The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-20 00:00:00

/ 4 ' "7".....0'41:"'-•"' 62 - a 'aP...o", --04. . c 7%1 i t 6 3 ( ~1 1j 1 T. 114,1 . . . t leo! LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, y o . 6,669.3 20. 1867. [STAMP . 14 (TWOPENCE maiSKS. MONEY WIGRAM and BONS' (of gi ac imallyard, Loodon) LINE of IMLAY and PACE= gm! Pa to AUSTRALIA.— FAT MEI.BOUEYEIPo,t phgnp) Dir ec t , sows the Docks on NA I'l RIMY, the 21st December (calling at my .„.th , the splendid clipper slap 01.'S4ILX, 1,000 tone, t: iN Is NI ILLER. Commander ; lying In the Bast India pocks tier accsuimodations tar all claws of passenger are and the will mrry_nn swerienced surgeon.—For t r „ight or ralitagt allgt tO ALLTORT and 11011,01AhT, with User& lIONES Wit:Mall and BONS, usdenba_weeL INMAN LINK—The LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK. and PIIILADKLPIIIA STSAM-SHIP COMPANY Intend despatehbg their /SU powered Clyde-built iron sera. I ~.a r rytoi the United States M calling at Queens so Ireland, on the following day, to ta ken board sad hoc and with liberty to call at 1111 interms= an port: CITY 4.1 , LI 11 KRICK. Saturday, December 21. Mil I/V WAciILNOTON, Wednemlay, December 25. Ana every Wednesday and Saturday. pog n passage by the mall steamers nailing every Wednesday, 10. 17, and 21 guineas, scoording toe the accommodation. Forward m ange Indudes a full supply of cooked provisions. Passengers for tamale and the United States booked through on very advan 'woos terma—lor further particulars apply to W ILLIAM N 3JAN, t 2 Water-street, Liverpool ; and to IiIVM. and MACKY, 51, King W , illiam-street. Landon LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Invested Assets—Upwards of Five =llona Annual Income—Half a Million. Claims Paid—Seven and a Quarter Millions. par fifths of the profits allotted to the Aimed Quinquennially. r..snees hitherto added to Policies—Upwards of your Millions. ice npon the participating scale effected during the our rent year ista. will share in the profits to be distributed at the next diviei.m, which will be made up to 91st December. lB. de Provo...tunes, Statements of Accounts. ac., apply to the A c tuary as the Moe, Fleet-street. London. WILLIAM SAM VIL DOWN= Actaral. I_tOYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, Nansens Director. Mr. P. alrange-1 Three Ballets, 200 Dancers, GO Inetnunentalists, Singers, Acrobats, Mimics; Pic tures, Latest Telegrams, Saloons, Supper-rooms, Lavatories, Bmoklng-moms, Evening Paper; 10 Orchestral Pift-ms Every Bight, Open at Hall-past Seven, begin at Eight. Priam—la, 25., and .5‘1.. Deserved teats, 4e. ; Private Bones, from Al la Boz-cellee open from Eleven to Pour. FIRST MORNING PERFORMANCE. RIVAL ALHAMBRA PALACIL Ft 8.i7 MOW% ING PERFORMANCES, BOXING-DAY, THURSDAY, Dec. LiCtb, and SATURDAY, Dec 18th. All the Dm Christmas Entertainment'. CariraDed Comic Ballet, in. tr,shiciug the celi heated Anglo-French Pantomimist', MM. Hanlon, Wartle, and Erma, and the giant Gorgthoster. Old English Rustic Ballet, introducing the celebrated historical' ilaypOle Rance and MO Damen. Mdlle. Sismondi and the two principal dancers to the King of Lilliput ; Signor Turin' and Son, the Flynn; Wonders ;" also the comic Acrobatic Nondescripts. Orchestra of Sixty Performers and the most brilliant musk, concluding with the grand Transformation Scene and Ballet by Callentt, %Wan°. and Riviere, called the Golden Plumes ; three hoer. of hright and genuine amusement, with not a minute's delay betwrtn the parts. The largest theatre in London, capable of holding n,ono perbuus. Doors open at 1.30. &gin at 2. Car *get at 5. . . . 74;.7.;it the most moderate scale) :—Ares, Promenade, and Upper Balcony, Is. ; Stalls, numbered and reserved, Ss. ; First &hoer and Central Saloons, equivalent to '• dress circle "and .I..yer," 2a ; private reserved seats, ea.: and private bones, one'! Emma and two guineas. Seats may be booked at one' at the Boxwdtee between 11 and 4. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION , 1866. Thu celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN PRIZE MEDAL —lt is pun, mild, mallow, delicious, and very wholes..nie. Sold In bottles, 31. Bd. each, at the retail houses In London : by the agents In the principal towns In England ; or wholesale at 8, Great Wlndmlll-street, London, W.—Observe the red seal, pink label, and cork breaded Kinahmis LL Whisky. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRIN B' WOILCTIZBAHELZ Wan& This delicious condiment., pronounced by oonnohmeure " THE ONLY GOOD BAUM" is prepared solely by LEA and PERKINS. The public are repecttully cautioned wind worthier imita liens, and should see that Lea and Perrin names are on wrapper, bottle, and stopper. ASK for LEA and PKB.P.INer SAUCL Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors. Wordstar Messrs. CBAMSK and BLACKWELL Messrs. BAJICLAY and BONK kudos. dc., de.; and by grown and oilman unmanly. MLES, GLYCERINE, and SOAP.—A Gold al was awarded at the Paris Exhibition to Price's Patent Candle Company (Limited), for "Candles, Glycerine, and leap "—the only one to any British exhibitor for these three things combined. The chief candles of the company are their " BELMON TINE" and " PILICITB PARAFFINE" for these who mut have the extreme traseparency of pare para Mas; their "GOLD MEDAL PALMITLYE," and " SHERWOOD PI TINE," for these who, while desiring candles of peat beauty, re quire also steady brilliancy of 11 t and freedom frame smoke and soma • their /sod old to Miami Spina and Wei." and "Beet," " No. t." " No. 3," end "Batteries" °monodies for those who require only perfect burning without each/ for trans parency and their " Chamber " candles hard, and of small dia meter t o avoid the dropping of grease when tarried. Their new toilet soap, "PgPrtS SOLIDIFIED OLYCEBINE," contains half its weight of their distilled glycerine, and should be the one toilet soap in use, especially in winter, because of its adadrable effects in preventing chapping of the bands and face. There ought also to be in every house one of the sealed bottles , of their patent distilled Glycerine, known everywhere as " Price's 1 Glycerine," two or three drops of which, mixed with three or four times as much water, will in a day or two remove chapping sad roughness of skin, whether of adults or children ; end when this Is effected, a single drop of the undiluted Glycerine applied once a day will prevent the recurrence of the chapping and roughness. Insist on having " Price's Glycerine" in the Company's own sealed bottles, quantities of cheap impure Glyce rine being now sold In the shops because of the low rate at which the dealers can buy it in comparison with Price's. All the good medical authorities abroad, as well as at home, order "Price's ' as the one only Glycerine to be used. " Price's New Patent Night Lights," for burning In the wide Gasses, are believed to be the very best night lights made. Price's Child's Night lights" are known everywhere, and are moelkot for burning without a gin'. CANDLES. —A Hint to Purchasers.