The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-15 00:00:00

THE COXTEST AT BRECON.

Lord Hyde, the eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon, has
issued his address to the electors of Brecon. He
promises to give his unflinching support to the
Government upon the Irish Church question ; to sup-
port a broad system of education ; Mr. Coler.idge's system
for opening universities, and other Liberal measures.
At a public meeting his lordship explained his views on
the various questions of the day, which were considered
satisfactory, and a resolution was adopted pledging the
meeting to support Lord Hyde to the utmost of its power.
The noble lord has since prosecuted an energetic and
vigorous canvass of the constituency.
Lord Claude John Hamilton, the former member
for Londonderry, who has come forward in the
Conservative interest, addressed a meeting of his
party on Tuesday. He believed our institutions required
reforming as education increased in the country,
and the people became more enlightened. It was neces-
sary not to overthrow, but to improve our institutions
according to the necessities of the times, and he was
opposed to violent changes. Alluding to the Irish
Church question, he charged Mr. Gladstone with break-
ing faith with the country for giving £360,000 to the
Maynooth College, when he now said that more of
the revenues of the Irish Church should be applied
to other religions. lie avowed himself in favour
of opening the universities to Dissenters, but
thought, for the present, the governing body should
be confined to Churchmen. He also stated he was op-
posed to the Ballot as un-English, and then proceeded to
endeavour to shew that the Conservatives were the work-
ing man's friends by referring to measures affecting them
which bad been introduced by the Conservatives, and
opposed by the Liberals.
Mr. Noel has given notice that he will move for the i
new writ on Friday evening.

The CHANCELLOR of
t hNe
EDxUalii`
lEESQ:UEII said it was
intended to collect the oin duties until the 4th June. after
which, if the house sanctionedc the proposals ho had sub-
mitted to it, it would altogether He could not altor
the answer ho had given the cease.
other day, that it was pro-
posed to allow anydrawback.
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C9AL MINES.
Mr. Gladstone's amendments to the bill for the disesta- Mr. BRUCE said hillintended that evening to move for
leave to introduce a b
blishment and disendowment of the Irish Church were to consolidate the law with regard
to coal urines.
printed on Wednesday, and occupy over twopages. Clauses THEof TELEGRAPHS BILL.
3,4, and 6, which refer to the appointment and duties of The Marquis idAdI3I.IeNUON, in reply to Mr.
Baines, said io was afraid
the proposed commissioners, are to be postponed. The nhootogoive any further
other
oefvtehneicnog. The arbitration of the stuns tuonbk3.ait)Tdt.hte)
relating to Maynooth and the Regium Donum.
thesif tie,,re Governmentt took the lines had
Clause 36 will run as follows :—" When the been comple.te'dj,Pruite'
ranged. When the arbitration aeLp,,,iiiitu3r-tehtoremained to be ar-
annual parliamentary grant for the expenses of the
once
St to
tibdeea of the gross stun requirr'eldivlinecWdUld) as.
Nonconformity, seceding, and Protestant dissent-
the Governm2nt. 11.0 ing ministers in Ireland, commonly called the Regium might, however, say Firuimsed by
given in
in a few days move,
in accordance with noticet gl
Donum . . . is discontinued, the commissioners shall,fiss'a;.osette, for leave
to bring in a bill, while the bill of lia,tseSe
AS soon as may be after such discontinuance, ascertain wits carried
into operation, to give the Governme.nt. thei monopoly
and declare by order the amount of the yearly sum there.
of tiansuutting telegraphic messages.
tofore received thereout by each minister of any Protestant MEXICO.
Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice of his
Nonconforming congregation in Ireland, or which he would
possible
forintention. to make
motion on as early a day as the re-opening
have been entitled to receive if such grant had not been (Its- a
of diplomatic relationswith i • •
continued; and shall pay to each such minister, so long as
BILL.
he lives and continues to perform the duties of Isis On the motionißfor-rSg(ll*(3ll•Ulieli
Mr. NEW OEGATEngetut,t)oluceovnemtil,t:ttetetbe h
ministry . . . . an annuity equal to the yearly would,Leid
o u i,
onn. that day six months, resolve itself into the said amount so ascertained as aforesaid." The words in italics t
ou
pressttee. forwardil
esaid he was quite aware of the desire
are the alterations proposed by Mr. Gladstone. The con- the
aprodpuoty,alstoof teGoverninent, but he
dition that "for the purposes of this section the felt he had also perform, and . that was
to give the bill the most uncomproni' -• 'sing opposition. lie
yearly sum received shall be the amount actually
objected to go into committee on the bill of the right hon.
received by such minister during the financial
year ending the 31st of March, 1869," i s t o be . gentleman,ould bc m obsetciltaunsioenittaibvloculfd effect a state of things that
.ifietivions ti,t) come.would He objectedh
left out. In the same clause, after the proviso that "the to the bill, because ho' b'
impairtia lawt
;supremacy of the Crown and tho supremacy of e
commissioners shall also on such discontinuance as afore-
y to reland. (Loud cheers from the Opposition.) In fact
said ascertain and declare by order the amount of an looked upon it as a direct invasion of the royal pros°•
yearly sum to which any assistant successor to a minister : •
gative. (Hear, hear, and cheers from the Opposition.
in such congregation may be prospectively entitled, and (LEFT SPEAKING.)
shall secure to such successor a deferred life annuity of
the same value, and payable in the same events as
the yearly suns for which it is substituted," the fol-
lowing addition is proposed :—" The commissioners
shall also ascertain and declare by order what Protestant
Nonconforming congregations were, on the Ist of March,
1869, fulfilling the conditions necessary for eventually
obtaining out of the Regium Donum the payment of
yearly sums for their respective ministers, and what would
have been in each case the amount of such yearly
and the time at which the same would hal,l-e7bmet7u,
to be payable, and shall as from that timen
pay
Qto the minister of each such conoTc,,ation
a
life
annuity . ~ . . . equal to the amount of the
yearly payment which he would have been entitled to
receive on the fulfilment of the necessary conditions if the
grant of the Regium Donum had not been discontinued;
provided always, that no minister placed in a congregation,
or becoming assistant successor for the first time after the
passing of this Act, shall be entitled to any annual sum
by way of compensation. Clause 37, relating to
the
compensation in respect of salaries of professors
and college buildings at Belfast, is to be omitted. iThe
repeal of the Maynooth Acts of George 111. •
Is to take
place on the Ist of March, 1870, instead of the
January, 1871. The Acts relating to the same Ist
ecof
Sut,
passed in the eighth and ninth years, and in the twenty.
third and twenty-fourth years of her Majesty, are y, to be
repealed, " save in respect of any pecuniary and in-
dividual The interests at present existing." other amend-
inents are merely formal.
Mr. Aytoun intends to move that only the life interests
of the president, vice•presidents' officers, and professors
of the College of Maynooth shall be respected.

