The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-26 00:00:00

NEW AMENDMENTS.

Meanwhile a number of new amendments nave
been entered on the notice-paper, which are not
noticed in the 'porting papers. Some are very
important. Lord Russell proposes, in addition to
his other amendments, to allow any payer of tithe-
rent charge to charge his land with it in perpetuity,
and to devote it either to the payment of the clergy-
man, the Roman Catholic priest, or the Presbyterian
clergyman of tile parloa, or to all of tlicm in propor-
tion. The Archbishop of Canterbury proposes to
defer the operation of tne Act until 1872, and to
substitute 1560 for 1660 as the date at which private
endowments shall be respected. The Archbishop of
York proposes to allow the commutation of life
interests, so that the capital may be paid in one sum.
The Archbishop of Dublin proposes to increase
the compensation paid to curates, and to allow
any clergyman to dissent from any alteration which
the new Church representative body may make in
the articles, doctrines, or rites of the Church. The
Duke of Cleveland proposes to give Roman Catholic
priests and Presbyterian clergymen ten acres of
glebe (instead of Lord R►ussell's thirty. Lord
Clancarty proposes that the prescnt bishops shall
have the right to sit in the House of Lords. Lord
Cairns's amendments are numerous, but do not
seriously affect the principles of the bill, except in
one instance, and that involves the abolition of the
law of Mortmain, so far as the Irish Church is con-
cern pd.
THE APPROACHING ORANGE FESTIVAL.

The approaching anniversaries of the Orange
"organisations in the north of Ireland give ground
for the most serious apprehension. Orangemen are
represented to be exasperated by the second reading
of the Irish Church Bill by the Peers. :Never very
friendly to the Romrn Catholies, it is not too much
to say that they hate them now more than ever.
Always too ready to resort to violence, the rvcent
counsels of some of their leaders to join the cry for
repeal has made them more extreme than before. It
is hoped that the Roman Catholics may be prevailed
upon to repress all party signs during the dangcrors
days of July, but nothing can be depended upon with
a people given, as the Irish arc to extravagantexpres-
sion of feeling. The Government will have much
difficulty in ,acting. Military are, it
_is said, to
be concentrated in 'the most important centres,
and the police are, in some cases, to be reinforced. The
tone of some of the Conservative papers about these
measures to preserve the peace does not decrease the
danger. They represent the action of the Govern-
ment as an attempt to provoke
_Orangemen to indis-
cretion, which may be used against them when
occasion requires. If the festival-keepers only get
this idea into their heads, if they begin to look upon
the soldiery as being challenges thrown out to them,
a collision is almost inevitable.

HUSH CHURCH MEETING.

Still another Irish Church Bill meeting. The
National Protestant Union calls the attention of
noblemen and gentlemen to the fact that a " great "
demonstration against the Irish Church Bill will be
held on the 3rd of July (a Saturday) on Blackheath
Common. Whether the meeting will be in favour of
concurrent endowment or against it there is no evi-
dence to spew.

THE IRISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

Some importance has been attached on this side
of St. George's Channel to proceedings of the Irish
National Association. But if the Thibiin Evening
Mail is to be believed, this importance is hardly
deserved. According to our contemporary, the
National Association has never had a public meeting,
has closed its doors against reporters, has supplied
its own version of its proceedings to the Press, and
has never had at any of its so-called meetings twenty
persons present.