The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

THE BRADFORD ELECTION.

The nomination of a burgess to serve in Parlia-
ment in the place of the late Mr. Wickham took
place at Bradford on Monday. There were two can-
didates—viz., Mr. Matthew Wm. Thompson, of
Park-gate, Guisely, near Leeds, and Mr. Edward
Miall, of London. Both are Liberals, but they differ
widely on ecclesiastical questions.. Mr. Thompson
had the show of hands at the hustings, and the friends
of M. Miall had to demand a poll. Mr. Thompson
is absent at Dresden, where he is detained in conse-
queree of having to watch by the sick bed of an
invalid son. He is a gentleman of much local influ-
ence, and has long had the good opinion of all classes
of his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Miall holds extreme
political opinions, but his cause found no favour in
consequence of his being, in fact, the nominee of
some of the most active leaders and patrons of the
local Reform League. The poll tiok place yesterday.
There was great excitement in the town during the
entire day, but the crowds who assembled every
where were generally good humoured. The poll
showed Mr. Miall in advance till 10 o'clock, but at
half-past 10 Mr. Thompson headed his opponent
more than 100, and gradually left him in the dis-
tance. The following' is the state of the poll at
the clase

Thompson ••• ••• ••• 2,214
Miall ••• ••• ••• 1,839

FEMALE ART EDUCATION.—John W. Walton,
Esq., has kindly consented to deliver a course of lectures,
to students and others, on " Artistic Anatomy," exemplified
and explained from a living model, at the Royal Female
School of Art, Queen-square. Ho will also give for the
benefit of the schools a prize of five guineas for the best
outline of the skeleton, to be competed for by the students.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Monday

The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, .4i:tended
Divine service in the parish church at Crathie, Ye"
terday.

The Marchioness of Ely and Colonel Ponsonbi
were in attendance.

The Rev. Dr. Watson, of Dundee, officiated.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES•
ANTWERP, OCt. 16.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales have arrived here.

Her Majesty will leave Balmoral either on the
let or 4th proximo for Windsor Castle. The precise clai
is not yet fixed.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to arrive at Marlborough House to-
morrow from Wiesbaden.

The Duchess of Buccleuch and the Ladies Mar-
garet and Mary Scott have arrived at Montagu Rouse/
Whitehall, from Paris.
The Duke of Buckingham has left town to attend
upon her Majesty at Balmoral, as Secretary of State 10
Waiting.

The Countess of Morley and Lady Katherine
Parker have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from York.
Lord Lyons is staying on a visit to the Duchess a
Norfolk at Arundel Castle. His lordship is daily expected
to leave for Paris to enter upon his diplomatic duties.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN

IRELAND.

At the meeting of the Archbishops and Bishops
of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland that took
place recently in Dublin, a series of important
resolutions was adopted, having particular reference
to-1. The disendowment of the Protestant Church
Establishment and the application of its revenues
2. National education ; 3. The Catholic University;
and 4. On secret societies, and on the means of
establishing peace and prosperity in Ireland. Fel"
lowing is the text of the principal resolutions :
" The Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, seeing
that the Government and Parliament are preparing
to deal by law with the Irish Protestant Church
Establishment, deem it their duty to declare.—
" 1. That the Irish Protestant Church Establish-
ment is maintained chiefly, almost exclusively, by
property and revenues unjustly alienated from the
rightful owner, the Catholic Church of Ireland
that Irish Catholics cannot cease to feel as a grc°l4
injustice and as an abiding insult the continued,
even partial, maintenance of that Establishment
out of that endowment, or in any other way at their
expense—an Establishment to which, as to their
fountain-head, are to be traced the waters of bitter-
ness which poison the relations of life in Ireland+
and estrange from one another Protestants and
Catholics, who ought to be an united people.
" 2. That notwithstanding the rightful claim of
the Catholic Church in Ireland to have restored to
it the property and revenue of which it was 1.111-
justly deprived, the Irish Catholic Bishops hereby
re-affirm the resolutions of the bishops assembled in
the years 1835, 1841, and 1843 ; and, adhering to
the letter and spirit of those resolutions, distinctly
declare that they will not accept endowment front
the State out of the property and revenues n°l
held by the Protestant Establishment, nor AO
State endowment whatever.

"3. That in thus declaring their determination
to keep the Church of Ireland free and independent
of
of State control or interference, the Bishops

Ireland are hlppily in accord with instructions re;
ceived from the Holy See in the years 1801 OA
1805, as well as with the course pursued by th°
Irish Bishops of that day in conformity with tlloSe
instructions.