—Do not rake sure that you know what price you are paying per pound for your candles until you have stripped than and pot them hi the scale. Some candles are right weight without the wrappers, some with moderately thick wrappers. some with very ' lack wrappers, and some are not nearly right weight with ' , Yappers however thick. PRICE'S "COLD If EDAL PAULI nhE," "Sherwood Palmitine," "Belmont Sperm," and "Bel mont Wax," " Best," " No. 2," " No. S." and " Battersea" Composites, " Priee's Parable," and "Belmontine," and all the other candles of Price's Pained Candle Company kLlniffed), we fun weight without the wrappers. WINTER OVERCOATS. 106, STRAND, OPPOSITE EXIITLIVIIALL attention is given In this Establishment to WINTER OTUAVATS, antis select stock is always kept on hand at HAMILTON end KlMfraia uk TALIAMin and OVIZOOAT- TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (11ZUTIR'S TILIGIAXII.) FRANCE. PARIS, Disc. 19. The Army Bill came on for discussion in the Corps Legialatif to-day. M. Simon examined the bill from the three points of view of the extent, the opportuneness, and the efficacy of the sacrifices demanded of the country. He accused the measure of increasing military expenditure, and of too long postponing the period when the reserve might marry. He censured the establishment of the National Guard and the Garde Mobile, which suppressed the chances of the conscripts drawing favourable numbers. The policy of the govern ment had wounded foreign nations. After the faults that had been committed the moment was inopportune for asking France to give all her chi ldren to military services. The true strength of the people did not consist in a standing army, but in patriotism. Baron David pointed out the existence beyond the Rhine of a military party intoxicated with victory. Across the Alps the revolutionary piety was hostile to Frame. This. , situation required that France should exercise foresight. "We require," said the speaker, "a strong organization. That proposed will be the least burdensome. Patriotism demands that the Chamber should unanimously vote the bill." M. Ltour-Dumoulin was left speaking. In the Senate, the debate upon the petition for the abolition of the punishment of death was begun. M. Goulhot St. Germain opposed the pe tition, moving at the end of his speech to pass to the order of the day. The debate will be continued on Tuesday. The bureaux of the legislative body have rejected three applications from various members to be permitted to address interpellations to the government. ITALY. FLORENCE, Dzc. 19, Erniso. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day the debate upon the Ministerial policy was re sumed. Signor Rattazzi continued t his speech. He complained of the unmerited reproach cast upon the late government in the French diplomatic despatches, and of the great exaggeration of M. de Villestrieux relative to the preparations and de partures of the volunteers. He could not arrest Garibaldi on his return to Florence, as at that time he (Rattazzi) had already resigned ; he could not legally close the relief committees, as there was no proof that they had an ostensible aim in view. He denied as wholly unfounded the accusation made by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, that Italy had proposed to France to become an accomplice in treason. He never proposed a mixed intervention ; he never instructed Chevalier Nigra to propose a conference upon the threat of France that ..he would declare war if the Italian troops crossed the frontier. A ministerial council had assembled at which he (Signor Rattazzi) advised the immediate occupa tion of Rome by Italian troops ; but the Ministers were not unanimous. A ministerial crisis ensued shortly afterwards. Signor Rattazzi will resume his speech to-morrow. Signor Acerbi defended the volunteers against the charges of disorder and of anti-monarchical designs which had been brought against them. Signor Crispi protested against the misinterpretation placed upon his words by General Menabrea. He believed that Rome was necessary to Italy. Baron Ricaaoli denied having connived at the deposit of arms for the volunteers on the frontier. The Chamber was left sitting. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Dm 19. In to-day's sitting of the Senate, M. Villain' called the attention of the house to the disastrous oonsequences of the embankment of the Scheldt. M. Roger stated that the Dutch government will indemnify Belgium for any damages which might be proved to be incurred. The estimates for foreign affairs were then voted. The Chamber of Deputies voted 10,000 men as the contingent for 1868, and then adjourned until January 14. THE PRUSSIAN DIET. BERLIN, Doc. 19. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to day the house adopted the bill to alleviate the dis tress existing in East Prussia, with an amendment authorising the expenditure for that purpose of 2,228,000 thalers. I The Chambers adjourn on Saturday over the Christmas holidays, until the 7th January. AUSTRIA. VIENNA,Dr.c. 19. HARRIS'S CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of well known eacellenee eon only be had et 62, Great Ituseet:- Matet, "podia the British Museum GAIL The very beet steel time .ft ( Mel Spa tacler. and IIk—THOMAS HASAUB and lON CAUTION the e against persons wing their name blaibild Mt No vellum or moat& VIDE MEL'S CHRISTMAS SHOW. —The largest and most elegant assortment of fancy articles for rusens In London. —The Guinea Musical Scent Box, musical album, Sc.: the revolving mtudcal Christmas tree, the magic au, tree, containing a lieitg bird, and numerous other novel tie& Ornaments for Christmas trees from 6d. Christmas cards sad sachets, de. —9O, Strand 12e. Begeet-street : 2 4 , Con 1211 1; and Crlstel Palace. OILISTMAS PRESENTt3 and NEW YEAR'S S for all who court the gay and festive menet If/RUMPS' al ACAMAR OIL, a preserver and beautUyer of Ihe hair beyond all precedent. Rowlands' Kalydor, fur impart kg a radiant bloom to the complexion and a softness and dell the hands, arms, and neck. Rowlands' (Month, or Pearl ."ffilet, for giving a peartlthe whiteness to the teeth, sod fru truice to the breath. The patrenage of royalty throughout tg . to ,t t ir eeueral me by rank and fashion, and the univer efticuy of these articles, give them • celebrity un nedisled old by chemist& and perfumers.—Ask for •• Row knit' " articles. DR SCUM'S BILIOUS sad LIVER PILLS, • purr tailing remedy, prepared Mihail any oteratrial edeedlerit, will be tamod insatiable to all who ender Rom Whose IM hoer complaint', indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, died. IN ' ties eyes, axt. For habitual outliving's, ea a MIMI, Iteriett medicine, and m a purifier of the blood. they am UM, In their operation and grateful to the stomach, hey cream appetite, gar.moto ftesUon, and Mreeerthes the =La emu stazz g .—Bold by W. Umbel , elessikt. KIM -crow and by most Mumble., in limes I .. l l l 'lid end three times the quantity in or.s, at De sere se iw Dr. acott's Ellloo.l and Lives Pilla The genninie are in a !Fels Whose, with "M4Wm lentherr sogrsved on the O.OIIT end RHEUMATISM.