The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-17 00:00:00

THE IRISH CHURCH BILL.

On Wednesday afternoon a number of gentlemen from
the large towns of Yorkshire,.and representing the York-
shire Church Institution, had an interview with some
members of the House of Lords at the National Club,
Whitehall-gardens. Owing to some error as to time or
place, several peers who were expected did not arrive, but
there were present the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of
Bandon, and the Bishop of Tuam.

A long report was read to their lordships, shelving the
result of the various meetings held in the large towns of
Yorkshire, the object being to impress upon the Peers the
magnitude and popularity of the present movement in
Yorkshire, originated and carried on by the Yorkshire
Church Institution ; and several gentlemen also addressed
their lordships, and informed them of the feeling which
existed in Yorkshire.

The Duke of Rumms-D, in reply, said he thought the
deputation should have paid more attention to those
noble lords who were inclined to vote for the second
reading of the bill. He had done what he could in speak-
ing against the bill ; but if he could do anything
as far as regarded any pressure that could be applied
he would do so. It rejoiced his heart to know
that Yorkshire was following the noble example
set by Lancashire, for they were the two most im-
portant counties in England. The fueling that bad
been shewn in Lancashire and Yorkshire—and he believed
also in other districts of England—was extraordinary, and
shewed that there was a reaction. He had always had
a confident belief that the Protestant heart of England
would not sanction the scheme of spoliation. He
was astonished to hear Earl Grey, in the House of
Lords, refer to the Appropriation Clause, for if ever
there-was an argument in favour of throwing out the bill
on the second reading, the fate of that clause was one.
That clause was introduced in a bill brought in by the
then Lord John Russell, in 1835, and carried through the
Commons by a majority of about 38. It was sent to the
House of Lords and rejected in 1836. The bill was
passed a second time in the House of Commons by a
majority of 33 or 35, and a second time it was rejected by
the Lords. In 1837 Sir R. Peel asked Lord John Russell
what he meant to do with respect to the Appropriation
Clause, and Lord John Russell said he had then come to
an entirely different conclusion upon the subject, and
would not introduce it into the bill then proposed ;
and for twenty-five years nothing more was heard
of the Appropriation Clause. Earl Grey told the Con-
servative party that a victory would be fatal. Well, he
only hoped they would have a majority against the second
reading of the bill, and that that majority would be as
fatal as the majority against the Appropriation Clause ;
for if they could only stave off this Irish Church Bill for
twenty-five years he, for one, would be satisfied.
The Earl of BANDON said that living in the southern
part of Ireland, where his own church was threatened to
be taken away, he needed no persuasion to induce him
to vote against the second reading of the bill; but it was
a sincere pleasure to know that they had the sympathy of
friends in Yorkshire and other parts of the North ofEng-
land. The noble lord who had been referred to told the
House on the previous night that they should be
warned by what happened at the time of the
Reform Bill ; but the circumstances of the two
cases were very different. Was the feeling of the
country in favour of the bill? He had himself pre-
sented 300 petitions against the bill, and he had seen so
many petitions in the House that the messengers were in
trouble lest they should not be able to sort them in time.
There was a strong feeling, then, in favour of rejecting
the bill, but nothing to shew on the contrary. In the South
of Ireland only the priests were in favour of the bill. Ask
a farmer what he thought about it, and he would reply
bat the priest told him it would be to his advantage,

)ut that be did not see how it would put a shilling into
his pocket. He hoped this point as to the feeling of the
country would be strongly pressed upon the Lords, and if
he had the opportunity of speaking in the debate, he
would represent the sentiments which had been expressed.
by the deputation. He thought the measure was the
most iniquiteus and unjust that could be put forward, and
he hoped, like the Appropriation Clause, the bill would be
thrown out, and that the House would follow a precedent
when, in the reign of Henry IV., a bill for the spoliation
of Church property in Ireland was rejected by the Lords
when sent up by the House of Commons.
The Bishop of TRAM assured the deputation that there
was a strong feeling among some of the Roman Catholic
'aity in Ireland that the Irish Church was a security of
heir present liberty.
The Duke of Rutland then left ; but before the depar-
ture of the Earl of Bandon and the Bishop of Tuam.
The Rev. T. DARLING called attention to the speech of
the Archbishop of Canterbury in the House of Lords, and
added that if the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of
Oxford followed in the same way, as it was said they
would, England had arrived at a miserable stage, and it
WAS time to speak out plainly.
Before the meeting broke up it was decided to wait on
the Archbishop of York another day ; and Lord Bandon
also advised a deputation to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury.

