The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-26 00:00:00

THE LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to the Irish Church Bill are
increasing rapidly, and now occupy ten printed folio
pages. Beside those already published, and which have
been placed upon:the notice-paper by Lords Grey, Russell,
Colchester, and Shaftesbury, there are others moved by
the following twelve peers :
Earl RUSSELL (additional) amendment to the effect that,
upon the application of any owner, declaring that he wishes
his lands to be liable to their present rent-charge in
whole or in part, in perpetuity, it shall be lawful for him
to obtain an order from the commissioners, distributing the ,
rent-charge payable after January 1, 1885, in whole or in
part, either to the clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal
Church or the minister of the Presbyterian Church, or
the priest of the Roman Catholic Church officiating in
the parish wherein the rent-charge arises, or to all of them,
in such proportions as he may deem fit; and the deed
providing for such distribution shall be registered in the
Court of Chancery, and be of perpetual force and
obligation.
Archbishop of CANTERBURY proposes several amend-
ments. The first is to substitute 1872 for 1871 as the date
at which the bill shall come into operation. The second
is to provide that the new commissioner shall be a member
of the Church. The third proposes to substitute the
second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1560) for
1660 as the date from which private endowments shall be
exempted from the operation of the Act. The fourth inserts
a provision by which the commissioners shall be empowered
to take historical and other evidence as may seem
to them to be satisfactory (although the same may not be
legal evidence) as to whether any property is a private
endowment. The fifth orders that when any land becomes
vested in the commissioners which has been appropriated
as glebe land by royal grant, or letters patent, since 1560,
the commissioners shall, on the application of the pro-
posed representative body, made within six months after
January 1, 1871, vest such property in that body, subject
to any life interest subsisting therein.
Archbishop of YORK proposes a new clause in lieu of
the 23rd. The effect of the alteration will be that any
archbishop, bishop, cathedral dignitary, or beneficed
clergyman may, during the year 1871, apply to have his
life interest or annuity, exclusive of pew rents and burial
fees, commuted for a capital sum ; the commutation to
be based upon tables approved by the Treasury in accor-
dance with 2/, 28 VlCb., c. 43, and to bo calculated
upon the value of the property after deducting all rates
and taxes other than income tax, and to include the benefit
derived from fines on the renewal of leases taken on an
average of fourteen years preceding 1869. The com-
missioners are to pay the amount, together with an
additional sum of 25 per cent. to cover contingencies
and risks, to the representative body, and that body
is to pay either the annuity or its commuted value.
Upon the capital sum being paid the annuity of the
applicant shall cease, and his estate and interest shall
vest in the commissioners.

Archbishop of DUBLIN proposes six amendments:—
First. In calculating the compensation to be paid to
incumbents no deduction shall be made for the salary of a
permanent curate, as is now provided. Second. All that
portion of the 14th Clause which relates to the investiga-
tion respecting what constitutes a permanent curate is to
be omitted. Third. The present clause, providing for
the payment of compensation to curates, is to be omitted,
and in lieu of it there is to be a clause whereby any
curate, serving as such between January 1, 1869,
and January 1, 1671, and shall not subsequently
have accepted duty out of Ireland, shall have a gratuity of
£lOO for every year during which he has served, but the
amount is to be not less than £3OO nor more than £1,500.
Fourth and fifth are verbal amendments of the fifteenth
clause. Sixth. In case of any alteration being made in
the articles, doctrines, or rites of the Church by the repre-
sentative body, they shall not be binding upon any
ecclesiastical person who may dissent therefrom within six
months, and such dissent shall not disqualify him from
receiving compensation.
Bishop of PETERBOROUGH proposes amendments whereby,
in estimating the compensation to Le paid to incumbents,
the commissioners shall deduct the tax now paid to Eccle-
siastical Commissioners in Ireland, but not the payments
made to diocesan schoolmasters, visitation fees, and other
payments for the maintenance of registries and eccle-
siastical courts and charges under the Drainage Acts.
Another amendment orders that where the income of an
incumbent is estimated to be less than £2OO a year, the
annuity paid to him shall be £2OO a year.
Duke of CLEVELAND proposes that the commissioners
shall be authorised to build parsonages, and to attach
thereto ten acres of glebe land, in all parishes where the
Roman Catholic priest or the Presbyterian minister has
"no suitable dwelling.
Marquis of SALISBURY wishes to omit all that portion of
Clause 27 after the word " thereon " (line 33, page 13),
which compels the clergy to pay for their parsonages.
Earl GnAtiviLLE proposes to add the following pro-
vision to the clause giving compensation to lay patrons:—
" Provided always that where any person would, but for
the provision of the statutes affecting Roman Catholics in
reference to conformity to the Established Church, have
had at the passing of this Act any such advowson or right
of presentation vested in him, he shall be entitled to com-
pensation for such advowron or right of compensation in
the same manner as if the same were then actually vested
in such person."

