The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-06 00:00:00

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we do not allude to the present manifestation as a
question of Liberalism versus Conservatism, but in
order to chew how reprehensible political partisanship
of any kind is, how absolutely opposed it is to true
patriotism.
What is our duty with respect to Ireland now
The same as it was a year ago. We have to do jus-
tice to Ireland, and the disaffection of every Irishman
in the country would not relieve us from that respon-
sibility. Still less are we relieved from it when we
find that it is only a few noisy persons who are
now giving us trouble. Doubtless throughout
the whole land there is little love for
England ; but this coldness is the result
of long centuries of neglect and oppression, and is
very different from the turbulent sedition of the
Fenian. The first we may still hope to overcome by
legislative concessions ; the second must be put down
by the executive power. Even if we should not suc-
ceed with the first experiment, we must none the less
carry it out, both for the sake of the Irish people and
for our own sake. It is only due to them to chew them
justice, and if they give us small thanks, let us ask our-
selves if we individually would be very profuse in our
gratitude to men who had kept us out of our rights for the
greater part of our lives, and yielded them only when
public opinion compelled them to yield. It is clearly
to our advantage to yield, because, having done that,
we can with a clear conscience resort to coercion, if
this should unhappily be necessary. Let us suppose

the worst to happen, and that Mr. GLADSTONE and
Mr. BRIGHT have to overcome their aversion to the
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, they will be
doing no more than was done by their predecessors ;
but they will be resorting to this ultimo ratio of
rulers under a provocation which their predecessors
could not allege. Should such a measure be taken, it
will doubtless be found that the number 9f agitators

is extremely small, though extremely active. It is,
for instance, absurd to suppose that the small farmers
of Ireland sympathise with the cry which has been
raised during the last few days of "an acre for
every labourer." If the tenant has his grievance
against his landlord, he is not prepared to
admit that the labourer has any grievance against
the tenant, or that, if he has, it is to be remedied
by wholesale spoliation. It is but right that the
tenant class should be protected against the demands
of men who are as extravagant as the reddest of con-
tinental Republicans. It is but right, too, that the
inhabitants of the towns of Ireland should be pro-
tected against the intimidation of political proces-
sions, which are as different from the Reform proces-
sions of London as a runaway cart is from the steady-
going omnibus. If Government decides to lay its
hands upon these workers of mischief, there is
no one on this side of St. George's Channel who will
complain. At the same time we shall hope to see
Mr. GLADSTONE persevering with his policy of justice
and conciliation, and that no wild ravings of Irish

traitors will cause him to turn aside by one hair's-
breadth from his intended course. What has to be
done ought to be done under any circumstances. If
it elicits gratitude, well and good ; if not, it must
still be done. We have to be firm with Ireland, and
for that very reason we cannot afford to be any longer
unjust.

THE Bishop-elect of Exeter has been making a
speech to the working men of Rugby, which those
over whom he will shortly bear spiritual rule would
do well to study. Dr. TEMPLE has been speaking on
the great advantages that would result to both parties
if the upper and the lower classes were better
acquainted. Each class has its peculiar
merit, each its peculiar defect; and the
merit of the one would supplement and correct the
defect of the other. The upper class is distinguished
chiefly for its refinement ; but then this very quality,
admirable as it is, is too often in danger of being
carried to the extreme of fastidiousness. It is this
love of refinement which makes those who are ani-
mated by it occasionally disposed to prefer it to justice.
Justice sometimes brings them into contact with
personswho shock by their vulgarity, and hence there
is a shrinking from doing what is right because
it involves consorting with men of unrefined
minds. On the other hand, the distinguish-
ing virtue of the lower class is love of
justice, and its distinguishing defect absence of
refinement. Thus, then, there is room for improve-
ment in both classes, and that would be best brought
about by their greater intercourse. At present all
such intercourse is carried on by the upper class too
much in the de haut en bas style. Not intentionally
doubtless ; on the contrary, an aristocrat will display
the utmost effusion in addressing his horny-handed
friend. There is something almost ridiculous in the
manner in which the true swell dilates upon
such unimportant peculiarities as the texture or
the cleanliness of his new friend's hands.
The " horn" and the "stains of honest labour"
are the first things that strike him, for they would
be utterly shocking at his own dinner table. Desiring
to fraternise with the owner of the tough integument
in question, he hastens to make that which is to his
mind the greatest sacrifice, and shakes the corniferous
digits with exaggerated heartiness, believing that such
an act of condescension must go straight to the heart.
There could not be a greater mistake. What
the working man wants is not a momen-
tary contact between corns and diamonds,
but an exchange of ideas, a fellowship of mind.
Unless this is offered—and men like Lord SHAFTES-
BURY and Mr. HUGHES know how to offer it—all
attempts to make the two classes better acquainted
are fruitless. But let us not undervalue refinement.
It is that, as Dr. TEMPLE said, which has rendered
drunkenness, once the test of boon companionship,
a disgraceful vice. If this refinement were but
extended to the lower class, the same result
would follow. Of course there are aristocratic
drunkards now, and there would be work-
ing men drunkards then. But it is undeniable
that a public stigma is one of the best preventatives
against an evil habit. When working men are
admitted into real fellowship with professional men,
and when they understand that soberness is one of
the conditions of admission, there will be an increase
of sobriety among the lower class comparable to that
which has taken place among the upper. Unfor-
tunately the happy day when the two will meet on
equal terms is still far off, and Dr. TEMPLE himself,
by his presidency at the last annual meeting of the
United Kingdom Alliance, has shown that we must
not wait for that day, but take other measures to
check that which is at once the greatest national vice,
and the chief hindrance to national unity.