It is probable that the annual congress of tho
National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
will be held at Bristol. Next year and the year after tho
congresses are to be held at Liverpool and Newcastle.

ACCIDENT TO THE ROYAL TRAIN.—Just after
the Queen left the railway carriage which had conveyed
her from the North to Windsor, an accident occurred to
the royal train. Some empty carriages belonging to the
Great Western Railway Company were being "roped"
into the stations, when, by some oversight, the points at
the crossing were left open, and the " empties" ran on to
the line on which the Queen's train was backing out of
the station. A collision resulted, the van at the end
of the royal train was thrown off the rails, and consider-
able damage was done. No one was hurt by the accident.
PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL SOCIETY.—The
168th anniversary of this society was inaugurated on
Wednesday by a festival service in the nave of Westmin-
ster Abbey. It is arranged that a second festival service
shall be held in St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday next,
when the Bishop of Lichfield is announced to preach. On
the following day divine service will be held in thirteen
London churches, and on Friday the annual meeting for
the City will be held in the Egyptian Hall, Alansion
House. The anniversary will be brought to a close by a
meeting in St. George's Hall, Langbam-place, under the
presidency of the Bishop of London. The society has this
year to provide for the maintenance, in whole or in part,
of 478 ordained missionaries, and about 700 lay teachers
and students. In 1868 its receipts, general and special,
were £103,132.

PIRACY IN THE NORTH SEA.—The following
incident of attempted robbery at sea is related by a foreign
paper :—" Captain Dinkela, of the Antina, of Emden,
reports that on his last voyage from Emden to Norway
he was bearded by the fisher-boat John Cook, with
a crew of nine men. In the first instance they
pretended they only wished to barter fish for
tobacco, but immediately afterwards they demanded
meat and other provisions. On this being refused
they proceeded to use violence, and forced their way
into the cabin. One man made a rush at the captain, who
was at the helm, while another tried to haul down the
signal of distress, which the mate has just succeeded in
hoisting. As the crew of the Antina consisted of only
four men, they would probably have been completely
overpowered, bad not a brig seen the signal and borne
down to their assistance, upon which the fishermen beat
au linmetliat,, ictrcat."
AN AMERICAN STORY. —The Columbus (Ohio)
Journal gives a description of a singular will made by a
shrewd business man of that city who had accumulated
a fortune. It says that the will disinherits all the natural
heirs of the maker of it, and devises the entire property in
trust for the establishment of an Infirmary for Cats.
A most elaborate architectural plan for the
necessary buildings is attached to, and made part
of, the will. It provides areas, and rat-holes to be kept
well stocked. The most ingenious contrivances are
provided for securing to the rat a chance of escape, so that
the cats may not lose the pleasures of the chase. High
walls are to be built with gently sloping roofs, for the
moonlight promenade and other nocturnal amusements of
the cats. The trustees are directed to select the grounds
for this novel infirmary in the most populous part
of some American city, and the devices are to be pro-
tected by a competent force of nurses from the ravages
of men and dogs. No person of the male sex is ever to
be admitted within the walls, and no female who has
children or is under 30 years old. The first provision of
the will seems most outrageously bizarre. Says the
devisor :—" I have all my life been taught to
believe thht everything in and about man was
intended to be useful, and that it was man's
duty, as lord of animals, to protect all the lesser
species even as God protects and watches over him.
For these two combined reasons—first, that my body,
even after death, may continue to be made useful ; and,
secondly, that it may be made instrumental, as far as
possible, in furnishing a substitute for the protec-
tion of the bodies of my dear friends, the cats—
I do hereby devise and bequeath the intestines
of my body to be made up into fiddlestrings, the
proceeds to be devoted to the purchase of an accordion,
which shall be played in the auditorium of the Cat
Infirmary by one of the regular nurses, to be selected for
that purpose exclusively—the playing to be kept up for
ever and ever, without cessation day or night, in order
that the cats may have the privilege of always hearing
and enjoying that instrument which is the nearest
annreach to their natural voices.*

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tms EVENING.