Viscount LIFFORD makes the same proposal as the
!Marquis of Salisbury with regard to ecclesiastical resi-
dences, and would also have the commissioners ascertain the
cost of the erection of churches or meeting houses and manses
by the Protestant nonconforming congregations of Ireland
in receipt of the Regium Donum, and pay over the
amount to trustees. He proposes also to grant glebe
lands to Roman Catholic priests and Presbyterian
ministers.

Viscount CLANCARTY proprse s to allow the rresent
occupants of Irish sees to retain the!r seats in the House
of Lords even after the passing of the bill.
Lord FOIFORD (Earl of Limerick) proposes that when
the commissioners purchase the surrender or assignment
of any subsisting lease or tithe rent charge, made by an
ecclesiastical person or corporation, they shall deduct such
sum in the pound as has been paid on the average for
Door rates during the five years preceding.
Lord CAIRNS. The amendments moved by the leader
of the Opposition are very numerous, but are (excepting
one) less important than those moved by other peers. His
first proposed alteration is that the bishops, clergy, and
laity of the Irish Church shall be empowered to meet in
general assembly or convocation by representatives from
the different dioceses, and shall frame regulations for the
government and for the property of the Church and the
future representation of the Church in diocesan
synods. The persons to represent the Church in the
proposed representative body are to be chosen by a
majority at a general assembly or convocation fairly
representing the bishops, clergy, and laity of the Church.
Then comes a very important amendment, well-
nigh the most important of all that have been
proposed. The bill, as it stands at present,
allows the newly-constituted representative body to hold
lands, notwithstanding the Act of Mortmain, " to such
extent as is in this Act provided, but not further or other-
wise." Lord Cairns would omit the words quoted, and so
wholly repeal the Act of Mortmain so far as the Irish Church
is concerned. Lord Cairns then proposes a new clause which
renders any alteration of the articles, doctrines, or rites
of the Church which has been sanctioned by the newly-
constituted body binding upon all the members of that
Church in the same way as if they had contracted to abide
by the same, such observance to be enforced in the tem-
poral courts ; and every clergyman shall be subject to the
authority of his diocesan in the same way as though the
bill had not been passed, but the bishop is not to have
any coercive jurisdiction. The other amendments worth
mention are one providing that in the event of any eccle-
siastical estate being sold by the commissioners, the
purchaser shall respect all tenants' rights of renewal to
which the lands were subject at the time of sale ; and one
ordering that, in the event of a vacancy in any bishopric,
benefice, or cathedral appointment, the net income shall
be paid over to the representative body, who shall make
provision for the discharge of the spiritual duties attached
to the vacant preferment.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Thurs-
day, the Ist July.
THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—A dinner was
given on Thursday evening, by some of the Liberal party
in Nottingham, to celebrate the return of Mr. Charles
Seely, jun., to Parliament. In the course of the evening
Mr. W.A. Richards, Mr. Seely's election agent, said that
he had had experience in Nottingham elections for many
years, and could state that no purer election had ever
taken place in that borough than that which resulted in
the return of Mr. Seely. Referring to the future, Mr.
Richards said that he had very little doubt that at the
next election Mr. Bernal Osborne would be sen to Par-
-1 ament as the colleague of Mr. Seely.
CRIMINAL STATISTICS.— The number of criminal
offenders committed for trial in England and Wales in 1868
was 20,091, of which 15,033 terminated in convictions and
5,015 in acquittals. In the previous year the numbers
were—committed, 18,971 ; convicted, 14,207 ; acquitted,
4,741. It would appear, therefore, that crime in England
and Wales had increased in 1868. In Scotland, in 1868, the
number of criminal offenders committed for trial was 3,334,
against 3,305 in 1867 ; the number convicted was 2,400,
against 2,510 in 1867 ; the number acquitted was 297, against
277 in the previous year. In Ireland the 2ommitttls last
year were 4,127, or 434 less than in 1867 ; the convictions
were 2,394, or 339 less than in 1867 ; and the acquittals
were 1,709, or 94 less than the previous year. In Ireland
there has been a consi,lerable decrease in the number of
criniinala comittol And convicted,

