The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. i THE TISCHENDORF ENGLISH NEW
TESTATE T.

The Times considers that the new Irish Church will start
with large remains of its present advantages, such as they
are, and an amount of liberty and self-government which
will amply compensate for whatever has been taken away.
the landowners, who are almost identical with the laity
of the Irish Church, will be gainers by the bargain to be
made with them, and will thereby have a margin which,
if they please, they may devote to sacred and useful pur-
poses. The clergy will have the power of commuting
their life interests, and, by the action of the governing
body, will be able to consult their convenience and the
welfare of their congregations much more than is possible
ander the existing system. At least three-fourths of the
clergy of this country would gladly welcome a change
Df this character. As it is, they must grow where
they are planted, whether the soil is suitable or
not, whether the fruit they happen to bear is in request
there or not. There they are, and. there they must
remain till they die, even if they are conscious that. they
do but encumber the ground. Elsewhere they might do
good, but not there. For a thousand reasons they would
prefer another post, even though with half the pay. Or
perhaps they are poor but most willing to work wherever
the labourer is thought worthy of his hire. Under an
establishment this is hardly possible, unless it be in the
miserably ill-paid class of curates. As for the bishops,
who are commonly supposed by women and half-educated
men to have almost absolute power of appointment, dis-
tribution, suspension, and removal, they may labour
for many years, but in vain, to put a man
where he is wanted, to displace a man who is simply
in the way, or to make any suitable provision whatever for
populations urgently wanting somebody to help them.
The loss of power arising from the want of free action
destroys more than the just influence of wealth and position
;ices. The governing body of the Irish Church, starting
with a large amount of compensation, of which a consider-
able portion may be made permanent endowment, with all
the advantage of position, and with the strongest appeal
to the love and loyalty of the richest class, may, before
long, recover more than it has lost, and find that, after all,
the best endowment of a Church is its natural appeal to
those who accept its teaching, love its teachers, and desire
to extend to others the blessings they enjoy.

Baron Tauchnitz, the eminent publisher, of Leipsic
lately finding that he had carried his series of editions 01
English authors to the 999th volume, determined to marl
the publication of the I,oooth by a special production.
Accordingly he invited the eminent scholar and critic.
Constantine Tischendorf, to prepare an edition o:
the English authorised version of the New Testa-
ment. The result is before us in as pretty a
volume as could be desired. The peculiarity of this
edition may be soon explained. The English authorised
version, as we may be excused for observing, was trans-
lated from the Greek text, as it was in use among Pro-
, testant theologians in the days of Elizabeth and James 1.,
that which Erasmus and Robert Stephens had founded upon
manuscripts written after the tenth century. But since
their days Greek manuscripts of the New Testament have
been discovered far older than any with which they
were acquainted, and scholars now for the most part
agree that the older manuscripts must come nearer to the
original than those which, though more numerous, are of
later origin. The work of Tischendorf in the present
edition has been to take the three texts which are most
highly valued by Christian scholars, and to supply from
them at the foot of every page translations of
those readings which vary from the text from which
the authorised version is translated. The texts
he has used for this purpose are, first, the CodexTraticanus,
which appears to have been in the Vatican Library nearly
400 years, and which is assigned to the fourth century ;
secondly, the Codex Alexandrinus which is in the British
Museum, a MS. given to Charles I. by the Patriarch of
Constantinople, and probably written in the first haif of
the fifth eentury ; and thirdly and lastly, the Sinaitic MS.
obtained by Dr. Tischendorf himself, in 1859, from the
Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and believed to
be the oldest of the MSS. of the New Testament, and of
the fourth century. The history and description of these
precious documents, accompanied by an estimate of their
comparative importance, is presented here in a gracefully.
written introduction by Tischendorf, who acknowledges
the assistance he has received in the preparation of the
work from our countryman, Mr. B. Harris Coss per.
Facsimiles of portions of each Codex are given opposite the
title-page. The volume is published for about the price
of one of the cheap yellow-covered novels that we see or 6
the railway book-stalls.—Daily News.

