The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-02 00:00:00

FEWMPAYEat _ •,; - • 1 . . , . A„;•:*4 -- • • 7 •% 4 ' o f . 4 :1 11 t i t % ; 4 IAJ b u LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1867. [STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL.] , [TWOPENCE ' MR. BRIGHT AND THE O'DONOOHUE ON that we might rely on the sovereign remedy of justice toheal ilfitustc. THE IRISH QUESTION. the wound and to reassure the discontentof Ireland. If these measures were passed. Probably this is only • dream ; SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. MANCHESTER, FEB. 1. 1 but if I were the minister of the country—(loud cheers)— .4 .° ; " ,/ , • , • /1"."--' < ~----- 1../e -,40-• !.- . 11: Pot IL, NEW YORK, and PHILA. I• Hi 'AN' -Ili oNtrANY.—INIIAN LINE.— ' • mil i• ••• ere,. steamers will be ilextiatebeil as SUNDA Y EVENINGS for the PEOPLE, si Martin's 11s11.—Vvb. 3, Professor BEEALT on Ms "Itcli,loo and Civilisation of Ancient Esept." followed by vrmi%in.i, scluists:—Nlr. Montan Smith. Ilsibuus Talbot Cheri r. ( . vlllllll. at 7. Free sots ; rearrve4 sittings, b. Oil. to 3d. t l .‘i t IV w)L for NISW YORK „ ..1 .;ItIN. Wednesday, Feb. 6. . la , N • :!•, It‘. N k , tt t doesdey, Feb. 13. .tua ts..ay 415.11•4441UN1/ky. hy the ..td tt...n.ers sailing every Wedneeday, ••• ! gu...raas tol the accommodation . Itt•ach, t lull ~.pply of cooked provisions. , i.a .0, the 1 tilted States booked throu4h ea ▪ aternce-ut tern .urther particulars apply to t . ;.! t`l INMN tt•st ttrcet. Liverpool; oldie ilYie • tt. ta. Klll4 Wthudo..trect. Loudon. T HE JAPANESE TROUPE DAILY E.XPATED. Handel's Judas Abet('bans was given :sat night by this society with • general efficiency which we have never heard surpassed, and which has seldom been equalled, notwithstanding the absence of Mr. Sims Reeves, who had been previously advertised for the principal tenor solos. A printed announcement was circu lated in the hall, stating that Mr. Reeves was " prevented by severe hoarseness from singing in the oratorio," and acknowledging the readiness with which Mr. Cummings had undertaken the part allotted to Mr. Reeves. While Mr. Reeves has, admittedly, no rival in the interpretation of Handel's grand declamatory songs, it is equally certain that there is no substitute so efficient and prepared as Mr. Cummings ; as this gentleman has sufficiently proved on many occasions, notably at the Norwich Festival in Novem• her last, when he sang almost literally at an hour's notice the greater portion of the music originally assigned to Mr. Reeves. By his thoroughly efficient performance of last night, Mr. Cummings has added to the many proofs he has given of his earnest study and wide preparation in the higher branches of his art. Israel in Egypt is to be repeated by this society on Feb ruary 8. NATION AL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High very th.elant and spacious ennblishincot haying woo entirely r.lmorstell, OPEN KV MT 'NEN INO The paha I. conducted by Mr. W. M. Nickel. will Tewtorbe DIOIKY a choice election et opnratic and damn music. Open at lloX past close at It. Admission. Is. ICI:N.IHD LINE. —IIItITISH and NOItTH %N li.ll N I. NI .k 1 I. st 1.1.1N1 SHIPS, appointed IT :• i.cv to I,la ii I.IT FKI•01411.. and :SEW YORK, .. LINE 11 I'. o /1..i...1 Ink 11,S, the Boston ships calling t'. 1,111 .111.1 l• • LIS , Mad mails. The fol . . 11.. r ;,,•,• ~pl...inted to sail from Liverpool, . 4 , 4 .• t.. lit - 111:III, lII\ n. Sr. , atuplay, Feb. It. .1 11 N. t..r Nru To . saturlay, Feb. 0. %%I S. tor tlio, satunlay, reb. totak.ll;,, t • 1..1 •—• NASSAU and Ilur aunah, to •: .'• n 111 ;I t n 1 n k to the permission of the ;• : , .0i bard the K. M. 5.8. Corsica. A4PIIALTF. ROOFING FELT. ONE PENNY per Square root. CROG G 0 N and Co. Manufacturers. $ 123, New Earl-street. I ..._, .. atupou 011, s.s.. i 34. Itreadetreet, r 59. Georgewquare, Glawrow. 2, Goreepeemes, Liverpool THE SUNDAY GAZETTE, THREEI'ENCK THE SUNDAY GAZETTE, TIIREEPENCK T E SUNDAY GAZETTE, TH xt money , •4(t ward Ice and prkeftwona, but wine.., Iton.o. —T.. Halifax and linston, chief cabin, eshin. a:,:to. 'to New York, cldef cabin. sal ; see I In. £.3 —Apply to .1 52. Uhl broolutreet, London; anis. Havre. 004 11, Place de la Bourse. Paris; 6. and J. not, 30, J.12]......111 10.1 rat.. R.ig..; I). mid C. SlaciVer, tplavtl/1- 1.•14. or D. and e. Waiver. N. Watur-strech LivarpooL 1 IMPORTERS, Shippers, Stearn Shipping 1 1° C0n.p....1ea, Cot.iiirneelef Foreign 0004 ill, by 'Ulnae' r .•tn•rwise into the Fort of Londoa.—The proprietors el tree trade What Ititteliti, and Ppper Free Trade Wharf, Dow mtr LAN k, Upper Thane s..treet, ipyrut FACILITIM to the e. Further Iniettnation ntay be obtained on application, by iettre .•r in venom', to It CEA V and Co., who:angers and wane tone: k.viers. --Offices. at, Upper Tharass-etreet. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DI) bLIN EXHIBITION, IN& The celebrated old Iltisll N IflsK Y gained the DUBLIN ?RILL NI LILtL —lt is pure, mild, mellow, delichme, and very sold In bottles. at each, at the retail hones Is Lorelmi. by the venni in the principal towns In Ragland; wl.i.lastle at s, areal Whettnidistrevt, London, W. Observe the yad awl pink label. wad cork bewailed "Kluatiaes LL Vititaky.' - - AItLOW'S PATENT CASK STAND, • new inswition, contrived that a full butt, as well as smaller casks may he mewl or tilted ma it without labour or te,Mle. Its salon is so impalpable that the sediment of the wet limpid duel by no powilidity can be disturbed. Price 9a., U 5., 144., to not 41, 9. ..n.l 18 gallon (alike. IIitAELOWS SELF-ACTING SYPHON TAP. Juir N.. ilitpeg toir,) No more Eat beer or sour WlnO. its, 44. cle4l2..plattal. N.—Apply direct to JADES plit.ntve, 11. k ing William.street, Nandiu-house. Wee ib.it bin name and address are on every article; all others se, ...parlous Mutations. Lingevingis grata. ratabliehed 1820. AI ANA SE(3AR AGENCY, 2, Canute-road Disks Sint limulitoifiind 77, REOENTSTHGET,LONDON g ii ...l.oirs from st. I ses HalE.—The proprietors draw attes t, to the met. which hoe attended the eftl4/1141111C1.4 of this m. •cy, not chili hnr resulted in the supply of their linfmrtai h. to to many of the noot important club., hotels, and private isson.iirs in the kingdom. TIM: stock offered to the attention iuniiiiisseurs cosiiprirs s ntsrly 900 kinds of the choicest Isom toms id the mot celehrated 11111•111& manufactories, and e the fun--t oilettion of Havana Nevus at present existing in fur the whole Leine the exclusive importation of this esti. holm. id Irmo kr agents and redilent buyers in Havana, who, ph, I..ne csperience, exereifte the greatest rare in selecting only Pi moist brands and sides, and who ship the same direst to the ',showiest in the southanipton Docks These advantages ri..le the proprietors to supply HUARANTEED HAVANA st...lPs, a holt-sale arid retail, at priers lower for the respective than It is 1...40.1e other houses to quote. Terms, nigh, in ail undoubted ititroduetbn. Prospeetum on application to p.pricl..en, WOLFF, PHILLIPS, and CO. ILO.