The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-03 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

riders.

The ALL-AGED SELLING STAKES, of 3 sous. each, with 23
added, for two-year-olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 6 subs.
Mr. Merry's Lady Eglinton, by the Flying Dutchman,
2 yrs (no), 4st 131 b (car. Est 21b) (A. Edwards) 1
Mr. Holland's Heloise, 2 yrs (X2O), 4st 131 b (Grimshaw) 2

Mr. Johnson's Smut, 2 yrs (t2o);4st 131 b (car. sst 21b)'
(Sadler) 3
Flying Englishman, Mariola, and Mushroom also ran.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Lady Eglinton, 7to 4 agst Mush-
room, 6to 1 agst any other. Won by a length ; three
lengths between the second and third. At the starting-
post Helsiso whipped round and fell on to Grimshaw, who
fortunately escaped injury. The winner was bought in for

70 guineas.
The Sefton Handicap, of 40 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs each, 3 ft. Winners extra. Mile and a quarter. 31
subs.

Col, Townley'. Gladiolus, by Kingston, 3 yrs, Est 21b (in.
71b extra) (J. Snowden) 1
Mr. Jaques's Ambush, 3 yrs, sst Olb (Challoner) 2
Mr. Barber's Prince of Orange, 6 yrs, 7st 51b
(L. Snowden) 3
Mr. E. R. Clark's Mr. Sykes, aged, Bst 121 b (in. 51b ex.)
(French) 4
-'he following also ran :—Grillade, Broadlands, Misty
Morn, Princess Royal, Nosegay, Syria, and Adelaide.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Gladiolus, sto 1 agst Adelaide, 6to
1 agst Nosegay, 8 to 1 agast Ambush, 8 to 1 agst Mr. Sykes,
10 to 1 agst Prince of Orange, 10 to 1 agst Broadlands.
Princess Royal, followed by Syria, Ambush, Prince of
Orange, Noesgay, and Gladiolus, made most of the running,
On entering the straight, Mr. Sykes, Gladiolus, and Broad-
lands took their places next Princess Royal and Ambush.

At the distance Princess Royal was beaten, and half way up
Gladiolus and Ambush came out, the favourite winning by

half a length; a length and a half between the second and

third, and a length between third and fourth. Broadlands
was fifth. Adelaide broke away twice before starting, and

ran some distance each time before she was stopped.
The Grand National Steeplechase Handicap, of 20 sovs
each, h ft, with 100 added. The second to save his stake.
Winners extra. About four miles. 62 subs., 12 of whom

declared.
Mr. Willoughby's Half-cast 6 yrs, 9st 71b.. (C. Green) 1
Viscount F. de Cunchy's Jean du Quesne, aged, 9st 91b
(H. Lamplugh) 2
Mr. B. Land's The Huntsman, 6 yrs, list 21b
(B. Land, jun.) 3
Mr. Garnett's Midge, aged, 9st 41b (D. Meanoy) 4

The following alsoran :—Weathercock,,Little Charley,
Xanthus, Escape, Claudius, Aee of Hearts, The Brewer,
Border Chief, Ghika, Jealousy, Anatis, Orkousta, Gipsy
King, Gibraltar, Flateatcher, and Spring.
Betting at Starting-100 to 30 agst The Brewer, 100 to

15 agst Half-caste, 9to 1 agst Jealousy, 10 to 1 agst Jean
du Quesne, 100 to 8 against The Huntsman, 15 to 1 &gat
Little Charley, 20 to 1 agst Escape, 20 to 1 agst Ghika, 25
to 1 agst Border Chief, 25 to 1 agst Anatis, 33 to 1 agst
Midge, 33 to 1 agst Orkousta, 40 to 1 agst Spring.
The competitors were saddled and mounted within a very