—The excruciating Pain gut or rheumatism is quickly relieved and ale. days Is that celebrated medicine, GOUT and ItHEV3ILATIC PILLS. ThvY require no retrain' of diet or confinement during their eis and are cert to vent the &seam attacking any vital ! IA Ilan me dici nevendors at lis. 10. and 31. lid. Per boa obtained thmugh any ebonite' At to-day's sitting of the Upper House the Reicharath passed the bill settling the quota to be contributed by Austria and Hungary respectively towards the expenses of the empire, and the portion of interest upon the public debt incumbent upon each, together with the resolutions bearing upon the subject. At the sitting of the Upper House committee upon religious questions, Cardinal Ran cher combated at great length the bills sent up by the Lower House upon the law of marriage, and separation of education from clerical control. Herr von Lichtenfels defended the principles of the bills. The Minister of Justice stated that the future Minister for Public Worship would express the views of the government upon the points under discussion. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 19. Rumours are current that the government intend to establish a Land Credit Bank, and that a bill for the purpose will be laid before the Cortes. It is stated that the Queen's speech upon the opening of the Chambers will be of a ye y con dilatory character. The semiofficial papers contradict the rumour that Cuba and Porto Rico have been sold to the United States, characterising it as absurd. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 19. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day shows the following changes com pared with that of last week :—lncrease : Private accounts, 9,800,000 f. ; cash in hand, 8,700,000 E; Treasury balance, 1,600,000 f. Decrease : Notes, 8,800,000 f. ; Bills discounted, 1,800,000 f. ; ad vances, 100,000 f. AMERICA. (ay ATLA/MC TELEGILLPII.) NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 6 P.Y. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out 750,000 dole. in specie. Closing prices :—Gold, 134. Sterling ex on London, 110 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1013 Illinois, 1321; Erie, 731. Cotton : Middling Up lands, 15g. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19. Petroleum, standard white, 25. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening an acci- EP tanned in Prince's -street, Edinburgh, to the second two " accelerators" which had just left the General te. The " accelerators" are light cars used for the tollveryance of the letter carriers to the outlying dm !titts of the town. The two ears were going westward when •1 • 0, Pt1 coal cart came up right in front at a rapid rate !ti the wrong side of the street. The driver of the first car Lst. turd to turn his horse aside in time to escape • bll but the second, driven by • man named Brown, ant heavy contact with the cart. The poor man was •••cu pin an unconscious state, and ins conveyed to the I pi l aus ipppoitzro BY DU BARRY'S FOOD TO TEI , where he died next morning. One of the letter- ttron.soa, nerves, Mnp, and liver of old and young, curing, with named. /Hackie, was struck on the Mead by the ou t medicine or expense, dyspepsia (Indigestion), constipation. mat of the cart, but a bundle of letters which he held ' diarrhea, acidity. headache, neuralgia. hysteria, palpitation, " 141 1 lured him, and the letters were scattered far and sloseismout asthma,k f l i :d en4 cc re tr,l Another of the carriers named Hose jumped out and low sort.. eoo that t - al curs au Honors the Pope. It Wei ... .. 44 11 the earner's bone, but the carter Imbed the animal hit times its cost Ln other remedies —llna•, snide it start off. throwing Roes on the ground and thi. Y • 241 b., 40a. or Pi. per meal —Du Barry and Co., VI, Basest his letters also to the wind. The carter for the Q uadrant, London ; also Fortnum and Mason, Plocs o l g ifta resi d at "c*Ped capture, and every attention was given to ft, Oracechereh-street ; 4, Chesmide 611 sod 160, """"g O P the letter; wbieh were lying at the roadway. and allgrocers and eleadsta—iadvietisermeo.l MR, CLADSTONE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Gladstone attended a crowded publie meeting in the Public Hall of Ormskirk, for the purpose of addressing his constituents. Mr. E. Musortoes presided, and briefly introduced the right hon. gentleman to the meeting. Mr. GLADBSONI, on rising, was received with great en thusiasm. He proceeded to remind his audienoe of the circumstances under which he lost his election for the Uni versity of Oxford, his offence having culminated there on the occasion of hie enresting an opinion in favour of par liamentary reform. Mr. Hardy, who then accused him of reviving the doctrines of Tom Paine, had since shown how far he led the university by the nose. It was then that the most populous district of the greatest county constitu ency in England, upon 48 Lowe notes, returned him (Mr. Gladstone) to parliament. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to trace out the condition of the liberal govern ment after the election of 1865 in relation to reform, show ing that there was at that time a powerful body of 270 or 280 gentlemen in parliament, banded together as one man to resist the extension of the suffrage. The tactics of the Adullamite party were sketched, and special allusion made to the sesuranoe which the present government gave to Mr. Lowe, that if they succeeded to office, they would be no parties to the lowering of the borough suffrage. The wenelecl fhb lemma wew•iklor rolkoo=wit wf Mee lib.* cabinet from office, its members knowing perfectly wall that the triumph of reform was absolutely certain, said that the blood of the administration, like the blood of _ , martyrs, would be the seed of moven. Re knew, nothing to lament and nothing to repent of in their proceeding" of 1867. The Reform Bill of that year and the Reform Act were totally and absolutely different from one another. The bill was the worst plan ever presented to parliament and would have immensely diminished the power of the labouring class. The 11 was net amended, it was mete morphosed,end it was without doubt an enormous advance in the political growth of England. Still it bad consi derable defects. The redistribution of seats was totally inadequate, and the provision with respect to rating very objectionable. On the minority vote, too, a greet mistake had been made. This point Mr. Gladstone argued at some length. He did not think it wise, moreover, he proceeded to say, to establish so greats difference between the occu- pation franchise in counties and that in boroughs. The principle held by many dale supporters of the govern ment, that the county representation should be exclusively of an agricultural character, was absolutely unknown to the constitution, and would tend greatly to lower the vigour and energy of county representation. If the towns had grown let their boundaries be extended, and let those who were