The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-30 00:00:00

EXTR .CTS FROM 1'3E7.11-CIL

EX Ftrifo DARE LIICEM.—People have been writing to
the Times of the appearance of fire-flies in Kent, and
asking how they are to be accounted for. Quite naturally.
What should come of the "Kentish fire" of excited
Irish Church partisans, hut Kentish fire-flies?

A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.—Ghost of Queen Eliza-
beth (to Queen Victoria, reading Irish Church Bill) :
"Agreed, have they? Ode boddikins ! Gads my life,
and marry come up, sweetheart! In my time I'd
have knocked all their addlepates together till they had
agreed !"
" NOBLESSE OBLIGE !"—Stodge (in answer to the
reproachful look of his cabman) : "Well, it's your right
fare ; you know that as well as I do !" Cabby "Oh !
which I'm well aware o' that, sir ! But—(' more in sorrow
than in anger')—an' you a Artis', sir !!" (Gets another
shilling.)
Mu% P. ON THE IRISH CHIIIICH.—Mrs. Partington
says she cannot think Mr. Gladstone was polite in calling
the Irish bishops panthers, out of some Latin book. If he
had said leopards, when he was making 'em change their
spots, and go from one spot to another, the delusion might
have been clearer. But she disapproves of the whole
scream of sectarianising the surplice, which ought not to
be on a lay figure.

MR. PUNCH'S PROTEST AGAINST THE
PASSING THE IRISH CHURCH BILL.

Mr. Punch, for himself and all other Journalists,
protests—.

1. Because this bringing the affair to a tame compromise
is an injury to himself and those whom he has named,
inasmuch as it Eliminates a variety of very good words,
as Crisis, Antagonistic, Complication, Constitutionalism,
Sacerdotalism, Vituperative, Demonstration, Commuta-
tion, Disestablishment, Disendowment, and other valuable
polysyllables, and the weather is too hot for the Crystallisa-
tion of new ideas.

2. Because he, personally, is done out of an awful lot
of effective cartoons, which would have been supplied by
a collision, particularly a view of Beales marching upon
the House of Lords, and one of Mr. Disraeli demanding
the impeachment of Mr. Bright for bad Latin.
3. Because, though he never believed in a crisis, a
great many able penmen have insisted there was one, and
they are brought to open shame by the ridiculous business
habits of Englishmen.
4. Because we shall all be deprived of the daily satisfac-
tion of seeing the House of Commons well pitched into by
the Standard, as Atheists, Dissenters, and Robbers, that
estimable journal having actually calmed down, on the
morning after the arrangement, and being able to utter
nothing stronger than the mild complaint that " fidelity to
principle has been supplanted by a dog-like subservience to
a man. We see the result of this in that monotonous as-
semblage of dumb-foundered mutes which calls itself the
Liberal party, and which knows no higher line of duty than
to vote as Mr. Glyn directs, and kotow to Mr. Gladstone
and Mr. Bright. The policy which has reduced the
Ministerial ranks to that perfection of discipline exhibited
in a school presided over by a flogging usher, has knocked
out the brains of the party, and substituted for an assem-
blage of thinking men a fortuitous concourse of stilted
mediocrities, whose snot d'ordre is to vote as they are told,
and yell down the Opposition speakers."

5. Because English people were learning something
about the Geography of Ireland, and several accomplished
persons had been known to speak with comparative exac•
titude as to the relative positions of Dublin and Galway,
Cork and Coleraine, and had the debates lasted another
year there is reason to believe that most people would
have had a distinct notion of the situation of the four
provinces.
6. Because the passing the bill is a new evidence of the
tyranny of England towards Ireland. The former, having
ever been a plunderer of the latter, now robs her of her
last grievance.
7. Because Parliament will now have an excuse for
addressing itself to trumpery topics like Education,
Pauperism, Emigration, Sanatory Regulation, Crime,
Taxation, and the like,which are exceedingly dull themes,
and which offer no points for fiery orators or sparkling
wits.

8. Because he did not want to go out of town, and
hoped for an autumn session as an excuse for sticking to
his club, whereas now he must go and be bored with
scenery, bad cooking, and dear lodging at some seaside
place.
9. Because he hates Papists.

10. Because he hates Protestants.

11. Because he hates everybody, and means to, until
the weather permits him to wear clothes. PUNCH.

Professor Plumptre is to get the rectory of Pluck-
ley, vacant by the election of Dr. Ashton Oxenden to the
Lishopric of Montreal.

The death is announced of Vice - Almiral
Edwin Ludlow Rich. lie was born in 1792. lie
entered the navy at an early age, and having distinguished
himself became captain in 1841. He had retired from active
service after gaining several medals.

A return of the deposits, &c., of the savings banks
of tho Unitrd Kingdom has just been published.
In England there were, in 1868, 194 banks, with £30,386,000
deposits; in %Vales, 24 tanks, with £984,000; and in Scot-
land, 52 banks, with £3,219,000.

