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London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1869.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Times observes that the Irish Church Bill has been
described as a message to Ireland, and there is some truth
in the description ; but it is a message which can appa-

rently be very easily misunderstood. Two classes of Irish-
men, as far removed as possible from one another, have

,aken it to themselves, and each has given it a response,

and were it not that we know that the bulk of the people
is to be ranked with neither, we might be disturbed at

such answers to the proclamation of the linperialyarlia-

ment. The members of the Established Church have

rallied together at different points of the country

to denounce the " injustice," the " robbery," the
" tyranny" about to be practised upon them, and to
threaten the most tremendous consequences should Parlia-

merit persevere in supporting the Dlinisterial Bill. On
the other band, Fenian sympathisers have met together,

;aking advantage of the inconsiderate weakness of the

Executive Government in letting loose the convicts who

were but yesterday conspiring to overturn the State by
violence, and who boast to-day that they have abandoned
none of their aims, and they, too, threaten the united
nation with unceasing turbulence until all they demand has
been conceded. The mass of the Irish people are neither

Protestants nor Fenians, and we would willingly
believe that the mass of the Protestants do not share

the inflammatory temper exhibited at the meetings
of last week. We have some assurance for this conclusion

in the character of the representatives sent to Parliament
from the Protestant constituencies of Ireland itself. But,

however that may be, there remains in Ireland a solid
majority—a majority always increasing as education
spreads and knowledge is disseminated—who are proud

to be co-partners in our national progress, who join with
immense energyand excitement in the election of represen-

tatives to sit in the United Parliament, who watch the
proceedings of the Legislature with no less feeling of being
sharers in its life, and of having a power to influence
its course, than Englishmen and Scotchmen. To these
men the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish
Church will be an assurance of their equality with the

rest of the empire, strengthening their own loyalty, and
encouraging them to propagate it. We should be utterly
faithless if we had not confidence in this result. Disaffec-
tion will not cease in Ireland when the bill becomes law ;

the voice of discontent will still be heard to murmur ; but
the strength of disloyalty will be broken, if not subdued;
the efforts of sedition will be paralyzed and die away in

weakness.

The Standard believes that one result of the dissolution
of the Irish Church is already announced from Ireland.
This is the estrangement of the great body of the Protes.
taut laity from the cause of the Union. Hitherto the

movement in favour of repeal has been confined exclusively
to the Roman Catholics. They have been the only

agitators for what is called the parliamentary independence
of Ireland, from which they alone expected to derive any

benefit. We have now to call the attention of the British

people to the fact that henceforth repeal has become a
Protestant as well as a Roman Catholic cry. The effect

of the second reading of the Irish Church Bill has been to
swell the ranks of the discontented and the " National"
party, by throwing among them the mass of the Protestant
laity. The Union, no less than the Irish Church, is the
sign of English ascendancy—the badge of conquest. The
first is a sentimental grievance even more than the other.

If we are to ignore all past history—to reverse the policy
of three hundred years—to consult only the individual
tastes of the Irish nation, without respect to the interests