Tho groat interest in the debate was again manifested,
and the house presented the same crowded state it has
exhibited during the two former evenings.
_ _

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

MR. BRIGHT'S LETTER.

Lord CAIRNS then rose, and after alluding to the im-
portance of some explanation being given on tho sub-
ject of a letter, signed " John BrigLt," said it
was most singular, to say the least of it, that the
letter should not have made its appearance until two days
after the motion with respect to the Irish Church Bill had
been given by his noble friend (the Earl of Harrowby).
The noble and learned lord then read the letter in ques-
tion, and dwelt in particularly strong terms upon the
allusion in it to the childish tinkering with the constitu-
tion their lordships were indulging in in endeavouring to
perfect the Life Peerages Bill. (Loud laughter.) The
letter also upheld that their lordships were acting in
direct opposition to the will of the nation in obstruct-
ing the progress of the Irish Church Bill and other
imputations of the most unjustifiable nature were used,
which rendered the publication of its production in fact as
a menace to the house. He thought the writing such a
letter was altogether unprecedented by a minister of the
Crown—(hear, hear) -and calculated to produce the
utmost danger to the free discussion of the question by
their lordships. He thought it highly objection-
able that there should be one member of the Go-
vernment continually doing all that was smooth
and bland within the house, whilst another member
of it was doing all that was quite contrary out of it. (Hear
hear.) He thought it would be idle to call the letter a pri-
vate communication, because it was to all intents and pur-
poses a party manifesto, and so it was looked upon through-
out the country. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the noble earl
opposite would, in answer to his question, repudiate the
sentiments contained in the letter which he had brought
under the attention of the house.

Earl GRANVILLE said the letter was written by Mr.
Bright, but he could not accept the paraphrase the noble
and learned lord had been pleased to give of it to their
lordships. (Hear, hear.) Ile was certain that the greatest
desire of the right hon. gentleman was in no way to cvor-
awe the deliberation of their lordships with respect to the
Irish Church Bill, and he was quite sure that none of the
oolleagues of the right hon. gentleman were acquainted
with the contents of the letter in question previous
to its being sent, and the first time they had the
opportunity of perusing its contents was when it appeared
in the public newspapers. It was admitted that there
was a great deal of John Bullism about Mr. Bright, and
he supposed it was in that rash combative feeling R hich
was given to John Bullism that Mr. Bright thought he
might express his opinion of a house which
libd made such free comments upon his con-
duct as a public man—(hear, hear.)—recalling more
especially the proceoedings that took place at a certain
meeting of the Conservative Peers in St. James's-square.
Mr. Bright had no intention of acting disrespectfully to
the House of Lords, and he entirely repudiated
such an intention. Mr. Bright had assured him that what
he intended was merely to express his own yersonal feel-
ings, and if ho had given pain to any of their lord-
ships, ho had begged him (Earl Grenville) to assure their
lordships that such was not his intention. With respect
to the words "tinkering and unwise," he (Earl Gran-
ville) should rather prefer them than the welds that
had been applied to his side of the house by a noble lord
who had not hesitated to denounce him as dishonest.

rLEFT SITTING.

HOUSE OF COM AIONS.—Tuis EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
MEXICO.

Mr. OTWAY, in reply to Mr. B. Seymour. said the
diplomatic relations between this country and Mexico re-
mained precisely the same as they were when the noble
lord opposite was Foreign Minister. The Government
were quite open to renew relations, but it was felt, under
all circumstances, the first step towards the matter could
not be made by this country. (near, hoar.)

THE LADIES' GALLERY.

Mr. HERBERT said, on going into Committee of Sup•

ply, ho should move that the grating in front of the ladies'
gallery be removed. (Hear, hear.)