few minutes after the time appointed for the start. Their
preliminary canters over, the Earl of Sefton, on horseback,
took the command of them, and paraded them from the
stable turn past the Grand Stand, and thence to the starting
field. By this time every position from which a view of the
ground could be obtained was crowded by eager spectators.
The stands presented a black mass of heads, the embank-
ments near the different leaps were thronged, and swaying
among the branches of trees were clustered swarms of men
and boys.
The horses had scarcely been drawn in a line when a false
alarm of "They're off" was raised, and The Brewer, Little
Charley, Escape, and Border Chief were seen cantering
towards the first fence; the flag, however, had not fallen,
and they were called back. The next attempt was, how-
ever, successful, and at the given signal the horses started
in a cluster. Xanthns and the Brewer, whose colours were
so much alike that from the Stand it was almost impos-
sible to determine " which was which" were the first to
show in advance, and immediately succeeding them; but
only for a short distance, were Jealousy, •Thmtsman, and
Spring ; the others, with the exception of Claudius, who
was thus early left in the rear, going on in pretty close
order. Xanthus and the Brewer, the former with a slight
lead, cleared the first fence together, and soon after quitting
it the Brewer disappeared from the front, Orkousta, Half-
caste, Flatcatcher, Border Chief, Jean du Quesne, and
Midge being the nearest in pursuit of Xanthus. They ap-
proached Beecher's Brook in good order, and, with the
exception of a slight scrimmage among the rear lot, all got
well over the water. At the succeeding fence the first
chapter of disasters commenced, for there Spring fell and
unseated Nightingale, who remained to watch the compe-
titors on their return to the brook, while his horse, getting
loose, followed the leaders over the line of country.
Xanthus, whom many persons on the Stand mistook for
the Brewer, carried on the running merrily, Flatcatcher,
Half-caste, Midge, Jean du Quesne, Escape, and Hunts-
man being in attendance upon him. Several changes, not
material in themselves, were made on nearing a ditch once
known as " Valentine's Brook." The foremost horses got
over it pretty well, but Gibraltar tumbled right into
it, but, scrambling out, was soon again seen endeavouring
to make up his lost ground. The Brewer had gone over
the ditch just before, but at the next " obstade" —apost and
rails—he became c 4 groggy," tumbled head over heels, and
rolled on to Walter White, slipping his bridle over his head.
Gibraltar, who was in his wake, nearly came down again in
his effort to escape him. White was uninjured by his fall,
, s bridle,
'
and speedily adjusting The Brewer jumped into,the
saddle, and pushed on hopelessly in the rear. In the mean-
time the leading horses had run along the canal side and
reached the racecourse, Xtuithus carrying on the running,
closely attended by Flatcatcher and (we think) Orkousta.
At a wide interval behind them were Escape, J du
Quesne, Half-caste, Midge, and Anatis. The others were
even at this early period widely scattered. On nearing the
hurdles at the distance two or three unimportant changes
were made in the positions of the leading horses. On they
came to the artificial water jump, 10 feet wide, in front of
the Stand, amid intense excitement, which found vent in
loud shouts as each animal rose into the air and descended
in safety. Xanthus and Flatcatcher showed the way over
the water, whichthey cleared nearly abreast. Anatiswasnext
put at it, and she dropped her hind legs into it, and slightly
blundered on landing; then came in quick succession Jean
du Quesne, Escape, Half-caste, and Gibraltar, the riderless
Spring galloping upthe centre of the racecourse. The others
cleared the obstacle at wide intervals. Far in the rear toiled
The Brewer, and, seemingly leg weary, ho scarcely rose at
the gorse-topped hurdles, struck them with his knees, and
tumbled headforemost into the water, again slipping his
bridle. His jockey now gave up the pursuit, and led ehe
disgraced favourite out of the course. At this time, too,'
Weathercock, who ran in " stockings," this
e
appeared
very shaky from the first, was seen returning by a short
out, having broken down badly, Thus, on making the first