= soma and C..llltraF•loft Agency, Southampton, and 77, lic„teutistreet, London. TEA is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 26. A. 21. MI. per pouoil are the prima at which PHILLIPS and tea DlCratAlitS, n, Kine Willianostreet, City, London, ).C., we wiling sod hoe lil,AcK TEA. A prkeeurrent pod tree. kis worth iarriasie free to any railway station or market town in the I'nited inedom. All imialt carriage free to All lasts .. 1 pai hal itheono.-1.1111.1.1PS and Co. have no mend. Sugars supplied at market prices. A VALUABLE PACKAGE of TEA. A A CHINE:AK CADDY, containing DAM. of reallygood BLACK TEA, mot carriage frcc to any railway station or market town in hiclad, Ireland, scotliu4, or Walm, on receipt of 40a, by PHIL. LIN told Co.. ha inercluinta 8, King William-Week City, LC. LONDON CARPET WAREHOUSE . -WAUGH and Si IN. 3 mid 4. o..lgc.Aireet, Tottenham-court-rood, W. BROWN BROTHERS.-PATENT CHAIRS and COUCHES, Barnet Funaton, Traub, Parham. aan £c at rltlei CONSIDERABLY EZDUCED. 186. PICCADILLY. I:Maoism Ins HYAM and Co.'s ATTIRE. HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. HYAM and Co.'s WINTER OVERCOATS. HYAM and Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS. HYAM and Co.'s REEFERS. HYAM and Co.'s SUITS. HYAM and Co.'s MORNING COATS. HYAM and Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE. ITYAM and Co.'. VESTS and TROUSERS. •! - L HYAM and Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. HYAM and Co.'s LIVERIES. lIYAIA and Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. HYAM and Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, Ild and 07, Inforditreet, London. Rom sad C0.. 1 Wintrr Tweed Overcoats 2ls. to :As. lbw° and Co.'s Whittr ihrrcosts Orain sal Co.'s Winter Reefer 284. to 65s Rim sot Co.'s Winter Nuns 42s. to 704. Hyani Rad Co.'s WWI er Jackets di.. to 425. Hyasu and in.'s Winter Frock Coats Ryan' mud CO:it Winter Fasts M. to 14s. Ryan and Co.'s Winter Trousers l4 to 254. ri . YAM and Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, CO and 67, trifard.street, Landon. 17te flat establishment in Cie kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. boss netniringhain inerroate / , ..Is . Primo Alfred Reefer lao Od. to 30e. Od. Dorf Overcoat% he Little Boys loo Od. to We. ud. bays Knickerbotiter suits I. Wean/WM.4:r aunl oaltonte tolls 154. Od. to Ma. Oil. liavi tton. Harrow, and Rushy Snits Boye Jackets for School and Lours— pi - yam and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. Aa- No. I. Gentlemen', Clothing for Immediate wear. 2. liosn.dte or Order Department. boa' and Youths' DiStinet Department. 4. ilatA, CAA, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HVAM and Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS. LoN DON —66 and 67, OXF4DRD,STREXT. HIRAI I Ni; A M —2l, 22. and 23, SEW-31RM. LEEDS-12. RI:11:17,1ATE ; and DEWsBUKV—WIMGAIT.. TIENTAL NOTICE. Mr. ESKELL, of 8, iinownorstreet. lionet.street. Author of •• Dental Stu , iry." " Miro Dentistry." !weal Anesthesia • " ate.. desires It 4. v distitntl y understood that lie is not connected with any ime of the multe, and that his on 4 residence is as hithrrto, G , ocaorntrrst. Bond street. where he may he consulted on sil iliatan. 1 a nrithlital to the Teeth and tiaras, and on the ratti est. Si id tivi.tal &Nets and deficiencies. rpo PARENTS and GUARDIANS. —The return poith to thei respectie ismrdinmschnois inces a 141 ..minile I,r their per s o r nal fo v rt and attraction, and WU'. 11.'0'AS:4A IL OIL, for accelerating the growth and irn- Pf , ioa alit ',ram ifyinc the hair, Rowlands' If alydor. for the skin and complexion, and remoring cutaneous de ts soil !lowlands' or Prart Isentifrire, for rendering o . e- testi' healititulls white and preserving the gums, are con. Merot in , ll.nrttvldr ncrompanionentn—Sold by chemists and imunieri ' Ask for 'Lowlands' articles. 4LL WHO SUFFER from INDIGESTION should Doe !ORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS. Sold everywhere. Rattles. la led.. 25. 9d.. sad Ha bit:scorrs BILIOUS and LIVER a never failing remedy, prepared without any msrearttaal k trodket, Will he found invaluable to all who suffer from Mom WI liver complaints indigestion, wind, spasms, giddineis, &W -WI of the eyes, ,tc. For habitual costiveness, as a family 191li viir medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly : mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach. create appetite, promote digenlos, and strengthen the nervous system.—Sold hy W Lambert. , chemist, 8, Ling - "rm, 'street, Charing-cross, and by most druggists, ha tome, , d. and three tim es the quantity M one,to ed. MP sure to 'r •Mate fir Scott's Bilious and Liver PILL lb* genuin• are in • g oat Pent package, with "William Lemberg' engraved on the 11E SUNDAY GAZETTE T To.‘l4)RltOW will c.intain lopecial Inkagence greet public incerriit awl import/we. MICE TIIREEPENCIL THE SUNDAY GAZETTE can had of all Nowa Agents in the vicinity of 1.1.134011 by 9 o'clock, aunt at the °thee, In, Wellington-street, Wand, JISIN I.I%IIVEY, M.D., F.A.S. rrke Is, THE RESTORATION of HEALTH, When N earned Itludinestion ur Nervous Di/01W Lae. price 1.. HOW TO GM' VAT. bean Ind Sun, G. Ludgete4lll, E.C. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (110T11104 TZLIZORALIM) THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. BERLIN, FEL 1, Emma. The Chamber of Deputies agreed to-day to the bill for abolishing the salt monopoly, and levying a tax of two thslers per hundredweight onthat article. The house, at the same time, demanded that the government should gradually reduce the amount of the tax. In to-day's sitting of the Upper House the bill passed by the Lower House for affording remune ration to the members of the North German Par lianient was rejected. The news that Prince von Reuss has been se lected to till the post of Prussian ambassador at St. Petersburg is confirmed by the New Pr .nian (Cr. s) anette of this evening. Baron von Werthern will represent Prussia at the Bavarian court. NORTH GERMANY. BERLIN, FEB. 1. The war flag, commercial flag, and pilot flag of the North German Confederation have now been established. The war flag consists of the Prussian and Hanseatic colours, with the Prussian eagle in the centre. HUNGARY. PESTH, FEB. 1. In yesterday evening's sitting of the Committee of Sixty-seven, the special debate on the question of sending delegates to a general Austrian repre sentative assembly was brought to a close. This morning the committee continued its deliberations upon the report of the Committee of Fifteen, and passed clauses 64, 55, 56, and 57, which relate to the Hungarian share of the state debt and the annual amount to be furnished by Hungary. CROATIA. AGRAM, FEB. J. The municipality of this town has refused to carry out the imperial patent relative to the re organisation of the army. ITALY. FLORENCE, FEB. 1. