The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-23 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

THE IRISH CHURCH.
(ritoSi OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The See of Ferns, now vacant, is not one"of those which
were prospectively suppressed by the Church Reform Bill.
There is still to be a Bishop of Ferns. Ossory, on the first
vacancy of that See, is to be placed under his rule, and the
Bishop of the united Sees is to reside at Kilkenny. But the
Government may appoint to the present vacancy ; and there
can be no question, unless a Bishop's office be a sinecure, that
the interests of the Church require that it should do so. The
Bishop of Ossory, to whom report assigns the additional
charge of the extensive, and important district of Ferns, is in
an infirm state of health, which renders him scarcely equal to
the active superintendence of his present diocese. By a 'junc-
tion with Ferns and Leighlin, he would be placed over all the
Churches in the counties of Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, jhe
Queen's County, and a part of Wicklow, comprising altoge-
ther the most Protestant part of Leinstcr • and if it is neces-
sary for the good of the Church, which I. think it is, that a
Bishop should be personally acquainted with the state of every
congi egation, and the qualifications and conduct of every
clergyman within his jurisdiction, I have no hesitation in say-
ing that such an abject can not be attained under present cir-
cumstances, by transferring the care of so many churches to
the Bishop of Ossory. The Tory party are anxious that it
,hould be so arranged, their hatred of the present Govern-
ment predominating over their zeal for the Church, which they
would rather see neglected than flourishing under a Whig-
.nade Bishop. Yet should the arrangement which they now
demand take place, they will, as soon as the determination be-
comes irrevocable, rail at the Government for abandoning the
Protestant Churches of so extensive a tract to an ailing dio-
cesan. They did so before, with regard to the See of Killaloe,
to which the Bishop of Clonfert was translated on the promo-
tion of Bishop Knox to Limerick. Having first bullied Lord
Wellesley into that arrangement, they then turned round and
exclaimed against the impiety of giving up the King's
County, Clare, and a great portion of Tipperary, along with
his former See in Galway, to an Octogenarian, who cannot
live a day in Ireland, but passes all his time at Bath. The
present case is exactly analogous to that, except that the
Bishop of Ossory, though a younger man, is nothing like so
hale in constitution as the Bishop of Killaloe. Had the
death of Dr. Elrington happened during the five months, can
any one pretend to doubt that the Dean of St. Patrick,
(Dawson's brother), or Robert Daly, the Ursa major of
Exeter Change, would now be the Bishop of Ferns? If
Lord Melbourne would avoid the taunts of bis enemies, and
conciliate the attachment of the Irish people to the Protestant
Church, at the same time that he consults the honour and
prosperity of the Church itself, by placing men of honest,
liberal, and moderate principles in its highest offices, he will
hot throw away the opportuni:y which now presents itself.
Why, it may be asked, has Dr. Sandes been so long left in
a private station, with qualities and dispositions which would
adorn and sustain the most exalted and influential station to
which any clergyman in the united kingdom could aspire ?

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