The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

The first amendment is " leave out Clause 2." This
clause runs as follows :—" On and after the first day of
Jannary, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
the said union created by Act of Parliament between the
Churches of England and Ireland, shall be dissolved, and
the said Church of Ireland, hereinafter referred to as ' the
said Church,' shall cease to he entablisLed by-law." Does
Disiaeli mean by this amendment to turn the
hill hito one for mere disendowment? .1f not, what does
the omission of the clause mean? The next motion
pros ides for putting off " the evil day" till les72.
In his third snieminient the leader of the Opposition
proposes tit create, in addition to the paid commissioners,
three unsaid commissioners, and suggests the Eight
lion. Maziere Brady, formerly Lord Chancellor of
Ireland ; the Eight Don. Abraham Brewster, late Lord
Chancellor of I eland; and the Bight Bon.
Rielsard Keatinge, late the Judge in the Irish Pro-
bate Coin t, to tilt • the offices. He makes a dis-
tinetion letween the paid and the unpaid commissioner.
Tv the paid einninissioner wily he would give the power of
...sting by himerlf, 811(1, as a court of appease would have one
paid and two unpaid commissioners tip sit. Mr. Glad-
stone's bill provides for payment to each of the eommis•
siimers ; two of them to fern' a court of appeal. Tee next
important alto atiou is made in the clause providing that
hereafter no appeintments to any bishopric, &c., shall be
made by her Mejesty. Mr. Disraeli proposes, instead, that
from the passing of the Act until 1872 no such appointment
shall be made; therelpy implying that after that time her Ma-
jesty will ha ve the patronage as heretofore. The bill provides
that all property, real and 'personal, belonging to or in any
wise appertaining to, or appropriated to, the use of any
person holding any archbishopric, bishopric, benefice, or
cathedral preferment, shall vest in the commissioners.
This is proposed to be omitted and a proviso to be inserted
for a commutation in respect of other property.
The clause forbidding bishops is sit in the House of
Lords is allowed to stand, but an addition is made to it
providing that every present archbishop, bishop, and
dean, shall during his life enjoy the same privileges,
and the same title and Precedence, as if the Act had not
passed. The 14th Clause seeks to enact that com-
mutation shall be made to the bolder of any office on its
real annual value after deducting the salaries of perma-
nent curates. Mr. Disraeli proposes to make no
reduction in respect of these salaries. The clause goes
on to provide that the salaries shall be paid to the present
holders of these offices so Ii ng as they discharge
their regular duties. igle clause is so am uded as to read
that the money shall be paid to them so long as they per-
form such duties as they were accustomed to discharge, or
would have been liable to discharge, if this Act had isot
passed. Some amendments then follow in respect of
curates. The bill provides only for particular compensae
tion to permanent curates. All other curates are to apply
to, and to obtain compensation from, the commissioners,
andi are not to receive more than £2OO per annum. This
is proposed to be altered by enacting that compensation
shad be given to all curates. "Two hundred "is omitted,
but no figures are put. in their place.
Some verbal alterations of no great moment are then
made in the provisions as to compensating schoolmasters
and sextons; from which subject Mr. Disraeli passes on to
the much inure important one of the " representative
body" of the Church. On this subject the bill provides
that the laws preventing the assembling of synods and
convocations shall be repealed. Mr. Disraeli adds several
sentences, enacting that the bishops, clergy, and
laity. of the Church may meet in General Assembly
or Convocation by such representatives, lay and clerical,
as shall be determined and declared by them in their
several dioceses, and in such General Assembly or Con-
vocation frame a constitution and regulations for the
general management and government of the Church,
and the future representation of its members in
Diocesan Synods' General Convocation, cir other-
Wise. Thns lie substitutes " General Assembly "
for the indefinite term " representative body." The
bill provides that, in the event of a representative
body being formed, the several persons deprived of incomes
under the Act may themselves apply to the commissioners
for the commutation of their life interests. Mr. Disraeli
proposes that this application shall be made on the part
of the person by the representative body on or before
January 1,1871. The bill provides that the commissioners
shall estimate the value of the yearly income or. life
interest, and shall pay a fair sum to the representative body.
Mr. Disraeli proposes that the commissioners shall pay to
the representative body a sum equal to fourteen times the
amount of such aggregate yearly incomes and life interests,
and in return all the estates and interest of such persons
in such ecclesiastical property shall vest in the commis-
:goners. The bill provides that in the case of
archbishops or other persons holding any building
charge, the commissioners in compensating them shall
deduct for want of repairs. This Mr. Disraeli proposes
to omit. The bill vests certain churches which are
national monuments in the Board of Public Works in
Ireland. Mr. Disraeli declares most strenuously that
these are not henceforth to be used for public worship.
Mr. Disraeli also adds to the clause providing
that churches shall be handed over to the
representative body, a provision that the com-
missioners shall at the same time hand over a
commutation of the sum paid hy the Ecch siastical com-
missioners yearly to churches for heating. lighting, &c.
The clause providing for the vesting of ecc'esia.stieal
buildings in the representative body, is made compulsory.
The 'Provisions as to burial grounde are alli.wed to stand,
as are further enact MCP ts as to cl.nrch huildings and lands ;
but a most important alteration is rnade in the provisions as
to private endowments. The hill sets forth that these
endowments shall be vested in the r, presentative bode, if
they have been left, since BM, the yees 111 the iZefeiMa
Lion, and that if the testator died within twenty-five
years the property shall vest by ‘olieetion in the next of
kin. Mr. Disraeli pro Lows to lien.) over all private
endowments, at whatever date given, which can be
satisfactorily proved by It iptt•rc:i.i d,,clunents to be
given by private persons; nod to chant re " within twenty-
lye oars "to "sincelBoo." e also proposes to hand over
to the Church all oval grants since the second year of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. The bill cu •cts that the rent-
charge shall be comninted at twenty--two tittles its
value. D 1 r. Disraeli wishes that the amount
of • commutation shall he appraised by inquiry
in the Landed F.:states Court. and elsewhere as
to what bar been the market pike obtained on the sale of
the rent-charge during the ten previous years. 111 r. Disraeli
next proposes to omit the famous Meyenoth Clauses 3G,
37, and 38. These refer to the Begin?), I)oninn as well as
to the Boman Catholic grant. As this bill would stand
under the amendments, the Mayniioth Grant would
be simply repealed without compensatioe. Mr. Disraeli
also proposes to provide for the interest. of the laity, and
d es so by the following clause :—" That, the commis-
sioners shall pay to the Church representative body a capi-
talised sum eniud to four times the ngeregate amount of
the net annual incomes of all the incumbents of
benefices, estimated in the manner provided by the
provisions of Clause 23, such capitalised sum to
be held by such Church representative body upon
trust to apply the income arising from the same in and
towards the maintenance of divine worship in such places
in Ireland, and in such manner as such body shall deem
fit." Being also concerned for the comfort of the repre-
sentative body, Mr. Disraeli proposes to hand
over
1'200,000 to provide for the payment of servants, agents,
and ether expenses in connection with it.

