The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-04 00:00:00

APRIL 4, 1868.

the education grant of that year; and last, not least,
three years later, in 1850, came his famous Dur-
ham Letter, by which he most grossly insulted the
whole Roman Catholic body, and from which time
it was thought the old connection between the
Whigs and the Roman Catholics was dissolved for
ever. Aud now, again, let Roman Catholics rest
assured the Whigs are only playing the same
game over again—i.e., they are making a cat's-paw
of the Roman Catholics to suit their own political
purposes'; and let all Catholics rest assured that they
will throw them overboard again at the first profit-
able opportunity, the same as they did in 1833, 1847,
and 1850. Now the present Government does not
for one moment pretend that the Irish Protestant
Church, as it exists at present, is at all satisfactory ;
far, very far from it. It simply does not con-
sider the present the mast expedient time for
the discussion of such a very serious and
momentous a question at the very fag end of
an old Parliament, and when it is merely sitting
to wind up, as the old saying is. To quote an old
proverb, " There is a time for all things," and the
present is about the very worst time that could
have been selected for the discussion of so mo-
mentous a subject as the abolition, or non-abolition,
of the Irish Protestant Church. Lord Stanley's
speech is, to my mind, utterly unanswerable.
However, should Mr. Disraeli be defeated by our
most disgraceful, reckless, and factious Oppo-
sition (I can in good truth, call them no-
thing more), let him at once carry out his
threat, and go directly to the country, by which he
will, I trust, obtain an overwhelming majority. I
can quote several occasions in which, since the be-
ginning of the century, we had general elections
within a year of each other. In the autumn of
1806 there was a general election ; and again in six
months time, in the spring of 1807, upon the down-
fall of the Broad-Bottomed Government, and the
celebrated No-Popery election of the last-named
year. Also in July, 1830, Parliament was dis-
solved by the death of George IV. and the acces-
sion of William IV., and in the spring of the fol-
lowing year it was dissolved again to try the sense
of the country on the then pending discussions of
the old Reform remain, Sir, your faithful
servant, _

A LOVER AND OBSERVER OF HISTORICAL
DATES AND FACTS.

April 2, 1868.

LATEST INTELL MENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

INDIA.

BOMBAY, March 14.

Tho Viceroy has ruled that the covenanted civil
servants being required under the new system to
pass their vernacular examination before their de-
parture from England, they will be entitled to their
full salary from the date of their reporting their
arrival at Bombay.
Sir Richard Temple has been nominated Secre-
tary of the Order of the Star of India.
It will be notified that the increased rate of
postage will come into force on the Ist April. A
very strong feeling has been created on the subject
throughout India.

CALCUTTA, March 7th (via Trieste.)

The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal has re-
quested the opinions of the commissioners of the.
divisions relative to the practicability of levying an
educational cess upon the entire population for the
yurpose of providing funds to carry out a compre-
hensive system of vernacular education.

The reports of the result of the late rice harvest
in Bengal are very favourable. The price of rice
is low, and the prospects of the new crops are
good.

Stevens' exploring party from British Burmah
reached Bhamo on the 21st January on their way
to the frontiers of Western China. Sir William
Muir has been sworn in Lieutenant- Governor of the
North-West Provinces, vacatel by the retirement
of Mr. Drummond.

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS.
MARSEILLES, April 4.
The Tanjore arrived at 6 a.m. to-day. The mails
Leave for London at 11.30 a.in.

SUEZ, March 27.

Advices from Annesloy Bay announce that the
3d Dragoons had left for headquarters by forced
marches. The railway is now complete for a dis-

,ance of eleven miles.

Lady Lawrence arrived here on the 26th inst. on
her way to England.

The Feroze went ashore twenty miles from Suez
at midnight on the 24th, but has been got off, and
has since arrived here.

ALEXANDRIA, April 1.

Her Majesty's Indian steam transport Malabar
arrived at Suez on the 30th ult. with the 94th and
drafts of other Regiments. The troops left for
England to-day in the Crocodile.
Important changes are expected in the Egyptian
Ministry.

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, April 3.

The Impeachment Managers produced to-day
before the Senate Court as testimony against Pre-
sident Johnson several of his speeches, in which he
denounced the action of Congress.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 3—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cent.
hnd of month... Italian Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 35 Mexican Loan ... 19 25
Credit Mobilior
End of month... 273 75 Spanish Threes
CreditYoncier —.1470 Home Debt 33
End of month... Deferred —

RAILWAY

.___ Account.
Orleans ... .904
Northern llB5
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 5781
Western
Eastern
000000000000 • •
Sardinian
Austrian 550
Lombard 3BO
North of Spain 72
Saragossa
Roman 45