of the empire, then there is no case for the supporters
of the Union. There has ceased to he any motive or object
in that conduct which has hitherto been considered loyalty
in Ireland. The Irish Protestants, being told that they
are no longer members of the National Church, are
absolved from all allegiance to the empire as an integra;
whole. No one can complain should they better Mr.
Gladstone's instruction, and proceed from disestablish-
ment to repeal. The political enfranchisement of the
Irish " nation " is the logical corollary of the doctrines on
which the severance of the two Churches has been based ;
and if we are to regard only the wishes of the majority of
the Irish people in a matter of Imperial concern, then
we are bound to concede a separate national P %filament;
nay, a total separation from the empire, whenever the
voice of disaffection becomes louder than that of loyalty.
The Daily News says that it is worth noting how great
a change has come over our few national holidays of late
years. We have begun to believe a good deal more in
holiday-making than we once did, and though it may be
still true of us that we take our pleasures sadly, we are
much more inclined to make the most of our holidays than
our grandfathers were. Indeed, we not only lengthen out
our traditional holidays, but we seize every opportunity of
making others. The Derby Day has long been a metro-
politan holiday which even Parliament has sanctioned by
an adjournment, of which, every year, it is half ashamed :
and it was pretty generally remarked that the day of the
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race had begun this yeas
to put on a very holiday look. The fact is that the
working classes know much better how to make holiday
than the middle classes do ; and as the railways have
taught them what to do with a holiday they readily take
one when an excuse is given them or an opportunity
provided for them. The excursion trains have made a
workman's holiday worth having. lle need no longer
spend it idling about at home or getting muddled at the
public-house, for a score of cheap trips are offered him
and he can spend his holiday on the hills, or in the fields, or
at the sea, for less, perhaps, than it would have cost at home.
Then, too, the railways are always on the look out for a
good occasion to tempt the people to make a holiday. No
fear that any should forget that Easter is a holiday, for.
offers of country trips or town amusement for the Easter
holidays have for weeks past stared at us from every wall.
These old ecclesiastical holidays evidently have before
them a future of increasing observance. The changes of
the age give them new life; and though we may never
add to them any other national holidays, and holiday-
making may become more and more a matter of local or
individual occasion, we can see no likelihood that any
future generation of Englishmen will overlook Christmas
Day, or forget Whitsuntide, or make anything but fes.
tival and holiday during the great week of Easter.
The Telegraph asks some important questions—ls the
Church of England doing her work? Is she fulfilling her
trust? Are the results commensurate with the means
employed ? It is not necessary to make these inquiries in
the same spirit as a barrister cross-examines a hostile wit-
ness ; but asked they will be, and answered they must be,
as recent controversies clearly slim. We have some fif-
teen or twenty thousand clergymen, with a magnificent
annual income of probably seven millions sterling. Is
this great spiritual army combating with energy and
success its foes —immorality, ignorance, and irreli-
gion? Why should it be assumed that every one
who puts these questions is on the side of those
foes? Surely an anxiety to know whether an
institution can be improved does not imply hostility to it.
That the clergy of England are generally doing their task
with zeal and honesty of purpose few close observers will
deny; but that the results are insufficient is equally
patent. On this vital point we need not the testimony of
any but favourable witnesses. Do not bishops' " charges"
continually lament the practical infidelity of the large
mass of the population ? Do not working clergymen con-
tinually make appeals to the laity to relieve spiritual
destitution? Let any careful inquirer walk through the
poorer districts of London, of Manchester, or any other
large town, on a Sunday morning, and he wilt find abun-
dant evidence that the Church has but little power over
the indigent classes. It is a common thing to hear
persons belonging to the' lower half of the middle classes
avow, and that without shame or compunction, that they
have not been inside a church for years, except on the,
occasion of a marriage, a baptism, or a funeral. Is it wise.
is it honest, to ignore *these notorious facts? Whatever
the cause may be, it is indisputable that the ministrations
of the clergy fail to attract the greater part of the hand.
workers and brain-workers of this country. What we
need is a considerable variety of services suited to the
intelligence, habits, and even tastes of very different classes
of the people. If St. Paul could be all things to all men
that he might save some, those who in the nineteenth
... century preach his doctrines may well be content to follow
his example.
The Herald refers to the lecture which Mr. Lomas has
delivered at. Manchester on the subject of the tally trade,
and declares that, if it he true that England contains
10,000 of these trading marauders, the evil must operate
on a very large scale. Mr. Lomas also dwells on the fact
that he tally trade is immensely promoted by the county
courts. At every sitting of the court there is a long string
of " tally cases," and sometimes the court has little else
to do than to deal with cases of this kind. The
county court agent—a sort of spurious attorney
—is the devoted ally of the tally-man ; and what
with summonses, warrants, incarcerations, and costs,
the unlucky defaulters must be placed in a most lamen-
table position. County courts were certainly never
intended to promote the tally trade. Nevertheless they
have done so. Intended for the ready recovery of small
debts, these courts have really led to the multiplying of
debts which people cannot pay. Mr. Lomas suggests a
somewhat complicated remedy for this scandalous state of
things. It seems to us that a good deal depends on the
discretion of the county-court judge. There are many judgem
who detest these cases, and who give as little help as they
can to the tally'nan. As for the county - court
agents, Mr. Lomas describes them as such myr-
midons that it seems unaccountable that the
judges of the courts should have allowed them to
gain such a status as they seem to have won. But
the prime evil of the whole thing appears to be this—that
women incur debts (and those of a peculiar kind) un-
known to their husbands. In estimating where the chief
blame lies in this matter it should be remembered that the
woman does not seek the tally-man, but the latter comes
to her and tries his utmost to inveigle her into debt. If he
simply tried to persuade her into purehase.without credit
the proceeding would yet be fair. But there is something,
altogether peculiar in getting a woman to pledge her hus•
band's credit for the payment of so much per week for
months to come. The husband is the real judge of his
ability to fulfil such a contract, and it would seem that
some modification of the law on this point might
reasonably be made with immense advantage to tht
_
WaTking CIANICh

