The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-24 00:00:00

ME I ROPOLITAN G OSSlP—saturda,

The Irish Church crisis grows serious. Lord Derby is
up to this Moment resolutely determined to oppose the
Government measure. The more moderate and cautious
Conservatives, with Lord Cairns at their head, had
resolved to let the bill go into committee and " amend "
it. To this course the majority of the bishops were
prepared to assent. But this faint-heartedness has
aroused Prince Rupert's wrath ; he threatened all kinds
of dire things, and a general break up of the Conservative
party in the Upper House was imminent, when, in order
to avoid that danger, the Cairns section gave way.
It is now understood that unless some unforeseen
event should occur, the Conservative party will as a
whole incur the far greater danger of opposing the bill on
the second reading. In fact, the tactics have been entirely
altered within the last few hours. Lord Colville, the
Conservative " Whipper-in "in the Upper House, has
received instructions to make a vigorous whip. The
bishops will now vote against the second reading, and it
is expected that the bill will be thrown out by a large
majority. In order to fortify themselves in this serious
step, meetings are to be organised in all parts of the
country, in order to condemn the bill, and we must look
out for a period of political agitation ou both sides of St.
George's Channel which will exceed the most tumultuous
days of 1806.
This determination involves such serious consequences
that even now I cannot believe that wiser counsels
will not prevail. The flooding of the House with the new
Liberal peers, who:n Mr. Gladstone has full power to
create, is but a small matter compared with the irritation
which will be produced by the useless opposition to the
inevitable, and by the delay in all other legisla-
tion which that opposition will cause. Lord Derby is
now 70 years old. His physical temperament
and constant illness have, undoubtedly, affected his
judgment. The counsels of younger and more prudent men
ought to weigh far more with the party than the advice
of a peer who at his best time was always excessively rash.
It was Lord Derby, for instance, who left Sir It. Peel's
Administration, in December 1845, rather than consent
to a temporary suspension of the corn laws, even though
famine was • staring us in the face. It was Lord Derby
who made that celebrated speech on the eve of the
election of 1865 about " muzzling the Catholics." It was
Lord Derby who, in 1867, declared that he and his party
had taken a leap in the dark in order to dish the Whigs.
These repeated indiscretions shew how little trustworthy
his judgment is. He is an orator of the first class, but he
never been a statesman, and it is too late for him to
be accepted as such now.
Mr. Forster's speech upon the American question is very
important. It is the first Ministerial expression of opinion
upon Mr. Sumner's proposals, and it is as condemnatory of
them as anything that could be said by Mr. Laird or Mr.
Roebuck would be, although, of course, Mr. Forster
adopted very different language from theirs. The
unanimity with which the English journals have
repudiated Mr. Sumner's claims,—even journals,
for instance, like the Daily News and the Star, which
always supported the North shews that there is
not the least chance of those claims being accepted or enter-
tained. Mr. Motley will, if he moots the matter at all,
be told this very plainly. It is "not unlikely that directly
after the recess some independent member will, with the
privity and consent of the Government, ask for information
on the matter. In fact, Sir Henry Bulwer has for some
time past had a question down upon the notice-paper, and
he deferred it until Mr. Motley's arrival, at the request of
the Government. If Sir Henry should not put his question,
it is probable that Mr. Horsman will ask for information.
That the Sumner claims are not at all likely to be pressed
atpresent, is deducible from the fact that Admiral
Porter, secretary to the United States Navy, has reported to
his Government that. there are few powerful ships in the
American Navy fit for a cruise, and none calculated to
contend against the ironclads of England. He asserts even
that American squadrons could not keep the sea in the
event of a war.

I believe that the report that the Queen has consented
to give up to the Prince of Wales a portion of her income
in consideration of his exercising many important State
duties is well-founded. The Prince has for some time
past found his income insufficient. Several times feelers
have been put forth respecting an increased grant to the
Prince by the nation, but the idea was so ill-received that
no Minister has ventured to propose it to Parliament.
Certainly the present Ministry was not likely to do so,
and so an arrangement has been made which had better
have been effected five years ago. This might have pre-
vented a good deal of unpleasantness in the Duchy of
Cornwall, if nowhere else.

It is generally rumoured that the Duke of Cambridge
is about to retire from the management of the Patriotic
Fund. It is not surprising that. his Royal Highness
should object to have his name associated with the mis-
management which has prevailed with regard to that in-
stitution.

