The Sun. — 1868-09-09 (London, England)

THE DUBLIN CORPORATION AND THE IRISH CHURCH ESTABLISHMEN7.  The Dublin Corporation spent several hours on Monday discussing the Irish Church question. The Conservative members of the Council, who are in a minority, have entered a repeated protest against these discussions, but without effect. They have on several occasions absented themselves from the meetings called for such purposes, but ye Aerday they attended, not, however, for the purpose of discussing the principal question, but to enter a renewed protest against the introduction of such controversies to the council chamber. The discussion was opened by Sir John Gray, who, in a long speech, contended that the Council had a perfect right to pronounce an opinion on the question. Her Majesty had appealed to the whole country to pronounce upon it. The Council felt that by the vote given in July on the mayoralty question their opinions had been subjected to a false interpretation, and accordingly they had rescinded that vote. They had now assembled to give expression to their opinions on a matter which had been submitted for the opinion of the whore country. He contended that the Episcopal Church in Ireland had been a complete failure after a trial of 300 years, and that it was the foils et origo malorum in Ireland. He concluded by moving that the house resolve itself into a cornmittee to prepare an address to her Majesty praying for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Established Church in Ireland. The motion having been seconded, Mr. Norwood moved an amendment deprecating the introduction of such topics, on the ground that it tended to arouse and perpetuate discord and party feeling, and to prevent the harmonious action of the Council in the transaction of the public business of the city. This was objected to as not being an amendment on the original resolution, but this point of order was eventually waived, and after considerable discussion the amendment was put to the meeting and rejected by 32 t) 16. The noise and confusion in the gallery was so great that the Lord Mayor had threatened to clear it. The principal resolution having been adopted, Sir John Gray moved a resolution declaring that no member should be elected to any office of power or honour until he should have signed it. This, of course, was intended as a fresh declaration of the Liberal majority in the. house that they would not consent to the election of Mr. James Yokes Mackey as Lord Mayor for 1869, and was resisted by the minority as being illegal in its terms, and illegal because it was not included in the notice convening the meeting. The objection, however, was overruled, and the resolution was adopted by 29 to 20. In the course of the discussion on this resolution, Mr. A. M. Sullivan said that the real point was raised by it, and that in comparison with it all the other resolutions were sound and fury, signifying nothing.  Our countrymen in Carpentaria appear to have no great difficulty in exterminating the natives without our assistance. According to the statement of a colonial paper a party of aborigines speared arid " cut steaks " from several horses. Upon this the native police went forth under a European officer and " succeeded in shooting upwards of thirty blacks." , While the battue was going on news arrived that a Mr. Cannon had been murdered. The same body of policemen started off afresh, and very soon " rounded up," as the reporter describes it, " one mob of fourteen, another mob of nine, and a last m'b of eight." In the " latter lot there was one black who would not die after receiving eighteen or twenty bullets "  '—as  suredly a very ill-regulated black—" but a trooper speedily put an end to his existence by smashing his skull." The account concludes thus  !;verybody in the district is delighted with  the wholesale slaughter dealt out by the native police." It is well that some one is sa.tisfie.:l with an exploit which looks very like an indiscriminate and inhuman nalsmcre.  The Abbe Dstz is at Grottamare, on the shores of the Adriatic, where he is completing some musical compositions for a German editor. his villeggiatura is shared by tho Ablxi Solfanelli, with whom he discourses on the severer topics of Christian music.  The Oxford Music-ball has been sold by private treaty ; the name of the purchaser has not yet boon made public.