The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING ,APRIL 19, 1860.'

the public begins to cool down and the money to
keep the bantling alive is wanted they find the real
pinch of the matter. Other Peers have had their
weakness preyed on, other secretaries have used
their obstetric talent, new institutions undermine
older ones; yet there is "the Mission," " the
Asylum," " the Institution," there is its office, there
I are its officers ; expenditure is certain, receipts
seem problematical, as equal to meet it. Now comes
the resort to the forcing system; "individuals are
said to be ready with 100 if ten others will find the
same sum," &c. &c.
I can quite understand all this as natural to the
circumstances under which many institutions have
sprung into life, and the purposes for which they
exist ; it is lamentable, it is worse when large
religious societies have resort to equivocal means to
keep up their position. To me it is most deplorable
to see the shifts made to sustain a particular reli-
gious interest; whether it aims at the conversion
of heathen Jews, Catholics, at home or abroad,
Bible-dealing, tract-dealing, every truly good end
of religious economy, is in my eyes degraded by
being puffed and pushed by puffing as if it was the
cause of an antibilious pill or a hair-dye. When I
know, too, the large staff of well-paid officers whose
existence depends upon the success of this system,
I view it with the greater abhorrence.
It is well here to say, that some of the leviathan
religious societies draw large revenues from the
public by contributions which are scarcely to be
considered voluntary. Episcopal invitations and the
pressure of religious party feeling act as a powerful
system of something like exaction. There are cer-
tain societies which carry a well defined party flag.
Few clergymen have the courage to hold aloof from
" party ;' the bias of the human mind tends towards
it, religion has its Brooke's and Carlton and Reform
interest. The parish clergyman soon finds he must
collect for the episcopal Conservative, or the more
liberal and less purely ecclesiastical societies •, he
may find it difficult to avoid the importunity of the
very liberal mixed societies. One or more of them
have attained a position in the majority of parishes
which gives them a sort of income-tax authority. I
received from all parts of the country, from
men of all shades of opinion, proof how this
burden is now felt, how it for ever taxes their
pockets, and compels them to struggle with
their own parochical necessities that they may
yield to the claims of these four or five sturdy men-
dicants. I have known an organist's salary carried
off from a country parish to help the establishment
of a colonial bie.hopric, with a name half the parish
had never heard of. There are many poor clergy
who are reduced to use a painful system of begging
from their parishioners to find even a portion of
their school's expense, who are yet under a kind of
compulsion to have repeated " collections" for so-
cieties, the claims of which they are cons;dered quite
unequal to advocate, and therefore the expense of a
" deputation" must be met out of the funds.
As to the way the business of societies and insti-
tutions is but too often conducted I can scarcely
speak too strongly. The balance-sheets are most
unsatisfactory ; they are very often intentionally
delusive. Items are " clubbed" under " Miscella-
neous Expenses," or " Sundries." I have traced in
several the existence of a system of deliberate fraud.
These items, in fact, very often are used to conceal
" irregularity," to cover fraud ; to square a total
auditing is a matter not of inquisition, to see that
all is right, but to make all appear right. I have
some curious details as to the time really given to
"auditing" the annual accounts in some of the
large societies. This is, however, a matter which
some little time hence I hope to see made very clear
to the public. It must be reformed.
Some of the societies are simply large trading
firms, with utterly irresponsible partners dealing
with the money of others. They print, bind, ware-
house, export, sell wholesale and retail. They do
this on a most extensive scale ; their " life" seems
to depend upon showing how great a stock they can
each year dispose of The keenest mercantile in-
telligence fails, I find, to discover from their pub-
lished statements their real loss or profit, the real
value of the stock they possess at any one moment,
and yet they profess to give a yearly account of
their stewardship ! Bear in mind, a railway ac-
count may be, very often is—" cooked" to prove the
value of the concern—how it flourishes. Societies
and institutions always want to show need, need of
more capital ; they flourish with trumpets over the
past, they look with foreboding to the future, say-
ing—Give—give. We have purchased fields, we
' want labourers to dig, tools to dig with • we have
created an appetite for our wares, which craves in
too great a proportion even to our present noble
supply, &c.
The root of the evilis,—that charity, piety is clique
ridden. A few men by industry have monopolized
the working of these matters._ The long parade of
great names, lay and clerical, has become a mere
outward visible sign of no real inward, working con-
trolling power. It only needs that patrons, pre-
sidents, vice-presidents, noble and right rev. com-
mitteemen should be vigilant to require truth in
the reports, honesty in the accounts, and a revolu-
tion would be worked. Charity and piety would
then go their way less stained by the fraud of their
agents, less degraded in the bombast of their " Re-
ports."
The objects, I repeat, are excellent as the rule.
It is a thing for a nation to be proud of, to see her
nobility so directly proclaimed as the supporters,
originators, advocates of such vast, noble under-
takings. There is no reason why the financial sys-
tem of these great and good institutions should not
be so revised as to make expenditure clear, fraud
difficult. There is every reason why that which
should be .a centre of piety should not be a scene of
desperate temptation. I am coolly told in print that
good causes cannot be worked at a less expenditure
than 25 per cent. on income. I admit it if the pre-
sent extravagance in salaries, &c., is to continue. I
speak the experience of men who have been in the
thick of the battle as secretaries and " deputations."
" Let the public demand the reform, the societies
will give it ' • more will be done at less cost, and
f more will be freely given to do it." S. G. 0.
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THE LATE FIGHT FOR THE criAltr-

PIONSHIP.

