The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-01 00:00:00

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE
EVERY EVENING.
Mdlle. DUVERGER.—M. BRINDEAU.
THIS EVENING, (Friday), and To-morrow (Saturday),
Ordre du Spectacle :
LES FEMMES QUI PLEURENT.
LE CHEVEU BLANC.
UN CAPRICE.
LA FEMME AUX CEUFS D'OR.
Orchestra Stalls, 78. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, 55.; Pit, 2s
Gallery, is.

Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.
Doors open at half-past 7.
On Monday, June 4, first representation of "La Tentation

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. WAI. BATTY.
Powerful Attraction for the Holidays. Two more Grand
Mid-day Performances during the Whitsan Holidays, 'viz.—
TO-MORROW, Thursday, the 31st May, and Saturday, June
2d. The Entertainments will consist of a Recherché Display
of Equestrian Performances and a Light pleasing Drama-
tic Piece ; commencing each day at Two o'Clock.

THIS EVENING,
The Grand Hippo -Drama, " THE HISTORY OF A FLAG."
Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by the most
talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the World.
Concluding with a Laughable Farce.

The magnificent Chandeliers manufactured by Messrs. De
fries and Sons, Houndsditch.
Door s open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Boa-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA,
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls, Hall, 6d.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield.
The AFRICAN OPERA T.tOUPE, their first appearance
since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFOrtMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

CONCERTS.-

THE WEATHER.---Sux OFFICE, JUNE 1, MO.

THERMOMETER, TN TIIE SHADE.
' 65—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.71.
WIND—S.W.; gusty, and fine weather.

HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1860.

It would be difficult even for the Chinese them-
selves to surpass the insolence with which the
ultimatum of the British Government has been
rejected. There cannot any longer now be one
solitary doubt remaining as to .the course that
ought to be •pursued by the Western Allies in
regard to a race which has thus flagrantly violated
all international law. The memorable treaty
solemnly ratified a year or two since has been now
coolly ignored by one of the contracting parties as
though the said treaty had never been in existence.
The engagements formerly entered into between
the Chinese Plenipotentiaries on the one part, and
the English and French Plenipotentiaries on the
other, have been cavalierly set aside by the Asiatic
authorities of whom the former negotiators were
the acknowledged representatives—set aside not by
a stroke of the pen merely, but in the first
instance by the murderous discharge of a
treacherous and dastardly ambuscade. Turpi-
tude mere heinous than this has never before
characterised the acts of any Power assuming to
itself in any way a character for civilisation.
It is advisable to bear especially in mind what
are the demands contained in the British ultimatum,
which have now been peremptorily rejected by the
Chinese. And then to recognise distinctly the
insulting arrogance characterising the manner of
their rejection. The despatch, dated 9th April,
1860, written from Shangliae by Mr. BRUCE, as
her "Britannic MAJESTY'S Ainbassador, addressed
to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
laid by Lord Sous RUSSELL upon the table of the
House of Commons last evening, enumerates suc-
cinctly, under three heads, what it really is that
the Chinese reply to the British ultimatum refuses
to do.
First of all, Mr. BRUCE tells us " It refuses any
apology or expression of regret for the treacherous
conduct at the mouth of the Peiho last year. Se-
condly, It refuses permission to ascend the Tien-
tsin river, and directs me to proceed, not to Pekin,
but to Peh•tang, there to await the exchange of
ratifications; stating that if I attempt to go by But when we haveput our hands into our pockets
way of Taku, the officer in charge of the forts will to relieve any distressed individual or family,
be called on to act. Thirdly, It refuses to restore whose wants admit of no delay, our next question is
the guns or ships abandoned at the mouth of the what was the cause of the distress, and what is
river, or to consider the' payment of an :n- the remedy ? One personal and obvious cause
d2nanity." Having done all which categorically strikes the reader at once. We read of large
and peremptorily in the way of distinct denial families of children where the applicant seems to
or rejection the reply goes on, fourthly, to have had but the most limited means. Almost at
refer Mr. BRUCE " authoritatively (he writes) to the beginning we find an incumbent with an income
the regulations laid down for the reception of the of under £lOO a-year, in "heavy affliction," and
American mission last year, appearing to hint at with seven children. The next, salary not men-
the same time that these may be in some degree tioned, wants clothing for his wife and children,
modified in discussion with Ho." Her MAJESTY'S for want of which they cannot attend divine service
ambassador here adding immediately that, "Its —the clergyman's family through poverty cannot
most important instruction to Ho, however, is, that go to Church ! A "domestic chaplain to a Lord"
before I proceed to the north, he is to consider what has for five months been without a curacy, and
parts of the treaty are to be brought into operation without means of support for a wife and child.
and what parts will require compromise or modift- I Another, with eight children, asks for 'clothing.
cation." Now, the mere fact of these refusals of all Another incumbent, income under £lOO a-year,
apology or compensation is surely_ quite sufficient enjoys the burdensome blessing of seven children,
of itself in the way of provccation—particularly five of them boys, and so on of "startling facts" by,
when that fact is followed up, forthwith, by the score. Now, we certainly are no advocates for
the intimation that we may yet, if we please to do the celibacy of the clergy, but we may ask this
so, eat humble pie with exemplary meekness, as we class to exercise ordinary prudence. If incumbents
all know was actually done last year by the United or curates on £4O, or under £lOO a-year, will marry.
States' ambassadorial representative. But it is a lady without any more resources than themselves
the manner,'above all, in which these refusal; are-1 for maintaining a family, nothing on earth , can
expressed that imparts the sting and the poison of i save them from the workhouse or charity. The
the sting to the provocation. For the instant ap- shopmen or clerks with whom, in point of income,