/El'Y 111 L'ATRE.

On S iturday Mr. Robertson's five-act play, en-
titled " Dreams," was produced at this theatre.
The play had already been performed at Liverpool
with success, and the announcement of its repre-
sentation in Loudon drew forth a very large and
distinguished audience. The piece on its first pro-
duction was entitled " My Lady Clara," but it re-
eeived the name of " Dreams" on its coming to
London. The plot is not very novel, and although
the piece has been written in Mr. Robertson's
usual excellent style, it is deficient in dra-
matic interest, and therefore its reception
in the metropolis was not of a very en-
thusiastic character. '1 he plot of the piece
is briefly as follows :—A certain young German
musician, not being appreciated in his own country,
comes to England to get his opera " Dreams" per-
formed. lie meets with all sorts of difficulties,
and eventually takes to teaching. He is engaged
as tuner to the establishment of the Duke of Loam-
shire, and here he meets with Lady Clara de Vere,
the affianced bride of the Earl of Mountforrest.
The young German falls deeply, and, as he fears,
hopelessly, in love with the Duke's granddaughter,
but the lady, discovering the musician's secret,
flirts with him until he declares his Passion, and
then she indignantly rejects him, and he is expelled
from the house by the Earl of Mountforrest. The
musician falls ill, Lina, the companion of his child-
hood, arrives and becomes his close attendant, and
thus, whilst broken in health, his opera is performed,
which proves a great success. Lina, on Rudolph's
recovery, finding, as she thinks, his heart set only
on the Lady Clara, enters a convent, with the
intention of becoming a nun, and then Rudolph
discovers his love for his gentle countrywoman.
The Earl of Mountforrest eventually marries Lady
Clara, and Rudolph and his mother induce Lina to
forego her intention, and thus all ends happily.
The first two acts are decidedly the best, but the
interest falls off very much in those which follow.
The audience, out of compliment to the author, as
the saying is, " sat the piece out," but opinion was
very divided as to its merits at the fall
of the curtain. Mr. Wigan's part, Rudolph, is
not exactly suited for him ; he is unmistakeably a
great actor, but in the play he has nothing to call
forth his talent. Miss Robertson has a very good
part, the Lady Clara ; and Mr. Clayton has one
which he plays remarkably well, the Earl of Mount-
forrest; and these, with the exception of a kind of
" comic commercial" part for Mr. Soutar, form
the principal persons represented ; that greater
success did not follow the production of the piece
was certainly not to be attributed either to the want
of talent in the actors or the ability of the scene-
painters--each was truly excellent. The piece
was placed upon the stage with exquisite taste, and
everything was done for it in the power of a liberal
management, but after all the success it met with
was but partial. The " stentor" who kept con-
tinually shouting " Author, author," every time

here was the slightest applause, had his wish gra-

tified in the end, as " the author" at last made his
appearance before the curtain and bowed his ac-
knowledgments; and at one time it-seemed as if he
was going t) male appecch.