taken into the towns for the purpose of parliamentary voting be taken into the towns also for ell other purposes. It was his opinion that there should be an increase of members for Scotland from unobjec tionable sources. When s parliamentary election occurred the country would, be hoped, look rather more to the pest conduct of men than to the pledges they might glee. Mr. Disraeli had said that the liber►l party had bitterly opposed the thirty-two measures which during his par liamentary career had done so much good in the country ; but no list was given of these measures, and his (Mr. Gladstone's) curiosity was gro►tly excited about them. It seemed, however, from Mr. Diareeli'm own statement that a new kind of education had been going amongst the conservatives, the essential requisite part of which appeared to be that whilst it was proceeding the conservative party should know nothing about it, and so that party, they were to suppose, had been dosed with principles of parliamentary reform, whilst it believed it was walking in the opposite direction. He could tell them what the 32 measures were not. They were not the repeal of the Roman catholic disabilities, or of the disabilities of protestant dissenters ; they were not repeal of the corn laws, they were not reform of parliament. They were not (continued the right hon. gentleman) the introduction of principles of fair representative go vernment into the municipal communities of the country ; they were not the repeal of the navigation laws, which was to ruin all our shipping, just as the repeal of the oorn laws was to have ruined our agriculture, but it resulted is an enormous extension of our shipping, as the repeal of the corn laws resulted in an immense increase in the value of our produce ; they were noktheltreaty with France, which has opened and extended the commerce of the country, and in extending the commerce of the country has done more by joining two nations with the right hand of fellow ship, never again, I trust, to be severed ; they were not reform of the whole tariff of the country, which has given you, without almost any exception, the abso lute command of all the raw material of labour and industry that the world can yield, without payment of a single shilling to the Exchequer. They were not the establishment of th►t free press which now circulates almost by millions—if not by millions — throughout the whole of the. country, and penetrates into every nook and corner of the land. Well, gentlemen, I really thought in my blindness and benighted ignorance that those were the measures, or at all events that they were the contested measures, because some measures—l am thankful to say many good and valuable measures— hare passed the legislature without contest—l thought it was the contests upon those measures which had given a special character to the parliamentary history of the age. Gentlemen, I still think so ; and I ask you if you think the spirit which formed and conceived, and dictated such measures is to continue to prevail in the counsels of the country? (Cheers.) A vote of confidence in the right hon. gentleman as the liberal representative of South Lancashire was then paned by acclamation. In the evening Mr. Gladstone visited his constituents at Southport, and addressed a large publio meeting in the Town-hall of that town. Mr. WELD BLUNDELL presided, and briefly introduced the right hon. gentleman, who was reoeived with great cheering. Mr. GLADSTONE, in his speech, urged that our public policy should ever be based on principles of justice and moderation. The Abyssinian expedition was an unfortu nate necessity, and it taught the lesson that we should henceforth be more wary about establishing diplomatic relations with countries which have not yet reached an adequate stete of civilisation. Referring to political reforms, he proceeded to express his doubt whether the shortening of parliament was necessary to secure the popular control; and with regard to the ballot, whether from the infirmity of old age or its approach, he still owned to an attachment, unless the gross evil of intimidation springs up, to the old English principle that, as far as possible, all public duties and functions should be performed in the public eye. On the subject of education he did not believe we had before us any obstacle except such as reasonable care and average ' courage might surmount. Mr. Gladstone then proceeded to speak of Ireland—a name, be said, which he was deeply convinced would for many years to come find for the govern ments and people of England the most difficult and anxious portion of their employment. In considering the wicked and detestable outrages of Fenianism he would urge them first to preserve an equal temper and perfect self-oom roand—and next, not to confound the cause of Fenianiam with the canoe of Ireland. An eloquent passage followed the responsibility that falls upon us, whatever the nature of a criminal charge, to look at nothing but the sufficiency of the proof, after which Mr. Gladstone proceeded so speak of leniency to political offenders as alike wise and just, but to deny that acts such as we have lately seen are entitled to the partial immunities that ought to be granted to offences properly political. To him it appeared that there was a deep moral taint and profound degradation in this thing called Fenian. ism. It was difficult to find upon record proceedings of • large body of men more inconceivably and abominably wicked than the Fenian invasion of Canada. Be refused to censure the government also for having declined to ex ercise the prerogative of the crown in such a case as that at Manchester. Those who approved of such a course as that at Clerkenwell were the merest handful, and be had learnt on undoubted authority that the Irish of Lancashire were wholly free from the taint of this sympathy. But we have much more (continued the right honour able gentleman) than this to consider. We must distinguish, as I venture to may, between the ease of Ire- I land and the case of the lonians ; and I hope you will not easped me, after what I have said, of wishing to tamper with the grinsiplos of public order when I avow to you my ongriallon that these painful and horrible =MOP. Onion may perhaps in the merciful designs of Providence, without in the slightest degree acquitting their authors of responsibility, may perhaps have been intended to incite this nation to a greater search of its own heart, and spirit, and conscience with reference to the condition of Ireland and the legislation affecting that country. (Loud applanas.) Gentlemen, it is, to say the very lean, a matter of the utmost sadness to consider that after six hundred years of political connexion between England and Ireland, that union of heart and spirit which is absolutely necessary for the welfare of the country has not yet been brought about. (Hear, hear.) It is impossible to exaggerate the gravity of the fact, or, I may add, the gravity of responsibilities Which it brings upon the government of this country. And, gen tlemen, when I say upon the