SPORTING PROPHECIES.

LIVERPOOL, CHELMSFORD, AND WORCESTER

MEETINGS.

BELL'S _LIFE."

Liverpool. —Molyneaux Cup—Myosotis. Trial Handi-
cap—Rejoinder or Portugal. Welter Plato —Marshal Ney
or Pantaloon. Croxteth Flying Stakes—Myosotis. Juve-
nile Plato—Performer or My Honey. Great Lancashire
Produce Stakes—My Lady or Highclere. Maiden Plate—
Emerald or Antietam. Earl of Sefton's Plate —Myosotis.
Bentinck Handicap —Emerald or Ellen the Fair c. Nur-
sery Handicap—Eskdale. Liverpool Cup—The Spy or
Ploughboy.
Chelmsford.—Sweepstakes of 10 sous—Pats. Chelms-
ford Handicap—Warlike or Wild Flower. Great Baddow
Stakes—Nightingale's selection. Nursery Handicap—
Fusee or Amelia f. Town Handicap—Kingsley.

Worcester.—Worcestershire Stakes—Avoncourt or
Winifred. Flying Stakes—Marshal Ney or Gipsy
Coventry Stakes—Sparkle or Hollandaise.

" THE FIELD."

Liverpool.—Molyneaux Cup —Victress or the Spigot
Lodge representative. Croxteth Flying Stakes—Sou-
brette or Rejoinder. Trial Handicap Portugal or Kelvin
Grove. Welter Plate —Hammerton or St. Valentine.
Liverpool St. Leger—Blair Drummond. Produce Stakes
—My Lady. Juvenile Plate—Performer or My Honey.
Earl of Sefton's Plate—Landscape or Myosotis. Bentinck
Handicap—Emerald or Whinyard. Stanley Nursery Han-
dicap—Eskdale or Queen of Beauty. Shorts Handicap—
Pantaloon or Soubrette. Welter Cup—The Maze or
King of the Fairies. Maiden Plate—Produce or Antietam.
Liverpool Cup—The Laird or The Spy. Nursery Handi-
cap—Enfield or Miss Whip c. Stamford Plate—Dawdle.
Scurry Welter Handicap—Champagne Charlie or Sagit-
tarius. All-aged Plate—Antietam or Produce.
Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—King Victor or
Jove. Great Baddow Stakes—Wedding Chimes or Miss
Merryweather. Nursery Handicap—Blanche or Hester.
Hy land's Plate—Tornado or Court Card. Town Handi-
cap—Adjutant or Kingsley.
Worcester.—Worcestershire Handicap —Silenus or Wini-
fred. Croome Handicap—Bonnie Katie or Fancy Boy
Grand Stand Plate —Official Assignee or Mando. Flying
Stakes—Minnie Warren or Malcolm. Worcester Cup—
Redivivus or Cock of the Walk. Coventry Stakes—Hol-
landaise or Whiteleg c. Bentinck Benevolent Fund Stakes
—La Sorrentina.

64 THE ERA."

Liverpool.—Produce Stakes—Hengist or My Lady.
Juvenile Stakes—Performer. Molyneux Cup —Mr. Payne's
selected. Croxteth Flying Stakes—Perfume. Trial Han-
dicap—Honestish or Kelvin Grove. Welter Plato—Ham-
merton or Fitz william. Earl of Sefton's Plate--Islam or
Myosotis. Bentinck Handicap—Emerald. Maiden Plate
—Antietam. Stanley Nursery Handicap—Castanette f.
Liverpool Cup—Acaster or Beto Noir ; Tabouret for a
place.

Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—Chapel Royal or
Wild Flower. Chelmsford Nursery Handicap—Kenning-
ton or Hester.

Worcester.—Grand Stand Plate—Gipsy. Croome Han-
dicap—lslam or King Richard. Worcestershire Stakes--
Sileans or Ligurian. Great Worcestershire Stakes —Offl-
cial Assignee. Flying Stakes—Luna. Worcester Cup—
Make Haste or Redivivus. Bentinck Benevolent Fund
Stakes—Sulky Bet. Coventry Stakes —Hollandaise or
Lorelei f.

" SPORTING LIFE."

Liverpool.—Liverpool St. Leger—Beautiful Bird or
Blair Drummond. Produce Stakes—My Lady. Welter
Plate—Pantaloon. Molyneaux Clip—Stork; in his absence'
Myosotis or Good Hope. Croxteth Flying Stakes—Per-
fume. Juvenile Plate--Performer. Grand Stand Stakes
—Melaine. Earl of Sefton's Plate—Patrician or Myosotis.
Maiden Plate—Emerald or Antietam. Bentinck Plate—
Emerald or Python. Stanley Nursery—Catamaran or
Soucar. Shorts Handicap—Soubrette. Welter CLIP--
Remus. Liverpool Cup—The Spy. Nursery Handicap--
EAdale. All-aged Plate—Emerald or Antietam. Sisal"
ford Plate Patrician or Good Hope. Scurry Welter Han-
dicap—Robespierre.

Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—Court Card or
Joseph Dawson's representative. Great Baddow Two-Yr-
old Stakes—Zaccheus. Chelmsford Nursery—Fusee:
Hyland's Handicap—Court Card or Joseph Dawson fi
representative. Town Plato—Violetta.

" SPORTING GAZETTE."

Liverpool.--Molyneaux Cup--Islam or George Osbal-
doston. Croxteth Fl Ving Handicap--Perfume. Juvenile
Plate—My Honey. Produce Stakes—My Lady. Maiden
and All-aged Plates—Emerald or Antietam. Liverpoo
Cup—Acaster or The Spy.
C elmsford.— C helm sford Handicap—Chivalry or The
Skipper. Great Baddow Stakes—Miss Merryweather or
Birdie.

Worcester.—Worcester Handicap —Silenus. eroomo
Handicap—Bon Block or Fancy Boy. Grand Stand Plate
—Gipsy. Great Worcestershire Stakes—Lady of Lyons•
Flying Handicap—Malcolm. Worcester Cup—Redivivus
Coventry Stakes—Hollandaise.

" THE SPORTSMAN."

Liverpool.—Molyneux Cup—Lady Houriette or Islam•
Croxteth Plying Stakes—Stork or Perfume. Produce
Stakes—My Lady. Liverpool Cup—Romping Girl, The
Spy, or The Laird.

Chelmsford.—Two-yr-old Sweepstakes—Pate. Chelms-
ford Handicap—The Shipper or Court Card. Great riti-
dow Stakes—Wedding Chimes or Miss Morryweather.

"SPORTING TIMES."

Liverpool.—Trial Handicap—Vulcan.. Molyneaus Cup
—Myosotis. Juvenile Plate—My Honey. Produce Stakes
—My Lady. Maiden Plate—Emerald. Liverpool CUP--
The Spy ; The Laird and Ploughboy for places.
Chelmsford.—Sweepstakes of 10 sovs—Pats. Chelnig"
ford Handicap—Court Card, The Skipper, or Mars. Great
Eaddow Two-yr-old Stakes—Atlas. Nursery Handicap
Queen of Hearts or Kennington. Hyland's Plate—Court
Card.

Worcester.—Worcester Stakes —Bloss's representatiVe
Worcester Cup—Edinburgh.

" THE BEACON."

