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New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
THE IRISH CHURCH DEBATE.

During the past twenty five years the evils of
the Irish Church establishment have been more
eloquently and powerfully set forth in the OBJ
scure publications and thinly attended speeches
of the Chartist reformers, than they were in
the recent debate in Parliament, which culmi-
mated in the antagonistic efforts of Disrael in
defense and Gladstone in denunciatiOn of the
establishment, and in the vote of the House of
Commons by fifty-six majority, which marks
the doom of the Irish Church No new facts
or arguments were advanced, and but partial
Justice was done by the Reform party to the evil
dences of the injustice of the Irish Church. This
was partly, perhaps, because the politicians of
the House of Commons had not really studied
the question as thoroughly as the Chartists, TO
whom they stand in much the same relation as
our Republicans of 1860 stood toward the Abo-
litionists. But this may have been due still
more to the fact, truly stated by Dislaeli, that
every argument against the Irish Church would
apply with equal power to the English Church.
The followers of Gladstone said nothing of the
enormous income of the Irish clergy, Of the
corrupt manner in which they are appointed,
Of the fact that the irish Church was simply
means Of providing for the younger sons OF the
English aristOcracy at the expense OF the Irish
people, OF the utter unspirituality OF the Irish
established clergy, because all these facts bear
with nearly equal force against the Established
Church in England. Mr.. Gladstone is, equally
with Mr.. Disrael politician and not re-
former He comes forward as the champion of
the disestablishment of the Irish Churcb, after
having been the lifelong upholder of church
establishments generally. He does so only after
scanning the complexion of the House, and
ascertaining that the majority were against the
Church, whether he chose to lead them or not.
1t is quite possible that. had Mr, Gladstone been
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

In nover DisroeIi would have made an equal
advance in order TO overthrow him. These
driftings of politicians are ike stIaws Dorne
by the tide. They do not create OF cohtroi IT,
but point out its current, because they are borne
ON by IL. But Mr.. Gladstone himself should
bo como in mower. would recoil from the task
of toucbine the Irish Landlord question, or man
hood suffrage. or the revival OF the lrlsh far-
lament. or representation accoroihg 10
nopulation, and most OF all Ion that
ouestion which is the essence OIL fenlan-
ism viz: Irish Nationality. On these issues,
which 90 to the core of Ireland's wrongs, Glad
stone would be found as stolid and insensibly
conservative as Disraeli. The Irish Church Is
q grievance of too superficial character to be
compared with the demands of Fenianism for
nationality and the demands of Reformers, who
are not Fenians for manhood suffrage, repre-
sentation according Ito numbers, the abolition
of the land tenure and other reforms which
would ultimately destroy the British nobility,
and leave the country republic, from the
mere absence of an aristOcratic class. DIS
raeli is right when he says that with the Irish
Church goes the English after the Irish land
lord must follow the English nobleman, and that
these reforms "may even affect the tenure
"of the Crown itself" But Gladstone Is
equally right in foreseeing that not TO
enter upon Reform is only to hasten
Revolution. England is now rocking under the
throes of an immeasurable power, which she
dare not resist and cannot control. Disraeh
declares that the Irish are moved only by
sentiment. Mr. Mill, the most sagacious OF all
the English politicians, replies that it is because
Ireland is moved by an idea that England Will
find her movement irresistible. If it were
grievance, it might be redressed. But the
sentiment" or 6" idea" Of Irish nationality is
the perfume, the mere memory left by centu-
res of expressions which no longer ask for
redress at the hands of the OppressOr. The
English Parliament cannot bind perfume or
redress a sentiment. Hence their measures will
prove as futile to avert revolution as were the
meetings of our Peace Conventions, and the
passage of Compromise resolutions preparatory
to the great explosion of American Aristocracy
and Slavery
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
GOOD IND TRADE