THE IRISh CHURC.FI BILL.

Bank of England Returns.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, April 14, 18C9.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued ....£30,890,005

Governint. Debt. 11,013,1C('
Other Securities.. 3,981,904
Gold Coin and

Bullion
Silver Bullion

£311,)J99,005
BANKING II

£30,820,003

Proprie tors' Capi-
tal £1.1,553,000
1105 t
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, 8 a v-
lugs' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts , 1,306,229
Other Deposits.. 18,111,564
Seven Days and
other Bills 481,375

&PARTMENT.
Governint. Socu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... 1,020,798
Other Securities 17,30,894
Notes 7,102,020
Gold and Silver
Coin

£40,571,429
GEOR,

.£4O, 571,429
E FORBES, Chief Cashier.

WRECK.--The schooner Remedy, Bonebar mas-
ter, from Cardiff, ran ashore near Mullion, coast of Corn-
wall, on Monday. Crew saved.
Yesterday the 2d battalion, 7th Fusiliers, under
the command of Col. Cooper, arrivid at Aldershot
from Bury and Ashton.
Colonel Farren, C. 8., late 4th depot battalion
has assumed the command of the Eastern district
vice Major-Gen. Tidy. Lieut. Birch, second batta.
lion 20th, is under orders to proceed from the depot
to the service companies in charge of a draught of
the corps.
A good-conduct medal and 110 have been pre-
sented to Sergeant-Major George Ray, 4th depot
battalion.
Her Majesty's unarmoured paddlewheel sloop
Basilisk, 6, 400-horse power (nominal), Capt. Win.
N. W. Hewett, V.C., was yesterday paid off in the
steam basin, Chatham, into the fourth division of
the Steam Reserve in the Medway, under the super-
intendence of Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8.,
superintending the dockyard and Steam Reserve.
David Williams, boatswain's mate, and Joseph
Hammond, ship's cook, were awarded by the Admi-
ralty each a silver medal, with gratuity, for long
service and conduct. During the time the
Basilisk was in commission—a period of three
years and seven months—she was attached to the
China squadron, and was employed in cruising in
the China seas and adjoining waters. Most of the
officers, including Capt. Hewett, who left England
in the Basilisk, return with her. By order of the
Admiralty she has been completely stripped, and
most of her internal fitments and bulkheads re-
moved, as it is not intended to again place her in
commission, but either to break her up or sell her
out of the Royal Navy. On being paid off yester-
day the continuous service men among the crew
were granted the usual period of absence for their
run ashore.