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meadows Half-caste bore his colours to thb.:f - -4
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Xanthus, Jean du Quesne, Flatcatcher, rikVifxj;,, ' -It,
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Anatis, and Huntsman showing pretty well `d 44, -*Fa 's';:4r,
As they neared Beecher's Brook the second ti ...
a judicious pull at Half-caste, letting up Xantthil, sal S
these two went over Beecher's Brook nearly side by side,
followed by Jean du Quesne, Escape, Midge, Flatcatcher,
Huntsman, and Anatis, in quick succession. On they went
with little change to the fence just before reaching the ditch
near the Canal-bridge turn, where Xanthus threw a,somer-
sault, and took no further part in the race. There Flat-
catcher also came:to grief. Gibraltar, too4who Avis far in the
rear, went plump into this ditch a second time. On the fall
of Xanthus, Half-caste, who had been alternately leading
with him, was left to carry Un the running, and on reaching
the% --- 1 -e, Escape, Huntsman, Midge.,
1, out of the field of 20, that
)n approaching the last flight
,erry Je,.li uu quesnc crew spin attendance on Half-
caste, with the Huntsman and Midge next. The hurdles,
which were just below the distance, were charged almost
simultaneously by Half-caste and Jean du Quesne, both of
whom struck the' timber and made an opening for the
Lantsman. Half-caste was the first to land, and to him
and Jean du Quesne the final struggle was left. The French
horse seemed momentarily to have the best of it, and both
tired perceptibly up the hill; a game effort was made, awl
Half-caste running the longest shook him off in the last few
strides, and won a most exciting race by a neck ; about a
length off, Huntsman was third, and' upwards of three
lengths behind him was Midge, fourth, placed by the judge;
Anatis was fifth, and Orkousta sixth, not a very wide inter-
val separating them from Midge ; beating away and
walking in, came Ghika, Escape, Ace of Hearts, Jea-
lousy, and Little Charley ; succeeding them were Border
Chief and the loose Xanthus; shut in the crowd were
Flatcatcher and Gibraltar, who, after their fall, had
been 'remounted and walked home at their leisure.
Soon after starting Jealousy was outpaced and never
showed prominently in the race; Little Charley was in
trouble all the way, and Ghika, who kept on his legs well
enough, never showed in a position which could raise the
hopes of his backers.
The accidents were attended by no injury to horses or
Handicap Plate, of 50 soya. Winners extrit.,::T.T,pt-'
Mr. Saxon's Ancient Briton, by Cotherstone, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
(J. Snowden) 1
Mr. Holland's Weatherwise, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Grimshaw) 2
Mr. James's Knockburn, 4 yrs, Est 61b (Chidloner) 3
The following also ran :—Blarney, Magic, and Madrid.
Betting.—Even and 5 to 4 on Ancient Briton, 5 to 2 twat
Madrid.
Selling Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 added, for 3-yr-oldi
and upwards. One mile. 4 subs.
Captain-Bayly's Mushroom, 3 yrs (no)
Mr. Blanton's Rhisus, 3 yrs (£2O) 2
Mr. Cliffs Stir Pudding, 3 yrs (V 0)
Mr. Holland's Weatherwise, 3 yrs (V 0) 4

THE NAVY.

Admiral of the Blue W. Bowles, C.B.,hoisted his
flag on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Ports-
mouth harbour, yesterday, at 9 a.m., as naval com-
mander-in-chief at that port.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Termagant, 25, Capt.
Robert Hall, sailed from Spithead at 6.30 a.m.
yesterday.
Her Majesty's .steam-ship Algiers, 91, Capt. G.
W. D. O'Callaghan, fitting at Portsmouth, got up
steam yesterday alongside the sheer jetty.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus,
Master-Commander Sturdee, which vessel has lain
in the river since her arrival, on Friday last, at
Woolwich, in consequence of there being an insuf-
ficiency of water to float the caisson at the mouth
of the basin, was yesterday admitted into the basin,
and commenced coaling, preparatory to shipping
steam gear for the Vulcan and Neptune at Ports-
mouth. Commodore Drummond then inspected the
ship and mustered the crew. They were afterwards
paid down, and granted four days' leave of absence
in alternate watches. _ _

The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Jackall was
docked at Woolwich for repairs, and the Firebrand
got up steam in the basin to test her machinery,
which has undergone considerable repairs. She
has been thoroughly overhauled and extensively
repaired, and supplied with a couple of new boilers.
The Alecto is ordered to unship machinery and
boilers for survey.
The prizes for excellence in firing at ranges
varying from 600 to 900 yards, awarded to the non-
commissioned officers and men of the Chatham
Division of Royal Marine Light Infantry', have
been distributed to the successful competitors by
Col. H. W. Parke, the commandant of the division,
at a full parade of the entire battalion. The num-
ber of prizes distributed was 42, of which 10 were
to first•class marksmen, the Chatham. Division
having produced some of the best shots in the ser-
vice. The prize to the first-class marksmen is a
badge of two crossed muskets, surrounded with a
crown, the whole worked in gold, to be worn on
the wrist, in addition to which they receive an
addition of 3d. per day for one year; the second-
class marksmen have a badge with crossed muskets
worked in gold, and receive an allowance of 2d. per
day for the same period ; the third-class prize-
holders receive ld. per day additional, and wear a
badge with. crossed muskets worked in worsted.

THE ARMY.