The commission house of H. d. walbridre g.
Co.. No. 12 Bridge-st., received this week 100.
900 bushels of corn from Havana, Illinois. via
New-Orleans, in eighteen days, at cost of about
SO cents per bushel for the entire distance.
The time might have been a little shortened.
but not much, had the grain been transaltted
by railroad at higher cost. -,
Mr.. Charles Partridge, of the commission
house of Partridge, Wells g. Co., No. 7a Front
ST., recently returned from Minneapolis, at the
Falls of St. Anthony, Mimi He reports that
Minneapolis will ship at least 100000 barrels of
Flour this year-probably more-that Flour liz
now moved from Minneapolis to New-York
(all raiD at s2 10 per barrel, which will prob
ably be reduced to 81 80 when the Lakes ara
fully open-that Minnesota is full of Wheat.
for which the farmers are receiving at the
mills 81 80 to 81 60 cash down, and that they
are putting in an unprecedented breadth Of
grain this Spring. They plowed large area
last Fall, and were enabled to seed a good
share of it during the warm spell late in March,
and are still seeding. The season is not near
ly so backward in the West as here, and the
farmers are everywhere busy with the pow
and harrow.
We look hopefully for bounteous harvest
to crown the labors of 1868.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

In the Court of Impeachment Yesterday GER
tain reporters and editors from Cleveland and
st Lonis testified that the President made his
indecent harangues in those cities only at the
urgency OF friends, and under sore aggravation
fron, his auditors. Secretary Welles and AS
sistant Secretary of State Seward were also
called to the stand. The former gave an ac-
count of the consultations of the Cabinet re-
rarding the removal of Secretary Stanton,
which the Court decided admissible as testi-
mony, notwithstanding the strenuous objection
of the Managers, who finally procured an adj
journment, intending to renew the argument
against this testimony to-day.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
Smusrmtnis, &c.

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New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

We print this morning the full account of
the annual boat-race between the crews of the
two English Universities. From 1922 when the
first contest was witnessed, until within the
last ten or twelve years, nothing like the IN
terest that is now manifested in these races
was felt by the English people. But during a
few years popular enthusiasm has so rapidly
wrought itself into feverish heat that the seven
successive defeats of Cambridge could not di-
minish the anxiety with which the event was
waited for that was to give to Oxford its eighth
successive victory. The race OF this year sur
passed all the Others in the display of popular
feeling That interest extended itself even to
this side of the water. and the details of the
contest will be read in this country with almost
as much eagerness as in England. Here, as
among the English themselves, there was a
generous wish that Cambridge might win, but
scarcely hope that the event would satisfy
this generosity of sentiment. Even Oxford
would scarcely hail for Cambridge better for
tune in q grudging spirit, and the bitterness of
tile past may have in store for the vanquished
O brighter future. The skill apd pluck Of both
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
THE BREvTTY OF LITERARY FAME.