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies charged with examining the bill for extending liberty to the church, and liquidating the ecclesias tical property, commenced its labours to-day, when a very animated debate took place. The com mittee will continue its deliberations to-morrow. An official decree has been issued abolishing criminal process for political offences committed in the Italian kingdom, provided they be not accom panied by violation of martial law, offences against persons or property, or perpetrated by members of criminal associations. THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, RA 1, The West African mail steamer Lagos, with the above mails ' a full cargo, and 24 pas sengers, arrived here at noon to-day. Her dates are—Benin, Jan. 3 ; Fernando Po, Dec. 30 ; Old Calabar, 28th ; Nun, 3rd ; Bonny, 2nd ; Lagos, sth ; Jells Coffee, 6th • Accra, ith ; Cape Coast Castle, Bth ; Cape Pa lmas, 10th ; Mon revia, 12th ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst, 19th ; Teneriffe, 23rd • Madeira, 25th. . . Trade was dull at Benin, owing to a war between the Allumas and the Chanonies. Cape Coast Castle was quiet since the departure of the King. A shock of earthquake was felt at Sierra Leone on January 4. The ex-Speaker of the Spanish Cortes and several notables were at Teneriffe, whence they were to be conveyed to Fernando Po. THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSION.— We are officially informed that the international commie. lion which has been sitting at Paris on the subject of the fisheries convention between England and France, has concluded its labours. It has been agreed, subject to the approval of the respective governments, to do away with all existing restrictions as to methods or implements of fishing in the common seas between the two countries, The three-mile limit is to be retained, and each country entitled to carry out whatever regulations it may think fit within that limit. The close season for oysters is to be re duced by the month of May and half of June being thrown open, and the restriction to apply only to the English Chan nel. The police regulations for the preservation of order among fishermen are to be simplified and the penalties re duced. The principle of admission of fishing boats of either country to the ports of the other for the purpose of selling their fish, hitherto forbidden, to be accepted, and regula tions agreed to under which this can be carried out with safety to the Revenue LOMB. Some delay, however, may take place in carrying this out, arising from the duty levied on fresh fish in French ports. The French government had already proposed to reduce the existing duty by one half, namely, to 2s. the cwt. But as the English com missioners pressed for the immediate or prospective aboli tion of the whole duty, and as the French commissioners had no power to enter into an engagement on this point, it will form the subject of direct negotiations between the two governments. HITEHALL, JAN. 29.—The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, one of her Majesty's Principal Secreta ries of State, has appointed George William Southern, Esq., to be an Inspector of Coal Mines and Iron Stone Mines, under the Act 23rd and 24th Vict., cap. 151. CM:rite. ADMIRALTY FEB. 1. APPOINTMENTS. Lieu tenant F. Edwards, to the Helicon. Master's Assistant kf Swire, to the Psyche. Assistant Paymaster C. Reel, to the Implacable. A meeting was held in the Free Trade Hall this having influence—if I were in a position so responsible and so powerful—extravagant figure of speech doubtless— evening for the purpose of hearing the O'Donoghue " on (laughter)—but which, for the sake of n,y argument, I the Irish question, and the importance of the union be may be permitted to use—if these meaaures were once tween English and Irish reformers." The chair was occu passed, and were once the law of this empire, then I pied by Mr. BRIGHT, M.P. There were also present would throw open the prison doors, and let every political Mr. T. B. Potter, SLP., Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P., prisoner free--(loud cheenff—and I would trust the right Mr. B. Whitworth, M.P., Mr. J. Field, Sir E. of the crown of this kingdom with an unfaltering faith t o Armytage (the High Sheriff), the Mayor of Oldham, that souse of loyalty which would be begun by th Mr. E. Beales, Mr. Ernest Jones, Lc. The hall was magnanimous justice of the imperial uarliament. Tho densely crowded at an early hour, and the popular leaders - bon. speaker resumed his seat amidst loud and long-con were loudly cheered ex they made their appearance on the Untied pheers. platform. The secretary read letters from the Hon. C. The following address to the O'Donoghue was then Fortescue, M.P., and Mr. P. A. Taylor, expressive of moved by Mr. Ilowsex, and seconded by Mr. ERNEST their entire approval of the objects of the meeting. JoNr.s : Mr. BRIGHT, on rising, was received with loud and welcome Blr ,— We ln you no onlinary adherent to the cause of and prolonged cheering. When the applause had reform, but the representative on the part of Ireland, and of a subsided, the hon. member said—Although lain altogether gu as ie4i ce. l'et t ir ;4theZeferMers of the three nations. This union of notice alike t i o g Ihe la K e ng i l ' lst s ai d i e d ia n y i I'l%l unaccustomed to take the chair at great popular meetings, thezrtpo i 4r e iu .n elt I yet I undertake this offer of chairman to-night without tering% of your country touch all hearts, and inspire much anxiety and without dismay. (Laughter and cheers.) oil,us he r i eu n ul i ty clothed t y loss inte rest an . the estr Se u sfre t ' lam not aware that I have ever before been on the plat- to redress her wrongs, lint in order that redress may he form with a greater sense of ease and comfort than that isonurar , t r e exte a rt n ...: t r o p..,ws a that . ixrer should be taken which I enjoy at this moment—(cheers)—and this is ac- to the hands of the nation. You are tr ' nw among those counted for by two circumstances ; the first being that I who are resolved, with the assistance of your countrymen, to think we shall par this evening in