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, Guizely, near Leeds, and Mr. Edward
Miall, of London. Both are Liberals, but they Eger
widely on ecclesiastical questions. Mr. Thompson
had the show of hands at the hustings, and the friends
of Mr. Miall had to demand a poll. Mr. Thompson
is absent at Dresden, where he is detained in conse-
quence of having to watch by the sick bed of an
invalid son. lie is a gentleman of much local influ-
ence, and has long had the good opinion of all classes
of h;s 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 took place yesterday.
There was great excitement in the town during the
entire dsy, but the crowds who assembled every .
where were generally good humoured. The poll
showed Mr. Miall in advance till 10 o'clock, but at
and gradually left him in the dis-
half-past 10 Mr. Thompson headed his opponent
more than 100,
tance. The following is the state of the poll at
the clase :

Thompson
Miall

2,214
... 1,839

FEMALE ART EDUCATION.—JOIIII 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. lie will also give for the
benefit of the schools a prize of five guineas for the best
outli.llQ of t>ae_Plicl9tCna) t 9 c9lApetQd Ivr ))y t 149 §tudonts.

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liElt MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Monday.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, attended
Divine service in the parish church at Crathie, yes-
terday.
The Marchioness of Ely and Colonel Ponsonby
were in attendance.
The itev. 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
Ist or 4th proximo for Windsor Castle. The precise day
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 havo arrived at Montagu Rouse,
Whitehall, from Paris.

The Duke of Buckingham has left town to attend
upon her Majesty at Bahnoral, as Secretary of State iu
Waiting.

The Countess of Morley and Lady Katherine
Parker have arrived at Farranco's Hotel from York.

Lord Lyons is staying on a visit to the Duchess of
Norfolk at Arundel Castle. His lordship is daily expected
to leave for Paris to enter upon his diplomatic dutios.

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. Fol-
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 growl
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 ono 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 un-
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 from
the State out of the property and revenues now
held by the Protestant Establishment, nor any
State endowment whatever.

" 3. That in thus declaring their determination
to keep the Church of Ireland free and independent
of State control or interference, the Bishops of
Ireland are happily in accord with instructions re-
ceived from the Holy See in the years 1801 and
1805, as well as with the course pursued by the
Irish Bishops of that day in conformity with those
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 which
they hitherto freely and dutifully accorded to their
clergy and religious institutions.
" 5. 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 ap-
plied in Catholic times.
" The assembled Bishops reaffirm the resolutions
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 condem-
natory of the principle of mixed education, in which
religion is " unnaturally separated from secular in-
struction ; in which the State would substitute its
own power for the authority of the Catholic Church
in respect to the education of Catholic youth." The
constitution of the model and training schools is
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 of
the model and training schools evidently conflicts
with the principles of the Catholic Church, and
which enjoins on priests to use their best exertions
to withdraw children from them as being specially
dangerous. They direct that the resolution b 3
promulgated anew in all parishes from which it may
be apprehended that children would go to those
schools ; and that priests be again instructed that it
is their imperative duty to enforce it to the utmost
of their power.

"The meeting decides that a petition be sent to
Parliament praying for such a change in the exist-
ing national system of education as may afford to
the Catholics of Ireland all the advantages to which
they are entitled.
" Whilst we warn our flocks against the criminal

folly of engaging in secret societies or open insur-
rection against the Government of the country, we
also declare to the Government and Legislature our
profound conviction that peace and prosperity will
never be permanently established in Ireland till the
Protestant Church is totally disendowed, education
in all its departments made free, and the fruits of
their capital and labour secured to the agricultural
classes."

MR. DISRAELI'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH.—Mx.
Disraeli is expected to arrive in Scotland on Satur-
day, the 26th inst., and will during his stay there be the
guest of Mr, Dundas of Arniston, at Arniston-house, about
eight miles from Edinburgh. Sir William Stirling Max-
well, M.P., is to be chairman at the Conservative banquet
on the 29th, and the Earl of Rossiya is to be vice-chair-
man, with Lord Garlies, Sir James Campbell, Mr. Curia'
ming Bruce, M.P., Mr. Dundas of Arniston, and Mr. Law-
son of Bothwick-hall, as croupiers. The list of stewards
includes five persons of ducal rank, three marquises, and
about 12 earls, and a host of the lesser nobility, baronets,
landed proprietors, local magistrates, members of the
learned professions, farmers, merchants, &c. The places
of the company will, with a few exceptions, be determined
by ballot. The freedom of the city of Edinburgh is to be
presented to Mr. Disraeli on Wednesday, the 30th inst., at
2 o'clock, probably in the Music-hall. It is likely also that
the University of Edinburgh may, as in the case of Lord
Palmerston in 1853, take tho opportunity of conferring the
degree of LL.D. on the ilistinguished statesman.
TRAGEDY AT OLD CALABAR.—The West African
mail brings intelligence of a frightful tragedy having been
enacted at Old Calabar on the 12th September. A chief,
named Effium Adam, died rather suddenly at that place.
His friends surmised that he had been the victim of foul
play ; so the late chief's wives, six in number, and the
entire household were assembled, and required to swalluvr
a large dose of the " esere," a Calabar bean (the poisonous
properties of which are well known), to test their innocence
of the supposed murder. Eight of the unfortunate victims
had succumbed to the effects of the dreadful poison whey'
the mail left, and the others were not expected to survive.
THE DUNDEE WHALERS.—On Monday several
letters were received in Dundee announcing tho bad for-
tune of the whole fleet of vessels belonging to that port
and prosecuting the whale fishing at Davis Straits this sea"
son. The adv;ces, which are dated the 15th Septembal
state that, with the exception of two of the vessels—the
Camperdown and Esquitnavx, which have a fish each—the
whole fleet aro clean. The vessels must in a very short
time leave the ice, and it is not expected that they can 1)°,
well fished. ,The fleet consists of ten steamships, an
when the fishing is unsuccessful the loss to the owners
very groat.