Concerning another duke, not royal, there are the most
serious rumours. He has for some time past been cele-
brated as a "plunger "of the first claF,s. For some time
past the duns have been pressing, him sore, as they had
previously pressed his brothers. If he does not appear in
the same non-illustrious court as they, it will be because
his wife is a daughter of a man who was one of the richest
merchants in England. She, having her property settled
upon her, very wisely refuses to pay her husband's sport-
ing, debts. So in all probability his stud will be sold, and
a well-known jockey's uniform will be missed on the
Epsom Downs this week. A sad ending, this, for the son
of one who was an eminent statesman, and who, had he
lived, might even have been Prime Minister.
While one peer
star, which is classical for going to the dogs, another of
is going to re-establish himself by marry-
ing a girl of the middle classes with -z-zu,ouu-a-r....--
true that he has been a co-respondent in the Divorce Court,
but she condones that for the sake of a coronet.

I have, through the kindness of Messrs. Chapman and
Hall, been favoured with a copy of Mr. Forster's life of
my old friend Walter Savage Landor. As yet I have
had time only to dip into its pages. It is a bulky work
of more than 1,100 pages, but evidently full of interest.
It has been written, I am sorry to say, during a good
deal of bodily suffering on the part of the author.
I may mention that Mr. Stopford Brooke bas been
prevailed upon to publish a volume of his ser-
mons. Mentioning the matter to bim some time ago,
I found him rather reluctant ; but that reluctance has
happily been overcome, and the public will shortly have
an opportunity of reading sermons in many respects as
remarkable as those of Robertson, of Brighton, Mr.
Brooke's ideal theologian. I am told that Mr. Disraeli,
disgusted with politics, is now taking up his pen again,
and is engaged on some literary work. Mr. Mill is going
to pay a visit to Russia, where his" Political Economy" is
much read. Mr. Deutsch, the author of the Quarterly
article on the Talmud, has just returned from the East,
and has made some most important discoveries at Jeru-
salem.

The Round Table records with deep sorrow the
untimely death of Mr. Charles B. Seymour, for some years
past the musical and dramatic editor of the New York
Tunes. Mr. Seymour expired on Sunday, the 2d inst., at
his home in Union-square, of what is called rheumatism
of the brain. He was a young man still—not *yet forty
—having been born in London, December 13, 1829, and
was thus cut off in the prime of his usefulness.
His singular fitness for the position he filled, his scho-
larship, taste, and refinement, added to his kindliness of
heart and unvarying gentleness of manner, were highly
appreciated, and his death leaves a void not easily or
lightly to be filled. The funeral took place from Grace
Church on Wednesdiy, and was numerously attended.
Mr. Seymour's case furnishes another example of writing
men succumbing to diseases of the brain—a fresh warning
against overwork of a sort perhaps more dangerous than
any other. _ _

Walter Phillips, night operator in the office of
the Western Union Telegraph Company at Providence,
Rhode Island, has received a letter from Professor Morse
with a gold pencil case and pen, "as a token of admira-
tion for his masterly performance of recording 2,731*
words in one hour" Phillips is said to be the most rapid
telegraph receiver in America.
The Princess of Wales furnishes the latest in-
stance of history repeating itself. She is said to have re-
turned from the East with SICO,OOO worth of jewels of
gold and jewels of silver, for she found favour in Egypt
and despoiled the Egyptians. One of the first fruits of
tho visit of the Prince of Wales to Paris is a return visit
from the Prince Imperial.
Cyrus W. Field apologised for bis absence at the
53d anniversary meeting of the Peace Society last Tues-
day, where it was announced he would speak. Ho is ex-
pected to leave England for New York next Tuesday. A
letter was also read at the meeting from the Hon. John
Jay, regretting that his instructions precluded his attend-
ance, as United States Ambassadors could only speak in
public in the countries to which they aro accredited.
I ieu
ed,..Mr.
Jar left for Paris on Tuesday evening, en route for na,
but by way of Berlin, where he is to meet Mr. Bancroft.
His first diplomatic work with Austria will probably be
the negotiation of a na uralization treaty similar to that
concluded with the United States by the North German
Confederation. Hopes are entertained that an emigration
from some provinces of the Empire will follow such a
treaty.
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