The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-26 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON; - ONDAY EVENINGi- - JULY 26, 1869

whether ecclesiastical or secular. Nevertheless, who
would not sooner think of Keble, vicar of -llursley, than
as a pluralist, dying, like Archdeacon Croft, after having
taken nearly £200,000 out of the Church?

The article on "The Argument of Design" is suggested
by Darwin's theory of selection, which the reviewer does
not so much controvert as slew to be imperfect. As ho
says, he has supposed the truth of the theory in order to
extort from it the confession that design alone can supply
an imperative need in its structure, and fill up a chasm at
its very foundation, which otherwise paralyses and inca-
pacitates it at the very outset as a working hypothesis.
" The House of Cond6" is based upon the Due d'Aumale's
book which, going to press in 1863, has only just now
been permitted by Napoleon 111. to see the light. The
reviewer can find absolutely nothing in the book to explain
why the Emperor should have kept it back these six
years. Surely the reviewer has forgotten that the last of
the Condes was executed by the first of the Bonaparte,.
What wonder if Napoleon 111. disliked to revive the
memory of the Duc d'Enghien, whom Napoleon I. shot in
the moat of Vincennes. The article on the Royal Engi-
neers and Permanent Fortifications is very interesting
and very clever. The writer of it backs up Sir Francis
Head in his support of a corps which has only begun to
receive the recognition due to its merits ; only begun—for
will it be believed that the first officer to enter Magdala
and one of the only two officers who were wounded, wae
the only commanding officer who was denied the C. 8.?
This was done because he did not belong to what is, by
an absurd and lying theory, exclusively the fighting
section of the army. But this is all of a piece with the
notions which still prevail both at the War Office and at
the Horse Guards. In spite of the altered mode of warfare,
we still adhere to our old plan of fighting in the open
and there little doubt that if we were to go to war now
we should be involved in some great disaster through the
wholesale slaughter of our troops, who, in spite of the fact
that breechloaders have converted a battle into a
battue, we should deem degraded by fighting behind
ramparts. At a time when the bill for our fortifications is
becoming heavier and heavier, it is satisfactory to be told
that they are after all much cheaper than soldiers. The
reviewer reckons that the land defences when finished
will cost 31 millions, which, at five per cent., makes an
annual charge of £175,000. This sum represents the pay
of only 2,200 soldiers. But if these fortifications did not
exist we should require 100,000 or 150,000 additional men,
so that the saving is enormous. The value of the
article entitled "The Truth about Ireland" may
be estimated when I mention that the writer
supposes " concurrent endowment" to be a settled

theory, instead of being hopelessly dead and buried. The
other articles I must merely mention ; the subjects are
"The Malay Archipelago" and "Lucan."

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

THE. PASSAGE OF THE BILL.

The great measure of the session has passed, and
opponents, agreeing to differ as to the principles
involved in the policy which it inaugurates, are now
engaged in the pleasant task of congratulating one
another. Conservatives—though their organs in
the press hardly confess so much—are happy that a
subject on which they must have been defeated
eventually has been removed from the region of
contention ; Liberals rejoice in their success in the
struggle, and everybody is glad that a question dis-
cussed as this has been to most wearisome monotony
will now for a time be laid at rest. Even Mr. Charley,
who was sent to overthrow the Premier, was paying
him compliments on Friday; and the Standard, with
all its dislike of the Prime Minister, catches the in-
fection, and has words of congratulation to Mr. Glad-
stone for his speech. The Liberal papers, on the
other hand, are giving their thanks to Lord Cairns
for what he has done. For the time we have a
happy family ; harmony and love, peace and quiet-
ness have succeeded to the strife, anger, excitement,
and agitation which so recently ruled the hour.
But amidst these congratulations there is a
cry of discontent sent forth from the Dublin
Erening Mad. Our contemporary, heading a leader
with the monosyllable " Sold ! " declares that Lord
Cairns has sold the Church. Had Lord Salisbury
been the negotiator, the Mail thinks a great
'opportunity would not have been thus miserably
sacrificed ; but " Lord Cairns, who thrust himself
into the position of parliamentaire, as it appears
without authority from any one, simply gave in,
and passed the bill." The measure is pro-
nounced " hard-fisted, and rankly unjust" as
when it left the Commons. Our contemporary
cannot help giving a parting fling to the Con-
servative party for their conduct during the progress
of the bill. It says:—
"The political result of the contemptible transaction of
Thursday we hail with entire satisfaction. It puts an
end, we trust, for ever to the delusion under which the
Protestants of Ireland have now for more than seventy
years allowed themselves to be dragged at the tail of an
English Tory and Jacobite faction. The natural alliance of
the English settlers in this country was ever with the Whigs
of England. From the epoch of the Great Rebellion, through
the Great Revolution, through the short independent life
of Ireland front 'B2 down to the Union, it subsisted. The
new and fatal league then formed with the Tories of Eng.
land was ever disastrous to Ireland as a nation—to Pro-
testant Ireland as an English military colony. It is now,
we trust, broken, never to be renewed. The betrayal of
the Irish Church was conceived by the Ritualist Eng-
lish faction. The first effective movement was made
in it by Mr. Disraeli : it has been consummated by Lord
Cairns."

The Daily News points out that the Trish Church

Itustionbas been Se• tied Within n...ther more tbau two

y enrs of Earl Russell's moving for a R oyal Commission
of Inquiry. On June .25, 1867, the then leader of the
Opposition in the House of Lords asked the Peers to
agree to an address of a commission which might
furnish " full and accurate information as to the nature
and amount of the property and revenues of the
Established Church in Ireland, with a view to their
more productive management, and to their more
equitable application for the benefit of the Irish
people." The resolution in this form was lost by a
majority of :30 to 38, but another was adopted, pray-
ing simply for the appointment of a commission.

tiOn Of tT4TiShops- of -Capetown -and"NataL 'Three
suits has this question given rise to, and in none
has the leading point —the alleged heresy of Pr.
Colenso—been raised. Litigation cannot settle the
merits of the case until this point has been disposed of.
" We believe it is the wish of both to obtain, if pos-
sible, a judicial decision on the great question of
'heresy or no heresy ; ' and it certainly appears
useless to continue legal proceedings on minor
issues until that decision has been definitively
arrived at."

Francisco was assailed with stones, Deaten wren crave, ems
covered with mud, amid the loud applause of the refined
citizens who ga. bored round. There was no provocation
given, nor could any redress be obtained. The New
York papers say these disgraceful scenes are of constant
occurrence.