The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1869

M. Emile 011ivier, the rejected of Paris, has justleen
elected a member of the Cobden Club. This club was
formed in 1868, in order to spread the economical doc-
trines of Cobden, and it now numbers 288 members, of
whom 135 are M.P.'s. Mr. Potter, M.P. for Rochdale, is
the president, and among its members are Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. Bright, Mr. Quincy Adams, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Sum-
ner, M. Arles Dufour, M. Rouher, M. de Forcade, Gari-
baldi, and other eminent foreigners.
The weather is really something dreadful. We are
shivering with cold. We walk through the streets with
steaming breath, and great-coated cabmen smite their hands
together to keep them warm. To-day it has been raining
hard in spite of a high barometer, and the Henley Regatta
has been spoilt. Yesterday there was something
like fine weather ; that is, after a gale of
great violen9e, which lasted till ten o'clock, the sun
began to shine in a wan sort of manner, but sufficiently to
draw together an extraordinarily brilliant company at the
Botanical Gardens in Regent's Park. There might have
been seen Mr. Disraeli and Viscountess Beaconsfield,
Prince Teck and the Princess Mary, (looking particularly
well), quite a bevy of bishops, a large proportion
of the peerage, and any number of elaborate toilets
worn by the martyrs of fashion, who felt bound
to dress as though we were enjoying midsummer
weather instead of a temperature lower than that which
we haa early in February. Although the crowd was so
well dressed and well born, it mobbed royalty with as
much fervour as if the lords and ladies had been
street gaining or ragged-school children. When will the
upper-class Londoners acquire manners equal to those of
the Paris ouvrier

A very interesting exhibition is open just now at the
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, just opposite the Royal
Academy. It consists of about 3450 photographs of views
in the Holy Land, of models, and of antiquities and other
curiosities brought from that country. Among the last
are specimens of the Dead Sea apples which Mr. Carlyle
has immortalised, of tares whose similarity to oats gives
additional force to our Lord's parable of the tares ;
of,hylacteries, sandals, and other articles of Eastern dress.
There is also a shepherd's sling, so small and so
rude of construction that the English schoolboy
would despise it, and yet David made good
use of just such a one when he went forth
to do battle with Goliath. A large glass case contains
articles which Mr. MacGregor took with him in the Rob
Roy canoe. But perhaps the most interesting thing
exhibited is the model of the Holy Sepulchre. It is a
perfect wildnerness of buildings, each the church of some
different sect, and the whole a sad satire upon that spirit
which has converted what should have been the cement.
ing influence of Christianity into the cause of endless
separations.

There are various literary sayings and doings just now.
Mr. Tennyson is gone to Switzerland with Mr. Frederick
Locker. Dean Stanley means to be present at the
(Ecumenical Council at Rome next December. Mr.
Burnell Payne, author of the very able article on Art in
this month's Macmillan, and one of the principal writers in
the Pall Mall Gazette, is, I am sorry to say, compelled by
ill-health to go abroad. Mr. Isaac Taylor, author of
" Words and Places," and son of the still better known
author of the " Natural History of Enthusiasm," has
been translated from Bethnal-green, where he has long
laboured as a parish priest, to the pleasant living of
Twickenham, vacated by the promotion of Mr. Knollys to
one of the numerous preferments that fell to the gift of the
Archbishop of Canterbury thrcugh the death of that enor-
mous pluralist, Archdeacon Croft. M. Renan is just
bringing out his " St. Paul," a volume forming one of a
series with his " Vie de Rsus" and "Les Aix:Ares." Sir
Charles Lyell is preparing a new and.condensed edition of
his great work. Mr. Ffoulkes has written another letter,
this time on the Irish Church, entitled "Disendow all or
none." Mr. Spender will have an article on Norway
in the forthcoming number of the London Quarterly _review,
and one on the same subject, entitled " Fjeld, Fjord, and
Foss," in the Churchman's Shilling Maguzine, also an
article on Sornersetshire in Meliora.
Your readers will have seen that that most scurrilous of
prints, the Queen's Messenger, has come to grief by means
of an action for libel. The writers who conducted it
announce that they are going to start another periodi-
cal, which, judging by its name, The Plain
Speaker, seems to be of the same kind. Another
publication, Once a Week, was put up to auction on-Tues-
day, and was knocked down at 2160, but was understood
to have been bought in by the proprietors. It is strange
that this magazine should not have been more successful.
Started originally by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans when
they quarrelled with Mr.-Dickens, and as a rival to his
Household Words, which was-then renamed All the Year
Round, Once a Week, has had a • melancholy career.
It was edited at one time by the late Mr. Lucas, of the
Times, who brought out the short-lived Shilling Magazine,
and at tEe same time published an announcement so
offensive that it could be pardoned only because the writer
was then suffering from the incipient symptoms of a
disease which afterwards proved his death. At present
Mr. Dallas, author of "The Gay Science," and husband
of Miss Glyn, the dramatic reader, is the editor. Yet
this well-known litt"rateur has never been able to
obtain a satisfactory position for the serial, although it
has often contained some admirable writing.
Begratia of this month col-It:this some verses by Sir
Mitchell, for the signature of which, by the way,
the editor, Mr. Cheitnam, and not the writer, is respon-
Bible. Another set of verses written by Sir William have
been set to music, very successfully, by Randegger, and
are just now being sung with great success by Mr.' Cum-
mings. Words and music together form a very pretty
love-song.