111L1TARY AND NAVAL _INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary for War, paid a
second visit to Portsmouth on Saturday, arriving
by early morning train from London. Mr. Card-
well on arrival drove to the dockyard, where he
went on board and inspected the Indian relief
screw troopship Serapis, Capt. John Soady. On
leaving the Serapis he embarked on board her
Majesty's paddle steamer Fire Queen, Staff-Com-
mander F. W. Paul, and proceeded down the Solent
to view the fortifications commanding the Needles
passage and the western approaches from the
Channel to Spithead. On returning from the
Solent and disembarking from the Fire Queen,
Mr. Cardwell left Portsmouth for London by even-
ing train.
An order was issued on Saturday from the
Horse Guards directing the Ist division of the
Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, numbering 13 otli-
cers, 629 non-commissioned officers and gunners,
four officers' horses, 55 soldiers' wives, and 123
children to proceed from headquarters to Woolwich
on Thursday next. The Depot Brigade will be
replaced at Sheerness by Nos. 4 and 5 batteries, 7th
Brigade Royal Artillery, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. S. Greene, together
with the headquarters of the Coast Brigade, com-
prising No. 10 division, under the command of
Lieut.-Colonel F. Campbell. The Ist division of
the Depot Brigade will probably occupy the bar-
racks at Woolwich vacated by the Royal Marines.
Theßo
y aorderArtillery, als odirects
the
proceedli
frombattery,
head-quarters 4t h
Wednesday, and march to Bristol, at which port
they will embark for Cork.

The remains of the late Major-General Joseph
Oates Travers, C. 8., Royal Marines, were con-
veyed from his residence, 18, Dover-street, Pic-
cadilly, to Mensal-green Cemetery, on Saturday.
There were present, in addition to the relatives
of the deceased, a large body of his late brother
officers, and several non-commissioned officers and
others who had served under him at various
periods, among whom was Lieut.-General Sir A.
B. Stransham, Major-General Foote, and Colonels
Lambrick, Schomberg, Slither, Louis, Rodney, and
Stewart.

The dockyard and naval establishments at Chat-
ham were closed to-day, to enable the volunteers
to attend the review at Dover.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULT AND WILFUL DAMAGE.—Charles Lang WSS
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Mr. Louis
Bargenheim, landlord of the Coach and Horses, at the corner
of Greek-street, Soho-square.
The prisoner refused to leave prosecutor's house at
closing time on Saturday night, and on the prosecutor
attempting to put him out he gave him a severe blow on
the face, and on getting outside broke a pane of glass of the
value of 10s., and was then given into the custody of
Ellis, 99 C.
The only defence the prisoner made was that he did
not like to leave when told and refused to do so, and on
being put out he struck the prosecutor.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prosecutor had a right to put the
prisoner out as he wanted to close his house. Ho should
fino the prisoner 208. for the assault, and order him to pay
the amount of damage.
CRUELTY TO HORSES.—Robert Gibson, a cab-proprietor,
of Howard-road, Stoke Newington, and Charles Cook, a
man in his employ, appeared to answer the complaint of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, the former for causing a horse to be worked in an
unfit state, and the latter for working it.
From the evidence of Inspector Temperley and Young,
officers of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, it appeared that the horse was em-
ployed to draw a cart laden with washing from different
laundresses, and that it had several sores about it, was
old and worn out, and apparently suffered great pain.
Gibson was fined 10s. and costs, and. Cook was dis-
charged, but on its being represented that Gibson had
been put to great expense, he was only ordered to pay the
costs-12s. Gd.