The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

mit. SULLIVAN.

That portion of the constituency of Dublin whicz
calls itself " patriotic " was rather startled on Friday
last. Their great hero, Mr. Sullivan, of the Nation,
was assailed. What is more, his assailants wished to
have him declared " civilly dead." The effort is
described as very shabby by most of the journals. It
will be recollected that Mr. Sullivan was convicted of
publishing seditious cartoons, &c., in another journal
of which he is the proprietor, and it was urged upon
the court that as he was not "an inhabitant house-
holder" during the period he was detained in Rich-
mond Bridewell, he was disqualified by law from
being on the burgess list. Tho point was reserved for
the consideration of the court. The Freeman is
very indignant. Surely, it says, ascendancy must be
on its last legs in Dublin—must be reft of all reason
.--when it resorted to this discreditable attempt. To
what a strait must the Tory party be reduced when,
for sheer vengeance, they seek to supplement Mr.
Sullivan's rigorous incarceration in Richmond by
their sentence of " civil death." This shameful pro-
ceeding will but shew the citizens of Dublin what a
hateful intolerance and bigotry they are face to face
with in the struggle now at hand.
MR. MILL'S ESTIMATE OF A CLERK,

The Conservatives of Westminster have hold of a
powerful instrument against Mr. Mill, which they
will hardly fail to use. The • Standard and
the Herald publish " Mr. Mill's estimate of a
clerk." In his principles of political economy
Mr. Mill thus discourses : " A clerk from whom
nothing is required but the mechanical labour
of copying, gains more than an equivalent for his
mere exertion if he receives the wages of a brick-
layer's labourer. His work is not a tenth part
as hard, it is quite as easy to learn, and his
condition is less precarious, a clerk's place being
generally a place for life. The higher rate of his
remuneration, therefore, must be partly ascribed to
monopoly, the small degree of education required
being not even yet so generally diffused as to call
forth the natural number of competitors, and partly
to the remaining influence of an ancient custom
which requires that clerks should maintain the dress
and appearance of a more highly-paid class."

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THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.
A pamphlet recently issued in the City of London
has excited some attention. Mr. Goschen so far
notices it to reply to it. Tie said that the whole
gist of the pamphlet was that Mr. Gladstone intended
to Romanise the country. The author, however,
claims to have proved that Englishmen generally aro
too intelligent to join the Romish Church under any
circumstances whatever ; that it is idle to expect that
the mere removal of the Irish Church will " conciliate the
Irish people," so long as the present gross ignorance
complained of both in England and America is per-
mitted to exist in that unfortunate country; and that
Ireland has vast agricultural and mineral wealth at
her command. The former is only partially de-
veloped, and the latter lies dormant in the earth ;
but these sources of wealth are withheld from the
people by three causes, viz., the pernicious influences.
of the Romish priesthood, the political agitation, and
%LA of a. useful education in Ireland.

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