The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

with honourable and business mop, argument for
di: endowing the religion of the minority in Ireland.
The Voluntaries support Mr. SPOONER, as they con-
sistently state with a double reason ; for they at
the same time vote against a State Endowment,
and will compel Catholics to vote ultimately for
the disendowment of the Irish Church.

We believe the Church of England has made
in the last five and twenty years great advances
in efficiency; but, unfortunately for her State
Establishment, they have all been at the expense
of that principle. All the members of the Esta-
blishment have done in this way has so far but
gone to prove that they do not need help frcim
without. Looking these facts in the face, we
m ust confess that if the Church were the Esta-
blishment, and the Eitalilishment the Church, the
Church is indeed in danger; but as no one now be•
lieves this, we must also confers that the Church,
in our opin ion, never was less in danger. She
is learning better every year how to go alone,
and exercise is bracing her muscles. Should the
day of separation come—as Lord STANLEY says it
will at latest by the next generation—she will be
found as able as D:ssenters are to take care of
herself. From the meeting of the Society for the
Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and
Control, at the London Tavern, we gather that it
is intended to prosecute vigorously the campaign
against the Irish Church next session. The
Voluntaries have certainly chosen for attack an
institution which no Statesman can defend on its
own merits, but which yet seems a valuable sup-
port to the Establishment here. It is commencing
to demolish the building by first battering a
shaky though by no means unimportant buttress.

A morning contemporary, of which a year or
two ago it was supposed L)rd J. RUSSELL had,
for political purposes, become part proprietor, now
comes forward with a proposal which, it is to be
hoped, the Premier will entertain as it deserves ;
no less, in sooth, than that "JOHNNY who upset
the coach" shall be pitchforked from the obscurity
of the back benches, to which pique and vaulting
ambition have consigned him, to the Ministerial
forerank in the Lords ! No doubt the Noble
Lord has done good service to his country in his
day, but the last services his Lordship rendered
were " to upset the coach" and walk arm-in-arm,
metaphorically as well as literally, with Prince
GORTSCHAKOFP at Vienna. The country has not
forgotten this, and were the Premier to listen to
the suggestion cf our contemporary, instead of
adding strength to his Ministry he would intro-
duce an element of suspicion and peril. The
attitude of Russia at the present moment
would add greatly to the impolicy of a
selection from which in any case no pos-
-1 sible good can be anticipated. But a short
period would be allowed to elapse before his
Lordship would be found "at his old trick again,"
leaving the Premier to repent his ill-advised good
nature at his leisure. " Sorry sight," therefore,
as it may be to see his Lordship wasting another
session on the back benches, with the Liberal
party in power, it is but the penalty of his own
misdeeds, and he must make the best of it. The
Liberal party is not so weak as to be' unable to
furnish whatever accession of ministerial strength
may be required in the Lords, without having
recourse to aid which would every Where be re-
garded with suspicion. The Noble Lord is
" used up " for Ministerial purposes, and the
best thing he can do is to redeem the past by
illuminating the shade of the back benches with
the lustre of public services independently ren-
dered, without looking for any further reward
than " the testimony of a good conscience." His
Lordship's case is not hopeless, "sorry" as the
"sight" may be. He has but to wash in the
waters of repentance to be clean--in his present
cipacity. Lord PALMERSTON can hardly afford
to have his coach upset just now.

ELECTION OR MAYOR OF BATH.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Robert Cook, Esq., was this day (Monday),
unanimously elected Mayor of Bath.

SIR B. HALL AND THE IIETROPOLITAN
BOARD OP TVORES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Having seen the observation; made at the meet-
ing of the Metropolitan Board of Works, on Friday. as
to the interview, a report of which appeared in Tlte
Sun of Thursday last, wbich took place between their
deputation and Sir B. nail, at the Of co of Works,
Whitehall, I am desirous of setting the Metropolitan
Board and the public right upon the sul•ject.
I have to say that on the occasion referred to I
took the course which is usual when a deputation waits
upon a member of the Government, viz.—to request per-
mission to be present. This request was granted not
only to myself, but to another gentleman connected
with the press, who sent up his card with a request
that he might also be permitted to be present.•—l have
the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
THE _REPORTER.
London, Nov. 8.

THE CABINET.—The first Cabinet Council this sea., n
will be held on Tuesday next, the 11th inst., and is
expected to be attended by all the members of the
Cabinet. Lord Panniure, the Secretary of State for
War, returned to London from Scotland in the early
part of the week ; Mr. Labouchere has returned from
Overstowey, Soinersetshire, and is now staying at Stoke-
park, near Windsor ; Lord Clarendon is staying at his
seat, the Grove; Lord Granville returned to London on
Thursday night from the baths, at Carlsbad, having
travelled to this country, via Paris ; Sir G. C. Lewis
reached town last night ; Lord Stanley of Alderley is
expected this day from Alderley-park, Cheshire ; Sir G.
Grey and Sir C. Wood are expected to arrive in the
metropolis on Monday ; Lord Palmerston was the-guest
of the Queen, a. Windsor Castle, hut (wile to London
this (Monday) morning. The Lord Chancellor is
still in town, and the Duke of Argyll and Mr. Baines is
expected in London. In future the Cabinet will meet
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street, instead of the Foreign-office as
hitherto.
A Nzw PEER.—The Queen has created Lord Talbot
de Malahide a Peer of the United Kingdom, by the
same style and title which he bears in toe peerage of
Ireland.
RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF THE BISHOP OF RO-
cEiEsEER.—The John Bull says :—We have to believe
that the Bishop of Rochester is contemplating the resig-
nation of his See.
GLOUCESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting of the society will be held here on the 27th inst.
The entries are numerous, and a highly successful meet-
ing is expected.
There is no sign of the arrival of the James Baines.
Mr. Wigan has been unable, through indisposition, to
perform during the pact week. His part in "Tit fa. tat"
has been taken by Mr. George Vining, and in "The
Model of a wife "by Mr. Danvers. Mr. Robson has,
therefore, been the main attraction during the week, in
the burlesque of " Medea."
Mr. Webster is in Paris, "taking notes," we imagine,
for the production of the extravaganza of "The Elves,"
an adaptation, by Mr. Selby, of the ballet •f "Lea
Elfs," so successful in Paris.
NEW GRANADA COMFANY.—At the half-yearly meeting
of the New Granada Company, held on Friday, the
directors presented a report on the progress of the mix
months ending the 30th of June, according to which
there has been a loss of 1,9471. The prospects of the
undertaking have since improved, and the returns for
July and August from the Frontino Mine have exceeded
sly previously received.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.—WO
understand that a great public meeting will be held at
Chester on Saturday, the 22d inst., under the presidency
of the Marquis of Westminster, fir the purpose of deter-
mining on the best steps to insure the meeting of the
above society being held at Chester in 1858. It is un
mistakeably the most convenient place for the county c f
Chester, as well as North Wales.
THE MURDER IN PARLISMENT•STREET.—The unfortu-
na'e man Cope, the victim of the ticket-of-leave convict,
Marley, after lingering in a state of great suffering for
newly three weeks, died yest ,rdayafternoon at 2 o'crock
from the effects of the frightful injuries he suffered in the
attack made upon him on the night of the 20th ult. The
fatal termination was not anticipated until within a few
hours of his decease, when inflammation of the brain
set in, and notwithstanding everything was done for him
that medical science could suggest, he gradually sank,
a, :d expired at the hour above stated. P. must row be
a subject of great satisfaction to all inter tasted in further-
ing the ends of justice that opportunity was taken to en- '
able the deceased to identify his assassin while in full rO3-
Be33ioH of his faculties.