New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-09
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THE Lords exhausted an obstructive inge-
unity in the number and variety OF thelr pro-
posed amendments to the Church Dill. lhere
were no less than twenty-eight. OF these the
most important provided for dating disestab-
lishment year later, 1872; for making churcn-
men commissioners of the Church temperate
ties: for securing to the established bishops
their titles and seats among the Lords, and to
curates and benefited clergymen their present
salaries and annuities; for subjecting ecclesi-
astical persons to the authorities Of the Bishops
as heretofore; for making appeal to Her
Majesty's Council on points OF doctrine
or discipline, instead of to ecclesiastical
courts, which are to be abolished; Tor
selling church property at moderate bargain
and for advancing sums for erecting residences
of Roman Catholic and Presbyterian ministers
and allowing 20 acres apiece thereto; for dating
back the term for which private endowments
will be allowed to 1860 instead Of 1860; for de-
voting the surplus to concurrent endowment of
Presbyterians and Catholics, as moved by Lord
Russell, and for applying the same sum to
grants of small loans at moderate interest
and an adequate security to the peasantry OF
Ireland, according to the proposal OF Earl
Shaftesbury.
AS the case stands, the Lords have agreed that
the Bishops shall retain their seats, and that the
curates shall be well provided for; that all gleDe
lands granted by the Crown since 1860 be gwen
to tile new church body; that the MaynOOth Col
lege Roman Catholic endowment shall be re-
tanned; and that the question of the surplus,
which by the Commons bill is devoted to schools,
reform, and charity, shall be postponed
thus escaping the consideration OF an
amendment for concurrently endowing Pres
byterians and Catholics out of the sur
plus. English opinion on the liberal side
yariously conceives that the bungle of con-
current endowment will prove acceptable
for peace sake, and that the Lords have
with malice prepense, but, as we think,
with sheer helplessness of doing other
wise, deliberated how to misfeature the
bill BY the resolve to postpone the surplus
question, the only positive good which the bill
can boast, over and above the main fact OF
disestablishment, has been shelved. The Times,
as now reported by the Cable, argues against
such n multiplicity of establishments as the
Lords would create in their plan of endowng
all denominations for the sake Of making plaus-
lille the lions share of the Established Church.
But The Star will he better understood in say
ing, as it does with TRUTH that nearly all the
amendments of the Lords are intolerable, and
that the Peers cannot be permitted at this late
day to deprive the people of the luxury of being
just Once in long while the people
of Great Britain, after much starving of mind
and body, are invited to feasts of tardy JUS
tice. 1t is pity that, on most occasions, the
Tory Lords have purposed to offer them only
Timons dishes, with the end of keeping the
substantial meats for themselves, and securing
to their poor guests a continuance of the es-
tablished element of hot water.