Liverpool.—Molyneux Cup—Myosotis, Punishment, or
Messenger. Croxteth_Stakes—Pantaloon or St. Valentine.
Produce Stakes— My Lady. Welter Plate—Marshal Nel
or Pantaloon. Liverpool Cup—The Laird or Bete Noir.
Chelmsford.— Chel Lusford Handicap—Warlike or Court
Card. Great Baddow Stake—Wedding Chimes. Chelms-
ford Nursery—Hester or Miss Merryweather. Town
Handicap—Falstaff or Kingsley.
Worcester.—Worcester Handicap—Winifred. Croon()
Handicap—Emerald or King Richard. Grand Stand Plate
Goojerat or Gipsy. Flying Handicap —Election or Mal-
colm. Worcester Cup—Rodivivus or Needle Gun. -Bell-
tinck Benevolent Fund Stakes—Wellington or Goojerat•
Coventry Stakes—llollandaise,.

" SUNDAY TIMES."

Liverpool.—Liverpool St. Leger•—Beautiful Bird, .0A
or Blair Drummond. Produce Stakes—My Lady. Wel-
ter Plate—Pantaloon. Trial Handicap—Rejoinder or
Portugal. Molyneaux Cup—Victress. Crosteth Flying
Stakes—Perfume. Juvenile Plate—Performer. Earl of
Sefton's Plate—Vex or Islam. Maiden Plate—Antietam'
Bentinck Handicap—Professor Anderson or Raunds•
Stanley Nursery Handicap—Vintner. Shorts Handicap"
King of the Rovers. Welter Cup—King of the Fairies•
Liverpool Cup —Ploughboy or The Laird.

Chelmsford.—Great Baddow Stakes—Wedding Chit:nen.
Chelmsford Handicap—Wild Flower. Chelmsford Nurse**
Handicap—Kennington. Town Handicap—Kingsley
Hyland's Handicap Plate—Harebell, Court Card, or Morn-
ing Star.
Worcester.—Worcestershire S take s— S ilenus. Croonin
Handicap—Bonnie Katie. Grand Stand Plate—Aetna or
Gipsy. Great Worcestershire Stakes—Manalo. Flying
Stakes—Luna or Malcolm. Worcester Cup—Silenus or
Cock of the Walk. Bentinck Benevolent Fund Stakes--
Aetna or Goojerat. Coventry Stakes—Hollandaise.

THE DEIBY AND OAKS FOR 1871. —The conditions of
these races are advertised in this week's Calendar. The
entries for now yearlings close on the Tuesday after the
ensuing Newmarket July meeting.
THE WHlP.—This ancient turf trophy maybe challenged
for on July 13 next, and, if accepted; will be run for on
Tuesday in the Second October Meeting, lOst each, Beacon
Course, 200 sovs each. Mr. Chaplin is the present holder.
As an instance of the success sometimes attending
" patched-up" horses, the Hackler, who " broke down" et
the end of last season, and was fired by Mr Condon, may bt
mentioned, as he has won three races since the operation..
Sir G. Chetwynd's colours are—Dark blue, and yello

hoops.
Aldershot Races are altered to Friday and Saturday'
July 9 and 10.
Number Nip was struck out of the Northumberland
Plate at 2.25 on Wednesday.
FORFEIT LlST.—Gordian Knot's forfeit has been paid.
3 soya of Lochiel's arrears have been paid.
Mr Glenville sold Tumbler to Mr Sill for his running at
Stockbridge. The price did not transpire.
Prince Soltykoff has named his yearling colt by Knight
of Kars out of Mavourneen, The White Knight.
Soucar, after winning the Selling Sweepstakes at Stock"
bridge, was sold to Mr Brayley for 400 guineas.
YoRK SPRING MEETING.—Ca Friday, at a meeting of
the Race Committee (John Roper, Esq., in the chair), it
being reported that in consequence of Newmarket Spring
being fixed for the first week in May, Chester Races had
been appointed for the second week, it was determined
that the York Spring Meeting should be held on Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 17 and 18. It was also resolved that
the Zealand Stakes, for two year olds, should have 200
sous added ; and a new two year cld 'plate for ICO soy!,
given by the committee, to be run for on the second (la) I
was also determined upon. These attractions are likelyto bring large fields of " the youngsters," who, according
to the regulations of the Jockey Club,
cannot now run
before the month of May.
The Lewes and Croydon First Spring Races will take
place, as usual, between the Newmarket Craven and First
Spring Meetings.
Romping Girl ran in the colours of her new owner, gr
Chaplin, iu the Wallop Plate at Stockbridge.