The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-10
THE CHURCH BILL DEFoRMED.

not only in Ohio, but throughout the North.
THE CHURCH BILL DEFORMED.
From the NJ Y. Tribune
The Lords exhausted an obstructive inge-
nuity in the number and variety of their pro-
posed amendments to the Church bill. There
were no less than twenty-eight OF these the
most important provided for dating disesta-
blishment q year later, 1922 for making
churchmen commissioners of the church tenn
poralities; for securing to the established
bishops their titles and seats among the Lords,
and to curates and benehced clergymen their
present salaries and annuities for subjecting
ecclesiastical 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; for selling
church property at a moderate bargain, and
for advancing sums for erecting residences of
Roman Catholic and Presbyterian ministers
and allowing 25 acres apiece thereto; for
dating back the term for which private en-
dowments will be allowed to 1860 instead of
1860; for devoting 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 we'll provided for
that all glebe lands granted by the Crown
| since 1860 be given to the new church body
that the Maynooth College Roman Catholic
| endowment shall be retained and that the
| question of the surplus, which by the Com
mons bill is devoted to schools, reform, and
charity, shall be postponed-thus escaping
| the consideration of an amendment for CON
currently endowing Presbyterians and Catho-
lies out of the surplus. English opinion on
| the liberal side variously conceives that the
| bungle of concurrent endowment will prove
acceptable for peace sal1e and that the Lords
have with malice prepense, but, as we think
| with sheer helplessness of doing otherwise
| deliberated how to misfeature the bill. By
the resolve to postpone the surplus ques-
ton, the only positive good which the bill
| can boast, over and above the main fact of
disestaklishment has been shelved. The
| Times, as now reported by the cable argues
| against such a multiplicity of establishments
| as the Lords would create in their plan of en-
| dowing all denominations for the sake of
| making plausible the lions share of the Es-
| tablished Church. But the Star will be better
understood in saying, 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 peo-
pie 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 justice 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 established element of
| hot water.