great harmony, that ir.utist7a. end t o to relgank":,rrue,i2inveofaceetawat equality tw In of the meeting will be very unanimous on the sentiments that social and eemunulcal Justice. divided, we hese been weak: will be offered to you ; and the other circumstance is this, v , Mthltdes our efforts, we t shall oonunand swoon. welcome _ Donohu e ! through you, the foremost champion of her cause, that as chairman, keeping myself to my duty as chairman, Irel an d places h er fiend in t h at o f the Enoth people. it will be rather my business to listen than to speak. Mr. T. B. PUTTER, M.P., supported the address in a brief speech he welcomed the O'Donoghue as the repre (" No, no.") There are several thousands of persons in this hall, to meet of th em the privilege of listening is a 'tentative of the Irish people, and as bringing to the very common one, and I have no doubt it is so common English people the aid of their Irish brethren in re. that it is by no means sufficiently appreciated. (Laughter.) dressing the grievances under which both nations But if you had occasionally to stand on a platform, as I suffered. United, he believed they would prevail, and have often done, and as my hon. friend who is expected to. that it would be impossible to stein the tide of justice and night, to address a great audience on a great question, with proms ,. a great sense of responsibility, you would find that The address was unanimously adopted, and having hitherto you have very much undervalued your privileges . been signed by Mr. Bright on behalf of the meeting, was as listeners of this kind. (Cheers and laughter.) The presented to the O'Donoghue amid great cheering. object of this meeting—the direct and immediate object— Similar addresses were presented by Mr. E. Beaks on is to present an address to my hon, friend the member for behalf of the London Reform League, and by delegates Tralee, and to hear a speech from him. (Cheers.) I need train Rochdale and Bradford. . . . hardly tell you that he is one of the most distinguished ILMaN said he bad received a letter from the members that Ireland sends to the imperial parliameut, Scottish National Reform League, of which the closing (Loud cheers.) I think I need not claim for him from was follows • you that courtesy which you will be sure to extend Paragrk as • to him. I think I may promise myself that you of %Tr bang In the alder country one of the chief members vitiall empire, we cannot but feel that every unrighteous will give him your approval ; and judging from law, every act of oppression enforced upon her falls also upon what I have heard on past occasions, I shall be greatly cur- re s ju a ri nd es " "c et e r e i in . e m m s ba ym r " VI% l' ethrarly e ' ctu as are m m " : , i ) ; I prised if you do not listen to him with admiration. The lies in a common onion between the reformers of Ragland, O'Donoghue is • near relation of the great O'Connell— lreland ,,e and , Scotland. That union so t atriclously begun be teLes our (great cheering)—a man of whom English writers of this day hreeoor4ousn,tioripesolb! and d an o s e of h Reform Le ague true —some of them at least—are accustomed to speak in terms of reformers will bid It God speed. conuewnation ; but afterGrattan—l mean after him intim° The O'Drelocitte, M.P., then came forward to acknow -the only one that has done anything great towards the ledge the welcome he had received. He was greeted with deliverance of Ireland from the injustice which has marked cheering again and again renewed. He said he regarded the rule of England. (Cheers.) My hon. friend represents the meeting as one of peculiar and even momentous signifi a considerable portion of his countrymen ; and standing cance. Ho did not look upon the reception he had met here to-night, I feel confident that he will be able to do with as personal to himself, but as an emphatic declare something to draw Englishmen and Irishmen nearer togs- tion from the people of this country to the Irish people of ther for purposes highly honourable and advantageous to their approval of opinions which he held in common with them both. (Cheers.) About three months ago I had a the mass of his countrymen. He thought the Irish people short, but very pleasant, visit to the city of Dublin. were the best judges of their own grievances, and I believe it was truly a visit of peace, of good will, and of of the remedies which ought to be applied to undoubted patriotism. I was entertained there most them. He condemned the system of class legislation magnificently at a grand public banquet, and I had the which had been adopted in Ireland, and was of opinion opportunity the night before I left Ireland to speak to • that it was owing to class legislation that the country bad considerable public meeting assembled in one of the been brought almost to the brink of ruin. The best gus halls of the city. Now I venture to say, whatever may rantee for the stability, power, and happiness of the have been the comments upon that visit, and upon the empire was the union of all the subjects within it in • "peaches which I delivered in Dublin, I have some reason brotherhood of freedom, based upon and guarded by the to hope that my labours there were not wholly fruitless. independent exercise of • widely-extended franchise. (Cheers.) There is, as you all know who read the news- (Cheers.) The events of the last few months had done papers, or are in the habit of associating with Irishmen much to ensure a candid, and consequently a useful, dis in England, • very considerable party in Ireland cussion of the Irish question. It was impossible that there hostile to England and hostile to the empire. When would now be any difference of opinion about the political speaking to them in Dublin I did not blame these men, state of the country, and thus a formidable obstacle to for I think in my conscience that nothing can be more jars- candid discussion had been removed. The late viceroy tifiable in Ireland than a dielike for what Ireland has seen stated openly in the House of Lords that there wa s for a long period back of the legislation of the imperial a wide-spread disaffection, and that statement had parliament in regard to the permanent and just interests been endorsed by the present lord - lieutenant, of that island. (Cheer.) Ireland has been governed for and his advisers, who bad takentgreat credit to themselves the most part as a conquered country, and lam sorry to for having prevented an insurrection by renewing the mu ssy it has been governed with less of window and of justice pension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and making • great in some striking particulars than any intelligent conqueror display of military