The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TIIITP,SDAY.
Some idea may he formed cf the difficulties which
a liberal Bishop has to, contend with in the North
of Ireland from the following copy of a placard
which was posted in DoWn natrick on the 12th inst. :
"Protestants of Down,—Beware ! On the 12th of
August next a confirmation will take place in your
Cathedral. Bishop Knox, the inhibitor of honest
Miller and brave Potter, will be the officiating pre-
late. On no account permit him to confirm the
children of loyal fathers and warm hearted Protes-
tant mothers. Keep your children at home on that
day. Send the renegade Bishop home to Holywood,
there to concoct another speech in behalf of Sabbath
desecration. Men of Down ! let him know that the
spirits of your fathers live' in' 'you. Down with
every ecclesiastical tyrant, whether Pope or Bishop !
Let him, together with his coadjutors, understand
that the men of Down know their rights, and know-
ing, dare maintain them. You scouted Lenten lec-
tures, and caused Popish picture windows to be
screened for ever. Then show your hatred of
Bishop Knox's conduct by keeping your children
at home. No surrender ! God save the Queen!—
July 12, 1861."

The offence of the Bishop of Down was that he
made a speech in the House of Lords in favour of
opening the Botanic Gardens on Sunday, in which
he agreed with the whole of his brethren on the
bench, with one exception. The Northern Whig
which publishes the above, in a leader on this sub-
ject thus refers to the Bishop's labours, and the dif-
ficulties arising from the antagonism of the Orange
faction to everything truly liberal and enlightened
in the conduct of their rulers, whether civil or
ecclesiastical .

" In the meantime, the Bishop of Down will, we
trust, bate no jot of heart or hope,' but still steer
bravely on' in the course he has adopted. His
courage and forbearance, his enlarged and truly
Christian liberality and tolerance, have earned and
are earning for him the admiration of all candid
and fair-minded men in every communion. They
cannot be without their silent effect for good even
on the fanatics who denounce him and them. No
man is doing more than he to strengthen both Pro-
testantism and his own Church in this island. It
would be a misfortune to Ireland, as well as a thing
most lamentable in itself, if Dr. Knox should suffer
his own benignant and comprehensive tolerance to
be narrowed and his kindly spirit of humanity to be
embittered by the sour bigotry of the wretched
fanatics, whose aim is even more to pain him than
to display the bad passions which they dignify by
the name of principles."
Chief Justice Monahan, in his charge to the
grand jury at the opening of the Cork assizes,
alluded to the practice of bribing bailiffs, es if it
were a novelty and confined to that county ; but the
Cork Reporter assures his lordship that it is an an-
cient custom, prevalent in almost every county in
Ireland, and that farmers and shopkeepers residing
many miles from the assize town will continue to
bribe bailiffs for not summoning them, so long as
they are obliged to travel and attend Record cases
at their own expense. The remedy would be to
compel the suitors in such cases to pay the expenses
of the jurors, which would greatly diminish liti-

gation.
The Derry Journal states that the Channel fleet
have arrived in Lough Swilly.

THURSDAY EVENING,

This day the Royal Dublin Society resolved to
open the Botanic Gardens on Sundays by a majority
of 14—for, 125; against, 111.

IN RE LAVELLE V. LORD ORANMORE.

The jtr.7 brought in a special verdict. They
found the justification substantially true, except in
one point. Verdict for the plaintiff, 6d. damages

and 6d. costs.

PALACE REFORMS' IN 2 URKEY.

(From the Levant Herald.)

The past week has not been less productive of
economic reforms within the palace than its prede-
cessor. The wholesomest surgery has been prac-
tised in nearly every department of the establish-
ment, and with results which, a month ago, but
few would have believed possible. On Thursday,
300 of the 500 youths entered on the list of musi-
cians of the imperial household were summarily
dismissed ; and since then no fewer than 685
hademes, baltajees, and other subordinate servants
of every grade, have been turned off, and banded
over to the Seraskeriat, that such of them as have
hitherto evaded the conscription may be at once en-
rolled in the army. Yesterday, again, 500 out of
the 700 caiquejees nominally on the establishment,
were similarly dismissed, and many of them, after
the examination by the Capitan Pacha, drafted into
the navy, the conscription for which they had also
managed to escape. These sweeping eliminations
have reduced the number of menials about the
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the
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were either absurdly over-pensioned, or were with-
out the smallest right to allowances at all. Of these
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month, and rations. Selim Bey, ex-chamberlain,
Alsg, Ohoao' pa.. aadm Haiont
and rations in proportion. For these extravagant
allowances his Majesty
has substituted the very
sufficient ones of 4,000 p. a
month,
thus effecting in this small
group
of without rations,
cases
alonea
total saving of fully 1,500,000 p. a year. Propor-
tionately sweeping economy has been effected
throughout the rest of this numerously filled and
greatly over-paid list. Amongst the personnel of
the late sovereign's harem similar retrenchments
have been made, the allowances to nearly the whole
of the Kadins-iffendis and Ekpal Effendis having
undergone large reduction. Reasonable modifica-
tions have also, been introduced into the expenditure
of the princes and princesses of the late imperial
family. We have already stated that her Highness
the Valide Sultana has, of her own initiative, limited
her civil list to the unprecedentedly low sum of
50,000 p. a month. Nothing could be more salutary
than these economies. They will not mere yring
down the imperial expenditure to a figure some-
what reasonably proportioned to the revenue of e
on the
great fail to force similar retrenchmentmagnatesof
country, but, by their influence as an example, can
reat pachas and other native. the
capital. very best evidence public opinion abroad,. the
They afford too, to resident foreigners an d
not a
promise merely, but a
fact, and if this be done,
everything Majesty's deteertmbineahtioopnedtofomratkhee reformcount
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Tozer, the head engineer, two of the
parties were carried
away
Messrs. andT
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men, procured a bung,, and having tied it to the
the manager to
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sewer, and by that means several of the men were enabled
to grope their way towards the roan-hole, but the other two
were carried away by
the force of the water and must have
I perished.
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