government of this country I use that expression taluso In fano: Ames #be ialluence of the people in the direction of public policy, alticidt? for many purposes it has always had groat weight, was far from being commanding ; but of late, the development which has been given to our popular and representative I institutions, arid which has invested many of you, and not only many of you, but all your fellow citizens all over the country, with the power of the parliamentarysuffrege fine upon you in the last resort, the chief end ma burden of respountelity for the character -4 "Dien of the policy that may attach to the *endued of the plll concerns of Great Britain in all their brunches sad deportment'. (Hear.) And, therefore, whether or not you are primarily responsible for the past policy of this country towards Ireland, you will be responsible for it in the future—(hear, hear)--and I think I am not performing the part of a wanton or gratuitous cement if I venture to impress upon you those feelings, those con victions which I cannot discharge from myown mind. Now it would be unworthy of the character of this country if on account of the occurrence of those horrible outrage" we were to consider ourselves as in any degree released from the duty of acting fairly. Whatever has been and whatever Is to be the nature of our policy towards Ireland, there is not the smallest doubt that the policy has under gone greed improvement, that civil rights have been ex tended, odious penalties have been removed, religious distinctions that formerly existed have been effaced, and a better and milder spirit has taken pos session of British legislation with respect to Ireland. But at the same time if we wish to place ourselves in the condition At last to grapple with the Irish problem as it ought to be grappled with, there is but one way to do it, and that is for each of tut individually to make a mental effort to place himself in the position of an Irishman, imbued with the national feelings of Irishmen, and under the influence of their traditions and then to my honestly to himself, as in the sight of God, whe ther if he were such an Irishman with such convic tions he would himself be satisfied with the state of things that now exists. If you ask me what contribution I have to offer towards the solution of this great and most press ing problem, I have only to say that past history teaches us that there is a marvellous power of enchantment in the promotica of just and fair dealing. (Cheers.) This pur ports to be a anion of three kingdoms. Now one question arises, if the three kingdoms are to be united, how are they respectively to be governed ? My answer is this. There are certain matters in which the very effect of a union requires that the three should have a common opinion and a common policy. (Cheers.) So far as that goes, I would not for a momeat listen to any plea what ever for separate institutions and a separate policy for England, or for Scotland, (*for Ireland; but thii I venture to Nay, that in all matters except that, no man ought to be able to say that any one of these three coun tries is governed according to the traditions, the views, and the ideas of anothe ; and if I am asked what is meant by that, I reply by an illustration much clearer than argument. I reply by pointing to the policy that the parliament of Great Britain and of the United Kingdoin has never failed to pursue in respect to Scotland. (Cheers.) There must be many Sootclunen here present, They abound, and I am thankful they abound in this com munity. (Laughter.) If there bad not been a facility for the importation of Scotchmen it is highly probable that I should not have been hero. (Laughter.) But I appeal to you, who as Englishmen pride yourselves as, being the first among the nations of the world in the sense of public justice, have we treated Ireland as we have treated Scotland ? If we had endeavoured to govern the Scotch according to English notions and ideas. I ask whether they would have been the contented community which they now are ! (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, in speaking of that unsatisfactory condi tion of relations, which I admit connects itself in a consi derable degree, though in an indirect method, with the recent horrible manifestations, I am far from meaning to suggest that these dreadful crimes CAM be the object of sympathy in Ireland. My belief is that even the sympathy which has been shown with the three men executed at Manchester was procured by erroneous state ments of the cue, snd groundless imputations on the administration of justice. With regard to the more re cent outrage, the matter is so clear that I feel satisfied no man will be able to affix upon any portion of the Irish population the charge of sympathising with such enormity. (Hear, hear.) But this is the state of the case. We have not in Ireland that degree and amount of active loyalty to and reopen for the law which is noxesary in order to constitute a thoroughly well ' , ordered and united community—(hear,hear)--and we have this painful circumstance, that whilst large portions of the I Irish population from year to year have left the country to pursue their fortunes in a foreign land, they have carried with them, along with a patient and tender attachment to the soil, something that almost might be described as a fierce resentment, an inex tinguishable aversion to the authority, the government, and the institutions of this country ; and, for my part, gentlemen, I own I am not satisfied when I hear people say—" Yes, that is so, but it is because they ere so unreasonable." Well, they may be unreaaonable. We are all unreasonable more or less. We are all unreasonable, especially when we have suffered wrong — (hear, hear)—and depend upon it we stenos going to enter into • controversy with • lawless power, that aims Its blows not at wealth, not at property, not at government, not at aristocracy, not at anyone clams orportion of the community, but at public order and at the peaoe of society. And if we are to enter with a clear conscience into that contest, if we are to be able to persevere in that fearless and firm administration of the law which I for one earnestly desire, and will heartily support—(" hear, hear," and cbeers)—we must satisfy ourselves that as regards those causes of legislation which bear upon the permanent con dition of • people we have set ourselves in the right. (Hear, bear.) What we want is that those sympathies in Ireland which now hang and fioat bewildered between law and lawlessness shall be brought into active alliance with the law. (Hear, hear.) What we want is to have Ireland like Scotland, so that at last and after all these generations, we may be enabled, instead of hearing in every corner of Europe the most painful commentaries upon the policy of England towards Ireland—we may be able to look our fellow Europeans of every nation in the face, and challenge any of them to deny that we have edministered to the sister island the fel benefit of the principles of equal justice. Gentlemen, old and inveterate