The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, May 2.

71bs. shirtings, sr. 14a. ; 81 do., 6r. 14a. ; 40's
mule twist, 12f. ; market steady. Cotton quiet.
Dhollerah, 255 r. Shipments of the week, 41,000
bales. Exchange on London, 2.01. Freights to
Liverpool, 50g.

CALCUTTA, May 1.
7lbs. shirtings, sr. 141. ; 81lbs. ditto, 7r. 14a. ;
3lbs. madapollams, 2r. Ba.; 40's mule twist, 61;
market quiet. Cotton, 19; ; linseed, 4r. ; rapeseed
3r. 4a. Exchange on London, 1 11 13-16 ; 4 per
Cent. Government Securities, 931 ; 5 per Cent. Go-
vernment Securities, 1081; 5f do., 113/. Freights
to England, 775. 6d.
The Bank of Bengal has raised its rate of dis-
count 1 per cent.

BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL.
GIBRALTAR, May 10.

The Ripon left at one p.m. to-day for Southamp-
ton, where she may be looked for about the 15th

instant.

OUTWARD MAIL OF APRIL 25—MAY 1.
SUEZ, May 9.
The Sumatra sailed at midnight for Bombay
Clears off all cargo.

ST. NAZAIRE, May 11.

The Transatlantic Company's steamer Panama
has arrived here from Vera Cruz on the 15th ult.
She brings 361 passengers, and 11,300,000 f. in
specie. The health of all on board is excellent.

CRYSTAL PALACE. —Wile. Titiens and other
artistes of Her Majesty's Opera appeared at the first grand
opera concert on Saturday last, which was attended by
8,609 persons. The afternoon being fine, and the number
of visitors thus large, the promenade after the concert was
particularly gay. On Saturday next Mdlle. Lucca, Signor
Mario, and other artistes of the Royal Italian Opera,
Covent-garden, will take part in the concert.
It appears that at Cheltenham there is one of
those abominations a proprietary chapel, called Christ
Church ; and of this concern the Dean of Exeter is a
shareholder. It is stated that in consequence of the edi-
fice having fallen into a disgraceful state of dirt and
squalor, the churchwardens resolved to deduct 12s. 6d.
per share from the dividend of the current and of next
year for the purpose of cleaning and repairs. To this
proposal three of the shareholders demurred, the Dean of
Exeter who is the absolute proprietor of two shares, but
who holds eighteen as trustee ; Miss Sykes the owner of
twelve ; and Colonel Hume the owner of one. On behalf
of this little party—who certainly do not seem disposed
"to suffer and be still"—the Dean lifts up his voice, com-
plaining that they bad been promised a dividend of from
61 to 61 per cent.—there is no little oddity about these
fractions—and that while that promise was unfulfilled,
the churchwardens had no right to deduct a penny for
any purpose from the profits. Nor was this the whole of
the very rev. gentleman's grievance. In the spirit of the
famous Scotch philanthropist who told his servants that
if any victuals were left that were absolutely uneatable
they might give them to the poor, the churchwardens had
allotted to the Sunday school children certain seats where
nobody could see or hear anything ; and this is how the
very rev. Dean treats that transaction:—Every sitting
made over to the Sunday school children is the property
of some proprietor, intended to convey somo income. It
is a part of the productive value of the church ! I Always
providing, we suppose, that it can be let.] I cannot con-
ceive by what law of equity any church officer (one of
whom is th 3 proprietor's churchwarden) compromised the
interests of the persons he is elected to represent ! !
It has been said that our Lord never showed anger but
on two occasions in His earthly life; the one being when
the disciples would have kept the little children from
Him ; the other when He drove out the money-changers
from the Temple. In both respects Low Church takes
the opposite line. It has no love for children at all. It
hinders them from being brought to the Lord—first, by
depraving the doctrine of Baptism so as to make it seem
absurd to bestow the sacrament of regeneration cra un-
conscious infatAs ; and, secondly, by imposing an utterly
unlawful and wicked tax upon its administration. Dean
Boyd in barring the doors of Christ Church—Christ
Church?—to the Sunday scholars is only carrying out
the principle to its legitimate extent. We may well think
that the disciples in forbidding children to approach their
Master were actuated by a real though mistaken piety.
They prob tb'y thought that useless trouble was being
given to their Lord. But not even to Judas Iscariot did
the brilliant idea occur—as it has since occurred to so
many "Evangelical " clergymen—of charging so much a
head for the privilege of receiving the Divine touch !
Church Tinto.