Mr. JERVIS indignantly compares his suffering
brethren, are not, as a class, guilty of the impru-
dence of attempting to keep house on salaries
which barely keeps respectable clothes on their
backs. We are surely entitled, with Mr. JERVIS'
pamphlet before us, to warn the curates and petty
incumbents still unencumbered, to look before they
leap. If the young Rev, on his £4O or £lOO
a year, has not taken the fatal step, however trying
it may be to wait, however cruel to check the ten-
der sympathies which allure him to the fatal plunge,
with Mr. JERVIS' book before us we must bid him
be a man, as well as a young beloved and loving
clergyman, to exercise his judgment, and not to de-
stroy his usefulness, and pauperise a wife and chil-
dren by what is, really, a reckless marriage.
But of course the greater number of our readers
will at once exclaim—that there must be something
radically wrong in the administration of the re-
venues of the Church ! They have heard of such a
living as Daddington with its rent charge of
£9,956, and of others favoured with incomes com-
puted by the thousands of pounds, and they are
ready to get almost into a passion with a system
which leaves other poor incumbents starving on
less than the wages of a mason on strike. But
they must cool down their anger. All these
livings, are, in fact, a strange combination of
private and public property. Patrons can
buy and sell them, though the cure of souls con-
nected with them is a public and a State service !
It is useless to kick at facts ; but the facts are, that
if all the appointments of our civil, military, and
naval service were in the hands of individuals who
could put up the presentation to those appointments
for sale at Garraway's, the secular public service
would then be in precisely the position in which
the spiritual public service of the State is now
placed. A large number of tile livings are, to
be sure, in the gift of the Crown ; but, with this ex-
ception—the State could mend its system only by
purchasing all the advowsons. Fairly divided, the
revenues of the livings would give perhaps £3OO or
£4OO for each incumbent; we believe it is computed
that, if clerical socialism should ever apportion
the income of the Church equally amongst those
of all classes who do its work, there would be some-
where about £230 for each. It is, however, openly
argued that a system of blanks and prizes is the
most conducive to the spiritual excellence of a State
Church ! An argument which seems to men of busi-
ness pretty much like saying the best possible for
things as they are. To say that it is next to imprac-
ticable to alter the system, or no system, is one
thing—to defend it is folly.

Mr. JERVIS justly calls attention to the outrageous
abuse of funds, which might have been available in
mitigation of all this heartrending distress, by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. We all know of their
disgraceful squandering of money—Xl43,ol4—on
the palaces of eight bishops—palaces of " successors
of Apostles, and that while working incumbents
and curates were starving and begging second-hand
clothes ! and even now we are told that the Com-
mission spends £lO,OOO per annum on salaries
alone ! This monstrou's job must be dealt with.
Then there are princely Bishops' salaries, which
may well be made to yield something handsome—
Canterbury could spare £lO,OOO at least, London
fully half that sum, and £15,000 would do
something towards allaying a great deal of
this clerical distress. Durham, and other re•
dundantly wealthy bishoprics, could also con-
tribute a handsome quota to the same ob-
ject. We would willingly relieve Bishops of their
legislative duties, and of the attendant expense, by
which the State would doubtless be a gainer; and
such cu ttiig down of worse than useless salaries, and
economising strictly all that has not been irreco-
verably wasted on palaces for Christian bishops,
would supply Mr. JERVIS with a fund that would
gladden his heart, because it would gladden the
hearts of hundreds.

