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

TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1869.

BANQUET 7 0 11ER MAJESTY'S
MINISTERS.

Yesterday evening a banquet was given by the
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress to her Majesty's
Ministers, the guests numbering upwards of 250.
The toasts of Her Majesty, the Prince of Wales,
and the Army, Navy, and Volunteers having been
proposed and responded to,
The LORD MAYOR proposed " Her Majesty's
Ministers," and with that toast the name of one re-
spected by all, the Right llon. W. E. Gladstone.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. GLADSTONE—My Lord Mayor, Ladies and

Gentlemen,—On the part of my colleagues, not less
than on my own, I tender to you my most cordial
and respectful thanks for the honour which you have
been pleased to confer upon us. There can be no
period at which it can be a duty void of interest for the
First Minister of the Crown to acknowledge the
marks of confidence and kindness received from in-
telligent assemblies of Lis fellow-co:in:urial ; but
within this hall that task acquires a peculiar higni-
fictnce. ion have been pleased, my Lord Mayer,
to propose this toast as t 1 c head of the first
municipality of this country, if not of the
world, and when we become the guests of the chief
of that municipality we feel ourselves to be, through
no insignificant symbol, at least in contact with the
nation on behalf of which we act. To interchange
sentiments with a body so qualified to represent
that nation, and to acknowledge the tokens of its
kindness, is always a task that rises far above the
level of routine. At this time, my Lord Mayor, it
acquires even a higher character, for you have been
pleased to observe that we have taken office with
peculiar responsibilities. It is not for my colleagues,
it is not for me, to complain of the difficult char-
acter of the task which we have to perform, be-
cause we ourselves recognised the difficulties, and
we are accused even of having created those diffi-
culties before we acceded to office. The state of
the circumstances with which we have to deal, and
the peculiar nature of the questions which occupied
the attention of Parliament, did not take us by sur;
prise. But if we have an arduous task to confront,
I speak for myself, we must admit that there have
been peculiar advantages attending them. I must
mention, first, that gracious favour and that con-
stitutional support which every Government in
this country has, for a period of thirty-two
year,, received from her Majesty, and I name
that as a peculiar advantage, because in my judg-
ment it is a grave offence on the part-of Ministers
to profess or insinuate that special favours are
granted to a particular Administration which are
denied to another. I say this simply because I
think it is a debt of duty to that sovereign who has
so long reigned on the throne of England and in
the hearts of the nation, that those who have the
honour to serve her should take occasion to ac-
knowledge
on every fitting opportunity with what 1
exemplary fidelity, with what perfect but absolute
loyalty the prime duties of the Sovereign are at all
times performed. (Cheers.) I may presume to
say, my Lord Myor, that I bare not been un- I
fortunate in the nature, in the qualities and in
the stamp of the men whom I, was not only
enabled, but constrained to associate with me ;
in the works of the Government ; and I do not a'
think that, as far as the experience of the past
six months is concerned, that there has been
any disposition on the part of the country to
complain cf the manner in which either the ad-
ministrative or the legislative duties of the great
departments of State have been generally dis-
charged. (Hear, hear.) But also, my Lord Mayor,
I must venture to discharge a debt of duty to the
House of Commons. This House of Commons was
elected under circumstances novel and peculiar; it
sprang from the heart and breast of the people, it
bears upon it more of the notes of contact with the
masses of the nation than any House of Commons
ever gathered within the venerable walls of West-. 1,
minster ; and it would appear that in proportion as
the scope of its contact with popul tr sentiment has
been extended its capacity for the discharge of Par-
liamentary duties has been increased. At lest I
may presume to say that, after having sat for very
many years as a member of that assembly:and
never without a profound and, if I may say so, a
filial admiration of its great qualities, at no period,
I think, have I known a body of representatives of
the people gathered together .pith as clear a con-
seiousnees of the purposes of which they are sent
there ; or with as little disposition to wrs'e, either
in the pettiness of intrigue, or in the idlo and self-
seeking discussion, the precious time that ought to
be devoted to the noble task of building up the
happiness of the people. (Cheers.) Indeed, my
Lord Mayor, to refer to one peculiar subject with
which official relations have long connected me, I
-may say that for the first time—for the first time
certainly during very many years—l see a House of
Commons more disposed to take a strict measure of
its duties, and in particular to take a strict measure
of its duties on one critical and testing subject--I ,
mean that of public economy—than either the pub-
lic out of doors, or even that daily Press by
which the interests of the public are in general so
well represented and defended, is aware of. I dis-
charge this debt of gratitude to the assembly in
which for so many years it has been my daily duty,
and I may say my daily satisfaction, to labour for
what I deem to be the public good. Bat your
lordship could hardly omit, and have not omitted,
at a juncture like this, to refer to that special pur-
pose, that high, transcendent interest, which, rising
far above the mass of public questions, involves
such great issues and results, and attract to it and
claims for itself a special character—l mean the
great question connected with the condition of one
of these three kingdoms, to the loyal and main por-
tion of which it has been our duty during the pre-
sent
session to address ourselves. The Lord
Mayor, this company is well aware, as the whole
country is well aware, that the House of Com-
mons, and that her Majesty's Government in the
House of Commons, have at least bestowed their
best endeavonrs upon the conduct of the measure
which is, both by what it is in itself and by what it
promises in the future, almost a vital and essential
portion of the work of peace for Ireland and for the
security of the Empire. (Cheers.) During three
months, my Lord Mayor, we expended the chief
part of our care upon the maturing of that mea-
sure, and on that measure three months were but a
short time to spend. Since it passed beyond our
portals there has been—or I have been told there
has been—an excitement in the country. We
have read of meetings here and there, and there
has been 'a blaze like de blaze of sky-rockets,
repeated from point to point around the whole
horizon. We are told of the indignation of the
public—we are told of the reaction in public senti-
ment. The course we have pursued and the mea-
sure we have proposed are branded in language
more severe than it would be convenient on this
festive occasion to recal ; and sanguine anticipa-
tions were entertained, in the first instance, that that
measure would elsewhere meet with a speedy doom.
But, since these anticipations were disappointed,
other 'anticipations have been raised up to serve
the same turn and purpose ; that though its name
might and phantom perhaps be suffered to escape
from legislative condemnation, yet it would come
back to us so altered that we should not know it,
and that we should not have any choice except
total and utter failure in both the name and sub-
stance of our work, or else to accept but the name
with the loss of the substance. My Lord Mayor,
under these circumstances,
and amidst this tumult
and excitement, as we are told there is, we have re-
mained—l speak for myself and my colleagues, and
I speak as au observer of the House of the llouse

