The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY WENING, AUGUST 8, 1868,

Irish."

because it is a Church not for
The right hon. gentleman ridiculed tb e notion'
of reforming the Irish Church. " ron will
find," he said, "that it means one of two -things
—it either means that you will take the clergy-
men out of Munster and Connaught, i order
to plant more of them, and make ther a more
comfortable, in Ulster and Leinster, or else it
means, and that is the only real mean/3 ag of it,
that if you proceed to take away the a buses of
the Irish Church, why, gentlemen, f here will
be nothing left." The Church w a`,4 like an
old house in a rickety condition, which will
sometimes stand as long as you d.s..tet touch
it, but if you begin to repair if it c times tum-
bling about your ears. You can't take away
the pastors from people where they- :have no
flocks and carry the money elsewhere without
finding that, like a tinker, in mewl ing one
hole you have made ten, and that you have a
new set of complaints you can't ans% -er, and
new demands for reform you will bi totally
unable to meet. These plans, then, tre only
futile. lam told there is a scheme coming
forth from the Commission which lis s been
lately sitting. I don't blame the emir( fission ;
lam very sorry for the Commission; 'I don't
know what better they could do; yo. a can't
make bricks without straw ; you canr't take
the breeks off a Highlandman." Mr. Glad-
stone answered at some length the argtu tents
which identify the Irish Establishment with
the cause of Protestantism and with the Clutrch
of England. "It appears to me," he said,
" that nothing is more idle than to attempt
to draw a parallel between the case of the
Church of Ireland and the case of the Church
of England. The duty of a religious establish-
ment is a duty to the nation at large. That
idea of a religious establishment ministering
only to a handful of the people is an unnatural
and monstrous idea, and when you have arrived
at such a state of things it is time that estab-
lishment should cease to exist, as an estab-
lishment not performing its ministry for the
nation. In many parts of the country the
Church of England is the sole, and in many
other parts the principal, if not the sole, reli-
gions agency ; and even in the most popu-
lous parts where she is confronted by the
friendly competition of the other religious
bodies, still, I think that the Church of Eng-
land enters into the natural life and purpose
of the country, associated in a great degree
with the feelings, the traditions, as well as the
history of England ; and there are, in my
opinion, very many who do not formally be-
long to her communion who would, with deep
regret, witness her downfall. The great dif-
ference between the two Churches is summed
up thus : that the Church of Ireland is a
Church established by law, which neither does
nor can do the work of a Church establish-
, ment ; but the Church of England, established
by law also, in most parts of the country,
does the chief part of the work of an establish-
ment."

committed that particular crime or not. This applies not
only to Seymour, but along the line of the two roads,
and wherever our organization exists. Law and order
must prevail."
The Indians assembled at Fort Larned on the
Arkansas river to receive their annuities, have
shown a bad temper, as they were denied arms and
ammunition o❑ account of the recent depredations.
The spirit of outrage they manifested was checked
by the fortunate arrival of General Sully with 600
cavalry. Near Nebraska city they had attacked
and killed several drovers. The remains of Mrs.
Denville, who had been cruelly murdered by the
Idaho Indians in 1867, had been discovered and
brought to Fort Boise by a party of scouts. An
Indian pony was found decorated with some of her
hair.

The Springfield Republican says: —"Elder Adams,
whose colony at Jarfa has dwindled down to less
than twenty persons, has gone t) England with his
wife, to see if he cannot get a ---einforcement of
dupes and fanatics ;" and, we may add, he h Ls come
to the right place. In no other country are idiots
so tolerated and encouraged, and nowhere else have
they erected so many memorials. People see more
asylums in America because there they shut up the in-
sane, but here they are at large, and take a promi-
nent part in national affairs. Whenever anything
peculiarly idiotic transpires abroad, an investigation
of the circumstances almost invariably brings to
light that it had its origin in England. Even the
great Salt Lake is an English city, and is almost
wholly recruited and kept alive by its English con-
nection. The best of the joke is, that English
writers travel to these excrescences and discuss
theta as if they were the native growth of the
country where they appear. Doubtless Elder Adams,
if he is here, will suco.ted, and we will soon have
men in quaint attire preaching up a new religion,
and Elder Adams established as a prophet in Pales-
tine in opposition to Brigham Young.
Trains now run over 700 miles of the Union
Pacific Railway. the United States Commission-
ers have examined and accepted 680 miles, and it is
expected that 900 will be finished before the year
ends, as there are 20,000 men at work on the line,
and the whole will be opened before the close of
1869. A case is reported in the L nylon papers,
taken from au American journal, against the Di-
rectors. An affidavit, made in the Court of the
United States, accused them of jobbing away the
land through the Credit Foncier of America, so as
to deprive the stock-holders of the benefit. It is
asserted that these Directors sit also on the Board
of the Credit Foncier, and while they deprive the
Union Pacific shareholders of the bountiful gift
Uncle Sam has bestowed, they mop it all up them-
selves through the Finance Company. Perhaps
George Francis Train can throw some light on this
subject, and dissipate a scandal against the greatest
corporation in the world.
The majority in Mississippi against the New
Constitution, according to General Gillem's official
report, was 7,629. The General refutes the charge
of fraud, asserting that the election was as fair as
possible under existing circumstances, and that no
undue influence was exerted at the polls. Indeed