The Telegraph declares that next in interest to the
character of Mr. Gladstone's bill is the probable course of

the Conservative party. We do not, of course, affect any
alarm. Should the Conservative party "fight to the last

man," they could at the worst only " die in the last ditch;"
and they have no more power to frustrate the work

THE IRISH CONVENT CASE.

of justice than Mrs. Partington had to sweep In answer to the writ of Habeas Corpus, the Hon. Miss
back the Atlantic. "10-surrender" is a fine Eleanor Maria Ffrench was in attendance in the Court of
old watchword, but it would mean nothing in Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Monday, accompanied by the
this case excepting the delays caused by repeated superioress and one of the Sisters of the Loretto Convent,
'ions. We may take it, of course, as perfectly certain Rathfarnham. The Hon. Miss Ffrench had a private
that the Opposition will record their hostility to the prin. interview with the Lord Chief Justice. The counsel at
ciple of the measure on the second reading. There will either side (Mr. Walsh and Mr. Butler for Lady Ffrench,
be, on that occasion at least, a great party division, with and Mr. Buitagh and Mr. ClirNeill Burke for Lord Ffrench)
a result that can be anticipated by all. After that the and the Sisters of the convent were subsequently admitted.
combat will be on points of law and questions o: The Lord Chief Justice then said he had had some
detail. The considerate indulgence shewn to the dis. conversation with the young lady, and she expressed a
established Irish Protestants in every line of tilt wish to go to her mother, which was perfectly natural.
Government Bill indicates the readiness of the He therefore had nothing further to do than to
statesmen who now rule the country to make the see that she was safely conducted to her mother.
transition as smooth as .possible, and to soften the His lordship also intimated that he would punish anyone
disendowment by every grant consistent with equity. On interfering with the exercise of the writ oit Habeas Corpus
many questions of importance a well-managed Opposition which interference he should regard as a contempt of
might be able to win for its Irish clients even a better court.

bargain than that now offered by the lenient Reformer whe Mr. Walsh said Lady Ffrench was in attendance.
has taken the business in hand ; and, if the Irish Church The Lord Chief Justice : Then Mr. Nagle (Clerk of the
is wise, it will direct its ability and influence to obtaining Crown) will conduct the young lady to her mother.
substantial concessions in detail. Mr. Disraeli's tone ot Mr. Walsh, Q.C., said it was the wish of all parties,
Monday was singularly guarded; for no sustained objec• and it had been expressed to the Lord Chancellor, that
Lion in principle to disestablishment or to disendowmeir the young lady should not be removed from her present
need prevent him moving in committee clauses that wil residence pending tl.e proceedings in the Court of Chan.
make disestablishment less immediate and disendowmeW cery.
less complete.

The Lord Chief Justice said ha had nothing to do with
that; but he had no doubt the wishes of the young lady
The Standard says that after taking ample time fo:r could be easily ascertained on that matter.
deliberation, the Lord Chancellor has given his decisiol The Hon. Miss Ffrench was then conducted by Mr.
upon that particular passage in the personal and officia Nagle to Lady Ffrench who was waiting in a carriage out-
history of ' Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards which recently
aide the Four Courts.
attracted so much attention. While the case was still sub
judice we felt it due to the inculpated person, and to the
judicial dignitary who had to pronounce upon his. case, to
refrain from all comment upon the extraordinary circum-

LAW AND POLICE.

stances which first became known to the world throve
the institution of criminal proceedings against the direc-
tors of Overend and Gurney (Limited). Now that Lord
'latherley has removed the confidential friend and adviser
of the great discount house from the post which, anti•
Wednesday, he Lad filled with more advantage
to himself than to the public, we may say that
those who are conducting the prosecution of th
Gurneys and their former colleagues had deemed
it essential to secure the attendance of Mr. Edward;
as a witness at the Mansion-house inquiry which
ended the other day. The evidence which that gentleman
gave, seemed to take by surprise even those who bad been
instrumental in compelling its production, while, by the
audience that crowded the court, it was heard, at first
with undisguised astonishment, and eventually with maul•
fertations of indignation, which, though out of keeping
with the place or the time of their occurrence, were by no
means unnatural. The dismissal of Mr. Edwards there-
fore is in no way affected by his peculiar arrangements for
conducting business between the Gurneys and himself,
which may or may not have been entirely fair and above•
board, so .far as the partners were concerned. We are all
willing to make every favourable assumption with respect
to these matters ; but we are not surprised that Mr.
Edwards's chief should have declined to accept his as=
ance that he neither neglected his ordinary work nor usei
his official position improperly, in order to assist Overend
and Co. in their business, or in proving himself worthy of
the money they paid him.