One who begins to read contemporary literature
early in life and reaches a period approx
imating to old age, will probably have marked
the rise, decline, and fall of several great lit
erary regulations. Many who are not yet de-
cned into the vale of years will remember
when the name of "The Author of Wavereyn
was household word as the name of Dickens
is to-day; yet we find in The London Quarterly
"a periodical which Sir Walter assisted in es-
tablishing-the assertion that " few persons in
England under the age of twenty know
anything about Sir Walter Scott or his
writings.r Yet when Mr. Carlyle, In 1887, in
The Westminster, ventured to doubt the per-
manence of Scott's popularity, there was a
universal shout Of angry dissent upon both
sides of the Atlantic. 1t is true that no gen.
tleman's library is now supposed to be complete
without the Waverley series, and the works are
still in demand for cheap as well as for sumptu-
GUS editions but the books which were eagerly
sought for, and as eagerly read, fifty or sixty
years since, aud which were then the constant
theme of literary conversation and criticism,
have now hardly more than a traditional
celebrity, though two or three of them" Guy
Mannering,r and "The Antquary,r and sold
Mortality for instance-are productions of
extraordinary genius. Fame, we suspect,
was something for which the hard working
baronet cared very little; ho thought mainly
OF the acquisition of IN estate, and of
the foundation of family, and ho
would have laughed with hearty and healthy
roar at any one who had predicted his immor
tality. Indeed. it is curious to consider how
perishable, in the nature of things, is literary
fame. Great names, it is true, survive. and
we use them freely and fippantly in common
parlance; but many writers are frequently
spoken of who are infrequently read, and the
proportion of human interest in q celebrated
author always grows less and less as years go
by while his literary or. scholarly position re-
mains the same. The name of Homer for in
stance, is imperishabe; but of the scores of
men and women who may be encountered in
day, how many would be able to give the
least account Of the IliadP Yirgils fame is
still nOminally fresh, but nobody reads his
great work even in the excellent TRANSACTIONS OF
which we have several, except students fitting
for the University. Milton is much oftener talked
of than read; and, indeed to this rule of pre-
OBSTINATE practical neglect Shakespeare seems
to be the single exception. One lesson all lit
erary history teaches as well as demonstrates
the utter impossibility of predicting with any
certainty the future rank of q man of letters
in the great forum of readers, from the success
and splendor of his mortal career. The
Temple of Fame is half pantheon
and half sepulcher--a few monuments
harder than brass are here and there
preserved in their respectable antiquity,
but below the hall Of the remembered
sleep countless candidates for Immortality, slow
ly resolving to dust, and as absolutely forgot
ten as the humblest tenants of the churchyard.
1t would be q consolation if oblivion were tho
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
FOREST TREE PLANTING.

We print to-day an account, by Bayard Tay-
lOr, of forest culture in Germany, where the
management of forests is assumed by the State,
and even when trees are planted and owned
by individuals there are regulations which
prevent more than the annual growth from be-
ing used. This jurisdiction Of the Government
is limited to mountain regions, and does not
extend to lands suitable for growing grain
and it is found that mountains thus cared
for weld revenue as great as the cultivated
plain. The statement viii be noted that streams
which formerly were nayigable have dwindled
to brooks since the forests adjoining have
been cut away. To us the whole sub
iect is of great importance. 1t Is al
legged that our primitive forests are rapidly
decaying because the sun and winds have
greater access, but it seems now to follow that.
having attained their growth, decay is inevita-
BILE, and, as the small trees are not protected.
there is no succession. In no way can we
secure a supply of timber in the future except
by suitable legislative enactments, with, per-
hans. bounties, or, by the State itself entering
upon the business and assuming the part OF an
intelligent and far-seeing proprietor. The time
of generation of the human race Is required
to raise full grown forest from the seed This
is on soil of inferior fertility; on superior soil,
and with good cultivation, growth viii be re-
markaby rapid particularly ON the praries,
anu q man, even IN middle life, can plant
forest and as reasonably expect proht as IRON
any description OF fruit trees.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
;Netn;a(ork Dailp Gribmtrs.
- SATURDAY, APRIL 49, 1868.
TRIPLE SHEET.
rR- Politionl Items. ths Dinmnmd lfarder the

n Political Items, the Diamond Marder, the
White Faaea, as seen By Country Merchant,
Merican Ns'cs, Letters from The People and a
ond page; Boating Ia letter from London), the
English account of the Oxford and Cambrid0e
Boat Race, Letter from Egypt, Haytian
RepIy to President johnson, the Hone House,
and Letters from BayGrd Taylor, on the fourth; /;
Music TeIe0rams, Congressional Ners, the Erie
I)isaster, fke Great Erie War, neetingof the Vice
Principals Of the Public Schools, a Frepchman
murdered in his bed, the Courts, the State Of
Trade, and General News on the fifth; the Real
'Estate 1rticle on the ninth; and lette& from,
TtaIy. notices of Neiv Publications. and the Honey
Market article on the elerenfh.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

