The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-26 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Since last evening an increase in barometrical pressure has occurred
in the S. of Ireland and at stations to the eastward. On the Channel
coast readings are higher than they were yesterday, and the greatest
are:to the southward : there is a difference of nearly half an inch
between Valencia and Rochefort. In the S.W. temperature has
risen. Gales prevailed yesterday from the EX on our E. coast, and
from N.E. in Ireland, whilst in the English Channel their direction
was westerly. Winds have moderated, but a strong south-westerly
wind is still blowing in south-western districts : at Plymouth the
force is 7, and at Brest 8. Rain has been general, and very large in
amount on the Irish coast. The weather is cloudy or overcast. At
Valencia the seals rough.

The station master at the Sallines station, Ireland,
has been killed. Whilst watching the passing of a
goods train he stooped to pick something up, and fell on the

rails. Before ho could recover himself the mail from Dublin

camp up and killed him on the spot. The body was very

much mutilated.

The following letter has been received at Not-
Lngham by one of Mr, Osborne's supporters :—" New.

4:3N-%-,n, Amer, Clonmel, Sept. 22, 1868 :—Dear Sir—Though

somewhat better, I am not yet able to move about,
and fear it will not be possible for me to travel so as to be
with you, as I intended, on Monday, the 28th instant. As
it is I cannot stand on my legs for above five minutes,
being so weak. It you could put off my meeting until I

ain able to travel and fit for business, I will write you
further as I become stronger.—Very faithfully yours, R.

OSBORNE."

The following appears in the Morning Post:—'

•" Atele.

gram reached London last night that his Royal

Highness the Prince of Wales had been seriously injured

while shooting in the woods near Dunrobin Castle, the
seat of the Duke of Sutherland ; but from the late hour at
which the information was received there was no possi-

bility of verifying the report. It is to be hoped that the
intelligence may prove to be untrue, though the informa-
tion received was precise in the terms employed."
The Marquis of Hartington, in a letter to the Times,
takes Mr. Hunt and General Peel to task for their attacks
on the late Government. The only defence which the

Government has yet put forward accounting for the

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increased expenditure is that the money has been
expended upon the army and warlike stores. Lord Har.
tington denies this emphatically, and_enters into figures
skewing that the increase, £500,000, has not been so applied.
To this argument General Peel has already replied that
the late Government brought in inaccurate and insufficient
estimates. These estimates Lord Hartington warmly
defends. While admitting that some of the items fall

short of the subsequent expenditure, he adduces reasons
for this. The fact is, says his lordship, that the late
Government were able, in 1866-67, to allot £450,000 more
for the provision of warlike stores than had been. ex.

pended in the previous year, and yet to reduce the total

amount of the estimates. Lord Harting-ton can see no
reason for an increase in the soldiers' pay. He thinks that
the number of recruits required might easily have been

obtained in the old way—by raising the bounty. But
while not really finding fault with the Government for
their action in this matter, he thinks that other causes
than the parsimony of the late Government produced the
falling off in the number of new soldiers. In conclusion,
he exclaims : " I must protest against the attempt made
by the Government, when challenged to account for their
excess, to retort upon us charges of inefficiency, which
ought to have been made, if at all, when they succeeded
to the management of the departments."

The Conservative party are at variance with regard to
the Dublin Blue-book. The John Bull declares that
" the commissioners have produced a very sorry
report. . . . They have failed to see the real cause of
the forlorn condition in which the Church of Ireland
finds herself, and which makes her so easy a prey
to the enemy. That cause is undue reliance on the
secular power and a want of faith in her own inherent
spiritual energy." Our contemporary would not weep
over the reduction of deans and chapters. "But
on the subject of a diminution of the episcopate there
should be no compromise." Once more the hint is plainly
given, that if the country does not respond to Mr. Disraeli's
policy the best bargain will be " entire freedom from a
State whose love has proved so cold. "If endowments are
left, well ; but let them not be purchased at the cost of
State control, when all the advantages of State recognition
are gone. This is a crucial question, and it will take Conser-
vatives some time to be educated up to it. . . . Give
the Government a majority, and the report will not be
carried out. Meanwhile, Conservative candidates had
better imitate their leader's prudence, and not make any
rash promises as to legislation in accordance with this
report, for such, we are convinced, will never be accom-
plished." The Imperial Review takes exactly the opposite
view of the report, and declares that " in no important
particular has it disappointed the public," and " it would
be impossible to deny that it offers a satisfactory and
nractical basis for legislation."
A Conservative paper :states that "many Churchmen
are not promising their votes till they see who is nomi-
nated for the see of Peterborough." This seems a libel
upon them ; no patriot would make his vote depend upon
so minor an incident as that. Meanwhile the see still
remains vacant, and in addition to this cause of anxiety
Mr. Disraeli has another in the death of Dean Milman.
His ecclesiastical patronage must be more harassing
than the production of a Reform Bill. Consequently, it
is easy to believe the statement that " no dispute has arisen
between the Crown and the Bishop of Chester with regard
to the nomination to the canonry vacant by the promo-
tion of Dean M'lsTeile." Mr. Disraeli has, we believe, the
right to nominate, the vacancy having occurred through a
Crown appointment ; but it is not unlikely that he would
rather be relieved from a duty in whose performance he
will please one man and displease ninety-nine.
Although it was supposed yesterday that Ignatius was
too ill to conduct the afternoon service in Lombard-street,
he made his appearance at the last moment, and preached
to a crowded congregation. His text was, " But they
made light of it." The opinions advanced in the sermon
were most extraordinary as coming from one who has
always been considereQl an extreme High Churchman.
They were to the effect that the Kingdom of God was in
the hearts of all who desired it ; in the heart of
the honest heathen. Every part of the world
received some blessing from the atonement. Christ's
love extended over spanless continents and seas
where the light of the gospel was never known ; yet this
did not interfere with the fact that God had revealed His
truth to the warld. The preacher complained that men
quarrelled about externals, when they were all Christ's
members. The rector pronounced the benediction, and
the congregation dispersed. As Ignatius drove away in a
cab, there was plenty of howling and cheering, but the
artillery of apples was this time absent. It had been
rumoured that the bishop would inhibit Mr. Lyne, but as
lie is announced to preach again next Friday the rumour
is probably unfounded. City men have returned to their
right mind, unless the rumour that Ignatius was at home
ill kept them away, and they are still nursing their
wrath.

From a letter in a contemporary, it transpires that
Ignatius was taken very ill while at the church of St.
Edmund's, in Lombard-street, and is in a very weak state,
requiring rest.
The " Marquis and Marchioness of Caux" were to arrive
at Baden last week. Our readers will perhaps feel more
interest in this unpromising announcement when we in.
terpret it into Mdlle. Patti and her husband. The same
lady has been singing at Homburg. The Orchestra says hex
engagements are as follows :—ln Paris from the Ist of
October till the lst of December ; then St. Petersburg for
ten weeks. After this she is engaged for two years
in London, and during two years—a season of four months
each—at St. Petersburg ; and when all this is accom•
plished, the public career of this great artist will be over,
and she may retire to her well•deserved rest.—The rival
queen of song, Mdlle. Nilsson (whose name, by the way,
is as common in Norway as " Smith " is in England) has
had a grand success at Baden and Wiesbaden. "Special
trairo,. royal visitors, serenades, and crowns. of chiselled
gold were all elements of her triumph."—Mr. Walter
Montgomery
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