The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-20 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

It may be safely calculated that there are
75,000 or 80,000 Irishmen, or men of immediate
Irish origin, in the service of the United States, and
there are upwards of 60,000 Germans, and several
thousands of other nationalities. On Friday even-
ing last I stopped to speak to some men on duty at
the end of the Chain-bridge ; the sergeant of the
guard was an Englishman, who had served in the
Royal Marines—young, active, and intelligent ; the
second man had been a private in her Majesty's 31st,
the third had belonged to the 88th, and had lost a
finger in the Crimea—a pretty fair
foreigners out of five or sixmen. Now and thenproportion of
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sented in this army, as well as all religions. The
Yews have rushed into the field ; but, less fortu-
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cause it never entered into the contemplation of the
lawmakers that a sprinkling of Israelites, like those
in the Cameron Dragoons, would come forward,
sword in hand, for the Union ; and the Secre-
tary of War was accordingly obliged to refuse
the application of a rabbi for a chaplaincy, which
there is some reason to think was intended
as a hoax of no very perceptible fun or tendency.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES.-- The recent heavy
gales have unfavourably affected the herring fishery off
Lowestoft and Yarmouth. The deliveries during the last
week have been greatly reduced at Yarmouth,
and prices
have ranged at from £l4 to £25 per last for fresh fish, and
at from £ll to £l5 per last fur salted herring's. As regards
the export to the Mediterranean, another vessel Las left
Yarmouth for Genoa with 2,400 bairels an board. The
FINANCE
quality of the fish landed has been good. Much damage
of depression has
has been done to nets by the late gales, several luggers and
promises
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MINISTER.—Great doubts are entertained in Paris as to
M. FOULD, THE continuedasndE
lvil feelingF ndisasters.E N c n
how far any faith is to be put in the programme of M
Fould, the new Finance Minister. It is believed that one-
half of the Imperial recklessness, extravagance and
tion has not yet been told. Nor are the Parisians at
satisfied that confidence is to be reposed in the
the new Minister as to the course which be
will pursue
M. Fould is a Jew, and like Mires and
Hebrew persuasion, has amassed a large f others of the
fortune
specu-
lating at the Bourse,—which
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TILE PROPOSED UNION OF CITY
BENEFICES.

Yesterday, at a meeting held at the Mansion-
house, the Lord Mayor acting as chairman, an ela-
borate scheme for the union of benefices in the City
of London was settled by the Commissioners lately
appointed by the Bishop of London, the Court of
Common Council, and the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's, under the provisions of the recent Act of
Parliament, 23d and 24th Victoria, cap. 142, autho-
rising the union of contiguous benefices. The pro-
posal invites public attention as well on its own
merits as because it is the first operation of the kind
contemplated under the statute in question. The
Commission, a mixed one of clergymen and laymen,
is composed of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Blomfield
Burnell, who represent the lay element, and were i
nominated by the Corporation ; the Rev. Robert
Bowness Gibson, rector of St. Mary Abchurch, act-
ing for the Daan and Chapter of St. Paul's ; the
Rev. Michael Gibbs, vicar of Christ Church, New-
gate-street, and the Rev. Thomas James Rowsell,
rector of St. Margaret, Lothbury, who were ap-
pointed by the Bishop of the diocess. Upon the
work in question these gentlemen have been anxi-
ously engaged, more or less, for several months
past, and have held about 80 meetings on the sub-
ject. Designed "to advance the interests of reli-
gion," the proposal, in its leading features, contem-
plates 14 for the present, and probably more in
future, unions of contiguous benefices in the city ;
the disuse or demolition of as many churches
within its limits, now no longer needed from
changes in location of the community, and the erec-
tion and endowment, in lieu of them, of a corres-
ponding number of religious edifices in extensive
parochial districts beyond the pale of the city, many
of them swarming with a population of nearly
30,000, or as large as that of some of our great pro-
vincial towns, but now comparatively destitute of
the means of religious instruction.
The general results of the deliberations of the
Commissioners may be more conveniently stated
in the shape of a narrative. Of 17 proposed unions
on which they report three have been deemed by
them to be, at least for the present, inexpedient.
The remaining 14 the Commissioners consider to
be expedient, and they recommend the terms on
which these unions may be effected. They first
of all make various recommedations affecting the
parishes to be united, the result of which they be-
lieve will be greatly to diminish the church ex-
penses of the several parishes of each united bene-
fice. After specifying the alterations which the
union will render necessary in the arrangement of
the patronage—which they have succeeded to a
great degree in simplifying by doing away in many
instances with alternate and more frequent turns of
presenting—they recommend what should be done
with the disused church. They suggest the erec-
tion of a tomb of a suitable and substantial charac-
ter in the adjacent churchyard, and that the human
remains found under the church be carefully depo-
sited in it ; that the pulpit, organ, bells, and the
like be transferred, if required, to the new church
which by the Act of Parliament must be erected in
the stead of each church which is taken down ;
that the materials and sites of disused churches be
sold, and out of the produce of such sales, supple-
mented by glebe property and other assistance, the
new churches be erected, and a new benefice be
created for each of them, with an endowment suffi-
cient to compensate the patron for accepting such
new church in lieu of the city benefice which he
formerly owned. Bat in no instance have the Com-
missioners recommended the alienation of what is
called Free Act Tithe from a city parish. That
tithe is to belong to the incumbent of the united
benefice. In one case the disused church is recom-
mended to be granted for Divine service in the
Welsh language, according to the rites of the Church
of England, a committee of Welsh people having
offered the security which the Act of Parliament
requires for the maintenance of the fabric. The
disused church in another union is recommended to
be used as a national school. Fourteen churches
are proposed to be disused.. The suggestions made
by the Commissioners respecting the new
churches which the Act requires to be erected
in their stead show the relief which the unions,
if effected, will afford to the spiritual desti-
tution existing in many parts of the metropo-
lis. The following are the parishes so relieved,—
the figures denoting the population as taken at the
Census of 1851:—In St. Dunstan's, Stepney, having
24,843 inhabitants, two new benefices are created,