The ". y. Times favored us with q column
lecture on manners and professional courtesies
apropoS of THE TRIBUNE and Gov. Seymour.
wherein it compared the matter at issue be-
tween us to the diversity of taste between two
gentlemen, one of whom should prefer to eat
his beef with mustard. the other without. We
received the rebuke with due meekness, and
only ventured, at its close, to PROFOUND the
question, Is it true or is it false that our
Government is now spending $500, 100000 per
"annum, apart from payments on account OF
Z" the National Debt, and that Sl50,0OO,00O OF
this is the cost of holding the South In sub
"jugation by means of a great standing armyP
Hereupon, The Times favors us with another
column of moralities and cOurtesies, but never
a word of answer to our questions. 1t appears
to have no choice between beef UiM mustard
and beef without.
BY way of illustrating its own familiarity
with and reverence for the maxims of Chester
field, The Times says of our assertions with re-
gard to the Eastern (Brooklyn) Judicial District;
"These statements malignant, more out
rageousy untrue and more defsmstory than anything
t r w dc NIT SPR Inf %s
gs q has OI sia sss 90
fact or shadow Of fact 70 give them the slghtest
grained and strengthened BY constant steady vigorous
practicehus to magn and asperse personal character
tons utterly false in point OF fact In this particular In
stance he makes assertions and again, IN the
face Of official documents which give them me e-andte
which he has never yet ventured TO aliude."
We do not see that The Times gains any
thing in politeness to balance its loss in space
by these circumocutions. We stated what we
belieye-what The Times knows we believe
with regard to the creation and management
of that District Court. We do know that
President Lincoln, when urged to appoint az
Judge of that District one whom he personally
preferred, said that he could not do it, because
the place had been made through Mr.. Ray
mond's influence with the understanding that
it should be filed by Mr.. Raymonds friend.
Our convictions with regard TO that business
may be erroneous, but The Times does not doubt
that we entertain them.
The Times proceeds to say of the Editor OF
this journal;
He assas the reputation Of men whose personal char
aeters professional standing and official ability and Ia
egrty are above reproach and makes the public interest,"
the mere football OF his own malignant resentmentMS
And THE TRIBUSE's course this on many other
matters would Its Owa a asos Sssy is Sse Meu
sound tame and meal lymouthed And the whole Press
of the country OF this City adopted the teachings or
followed the example Of THE TRIBUNE In this respect
would be quite unfortunate FOR that journal as for tno
reputation of the country at large"
We take no exceptions to these aspersions
and epithets. We would have The Times use
such terms as most forcibly express its ideas.
We especially beg it not to be "mealy -mouthed'
in speaking of The TRIBUNE. So far from
deeming it unfortunate for Gs that othef
Journals should be abusive, we insist that no
one is ever harmed by any bad language but
his own. .tl
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

The view of public morals presented In tho
communication which we publish this morning
touching one of our theaters would be utterly
disheartening were not signs already apparent
that the long predicted and long desired revos
against theatrical indecency is near at hand:
Whether the people are waking to a sense .,
virtue and propriety, or are merely satia'e"
with an indulgence of morbid appetites' we 90
not undertake to say; but there can DO nc
doubt that indelicacy on the stage is losing
it's attractiveness, and a healthy reaction "
almost certain soon to set in.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

ernor, IL win at all events secure the reelection
of the latter gentleman to the Board of Super
visors for another term of six years-an
achievement the importance of which cannot
be over estimated in a tax-paying point of
view. We therefore entreat the Manhattan
Club and the Legislature to save us from any
new issue of City bonds. Let us pay as we go!
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
RiILWAY MASSACRES.
writes us as follows :