In the account which appeared in our columns of
this contest we omitted to mention that the fight
lasted two hours and 20 minutes, it having com-
menced at 25 minutes past 7 and being concluded at
a quarter to 10. As some of the supporters of
Heenan have spread a rumour that the English
chimpion would have been defeated had the fight
been allowed to go on, we may mention on the
authority of the referee, that he clo-ed the con-
flict only in compliance with the wishes of the
American's friends. When the ring was broken
the referee was forced away, and was outside
the crowd round the combatants while the last
three or four rounds were fought. The friends of
Heenan insisted on his return to stop the fight,
claiming, in accardance with the rules of the ring,
that when the enclosure was broken into the com-
bat should cease. They therefore made a passage
for him to return to the men and stop them, which
he accordingly did, in spite of the wishes of Sayers's
supporters, who were confident of his winning in a
few minutes more. Yesterday Sayers went to the
office of the referee, at Bell's Life office, in the
Strand. He was recognised on entering, and an im-
mense crowd assembled to witness his departure, by
whom he was most vociferously cheered. Beyond
his nose and mouth being swollen and his lips cut,
he showed scarcely any marks of the desperate en-
counter he had passed through. His arm was bound
up and in a sling, for though.it turns out that none
of the bones were fractured, yet some of the tendons
were broken and the muscles so much contused and
injured that he is still unable to move his hand, or
use the limb at all. This injury he sustained in the
fourth round, in stopping one of the American's tre-
mendous blows, and an attempt which he made to
use it in one of the subsequent struggles gave him
such pain that it distressed him more than the blows
he Leceived from his antagonist. The knock-down
blows which he rec6ived at the commencement he
admits to have been dreadfully severe, but for the
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would certainly appear, from the slights marks of
punishment which he showed yesterday, and the
general vigour of his appearance, that he did not
over-estimate his powers in this respect. To the
proposal that the battle should be considered as
drawn, Sayers, we believe, strongly objects, and
expresses an ardent wish to meet his adversary
again, who he maintains shall never put
forward a claim for the English champion's belt
while he has the ability to defend it. Heenan's
left hand was very bad yesterday and much swollen'
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AN AMERICAN ACCOUNT.
(Front Frank. Leslie's Illustrated Taper.)
Round 37—The cries of police now became per-
fectly deafening frem Sayers' side; but Heenan
still looked neither right nor left, but only at his
man. He hit him once on the back as he was run-
ning to his corner, and as Sayers struck back and
missed, he seized him with his arm around his neck,

and held him for a minute in the air. Sayers, how-
ever, got up his hand and seized Heenan by the
cheek, and pulled at its sore and flabby folds most
painfully. This forced Heenan to lose his hold,
and Sayers slipped down.
Round 38—It was now plain from the noise
around Sayers' corner, that it was the determina-
tion of his party to bring the fight t o such a close
as would save Sayers -the belt ; but still Heenan
kept to his work, and Macdonald kept steering him
with judicious steadiness. He determined to fight
and to do nothing else- so long as he could get
Sayers to fight with him, and though the ring was
now on the point of being broken in, he went up to
his man and fought as manfully and Zlesperately as
at first. He hit Sayers as he pleased, and, finally
seizing him by the neck, he bent his head under
his arm and held him there against the ropes com-
pletely at his mercy. Left to himselle, Sayers must
have sunk helpless to the earth, incapable to re-
spond again to time, whereupon finding a desperate
crisis had arrived the adherents of the Champion-
ship actually took hold of Heenan's arms and while
they kicked and struck him, dragged the beaten
Champion from his hold.
Round 39—The confusion was now so great that
no appeals could possibly be heard, and the ring
being broken in by the friends of Sayers, at the same
moment the referee very improperly got up and re-
tired. Heenan, however, apprehending some new
artifice to prevent him from obtaining the belt he had
so fairly won, remained in the ring, and when time
was called went after Sayers again, through the
centre of the crowd, that now swarmed within the
inner ropes of the arena. Sayers was pushed up to-
wards him, but he easily hit him down or pursued
him to the corner among his seconds, as a man
would drive a boy.
In the 40th and 41st rounds this dishonourable
treatment was repeated, Sayers neither time being
brought up until Heenan presented himself before
him and demanded he should come out and fight.
Finally, when he went up the last time for
Round 42, finding that though Sayers could not,
or would not, rise from his seat in his corner, and his
seconds refused to award him the victory that be-
longed to him, by throwing. up the sponge, he ad-
vanced upon him in the midst of his seconds and
struck him where he sat. Being struck in return
by some one else in that corner he turned upon that
other party, and, in his just indignation at the out-
rageous manner in which the object of his ambition
had been dishonourably wrested from him, he opened
a free fight against them all. His friends, however,
interfered, and carried him back to his corner, from
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