of Commons—we have remt iced in a hate of per-

feet tranquillity. (Cheers.)We have remained tran-
quil for these reasons. In the first place, it is to us
a matt: r not of grudge, or of jealousy, but of iatis-
ion that our work shotlid be revie‘.ve l
t.,
cwhere.
e have bestowed upon.
\Ve Can hoLestly say that vs.
it the best of our care, and have laboured with no
stint of. our time or of-our faculties to perform the
duty committed to us by the country. But at the
same-time, no doubt, there must be faults in our
work, and, as was well said by my noble friend Earl
Granville--for whom perhapf.:,parenthcticallyj may
be permitted to convey the expression of his deep
regret that grave indisposition, and the absolute nel

• 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 n 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 had 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 an -I equitable claim. The second
of these pledges was that these just and equitable
claims must be conFidered not only in the case
win re they were crude, and on behalf of those who
had been ministers or members of the dominant
Church, but wherever directly or by consequence
:hey could justly be held to arise out of arrange-
meuts 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 disentlowment. 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 siy 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
1 religious denominations, the remaindtr portion of
the property of wha; 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.)
Tin sl 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 cf the Legislature will apply
themselves to the adjustment of this great .contro-
, versy in the full and clear perception of what the
nation expects, and of what the times and circutn-
: stances permit; and I am sanguine enough to be-
I 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.

A MERI CAN AFFAIRS.

