The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-25 00:00:00

THE LATE MAYOIL OF COIN.

Air. Daniel O'Sullivan, late Mayor of Cork, is at it
again. Ile is a member of the board of guardians
in the " beautiful city." On Wednesday last he
attempted to introduce a petition in favour of the
Irish Church Bill as passed by the Commons. The
mayor ruled such a petition out of order, and refused
to allow it to be discussed. Mr. O'Sullivan there-
upon denounced him as an Orangeman, and in the
midst of great uproar demanded his resignation. The
mayor left the chair and went away. Mr. O'Sull;van
then moved-that he be called upon to resign, but the
clerk refused to take the motion. Great confusion
ensued, and the board broke up in the midst of it.

THE OVEREND, GURNEY, AND COMPANY
PROSECUTION.

Dr. Thom, the prosecutor of the directors of
Overend, Gurney, and Company, is placed in a most
awkward predicament. He is bound over in £,5,000
to conduct his case in the Court of Queen's Bench
he has not any large amount of money, the Home
Office will not provide him with counsel, and
the Lord Chief Justice refuses to allow him to pro-
secute in person. What then is he to do ? lle writes
very indignantly :Wont the in itter to the papers,
sbewing, bow absurdly he is pressed. " If," ho
a )ys, "a prosecutor and his witIP.FS-,-s be doomed to
have obeyed their country's call in vain, let the blame
of the failure be divided between the apathy of the
public at large and the absurdities of our penal juris-
prudence. Be the result what it may,. I shall have
done my best to vindicate commercial integrity and
to restore commercial confidence." Perhaps the
Home Office does not w.ali the casee to go to
trial. •

I EVE L LING UP.

alive .to the fact that
theThl6ri2‘shrunallu
u'relh.inißstilil fhnalslycntered upon its most
critical stage. Not aware that Lord Russell had
actually proposed to build Roman Catholic churches
with the surplus funds, our contemporary urges that
even the minor form of " concurrent endowment,"
the giving of parsonages and glebes to the Roman
Catholic priests and the Presbyterian ministers,
should be oppased. " There is no earthly
necessity for it, except to gratify the traditional
sentiment of the Lords in favour of some
national provision for religious ministrations.
It will be a blot upon a measure singularly
definite in its policy and complete in its
arrangements. It will not, perhaps, altogether de-
feat its object; but it will change for the worse its
spirit, and mar its symmetrical arrangement." The
Daily Telegraph, says that, " consistent to
the traditions of a long political life, Lord Russell
would carry up the levelling policy
wholesale. What
the country will say to Lord Russell's proposals there
can be no doubt whatever." That answer will be,
our contemporary affirms, too late. The thing might
have been done in Pitt's time, but the public judg-
ment and conscience have decided on a far different
solution of the long controversy. It was part of Mr.
Gladstone's programme at the elections that the
Church property should be devoted to other than
ecclesiastical purposes. Moreover, to split up
a vast revenue among warring religionists
in unequal proportions, Would be to light
the torch of discorl in every Irish parish.
The Mornfnu Adiveliser is, naturally enough,
horrified at any proposal for levelling up, and in a
long leader, asts any. number of -quEStions, which
are all variations of the one question—" Are we to
undo the Reformation ? " The 211ornfug Post simply
publishes the amendments without note or
comment. Ihe Times does not seem to have heard
of them.

Mr. E.lphinstone Dalrymple, writing from relgium,
tells what has been done in Prussia. That country
entered into a concordat with Pius VII., by which
the tithes and the endowments of the Church were
apportioned equally among the different religious
bodies in proportion to their numbers. The right of
veto upon objectionable appointments is retained.
Mr. Dalrymple adds that " a like course is open to
the English Government, if bigotry and prejudice
will permit." A very large " if."