The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-09 00:00:00

0 o. 6 per Cent., B
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent.,. 1866
Do., Scrip £32 paid
Ca' mbian, 6 per Cent.
DAnisn 3 p..r Cent., 1823. ad
0 Auubian Principalities, i ler Cent
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 „,„. --
ouador New Consolidated, 1 per Cen'.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent ... 804
Do. Second Issue .. ... 804
Do. £530 Bonds
Do. £lO6 Bonds 834 2 4
Do. 1861
Do. Account
Do. £5,0 Bonds 834
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 841 51
Government Railway liebentore, ..... 924 3 21
Greek 5 per Cont., 1821. 5, ex Coups —
Do. Account
Do. Coupons -
Do. Acconnt
Guatemala 5 per Cent
Gonduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., .£25 p
Its ; ian 5 tier cert., 1865 —
Do, Account . —
Do. Maremmana Raiway —
Mexicam 3 per Cent i —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
blonteNideau 6 per Cent. . —
Moorish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred
Do Lana Warrants (Hectares)
Perariar. 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 80i i i i 1
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862 •. _—
Do Account
Po-Liguese 3 per et.,18n3,'6,'7,'9,.6it,'2.%,
Do. do. 1567 —
Do. do. Sc. ip, £2O paid
u,sian 5 per Cent., 182 Z, £ bt 864 7
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds,
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 92 1
Do. do £B4 15s. do. —
Co Nicolas Railway 654 1 1
Sar Itutatn, o per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Can ... —
Do. Anerdint ..... .... 374
Do. 1867 ... . 36t 4 "i
Do- New Deferred —
Do. Account —
Do. Passive —
Do. Account
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
T anthill 6 per:Cent. —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do £lol' Bonds 654 64
Do. 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 62 14 4 1
Do I per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864 —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ......
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian b psr Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Es. 12 Gail
Do Account —
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 53 24
' CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Money 94 4
Do. Account, Aug. 6

THE IRISH CHURCH.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-It seems to have been assumed by some
distinguished members of Parliament in recent de-
bates, that, in the event of dis-establishment of the
Irish branch of the Church, the Anglican laymen in
Ireland would alone possess (after the vested inte-
rests of the clergy are satisfied) a vested right to
the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland. The Refor-
mation statutes prevent, no doubt, the application
of the Church revenues to other than Anglican uses,
but yet do not seem to ignore altogether, but rather
to hold in abeyance, the rights of Roman Catholics
to a share in the revenues. Tithes are that portion
of the produce of the industry of the cultivators of
the soil set apart for sacred uses, and destined to
be returned to the inhabitant 4 of the parishes in
the shape of religious services. The parishioners in
common, not the landlords or tenants separately, are
the parties intended to enjoy the benefit of titles
and possess vested rights in the church revenues of
their parish. The parishioners have vested rights
in the tithes of their parish in the same way as they
have vested interests in the taxes they pay for roads,
police, and dispensaries. Were these latter taxes
to be collected and spent out of the parishes which
pay them,the grievance would be apparent. Now there
are 199 parishes in Ireland which do net contain a
single member of the Established Church, and in
which, with few exceptions, there has been no An-
glican Divine service since the Reformation. Those
parishes extend over 557,000 acres, and are inha-
bited by more than 98,000 Roman Catholics, who
produce (besides rent to the landlord and taxes to
the Crown) more than £13,000 yearly of ecclesi-
astical revenue. The whole of this church
revenue would be restored to the parish-
ioners were they to become Anglicans, but
at present it is spent elsewhere. There is not
a single Anglican layman in those parishes to
claim those revenues. The ruins of Roman Catholic
churches exist in many of them, and in very many
are modern Roman Catholic churches. To whom,
it may be fairly asked, will the ecclesiastical re-
venues of these 199 parishes belong after the vested
interests of the present Anglican incumbents are
satisfied ? Again :—There are 107 benefices of the
Established Church, inhabited by 1,452 Anglicans
and 123,758 Roman Catholics. The Church re-
venues in those benefices exceed £20,000 a year,
and are produced mainly by the industry of Roman
Catholics. In each of those benefices there are, on
an average, 13 Anglicans and 1,156 Roman
Catholics. Have the 13 Anglicans vested rights to
the entire of the parochial revenues, and have the
1,156 Roman Catholics no vested interests what-
ever in the fruit of their own toil, destined originally
for their spiritual benefit ?--I am, &e.,
W. MAZIERE BRADY, D.D.
July, 1868.

THE BANDA AND KIRWEE PRIZE

MONEY.

A writer in a contemporary says—Much has been
written of late in the daily journals on the subject
of increasing the inducements offered by her
Majesty's Government to a better class of young
men to enlist for military service. The debate in
the House of Commons last week drew forth
many advocates for the scheme of placing valuable
clerkships in Government offices within reach of
discharged soldiers of good character. But those
who desire to see an improvement in the condition
of soldiers and officers lose sight of a grievance
that has been bitterly complained of. I allude to
the unjust delays that occur in the payment of prize
money.

The British public generally imagine that the
prize money won at the hazard of life and limb by
the gallant officers and soldiers at Banda and Kir-
wee, though long delayed, has at length been paid
to all claimants who shared in the capture, or, if
dead, to their representatives. But such is, in
reality, not the case. I have in my parish a lady,
the widowed mother of a gallant young officer who
was present with the Sappers and Miners at the
capture of the Banda and Kirwee prize. He
has now been dead some years. His father, also
an old naval officer, who had served his Queen
and country faithfully and well, has passed away ;
and now his widow, whose husband bled for his
country, whose three sons died holding commis-
sions in India, cannot obtain payment of
the prize-money due to one of them for
a) many years, because the rolls of the Madras
Sappers and Miners have not yet been re-
ceived in this country. Consequently all who
served with the Sappers and Miners at Banda and
Kirwee, the living and the legal representatives of
the dead, are alike defrauded of their just claims.
Is this no grievance ? Shame on the system that
admits of such senseless delay! The rolls must be
in existence, and could long since have been ob-
tained. -Why is not justice done ? Why is this
prize-money withheld? Is there no member of the
House of Commons that will rise in his place and
ask the question ?

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