The remains of the late Colonel E. G. Hallewell,
Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sand-
hurst, were interred on Thursday afternoon, with
the usual military honours, at the College Ceme-
tery. The coffin having been placed on a gun car-
riage, drawn by six black horses, a procession was
formed, consisting of the cadets, with arms reversed,
the bands of the College, professors, staff-officers,
and the chief mourners. The deceased officer's
charger also accompanied, and as the procession
moved towards the place of interment the band
played the " Sicilian Mariner's Hymn." The pall-
bearers were Colonels Hamilton, Pocklington, Lacy,
Whitmore, Newdigate, and Stevens. Part of the
service was performed in the chapel, the Revs. E.
M. Rogers and 11. Parsons officiating; after which
the procession was reformed and proceeded to the
cemetery, the band playing " The Dead March in
5.,u1." The deceased, agreeable to his own strongly-
expressed wish, was buried in his uniform, and the
last religious rites having been performed the cere-
mony was brought to a close by the c:►dets firing
three volleys over the grave.

The very ext-nsive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for tha manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world- wido celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."

POLICE 1N:

'.—Thu Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUELTY TO A Poxv.—Frederick Davis, of No. 1, The
Grove, South Lambeth, was charged by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with cruelty to a
pony.
From the evidence it appeared that Mr. Wilkinson, of
Kennington-cross, veterinary surgeon, was passing
through Regent-street, and seeing the defendant driving
a pony, which was old, had two broken knees with some-
thing placed over them to prevent their condition being
noticed, and quite unfit for work, he spoke to George
Smith, an officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, who took him to Vine-street
police-station.
The defendant was remanded for a few days on his own
recognizance, being told that if he had the pony put out of
its misery he need not attend again.
SHAMMING MAD..--Thomas Spencer, a young man, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being a deserter from
the army.
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that seeing the prisoner yes-
terday morning about one o'clock, and knowing that he
was a deserter from the 94th, he told him that ho would
take him into custody for being a deserter. The prisoner
said it was all right, and that he would go with him, but
that he should never be a soldier, and that when he
got back to the regiment he intended to rretend to be daft
or mad, as he did not like soldiering.
Mr Tyrwhitt ordered the prisoner to be sent back to his
regiment in the usual manner.

.ITUALISM AT ST. ALBA24iS.

The hearing of the application in the case of "Martin
v. Mackonochie," to enforce the monition issued as an
Order in Council to the defendant after final judgment
had been given in the suit, was resumed on Saturday
having been adjourned from Thursday, before the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council. There were piesent the
Archbishop of York, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelms-
ford, Sir J. Colville, and Sir J. Napier.
The Rev. Mr. Mackonochie, whose address had been
interrupted at the last sitting, in order that he might have
time to produce affidavits contradicting the allegations in
the affidavits on the part of the promoters that he had
disobeyed the monition by continuing the practices of eie-
vetting the paten and chalice during' the prayer of conse-
cration used in the administration of the Holy Sacrament
and by kneeling and prostrating himself before the
consecrated elements, proceeded to contend that
ke had yielded " a fair obedience to a fair
interpretation of the monition." He was forbidden
to kneel, and he argued that he was not in the
habit of kneeling before the elements, but only of bending
the knee, which was a very different act. Before the suit
was decided he had been accustomed to rest on the ground
on both knees. That practice he had now discontinued,
and simply made use of genuflexions.

The Lord Chancellor : Do you contend that there is a
clear distinction between genuflexions and the act of
kneeling? _ _ .

Mr. Mackonochie : I do, my Lords. The rev. defendant
said he did not for a moment wish to conceal from their
lordships that the genuflexions he used were intended by
him to expressreverence. On the subject of the elevation
of the consecrated elements, he argued that all that the
judgment upon which the monition was founded ordered
was, that he should not recur to the practice which he had
followed but discontinued, of raising the paten and
chalice above his head. To that practice he had not
returned, but only elevated the paten and chalice in a suf-
ficient degree to obey the instruction of the Rubric to take
+hem into the hands.

Lord Chelmsford: You elevate them as high as, but not
above, your head?

. _
Mr. Mackonochie replied that that was so. The kind of
elevation now used was the same as that which he prac-
tised at the date the suit was commenced. With regard
to the use of candles, he denied that there were any candles
on the altar itself, and these, though burning during the
morning service, were extinguished before the commenc-
ment of the office for the administration of the Eucharist.
As stated in his affidavit he had no intention whatever of
disobeying the monition of their lordships, and could
not help thinking that the present proceedings were
vexatious.

Mr. Stephens Q.C., was heard in reply. In the course of
his arguments their lordships expressed a strong opinion that
as the origital articles specifically charged elevation of the
elements above the head, that only was in reality forbidden
by the monition. The articles originally charged any kind
of elevation, but they were reformed, and a particular
kind of elevation charged.
After deliberation, their lordships found that Mr.
Mackonochie had not disobeyed the monition in respect of
the use of lighted candles on the altar during the
celebration of the Holy Communion, nor had he dis-
obeyed it in respect of the elevation of the paten and chalice,
inasmuch as the monition specifically forbade him only
not to elevate them above his head. On the subject of
kneeling, their lordships found against Mr. ➢gackonochie.
They thought, however, that under the whole circum-
stances of the case, they were not called upon to accord
any further punishment to Mr. Mackonochie than to con-
demn him in the costs.