The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-01 00:00:00

cessity of husbanding his strength for exertion in his
place in the House of Lords, has prevented him at
the latest moment from sharing your lordship's hos-
pitality—as was well said by my noble friend,
we shall be grateful for every improvement that can
be effected in our measure, and every change pro-
posed we shall respectfully consider, even though
at the first moment—and possibly at the last—we
may not be able to find that it is an improvement.
(Cheers and laughter.) But our respectful consi-
deration will be given to it, subject to the recollec-
tion of the position in which we stand, of the words
we have spoken, and of the pledges which we have
given. (Cheers.) These pledges Is ere few and
simple. We told the country, in language intelli-
gible enough, that in our opinion, if the Irish
Church was to be removed from that position of
legal preference that it bad so long enjoyed, it
must be removed subject to these conditions, that
there must be a most careful and literal attention
paid to every just and equitable claim. The second
of these pledges was that these just and equitable
claims must be concidcred not only in the case
where they were crude, and on behalf of those who
had been ministers or members of the dominant
Church, but wherever directly or by consequence
They could justly be held to arise out of arrange-
ments connected with the winding-up of this ancient
system, which must be applied with the greatest
impartiality on behalf of every religion. So far
as respects the arrangements growing out of the
complicated and exceptional state of ecclesiasti-
cal affairs which we found existing in Ireland.
But the basis of the plan was this, that it was a
plan for disestablishment and a plan for gene-
ral disendowment. And there was a third pledge
no less momentous and no less definite than
the rest—a pledge freely tendered to Parlia-
ment, and freely tendered at the hustings ; and I
do not hesitate to s•ay a pledge which, even if it
had not been freely tendered, would have been ex-
torted by the national sense and opinion, namely,
that for the satisfaction of these equitable claims
upon principles of equity as between the different
religious denominations, the remainder portion of
the property of what is now applied to the Church
of Ireland should be applied for the benefit of the
Irish people, but not for the maintenance of a
Church nor the support of a clergy. (Hear, hear.)
Th, S 9 declarations, which are matters of historical
fact, define our position between us and the coun-
try. We tendered the terms of that covenant
when we sat in the exile of the Opposition, and
we will not forget them now that we are in-
stalled in the seat of power. (Cheers. I believe
that both branches of the Legislature will apply
themselves to the adj,istment of this great contro-
versy in the full and clear perception of what the
nation expects, and of what the times and.circum-
stances permit ; and I am sanguine enough to be-
lieve that within the shortest period the work, which
I believe to be alike one of justice and peace, will
have reached its final term of consummation.
(Cheers.) I beg again to thank you, my Lord
Mayor, for the kind way in which you were pleased
to propose this toast, and the company for the
courteous reception of it. I venture to assure you
that no exertion on our part will be wanting to
show that as far as depends at least on our will,
whatever our power may be, that your confidence
is not misplaced. (Cheers.)

The Lord Chancellor responded for the House
of Lords, Mr. Bruce the House of Commons, and
the company shortly afterwards separated.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo -American 2 Imes.)
NEW YORK, June 12.
Our sensational papers got up a fine scare this
week—nothing less than that the lumen steamship
City of Paris, which bad sailed on Saturday, filled
with prominent Americans, had gone down with
every hand. As nearly all of us had friends on board,
you may imagine the state of consternation created
by the big headings announcing the terrible catas-
trophe. There was a rush to the office, into which
despatches were beginning to pour from the court-
try asking for intelligence. All known about it
there was that the vessel, when last heard of, was
rapidly making her way across the ocean, with every
prospect of a prosperous voyage, and I venture to
ray that, before this letter reaches you, her pas-
sengers will be scattered over Europe, and all their
names recorded as safely arrived in the columns of
the Anglo-American Times. Some of the crew and
passengers of the steamer Mississippi, wrecked at
Martinique, May 12, en route from Rio Janeiro to
New York, arrived here in the Columbia from Ha-
vannah last Wednesday. The Mississippi left Para
May7,andstruck,Mayl2,ashoal seven milesfrom the
east side of Martinique. Next day the French
steamer Carirel rescued 28 passengers and carried
away the mails. The vessel could not be got off, and
she was abandoned by the crew shortly after. The
fillibustering expeditions try the patience of the
United States Marshal. Rumours have been float-
ing about as to the sailing of another strong force,
and they make no secret of the fact at the head-quar-
ters of the Junta, The expedition got off in a
clipper ship at daybreak last Saturday, with 850
men, commanded by Colonel W. Hendley, of Cin-
cinnati. The men, some of them Western soldiers of
Sherman's army, got on board from schooners near
the lightship, and the vessel cleared for San Fran-
cisco. The Spanish Consulate are well aware of the
fact, and have telegraphed to the A3inister at Wash-
ington, and although the United States Marshal
has no information on the subject, the expedition
will probably be followed by another, if it has not
already started, for it is sail that three are fitting
out in New York, and they will be off before he can
act. There is a dispatch from Admiral lloff, dated
May 27. He had arrived at Matanzas, where he
found the feeling far less bitter between the volun-
teers and the Cubans than reported ; in fact a
stranger would not know a revolution was raging
from any feeling he could detect in Matanzas. He
reports a success about the Bth or 10th May ; some
bands having attacked the convoy on the railway
to Puerto Principe, captured 43 officers, including
a colonel, destroying the bridges amt injuring the
road. General Lesca, the Governor of Puerto
'IF Principe, had been removed by Dulce for cruelty
in bombarding a camp of women and children, but
this action had given great offence to the volunteers.
Inc Admiral considers that the landing, supposed
II or actual, of lillibusters had thrown new life into the
insurrection, which some time before hal died out,
and it bad blazed up effectually in some parts of the
island, which were almost wholly in the hands of
Ithe insurgents; his words are—" One fact is posi-
tive, however, and that is, the actual or supposed
successful landing of these expeditions has infused
new life into the insurrection, that to all appear-
ances was dying out some two weeks since.' Cyrus
W. Field, Esq., and family arrived last Saturday
evening in the Weser. The immigration continues
on the same large scale ; the Mahe and City of
Baltimore on Monday brought 2,000 passengers.
Another vessel has come in with smallpox, but no
particulars about the Oee,re have been received. It
is officially stated that there have been 143 cases of
this disease on Blackwell's Island during the past
month, making a total of 171 under treatment. Of
these 97 were discharged and 9 died, leaving at
present 65. Of the admissions, 83 were from
quarantine, and the remainder from the city proper.
Yellow fever has also appeared, brought by a North
German vessel from Havannah, which put in for
medical atd. Two of the crew were buried at sea,
and the second offie..s in a fit of delirium jumped
overboard and was drowned, and the captain and
four of the crew were ill. The waiters have come
off second best in the strike they inaiwurated, as
the hotels have not found it difficult to supply their
places, although the temporary inconvenience was
considerable. Of course the proprietors ar,c greatly
annoyed with the men who left them thus uncere-
moniously in the lurch, and are glad to be able to
return the compliment by leaving them out in the
cold. The St. Nicholas and Fifth Avenue hotels are
still underhanded, but the Astor has sufficient
help; the consequence of the strike has been that a
number of waiters have lost good places and a num-
ber of new men have a chance of qualifying for
them at the expense of the guests. At a meeting
of the association the waiters passed a resolution
allowing those on strike to work for the wages they