The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, .1E69.

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Alford, of Canterbury, Stanley, of Westminster, and _ • Close, of Carlisle, spoke, and the general result was (From the Anglo-American Times.)
that they de ;lined to accept the archiepiscopal sug- Perhaps
the last debate in Congress was on Se-
gestion that reforms were desirable. Thereupon the .
Archbishop proposed that a committee should be nator Carpenter's resolution calling on the heads of
appointed to meet at Lambeth Palace to-morrow departments to furnish to the Senate, on the -
(Friday). The committee appointed consisted of the day of the next session of Congress, the names, age.
Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the and compensation of the clerks, employes, and in-
Deans of Canterbury, York, St. Paul's, and Westminster, and it was afterwards arranged .
senor officers; from what States respectively they
, ,
that any of the deans who might be in town and dis-
were appointed ; how long they have held office.
posed to attend the meeting should be considered as and at what places they resided in the States from,
belonging to the committee. It was stated at the which they were respectively appointed ; and or
meeting that a scheme for suppressing two canonries whose recommendation they were appointed. It was
in each cathedral for educational purposes or the
urged in support that the distribution was unfair.
increase of small livings has been resolved upon by
Mr. Gladstone's Government. The proposition made some States getting a lion's share, while others were
by some leading Churchmen a short time ago was overlooked ; that the number of employes should
that the revenues thus obtained should be devoted , be diminished, and the pay of those who remained
to increasing the number of bishops.
increased. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, held in his hand
IMPORTANT TO ARCHEOLOGISTS.
' a Blue-book containing the information condensed
Two items which will interest the archaeologists the Senator sought in a more diffuse form, giving
are published by the Times. Some further traces of
Roman London have been discovered. A beau-
the names, salaries, and other information regard-
tiful tesselated pavement has just been unearthed in ing the 45,000 office-holders, 99 of whom out of
Bucklersbury. An invention for restoring, or rather every hundred were appointed on verbal recom-
for cleansing, bronze statues has been made. and is mendations of influential friends. Mr. Sumner
being used on the tombs in Westminster Abbey.
answered Mr. Abbott's proposition to distribute
posts as far as practicable according to representa-
tion and population, who had stigmatised the undue
proportion to certain States as unjust and injurious,
Sumner pointing his remarks with a striking illus-
tration. The ExecutiVe was bound to take the best
qualified ; these were not spread geographically,
and the President had no more right to nominate
them from certain States than he had to choose
generals on such a principle., If he had correctly
read history the army before Vicksburg was com-
i mended by three Ohio generals, viz."; Grant, Sher-
man, and M‘Pherson ; and if that State furnished
the three generals who there so well upheld the
honour of the country, why should not the same
State supply three eminent civita:ervants ? The dis-
cussion brought out the radical defect in the exist-
ing mode of filling offices, and the necessity for the
reform proposed by Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island.
Mr. Trumbull regarded the system of removal from
and appointmerit to office, as one of the greatest of
evils, calculated to sap the very foundations of the
Government. The experience of the last six or eight
weeks edinonished all that something should be
done to effect a reform. A great change had taken
place, and Senators and Representatives had be-
come mere solicitors. Time was when members of
epapers of applicants,ilbill,
and
Congress did not hang around the ante-rooms of the
Secretaries to procure the appointment of clerks and
other inferior officers. Time was when they would
not
shotsi g
e n the
a h
~
d introduce notice that at the next session, if nobody else did,
h
urge :tie n
passage,ow gave
to
make it a penal offence for a member of either
house to go to the departments soliciting office.
Mr. Fessenden evidently thought the Senator from
Illinois hard on those attending in ante-rooms to
solicit appointments for their constituents. Senators
who refused would prejudice their future, for re-