The proposed Keble Memorial in Westminster Abbey
is to consist of a tablet, designed by Mr. Gilbert Scott,
and a medallion likeness by Mr. Woolner. It is to be
placed near the monument of Keble's old friend, Words.
worth. A large number of eminent men, including Mr.
Gladstone, Lord Russell, Lord Stanhope, Mr. Browning,
and Mr. Tennyson, are on the committee.

Herr Formes's performance of Shylock appears to have
turned out a failure. The Princess's is closed for two
months. The attempted rival Opera at the Lyceum
collapsed after a night or two, and that theatre has ever
since been closed, and is now " to let."

MISCELLANEI US NEWS.

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IS ULSTER PIIOTESTANT
A great deal has been said of late about " Protes-
tant Ulster." But the idea that Ulster is entirely
Protestant is most erroneous; that it is mainly so is
denied ; that it is chiefly Episcopalian is the very
opposite of truth. A. correspondent of the Daily
News places the number of Roman Catholics at
967,000, the Episcopalians at 397,000, and the Dis-
senters (chiefly Presbyterian) at 550,000 ; 4o that
the whole of! the religious bodies tal;en together
barely eu.tblo it to be said that there is a ma.,ority
of Protestant opinion in the Northern Province,

•
THE "DEFEAT OF THE OOVERNMENT.7
The Conservative papers have been announcing in
the , largest letters on their show bills, "Defeat of
the Government." This "defeat " was brought about
in the following manner. Mr. Charles Reed, the
new member for Ilac!iney, and a staunch Liberal,
moved the second reading of a bill for exempting
Sunday and ragged-schools from poor rates. Ile
was supported by Mr. Graves, the Conservative
M.P. for Liverpool. Mr. Goschen opposed the bill,
and was backed in his opposition- by Mr. Percy
Wyndham, the Conservative M.P. for West
Cumberland. A. large number of the. Liberal party
went with Mr. Reed, and the second reading of the
bill was carried through their agency by 226 to 71
votes,

unamnneys has made his ernmee' between tne
deanery of Lichfield and the living of St. Pancras,
and has chosen the first. The second falls vacant
this week. Meanwhile it remains for the Court of
Common Pleas to decide if he can hold the living
of Tatenhill in connection with the deanery. If the
decision goes against him, he will have made a very
poor exchange from the pecuniary point of view.
Bishop Colenso has appointed the Rev. Robert
Gray Dean of Maritzburg. When the Colenso con-
troversy was at its height Mr. Gray left St. Helena
and voluntarily attached himself to the Bishop. The
Bishop is now rewarding him, and at the same time
is dealing a blow. at Dean Green. It is not a little
singular that " Robert Gray " should be the name of
Bishop Colenso's warmest friend, as well as of his
fiercest opponent, the Bishop of Capetown.
Bishop Hills, of Columbia, has arrived in Englana,
and so has Bishop Venables, of Nassau. The latter
prelate brings a very poor account of the state of the
Church in his diocese. The Bahamas are bankrupt,
and the Church has just been disestablished. The
Bishop- looks forward to the future with the gloomiest
anticipations.

IMPERIAL PARLIA. ',TENT

HOUSE OF OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING.

The groat interest in the debate was again manifested,
and the house presented the same crowded state it has
exhibited during the two former evenings.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
MR. BRIGHT'S LETTER.

Lord CAIRNS then rose, and after alluding to the im

portance of some explanation being given on the sub-
ject of a letter, signed " John B►ight," said it
was most singula,r, to say the least of it, that the
letter should not have made its appearance until two days
after the motion with respect to the Irish Church Bill had
been given by his noble friend (the Earl of Ilarrowby).
The noble and learned lord then read the letter in ques-

tion, and dwelt in particularly strong terms upon the
allusion in it to the childish tinkering with the constitu-
tion their lordships were indulging in in endeavouring to
perfect the Life Peerages Bill. (Loud laughter.) The
letter also upheld that their lordships were acting in
direct opposition to the will of the nation in obstruct-
ing the progress of the Irish Church Bill and other
imputations of the most unjustifiable nature were used,
which rendered the publication of its production in fact as
a; menace to the house. He thought the writing such a
letter was alogether unprecedented by a minister of the
Crown - (hear, hear) - and calculated to produce the
utmost danger to the free discussion of the question by
their lordships. He thought it highly objection-
able that there should be one member of the Go-
vernment continually doing all that was smooth
and bland within the house, whilst another member
of it was doing all that was quite contrary out of it. (Hear
hear.) He thought it would be idle to call the letter a pri-
vate communication, because it was to all intents and pur-
poses a party manifesto, and so it was looked upon through-
out the country. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the noble earl
opposite would, in answer to his question, repudiate the
sentiments contained in the letter which he had brought
under the attention Of the house.