(From. the Anglo-American 2 lines.)
NEW YORK, June 12.
Our sensational papers got up a fine scare this
week—nothing less than that the Inman steamship
City of Paris, which had 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 COall-
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
say that, before this letter reaches you, her pas-
sengers will be scattered over Europe, and all their
names recorde 1 as sAfely arrived in the columns of
the Anglo-American Times. Some of the crew and
passengers. of the st eatner Mississippi, wrecked at
Martinique, Miiy 12, en rote front Rio Janeiro to
New York, arrive.l here in the Columbia from lla-
vannah last Wednesday. The Mississippi left Para
May 7,andstruck, May 12,a shoal seven miles from the
east side of Martinique. Next day the French
steamer Cariee/ 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 expeditious 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 11.1inister 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 sai 1 that three are fitting
I, out in New York, and they will be off before he can
act. There is a dispatch from Admiral Hoff, dated
May 27. Ile had arrived at Matanzas, where he
found the feeling far less bitter between the volun- '
teers and the Cubans than reported ; in fact a
11 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 and injuring the
1 road. General Lesca, the Governor of Puerto
i 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.
The Admiral considers that the landing, supposed
lor actual, of filibusters had thrown new life into the
i insurrection, which some time before had died out,
land it had blazed up effectually in some parts of the
island, which were almost wholly in the hands of
the insurgents; his words are—" One fact is posi-
tive, however, and that is, the actual or supposed
I successful landing of these expeditions has infused
new life into the insurrection, that to all appears
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 _ldaho and City of
Baltimore on Monday brought 2,000 passengers.
Another vessel has come in with smallpox, but no
particulars about the Ocean 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 Havannali, which put in for
medical aid. Two of the crew were buried at sea,
laud the second officer in a fit of delirium jumped
overbcard and was drowned, and the captain and
1 four of the crew were ill. The waiters have come
off second best in the strike they inaugurated, as
I the hotels have not found it difficult to supply their
1 places, although the temporary inconvenience was
1 considerable. Of course the proprietors are greatly
I annoyed with the men who left them thus uncere-
moniously in the birch, and are glad to b! 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 waters passed a resolution
allowing those on strike to work for the wages they j

could get, a sufficient acknowledgment of defeat ;
but the proprietors refused to receive them back un-
less they repudiated the union, which they refuse.
The coach-drivers are organizing a strike for $3 a
day ; the journeymen potters are collecting funds
here to support the Trenton strike, and they have
collected $600; they express the determination of the
men to hold out against the introduction of machi-
nery ; the German cap makers are on strike for an
increase of 50 per cent., but they desire to carry
their employers with them by proposing to raise the
price of the article. Some of the shops have con-
sented to the advance, and a bill of prices, increas-
ing the pay 20 per cent., is to be presented for the
consideration of the employers. Strikes are very
general all over the country, showing labour to be
in a very unsettled state, and this is attributed to the
universal cause of all our ailments in the opinion of
some—the paper currency. Mr. Edward H. An-
derson, son of Dr. Anderson, of Fort Lee, N.J.,
and Miss Josephine Allen, were married la,t Wed-
nesday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The
Seventh Regiment marched down Broadway on
Monday and proceeded to Brooklyn, to be reviewed
in Prospect Park by Brigadier-General Messerole.
A detachment of ihi baitalon, Washington Gray
Cavalry, left on Tuesday afternoon for Boston, to
take part in the Peace Jubilee. They take with
them the original Pine Tree flag, and are accom-
panied by Generals 111‘Quade, Morris, and Tweed,
of the staff of Governor Hoffman. Journals are
fond of announcing startling conversions, and per-
haps you may have noticed, for it is more notice-
able on your side than ours, that any convert to
Rome is widely published ; but if the same indivi-
dual retraces his or her steps, little is heard of the
matter. According to some authorities here, one of
England's richest peers went over to the Rornish
Church, but I believe that was more true than the
report circulated here that New York's wealthiest
merchant, A. T. Stewart, had become a Catholic,
which story, after going► the rounds, has been con-
tradicted. The President was received quietly, as
lie gave but little opportunity for demonstrations,
but a hungry pack of office-seekers started instantly
in chase to West Point, and remained like terriers
at a rat-hole, watching their opportunity. Under
his quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative manner,
t►►e President feels deeply, and the narrow escape of
himself and family has had more effect than appears
on the surface. Mr. R. Young, instead of going to
Europe, as was form erlyreported,has gone toKansas,
and Mr. Ottarson has returned to the Tribune. Mr.
Whitelaw Reid has assumed the place vacated by
Mr. Young. As regards the stage the attack on
the dancing girls continues. It is said that two
American actresses only are left on the New York
boards, and that one of them is a German. The
Spirit and the action taken. by Mr. Butler has
raised the storm, and the blondes are now in the
shade, but whether they will continue there I can-
not tell. Mr. Peabody, after stopping at 16,
Waverley-place, the guest of Mr. Westmore, left
for Boston, where he arrived yesterday, and after
visiting Richard H. Dana (junior) he proceeded in
the evening to Salem. On Thursday the Annual
regatta came off of the New York Yacht Club, but
it rained and it blew, and although there was a good
gathering at Fort Hamilton, Staten Island, and
other points, the day was propitious neither to the
races from the anchorage off Staten Island and
round the Lightship, nor to the horse races in
Jerome-park. The prize for second-class sloops
was won by White Cap, and for first-class sloops by
the ,Salle ; for second-class schooners by the
Idler. The Phantom met with an accident, or
she would hare won, as she was far ahead at the
time, and by the same squall the Palmer carried away
her foretopmast and gaff topsail, and the Sylvia her
jib-boom, flying jib, and jib topsail. The press
grieve over the fall of Governor Hoffman, who
signed the Tax Levies Bills, and no doubt it cost
him a great effort, and resulted from a very heavy
pressure; but Major Hall, in his message to the
Common Council, takes high ground, and hi's at
everybody. At the press for meddling with muni-
cipal affairs, at the legislators, whom he terms
"rural," and he says " concoct tax puzzles." These,
he declares, hamper the city authrities, to whom
they have left but few matters of government in
the metropolis, and on their shoulders Major
Hall piles all the blame for bad docks, ill-kei t
streets, and whatever there is to find fault with.
Ile telb: us there are 212 miles of streets in New
York city, of which 81 miles are in block, and
five miles in wooded pavement. The ler
are either sul.jectecl to cobblestones or await pave-
ment. After quoting President Lincoln's saying—
" Arrange a plan, and tl,en peg away at it until it
is successful !" he addi, in like spirit, let the City
authorities patiently peg away' upon this matter
of City improvements, for the solution of the two
great problems so vital to the interests of com-
merce and citizens' comfort. The Tite Barnacle
Ring of Illinois has shown how little behind us
they are in the great West. Salaries and perqui-
sites are manufactured in Chicago, as audaciously
as in New York, and they are maintained by the
same style of organization ; it is, I presume, one
of tho drawbacks of universal suffrage.

