The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

THE, SUN, LONDON, MONDA/ EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1868.

C 0 MPAGNIE GEN E RAI.Z TRANSAT-
, _ LANTIQUE.

4, _Rue de la Paix,
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Hrorre and Brest, for New York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From lIAVRE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First ',Miss 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class,
285 fr.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS,
Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool.
EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867.
The "ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents
than now.
FIRE BRANCH.

PREMIUMS in 1867 £160,553
being a larger revenue than in any preceding
year.
LOSSES by Fire in 1867 £292,125
NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex-
penses £56,373
- LIFE BRANCH.
Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 .£801,000
Do. during previous Quinquennium £688.000
Amount added to Lifo Reserves in 1867 £128,583
LIFE PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the
increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy-
holders.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Scretary in Loudon.
August, 1868.

FOR CHARGES.—
DIA DOCK COMPANY hereby
indry Parcels of
Brazll Wood,
Braziletto Wood,
Red Saunders Wood,
11 and and Unraked Wood,
Ebony,
Crocus Ebony,
Lignum Vitae,
Box Wood,
Quassia, Wood,
Logwood,
Fustic, '
Lauer/mod Spars, •
Imported prior to let Ja.ntfary, MA, lying at the West India
Dock Wood Wharves, that it is their intention to SELL the
.42%. %LE for Charges unless the amounts due thereon-are paid on
or before the Ist day of October next.
Lists of the Goods may be inspected at this House.
By order of the Court of Directors.

SALE OF GOODS
The EAST and WEST IN,
Give Notice to the Holders of au

Mahogany,
Cedar,
Rosewood,
Walnut Wood,
Maple Wobd,
Tulip Wood,
Palm Wood,
Myall Wood,
Sapan Wood,
Satin Wood.
Zebra Wood,

GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary
East and West India Dock House, Billiter-
square, Aug. 19, 1368.

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land. He was strongly of opinion that the pro-
vision now made for the Established Church in
Ireland ought to be allowed to remain in those
parishes in Ireland where its endowments were
not disproportioned to the wants of the resident
Protestant population ; and he supported this
argument on the ground that the endowments
were being used for purposes in themselves
good and excellent, and that no definite proposal
was made to hand over the endowments which the
Church of Ireland had now held for three hundred
years to any one "else. It bad been said that the
Churah in Ireland should be disestablished because
it was the Church of the minority; but unless the
Church of the majority was established in its stead
there would be no sort of equality maintained. In
the United Kingdom the Protestant feeling of the
country, of course, made it impossible to establish
the Churcl of the majority in Ireland, and the
Roman Catholics themselves did not ask for
it. The question in Ireland was simply one of
confiscation ; it was not a question between com-
peting claims, it was' simply a question of taking
away for taking away's sake, and he could not
see any justice in that. The argument was that
all religious denominations in Ireland should be
on the same footing, and that it was not right
to call upon one person to pay for the support of
another person's religion, but this was not done in
Ireland. All the revenues of the Church were de-
rived from good solid land, which had been in their
possession for 300 years, and no one was asked to
contribute a single farthing towards its support;
and with regard to the argument of equality, it was
impossible to forget that for generations the Church
of Ireland had been led to look for its support from
these endowments, and that it could not now start
on fair terms with those denominations which had
SO long existed on voluntary contributions. Both
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright were of opinion
that the churches and the residences of the
clergy should be left to the Church, and he
maintained that the same principles would leave
the Church in possession of endowments used
for purposes not mischievous to the State. He
would apply the same principle to the Maynooth
grant, and, although the Roman Catholics had only
been in possession of that for half a century, they
had beea led to abandon many other schemes of
education from its possession, and he would discoun-
tenance its withdrawal without some adequate com-
pensation. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was on
that principle alone that he could consent to serve
in the next Parliament. He did not like to allude
to any considerations personal to himself, but he
was sure that they would believe him when he said
that in questions in which his conscience was in-
volved neither personal nor party motives would
stand in the way of his adhesion to those principles.
(Cheers.)
Severalquestions were put to the learned gentle-
man ; and at the close he was loudly cheered.