The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-07 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments.
Loans on real and personal security.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH
COMPANY (Limited).
Fourth Call of £3 (making, with the deposit, £l3 paid.
Notice is hereby given that a Call of £3 per share has been, this
day, made on the Shares of the Company, payable on Monday,
the Ist of August, at the Public Drawing Office of the Bank
of England. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. will be charged
on all Calls in arrear, and the guaranteed interest will not run
until the payment is made.
By order of the Board,
C. L. PEEL, Secretary.

Dated this 4th day of July, 1859,
62, Moorgate-street, London.

SALE OF OLD STORES AT PORTSMOUTH,
Admiralty, Somerset-place, 6th July, 1859.
111 E COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
,KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on WEDNESDAY, the
20th instant, at 12 o'Clock in the forenoon, the Admiral
Superintendent will put up to sale in her yyard at Portsmouth, several Lots of OLDS ORES, consist-
ing of Old Rope (cablelaid and hawserlaid), Old Painted Can-
vas. Baas, Oakum,Hemp Rakings and Cutting, Broken
g-
num mite Shivers, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said yard.
Persons wishing to view the lots must apply to the Super-
intendent for Notes of Admission for that purpose.
Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here and at
the yard.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS It VIfNING will be presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FIrS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
THIS ETENING the performances will commence with
a new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, ti
which
After Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear,
which, MY MOTHER'S MAID.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.
Commence at 7.

W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
NESole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING will be produced NEVER JUDGE BY
APPEARANCES.
01l THE HOUSE Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton.
Fowed by or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
"man, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Bimms. Miss L aid law.
Followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan,
Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and g. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge tor booking. No fees to
.ervants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE SPITALFIELDS' WEAVER. Mr. J. Rogers.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
To conclude with KENILWORTH.

Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
LOUIS XI. Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C.
Calvert, Mrs. C. Calvert.
To conclude with THE MASKED MOTHER.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY, Weatminater-road.—Open at Seven.
EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

oonsiJuliastin of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and g Del pierce, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform EVERY EVFNING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 7.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
81—highest since noon yesterday.
66—lowest this morning and during the night.
77—this day at noon.
BanomETEB,-30•26.
WIND, South Westerly ; light, with fine weather.

If any educational proposal could demand the
unhesitating assent of this country, and in the
middle of this century, Mr. DlLLwyN's Bill has a
right to it. The facts lie in the briefest compass.
There are about 3,000 endowed schools in the
kingdom, with an income of X 1,500,000 per annum.
The founders of a large proportion of these schools
restricted them to no creed or sect, but many of
them mentioned religion in general terms, in
reference either to the instruction or the character
of the teachers or trustees. Till lately it was the
reasonable practice in such cases, not only to open
the instruction freely to the children from all sects,
but also to place some Noncomformists amongst
the teachers, when there were such persons of
suitable position in the neighbourhood, as a kind
of guarantee that the catholicity of the school
should be honourably maintained.
This natural and desirable state of things has
been put an end to by the bigotry, we are
sorry to say it, of certain Churchmen, and
the unaccountable perversity of law. There is a
grammar school at Ilminster founded by two
worthy persons in the reign of EDWARD VI., the
deeds of which provide that the trust shall be ad-
ministered by " GoD-fearing persons." For the last
150 years it has been supposed that Dissenters
might be such persons, and the trustees have con-
sisted of Churchmen and Dissenters. The trust
came before Sir John ROMILLY, who arranged that
there should be twelve Churchmen and three Dissen-
ters in the trust. An appeal was made against this
arrangement, and it was set aside ; the Dis-
senters were removed as not being persons whom the
law could acknowledge to be " GOD-fearing men !"
However ludicrous this may appear, we are bound
to suppose it to be good law ; most certainly the
Judge's decision has made it the actual law of the
land, and unless this new construction of the law be
changed by statute, there will be a general ousting
of all respectable Nonconformist trustees, and as a
consequence, no doubt, the schools will be rendered,
in a too sectarian sense, Church schools, for the
children Of Dissenters to frequent them. Mr. DILL-
WYN'S Bill, therefore, merely provides that where
the founders of the school have inserted no sectarian
limitations in their deeds,
simply used such and where they have
words as religion, religious, or
Godly, the trusts and schools shall be subject to no
restrictions. That
indeed, shall
be interpreted in law, as theyare by ever' Eng-
lishman who is not a bigot of the narrowest mind.
Indeed, who amongst us knows the man who would
maintain that the expression " or God-
fearing person," could 1-e limited to professors of
any one of the creeds which acknowledge a God
at all.

As we have observed, it is not for us to criticise a
final legal judgment ; it may be true that the law
recognises no religion but that which it endows,
and which is garnished with Church-rates and
other honours ; that it knows of no " fear of GOD,"
but that which is expressed in the terms of the
Common Prayer-book. It seems to us, however, in-
consistent in thafcase, to compel, and under penalties
too, all kinds of Dissenters, even Jews, to appeal to
GOD in courts of law—to appeal to a GOD whom
the law says the man who takes the oath
does not fear ! Somewhat inconsistent too
to have Acts of Parliament explicitly for
the purpose of protecting these outsiders in a wor-
ship of their God which is unknown to law. The
inconsistent-3y of the law however with itself is
nothing to its inconsistency with the com-
mon-sense and Christian charity of the country,
and this iinc•onsistency imperatively requires the
enactment of a Bill such as is proposed by Mr.
DILLwYN. Those who oppose him will do well to
remember tl' L'at some of the best friends of educa-
tion have I ooposed to take possession of a large
portion of ' these endowments, which are now sadly

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1859.