presentatives would do what they declined, and
their constituents would, unfavourably to them
contrast these exertions, and endeavour to promote TITE AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS OF IRELAND, the one at the expense of the other. It was a melan-
ts to get office
Perhaps few things will contribute more towards
choly truth that they were mere a
gen
contentment, peace, and quietness in Ireland than a for their constituents, and as tt
ma
ets stood they
good harvest and a fine potato crop. It is, therefore,
must look out for these offices. As to hanging about in
most satisfactory to learn that Irish agricultural
prospects were never brighter at this season than GOVERNMENT. the ante-chambers,gentlemen therein consulted their
. .
THE SPANISH
According
they are at present. The most favourable accounts to a telegram m the Standard, theproject of 1 own tastes. Thirty years ago he was in Washine-
are received from all parts of the provinces as to the a Government with Serrano as regent andß d .
Prim as head of ton, though not in that
Chamber, and what they
extent of cultivation and the state of the crops. The the Ministryis notlikely to be matured. ut a espatch in complained of as having grown up lately was corn-
s lands have benefited immensely by the rains, the French papers states, not only that the scheme is
grass
and the potato and cereal crops are healthy-looking, seriously entertained, but that the Ministry has been
monat that time. But the most extraordinary state-
and promise an early and abundant yield, . formed. Figuerola, Sagasta, and Lopez do Ayala, of the anent was made by Mr. Cameron, who said —" Only
COLONEL H the other day the President sent in somebody f
ENDERSON. I present Cabinet, will retire, and their places will be filled
for a
The new Chief Commissioner of Police is doing up by others. Figuerola is Finance Minister, b9t his foreign mission, and one of the Senators had great
his work well. He is initiating prosecutions" on all policy inspires the people of Madrid with great distrust. trouble to convince the Committee on Foreign
hands against the abominable persons nolo during Nothing, however, will be officially announced until the Affairs that he was an improper person to be con-
Sir Richard Mayne's later and feebler years were 33rd Article of the Constitution, providing for the form of firmed, and it now turned out he was a const't
allowed to violate the law with impunity, A
Government, is passed. The Cortes is now at the 32nd. tional drunkard. The man 1
11-
was good enough in
woman living in Rowland-street has just been
MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY. other respects, but not fit for the place at all.
convicted of selling indecent prints, and has been sea- i
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour, ! The Piedmontese politicians have united with General Neither of the Senators from Pennsylvania would
a punishment she is not likely to forget. The sei- : Menabrea's supporters, and a coalition Cabinet is now in have recommended him for the position. Some
zure of the " Deptford Spec " has had one unfortu- course of formatian. The union of the two parties was time ago, within the last few days, a man from P enn-
nate result. A tailor who had invested in it has, in accomplished very satisfactorily, but the construction of s, , .
vi ania was nominated for a Consulate, without
consequence of the funds being seized, committed the Ministry involves great difficulties, and it is hardly - / .
of 1 S consulting either tle Senators. It turns out that
suicide. If he had lost his money in the ordinary necessary to state what these difficulties are. General
course of the " Spec," he would, no doubt, have Menabrea's party does not want the new corners to he was a constitutional thief, and his name on the
committed the same crime. The best way to pre- obtain too much power, and the recruits will either preceding day was withdrawn." The custom was
vent
of them such tragedies in future is to suppress the cause
have what they call a fair share, or they will retire again, for applicants to send in their cards to Senators,
.
Signor Ferraris, leader of the Piedmontese, demands the who, in the ante-room, rather than waste time in
a.m.; UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Portfolio of the Interior, and this the Tuscan, Menabrea's, argument signed their papers. Need it surprise
No university examination is stricter than that of ,art are very unwilling to give up, Signor Blordini, that the Executive' make mistakes when Senators