force. An attempt had been made to would show to the conquered. (Cheers.) There is • party represent the disaffection in Ireland as foreign in its in Ireland that thinks that if Ireland were severed from origin, and as deriving its vitality from the other side of England, whether it were governed under a monarchy the Atlantic. That was not so. English rule in Ireland or under the form of a republic as an independent was synonymous with oppression and tyranny. There state, that if Ireland could be floated two thousand ' always had been • profound sympathy between the Irish miles to the westward, and it were to become • portion in America and their countrymen at home, but that of the great United States of America, the result would be sympathy had only recently taken a political shape, that Ireland would be governed by the majority of her owing to the increasing facilities of communication, and own people, ani would be directly responsible for her to the growing strength of those who from despairing own welfare. (Hear, hear.) Now, the separation of bands of flying and crouching emigrants had gradually Ireland from Great Britain—from the United Kingdom— swelled into a great nation, confident in their would in all probability involveadesperate and sanguinary might, and almost frantic with the spirit of retaliation. strife. The floating of Ireland 2,000 miles to the westward (Loud cheers.) No doubt Irish disaffection had • powerful is a thing not physically possible ; and, therefore, in the auxiliary in American Fenianism, but no one could assert discussion of this Irish question, I proceed from the basis with any show of reason that this Fenianism was anything that the political union of Great Britain and Ireland is a name than the result of that disaffection which had thing decided and fixed for a long time ; and therefore created and fed it, and in the absence of which Fenianism upon that basis we should consider what can be done for would be inexplicable, and its objects aimless. Personally, Ireland. If I had sufficient time, or it were my duty to he was convincedthat nothing could put a stop to thecom go fully into the question here, my object would be bination, anima a voice went across the Atlantic announcing to show that the people of Great Britain are not hostile • new era of equal laws and justice, and proclaiming that to the people of Ireland—(cheers)—that if you could poll the past must be forgotten. To assert that Irish &Jaffee all the men in Great Britain throughout England and tion was the result of foreign interference and to abuse Wales and Scotland you would not find a majority of them the American Irish were only convenient methods of gloss in favour of maintaining an established protestant church ing over the difficulty, and of drawing the attention of the lln catholic Irab.nd. (Cheers.) Nor would you 6n4 them fesliah public from the &mai coadigan of Ireland, Ile anxious to support • system of land tenure which perpe. denied that the outcry against the established church in tusks, and will continue to perpetuate if continued, many Ireland, and the existing system of land tenure were mere of the evils of the great confiscation which took place two blinds, or that there was any covert attempt to resusci. senturies ago. If the Irish national and liberal party tate long buried animosities, and to interpose • barrier will join with the national and liberal party in Great between that cordial spirit of friendship which ought to Britain! have undertaken to show that we could make unite the people of both countries. Having bad a close the rule in Ireland just as good for the true interests intimacy with all classes of his countrymen, of Irishmen as if Ireland were an independent state be could confidently assert that no antipathy or were—what we know to be impossible—annexed to the oxisted in Ireland, either to Englishmen or to republic of America. More than 14 years ago I spoke in protestantisw, purely as such. He never knew an English the House of Commons on the Irish question, and I Aug- man settled in Ireland who was not popular, or else owed Bested that there should sometimes be an Irish his want of popularity to some encroachment on the rights session of the imperial parliament, but I am conscious of others, which would have made him unpopular now that parliament is not in a condition, and wherever he was. A daily increasing manifestation of has not within itself the elements and the friendliness between the masses had softened down that power to deal fairly with this great question. (Hear, antagonism, which was no doubt a prominent feature of hear.) The tory party, although the minority of the House the past history of the two countries. A step in advance of Commons, is yet a very powerful minority ;itis • large had now been gained, by the recognition of the reality of minority in the house, although it is in numbers a very Irish disaffection ; but beyond that ground he feared they small minority of the people. (Loud cheers.) The pre- were not likely to advance for some time. He believed sent government, even if it were to be admitted that there that the causes of Irish disaffection could be removed by ' are in its numbers, or in its ranks, intelligent and capable legislation. The government of Lord Derby and others wrn—slaughter)—if it were to be admitted that there believed otherwise, and assumed that there were no legiti , are members of the government who would gladly see a mutate causes of disaffection, and that the disaffected could great change in the legislation of parliament on the Irish only be appeased by legislation of a character which question, still I venture to affirm that the government DO good man could sanction. Hitherto no doubt will be wholly unable to carry out the necessary reforms. legislation had signally failed, but the failure (Hear, hear.) The party is a blind party and a perverse was to be ascribed not to the causes of disaffection being party. (Great cheering.) Its principles are formed upon beyond the reach of just laws, not to the incapacity of our a disregard of equality and justice—(cheers)—and I hope legislators, not to an accidental miscarriage of legislation, before long as a party governing this country that as its but to the fact that our legislators were elected from a rise to power during the last year was built up upon tae- class with special interests of their own. (('heerP.) In tics the most base, so its fall will be as rapid and as igno- Ireland there were about 600,000 persons occupying land minions as to correspond with its rise. (Great cheers.) as tenants. This number included only the heads of fend- The only path to a real improvement in the legislation of lies ; but