The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-08 00:00:00

IRISH LAND TENT:RE.

Colonel Fulke Greville-Nugent, BI.P. for Long-
ford, points out concisely the difference—which is
the essence of the whole Irish land question—be-
tween the conditions on which the Irish and the
English tenants enter upon their land. lii.
England the landlord invariably furnishes the
dwelling-house, stables, barn, cow-sheds, awl
other necessary offices, besides gates, fences, &c.,
on the farm, and the occupier has merely to provide
what is necessary to till the land, to sow,
and reap, and gather in his crops ; whereas in Ire
land, as a general rule, the landlord supplies only
the land, and the tenant has to erect everything he
requires. The same law prevails in both countries,
but owing to these circumstances its effect is widely
different. The English landlord, when he turns out
a tenant, gets back his land and the buildings, whicl,
are all his own ; the Irish landlord gets back hi*
land with buildings which are not his own, and the
occupier cannot claim a sixpence. Colonel Grevillo-
Nugent believes that the Irish grievance is without
a parallel.

RECONSTRUCTION OF IRISH CIIIICII.

it has been found impracticable to get together a
general meeting of Irish Church lay representatives
during the present month. At the meeting held in
Molesworth Hall on the last day of August it was
decided that this general Lay Conference should be
composed of one-fifth of the representatives chosen
in the various dioceses. Thus a double election will
be neeersary. The diocesan lay representatives
must be chosen first, and then one-fifth of these
will have to be selected for the Dublin Conference,
The arrangements, it has been found, cannot be
completed before the end of the month, and the
Archbishops have accordingly determined to convene
the general meeting for the 15th of October. This
postponement, however, says the Dublin Mail, have
the advantage of enabling many staunch friends of
the Church, who are now absent on summer tours,
to be present at the several parish and diocesan
meetings.

Many gatherings, lay and clerical, continue to be
held, in preparation for the forthcoming synods. At
one of these—a meeting to elect lay representatives
for Trinity Church, Limerick—an amusing scene
took place. There were five candidates for two
seats, and the parishioners, before proceeding
with the election, decided on hearing an exposition
of the views of each with regard to the reconstruc-
tion of the Church. Five speeches were accord-
ingly delivered, and three of the speakers
declared themselves strongly in favour of such a
revision of the Prayer-Book as would exclude the
Ritualists from the Church. Two of them, Mr.
John Browne and Mr. Samuel Bradshaw, said they
would give power to the Church body to dismiss
any clergyman •' who preached doctrines contrary to
the Word of God." The meeting rightly considered
that interpretations of what is "contrary to the
Word of God" differ very much; and accordingly
avoided the beginning of strife by electing two mode-
rate speakers. One of these said he hoped the
Church would never become a "fat Church."

"THE MISSION OF PEACE."

Cardinal Cullen, as mentioned yesterday, has
ordered three days' devotion in the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, Dublin, to return thanks
for the passing of the Irish Church Billl. His
Eminence says that the foundations of peace and
union have been laid by putting an end to a religious
ascendency which had its origin more than
three hundred years ago in the decree of a
small Irish Parliament, representing only a fraction
of the whole people. " The united wisdom of this
great empire, with the applause of all that is
liberal and enlightened of every creed, has deter-
mined that, for the future, ascendency shall make
way for religious equality, thus removing the great
occasion of discord."