the University of London. Nearly one-half the too, was mentioned for a place, but the King is opposed • i-t 1. tit from their F...tates working
ins►e upon app lc t s n ,
candidates at the last trial for degrees failed, only to this politician on account of his Garibaldian antece-
.772 obtaining honours out of 1,430 who tried, dents. Things like these must always be when states- through them, while such is all the trouble they take
There were, of course, many grumblings; the men attempt the work of conciliation, to ascertain fitness. Several errors have occurred,
students complained that the subjects of examina-
OUTBREAK IN PORTUGAL. and in every instance ti:e objeciionable persons
lion had not been accurately defined, and that the .
re found to be recommended by the whole dele-
line adopted for awarding places had been too hard genie mysterious details of a conspiracy at Lisbon are we
and fast. Earl Granville, the Chancellor of the given oy the _Portuguese journals. It is to be presumedthat gation from the State. Special Commissioner
University—whose speech at the annual meeting this plot was concocted by some discontented spirits who Wells asserts-that $75,000,000 of the revenue is
is
pied a generally looked forward ton thidefens year occu- conceived that the deplorable stateof the national finances, annually stolen by the functionaries thus appointed,
great deal of time iding the and the recent very unpopular proceeding of the King in and a good authority calculates that $25,000,000
course adopted. Ho explained the large number of reducing the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies, will, during the next fiscal ye ar, be added to this
rejections by saying that a great many of the candi- afforded an excellent opportunity for an insurrection. The sum, •
dates had endeavoured to qualify for them by read-
.. conspirators attempted to get the army on their side. '
ing at night after their other occupations. He did bands. Nor will Congress be able, in the end, to
Some
regiments seem to hay
•
not think that they could compete with others whoe been really dislaffoenctbeoda.rdOnoef
keep all the patronage, for powerful interlopers are
landed' battalion was actually from a vessel gay© their whole time to education. The educational.
appearing on the stage. Nearly all the great status of the country, moreover, was very embarked The railway and telegraph
which it had been . . , . _
jour-
unsatisfactory, and this had caused a great lines were cut in all directions. But all this mischief came nals were represented by their leading men during
many of the failures. In one matter the London to nothing. The ringleaders vi, ere arrested, the disaffected the scramble, and the editor of the Evening Post,
University had been foremost and successful. It troops were disarmed, and the battalion which had been the Tribune, or the Times speaks with a tremendous
had solved the suldect of ladies' degrees. At the landed was again conducted on board ship, and placed power at his back; one, indeed, which the Presi-
first examination it. was estimated that not More than under the guns of a corvette. An inquiry is to be insti- dent, or the Secretary, cannot help seeing behind
three ladies would present themselves, but it was tuted, and, considering that nobody seems to know any. the individual. '
IN hy were these gentlemen in
satisfactory to find that the number who came us thin. f the • •or the nature g o origin
be dis-
and passed was one that was equally classical anl se a t ington, and what business had they to
zeeded. suggestive viz., 9; and the fact had been A RAILWAY THROUGH SWITZERLAND. , cussing the merits of candidates with the Executive
established which had been questioned before, that
and the Senate, and putting their fingers into the
The question of a railroad across the St. Gothard moon-
the female sex were quite as capable of qualifying
- lain interests more or less all the States of Central very pie from which they ought most carefully to
themselves as the male.
Europe. North Germany is anxious for a direct route have abstained ? Let the public become convinced
through Switzerland to Italy- Italy is not less desirous of that editors, that is, the public censors, are them-
e straight line to North Germany. Bvt Austria has lines selves personally interested in the appointments,
round the east of Switzerland, and France has the Mont and their criticisms will have no weight. How is
Genie line on the west. Both these would be injured by it at this moment that the American press write so
