The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-05 00:00:00

T H E

Mr. Levy, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Comet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradellactc., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, .T. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. 'Marshall, Harvey, and French, and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 108. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This Dir.—Morning, 11h. 54m.—Afternoon, h. rc.
To-moußow.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 42m.

TUB WEATHER....-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 5, 1861,
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHAM!.

63—highest since noon yesterday.
63—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAnomrrint-30.03.
WlND—Westerly, but variable, with dull weather. Rain
in the night, and a thunderstorm this forenoon. Afternoon
tine.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1881.

Editors are more tolerant than bishops. A little
while ago we called attention to the fact of a Pro-
testant bishop having followed, in principle, the
example of Spain, by ruthlessly ejecting from a
parish churchyard a beautiful monument on which
was engraved a request to pray for the departed.
A religions paper published last Monday the fol-
lowing letter, the heading to which ought to have
been—

" OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR TILL SOUL OF MR. NVILA.L.

LEY, MEMBER FOR FETERBOROIIOII,''
" Sir,—On Tuesday evening next, June 4, the motion on
Rlaynooth will be brought before the house. Mr. Whalley,
who has nobly come forward to head the movement, will
tand almost alone. Let me invite, therefore, those of
your readers who love the cause of Protestantism to unite
in prayer that he may be graciously strengthened, sus-
tained, and taught.
"Much grace, much wisdom will be required. May the
Lord vouchsafe to bestow it in answer to the fervent long-
ings of many of his people I
" If you will kindly give this note a place in your co-
lumns of Monday evening next, it would much oblige, sir,
yours very faithfully, " E. K. ELLIOTT.
" Worthing, June 1."
That Mr. WHALLEY much needs " Wisdom" and
" teaching;" and that "gracious strengthening"
would be a cordial balm when the Parliamentary
" Bulls of Bashan " bad grieved his spirit by their
bellowings, or tossed him on the horns of cruel
dilemmas, we do not at all doubt. Our only doubt
in whether, if Mr. WHALLEY were endued with
" Wisdom and Grace," we should not have heard of
him at all last night. The wisdom of a young man
picking up aged Mr. SPOONER'S threadbare man-
tle, and in an array which became his antique pre-
decessor, proclaiming himself the new Anti-May-
nooth Prophet, is a subject on which we leave our
readers to decide. The impatient house seem to
have had no doubt about it. For ourselves we can-
not doubt that wisdom, in the meaning of sound
common-sense, would keep any member from boring
the Rouse, and wasting the public time, by a motion
which, no by possibility, can be carried; at least
not till the State adopts the voluntary principle, and
abolishes all grants to Religion. Mr. DIGBY SEY-
MOUR'S amendment was, therefore, the only self-
consistent motion ; though he moved it, of course,
only to exhibit the folly of Mr. WHALLEY'S, and
the"wisdom" needed by the latter seems tohave gone
to Mr. SEYMOUR, for he forbore to press an amend-
ment which had served its object, and which he
knew could not be carried.
What " Grace" would have done for Mr.
WHALLEY can hardly be questioned—for of all the
ungracious things on earth what could be more so
than for a Churchman to come forward to deprive
Roman Catholics—eo 'tontine of .00,000 per annum.
Mr. SEYMOUR'S motion could be maintained on the
ground of equal dealing with all, but to say to
our Irish neighbours, because your creed is wrong
and mine right, my Church must continue to wallow
in wealth conferred on it wholly by the State, while
you are not even to pick up the little crumb of
£3o,ooo—this seems to us to savour more of the
" grace" of bigotry than of any other. If we remem-
ber rightly, JOHN BRIGHT, Quaker as he is, once
openly declared that while prepared to vote, in
accordance with his religious belief against all
State endowments of religion, he could not vote
for singling out Roman Catholics, and depriving
them only of endowments while other churches
continued to enjoy them. England will certainly
never consent to this.

On looking at the telegrams from India the first
impression will be, that the policy of Sir CHARLES
TREVELYAN has triumphed, whatever must be
thought of his mode of proclaiming it. Mr. JAMES
WILSON'S plans stem all to be falling overboard
ono after another, and Sir C. TREVELYAN'S to be
adopted by Mr. LAING and the Government. The
obnoxious taxes, which the ex-Governor of Madras
declared to be impracticable, have been found to
to be 80 ; nor can it well be said that Sir CHARLES
made them impracticable, for the chief difficulty
has been not in Madras, but at Bombay and other
places. The Income Tax is pronounced a failure,
and is abandoned; the License Tax is also to be
andoned; and the import duty on cotton yarn