Bishop Staley, of Honolulu, who has been in
London trying. to raise funds for a new cathedral, will find
his flock in rebellion, a 3 they have sent to the Episcopal
authorities in England to withdraw the reformed Catholic
mission and its missionaries, as they want a low-Church
pastor, who they are ready to support without assistance
from abroad.

Frank Legie'sillustrated paper gives aseries of most
interesting sketches of the vegetable culture in the South
by Joseph Becker. It is a pity that this excellent picture
paper should often cent tin articles couched in so un-
friendly a tone towards England, or it could scarcely fail
as America becomes better known to Britishers to cbtain
a wide circulation among them, for it conveys ideas which
no writing can to. Frank Leslie also reproduces the most
stupid and malicious of the cartoons which lately appeared
in the English comic papers to satirise America. This is
the way in which the truly charming, amiable, and profit-
able relations between the countries are maintained. The
speeches and resolutions of "War-Horses" in Congress
are replied to by abuse and ridicule in England, which re-
produced in America generates a fresh crop, and the two
nations scream at each other like angry Billingsgate fish-
women. If a war which ended in maiming and burying
half a million of men, and doubling the National Debt of
both countries, could settle the hatred and establish amic-
able relations for a century, although at the intense suf-
fering and cost of the present generation, it might not be
an unprofitable bargain for the world at large. When it
is c,Asidered why there should be this sacrifice at atl, it is
seen how purely this work is that of the Devil ; an immo-
lation to some hideous idol—though, unfortunately, in-
ste d of attaining the object, the reverse would be the
result ; for it would but leave another war for another ge-
neration to atone for the successes and defeats of that.
I The number of patients relieved during the week
at the Hospital for Heart Disease, Newman-street, Ox-
ford-street, was 120.
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Listlessness, Headache, Flatulency.—Summer brings
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palsy or apoplexy. The moment giddiness, dimness of
sight, or headache comes on, Holloway's Ointment should
be freely rubbed into the nape and glands of the neck,
and his Pills should be simultaneously taken to complete
the patient's security, which will be thoroughly guaran-
teed by a strict obedience to the directions for us, and
which envelope every pot and box of these purifying and
preservative remedies. Both Ointment and Pills act
beneficially, by drawing the blood from the head, balanc-
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overgorged veins, and invigorating tbo nervous system.
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lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional
regularity, anc' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We
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complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous
palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and
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spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure No
44,270: Mr. James Roterts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years
diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and
partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.
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all Omer§ tuacl Chenaigto.

SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times, in discussing Mr. Gladstone's speech at the
Mansion House, reminds him that the beginning and end
of all the main propositions of last year was the message
of religious equality to the religious communions of Ire-
land. But if we are to observe equality—and from this
there can be no departure--we must either deprive the
disestablished Church of its parsonages and glebes, or we
must counterbalance these gifts by similar gifts to other
communions. If the Episcopal Church be allowed to retain
their parsonages and glebes, the Presbyterians will demand
the same. There is no question about their accepting
these gifts. They will insist upon them. Every hour
adds to the conviction that the feeling of the Roman
Catholics, laity and clergy, is the same. And what stands
in the way of this statesmanlike result? A prejudice so
feeble that it is the shadow of a shade, to be dissipated
the first moment the light of thought is brought to bear
upon it. The House of Lords, avoiding the falsehood of
extremes, will reconcile the promises of her Majesty's
Ministers with themselves, rejecting all proposals
for redistributing the funds of the Irish Church,
or for permanently endowing the servants of re-
ligion in Ireland, but balancing the modest resi-
dences left to Protestant Episcopal clergymen by the
proffer of similar advantages to Presbyterians and Roman
Catholics. More than this the House of Lords may not
do ; less than this they will not do. And our confidence
is increased by the language of the Prime Minister at the
Mansion House on Wednesday night, that when this
modification of the bill comes before the House of •Com-
mons, supported by the votes of three-fourths, or, it may
be, four-fifths, of the Peers, and approved by the acquies-
cence of the country, it will be sanctioned as a judicious
and laudable settlement of the great question before
Parliament.

The Herald says that the propoials of Lord Grey, Lord
Westbury. and the Duke of Cleveland cannot be dis-
missed without consideration upon the bare ground that
they involve the endowment of the Roman Catholic
Church. By common consent the principle of such an
endowment has already been surrendered, and Lord Grey
and his friends ask the House to Advance further in the
only path open to it. Shall we consent that the Irish
Church shall be starved on condition that the Roman
Catholics shall not take over a stiver beyond the
Maynooth commutation money ; or shall we con-
cede more liberal terms to the Roman Catholics
as the price of gaining infinitely larger terms
for the Protestant Church ? Let no one suppose that it
is not a hard and bitter alternative which is offered by
the advocates of :oncurrent endowment. The question is,
whether it is not the least of two evils, one of which
appears to be inevitable. The staunchest Protestant may
well reflect whether it is not worth while, whether it is
not a very onerous duty, to make concessions which, how-
eVer painful 'and repugnant they may be, will be com-
pensated by such a provision for the Irish Church as will
enable it to discharge its responsibilities with vigour
and efficiency when it is thrown upon its own
resources. -We can sympathise very earnestly with
those who regard it as a matter of conscience
to protest against the diversion of Protestant money to
the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. But we
are face to face with a situation in which to refuse a com-
promise is to sacrifice everything, and we venture to urge
that, under all the circumstances, the first duty of the
friends of the Irish Church is to endeavour to gain for it
the best terms they can. If we thought it possible to
secure its property intact, we should counsel them not to
yield one inch. It is because we see no other way of re-
taining for its use even an appreciable portion of its
revenues that we are compelled to urge the necessity of
accepting some such compromise as we have indicated.
It is announced, says the Standard, that Messrs. Bright
and Forster have ceased to be members of the Reform
Club. The alleged cause of this portentous secession is
the blackballing of an American gentleman whom the
two Cabinet Ministers had proposed as a member of the
club for one month—a recognised practice with the Re-
form. Who is right and who is wrong we are unable to
say. Messrs. Bright and Forster entertain such very
enlarged views and such very narrow prejudices on
American questions, that it is quite possible they might
overlook, in their admiration for his talents, the want
of some of those social qualifications which every club
has a right to require in those who aspire to its mem-
bership. He might even be a gentleman of colour
and still • not generally acceptable. On the other
hand, it is difficult to believe that the club would have
blackballed a thoroughly well qualified candidate merely
because he was an American, and recommended by
Messrs. Bright and Forster. It is true that there are
rumours of a somewhat iron tyranny now in vogue in the
head-quarters of Liberalism, under which freedom of
opinion is a crime, and the severest measures are
threatened against members not possessing absolute and
unquestioning confidence in Mr. Gladstone ; and this may
be a pratical remonstrance. Whatever is the result, let
us hope it will end with the self-sacrifice of Messrs.
Bright and Forster, and that Mr. Sumner will not add
this new outrage to the long list he has already handed in
for compensation and apology. As for the Reform Club,
it will probably survive the secession. If it has lost Mr.
Bright and Mr. Forster has it not gained Lord Granville
and Mr. Gladstone.