one of which comprehends a small portion of St.
Philip, Stepney, which has 13,447 inhabitants.
Another new benefice is formed out of St. Peter and
Trinity, Stepney, which, in 1851, had 7,597, and
6,264 inhabitants, but which have been greatly
augmented in number during the last ten years. In
St. George-in-the-East, having a population of
27,000, two new benefices are created, one of which
includes a small portion of the parish of Wapping.
St. Mark, Whitechapel (15,790) has some thousands
taken from it by a new benefice, which also com-
prises a part of Wapping ; and in exchange for
these portions of Wapping a part of St. George in-
the-East, with about 2,000 people, and situate near
to Wapping Church, is added to the charge of the
rector of Wapping. Another new benefice will afford
relief to St. Leonard, Shoreditch (25,111 people),
and St. Juhn the Baptist, Hoxton (21,370), and St,

Mary, Haggerston (26,627). The first of these
parishes is further relieved by other pot tions of it
being annexed to other benefices, and by the forma-
tion of a new benefice out of it, which a private
gentleman has undertaken to endow and supply
with a church, independently of any aid from dis-
used city churches. In St. Mary, Haggerston, two
new benefices are created, and St. John Baptist,
'Raton, is further relieved by the formation of a
benefice, partly out of it and partly out of Christ
Church, Hoxton. Another new benefice is designed
to relieve St. James, Curtain-road (11,133 persons),
being formed partly out of it and partly out of St.
Paul, Bunhill-row, the latter of which receives in
exchange a portion of St. Luke, Old-street (22,825),
lying near to St. Paul's Church. St. Luke is fur-
ther relieved by another new benefice formed out of
it and St. John the Baptist, and Trinity, Hoxton,
and a small portion of St. Barnabas, King's-square.
Another new benefice affords additional relief to St.
Luke's, and also comprehends that part of St.
Thomas, Charterhouse (9,577) between Golden-lane
and Whitecross-street. St. James, Clerken well
(25,275) supplies a locality for another new
benefice, and the united parishes of St. Sepulchre,
London, and Middlesex (13,452) are recommended
for severance; the Middlesex portion, having a
population of between 4,000 and 5,000, to be made
a distinct benefice, with a new church furnished
out of the produce of a disused one in the city.
Each of the proposed new benefices will contain
from 5,000 to 9,000 persons, and in the selection of
the localities for them the Commissioners have
availed themselves of the recommendations of the
London Diocesan Chureh-BuilditSocity. Four
other proposed unions are still under the considera-
tion of the Commissioners, and if they
can mature
a scheme for each of them relief will be recom-
mended for other large parishes in the east of
London.

The Commissioners have also been able to reco
mend out of the glebe property in the city small
augmentations of endowment for the benefices of
St. Botolph, Aldgate, St. Mark, Whitechapel, St.
John, Clerkenwell, and one or two more.
Subjoined are the benefices recommended for
union in the city of London :—St. Alban, Wood-
street, with St. Olave, Silver-street; St. Michael,
Wood-street, with St. Mary Staining. Allhallows,
Bread-street, with St. John the Evangelist; St.
Mary-le-Bow with Allhallows, Honey-lane, and St.
Pancras; St. Mildred, Bread-street, with St. Mar-
garet Moses. Allhallows the Great with Allhal-
lows the Less; St. Michael, Paternoster Royal,
with St. Martin, Vintry. Allhallows, Lombard-
street ; St. Benet, Gracecburch, with St. Leonard,
Eistcheap. St. Ann and Agnes with St. John
'Zachary; Christ Church with St. Leonard, Foster-
_t. ane. St. Antholin, with St. John the Baptist;
Mary Aldermary, with St. Thomas Apostle.
St. Cleraent, Eastcheap, with St. Martin Ongars ;
St. Mary Abcbureh, with Sr.awrence Pountney.
St. Edmund this. IC
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Haw. St. EthelburP, St. Helen, St Martin Out-