TILE PERILS OF STICKLEBACK FISHING.—Dr.
Lankester held an inquest on Friday on a boy named
Thomas Spiller, seven years old, who fell into the-
Regent's Canal and was drowned while fishing for
sticklebacks. Dr. Lankester remarked that more
boys were lost in that pursuit than men i❑ the sea fisheries.
A youth recovered the bodies by means of drags, for which
the law allowed him ss. Had he jumped into the water
and savrd•tbo boy's life, it appears that ho would not have
been entitled to any reward.

The petition against Lord Alilton and Mr. Bean.
mont, tho sitt:ng members for the Southern Division of
the West Riding, was opened this morning boforo Baron
Martin.

The Springfield Republican says :—" The late
Marchioness de la Valette, ai we said some months
since, was the widow of Wamuel \Voiles, the Massa-
chusetts man who established and long maintained the
best American banking house that has over b3en in Paris.
Her maiden name was Fowle, and she was born in
Rhode Island. A sister of hors being married in Lon-
don to an American banker there, .51iss Fowlo early
in life went to live in London, and there she married
Mr. Samuel Welles. . Some ten years afterwards, in
1841, Mr. Welles died, leaving a large fortune to his
widow and only son, who graduated at Harvard a low
years ago. In 1842-3 Mrs Welles married La Valette, who
has- since so much distinguished himself in diplomacy.
Ber son, who has been adopted by La Valette is now
known as Count Welles de La Valette, and has been
married for sonic two years to a daughter of M. Rouher,
the Emperor's most able and trusted Miuistei. At the
time of her death the marchioness must have teen nearly
sixty."

An officer recently called to confer with General
Sherman as to breaking up Lincoln Barracks, near Wash-
ington, which he considered a bad quarter for soldiers, and
asked him what he should do with the property. "Burn
it, burn it, sir!" said Sherman, impetuously. "General,"
said the officer, "please put your order in writing, and 1
will obey." "Burn it, burn it!" again exclaimed Sher-
man. The officer asked his written orders therefor,
when the General asked " what is its value." lie was in-
formed it was worth $200,000. " Won," said Sherman,
" the fact is, this city is a bad place for soldiers, and 1
want to get them all away from it. You had better put it
up for sale and clean the thing out quick." Subsequently
General Emory called to ascertain what orders he had for
his department. " What department?" inquired the Com.
mander-in-Chief. " The Department of Washington,"
said Emory. "Busted up, busted up, sir, yesterday; am
going to get all the troops out of this city."
Mr. Seward, in reply to an invitation to the
Johnson-Baltimore banquet, wrote " 1 cordially thank the
authorities for so kindly remembering my association with
the great statesman of Tennessee during the period in
which emancipation was gained, while the integrity of the
Union was saved, and the Constitution was•not lost. Very
respectfully, your obliged and obedient servant:"

Secretary Boutwell was a retail shopkeeper at
Groton. When Arthur Gilman was in Mass tchusetts ho
bought a yellow mug at his store, and sent it to an Eng-
lish friend, in 1851, as a curiosity, for such ho regarded it,
being sold to him from his little shop by the Governor of
Massachusetts.

George F. Hoar, brother of the Attorne;?-General,
is the new Congressional representative front the -Worces-
ter district, Massachusetts. Ile will probably be offered
the judgeship vacated bj his brother, but it is doubtful
whether he will accept it. Mr. Gaston, however, the law
partner of Speaker Jewel, is also suggested fur tliq place.