71-IPI IRISH CHURCH CONFERENCE.

The conference of the archbishops, bishops, clergy, and
!fifty of the " Irish branch of the United Church of
England and Ireland " was held on Tuesday, in the
Antient Concert Rooms, Great Brunswick-street, Dublin.
The same " No-Surrender " cry was raised which haa
been so continually shouted out any time these eighteen
months past. The Archbishop of ARMAGH struck the key-
note. His Grace told the meeting to be moderate in their
language and actions, and then, as reported in the Mai;
went on to say, "One thing the meeting must understand,
and that was that the conference had no reference in the
remotest degree to Mr. Gladstone's Church body. They
studiously avoided giving it the slightest countenance.
This was an assembly met together for the simple
purpose of considering the bill, and protesting
against its injustice. That done, they should dissolve,
and leave no nucleus for the purpose of aiding in the Min-
isterial idea. They were not met there for the purpose of
considering any compromise. They threw out no sugges-
tion on the subject—they protested against it. They
looked upon it as confiscation —as assailing the prerogative
of the Crown—as unjustly dealing with the property
of the subject ; and for, he believed, the first time
in the history of the country, destroying that which
was the best of all titles—prescription. He recollected a
magnificent and apposite illustration of Mr. Plunket's. In
some cases where the title was defective he pleaded pre-
scription, and his words were to the effect that Time was
armed with an hour-glass as well as with a scythe—with
a scythe he mowed down the muniments of their pro-
perty, but with the hour-glass he gave stability to their
title. Mr. Gladstone's bill prevented them from using
the hour-glass, and treated them to the severity of the
scythe." This was received, we are told, with tremendous
applause.

The following notice for the information of the
workmen connected Ni ith Chatham dockyard, who
are about proceeding to Canada, at the expense
of the Government, was yesterday posted at the
dockyard gates The dockyard artisans who
•accept the offer of passage in her Majesty's troop-
ships proceeding to Canada must distinctly under-
stand that on their arrival at Quebec they will
be exactly in the same position as ordinary emi-
grants, and that the Government is not in any way
responsible for providing them with employment.
There is, however, a large demand for labour by
private employers, but for their own sakes the emi-
grants should not refuse any reasonable offer on their
first arrival. The following candidates are to be

The Archbishop of DUBLIN said very little, but the Earl
Of LONGFORD followed the suit of the Lord Primate.
There had been no approach to a compromise, the noble
earl declared. One side maintained that by the violation
of oaths, promises, and sacred engagements, by tearing
up Acts ofiParliameut and crushing religious action, a
new era of peace could be inaugurated; but the
other side persistently refused their assent to this
arrangement. When it was said that the
Government was induced to bring forward this
contemplated change in the Church of Ireland as
tending to the mutual improvement of all classes, their
rejoinder should be—We do not surrender ;we do not
accept your inevitable ; we protest against your bill ;
we reject your proposal for the dissolution of the union
of the Church of England and Ireland ; we object to
your bill for its insulting title —to put an end to the
Establishment of the Church of Ireland ; we object to
your sham compensation ; we believe that if your bill
should pass Church and State, property, and all social and
political interests would suffer. Our case is that our
Church has been legally established, loyally maintained in
connection with the State, acknowledging the supremacy
of the Crown, served by faithful ministers and with no
excessive endowments, those which it has being, moreover,
its own property, which ought not to be touched by the
State.

included for emigration :-1. Labourers of upwards
of three years' service in the dockyards, recently
discharged. 2. Established men. 3. Hired men
about to be discharged may not b.! included, unless
of three years' service in the dockyard. 4. Men
who have not been discharged within the last 12
months may not be included as candidates for pas-
sage to Quebec."

Her Majesty's iro❑ troopship Dromedary, Staff-
Commander James Kiddie, arrived in the Thames
yesterday morning, off the lioyal Arsenal, Wool-
wich, from the West Coast of Africa, and will com-
mence discharging Ler powder and other warlike
stores, and afterwards proceed up the river to her
Majesty's dockyard at Woolwich, to await further

The Bishop of Ossory, Sir Frederick Shaw, Sir Joseph
Napier, and others followed in the same strain.

Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., is mentioned as a Liberal-
Conservative candidate for Youghal.

instructions froln the Adwiralty.
The 2d Battalion of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusi-
liers now stationed at Newport and Brecon is under
orders to leave for Aldershot at the end of the

The masters and men in the building trade at
Liverpool are in dispute about the code of trade rules. A
strike is feared.

month, or early in May.