The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-04
E U r O p E .
NEWS BY STEAMER TO JULY e5.
BY an arrival att New York yesterday, we have
European advices by mail TO July 26.
GREAT BRITAIN.

The Irish Church Bill.
The London Times speaks Of the final settlement
oil he Irish Church question as folows:-
"Ihe settlement OF a most difficult and long
c0ntrOVerted question may he made the occasion
OF word Of common sense, which shall also be
word OF peace. Nothing has been more common
during the recent discussions than to accuse the
Lords, and more especially the Bishops, OF having
SPC5eR mcSsR M %th ,n the single single ann & Of getting more
astinghtwi provoke manyrepetitions OF this charge
IL was, indeed, very fairly open to them. II must
dowing bill IL grants absolute liberty Of organiza-
uon but takes away property hitherto devoted to
the use OF particular persons. What form could
opposition take to measure like this except that
OF attempting to mitigate its severity Hal the
everything that was required OF them, their
submission would have been confession that they
never ought to have had possession OF their endow-
cannot expect them to acknowledge and act upon It,
Do not let us persist in repeating this charge.
Roman Catholic or Anglican, Baptist or Presby-
terrain, eCCesastiC or layman, no man gives what he
believes to be his own without a murmur, and to
call him COyetOus because he attempts to save as
much as he can from those he deems his despoilers
Is to convict ourselves OF narrOwness which would
be incredible If 1t had not OF late become almost uni
yersal.'
Unwilling the Peabody Memorial Statue.
The London Times OF July "a says:-
Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
in the presence of the Lord Mayor and distinguished
company, publicly unveiled and naugurated the
statue which the citizens Of London have erected to
commemorate the uneXamped act of muniCenCe of
Mr. George Peabody towards the poor of the metro
polls, the renown OF which has already become world
Wide. The ceremony was conducted with much
the chief magistrate played conspicuous part in it ;
many of the principal merchant and bankers in
Guiding the Governor Of the Bank of England joined
in the pageant as did also his EXcellcncy the new
American Minister, with many other persons OF con-
slderatOn. The windows and roofs OF every house
commanding a view OF the spectacle were crowded.
with spectators, and altogether the occasion was eX
tTemely interesting.
The Lord Mayor OF London and Minister Motley
delivered long addresses on the occasion.
Strange Disturbances in ireland.
Tho London Daily Telegraph gives the following
account OF disturbance in the county Wexford
The young Marquis of Ely, minor, has estates in
this county, which he lately visited accompanied
by his mother, the Marchloness, Their presence e
tenants receiving them with enthusiasm, and ''all
went merry as marriage bell" Al one Of the tetes
the people, towards the close Of the day, gathered
around their young landlord, and cheered him
Justify.
Marquis-wishing, 40 doubt, to express his own
feelings, and to elicit those OF his tenants-prOposed
''three cheers for Mr.. Hare" Instantly the scene
changed. The people became furious, groans and
curses were heard instead Of the expected applause.
while priest stepped up to the unpopular agent and
attacked him to his face in the most violent lam
| guage. He d:-"Sir tell you to your beard, you
shall get no cheer Your conduct as agent for this
estate deserves reprobation, not applause. The
curses and the blood of the poor people evced from
their dwellings at Killesk lie upon your guilty soul
| During this strange scene the MacchDness, the
young Marquis and their friends were motiOness
with astOnishment; while the people, excited 10
frenzy by the words OF their priest, tossed and
swayed around the temporary platform as If they
were bent upon tearing the agent in pieces A gen
tleman named Powell-indignant, no doubt at the
interference OF the priest-made some angry re-
marks; the crowd caught the word "Popery'; in
stantly Mr.. Powell knocked down. but fOrtu-
natey he struggled to his feet, and ran for his life
into neiPhbOring farmhouse, where he escaped
J the nfuriated mob The priest harangued the peO-
/ pie, again denouncng Mr.. Hare, but counselling
them not to strike counsel that was obeyed. But
| unhappiy, two soldiers were understood to have
"insued' the priest; the mob Immediately fell
upon them and beat them severely and one OF them
it is said died the next day from the injuries he re-
ceived.
The Thames Tunnel.
On the night of the 21st the Thames tunnel was
finally closed as a public foOtway This undertake
ing, which at the time Of its design was consi-
dered masterpiece Of science, and which formed a
communicat under the river Thames between
RotheThithe and Wrapping, was, after numerous diff
hculties, finally accomplished and opened on the
23d of March, 1S43, having been commenced by Sir
J. s. Brunei in 1s24. The total cost of the tunnel
about 100000; but the East London Railway Com
pany recently purchased 1t for little over third of
that sum- The company will run their trains through
the tunnel, their line bringing the inhabitants Of
Wrapping Shadwell. ETC., within easy distance of
Southwark Park
The Haydock COlIiery Explosion.
The loss OF life through the explosion at the Hay
dock coery is even greater than the public We're
led to expect from the first hurried accounts which
were forwarded from the scene OF the disaster.
Fifty-siX bodies have been recovered, and two men
who wele brought out alive afterwards died from
the effects Of choke damp.