diseases are not to be cured in a day. I have rarely read • more striking sentiment in any newspaper—though I rejoice to say that we now often have the advantage and happiness of reading the enuncia tion of the most matured and solid wisdom, expressed in the clearest and most eloquent language, even in a multitude of thole journals which are produced from hour to hour, and almost from moment to moment, for our advantage—l have rarely read • more striking sentiment than the one conveyed in an article upon the Irish question some six or seven months since, where the writer was dealing with the statements of those who say it is vain to expect that, because you do this or that, you would convert Ireland into a happy and contented people; and you would therefore draw the conclusion that it is better to do nothing at all. Old and inveterate diseases, I repeat, are not to be removed in • moment. It is the law of nature, it is the dispensation of Providence, it is a great check upon human folly, that we should know, when we have long persevered in mischief, it is not in our power, at a ma slant's notice, to undo it, sod you must be prepared for • long mid patient well-doing towards Ireland up to the full bond of reason sad justice—though not one Jot beyond them—if you wish to obtain ulthe•tely for your- . selves, or for your children, that sad for which I never despair—viz., of redeeming the reproach of total political incapacity to assimilate to ourselves an island within three hours of our shores, and which has been under oar i dominating Influence now upwards of 000 years. I believe myself that in the case of Ireland there is meals even in the method of treatment as distinguished from the sub stance of mount's, in kindness, in sympathy, to recogni tion, in equality, in frank union, in all when we can unite—which of themselves have a great effect in Ireland. And one thing I would any I would not do ; I would not be • party to endeavour to I bribe Ireland into union with this country by the mere vulgar expedient of dome of public money. (Hear, hear.) I say that, not for the asks of the people of England. If it wine • question of thousands or millions, and ion could show me that thousands or millions would aw n pnd, than ip none of us would hesitate a moment; but they 'scald not attain the end. One of the great thine — one of the greatest of all—we have in view is this : we vrio l to raise Ireland to the dignity of perfect political freedom, and the sense responsibility which attends it—(hear, hs . :er) — bet 7° ll cannot raise Inland to that dignity of political ii7e.edren" you seek to depress her spirit and to fix for her • serTh' position, by doing for her in matters of public money that which you would refuse to the citizens of countries of whose public spirit andself-respect you have formed &high estimate. One word, and one only, on the subject of • parliamentary reform in the representation of Ireland, because that I am bound to say I take for granted. I make no doubt that, looking at the declarations of the government and the propriety of the case, we shall have for Ireland a measure of reform not less equitable and liberal In its spirit than that which has been passed for England—(bear, hear)—and I hope more free from particular provisions that are open to reasonable ex ceptions. (Boor, hear.) I can only say for one that if any attempt were made to found upon recent occurrences, or • supposed political insecurity in Ireland—if any plea were made for deferring the settlement of the questions connected with the representation of the people in this country, I should for one be found to lift up my voice and say that that was • false and fatal policy—(hear, hear) — that we must throw ourselves frankly upon public senti ment in Ireland, and that if It be true that the circum stenos' are critical up to the point at which they are now critical, and which I do not seek W ex aggerate, the very fact would be a reason for our giving fades means of giving expression to the genuine public sentunent of Ireland through the authorised and thgal channel of its representative institutions. (Applause.) Ireland also has not received up to this hour equal treatment in the matter of educates ; and I will tell you how. In this country you are aware the great balk of parents are in jhe habit of sending their children to be trained in schools and colleges where the inculcation of the religion to which they belong forms an essential and fundamental part of the instruction that is given. Well that is the opinion most of us entertain in Fmgland, that most of us act upon, and that LB the full countenance—l might even say that is the actual encouragement of law and institutions. But what do we do in Ireland? Well, in 'raked we have got, in the arse place, a university connected with the established church. The members of the esesidiebed church in Ire land have, and I, for one, have not the slightest obje ct thou to their having—on the contrary, I rejoice in their having the means of having their children trained in every branch of useful secular knowledge In an institu tion when their religion is taught. The same advantage is not given to the Roman catholic population of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Neither is it fully given to the presbyterian population of Ireland. But, gentlemen what I have to say if I speak of the presbyterian po pulation Is really only because in the first place their case is mitigated by • number of circumstances that it is not now necessary to detail ; and In the second plate, because I think it is our duty to look at these who from their enormous numbers constitute the bulk and mass of the Irish nation. They have founded in Ireland, I should say I believe them conscientiously to be excellent institutions, in which paeans of all religious creeds and persuasions should receive • good and sound secular edu cation, and should obtain religious education by arrangements of their own. (Hear, bear.) That was the plan of Sir Robert Peel,and even on that account I should be very slow indeed, and very loath to speak disparagingly of it; but I have not a word to say against it. All that I have to say is that at the present moment no anieenity degree can be granted in Ireland except in Trinity College, Dublin, where the system of the estab lished church is taught, or in the Queen's Colleges in va rious places, where no system of religion is taught at all, as • part of the system of edncation, so that if there be Roman esthetics, and there are numbers of them who hold in Inland the very same opinion that the great bulk of us hold in England, viz., that prefer having their children trained in establishments where their own religion is taught, those children ere debarred from the privilege of • university degree, sad that degree beim a civil privilege it comes to this'; t hat there are still in Ireland civil disabilities on ac count of religious opinion. Now we would motbear that our selves. I own that if I were prohibited from sending my son to be trained in • school where his religion