NEGLECT OF CHILDREN.—At the Surrey Session?, on
Tuesday, James and Amelia Beard were indicted for
cruelly neglecting the children of the male prisoner and
his first wife. The case was the worse from the man
occupying a respectable position as clerk in a stationer's
establishment, while the woman possesses landed property.
They were each sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour
OBSTRUCTING THE THOROUGHFARE.—SeveraI tradesmen
in the Whitechapel-road have been summoned by the
police for placing articles for sale outsith: their shop-
windows. They admitted the offence, but pleadlo that
trade was so bad in the East-end that if they tltL net
exhibit their wares they might as well "shut up shop."
They were each fined ss. and costs.
A CLERTCAL QuAr.REL.—At the Thames Police Court,
the Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Stepney parish, was
charged with threatening to stab the Rev. T. Hall, curate,
in the vestry. The dispute arose respecting the relief to be
given to an applicant. The magistrate expressed his great
regret that two gentlemen occupying such a position
should appear as opposing parties in a police court, an'
strongly advised some arrangement. The hearing of the
summons was adjourned till Tuesday next, when a hope
was expressed that the matter might be adjusted.
THE UNESIPLOYED.—A deputation of unemployed
waited on Wednesday upon the Lambeth police magistrate,
stating that although a large number of men k
had obtained orders for the labour yard of Lambeto t
house, they had been refused admission. It turned out
that the labour yard contained accommodation for 120
only, and as it was quite full no more could be entered.
Mr. Woolrych hoped the attention of the authorities
would be called to the lack of proper accommodation.
A SCENE ON A RACT,I'OURSE.—At the Windsor Petty
Sess:ons, a private in the 2nd Battalion of Coldstream
Guards was charged with assault and robbery. The pro•
secutor described himself as a commission agent at races,
and it seemed that the dispute arose from a disturbance at:
the Windsor steeplechases. The soldier and some coin.
rades .mobbed Mr. Shearn, accused him of being a
" welsher," and robbed him of nearly £5O. The
Chief-Superintendent:of, the Windsor police said that Mr.
Shearn was well-knoWn at Tattersall's, while the prisoner
and his witnesses Lore a very Lad character in the regiment
The prisoner was committed for trial.
A CURIOUS DISGUISE.—A singular case was beard at
the Tunbridge Police-court a day or two since, when a
young woman, about 21, was committed for trial
for burglary. It seems that some years since
she ran away from her place as nursemaid,
and disguising herself as a young man, she obtained em-
ployment first as hop-picker, and then as groom. She
was charged with breaking into a shop, and whets
taken into custody was found sitting at her parent,
?souse properly dressed. Her disguise was never susnecte4
chance led to its discovery.

