The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY. '1
To-day a deputation from Galway is to wait upon
the Lord Lieutenant about the withdrawal of the
subsidy from the Transatlantic Company, and a
numerously-signed requisition has been presented
to the Lord Mayor, requesting him to call a public
meeting on the same subject for Saturday.
Tl Government have at length disposed of the
Crown Solicitorships left vacant since the death of
Sir Matthew Barrington. Cork has been given to
Mr. Gilman, Limerick to Mr. William Roche, and
Kerry with Clare to Mr. A. Morphy, each solicitor
having a salary of £9OO a year, out of which be
will have to defray all necessary expenses.
Troops arrived at Kingstown yesterday from
China-370 men of the 87th Regment ; they are to
be stationed in Dublin.

THE PAPER DUTY.—On Wednesday a return
tteo,
the" of Commons, obtained by Sir Stafford Nuoerethtec,o
was issued, showing the amount of paper duty
March,co . 1,5i9,
each quarter of the year, ending the 31st
11which
1860, and 1861, distinguishing the rounds
amounts were collected. In the first
cisvuas V 06,592, and
June, 18;',8, the amount of duty chargeste
ii last quarter given,
the amount collected £312,810.
11360,654, and the amount
the 31st March last, the duty was
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The Government at Washington would, we ap-
prehend, be very indignant at any proposal on the
part of the neutral States, to be allowed to go on
board American ships of war and pick out each its
own subjects, and to carry them home and punish
them under its Foreign Enlistment Laws ; nor
would the Government of Montgomery be tolerant
of any claim on our part to stop its cruisers and in-
sist upon being satisfied that every sailor was a
man who owed no allegiance to Queen Victoria.
Our chief difficulty, therefore, in this matter will
be to preserve our neutrality in spite of the bellige-
rents. If it be broken it will not be by reason of
any partiality in the British Government, but by
reason of the machinations of one or both of the
warring factions. It is we ourselves who have the
strongest possible interest in preventing our seamen
from engaging in this terrible war. To America this
is an internecine and fratricidal conflict. If we were
to take part in it by lending ourselves to the detes-
table trade of Privateering it would be to us nothing
less than a civil war. It would be Portsmouth against
Plymouth, and the paid-off sailors of one one English
ship of war against the paid-off sailors of another
English ship of war. We should be Englishmen
fighting each other pa the seas for a quarrel in which
we have no interest. Nothing could be so discredita-
ble and so disastrous. The Proclamation which
warned all English subjects against taking part in
this contest, is not like one of those formal notifica-
tions which have been sometimes issued without
much expectation that they would be seriously
e
representatives of despotic and contteTtl
obeyed. In the Continental wars between
been
Governments the English feeling n
the note-
i
all on one side, and except isdon Carlos,
ble ease of Lord hanelagh an
penalties of the
an Englishman who risked
pertain at least that
Foreign Enlistment Act wr
There is no feeling
Here, however, this
theis P._r
he would find no countryom asorio : iir) 1 l
u then d oppositeer
,an d
in ranks.
n k s .
'North rather than for the
rather than for the North.
among our tars for
ge in this unhappy quarrel
should edegs
aire
South, or for the
pier s to, whom they com-
plete recklessness all
There will it
tf
willour sailors l ofrrosmsh
be no popular sympathy •
in
enemies.
If it should turn out
this case.that, notwithstand-
ing Chancellor's
jug the Lord _ opinion that such an act
South
would be murder, Englishmen caught in American
privateers are hanged t priva as pira es ere will be a
strong inclination in England '
there
to hold that they de-
served their fate. Whether
they be plundering in
the name of Mr.
Jefferson Davis, or fighting for
high wages underwill
be the flag of Mr. Lincoln, they
be equally mere mercenary cutthroats, and will be
utterly disavowed by their countrymen. We be-
lieve, if it should unfortunately happen that pri-
vateers should steal forth in this American quarrel
1 from English ports, that the public would see with
great satisfaction the merchant who furnished the
warlike stores, the shipbuilder who furnished the
ship, and the captain who commanded her, all
punished together as confederates. This, however,
is contrary to the law of nations, and Lord
Ellenborough offers to all such offenders the conso-
lation that some time after they have been caught
and hanged there will be a strong diplomatic pro-
test delivered on their behalf.--limes.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE CAPTURE OF CANTON
PRIZE MONEY.--Yesterday the military authorities com-
menced payment of the prize money to the land forces who,
under the command of Major-GEneral Van Stratabenzee,
captured the city of Canton, in December, 1857. The clis-
Whaon took place at Chelsea Hospital.

THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1861.

The " Essays and Reviews" seem not likely to be
soon forgotten. Almost every week, printed matter
appears to keep them before the public, and that
printed matter is usually in the shape of wholesale
clerical protest and denunciation, or the narrow
and bigoted opinion of prejudiced laymen. Now,
temperate discussions on both sides of the vital
subjects in question are not only fair bat desirable,
and however hostile, if not rancorous and vitupe-
rative, are doubtless what the highly liberal writers
of the Essays desired. We judge, indeed, from the
character of these Essays, that their object
was to stimulate earnest inquiry and sound
reasoning rather than to teach any " new doc-
trines," or advance any " dangerous scepticism."
As might be expected, almost all the Reviews of the
Reviewers have been on one side ; and on that side
the public have seen so many, that we have trans-
ferred to our columns several very able lectures
which have appeared in the Brighton Observer,
and which were delivered by the Rev. ROBERT
AINSLIE, at Christ Church, New Road—in that
town. Perhaps the most masterly treatment and
the most unbiassed reception which this decried
♦olume has experienced, may be found to have
been afforded by this gentleman. lie appears to
have given the closest application of his powerful
talent and extensive learning to the thorough
analization of each separate Essay,—not carelessly
asserting an opinion, nor pronouncing a belief in-
dividually his own, in connection with them ; not
indulging in the license of free thought and rash
utterance which may sometimes offend and shock,
rather than convince a doubting or dissentient
hearer ; but calmly and dispassionately he has
tested the truth, intelligence, and intention of each
distinctive author, not sparing their incidental
errors nor propitiating their occasional prejudices ;
and has proved himself competent in every degree
to exercise the onerous duty of a critic who pre-
sumes to sit in judgment on such a volume.

The moderation and ability displayed in the
Lectures must have been recognised by all our
readers who perused them, and candid thinkers
must admit they contain the fairest representa-
tion of the contents and character of the book yet
given.

The lecture on the Rev. B. JOWETT'S Essay " On
the Intrepretation of the Scriptures,"* which we
transferred from our Brighton contemporary, is one
of much interest to us, for we read the long Essay
of which it treats, with deeper attention than any
of the others. Reading for information, and with
literary views, we failed to dwell especially on the
passages singled out by a jealous orthodoxy as
" objectionable ;" but, taking the Whole teneur of
the Essay, so completely did it exalt the Scriptures,
as well as point out the correct mode of interpret-
ing them, that we arose from the perusal with
increased reverence for their superlative value.
'Who can read the beautiful passages quoted
in Mr. AINSLIE'S lecture, now alluded to, and
not feel that he had probably never before
seen the vast superiority of the Sacred Scriptures
to all other writings placed in so powerful a
light. They would indeed form an admirable
circular for the Bible Society if it wanted one, in
seeking contributions. It is, obviously, mere scandal
or malice to speak of such a writer as atheis-
tical in his tendencies. Lest our readers should
have overlooked them we quete again these
passages :

Speaking of Christ and his revelation, the
Essayist says :

" In contrast with wild fanaticism, as well as with the
proud Pharisee, came One, most unlike all that had been
before, as the kings or rulers of mankind. In an age which
was the victim of its own passions, the creature of its own
circumstances, the slave of its own degenerate religion, our
Saviour taught a lesson absolutely free from all the In-
fluences of a surrounding world ; he made the last perfect
revelation of God to man—a revelation not indeed imme-
diately applicable to the state of society, or the world, bat

ERRATUM.—By a singular mistake of the printer,
Saturday was inserted, instead of Sunday, at the head of
Mr. Ainslie's Discourse which we inserted in Monday's
Paper, copied from the Brighton Observer. The errqr lyaa
tlif,coverod to late for correction.