The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

EX-GOVERNOR EYRE.

Unfortunately, the Jamaica question cannot be
separated from the political issues of the present
contest. The action of. Phillips against Mr. Eyre, for.
LlO,OOO damages, on account of fissault and false
imprisonment during the insurrection, has come
before the Court of Queen's Bench. It
is said that the Jamaica Committee pro-
mote the action, and the attorneys engaged for
the prosecution are the same employed hitherto by
the Jamaica Committee. The committee ignore the
case. but its opponents insist upon saddlinz them with

The opinion of such an eminent man as the late
Dr. Arnold on the Irish Church question is worth
noting. In 1837 he wrote : "Above all, every sincere
Christian should vote against a Conservative, if he
desires the spread of Christ's Gospel in Ireland. You
abhor Popery, and we agree with you ; but the
real question is, so long as we have anything to
do with Ireland—how is Popery there to be mended ?
Can there be a more mischievous state of things than
what now exists in Ireland ? . . . Does

any man believe that a Roman Catholic people,
in Any part of Europe, will ever be converted to
Protestantism by Protestants who have .been its
hereditary adversaries ? If there be such a rule in the
world as doing as we would be done by, then the
exclusive establishment of the Protestant Church in
Ireland is a direct injustice, and therefore a direct
sin. If we take the property of the Irish nation to
advance, as we think, the cause of Protestantism, we
might certainly with equal justice persecute the
persons of the Irish people for the same object."

ANOTHER CLERGYMAN ON THE IRISH cinitcn,
Another clerical supporter of Mr. Gladstone's
policy has come forward to declare in favour of the
Liberal party in Ireland. The Rev. H. Jones, in a letter
to his parishioners of St. Luke's, Berwick-street,
Westmii ster, says, speaking of the Irish-Church
"I am sorely vexed at being unable to join with
many of my brethren in the ministry, whom I honour
and respect, in their views. I cannot help feeling
that, in the words of a petition presented to the
House of Lords, ' to maintain the present Established
Church in Ireland as the national Church of that
country is an injustice which legitimately offends the
majority of the Irish people. I signed this petition,
which prayed the House 'to adopt such measures as
may appear best suited to remove this cause of
offence,' and therefore do not shrink, though in a
small professional minority, from saying this to you.
I deplore the bitterness of the strife which the ques-
tion arouses, specially as shewn in the cry of No
Popery l' and ' Church in danger 1' I dislike
Popery, but I fear that in some instances—l will not
say all, or anything like all—but in some instances
those who raise the No-Popery' cry are guilty of
that which is the very essence of Popery,
i.e., preferring the maintenance of an eccle-
siastical form_ to the doing of justice. Popery
will never be mitigated by intolerance. As to the
cry ' Church in danger,' I believe that if people insist
on raising it they go the surest way to make it a
reality. As a man may persuade himself into an
illness, so may a society. No national church, rooted
in historical revelation, and grown into the feelings
the great bulk of a nation is in danger if it
honestly faces the questions of the day, and in the
strength of the spirit of truth is willing to learn as
well as teach."