Yesterday, morning the sick and wounded troops
who arrived. at Chatham the previous afternoon
from Lucknow and Delhi were marched from St.
Mary's. Barracks to Fort Pitt, for the purpose of
being inspected by the medical staff at that esta-
blishment. The invalid troops, to the number of
162 non-commissioned officers and men, with eight
women and 18 children, sailed from Calcutta in the
Tyburnia, Captain A. Coots, on the 19th of Nov.,
touched at the Cape on the 6th of Jan.,•sailed
thence on the 10th of Jan., and arrived in the
Thames on the Ist inst., after a fair passage of 102
days. The troops belong to the sth (Fusileers), 6th,
Bth (the King's), 10th, 19th, 29th, 32d (Light In-
fantry), , 34th, 37th, 54th, 60th (Rifles), 75th 79th
(Highlanders), liOth, 84th, 93d (Highlanders), and
97th regiments, the Royal Artillery, and the Rifle
Brigade, the wheic under the command of Captain
A. E. Wilkinson, 9th Lancers, and Lieut. G. E.
Massey, sth Fusiliers, and. in medical charge of
Assistant-Surgeon A. lloyte, 61st Regiment. En-
sign J. B. Campbell, 79th Highlanders, came home
als passenger, on leave. During the passage twobirths and nine deaths occurred on board—viz., six
invalid troops, one passenger, one sailor, and one
woman. A large number of the sick and wounded
troops have received severe wounds, nearly the
whole of them having been engaged in hard fight-
ing with the Indian rebels. Most of them served
at Lucknow under Gen. Lord Clyde, and at Cawn-
pore and Delhi under Gen. Windham, and also
with the flying army formed by Brigadier Great-
head after the fall of Delhi. The n'imber who have
received wounds which will render them unfit for
further service is very considerable, and there are
several non-commissioned officers and men who
have lost either a leg or an arm. After the disabled
troops had been inspected at Fort Pitt 30 non-
commissioned officers and men were taken into
hospital, and the remainder will be stationeda t
they
have the Invalid Depot, St. Mary's Barracks, until
' have been inspected by a Chelsea Board, who
determine what men are to be discharged from
the service. Two prisoners who were brough
t
home—one of the sth, for disgraceful conduct at
Allahabad and one of the 12th, from the Cape of
Good Hope, where he deserted five years ago -are
are
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fromChatham.
tehdebyTychoourritma
date of trAt the
Calcutta tt a the
troop-ship John Bell was receiving invalids
son
board, and was expected to sail in a 'ew
A series of experiments with one of Sir NyV *Arm-
atrong's breach-loading rifled cannon took place at
Portsmouth last week, outside the Nab Light, on
board the Stork gun-boat, under the superintendence
of Capt. Hewlett, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship
Excellent. The object in view was to test the
fitness of a carriage for the gun on sea service, the
qualities of the gun itself having been previously
sufficiently tested at Shoeburyness. The result of
:the different days' firing has been of a highly
satisfactory nature, the carriage experimented upon
'only requiring a few trifling alterations to admit of
this formidable gun being worked in a sea way wit
the greatest ease and security. The gun was landed
on Monday for transmission to Shoeburyness.
By advices received by the Indian mail we learn
that the European and American Company's screw
steamship Lady Jocelyn, Capt. Bird, which took
out troops, left Calcutta on the 14th Jan. ; arrived
at Madras on the 17th, and sailed the 21st; arrived.
at Galle on the 24th, and sailed on the 26th for the
Cape and England. She is expected. about the end
Dr. and
of March. The Lady
_Jocelyn brings home the fol-
lowing passengers.:---1, rom Calcu.tta—Capt. Crease,
Mr. M`Nei'l and Mr.
R.E. ; Capt. Robinson., her Majesty's 43d Regt
Engstrom, R A •
Ensign Webb, her Majesty's 34th Refit, •
arsto,lMdiaodrsr,asthArrteeilolhe
Mrs. Curling, Bengal Army ;
Carter. From Madras—Lieut.
en , and fiv insane..
Conductor James,
M
soldiers. The Calcutta steamer, nine invalid eb
Capt. Blackmore,
belonging to the same company, was to leave Cal-
cutta on the Ist Feb. for England.

The boat•builders in the employ of Messrs. For-
restt, of Limehouse, have forwarded £2O, being the amount
raised by subscription amongst themselves, in aid of the
funds of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
A POPULAR PUBLISHER AND lIIS AUTHORS.—
A. toast at a lath Literary Fund Dinner : 4 4 Ilene and skin
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CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MORTON. •
The public is most respectfully informed that the PINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
)'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
Jon of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters :and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and tho recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.