The Daily News observes that the Lord Chancellor has
dismissed Mr. Watkin Edwards, formerly the confidential
adviser of Overend, Gurney, and Co., from the office of
official assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy. The public
Would give a Lord Chancellor of less simplicity of
character than Lord Hatherley credit for sincerity when
he stated that he had made an order of this kind with
much pain. But in the interests of public and
official morality the Lord Chancellor could cl,o
no less. As he himself points out, Mr. Edward's
Must have been well aware that he could not be
properly performing his official duties while he wai
rendering to Overends services which in his own oe,?inion
were cheap at 25,000 a year. It is painful that the neces-
sity should arise for applying extreme measures to men
who have been known in good and honourable positions-
but in these days it seems nothing less will suffice. 'Jet;
commercial and financial offenders will take no gentle an_
timely hint ; they rather try, as indications of dang,e:
increase, to carry everything off with a high hand ane •
triumphant smile. No one can look around at the prose_
moment and not perceive that public opinion has still
great work to do amongst offenders of this class. Vera
lately words of gravest censure, words which only came
short of the imputation of a criminal offence, fell from one
of the oldest judges of the Court of Chancery, relating to
some highly equivocal operations in the City, one of the
persons most directly affected by his censure being a mem•
3I
ber of the House of Commons, sitting for one of the first LICENSING SYSTE .—A conference is to be hem
constituencies in the kingdom. The public, which naturally on this subject at the Town-hall, Manchester, during
expected to hear that this person had had sufficient con. Easter week, under the auspices of the License Amend-
sideration for the honour of the Legislature to relieve it of meat League. This association recommends, not only the
his presence, has only heard that he has surrounded him. amendment of the beerhouse system, but a general measure
self with his " friends "to accept from them the advice to calculated to remove at least the worst abuses which now
brave the judgment of the country.
prevail.
The Post disapproves of the scheme last week laid
before Convocation proposing to organise a deputation to We understand that her Majesty the Queen has
the Christian Church in Abyssinia, with the view of been graciously pleased to forward the munificent donation
establishing £l5O to the British and Colonial Emigration Fund, ofn
establishing religious intercommunication.. The Post
which the Lord Mayor is president, for the relief by
refers to the case of the Armenian Archbishop, who is
still detained a captive in that inhospitable country
suffering from want of the common necessaries .of life, emigration to British colonies of the distress existing among
and sing who Archdeacon Mackenzie can be in sober unemployed workmen and their families.
THE MARRIAGEENE F
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of
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PhiliplS S
earnest in desiring that fresh victims should be offered up
on the shrine of misplaced enthusiasm. There is plenty
Viscount Mahon (eldest son of the Earl and
of hard work for zealous Churchmen and ardent philan-
sEtvaEnehroxpe,p
thropists without going so far afield •; and it would be
he Countess Stanhope) and Miss Evelyn Henrietta Penne-
bad thing if more real endeavours were made to heal t
celebrated
tledda "daughter
,eure
Tuesday
a the late
morninglat e General
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Rh earn)
owveorre.
wounds which are now galling the Church in this lard
before it is sought to establish a community of religioal
sentiment with African savages. Besides, at a perioo cfaelt
when even all the members of one family are seldom in
square.
accord as to the vital principles of their religion, it seems
something like a mockery to set ourselves up as the The telegraph grossly exaggerated the account 02
reformers of Abyssinian baekslidings.
the disaster at Kohat on the North West frontier of India.
The Star, in commenting on the loss which France has Government has received intelligence to the effect that a
sustained, declares that 21 years ago no name was more
lice rost at or near Kohat bad been surprised by an frequent in the mouths of men than that of Alphonse de po
in-
Lamartine. In the early months of the world-famous cursion of ono of the border tribes, and that three of our
"year of revolutions," the poet, orator, and historian of men had been carried off and one killed. A force had
Republican sentiment had seemed for a moment to grow
been promptly ordered out for the punishment of these
to the proportions of a statesman, and as the leaditna
figure in the Provisional Goverument, to shape, diztnrbers. Our telegram states that 600 had been killed.
a policy and lay the foundations of a polity at I
which Europe looked with • " •
varying emotions SALE OF A WIFE. —A remarkable story,
with avonder, suspicion, exultation, hatred, h ope, whether true or false, is reported from Totnes,
fear. As a natural conseqii;, n,.e. of the revolution in Devonshire. A bachelor became enamoured of
Lanaartine took a leading in the Pro visional
Government. How he was overburdened with the weight
of power, and how he failed to keep
we have alre--,7 the wife of a man living at Dittisham, and negotiations
reins of the State, nti firmt grasp the were concluded for her purchase for the sum of 250. The
ne
between the temptation of leadi;; Yti
locialist Demo-
.le wavered money was duly paid and the husband left the place,
Crecy and the fear of alienatt ientsatl the affections promising never to return to claim his wife. Soon after-
of the erreeoleic l'aria
ciliated neither pal to ; yet it would b
waverers, be eon- however, • • l • husband at
wards, the woman was missed from the house of
e unjusti to deny the purchaser, hay. og proceeded to rejoin that. at a critical moment, when
affainn was darkest, Latnartine asvect Totnes, where, wit 4 the £5O. they are eniovitur a second
maddened crowd, and refused to abandon'ytt e ftarciectildouar honeymoon.
for the red flag at the balding of th
Fur that act of civil conreg; wordes orTpiumlace. THE FIRST SH IP IN THE LEITH NEW DOCK.—
t,an Le o warm. We forg ;t, in contei ia) tin.;
this noble passage of an unecutal and chequered Through stress of v eather the new dock has been opened
and we
life, all sooner than was ex )ected. On Saturday morning, when
the fai:ures and the errors of the an,
cruel only his high as; iirations, his purity of life and integrity the gale was blow ng fiercely, the brig Sarah Ann, of
Of pnrpoee, his eloquence, his poetic fervour, and his p 3 North Shields, drifed from her moorings in the harbour,
-nate zeal. Larna, thee leal survived all tare glory. of ftli. and was
carried int', the new basin connected with the new
and had to taste its bitterest dieapPointrnentas; dock. In her comne she troke several Niles, and threw
Yen te years were crowned with sorrows and
Yet he may have found consolation in the loin staging and a pile-driving machine. So high was the
has ontained a permanent place in the wind that the Sarah Ann could not be takenback to the liar-
', enory of his country, and will not boor. The only way the vessel could be placed in safety was
-'ten read poetry and remember by bringing her into the new dock.—Ecliezbunoit Beriew.

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