The Post declares that the statement made on Wednes-
day in the House of Commons—that the wrongs and wants
of Ireland multi not have been listened to by the Govern-
ment and Parliament of the United Kingdom but for the
course pursued by the Fenians—is wholly at variance
with patent facts. For the argument it is assumed that
Irish grievances are considered with a view to their being
redressed, because and only because, they have been, as it
were, shouted through a Fenian speaking trumpet; and
the Irish Church Bill is described as a concession
extorted by apprehensions, arising out of the Fenian
conspiracy—as a measure in every line. of which
the fear and trembling of England may be read running.

The public interest in the matter is all we have to
do with, and in that sense we are bound to protest
against an imputation affebting the character of our legis-
lation, and the honour and independence of the Legisla-
ture, without entertaining any irrelevant considerations.
It is said, however, and was said in the House of Com-
mons, that the Fenian conspiracy has done a vast deal of
good for Ireland ; and, as good sometimes comes out of
evil, that may be. Fenianism, we do not doubt, has done
its work ; but it must be added that the reaction is, at
least, as marked as could be wished. The head-centres
and the triumvirates have fulfilled their mission, though
not to the end they seem to have proposed to themselves.
Their reign is over. They were fairly tried ; they richly
deserved their fate ; the punishment they are undergoing,
heavy as it is, falls far short of the misery they have im-
posed upon Ireland; and, for our part, we can discern
nothing in their case to entitle them to any remission of
the sentence of the law.

The Daily News calls attention to Mr. Gladstone's
avowal that be would be grateful for any improvements
which the Lords might make in the Irish Church Bill ;
and that any changes which they might introduce would
be respectfully considered, though they might at first, and,
as lie significantly added, perhaps at last also, seem inad-
missible. It will be allowed, it imagines, even by those
who have been encouraging the notion that the
Government was not indisposed to concurrent
endowment within certain limits, that Mr. Glad-
stone speaks the mind of the Ministry. The
indirect opponents of the Irish Church Bill in the House
of Lords, who would transform i A substance while retain-
ing its title, have not to deal with Mr. Gladstone alone.
Like the heroic Lord Talbot, in Shakspere's play, lie
"is but the 'shadow of himself." The people behind him,
who have already spoken through their representatives,
and who, if challenge is given, will find means of speak-
ing for themselves ; " these," as wise counsellors will tell
the Peers, " are his substance, sinews, arms, and
strength "—they need not add, finishing the quotation,
" with which he yoketh your rebellious necks." 'The
good sense of a majority of the House of Lords has
led them to acquiesce in the decision of the nation, so far
as their preconceptions have allowed them to understand
it. They have shewn what Roman Catholic theologians
would call an implicit acceptance of it,thoughtheymay have
made an innocent error of interpretation, which further
information and a docile spirit will enable them to correct.
Be this as it may, the Government has taken its ground.
In President, Lincoln's phrase, it has put down its foot.
Another Ministry, another House of Commons, and, we
may also say, another England, will be necessary in order
to give effect to the policy of concurrent endowment in
Ireland.
The Times reminds its readers that thirty-five years age
Lord Brougham declared the sip ointment of a public
prosecutor was then contemplated by Government, and
ever since the measure has been from time to time taken
up, to be for a brief period strenuously advocated by this
or that distinguished lawyer, and then quietly dropped.
It might, indeed, possibly have continued this spasmodic
and chequered career of activity and repose for another
five-and-thirty yews but for the interest felt in the
extraordinary miscarriage of justice which the want of
a public prosecutor now threatens to occasion.
Apart from, and in addition to, the magnitude of
the pecuniary stake, the Overend and Gurney trial
is of vast importance as constituting a new epoch
in the history of commercial morality. It was, we
believe, the first case—certainly it was the first case of
general interest—in which the directors of a company
were treated as criminally responsible for misconduct
which hail been previously looked upon as only matter for
a civil action, and, considering the incalculable mischief
which in these days may be dune, and is constantly done,
by the neglect or dishonesty of directors, it is of the last
consequence that all possible light should be thrown upon
the point at which the criminal responsibility of a
director begins. Nor should it be forgotten that
the social position of the accused greatly increases
the public scandal that must result from a gross
failure of justice in their case. It is no secret that they
have powerful friends and connections in very high
places; it is inevitable that a large portion of the public
will, rightly or wrongly, attribute their escape to this fact,
and believe that the arm of the law is strong only against
the poor. When all these facts are taken into considera.
tion, who can for a moment doubt that such a national
disgrace as the break-down of the Overend and Gurney trial
would be impossible if there existed a public prosecutor,
or, if this be a perilous innovation, some official bound to
exercise, even in the most modified f9pp, certain chilies of
public roaccut9r. _