The MusicAL ENTERTAINMENT CORlELlellees as usual al
Seven o'clock.

In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAncu 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
bs—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this reorning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30•25.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, and fine.

charge for younger children—the same whether
one or a dozen—completely arranged. Such
parties as we have above referred to are not
in any degree interested. We must descend a few
steps on the social ladder.
The real question then is—What will should the
law make for those members of the middle and
less wealthy classes who have, through apathy and
indifference, neglected to dispose of their freehold
property? We believe that if ninety-nine out of
every hundred could be canvassed, they would
wish for an equitable distribution, and that all their
children should share in the proceeds. Should
there be any romantic feeling respecting an estate
which had remained centuries in the family, it
will be easy to prevent its alienation. But
the men who have such inheritances will
take sufficient care to avert the dreaded evil.
The majority of those affected will be those who
have made their money, and who would be quite
willing that the properties which they themselves
had purchased should be sold under the great
facilities afforded by the Solicitor-General's mea-
sure. Indeed, such would be the result in almost
every case, and it would be far better, both for the
inheritor and the community at large, that the
freehold should be sold to an unincumbered posses-
sor than that one-third of the annual produce
should go by way of jointure to the support of the
widow, and another large portion for family charges
to the uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, and
sons and daughters of the late proprietor. Those
who know anything of Irish estates could speak of
the terrible effect produced by the accumulation of
syuecahr, bburutdwenes.hopThe
aenßdibllelihasevebetehnatreerj
esclteonag it
for
willthis
obtain the legislative sanction, and that this stain
on the national statute-:book may be for ever
removed.

The real Estate Intestacy Bill was last night
rejected by a very large majority. Two hundred
and seventy-one Noble Lords and Right Honour-
able and Honourable Gentlemen voted against the
sacreligious disposal of landed property which
would give anyportion to younger sons or daughters
in the event of its not being efficiently disposed of
by the " father during his life time." The right
divine of the eldest son was fully affirmed. He
should receive every acre of land and be entitled to
turn those sprung from the same nuptials on the wide
world penniless if the father had, through careless-
ness, inadvertence, or from cowardly unwilling-
ness to make a will, died without arranging his
affairs.

The question, then, at issue was—What disposi-
tion of his affairs would the small landowner, the
yeoman with a few hundred pounds per annum, or
the retired tradesman, who, being actuated with
the desire to kill his own mutton, and stimu-
lated by the extraordinary facilities afforded
by the Solicitor-General's Bill, may desire to
invest • his savings in " dirty acres ?" Surely
he would not desire to see those who were
just as near and dear to him as the eldest son,
ggrtrY and min , while the
probably consigned to .
favoured one took all and left them destitute.
It must be remembered that the. proposed
measure did not contemplate any restriction
w nothing in the
on incapacity. There as
slightest degree approximating to the French iaw.
The code Napoleon was not in any degree
plagiarised. If a man, forgetful of the ties of
nature, of all his parental obligations, should desire
to aggrandise one child at the expense of all the
others, he would be at liberty to do so. All that
was required is that he should clearly express that
desire, and that there should be an unequivocal
intimation of his intention to disinherit the " detri-
mentals." as they are facetiously termed by wrinkled
dowagers or manceuvring mammas who have cer-
tain goods to be disposed of in the matrimonial
mart.

The matter could not in any degree affect the
" select upper crust." The favoured ten thousand,
who constitute " the world," have all had elaborate
settlements executed on their marriages, disposing
not only of everything in possession but in re-
mainder, expectancy or reversion. Those who are
still in a state of celibacy know that they will have
to swallow the pill before they change their con-
dition, and that the family estate must be duly
settled, terms created charges fixed, .and all other
preliminaries arranged. It is a matter of compare
tively trivial consequence whether they die
intestate or otherwise, for their affairs are already
settled, the amount of jointure fixed, and the

Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD has done quite right in
again calling the attention of the Legislature to the
subject of sectarian oaths. While the Jew Bills
were under discussion, we held it to be bad gene-
ralship, as well as a needless unkindness to the
Jews, to complicate their claims with the re-ad-
justment of the Catholic oaths. Catholics, however,
did their part in liberating their Jewish fellow-sub-
jects, and that ground for longer silence on their
own grievance is now removed. Their grievance, we
say advisedly, for they feel it to be such ; and we
cannot insist on retaining the present form of the
oath without alleging that Catholics are advocates
of regicide, of subversion of old settlements of
property, and of mental reservations. We do not
enumerate a desire to subvert the Establishment
of the Episcopal Church (not the Church
itself which is established in Ireland) as amongst
the crimes which the oath flings in their teeth. If
so, the Attorney-General ought to be at once in-
structed to prosecute a well-known society, which
for years has been lecturing, publishing, meeting,
and acting most publicly, for the subversion of all
Establishments of Religion, and which has indeed
a local domicile in, sedition Street, we believe it is
named in the Government books, vulgarly called
Fleet-street. If Catholics are to be sworn not to
assail the Establishment, a fortiori, English Dis-
senters ought to be so too—the Society referred to
having several Members in the House of Commons ;
indeed, during the last Parliament, their Magnus
Apollo, Mr. MIALL, was there himself and made a
long and confessedly able speech,too, against the Irish
Church.

The idea of a compact having been made
in 1829, which Catholics are not at liberty
now to alter, or rather to seek to get altered, we
think absurd in the extreme. We have no such
Mede and Persian legislative compacts. It is per-
fectly competent to King, Lords, and Commons, to
alter the Hanoverian succession itself, if they see
fit. Imprudent enough it might be; but were
sufficient cause shown, were a Prince of WALES,
for instance, to become so disloyal to his country,
as to be an object of general aversion, it would be
the duty of the Legislature to bar him of his other-
wise lawful inheritance. We scout still more the
fancy that any arrangement between different
parties or classes in the nation, which can be proved
unfair, or which, in process of time, becomes so,
should not be revised. Especially is this the case
when the aggrieved party is but a minority, and must
make out its case therefore so clearly to the aggriev-
ing party, that the latter is constrained, by conside-
rations of humanity and justice merely, to grant
the required relief. _

We certainly think the time is now come when all
the unworthy safeguards of this kind which have
been imposed by the dominant Church on the less
favoured churches should be utterly abolished.
There is, we believe, a declaration required of
Dissenters who are elected Common Councilmen
under the late Municipal Act, to the effect that
they will not, in virtue of their office, do anything
hurtful to the " Establishment." We should, in-
deed, be inclined to suggest to Mr. FITZGERALD the
desirableness of including in his bill all oaths and
declarations, Parliamentary and municipal, and
others, if they exist, which any of her MAJESTY'S
subjects are required to make or take, be-
, cause they do not accept the Thirty-nine
Articles, the Prayer-book, and the Angli-
can Episcopate. The time is surely come when
these brands of intolerance and badges of
inferiority ought to be effaced or destroyed for ever,
The doctrine of any inherent superiority in a
Church, evolved by a kind of almost lottery process,
from Romanism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism, from
Tudors, Stuarts, and the Commonwealth, is now a
doetrine of the clergy only. The laity now respect
each others' Christian creeds and worship sincerely,
and are becoming every year more averse to what-
ever creates social'distinction and on reli-
gious grounds. As Lord STANLEY has both said
and written, the whole tendency of the age
is to thorough Religious Equality ; it may
indeed be called one of its characteristics. Like his
Lordship, we cannot deplore this. Of all religions
Christianity was never designed to confer political
or legal superiority on its professors, much less to
exalt one class of its professors at the expense of
another.

InVe do not see Lord STANLEY'S name in the divi-
sio list
talla
we
much regret to find on the
wrong side
some members of the present Govern-
ment, from whose liberality of religious sentiment
and general intelligence we should have expected
better things. Ought such names as Mr. DISRAELI,
Sir H. CAIRNS, and Sir E. B.
e thisLYT TOwNitthOi‘bire.pßlAacLeLd,
in the same list on a subjectlik
the lay-preaching member for Cambridgeshire, Mr.
SPOONER, Mr. NEWDEGATE, et hoc genus omne ?
Some other members of the Government should
have known better, but perhaps we could hardly
expect better from them.
We must confess almost to wonder, that the
House could find enough in so plain a matter to
occupy its time for so long, or that 113 noes could
be whipped up by all the efforts of the Treasury.
The oaths we believe to be no safeguard whatever,
while they are wantonly insulting to those
who are required to take them. Why not
swear Presbyterians that they will do no injury
to " black prelacy," as their " standards " have
it, or rather that they now regard it as white ?
Why not swear the successors of the Puritans that
it is not lawful to create " martyrs of blessed

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