The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-23 00:00:00

CHURCH MATTERS.

The John Bull is authorised to state that the vacant
Canonry of Westminster has been conferred upon
the Rev. Canon Prothero, and the stall thus vacated
at St. Paul's is conferred upon the Rev. Robert
Gregory, vicar of St. Mary the Less, Lambeth. The
same authority denies that Mr. Disraeli has appointed
the Rev. W. M. P. Pym•to the vicarage of Hughen-
den.—Mr. Macrorie sails early next month for the
Cape, to be immediately consecrated.
The Spectator gives as reasons for the absence ol
Conservative feeling in Essex, the enfranchisement
of the county Dissenters, the hatred incited by the
clergy, who are everywhere preaching the doctrine of
the Real Presence, and the growth of new towns.
The same paper asks what will the Record say when
it hears that its followers at Promo sent a written
apology to Mr. Bennett for venturing to prosecute
him, and subscribed £lOO to his " semi-Romish "
Church.

Some of the Norwich clergy have addressee a
memorial to the Convocations of Canterbury and
York, expressing the desire that they will take the
proper steps to procure the royal license for the
enaction of canons necess -try to procure better
rubrical conformity, and to obtain the subsequent
sanction of Parliament to such canons.
A subscriber to the S. P. C. K. and the S. P. G.
of thirty years' standing, threatens, m a letter to the
John Bull, that if the committees should ever con-
template handing over any funds whatever to the
arch-heretic of Natal, hundreds of the members of
those societies would leave in a body, and either
form new societies or else send their money to some
orthodox bishop in the colonies.

The Rock speaks of the Bishop of Dunedin as an
unfortunate prelate, walking "to and fro upon the
earth." We need hardly remind our readers to whom
the expression was originally applied.
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is desirous
of forming a fund similar to those already established
in London and Liverpool, and of multiplying iron
churches and supplying each with a curate and lay
helpers.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.

A Bristol solicitor, whether justly or not, occupies
at present a very unenviable position. A charge has
seen brought against him of inciting others to riot.
The evidence was that an attack being made upon
the house of a confectioner, the Conservative com-
mittee-romo, and other places, Mr. Watkins was
present on horseback, with the Liberal colours on his
horse's head, shouting out to the mob " Go in—don't
leave a pane ; give them Bristol Bridge. You have
got bread and cheese, now get beer." The magistrate
required bail to the amount of £l,OOO. It is almost
incredible that a man of any position should by
word or hint do anything to encourage the fearful
amount of unreasoning brutality just now rife in the
county.

THE MARYLEBONE ELECTIONS.

Some very serious allegations are made concerning
the Marylebone elections. Chambers and Lewis
were returned by overwhelming majorities ; but
these majorities are said to have been very unfairly
obtained. At a meeting held in Marylebone specially
to take these allegations into consideration, several
persons stated that the record of their votes had
been varied by the poll-clerks. One elector had
recorded his vote for Sandwith and Grant, and the
poll-clerk had entered it Grant and Chambers.
Another made a similar allegation, and recommended
a scrutiny of the poll-books. The chairman said that
he himself recorded his vote for Sandwith and Grant,
and accidentally looking over the poll-book he saw the
entry made as a plumper for Chambers. There
were many other statements to the same effect.
These statements suggest how alarming frauds
might be carried out if only the poll-clerk is " got
at." We hope sincerely that the stories may prove
to be untrue.

MR. HARTWELL. 4 • •
Poor Mr. Robert Hartwell, reporter of the Beehire,
is beaten everywhere. At Lambeth, at Stoke by the
Liberal press, and before the Guildhall alderman.
So strongly has he been condemned in
some cases that he has thought it neces-
sary to put forth a defence. He asserts once
again, most positively, that as far as he is personally
concerned he has lost rather than gained by his can-
didature for Stoke. The amount of expenses are
something over £350, and he has had given him
only £2BO to meet them. He speaks of
the injudicious conduct of the agent in
handing to two strangers £2BO, forgetting, appa-
rently, that the agreement stipulated that it should
be so handed over. Mr. Alderman Besley, when
Mr. Hartwell appeared before him, asked if this
agreement was a correct one. On being told that it
was, he refused altogether to interfere in the matter,
unless further evidence of felonious in tent were
brought forward.

ELECTION RIOTS.

There is no service more distasteful to the soldier
than quelling the disturbance of a mob. There is
immense responsibility without any glory, and troops
are seldom called in until all other means have
failed. Intelligence from Drogheda states that the
infantry being called out and the Riot Act read, two
soldiers fired without orders, killing one man and
wounding another. They were arrested. It is with
some surprise and more satisfaction that we hear of no
general engagement between the troops and the
populace after this. Such a blunder might lead to
the most terrible consequences. The authorities
have their hands full all over the kingdom, and the
public will not be inclined to judge them harshly if
they exhibit a fair amount of discretion in the course
they take. For those of the Murphy type, who have
by their mischievous preparations rendered the elec-
tions in many places more like a civil war than a
political contest, the contempt and disgust of the
Mime mule Qllrliaftguarda future.