The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.

THE MAYNOOTH COMPROMISE.'

The Tablet of this day, after a week's further considera-
tion pronounces a decidedly favourable opinion of the
compromise suggested by L ,rd Derby, This organ con •
siders that nothing could be better for all parties than
that the annual grant to Maynooth under the Act, of
1845 should be commuted for a fixed sum—say 800,000/.
This would give 200,0001. to the Archbishop and
Bishops of each of the four ecclesiastical provinces, to
help them to provide for the education of the Irish priest-
hood on a plan proposed by the Irish episcopacy, and,
of course, subject to the approval of the Holy See.
Although such a settlement of the Maynooth difficulty
might prove very acceptable to the bulk of the Roman
Cathoclic body, it is by no means certain that it would
be quite so agreeable even to those Protestants who are
indisposed to follow Mr. Spooner in his wild crusade
against the endowment of the college. Without mean-
ing to disturb a solemnly ratified compaw,, such as the
Act of 1845, it would, perhaps be just as well that the
disbursement of the fund for the education of the Ro
man Catholic clergy should be left in the hands of the
House of Commons. The getting rid of the annual di,
cutieion is, no doubt a great temptation; but to let we'l
alone is a safe maxim.
THE lELYAST TEA TRAUDB.
The Banner of Ulster is instructed that the Customs'
authorities have this week served notices of civil action
right and left, not in Belfast alone, but in other northern
towns, upon almost every person whose name as a
buyer stood in the books of John James Moore. It is
further added that,—

"To each of these notices an appearance' in the
Court of Revenue Exchequ-r must be entered ; the tea
merchants will be put to heavy expen,e in defending
themselves, sic part of which can be recovered from the
Crown in the event of its defeat ; which is all but cer-
tain. A rumour prevails that a warrant has been ob
tained, or is abont to be applied for, to arreAt ,re in
America ou a charge of forgery, which would Wing him
witqin the scope of the international treaty. It i 4 also
sttted that a former clerk to Moore, who left Bel aRt be-
fore the discovery of the fraod., has returned to town
from New York, v hether to give evidence for the pr, -
secution or not is left to conj ‘cture."

tAhtetrian
o4ttehniinias:
The Wiener Zeitang, the official organ of the
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thenP ipa Government, published the following ar-
ticleris Monitettr recently announced that
Austria, France, Great
Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sariiiiia, and Turkey
had met in conference at the hotel of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to take cognisance
of the final act signed at Constantinople on the sth
Dec., with a view t sanction the result of the
labours of the Commission instituted by the 30th
article of the Treaty of Paris, for the settlement of
the frontier line of Russia and Turkey iu Asia.
"There is not much importance to be attached
to this fact. By presenting that convention to the
Conference, Russia and the Porte have done, in
fact, what they were not bound to do. The Treaty
of Paris does not prescribe that the conven-
tion to be conclude I between those two States
for the settlement of their Asia•ic frontier
should be communicated to the Conference,
nor does- that treaty contain either among the
articles relating to the Danube, any clue bearing
that the act of pavigatiou of the Danube shall form
an integral part of the general treaty, and, to be
valid, require the sanction of the Conference.
Russia and the Porte could take this step withou,
endangering their sovereign rights ; bUt suah a s Ep
does not make a precedent."
From the above article of the official organ it
would-appear:that the Austrian G ivernment peT_
sista in its opinion that the act of navigation, coil-
_ CALEDONIAN BALL.--This grand annual featiral hue eluded and ratified by, the Riverain Statesof the
b_een appointed to take place at Willis's Rooms on Fri. Da9ube, does not require the sanction of the Con-
the 11th of June, under the highest patronage. •ferdnce.