Earl GRANVILLE said the letter was written by Mr.
Bright, but he could not accept the paraphrase the noble
and learned lord bad been pleased to give of it to their
lordships. (Hear, hear.) He was certain that the greatest
desire of the right hon. gentleman was in no way to cver-
awe the deliberation of their lordship with respect to the
Irish Church Bill, and he was quite sure that none of the
oolleagues of the right hoe. gentleman were acquainted
with the contents of the letter in question previous
to its being sent, and the first time they had the
opportunity of perusing its contents was when it appeared
in the public newspapers. It was admitted that there
was a great deal of John Bullism about Mr. Bright, and
he supposed it was in that rash combative feeling schich
was given to John Bullism that Mr. Bright thought he
might express his opinion of a- house which
had made such free comments upon his con-
duct as a public man—(hear, hear.)—recalling more
especially the proceeedings that took place at a certain
meeting of the Conservative Peers in St. James's-square.
Mr. Bright had no intention of acting disrespectfully to
the House of Lords, and ho entirely repudiated
such an intention. Mr. Bright had assured him that what
he intended was merely to express his own personal feel-
ings, and if be had given pain to any of their lord-
ships, he bad begged him (Earl Grenville) to assure their
lordships that such was not his intention. With respect
to the words "tinkering and unwise," he (Earl Gran-
ville) should rather prefer them than the words that
had been applied to his side of the house by a noble lord
who bad not hesitated to denounce him as dishonest.
Earl GREY expressed a strong opinion that the letter of
Mr. Bright was most indecorous.

The subject then dropped, and the adjourned debate on
the Irish Church Bill was resumed by

The Earlof DERBY, who strongly objected to the prin-
ciple of the bill, on the ground that it despoiled the
Church of its property, and that it was contrary to the
Act of Union. He attributed much of the agitation which
had been got up for the disestablishment of the Irish
Church to the action of the Liberation Society, and to th,...jr
combination with other parties for the sole purpose of
breaking down the union between Church and State, not
only in Ireland but in England. He added that he did
not object merely to the special details of the bill
but to its entire principle. He pointed out that Lord
Granville, in moving the second reading of the bill, had
confined himself to its details without venturing upon the
tender ground of its principle: and it was certainly
curious' to see that men like the Archbishop of Canterbury,
who intended to vote for the second reading, were alto-
gether opposed to the details of the measure. The bill
was not even consistent with its preamble. The appl ca-
tion of a large sum, to be obtained out of the surplus pro-
ceeds to be derived from the estates of the Irish Church, to
the endowment of Maynooth was a flagrant breach of the en-
gagement that no part of those proceeds was to be applied to
religious purposes. Lord Granville promisod,on movingthe
second reading of the bill, that any amendments submitted
by the House of Lords should b 3 carefully cons dered ;
but having regard to tho way in which amendments had
been treated on other occasions, he altogether distrusted
any such pledge, and on his own part ho should continue
to offer an uncompromising opposition to the bill. ITe
denied, however, that be had any title to be viewed as the
leader of the Conservative• party, and said in the course he
was about to take he was merely following his own con-
victions. lie looked upon the bill as being both impolitic
and immoral, and he should certainly vote against'the•
second reading.
The Ear: of KI3IBERLEY defended the bill at some
length, both in regard to its principle and d tails.
The Bishop of RIPON strongly opposed the second
reading of the bill. .

The Duke of CLEVELAND did not object to the prin.-
ciple of the bill, and should therefore vote for the mon 1
reading. I .

Lord REDESDALE opposed the bill, especially that
part of it which would deprive the Irish bishops of the
power of sitting in the Houge of Lords.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE said he should vote for
the bill because he regarded it as a wise and beneficent
measure, and because he believed it would remove a groat
cause of discontent in Ireland.

The Marquis of SALISBURY said that ho intended to
vote for the second reading of the bill, but ho wished to
guard himself against being committed to all of its details,
from many of which he entirely dissented.
Lord COLCHESTER opposed the bill.

Earl STANHOPE admitted that abuses had been
allowed to creep into the Irish Church, and could not re-
sist the proposal for disestablishment. Ho would there-
fore vote for the second reading of the bill, believing that
its most objectionable features might be amended in com-
mittee, and that the House of Commons would not refuse to
accept or consider any amendment that might be intro-
duced.

The Bishop of WADI strongly opposed the bill.
After a few words from Earl NELSON,
On the motion of the Bishop of LICHFIELD the de-
bate was adjourned.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
MEXICO.

Mr. OTWAY, in reply to Mr. B. Qeymour, said the
diplomatic relations between this country and Mexico re-
mained precisely the same as they were when the noble
lord opposite was Foreign Minbter. The Government
were quite open to renew relations, but it was fell, under
all circumstances, the first stop towards the matter could
not be made by this country. (Hear, hear.)