New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-07
THE CHURCH BILL AMENDSENTS--A NEW CLASS
OF BLUE BOOKs-THE LONDON STAR.


THE CHURCH BILL AMENDNENTS--A NEW CLASS
OF BLUE BOOKs-THE LONDON STAR.
IFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
LONDON. June 26-The number Of amendments
already proposed TO be made to the Irish Church bill
in Committee is very large Indeed, they are so
numerous and in some instances so sweeping that
they might qualify the confident assertion OF some
liberal friends to the Upper House that no attempt
will be made to touch the principle of the bill That
depends on what you mean by the principle oil inc
bill. If il is disestabshment only, presume the
vote for the second reading settles that ii 1t DIS
establishment and diseudOwment on Mr.. Gladstones
terms rs we have all along supposed then il is pretty
clear that even the leaders Of the moderate Tory
Peers. who made mp the majority last saturday week
are very far from accepting the principle. steady
effort is making to create outside public opinion
in favor of concurrent endowment, which is only
another phase for Lord. Mayos plan, brought for
ward last year and discarded utterly, for lcveng
up II is certain if anything in politics is certain,
that the people Of England will not stand that
scheme Poor Lord Hauowby makes some noise in
advocating il, but a greater than Lord HaIrowby
has an unseen hand in the enterprise.
But in fact the amendments taken together attack
the bill in almost every way The Archbishop OF
Canterbury proposes to postpone even disestablsh-
ment for year, fixing the date Jan. l. 1872 instead
of ISL 1t is an odd circumsauce-or perhaps il is
not odd-that all or nearly all the amendments now
standing in the names of bishops and archbishops 20
to the question Of money. Give the clergy and the
new church organization all the revenues and lands
of the existing church, and the reverend fathers
who now wiring their hands in despair would
consent to be comforted. The Archbishop Of Dublin
Dr. French proposes that the clergy shall be paid
henceforth the full value of their present incomes,
not deducting the salaries of their curntes which
they now pay. Disendowmeut under that plan
would be anything but a losing game for them. Nor
is the same prelato neglected. Of the curates, 20
whom his second amendment would give ElOO n
year for each year Of their service, instead
of G2j, as the bill now proposes, with limit
for the gratuty of 1850 instead Of fGOO,
now. HIS Grace Of Canterbury takes a still
higher fight and asks leave to keep for the Church
her private endowuents since 1900 irstead Of 1890
together with globes held by royal grant This in
terpreted by the rule he further suggests that not
merely legal but historical or other evidence Of en-
dowment shall be received in proof of title and that
the commissioners 10 determine IL shall be members
of the Church, would 90 far toward that scheme OF
Reinforcement which Dr. Ball and Mr.. Disraeli at
tempted in the other House Lord Salisbury reCn-
forces his clerical allies with the suggestion that
ecclesiastical residences shall belong TO the new
Church Body without payment Earl Russell APP
nears also as champion of what is substantially
concurrent endowment-an old plan of his, and
which he cherishes apparently because 1t Is DID,
and little because he is not unwilling to emOarrass
Mr. Gladstone's Government, as he has shown twice
or thrice before during this session. He and the
Duke of Cleveland would supply the Romish clergy
with land and houses-or globes and manses in &C.
clesastical iargon-out Of the surplus revenues of
the Church. The only other amendments of much
imnortance are those proposed by Lord Cairns, who
has anplied his mind to sec how far he can re-
establish the disestabshed Church by enacting laws
for the doctrine and discipline Of the new body as
sorting the legal authority of its prelates, and pro-
vidinR for a complete scheme Of ecclesiastical gov
eminent
Altogether there is every prospect OF brisk dis
ossion in Committee next week. II partsans Of the
d;ffrort classes of amendments sketched out above
sncceed IN uniting their forces, they may carry so
many of them that Mr.. Gladstone will have some
difficulty in recognizing his handiwork when u
comes out of Committee. The contest thought 10
have been fought and won last Saturday may then'
IN foct have TO be entered upon anew. 1t Is too soon
IN anticipate what shape it may take; but u Is GER
tain that new struggle will begin with every disad-
vantage IA the party which thought itself victorious
- the last. Instead of o broad question on which
bo nation has pronounced verdict, 1T VIII DO n
question of details. Instead of a contest IN whlch
the Lords had to accept the responsibility OF refusing
20 consider bill sent up TO them by the people, IL
will be Mr. Gladstone or the House of Commons That
must accept the responsibility of accedng to amend
ments that cripple and dsfgure the BILL or OF allow
inOtbe bill itself TO 90 over for another year. Every
dav il seems palmer that the apparent victory was
defeat and that, by yielding to the second reading,
the Lords became to s great extent the masters Oh
the situation. never knew policy OF compromise
such IA the moderate Liberals urged IN TINS case
that did not result in similar danger II not III
| positive disaster, 49,.
A concession of considerable interest ana import
ance TO the working class here has been mauo Wy 'he
Foreign Office of which no mention has as ye' D0ou
made public Upon a representation being mauo ~
Mr.. Bright and by him brought under the NOTICE "
Lord Clarendon it has been resolved to issue NC
class of Blue Books designed for the information "
artizans as TO the condition. indusriaiy consiaereu
Of their brethren abroad. About ten years ago Tut
Foreign Office gave instructions to the Secretaries o.
Embassy and Legation at foreign stations to repor
upon the condition of trade and manufacture
around them. Since that time Blue Books have ap
peared upon these subjects of unquestionable nteres
| TO manufacturers aud merchants. One recently sem