The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESBYTERIAN CHAPLAINS.
The Rev. John Rogers has addressed a long
letter to the Banner of Ulster, bearing upon the
pending dispute between the General Assembly
and the Government in regard to the appointment
of Presbyterian chaplains for the army. In the
letter is embodied an authoritative communication
received by Mr. Rogers from the chaplain-General
of the Forces in relation to the chaplaincy appoint-
ment at Shorncliffe

" The following" (says the rev. gentleman) is
the letter which I received a few days ago ; and,
as it is for Clergy P,' which means, perhaps,
' publicity among the clergy,' and has the impri-
matur of the Chaplain-General' at both top and
tail—which, doubtless, is intended as a warning
to aspirants in general after military chaplain-
cies—l don't see that I can do better than give
the warlike missive general, if not universal,
circulation:—
" ' Clergy P.

" ' General No., 203.

" ' War-office, Pall-mall, S.W., Oct 16.

`i Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Major-
General Peel to acquaint you that he has deter-
mined on appointing an assistant-chaplain to the
forces to attend to the religious wants of the Pre-
byterian
troops at Shorncliffe, and that the Rev.
J. Young has been directed to proceed thither forth-
with.

j" In acquainting you that after the arrival of
Mr. Young at Shorncliffe your services at that sta-
tion will no longer be required, I have to express
to you the Secretary of State's thanks for the care
you have taken of the religious welfare of the Pres-
byterian troops during the time that they have been
under your charge.
" ' I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" G. R. GLEIG, C.G.
" ' The Rev. John Rogers."

The Banner, as the organ of the Presbyterian
body, thus comments upon the War-office com-
munication :

" It is perfectly evident that this last episode in
the great chaplaincy drama is intended, on the part
of Government, as a tolerably plain intimation that
the Irish Presbyterian Church is to be excluded
in toto from all share in Gsvernment patronage.
The General Assembly has thus lost its position in
the army altogether, and it has only now to remem-
ber by what traitorous and underhand methods, on
the part of a miserable clique, such a consummation
has been achieved. However, the Church has nobly
vindicated its independence and honour throughout
the whole of these negotiations, and it can afford to
despise the unprincipled policy of a Government
which scrupled not to break its pledges at the beck
of its political partisans."

THE BANK OF IRELAND.
The trade report of the Freeman's Journal directs
attention to a return lately presented to the House
of Commons by the Bank of Ireland, showing the
amount of dividends paid to the holders of Govern-
ment stock in Ireland, dividing them into classes.
The return is given for 13 years, from 1845 to
1857, but that we extract is the last year. There
were—

Holders.
Receiving less than £lO per annum 11,700
Receiving from £lO to £2O ditto
Receiving from £2O to £lOO ditto
Receiving from £lOO to £2,000 ditto 2,087
Receiving from £2,000 to £4,000 ditto
Receiving upwards of £4,000 ditto

25,926
" The general tendency during the 13 years was
to agreater subdivision; for instance, in the highest
class, that receiving more than £4,000 per annum
each, there had been 18 in 1845, but only six in
1857. Of these two were holders of New Threes,
one of Consols, one of Long Annuities (which
expire in another year), and two of Terminable
Annuities. About four-fifths of the entire, both in
number and value, is held in New Three per Cents.
(late 31 per cent.), and only about one-fifth in
Consols--a singular fact, as the aggregate amount
in England of the two stocks is about equal. Our
readers are aware that the New Threes are pro-
tected from reduction for 15 years. The following
are the totals for each kind of stock. It will be
observed that the proportion of all the other de-
scriptions of stock besides the two mentioned is
very small. Some of them are, however, large
holders :

Holders.
21,487
4,136

New Three per Cents.
Consols
Reduced Three per Cents.....
New Five per Cents.
Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
Long Annuities 2
Terminable Annuities

2b,926
'• It is curious that the only two Terminable An-
nuities are over £4,000 per annum."

THE DUBLIN CUSTOMS DUTIES.

The total Customs duties received here during
the 12 months ending with the 30th of September
vary but infinitesimally from those of the preceding
year, there being a difference of only £365 in an
amount of upwards of a million. If the comparison
is extended to 1856, the difference is still very
trifling, being under £6,000. The totals for the
three years are—for 1858, £1,000,434; for 1857,
£1,000,069 ; and for 1856, £994,536.