the great work through the centre of the Alps, and a cer
forcibly and openly in denunciation of corruption,
taro agitation has therefore been raised in France and
Austria against the St. Gothard project. But the new yet with so little effect?
line is favoured by the Swiss Government, and it is likely
that it will be made. . THE EXPLANATION OF SENATOR ROSS.
A FRENCH CONSUL IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA- Senator Ross made a long statement when the
The German journals labour under the apprehension of Chamber met on the 20th April, regarding his in-
a
serious dispute between France and Russia. The French terview with General Grant, as reported in the
Consul at Odessa is President of the French Benevolent newspapers, which lie termed grossly incorrect and
Society. A ball was recently given by this society. slanderous, being spread with a view to injure him
A Russian count presented himself, and being throughout the country, particularly in Kansas.
accompanied by a lady who was not his wife, but.whom he li
e (Ross) sought the interview, and
was desirous of passing off as such, the consul, in his caps-
and
from the President that he
• d
to learn
paine
city of president, felt it his duty to exclude him. For
this offence the Correctional Tribunal at Odessa has just presumptive evidence of a
considered it to be
sentenced the consul to a week's imprisonment. The Johnson-man, that the office had been held for the.
condemned half
German papers which report Ws story say that under preceding eighteen months. This .
certain conditions such an incident would amount to A the officials, though earnest and intelligentß ad' 1-
cues Belli, but they do not state that these "certain con- cals. In one instance a gallant soldier eminently
ditions" are involved in the present case. ' qualified for the post bad been
ARCTIC AFFAIRS, who bad never left his fireside during the war, and
Another German expedition to the North Pole will was a pro-slavery sympathizer during the Ks nsas
start on the 7th of [June: It will consist of two Border disturbances. The Senator continued these
vessels, which will endeavour to force a passage east of instances, sketching a lamentable picture of the
Greenland through the barrier of ice surrounding reward of those brave fellows whose only fault it
the Pole between the seventy-fourth and seventy-sixth was to have accepted a favour from him, their friend
degrees of latitude. If the expedition do not succeed, it
will not return, but winter at Spitzbergen, and try again and fellow-soldier. (Our readers must remember
next year. There is some probability that the scheme of that Mr. Ross was one of the seven " recreants"
who voted against Impeachment.) It redounds to
.
though that they,
A north-east, in opposition to a north-west, passage will
-
be revived. The Russians have discovered that warm Andrew Johnson's honour
Re-
currents flow along the north of Siberia, between Spitz- publicans, were appointed, and it would not tell
bergen and Nova Zembla, and that, perhaps, a passag: ' well for a Republican President, himself a soldier,
may be found along the north of Europe and Asia to if from personal pique or to gratify the animosity
Behring's Straits and the Pacific. Unfortunately, this of others he ostracised them. 'As for himself for
route would be so lengthy that it could never be of much
UM twenty years it had been his pleasure, but not his
profit, to belong to the advanced corps of Radical
Republicans. No man endured such revilings and
maledictions as he in his efforts to secure Grant's
nomination. He bad hoped all from this election,
and although this belief was shaken it was not de-
stroyed. " A combination of my colleagues from
Kansas in Congress has been formed to drive me
from political life, because I have dared to defy the
dictation of party when I believed that other ob-
jects than the country's good were sought to be
subserved thereby ; and I fear the President has
been deceived into giving that combination his
powerful aid. Hence the sweeping and unjust re-
movals from office of so'diers, chiefly Republicans,
and soldiers, threatened or their removals accom-
plished merely becanse they are my friends, and as an
iin portant part of that party inac'tinery which is beim?
used for may destruction. I neither court nor shun
that contest." In the interview he had with the
President no word incomistent with the strictest
rules of propriety and decorum had been uttered by
either. Mr. Pomeroy, his colleague, raw nothing
to complain •of or to censure iu the President or in