MR BRIGIIVS LETTER

Colonel NORTH asked the First Lord of the Treasury
whether the latter read at a public mooting at Birming.
ham, on Monday, the 14th, signed "John Bright," and
which has appeared in the public journals, was written by
the President of the Board of Trade, and, if so, whether
the Government concur in the opinions expressed therein ?

Mr. GLADSTONE said he had to st,to that
the letter alluded to was the production of his
right honourable friend—(hear, hear, and laughter)—
and ho might further state that it was written without
consultation with his colleagues. The letter to which
allusion had been made was published iu the same news-
paper as a letter he (Mr. Gladstone) had written to a gen-
tleman at Bradford, but his communication bad not been
dignified with the same large type as that of his right
hon. friend—(hear, hear, and laughter)—and therefore it
had not succeeded in getting the same amount of conside-
ration—(hear, hear)—a circumstance which, he might say,
afforded him some mortification. (Laughter.( With respect
to the letter of his right hon. friend, the Government had
not and did not intend to consider whether they ought to
approve of it or not, because there were motives which,
although they might approve of individually, as a Go-
vernment they could not deal with. There were matters
upon which both houses were extremely jealous, but he
might say that nothing with respect to the control of the
free action of the other house of the Legislature could fur-
, ther from the desire of his right hon. frier d to interfere in
any way with the exercise of that free action which they
undoubtedly possessed.

The ho;se then proceeded to resume the adjourned
debate, on the subject of issuing a now writ for Dublin.
rLEFT SITTING.

ANOTHER RAID UPON A BETTING-

ROUSE.

MARYLEDONE POLICE COURT-THIS DAY.

Michael Emanuel, aged 20, of 21, Ilenrietta-
street, Manchester-square, metal merchant, was
charged before Mr. Mansfield with unlawfullyassist-
ing in conducting a betting-house and a yard for
betting purposes, at No. 22, Henrietta-street, and
the following were severally charged with being
found in a betting-house and a yard used for
betting purposes at No. 22, Henrietta-street,
Manchester-square :—•Janes Baker, aged 40, 12,
High-street, Marylebone, servant, out of place ;
Charles Lumley, aged 33, 18, Grosvenor-market,
Davies street, painter ; Charles Fraser, aged
25, 2, Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, rag
sorter; Frederick Finnimore, aged 28, 96, East-
street, Manchester-square, coach painter ; Edward
West, aged 22, 2, New Quebec-street, butcher ;
Wm. Morris, aged 27, 43, Bishop's-yard, Mount-
street, Grosvenor-square, servant; James \Voodley,
aged 37, 37, Gilbert-street, carpenter; Wm. Spend-
love,36, 21,W oodstock-street,Oxford-street,harness
lei,loro ALedox, ugcd G 7, 22b, Broo.dlway,
Camden-town, importer of cigars ; George Crowe,
aged 36, Grosvenor-mews, messenger ; Charles
Moss, aged 34, 12, Poland-street, tailor ; William
Concannen, aged 54, 11, Bell's-buildings, tailor ;
Henry Morley, aged 42, 28, Barrett's-court, furni-
ture dealer; John M`l3right, aged 20, Laugh=
Hotel, porter ; and Edward Began.
Superintendent Draper, of the D division, watched
the case on behalf of Colonel Henderson, the Chief
Commissioner of Police.

Mr. Lewis, sen., of Ely-place, appeared for
Emanuel and several of the other prisoners, and
Mr. W. 11. Davis, of Golden-square, for Medex.
When the prisoners were placed in court, all hav-
ing surrendered to their bail, Mr. Lewis said he
must ask for au adjournment, as he had not had
sufficient time to receive instructions from his
clients.

Mr. Davis also, on behalf of his client, wished
for an adjournment.
Superintendent Draper had no objection to the
adjournment.
From what could be gathered it appears that
Inspectors Ilindes, and Lucas of the D division,
with a posse of constables under the com-
mand of the superintendent entered the house
named and apprehended the prisoners, and also
took possession of a number of cards and betting
books. Superintendent Draper in his endeavour
to apprehend one of the parties has seriously hurt
his right ankle.

All parties agreeing, Mr. Mansfield adjourned
the case for a week, allowing all parties to be at
large on their own recognisances in th sum of £lO.

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