The lamentable strike in the Worcestershire nail
trade continues to extend throughout the villages lying be-
tween Bromrgrove and Dudley, and the serious proportions
which the dispute is now assuming are beginning to excite
some apprehension in the district.

A sad accident occurred in Liverpool on Wednesday.
Eight labourers were engaged in demolishing a house in
Everton, when the flooring of the room gave way, and five
of the men, falling with the debris, were so seriously injured
that in two or three cases a fatal result is anticipated.

An idle rumour was in circulation in Birmingham
cn Wednesday that Mr. Bright was seriously ill, andsomo Tor-
sions went so far as to allege that the right hon. gentleman
had suddenly died. Theßirmingham Post is able to say that
both reports ere entirely false.

The litigation in the case of the Duke of New-
castle is drawing to a close. The interpleador suit of Glad-
stone and Lord De Tabley v. radwick as to property at
Clamber seized under a bill of sale, has Leen turned into a
special caso, and will be decided at Westminster after the
long vacation. The application for an adjudication in bank-
ruptcy is still pending.

A curious instance of incaution has just occurred
at trio Middlesex Sessions. A juryman named Tuckfield
took into court with him a bag containing watches and
money of the value of £l5O, which he placed under a seat.
On the rising of the Court he found the bag where ho had
placed it, but its valuable contents had disappeared. Ne-
thirg yf t has been discovered to indicate the direction in
which the property has gone.

A billsticker in Limerick, while posting placards on
Thursday relative to the amnesty meeting to be held in that
city next Sunday, was arrested by the police and detained
for about an hour at one of the constabulary barracks.
The plrcards were in the meantime submitted to a local
magistrate, on whose advice the prisoner was liberated.
Tho matter has been takon up by the local amnesty
committee, and legal proceedings against the police aro
threatened.

On Wednesday the Liberals of Hull celebrated the
return of Messrs. Clay and Norwocd to Parliament by a
great demonstration at the Rifle Barracks. Over 2,000 per-
sons took tea together, and the borough members after-
wards addressed a much larger assembly. In his speech
Mr. Clay said that, from the evidence given before the
Parliamentary and Municiral Election Committee, he was
more strongly than ever of opinion that the ballot would
become the law of the land, and that the next election
would be conducted under it. Votes of confidence were
enthusiastically agreed to.

A man, giving the name of Burton, has been com-
mitted for trial by the Hertford magistrates on two charges
of obtaining money and goods by false pretonces. Prisoner,
in oompany with a London cabman, went to Hatfield House,
the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury, and began to
prowl about the corridors and passages. They shortly
afterwards left, but were taken into custody, when it
was discovered that Burton had gone to a Bertford
ironmonger, under the pretence that be was one of Lord
Salisbury's gamekeepers,
and bad endeavoured to obtain a
garden roller and a mowing machine. Ile also obtained
ss. from a ragway official on a similar pretence, besides
fleecing a gentleman in Piccadilly of 10s., by saying ho was
a park-keeper to Lord Salisbury. Prisoner asked to be ad-
mitted to bail, saying Lord Dudley Ward would be surety
for him. The other man was discharged, on its being proved
that he was a person of good character.
TIIE BRITISII MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. —At
the second general meeting of the British Medical
Association, Sir William Jenner delivered an address on
Medicine. Many, he remarked, were sceptical as to the value
of medicine as an art, and especially as to the remedial
power of drugs.
For his own part, extended knowledge
dud accumulated experience had only increased his con.
idence in the remedial powers of his art. The mode of
xplaining certain effects in curative medicine might be
Langed, but not the facts themselves. Sir %V,
Telmer then referred to many of the departments
in which medical science had made the greatest
advances, and alluded to a theory in regard to tho treat.
meet of diseases of the heart, now generally accepted,
which, when first made at the Pathological Society, was
received with shouts of laughter, He also remarked on
the great gain which modern physicians had derived from
the use of the microscope, And t 9 the Welk Ai-11,0 fr9na
, .
the use of eAmsthetice. _

THE NO- 1712VGIIAM ELECTION PETITION

The proceedings in this petition (against the return 0
Mr. C. Seely) began on Thursday. The proceedings
promise to be nearly as protracted as those at any former
inquiry into the doings of the "lambs." The unsuccessful
candidate at the last election was Mr. D. Seymour, Q. 0.?,
but he does not claim the seat.

The case for the petitioners was opened by Mr. Serjeant
Parry. The petitioners represented, the learned counsel
said, 8,000 working men who had subscribed to defray
the cost of the petition. The constituency WO
over 13,000, and more than 9,000 voted. Mr. Seely
had a majority of 110 over Mr. Seymour. 11°
alleged an organised, paid, and planned system of terror,
whereby voters for Seymour were kept from the poll. A
lot of " lambs " had been hired to attack and obstruct
Seymour's voters. They were paid ss. each, and had ale.
After the learned counsel's opening,, voters were called
to prove payment as " lambs."