair, proposed " The health of Mr. Reverdy
Johnson," and expressed the great gratification he felt at
having him as their guest.
Mr. JOHNSON, who was received with loud applause,
returned thanks. It was the interest, he said, of his own
country, and he was sure it was the interest of this coun-
try, that they should be friends ; and that was not all.
The cause of humanity, of free government, and of
religious liberty demanded that they should he friends.
There were few, he hoped, on either side of the Atlantic
who did not concur in that opinion, and of those who did
not, all he could say was, " May God Almighty have mercy
upon them." If any persons present thought it possible
they were to be involved in serious conflict with America,
he begged them to lay their beads on their pillows
that night and go to sleep in the full consciousness that
there was no such possibility. They had settled, as far
as politics could settle, their differences. The Govern-
ment with whom he had succeeded in making a treaty
had acknowledged the American doctrine, that a man
had a right to go wherever his happiness would be pro-
moted. With regard' to the American war, he said he
wished be could blot it out of the memory of man. Ho
wished, for the sake of religious and political freedom,
that the world would forget it ; but they could
not do so soon after its termination. After dwelling on

the importance of settling differences in the way which he
had been advocating, instead of going to war, with great
loss of money and life on both sides, and probably with
less satisfactory results, Mr. Johnson concluded by ex-
pressing high appreciation of the works of Burns, Scott,
Wilson, Jeffrey, and other eminent Scotchmen, and
returning thanks for the kind manner in which he had
been received.