was not taught, I abould think it • great grievance. I ask you as good citizens, as just men, to place yourselves in the position of the Roman catholics, or presbyterians, who hold the opinion I have described. And I ask whether it can be said that we have as yet given full sad perfect equality to Ireland ? Do not think that this is • small m atter? Rely upon it that in these questions of equality and inequality it is not the absolute substance of the thing itself that you must alone regard, but it is the stigma that is in volved in the principle of inequality. Another subject,with the details of which I will not trouble you, is of great im portance to Ireland—the 'abject of the tenure of Laid; and we all know that although in the abstract the law of Eng land sad the law of Ireland may be pretty nearly the same, although the naked principle of the law runs so much in favour of the landlord that everything that the tenant does in the way of improvement and everything he pats in the soil becomes the property of the landlord, when he quits it, yet the law is mitigated in different districts by • multitude of local customs greatly improving the position of the tenant, especially in a country like this, but in Ireland, with the exception of certain parts almost entirely protestant, this is not so. In the protestant part there is a custom called tenant right ; but in the west of the country there is no such custom, and there is no protection for the tenant's improvements, unless they have been made under ex pressed formal contract. This is • question of vital im portance to the Irish. So long ago as in the government of Sir Robert Peel I endeavoured to apply and to give to the agricultural population of Ireland a reasonable interest in the improvements. And yet that reform, which was regarded as urgent by a ministeripeakingin the name of a conservati ververnment. to this hour has never been adopted—to this law the Irish tenant remain' without that ressonable security in the vast majority of cues, holding from year to year, and only in • very small minority of oases obtaining the assistance of the landlord's capital to improve the soil. Can you greatly wonder, then. if a spirit of hopelessness has oome over that people with respect to their present position, and with that hopeless ness there is some defect in the warm and active attach ment which we should like to find prevailing between the two countries? Here, gentlemen, there is • subject which, depend upon it, is of vital importance, that laying aside all idle prejudices, and being prepared to face all factitious obstacles, we should proceed to deal with and lead to • satisfactory conclusion. (Cheese.) Gentlemen, there is still another matter that cannot be omitted. It is the state of the religions institutions of Ireland. I say in the face of my respected friend, your chairman, and without the least fear of offending, we may all lament it in our several degree and manner. We may lament that Ireland Is ea she is, and that she and we are not more of one mind, that she does not more conform to our pattern in respect to religious matters ; but we must recognise the fact that in the case of Scotland, when a difference of the kind mom you allowed the Scoteh to hold their own way; and I do not believe there is • man, whatever his per suasion, that world wish to undo that state of things. In Ireland you have adopted the oppoeite,only you have got a small portion in Ireland holding that form of belief which is, I apprehend, the belief of the majority in England, and, therefore, the English ideas and opinions in favour of the English form of government is carried into Ireland, and the national endowments of the country are given exclusively to the religion of a small number of persons compneing among themselves almost all the whole wealth of the oconstry,while the mul titude, the poor of the country, are left to shift for them selves. (Cheers.) That is to say. religious inequality ex ists in Ireland in its most glaring form. (Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, we would not endure that in our own country. If there were • Roman catholic country with • dominant Roman catholic majority endeavouring to apply against us the principlewe now apply against them, I ask you whether we should patiently bear it or not? No. gentlemen, we should not bear it. (Hear, hear.) We may, perhaps, by some Faction in the meth ods and expedient+ of polities show • greater aptitude than our Irish brethren in choos ing out of ourselves effectual ways and means in apply ing a remedy to the evil, ket if that evil bed been felt b us as it has been felt by them, • remedy in one shape or another, we should sad would have applied, and would hays done it long ago. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I must express to you soy firm con viction that p • les of solicits" must be established in Ireland—(cheers d that it is vain to look for a true union and harmony between that country and this until the legislature of this country shall have made up its mind to govern so as to attain that great consummation. It may invove upon a sacrifice of of way, o and there urpride,thers may those wh o would bediffilti difficulties to encounter tellastbatitie hostile to religion. I, fenny part, believe that nothing ever was or ever will be agreeable to religion which is not agreeable to justice—(cheer,)—but let me commend this subject to your deep and earnest and serious reflection, for rely upon it you have got this before you, it faces you, it confront, you, it stops you on the way, it will pursue you wher ever you go—lreland is at your doors. Providence has placed her there, laws and legislature have made a com pact between you ; you must face these obligations, you must deal with them and discharge them. As to the mode of giving effect to this principle I don't enter upon that. I I am of opinion they should be determined eseicllVPd. by that which may appear to be dietitian», well conaidoted and general sense of the Irish people, but as to the - ple itself, I entertain a depth of conviction in to it, I and a strength of assurance that it will come up and medt us at eveg step of our future progress, until we have dss . : 4l with it e ff ectually, that won't su ff er me to be silent ' y but urges me again and again 40 belXrat lay nags wn4&rations that aotaleied with the com. piste and effectual settlement of this grefffiand pressing qua*. tiro. I must soya word on the positions of the a/Amities go vernment, and the parties in p•rliam en t. B y th e rule of pub conetltutkm those ought to govern who have the Meadows of the majority. N ow it i s • fat thathese whoatpmesntgovernareinthes ; t h at 'Woof= is not without its admuseeses—de ,ss us that the of conservative govennnente mossy asosmonly the epochs of the greatest and most nessmary 004011111i0The to popular feeling. (Cheers.) There wee the old highest of protection. How did we get rid of that! By bringing the protectionists into oilers. iClumen.) From 1916 to 185 2, when elestions occurred in agricultural