taking the moderate estimate of Lord Dufferin, the iinperial parliament on the great question which would that each family consisted of five, they would have an affect Ireland is through representative reform. (Cheers.) agricultural population of close upon three millions. Of I have said before that the class chiefly repro- the 600,000 heads of families about 580,000 were tenants rented will not or cannot do it, and that it will at will, without leases, and could be dispossessed of require the strength of the opinion of the nation to effect the land on the service of a six months' notice to the reforms that are required. (Cheers.) If the puha- quit. There were, therefore, 5.80,000 persons in ment at Westminster would really represent the people of Ireland without legal security of any kind for the the United Kingdom, then an Irish session would be possession of their farms, each of whom at the end possible, and justice would be done where justice has been of six months might find himself on the roadside or in the so long denied. The measures connected with the church, poorhouse, or if he could serape a few pounds together, on and connected with the land, once passed through pasta- board an American ship. They might have toiled upon meat, once having received the royal assent, every Irish. their farms from morn till night, and in so doing they man in the lowliest cabin would have a new hope and • might have improved the letting value of the land ; but new life. The spring and the summer that are soon to nevertheless the law enabled the landlords to evict the some will not more revive the herbage of our fields than tenant without giving him scarcely a shilling of compensa these grand measures of justice would restore harmony tion. (Hear.) There were millions of his fellow-country. and loyalty in Ireland. I believe, after years of considera. men living in Ireland from year to year in this state of in tion and much reading, and much study of the question, security. It rendered them the merest slaves, and unless they were differently constituted from the men of Man chester in their inmost souls they must long for the over throw of a system which compelled them to endure such a life. (Hear, hear.) Then, again, the tenant could not bargain; he must keep his fans on any terms on which it was offered to him or bring either ruin or ini ery upon himself and those dearest tohim. It was the fa.hiou to talk in some quarters as if land in Ireland was to be had for the asking, whereas the truth was there was no land to be bad, because the landlords fancied it to be their interest to have as few tenants as possible, and to keep the population at a low figure. Some years ago an instanoe occurred which would probably be still remem bered, in which • considerable portion of the county of Donegal was almost depopulated by Mr. John George Adair. The tenants were able and willing to pay the rent, but some one on the estate had been shot by an individual, and for the offence co.ninitted by this one person it was decreed that hundreds should suffer the most excruciating agonies of mind and body. They expostulated, cried and implored for mercy, but Mr. Adair was inexorable, and surrounded by the soldiers of the Queen, his myrmidons went forth to drive the people out and to level their houses to the earth. (Cries of " Shame.") The case was brought before the Lord-Lieutenant, the late Lord Carlisle. He expressed his sorrow, but could not inter fere. It was brought also before the House of Commons, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland in the nameof the go vernment deplored the act, but nothing could be done t o remedy it, for Mr. Adair had the law on his side, and there was no law for thetenanta. Could it then be wondered at that the people regarded the laws of Ireland as bad and intolerable. The tenant farmers of Ireland desired to dwell in. the land of their birth, and they had a prescrip tive right to do so. They were prepared to toil in its cul tivation from morn till night as no negro slave ever toiled before, and therefore he asserted, in the presence of that , great assembly of free and enlightened Englishmen, that it was the bounden duty of the state, if they valued the allegiance of the people of Ireland, to protect the present race of occupiers in the possession of the soil. (Loud cheers.) In conclusion, he had one word to say with regard to the Irish church. He considered it one of the healthiest signs of the times to be able to find an assembly of Protestant Englishmen eager for an opportunity to pass sentence of condemnation on the Irish eats- Iblished church as an unparalleled injustice to Ireland. (Great cheering.) He could not understand how it could be reconciled with justice that 700,000 Irish protestants should possess the whole of the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland, while an equal number of presbyteriana, and about four millions and a half of Roman catholics derived no benefit at all from them. (Hear, hear.) It was for this reason that the disendowment of the established church was called for, and the application of its revenues to some purposes of national utility. In 'Wasting the question of the Irish church he paid no regard to the numerous col lateral issues which were sometimes raised, such as, which is the true church 7 What were the peculiar theological views of St. Patrick Did be renounce the spiritual supremacy of the Pope and conform to the 39 articles! (laughter)—but he (the O`Donoghue) adhered to simple argument, that, no matter how these various issues might be decided, the fact still remained that the established church was the church of a small minority of the Irish people, and therefore had no title whatever to the eccle dutical revenue of the country. (Cheers.) He hoped no use would believe that antipathy of the people of Ireland to the established church in that country proceeded from hostility to the tenets of protestantism. If it were not a symbol of ascendancy it would be no more interfered with than presbyterianism. Indeed, if the Roman catholics were offered the ecclesias tical revenues of the country for the support of their own religion they would reject the proposal. They believed in the adequacy of the voluntary system, and they were con vinced that it was the only sure foundation on which re ligious equality and the toleration of differences could rest in these realms. Last, though not least, they saw that the voluntary system commanded the approval of that vast majority of Englishmen with whom on every possible occasion the catholics of Ireland were anxious to bar mediae. He was certain that the established church could not long retain its present position in defiance