THE PROSECUTION OF THE VICAR OF
ERNIE FOR HERESEE

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the
Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, Sir William
Erle, and Sir J. Napier) have given their decision in the
case of " Sheppard v. Phillimore and Bennett," an appeal
from the Arches' Court. The question was whether the
Dean of Arches was bound, under the Church Discipline
Act, to accept letters of request from the Bishop of Bath
and Wells, without any reason being assigned why certain
charges against the Rev. Mr. Bennett, vicar of Frome,
were not heard in his own court before.they were sent to
the Appeal Court of the Province of Canterbury

The Lord Chancellor pronounced the judgment of their
lordships, and, after dwelling on the facts and referring
to the argument on the part of the Dean, said the case
had been ably argued on the part of the learned judge.
The point was as to the construction of the 13th section of
the Church Discipline Act, which enr.powered the Bishop of
a diocese to send a case to the Arches' Court to be, as stated,
" heard and determined according to the law and practice
of the court." Their lordships were o' '• 'tat it was
obligatory on the Dean of Arches to accept such letters
of request when sent to him by a bishop, without the case
being heard in his own court in the first instance. Their
lordships would recommend to her Majesty that the
appeal be allowed and the. case remitted to the Court of
Arches, to be heard and determined according to the law
and practice of the court. No costs would follow the
appeal.
Mr. Walter l'hillimore craved permission to say one
word on the part of the Dean of Arches. The Dean had
no other desire than that right and justice should be done,
and, after the intimation of their lordships on the impor-
tant question which bad been raised, he would proceed to
hear and determine the case on the letters of request sent
to him.

The Lord Chancellor said their lordships were quite sure
on that point. They had inquired into the practice
whether it was necessary that the judgment should be
formally given, and finding it was so, the judgment now
given would be submitted to her Majesty, in order that
the case might be remitted to the Arches' Court.

The case will now be heard in the Arches' Court.

21.11SCELLANEOUS NEWS.

PARLIAIIENTARY B U STK ESS .

Both Houses of Parliament are sheaving them-
selves unusually industrious. The Lords have
not for years sat so long, spoken so well, or trans-
acted so much business as they have done this year.
Probably they will before long resort to the innova-
tion of Wednesday sittings. The Commons began
morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays at an un-
precedentedly early period of the session, in order
to carry the Irish Church Bill through ; but now
that this is accomplished the sittings are still con-
tinued, and will be held during the remainder of
the session. Thus measures not introduced by the
Government have a chance of passing. But more
work accomplished by the Commons means more
for the Lords. Thus when Sir John Coleridge has
succeededras ho no doubt will succeed, in carrying
his University Tests Bill through the Lower House.
the Upper will be called upon to consider if it shall
reject the measure or adopt the policy winch is now
in vogue of accepting a certain amount of change
" lest a wqrse thing should befall." The Bankruptcy
Bill has actually passed the Commons, and thus we
are now humanly certain of having carried into law a
reform which has been mentioned in every Queen's
Speech for about half-a-dozen years.