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

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The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last Evening. was
published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

IMPERIAL .PAItLI A MEN

HOUSE. OF LORDS—Tilts EVENING
The LORD CitANcELLurt took his he.lt ou the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The attendance of " strargers" was by no moans as great
as on the two former evenings, but the galleries on either
side of the house were fully occupied by ladies. There
seems to be some uncertainty as to the division taking
place to-night owing to the great number cf peers who
have expressed their desire of speaking on the
subject of the Irish Church. Monday night is Low
generally spoken of as the time fixed for the determina-
tion of the great questiou whether the or shall
nut be real a second time.
THE IRISH CHURCH RILL.
A great many petitions having been presented against
the bill, the adjourned debate was resumed by
The Bishop of LICHFIELD, who, however, having
made a few remarks, gave way in favour of
Earl RUSE ELL, who said ho had on other occasions
suggested that various courses might be taken with regard
to the position of the Irish Church until public opinion
should be ripe for the discussion of the matter. He re-
joiced, however, that the time had arrived, and that the
task had been taken up by a statesman of qninent ability,
and he must say that all the arguments he had heard in
opposition to the bill they were now asked to read a second
time were remarkable only fur their weakness. He thonght
it was altogether giving up the argument in passing by
the position of the Church as regarded the feelings, of the
great majority of the Irish people. Mr. Grattan had in one
of his great speeches said that an Established Church
ought to be the religion of the majority of tie people, and
although he did not advocate the disestablishment of the
Church as it then existed in Ireland, yet he thought it but
fair that a large endowment should be made to the Catho
lies, and in that way he would secure equality. Ho felt that
such a proposition would not meet with general-approval
now, and that being so the next thing it became their duty
to do was to settle a matter which had been so long a sub-
ject of bitterness and heartburning in the most just and
equitable way possible. The bill now under consideration
he thought one that was well calculated to effect the object
in view, notwithstanding all that volunteer firing which
had taken place, irrespective of the word of command
being given by the commanding officer. (Laughter.)
That the Roman Catholic Church should be largely en-
dowed was the desire of Mr. Pitt ; and he had before him
a portion of the correspondence, iu which Lord Castlereagh
took part, in which such a step was almost promised at
the tune of the passing of the Act of Union; and the re-
sult of such a feeling in favour of the Catholics the Irish
Government left nothing undone which could induCe
the Roman Catholics to assent to the Act of Union.
Had Mr. Pitt lived he thought the promise made at the
passing of the Union would have been carried out. It
had been said, although he thought now rather bate in
the day, that concurrent endowment would have been
better rather than to bring about equa:ity by the
d!s:ndowlnent of the Church in Ireland, but he had ntany
years ago given Lis support to every measure proposed
for the improvem, nt of the c. edition of his Catholic
follow-s ul‘j c:s, and he should not now falter
at giving his undeciLd supprt to that in-a,ure, which
was but a wise au I comprehensive a loptiou of the p: in-
ciples of Mr. P;tt., Mr. Canning, a. d Sir 11. Peel.
. SPEARING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tms Diy.
Th.: SPEAKER took the chair at 2 o'clock.
THE BANKRUPTCY BILL.

The house then again wont hitt) committee on this bill,
to wltich there yet remains innumerable amendments to

be moval.

The principal topic of discussion to-day was the subject
of the position of the officials of the Bankruptcy Court, in
the event of the passing of the bill, with respect to their
retiring salaries. Au amendment was moved to test the
feeling of the house on this :mint, it, in effect, declaring
that all the officials should retire upon their full salaries.
The Government opposed the proposition being accepted
as a general rule, but it was intimated that there might,
and possibly would, be cases in which the retirement
ould be on full salary. The course suggested was that
the subject should be postponed until Tuesday next, dur-
ing which time the matter could be fully considered and
provided for, the,Governmout not feeling disposed to accept
the proposition, even after words providing for the retir-
ing officers accepting " other duties," if found necessary.
The discussion was carried on up to the hour at which
the sitting was suspended.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

DOWNING-S'PHEET, JUNE 17

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Cliarb,s Cameron
Leas, Esq., to be Civil CUtionanolant of Accra, in her Ma-
jesty's settlement on the Gold Coast. on the W.:stern Coast
.
of A:rie t.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE 15.
•

VlMain Patrick, Esq., has this day been promoted t) the
rank of Staff Surgeon in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority
of June 9, 1669.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, June 17.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figur3s of the previous account:—

DEBTOR.

June 17. June 10.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight 37,263,099 19 38,055,343 02
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 173,061,889 25 172,081,781 29
Current accounts, Paris 843,648,410 44 355,612,964 56
Do. branch banks 49,9 ?5, 513 — 49,593,612 -
Dividends payable 624,567 640,319 -
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six mouths
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

933,790 85

-933,790 85

- -
8,180,039 19 8,253,109 62

Total
CREDITOR.
Jun• 17. June 10.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

206,919 25

126,111 49

due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 306,199,115;67 324,051,843 63
Do. branch banks 244,026,373 242,469,391
Advances on deposit of

10,008,600

6,083,680