of the progress of an enlightened pubis° opinion. As he bad said before, good legislation might remove many of the causes of Irish disaffection, but it could never be done until there was a thoroughly reformed parliament. (baud cheers, in the midst of which the hon. gentleman resumed his seat, having spoken for nearly an hour.) Mr. Keitvirr, of Dublin, expressed his conviction that Irishmen were basely, badly, and treacherously governed. Mr. DARLING, of Dublin, followed, and declared that the people of Ireland were determined, under the presi dency of the chieftain of the glens, to unfurl the banner of reform, and show their tyrants that they were ready to unite with the people of England and Scotland in ob taining their rights and defending them at all hazards. ldr. WHITWORTH, M.P., moved, and Mr. RORBCCIC seconded, a vote of thanks to Mr. Bright, which was passed with great enthusiasm. Mr. BRIUHT, is acknowledging the compliment, said be was quite sure that every one who had attended the meeting had been amply compensated by the remarks which had been made respecting Ireland for the time and trouble he hail expended. (Cheers.) He entertained the most confi- dent hopes that the result of the meeting would be very beneficial both for England and Ireland, and that it would last for many a day—probably after all present were for gotten. He thanked the meeting for their kindness, and must say that he had never presided over a nobler meeting, called for a nobler purpose. (Loud cheers.) The proceedings then terminated. Mott GLYN'S READINOB. —Lent night Miss Glyn t il eonci l uneii t he 'atom!, !trite of her interesting readings, at the St. James's-hall. Shakespeare's tri:,:ea! of A idea! • and Cleopatra, which it will be remembered was given in the first series, a few weeks since, was repeated on this occasion. Though the play is not one with which au diences have become familiarised by stage representation, its adaptability to the theatre has been too recently proved to admit of question. If additional evidence on this point were, however, required it would certainly be found in the effect it produced when merely interpreted from the platform, as it was last night at the St. J imea's-hall, by Miss Glyn. Thoroughly familiar with the character of the Egyptian Queen, from personating it on the stage of Sadler's Wells, she brings out its varied phases with singular vividness, and displays throughout the full resources of her dramatic power. The part of Antony, too, is rendered with remarkable force; his death-scene being especially impressive, and the minor characters are carefully portrayed. Even the clown, who brings the " pretty worm of Silos," and discourses so humorously just before the last tragic scene in the play, is brought out prominently by Miss Glyn. The series of readings, which terminated last night, will be followed by a third series, which are thus announced:—Tuesday, February 19, Hamlet; Friday,February 22, King John; and Friday, March 1, Antony and Cleopatra. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. —The directors of this company state in their report that the receipts during the past half-year, after deducting all expenses and in terest chargeable against revenue, leave an available balance of titi,246/. They recommend a dividend upon the preference stock at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and upon the ordinary stock and shares respectively at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, payable on the 15th inst., leaving • balance of 7,9991. Eiunng the past half year, notwithstanding the severe and continuous pressure upon the money-market, the works upon the Notting-hill and Brampton Extension, and the works for widening the line between King's-cross and Farringdon-street had mule great progress. Great progress was also being made with the works for the new meat-market at Smithfield. The direc tors of the Metropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway Company had requested aviator:toe from the company, to enable them to complete their undertaking upon which they hail expended 359,000 f., and it appeared that a further sum of 200,0001. in stock and debentures must be provided before the railway could be opened to the public. By an act passed in 18115 the company were authorised to sub scribe 100,0001. in ordinary stock towards the formation of the Hampstead Extension of the St. John's-wood Railway. It was now proposed to alter this power by making the subscription applicable to the preference stock of the St. John's-wood Railway Company, and by authorising its expenditure in completing the original undertaking. The capital account showed that 4,668,761/. had been expended, leaving • balance of 54,8961. The revenue account for the half-year, including 11,8151. balance from the preceding half-year, amounted to 131,095 1 . From this was deducted 44,8491. f or working expenses, and 78,2471. for interest on debentures and dividends on preference and ordinary shares, leaving • balance of 7,999/. THE LORD RECTOR OF ST. ANDREW'S INAUGURATION ADDREIB. ST. ANDREW'S, FRIDAY NTowr. This afternoon Mr. Mill was installed as Lord Rector. After taking the oath of office he was presented with the diploma of the honorary degree of doctor of laws, conferred on him by the senatus. His reception by the students was most enthusiastic, and his inaugural address, occupy ing upwards of two hours in delivery, was listened to with an attention only broken by irrepressible bursts of applause, on the delivery of some of the more eloquent passages. The sentences setting forth the share that each man has in making history, and his adjuration against bartering away freedom of thought, or multiplying dogmas, produced the strongest impression on the audience. At the conclusion the Lord Rector announced the name of the winner of the prize he had offered for the beet essay on the sources of fella ' cioua thinking, and the remedies for them. That Mr. Mill should be the Lord Rector of St. Andrew's is a proof that there are members of its university who prefer reason to tradition, who do not stand in dread of the bu g bear call e d " advanced opinions," and who, if faithful to the teaching of their chief, will never dream of intro ducing as improvements any arrangement& which are reproductions of bygone systems. The Daily News, which contains the text of Mr. Mill's ad dress, comments upon it in terms which indicate its tenor. We read— To discuss Mr. Mill's theory of university education, and, still more, to raise controversy upon sonic of his minor applications of it, such as the methods of teaching the classical languages, and the place which belongs in a system of general cultivation so modern