The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

_,.....
,-----7
,•,. ' . ''', - ‘-V.i.-A
-I
' ' - ' . . • .'..\ l':•'. 1,0
..: f ,
-,'. r ts I 1: i r
4nrr or 'TEE p
'1
lisrao Arontits, -/
...................m......... A_ 7 f-1 S

The Post concurs in a widely-spreading belief that the
necessary power should be conferred on the coroner by
Act of Parliament, that in no case should a fire be
adowed to pass withoutia full and complete inquiry into
its origin, and that no- claim should be settled by any
insurance company without the produetion of a
certificate spewing the result of the investigation.
On the Continent, and in Australia and America,
inquiries of this kind are held in every instance,
and the result has been to " reduce the number"
of fires, a fact which furnishes the best possible argument
for the adoption of a similar course in this country.
There i 3 another growing danger of a different kind in the
increased traffic in explosive and inflammable rnerchaudis-....
Something has already been done to diminish' the risk
arising from these, but further legislation alp ar to be
required on.this point also, especially with regard to the
storing of petroleum, turpentine, nitro-glycerine, and such
like dangerous substances. All ti es • in .tters require
treatment at as early a period aA
In the opinion of the Daily Nctr:,, the immediate cause
of the Lambeth Conference, in which Pan-Angli-
canism has found its highest expression, was the dis-
satisfaction felt in some quarters with the dcci-
cisions of the ecclesiastical tribunals, and especially those
of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in cases
involving points ( f doctrine. It was therefore resolved to
set up a body capable of neutralising by its, utterances such
judgments as Lord Westbury pronounced in the case of
the " Bishop of Salisbury v. Wilson." The Judicial Com-
mittee could neither be attacked in front nor subverted; hat
it seems to have been thought that what was known in the
American civil waras the "anaconda system" might be ap-
plied to it. If the Pan-Anglican plan can be carried out,the
lay judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts may sit and decidg
whether this or that clerk has forfeited his benefice in the
English Establishment, but the doctrine of the whole
Anglican communion will be laid down by " spiritual"
persons of the highest order of the hierarchy, gathered
from all parts of the earth, and sitting in a council or
synod. As far as moral or doctrinal authority is con-
cerned, the Ecclesiastical Courts will be crushed in the
ample folds which- tha..hial&olui,,ozo-olrootir Preparing to
wind round them. The ecclesiastical judgments of the
Privy Council may be more or less objectionable from A
doctrinal point of view, but the bishops are not on that
account entitled to constitute themselves a grand council
for the government of thchurch, and still less to bring
in strangers to meddle in 4S•affaireAct ..at.ational institu-
tion. -

The Standard approves or the 'action or the Mayor of
Liverpool in interdicting the projected Fenian procession
in that borough, and has a good word to say for Dr. Goss,
the Roman Catholic bishop, who has warned his flock
against joining in such a demonstration. It does not think
there is much danger that after this exhortation from the
bishop, and the precautions taken by the authorities , any at-
tempt will be made to form the procession. Its authors have
been very slow in determining upon it, and they will pro-
bably be glad to have an excuse for abandoning a project
about the success of which they had evidently considerable
misgivings. A similar proceeding is threatened by the
Fenian sympathisers in Glasgow for Sunday, and there,
too, the Orangemen have announced their intention to
make a counter-demonstration. Large as is the Irish
Catholic population of Glasgow, the Fenians would suffer
the same discomfiture there as they would in Liverpool.
At all events, there will certainly be a riot if the proces-
sion is permitted, and we trust, therefore, the magistrates
of Glasgow will do as the magistrates of Liverpool have
done, and preserve the peace of the town by prohibiting
the procession.

This, the stock topic of M.P.'s during the recess, is tne
subject of a leader in the Telegraph. No doubt, it observes,
the machinery for instructing the people is inadequate ; but
the results would be far different from what they are if
the endowments were rigidly applied, and if the educa-
tional system were adapted to the popular wants. Indeed,
some districts which are scandalously ignorant have "lots
of schools," even as in the Government offices there
are " lots of forms." Seeing the sorry result, some
people clamour for inquiries into modes of education
and educational statistics ; bnt the shelves of our public
libraries and our club reading-rooms are cuirassed with
educational blue-books. We have been inquiring and
heaping up statistics for fifty years ; numbers of clergymen
and barristers of seven years' standing, who have been
appointed educational inspectors, go forth periodically and
furnish reports full of mild remarks, that in the county of
Merionethshire the children of such and such a school all
answered readily to inquiries about the number of the
Beast, and that in 'West Somerset the readiness with which
the pupils at another school spelt the name " Jehosh-
aphat " was quite charming. And so we go on, and so
we shall-go on, until Lord Russell's " Coming Man," the
Minister of Education—a Minister with a capacity, a
power, and a will- - shall arrive.
Let it, urges the Star, be adopted as a principle by the
enemies of the Irish Establishment that they will not
even discuss this vexatious and superfluous question, but
will insist upon the disendowment pure and simple, with-
out reference to petty difficulties, which may safely be left
to remove themselves. This resolution would be the best
earnest of speedy victory, and we trust the country at
large will thoroughly appreciate and retain in mind Mr.
Miall's remark in closing the London Conference, that
the man who raises at this juncture the question how the
property of the Church is to be made use of is either a
staunch friend of the Establishment or a very lukewarm
advocate of its abolition.