friend writes us as follows:
"a Railway Safety Commission, to be composed Of
three men, experienced In Railroad management, with
salaries so big that they could live without taking brbes
-,cih poer stop the running OF trains tracks that
uere msdfe-could State from such horrors
that near Port Jeryis.
Honest and capable pen could DO found to serve the
people IN this guardian duty.
"They should have power, and be required. TO inspect
every mile OF road in the state-and have absolute
authority to stop passenger trains until the track they
deem unsafe was put Ia good order
"Tho salaries should be assessed pro rata all the
roads
"Ths is the only practical prevention OF Angola and
Port Jervis massacres"
Comments.
In the millennial age when Offices will be
awarded to Nose who are fttest to fill them,
this plan may do good: till then, we distrust
and demur
Suppose such offices were now to be filed
no matter how, OF by which party-how would
the selections be madef
First, those whom the salaries would make
comfortable would get up petitions in their
own behalf respectively, and take them around
to procure signatures. And good men would
sign them; not that they deem the petitioners
the right men for the place. but because they
hate to ALLEVIATE and disaffect them.
These petitions being all numerously signed,
the appointing power will be practically con-
strained to select from among the bOres and
button holders who got them up, rather than
from among those who are really fit fer the
trust And the places being thus filled, the
Commission would subserve no good end. 1t
would prove non-entity or q mere tool of the
railroads.
When, o when, shall we be delivered from
the stupendous nuisance of offce-seeking boresq 7
When shall it be deemed as polite as it is
righteous to kick them down stairs
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

crews was admirable, and Harvard and Yah
may learn valuable lessons from either. To ths
crews of these colleges We commend the letter
of our correspondent, in the hope that they
may accomplish all that is attainable from the
example he describes from abroad and the pr,-
dent counsels he enforces at home w W
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

The returns from nine districts in South
Carolina indicate the adoption of the Consti-
tuition. The registration in these nine districts
was $500, and the vote 21,SS3. The returns
on the Constitution show 1921 votes for, and
900 against il.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

The Pacific Railroad has climbed TO the
summit Of the Rocky Mountains ana pegun
its descent on the Pacific Slope A dispatch
from the Chief Engineer of the work an
nounces the laying of the rails upon the
summit, with BETTING ceremonies on the
;,,ct
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

nOunces that the Mikado has declared war
against the Tycoon Whatever may be the
issue of this struggle, the Government OF Japan
is now likely to undergo q radical change.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

The civil war in Japan still continues, and
appears to have assumed more serious dimen-
siOps, for Gable dispatch Just geesiyed an
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18
pnAloS's FloR DE MAYO the new perfume
SOTO 50 AL Dnuoor.r, AND ,Ascr GOODS DEALERS

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csr bis fbe entirely WILL but could she have sPrnked
With PHuovs MAvo the perfume for the handker
tbL sbs found dOuby to lsadhe old gentleman Y
the nose.
Dir p II. FOoTF, Author of Medical Common
ks, nav By letter by those who cannot visit ms once
address PostOhcs Personal eonsuitatons rom
m.n m at his oaee corner Of LeKugtonaye and I"en'y
eglth-st
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b. ~ errai stops lis falling out Recommended By PhyS
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New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

. Eminent physicians recommend WIsTAR't
bALsAx . wnD CaEKRT for the throat and hung complaints
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

A Reliable Remedy for COUGHS, COLDS, Con-
ErgProS &C. wISTARs BALskxoR WILD CHERRY
From the Rev. cALEB D. BRADLKE.
Pastor Of the "Church Of the Rejeemer." Boston
No a. CHEsTRR PARK, Feb 49, 1863
Hesra w. FowIE Son
GENrRMEs, would allow to speak good word for
UrARs WILD CHERRT have used quite constantly
family and look upon OF the best Of medicines ior
Che tOat wish that eTeybOdy would Try T.
Respectfully, u ID BRApLEE.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

Iron In the blood is supplied by the PERUVIAN
erEvP which builds mp Iron Constitution.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-18

A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF FURNITURE
OF NKw ELKGASr DKsIGSS
Also Plan PvRsTUKE in great variety a. Popusr prices
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