and foreign tongues and to history, would be to attempt • task en .manageable within narrower limits than those within which Mr. Mill himself was forced to compress a vast sub ject. The philosophic breadth of his views and the minute ac curacy of his discrimination were not new to those who did honour to these qualities in his election to the post he fill. They have never been more felicitously displayed. Mr. Mill's own writings are the beat illustration of his doctrine of education. An intellect more variously cul tivated than that, perhaps, of ally of his contemporaries, is entitled to protest against narrow and exclusive theories. No one has a better right than he to vindicate for literature and science their true place side by side in education—the one as teaching men to think, the other as teaching them to express their thoughts ; fur few haNe used both instru ments so conscientiously and so successfully. His own style, at once large end precise, free and yet exact, unfettered in its movements, and yet never wan dering from the goal to which the thought is addressed, merits some part of the eulogy which he asses upon the fgra d classical masters of language. I p t reflects the eatig feature of Mr. Mill's mind—an easy mastery over the whole of a great subject, and minute acquaintance with its pettiest detail,. The characteristic of the ancient writers as distinguished from the modern, marks Mr. Mill but trom many of his more popular contemporaries. The effect is due to the same cause in both cams—to a lucid intelligence and to a perfect sincerity of conviction and simplicity of purpose. The down-nee de /axe which is the splendid blemish of most modern writers, is generally the result of a disguised egotism which desires rather to dazzle than to enlighten ; and subordinates the subject to the author. Mr. Mill's precept and example have done much to en courage, against potent influences, the return to a sane taste in literature. Perhaps he too sharply discriminates when he makes it the business of science to teach men to think, and of literature to teach them to express their thoughts ; for thought and lan gunge, though logically diverse, cannot be practically se vered. A nun will write clearly who thinks clearly ; his per ception of analogies and contrasts in facts will furnish him with felicitous illustrations. Scientific training is, therefore, itself a means of literary education. Mr. Mill's review of the circle of the sciences, of the place of each in the ascending series, of the light which every one reflects on every other, and of their special contributions to the equipnient of the human intellect, is • condensed treatise ou the philosophy of knowledge and educational method. If it contains little which is absolutely new to thaw who are acquainted with his larger and more systematic writings, it re-states with added force and felicity much of what is best worth heeding in them. The application of the two-fold discipline of science and literature, of the faculty of thinking and the faculty of expression, to the service of humanity—the lines by which Mr. Mill advances from the mathematical and physical to the intel lectual, moral, and social sciences—reflect his own career and purpose. All Mr. Mill's studies in science and scien tific method, in speculation, in history and in letters, abut, like his hierarchy of the sciences, on politics, that is to say, on the regulation of human affairs, on the better constitution of society, and the elevation of herzan nature. A generous ardour, and that earnest enthitsia. N ; for 70#9 1 4 it _ m id 130 CChristiana't`tt Its word ant Wuial i:;;e, have carried Mr. Mill through the severe and varied intellectual disci pline of which 7w writings see the record on his own part, and the instrument in the case of others. ROYAL ASYLUM or ST. Air Nett SOCIETY. —A sermon on behalf of this institution will be preached to morrow morning bathe Right lirr. the Lord Biabop of Oxford, at St. rhilip's Church, itegent•atrcet. THE PACKING-CASE 34•LERH. —LEM. evening a crowded meeting of the members of the above trade was held at the Harp•alley School-rooms, Parringdon-street, for the purpose of receiving a report from the volotuitee as to the present position of the dispute in the trade, and to de termine on the measures to be adopted thereon. About MI members were present. Mr. Bowler, the secntsry, reported that five of the leading shops in the trade—six.. Messrs. Pound's, lumen's, Harvey's, Taamates,and Mitchell's—bed OD Saturday last suddenly posted up notic‘e in their estab lishments that the hours of worl:ing on and after Monday would be altered from 4$ till half-past sto from 7 till 7. This being contrary to the rule agreed upon about 12 months since both by the euiplileni and the won, the men demurred to the alteration, when they were told that they must either work under the new rubs or leave the shop at once. The men almost uneniniously ad,pted the latter course and left. A long discussion °mama, during which a large number of the men freely expressed their opinions, and gave those of the shops in ithich they worked. A member then proposed, and souther member seconded, " That at 12 o clock on Saturday (this day) the men now working in the shops of those entployem belonging to the masters' association give notice that they will not reamers work on Monday morning unless the notices for alteration of the working hours are withdrawn in the meantime." An amendment was moved, " That the working hours offered by the employers be °melded." On Icing put to the meeting but six hands were held up for the amend ment, and the resolution was then e.uvierl amid great cheering. Another resolution was then carried UlDUll mously to the effect that if the limn are compelled to strike on Monday morning, no shop shall r. mine work until the whole of the employers in the association have agreed to abide by the original agreement of G a.m. until 0.30 p.m. as the working hours. It was also resolved that every man remaining at work for those employers con nected with the association shall contribute Ss. per week out of every 20a. earned, to the support of those on strike, the latter not voting on the question. The committee having been instructed to early out the decisions of the meeting, the proceeding. terminated. COLLISION ore Du NOEN I:A.S. — Yesterday morn ing, at 4 o'clock, the Courier, of London, was run into off Dungeness and stranded to the westward of the Point. The Courier, 208 tons burden, was laden with palm oil and nuts, and was on her voyage from the coast of Africa to London. The captain and mate are missing, but the crew, seven in number, were saved, and Me now at the Dover Sailors' Home. ~, i l i a