MISCELLANEOUS NETT'S.

THE STATE OT IRELAND.

Quite a panic seems to prevail as to the state
of Ireland. Lord Stanley said the sense of insecurity
there was never greater than at present. That,
though open to question, was bad enough. But in
being repeated over again, it has been transposed
into a very different thing. The state of Ireland,
say the alarmists, was never worse than at
present. This is simply absurd. The sym-
pathy of the people with crime, the amount of crime,
and the general unquietness are alarming enough.
But they have existed in much greater proportion in
days that are past. Sanguine people thought the
disestablishment of the Church would immediately
put an end to bad feelings which have existed more
or less for centuries. Sanguine people are generally
the most frightened ; and now they are scared by the
non-fulfilment of ill-grounded hopes. Yet if they
will only turn to the statistics of crime for the last
thirty years they will find a marked improvement.
As the Dublin correspondent of the Times
puts it
"What would be thought now if a return were fur-
nished to the Government by the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Tipperary stating that 556 murders had been
perpetrated within two years and five months?
That was a great increase compared with former
years. It was regarded as highly satisfactory that
in 1831 and 1832 the total number of homicides in
Ireland did not exceed 458. If such figures appeared
in our annual calendar now they would indicate a
terrible increase of crime. Let the aggregate number of
crimes committed in 1835, 1836, and subsequent years, as
appearing in returns furnished to Parliament, be compared
with the catalogue of the last assizes, and it will be seen
how vast an improvement has been efected in the moral
condition of the country. Scarcely a county was then
exempt from murders and agrarian outrages of various
kinds ; they are now confined almost exclusively to
two counties. Tranquillity is now the general rule ;it
was then the rare exception. Contrast the calendar for
Tipperary at the last assizes, unsatisfactory as it was in
some respects, and manifestino, an increase of crime, with
that for March 1837. At the last March Assizes there
was one charge of murder; in March 1837 the cases
numbered 44."

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE ON TIIE CONTAGIOUS

DISEASES ACT.

The Duke of Cambridge, presiding at the anni-
versary of the Metropolitan Lock Hospital, on Wed-
nesday, spoke very decisively on the subject of the
Contagious Diseases Act. Though a wide and
a delicate question was opened up by the suggestion
that this legislative measure should be applied to the
civil community, and though the moral feeling of a
very numerous and respectable class might be
offended by such a proposition, he would not shrink
from the avowal that he himself regarded with favour
a careful and well-planned scheme of the kind. Sir
Hope Grant, G.C.8., Dr. Dickson, Lord Lifford, and
Mr. Mitford also spoke of the good effects of the new
law.

Still the present state of things is opposed to
prosperity, and, if possible, must be altered. It may,
if measures be not taken, spread and become more
serious. The budget of news for to-day, for
instance, is by no means reassuring. We are told
that two men named Murray have been arrested on
suspicion of being accomplices in the murder of
Mr. Anketell. Informations were sworn against
them by a Mrs. Brown, who lodged in their house.
She was hooted and threatened by a crowd in Mul-
lingar, and the police have been obliged to remove
her and her husband to Dublin for safety. The
next item is of another attempted assassina-
tion. A man named Brady, agent of Dr.
Fitzpatrick, is stated to have been fired at near
Virginia, county Cavan. Two persons were
with him, who reported the occurrence. He was
found lying insensible on the road, but is expected
to recover. Then there is the item of stealing a
revolver. Three men have been arrested on a charge
of forcibly taking a revolver from Professor O'Leary,
of Queen's College, Cork, on Sunday evening. There
is a story of the arrest of a Ribanclman.

THE NEW MAYOR OF CORK.

The Mayor of Cork has indeed resigned, and
there seem to be no signs that he will be re-elected.
The candidate of the ultra:Liberals is to be named by
Mr. O'Sullivan ; and as he will hardly put himself in
nomination, the danger of his reappearance is
averted. The Fenians, by advertisement, call on the
populace to insist upon the town council giving
O'Sullivan the choice of his successor, and by this
means secure the election of a mayor who will carry
out his policy and vindicate his acts.

THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION,
The Church Association has just held a conference
at Willis's Rooms. It lasted six hours, and a large
number of subjects was discussed. The meeting ex-
pressed its confidence that Sir R. Phillimore's judg-
ment in the Bennett prosecution case would be
reversed as it was in the Mackonochie case. Convo-
cation was denounced as a sham by some of the
members ; others thought that the Low Church party
had erred in holding aloof from it. Synods excited
different expressions of opinion. According to some,
these gatherings would increase the power of the
bishops, which was very undesirable. According to
others, synods would, especially in the event of dis-
establishment, give the laity an opportunity of
making their voices heard in questions of Church
policy.- Then came the crucial question of the
meeting. The Rev. E. Garbett moved that the
operations of the Church Association should
be extended, so as to include doctrinal errors
other than those involved iu Ritualism. In
the course of his speech he mentioned
that the Archbishop of York had asked the
assistance of the association in prosecuting Mr. Voysey.
This matter gave rise to much discussion, some of
the members thinking that the Association ought to
confine itself to the object for which it was formed,
that of opposing Romanism, and should leave
Rationalism alone. Eventually a resolution, em-
bodying Mr. Garbett's recommendations, was carried
with nine dissentients. A Mr. Lovell proposed that
a memorial should be presented to the archbishops
praying them to enforce the decision of the recent
Ritual judgment in churches where (such as Mr.
Lowder;s and Mr. Le Geyt's) it is disregarded, and
that Convocation should be called upon to condemn
the recent manifesto of twenty-one clergymen in
favour of the Real Presence. The Rev. Sydney
Gedge strongly opposed the first part of the proposal.
He pointed out that certain acts of Ritualism had
been condemned, not because they were Roman,
but because they were contrary to the rubrics;
and that if the archbishops were asked to
enforce the rubrics in this respect, the High
Church party would be sure to ask them
to enforce the rubrics in matters that they (the
Association) might not at all like. Eventually he
withdrew his opposition, and even agreed to.sign the
proposed memorial. A general statement was then
made as to the work accomplished by the Association.
It numbered on January Ist 7,022 members, and its
monthly organ had a circulation of 7.000. The
number of papers circulated had been nearly 300,000.
Mr. Martin then asked the assistance of the members
in support of the middle-class schools which had
been started by way of counteracting Mr. Woodard's.

UNV and
Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cues for home use or exports.
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
Belfast; er 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O —[Ad-

Tertisement. - •
The Ancient Order of Foresters has forwarded
an additional contribution of £l4O to the National Life-
boat InXtution on account of their second lifeboat, which
is to be launched in Sunderland in the beginning of August

TIIE DI7.AIcS.

The deans don't sec it. The Archbishop of Can-
Aof
lEvnogr England.
on
fd .1, r 0 m i s
~
neat, in the reseuce of some thousands of Foresters, who
terbury has had a gathering of them at L. are to assembleP on the occasion from all parts of tho North
beth this week. About a dozen were present, Lam- are
Archbishop represented to them the albesroulou ti e i ADVERTISEMENT. 1 II
—AI li)8111111703;:ss
necessity of doing something in " these
buticrrere IA le ct io t, s. and skin diseases f(r)toliinnalsn loceo.nntsfiadunel nd'et"lPsrlillcs
coin-
times " to " correct existing anomalies." But hiss
alendtrkeTtnient of their several infirmities with those
very reverend audience, at; we have said, could not healing.3t remedies. Under Holloway's well-
see it. Dean Duncombc, of York (for whom, upon
by d'sheartened by failures AFt i
l''t,' :Bill t'l
i(e'"ltyenidea(lissiTli in: tn"' eeelainttaghs‘eiltiurhi lg.'
be
embarrassed r
s
t it
'
his appointment by Lord Derby, the income of the
ate attention to the .!asp;sol.2.v,iells:ocomf astsit)ten7uar7tirioe
be emba,rassed by difficulties nor
deanery was raised from £l,OOO to I'4ooo a year,
0a eine easdse-
little perseverance and mode-
way of acknowledging the valuable political support r"direction for use " enveloping each
of Lord Faversham and his relatives), declared that packetimofseOlf.in-otnaitt and l'i!ls will enable every invalid to
conduct his comp
_te present_ decanal system was unimpeachable. Deans cure h
lainto
ll
la bs
simple, but 3:
sameof Eexpeinteire,na.nd
Dlleoawnso3ni,,mosfeiChester, were.,, ,o, f ful issue; and he ruol
they d'
sound, s'N'ere searchingsufferir; feel assured that by following this
gtsrie:ittrtenr
at,ndli
, of St. ram s,
seemed to think that so far from
ar from a dean's post 170.11;11: restored.skin
.