The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-02 00:00:00

AA-OTHER STATE CHURCH DOOMED.

The Nonconformlet in itq "Eeeleidastical Notes" says:
"Another State Church is doomed--making the
third within the last three months. We find from
the Grenada Chronicle, which is just to hand, that in
the House of Assembly of that colony a motion was
made on the 20th July for a committee to consider
the propriety of introducing a bill to provide salaries
for the Roman Catholic priests ; in other words, to carry
out a system of "concurrent endowment." The ecclesias-
tical condition of Grenada bears some resemblance to
that of Ireland, inasmuch as the greater proportion of
the people are Roman Catholics. The motion in question,
therefore, produced great excitement, and several amend-
ments were brought forward. At last it was agreed
as follows :—That a bill be introduced, to take effect from
the Ist January, 1870, from which date the Esta-
blished Churches of England and Scotland in this
colony, as establishments, shall cease, duo regard being
had to all personal interests and rights of property.
That means be introduced or devised in the bill,
giving authority to organise a scheme for their
maintenance as free churches. That the present holders of
benefices shall have the option of continuing in their pre-
sent livings, and at their present salaries for years,
from Ist June, 1870, or, by resigning at once their livings,
to have and to receive a compensation, calculated at 14
years' purchase of their present incomes, at 4 per cent.
per annum, forlife, or on their accepting employment else-
where. That to these free churches shall be assigned the
several churches, chapels, schoolhouses, &c., as may have
been built by voluntary or by State and voluntary aid of
Protestants and Presbyterians, and such land and glebes,
&c., as the present established Churches may equitably
claim. That the offices of parish clerks and sextons shall
be entirely abolished from Ist January, 1870 ; and that a
certain sum shall be voted annnally, to be applied to
the repairing of all churches and chapels of every denomi-
nation."

THE COMIC PAPERS.

(From Flinch.)

I Tnow, NOT.—Should you like to be caught giving a
crossing-sweeper a shilling, and asking him for elevenpence
halfpenny change?
FASHIONABLE ARRIVAL. —Airs. Malaprop, whose last
letter was dated from Frankfort-on-the-Odour, has re-
turned home to the family Illation at Ball's Bond. She
rather shocked some Temperance friends by telling them
that she came in a "screwed " steamer.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL FOOLERY.—The Standard,
of course meaning no offence to Mr. George Potter, says
that we must have no more pottering with interests of
such tremendous importance as those of Colonial Govern.
ment. Yes, and what is more, we must have no pottering
in our dealings with China, except as to Chinese clay.
No 31011 E MorrlrLt.—A Medical Correspondent of the
Times, the other day, complained that the problem of the
gold curren?y would " prolong the sleepless habit of the
session to the indefinite postponement of that serene and
dreamless sleep the overtasked brain demands after the
hard work of the session." The profession of this gentle-
man makes his view of the gold currency with relation to
sleep appear extraordinary. He must entertain peculiar
notions about the matters commonly accounted narcotics.
Would he administer opium or hyoscyamus in cases of
coma, or of a tendency to somnulence? Most are
so constituted that

"Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the sleepy balsams of the East,"
could ever " medicine" them to that sound sleep which
they would "owe" the Chancellor of the Exchequer if
they were to read any one of the letters written by finan-
cial and pecuniary gentlemen for the enlightenment of the
British public on Mr. Lowc's production of the sovereign.