the pressure was as likely to come from the Radi-
cal as the Democratic .side; and if the Radical, Mr.
Derweese, is to be credited, even more likely. That
gentleman, who represents North Carolina, being
called upon by the House for his views on the bill
for supplying arms to the Reconstructed State Go.
vernments, so strongly advocated by Senator Wil-
son, made a fine expose. tie declared that the De-
mocratic rebels will carry all the elections in spite
of what the new State Governments can do, unless
the blacks are armed and the Democrats kept away
from the polls ! Iti hat Mr. Derweese ought to have
said was one thing—what he did say was another,
and how he ought to have said it differed widely
from how he did say it, for his English was not of
the purest brand.
In Tennessee affairs do not improve. A rumour
was current at Franklyn that the negroes were
plotting to burn down the town. Jeremiah Ezell,
anxious to ascertain its truth, proceeded to recon-
noitre, and speedily fell a victim to his curiosity, for
he was killed. The bad feeling in Franklyn arose
from the lynching by the mob of a negro named
William Gustman, who was imprisoned on a crimi-
nal charge. One of the most horrible crimes, how-
ever, recorded by this mail comes from Owens.
born', Kentucky, though none actually lost
their lives. On the night of the 18th of July
a hundred of the persons residing at an hotel were
poisoned. This was done to gratify the spite of a
rival milkman to him who supplied the hotel. Th's
rival added a liberal supply of arsenic to the usual
condiments— Kentucky milk differing so far from
that of London that it is only partially, not wholly,
manufactured by the milkman.
On the 21st July there was a riot at Savannah
originating in William Robert Hopkins, a negro
tax-gatherer, being shot dead by Isaac Rassell, a
white man, in a gin-shop. Immediately at the tap
of a drum the negroes of Savannah • assembled in
thousands, and an attempt was made on the gaol
to seize and lynch Russell, but they were defeated
in their design. On the 23d Hopkins was buried,
being followed to the grave by vast numbers of
negroes. The affair at Millican, Texas, has not yet
ended, as the negroes sullenly maintain their posi-
tion ; a truce was established that the dead might
be buried. The reports by telegraph throw the
blame upon the negroes, but the wires being in the
hands of the whites, such reports must be received
with caution.
Mr. Seward's proclamation in a provisional way
declares the ratification of the 14th Constitutional
Amendment, as the twenty-three States requisite
have sanctioned it. He carefully avoids commit-
ting himself to the opinion whether the " Recon-
structed" are States or not, or whether Ohio and
New Jersey can withdraw the assent they gave.
It is supposed that Ohio will reverse her late deci-
sion when the Legislature meets, and whether New
Jersey can withdraw will be settled by the Supreme
Court. On the 21st July Congress passed a con-
current resolution declaring the amendment, which
runs as follows, part of the Constitution :-1. That
all persons born or naturalized in the United States
are, in virtue of their national citizenship, citizens
of the State in which they reside. 2. It forbids the
enforcement of any State law that abridges the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States, and ordains absolute equality of:all citizens
before the law. 3. It apportions representation
according to population, and when political rights
are denied any class in any State it diminishes the
number of representatives in accordance with the
diminution in the number of electors. 4. It pro-
vides that the man who, having taken an oath as
Senator, Representative, member of any State
Legislature, or judicial or executive officer of any
State to support the Constitution, afterwards en-
gaged in rebellion, shall not be eligible to any office,
State or Federal, unless Congress, by a two-thirds
vote, relieves him of his disabilities.
Congress has passed a bill incorporating the
Commercial Navigation Company, to facilitate the
carriage of the mails between Liverpool. and New
York. To this company is secured the postal
service for ten years, with all receipts from that
source, not in excess of $600,000, provided that the
time spent on the voyage does not exceed that
taken by other steamers on the same route, failing
which the contract will cease. The company is not
to receive inland postages after the sum secured on
the sea postages amounts to $400,000 a year, and
the Government gives further aid by authorizing
the issue and guaranteeing the bonds of the com-
pany to an amount not exceeding in annual interest
$250,000, principal and interest to be paid iu coin_
But the Government retains the postages as security
for the bonds and the interest until the extinction
of the debt. The company on its part undertakes
to build within a year five first-class steamers, each
of 3,000 tons burden, and two others, making a
fleet of seven, to be officered by citizens of the
United States, and to be maintained for twenty
years. It is no wonder that Trollope failed to
secure the contract for the Cunard and Inman lines,
as it is the settled policy of the United States to
maintain its flag on both the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans at any expense.
Nothing drives like rivalry and competition, and
we believe that the stolid and egotistical Chinese
nation is being impelled along by the progress of
Japan, The Japanese baying a better country, and