ovuldiiummalvst there was always a gentleman to talk of the wrongs of the British farmer, and I cannot wonder that the British farmer sometimes lent a ready ear to the sesmances that' Were given to him. My belief is that if the protectionist party had not come into power to this day, you would have had to this day the county elections fought en the principle of protection —(aughter and cheers)—and • great body of men always coming forward to assure the farmer that he was deeply wronged ; that they were very sensible of his wrongs; sad that nothing was necessary but a majority to put them into power, in order to the effectu a l application of • remedy ; they came into power over-night, and the next r lo they found it was impossible protection could be stored. (Hear, hear.) That was the case in 1852. In 1858 there was another of these governments of a minority, and at the oonnuenoement of that governments Lord Detby announced that his mission was to oppose the program of democracy, but before that government had been twelve months in office, the members of it were engaged in the production and the recommendation of • Reform Bill - they were put out—their Reform Bill was not entertained and that being so the consequence was they fell back into the old error, and from 1839 to 1867 their party, with an unbroken effort, opposed itself to all and every proposal of reform—(hear, hear)-but in 1866, at the end of the session, they came in again, and pre cisely the same process takes place ; overnight they thought that reform was dangerous, that it was mines:es. nary, that it would destroy the constitution, and I know not what; the min rises next morning with the light of that sun, new ideas are conveyed—(laughter and cheers)--and the consequence is seen in the Reform Act. Well now, gentlemen, you as a body of liberal electors may be in clined to desire that those who agree with you should be placed in possession of the great opportunities of useful. nest that are connected with the possession of office— (chervi)—but don't overlook the advantages on the other side, and remember that in the great changes which this year has witnessed it is highly probable that if it had not been for the change of government in 1866 reform might still have been baulked by an obstinate and perse vering hostility. (Hear, hear.) Referring to the conscience clause, the right hon. gentleman observed that as the con. sarvatives were in office, they might witness the adoption of the principle contained in that clause ; and after some, further remarks upon the state of parties, con cluded by again thanking the constituency of South Lancashire for the position in which they had placed him. His address occupying nearly an hour and three-quarters, Mr. Gladstone resumed his seat amidst loud applause. A vote of confidence similar so that passed at the Ormakirk meeting was adopted, and the proceedings terminated. We must express acknowledgments for the excellence of the arrangements, and the courtesy we experienced at the hands of those who had charge of the proceedings through out the day. Drama. NEW ROYALTY. The Christmas entertainments were fairly com menced last night at this prosperous little theatre by the production of a new two-act comedy by Mr. F. C. Burnand, having the short and suggestive title of Humbug. Mr. Burnand is as happily associated with the New Royalty as Mr. T. W. Robertson IS with the Prince of Wales's Theatre, and whatever be gives to this house is almost sure to meet with success, but Mr. Burnand ought to know the scale of the stage he is writing for, and not crowd as many characters in one scene, and that almost a front scene, as would make even a solid show in Drury-lane. Little pruning and a stage clearance of scenery may yet, however, make Humbug the IMMIX which it deserves to be as a piece of writing. ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. The annual winter speeches were delivered yes terday afternoon by the senior scholars of St. Paul's, in the presence of the surveyor accountant and assist ants of the Mercers' Company, and a gathering of the friends and relations of the pupils, which, though not so large as that which usually fills the great school-room on Apposition-day, was still tolerably numerous. Among those who were present were the Venerable Archdeacon Hole, the Rey. J. Kemp., Kr. Glaisher, and the masters of the sehooL In opening the proceedings of the day, Dr. Kynaston, the head master, referred, in terms of congratulation, to the present position of the school, and to the progress which the pupils bad made during the past half-year. Ile noticed with satisfaction the election of the Rev. Dr. Souter, and old scholar of St. Paul's, to the bishopric of Victoria, and con cluded with the assurance that he had received the most favourable accounts of the past pupils of this school who were now completing their studies at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. After these introductory obser vations Dr. Kynaston presented the Thruston memorial prise for Latin lyrics to Mr. Herbert Cowie, the captor of the school. Mr. Cowie was warmly congratulated by the head master tit on his success, and was cordially applauded by his schoolfellows and by the audience as he bon away the handsome volumes which his skill in classical verslli cation had won for him. At the conclusion of the speeches the Surveyor Accoun tant of the Kamera' Company made a few observations in which he expressed his own satisfaction and that of the company which he represented at the satisfactory con dition of this great educational institution, and highly complimented Dr. Kynaston and the other masters upon the success which had attended their labours. Last year the students who had gone up from this school were most successful at the universities, and he tiustAll that there would be no falling off in that respect dining the present year• Dr. Kynuton britfly acknowledged the compliments which had been paid by the surveyor accountant to him self and the other masters. THE WI:MUNSTER PLA Y. For the third and last time this season, the AdelpAi was performed last night by the Westminster scholars, in the i reseuce of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, the Bishop of Rochester, Sir IL l'hilliniore, Dean Stanley, Archdeacon Hale, Rev. Canon Melville, Dr. East lake, Dr. Langston, Dr. Ingram, Mr. Mere, Rev. Canon blepean, &c. There was a visible improvement in the acting of the play, which was much applauded. PRINCESS'S Tannins.—Next Monday and Tues day, the :.3rd and 24th, will be devoted at this house to the benefit of Mr. T. Roberts, the acting manager. The entertainments will be entirely changed, the Cahn' Bare being replaced by the Scottish musical drama of Guy Man. nering. The musical portion of the programme, which in cludes a concert, will be supported by Madame Liebhart, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mrs. Howard Paul, Mr. George Perren, Mr. George Honey, Mr. Sidney Pratten, Herr W. Ganz, Mr. Levy, Mr. Howard Paul, and Mr. H. Widdi oomb. we ,.w Arc maith• Fw & a tb. ow'