Let parents, however, and young men themselves,
think of what they are doing in entering the Church.
If they want the position it gives in society we have
nothing to say ; but if they want a livelihood, they
ought to reflect. Some 297 livings are under £5O
per annum, 1,629 under £lOO per annum, 1,602
under £l5O per annum, and 1,354 are under £2OO
per annum ; 4,882 benefices under £2OO a-year.
Blanks and prizes truly. Let those who want a
livelihood remember that the Church is a lottery,
with this peculiarity, however, that connection,
not chance, presides at the wheel.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty the Queen, and his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the
Princesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, left Osborne at
20 minutes past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, embarked at
Cowes on the Fairy, Royal steam yacht, crossed to Ports-
mouth, and travelled by a special train on the South-
Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall. The
Royal party proceeded in five of the Queen's carriages,
escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons, to Bucking-
ham Palace, where they arrived at 20 minutes past 6 o'clock.
His Excellency Baron Bentinck is still, we re-
gret to learn, confined to his room in consequence of a se-
vere attack of gout.

The Duke and Duchess of Terranova took their
departure from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, last
night, for Paris,

The Earl and Countess of Fife entertained at
dinner, last night, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and
Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Marchioness of
Londonderry, the Marquis of Tullibardine, the Earl and
Countess of Seafield, the Earl of Southesk, Lady Dufferin,
Hon. Alfred Stourton, Colonel Dalrytnple, and Dr Quin.
The Countess Poulctt has left town for Hinton
St. Goorge, Somerset.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived in
town yesterday from Broadlands, Rants.
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney entertained at
dinner, on Wednesday evening, at their residence in Cleve-
land-square, his Highness the Maharajah DhulecT Singh,
the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea
and Lady Florence Paget, the Countess Cowper and Lady
Florence Cowper, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Viscount
Raynhain, Lard and Lady Churchill, Mrs. Henry Baring,
Mr. Swinton, and Colonel Oliphant, in attendance on the
Maharajah. Viscountess Sydney received after dinner.
Viscount and Viscountess Donemile entertained
at dinner, on Wednesday, the Earl and Countess of Dun-
raven and Lady Augusta Wyndham Quin, Lord and Lady
Proby, Lord and Lady Raglan, the Duke of Rutland, Vis-
count Carnpden, Viscount Canterbury, Mr. and Lady
Caroline Townley and Miss Townley, Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer Ponsonby, Lady llonoria Cad4gan, &c.

Lord Southampton left the Pavilion Hotel,
Folkestone, en Thursday, for town.
Lady Caroline Barrington and the Rev. Mr.
Barrington arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on
Wednesday, from Paris.

Lady kciesworthentertained his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge and a select circle at dinner
last evening, at her res.dence in Eaton-place.
At Venice it is said that a palace is being pre-
pared for the reception of his Majesty the King of Naples.
During the last week the Times has been seized
no fewer than three times by the Vienna police. The num-
bers confiscated were thesc, of the 21st, 21th, and 25th inst.
" It is stated positively," says the Constitutionnel,
"that the project of building the new Theatre of the Opera
on the Boulevard des Capucines has been abandoned. The
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MR. JOHN PARRY.—It is with great pleasure
that we have to announce that Mr. John Parry, the well-
known buffo singer, has consented to appear• once more in
public, the occasion being the benefit of Mr. and Mrs.
German Reed, on Monday next, at the Gallery of Illustra-
tion; but it is to be hoped that when once Mr. Parry has
renewed his acquaintance with a London audience, he will
ba induced to give a series of farewell performances, prior
to his final retirement. To the very intimate friendship
existing between Mr. John Parry and Mr. German R, e
must the public attribute the opportunity of hearing again
the charming buffo singer ; and when it is remembered that
he appears in conjunction with Mr. and Mrs. Reed,
pleasure-seekers can form some idea of the treat in store for
them. It is seldom that three such aeeomplished artists are
brought together—all are first-rate musicians, and all excel
as vocalists and actors in a class of entertainment that is
daily becoming more popular,