"4. That the Bishops are confident that the
Catholics of Ireland will receive with joy this re"
pudiation of a State endowment for the Irish
Church, and that they will never cease to give:,
without any legal compulsion; the support
they hither-0 freely and dutifully accorded to their
clergy and religious institutions.

"6. That by appropriating the ecclesiastical pro"
perty in Ireland for the benefit of the poor the Le'
gislature would realise one of the purposes for which
it was originally destined, and to which it was ar
plied in Catholic times.
" The assembled Bishops reaffirm the resolution°
in reference to education adopted in a general meet'
ing held by the Bishops of Ireland in Dublin on the
4th and following days of August, 1863."
The resolutions referred to are strongly condett"
natory of the principle of mixed education, in which
religion is " unnaturally separated from secular in'
struction ; in which the State would substitute it'l
own power for the authority of the Catholic Church
in respect to the education of Catholic youth." The
constitution of the model and training sohoola ,d
condemned as especially dangerous and conflicting
with the principles of the Catholic Church.
" The Bishops call particular attention to the re;
solution which declares that the constitution ("
the model and training schools evidently conel
with the principles of the Catholic Church, au
which enjoins on priests to use their best exertions
to withdraw children from them as being specinlife
dangerous. They direct that the resolution 11
promulgated anew in all parishes from which it
be apprehended that children would go to thl
schools ; and that priests be again instructed that /
is their imperative duty to enforce it to the utra°st
of their power.
" The meeting decides that a petition be sent toParliament praying for such a change in the exist'
ing national system of education as may afford, t;
the Catholics of Ireland all the advantages to whet
they are entitled. • 1
" Whilst we warn our flocks against the crioona
folly of engaging in secret societies or open insure
rection against the Government of the count* lit
also declare to the Government and Legislature °till
profound conviction that peace and prosperity 811,!0
never be permanently established in Ireland till 0
Protestant Church is totally disendowed, educati°o
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in all its departments made free, and the fruits `',.l
their capital and labour secured to the agrieultur°.
classes."

MR. DISRAELI'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH.---inv
Disraeli is expected to arrive in Scotland on SP/h.;
day, the 26th inst., and will during his stay there .130
guest of Mr. Dundas of Arniston, at Arniston-houso, sl9°-
eight miles from Edinburgh. Sir William Stirling 313-;
well, M.P., is to bo chairman at the Conservative bane,-
on the 29th, and the Earl of Rossiya is to be vice-cl°,;'
man, with Lord Garlies, Sir James Campbell, Mr. Cu::
ming Bruce, M.P., Mr. Dundas of Arniston, and Mr. ffrag
son of Bothwick-hall, as croupiers. The list of stevOl.„j
includes five persons of ducal rank, three marquises, tt',,g,
about 12 earls, and a host of the lesser nobility, baron the
landed proprietors, local magistrates, members of tag
learned professions, farmers, merchants, &c. The PIA„-eii
of the company will, with a few exceptions, be deter
by ballot. The freedom of the city of Edinburgh is t°
presented to Mr. Disraeli on Wednesday, the 30th inst.7l3o
2 o'clock, probably in the Music-hall. It is likely also t
the University of Edinburgh may, as in the case a i'°:),o
Palmerston in 1863, take the opportunity of conferring

degree of LL.D. on the olistinguished statesman. e
TRAGEDY AT OLD CALABAR.—The West Alt.`"
mail brings intelligence of a frightful tragedy having I°Q.elfi,
enacted at Old Calabar on the 12th September. A cl'ite,
named Effium Adam, died rather suddenly at that Pl,°'o-
- friends surmised that ho had been the victim Of:il°
play; so the late chief's wives, six in number, anuii-01)vi
entire household were assembled, and required to 5W9,.,04
a large dose of the " esere," a Calabar beau (the poisot',6
properties of which are well known), to test their innocer3,io
of the supposed murder. Eight of the unfortunate Ticto
had succumbed to the effects of the dreadful poison
the mail left, and the others wore not expected to sur/'T:I,I
THE DUNDEE WHALERS.-011 Monday Se'le„-f,
letters were received in Dundee announcing the bad 'O-ft
tune of the whole fleet of vessels belonging to that 13,-0,,
and prosecuting the whale fishing at Davis Straits thiS
son. The advices, which are dated the 15th Septet/t:
state that, with the exception of two of tho vessels--"ho
Camperdown and Esquima.ux, which have a fish each: eft
whole fleet are clean. The vessels must in a vole" be
time leave the ice, and it is not expected that they Csll,id
well fished. .The fleet consists of ten steamships, io
when the fishing is unsuccessful the loss to the owner
very great.