The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-17 00:00:00

FiiUM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. LNAMIB Or BOLIO/TOrus AND METH= TAIITIOULINE TO BB OBTAINED AT THE OFFICE Or THE CHIEF MOGIIITHAIL DOUBT OF BASEMITOL, BABINCIIIALL.STBLET.I BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS SAD= PISMIRTON, Pinnerpootirt. Old Broadetreet, and Arlington-street, Horton, commission agent. tomorrow:ler March 28, at IL JOHN Pluck Buntingfong Beets, attorney. March 26, at 1. JACOB GOoDMAN, Cannon-street-read, boarding-house keeper. March 26, et I. WILLIAM many TIONSON, Bamigate,md Berens Hotel, Strand, gentlemen. Mardi 96, at 1. HUNT Mourns WAgien, Printer's.place. Bermondsey, mar chant's clerk, March 28, at 11. CHARLES SsILLDIe. Ilehbornsettzest, tobacconist's sedstant. March 28, at U. loner MAMBO Pram, Gravesend, draper, March 28, at 11. WILLIAM RAM Croydon, Surrey, hetet, March 24, at 19. JOHN Swig:Lg. Charles-street, Batton-garden, bookmaker, March 211, at 12. WILLIAM COOPER and Iraffinniel CaffirENonrich,ironmongers, March 28, at It WILLIAM Howls, St. John's-Mg Batteritea-ffee. livery stable keeper, March 87, at it Barn Emig. Lambeth-walk, bookmaker, March 27, at 1. JAM= Ram, Henry-street, Steamy, corn dueler, March 27, at IL WILLIAM WM, Hanover-street, Long-acre, tailor. Mar. Slat 1L WiluArt 11112017, Brantford, grocer, March 27, at 12. 1033 Eng , Massey, Hunts, farmer, March 27, at Is. THOMAS nu% Lower Tharnemitrest, ship broker, Minh 17. ail CitAgida Snow, Long Milford, Suffolk, butcher, March 27, at 1. i/.111211 KNIGHT. Graham-road, Dalkon, and London-walk,fore. BIM to a bander, April 11, at 2. Join Themes FORD, Newcastle-at,, Strand, waiter, Mar. 27, at T. Giorto2 Piution,Manield-street.Daiston.carpenter.MerchlEalt JOHN Moos. fintaswiek-place, Neste-street,Cemberwen, carman. April 11. at 11. Gonaaa BANOS/ SPITTLE, Orsigon-street, Soho, Ironmonger, April 11. at 1. JOEL Gitiffigr, Plaidow-mark, Essex, baker, April 11. at 1. EONEBT HAMS, Sumer-stmt. Poplar, Jennie) man shipwright, April 11, at 2. ROMS tinalial Mammal. Wild-court, Drury-lane, and High Holborn, coach ranter, April 11, at T. Main PITEMEIALD Wnrioria, Merton-road. Surrey, temporary clerk In the Inland Revenue-office, April 18, at 11. Doing Boors, *agent-street, and Engleaeld.gress, Barney, bookseller, April 11, at 2. EDWIN CIATTIALD, Langton, fitaffordffilre, chins manufacturer, March 16, at It MARE ORMAIMATOIL Warrington. Btaffordah.,grocerMar3o,at 12. JOB" Hoorn Ravening, Smethwlck, timekeeper, Mar IS, title. WILLY Gaipmns, Merthyr Tydfil. innkeeper, March ft at 11. THOMAS Fauns, Uandlio,Carmarthensk.driaglisiMae. 28, at . 1 . BTUMonimn, Newport, Monemetlimh..victual er, Mar.lll, at 11. Roane WOOD. Backfield, Monntoathshire. muter, Mar. it, at 11. 0140101 NtwOONLIM HASSELL, Haverfordeest, anciloneer, March V, at 11. !Mum( Porrra Merging Bristol, chemist. March TE. at iL Wiggle* Mink Dulverton, Somenetehne. fartneeMarchlig at I. Janis flnfiosiginn., Liakeard, butcher, March 27, at 1. Joan CHARLES WHITE, Plymouth, grocer, March 28, at 111. Hann Mach, Leeds, oommlesion agent. March 99. at 11. Mae GRAMM Leeds, batter. April 3, at 11. Ennagr Joints, pen., Moe, DeublOsh., and 1.011/OMJOIIIB. Jen-, Woodhouse Merchant', Denbighsh., farmers. April 4. at 11. SAMUEL Jon= Coneleton, ribbon manufacturer. April 4, at 11. MMUS LOcemait, Manchester, commercial clerk, Mar. 39, silt MoggsJAOffigin,Barrow-in- Furness, Lancash.tailor.ADfil Mal 11 Jong (Urges, Law Felling. Durham, grocer, Mirth 28, at 11. Jame Milan, Monkwearmouth Shore, beerbouse keeper, March 17, at 1. ADAM MODE and MATTHEW BRODIE, Cornett, Barham, grocers, March 17, at Join, 1013503, Sheffield, saw handle maker, April 5, ail. Pam Limon BLS/WHA', St. Thomas the Apostle, Deronedre, staff-sergeant. March 28 at it. THOHAE Mown, Enter, taikr, March Mat U. Marl JerrffitY, Thorucombe, Doreetsb., innkeeper, Mar. 26, at 11. WILLIAM SWEITARD, Bath, money collec'or, March 28, at 11. ISAAC AIJOLD, Porchlield, Isle of Wight, kW der, March Is, at 12. ISAAC Oftivitras, Llanelly, cabinet maker, March 29, at It MART BOINARD, Beediag. Berks. =Maw. March 2 7. at IL 3AIIIII him. Hocking. Maser. beeneller, March 26, MI6. JffirlieWsarogaw,Newastie-nponTyne,gariskeeper,Mar. l7 . ant Joni MILST. ILlegston-upon-null, tabourer, March la, at 11. PM= PRAM, Uverpool, furnitnrce dealer, March U. at & WHALLII HEMEHAW, Manchester,beerbouse keeper,Mar. 28, atllf. CHAIM Wll4ll, Mancheeter, beer retailer, March 18. et 91. JAMB Bigt,Bradforddrontounder's warehoesemen.Aprille,Mlo. THOMAS TAYLOR. Oldham, twist meker-up. March 29. at L. Timm WooLLET TAYLOR. Monmouth, innk eep er , April 1, MIL WILMAN BONET Brink. York, battier, Marsh 2 1. at 11. EDlRDlDAoeoMWEßATMEHLT,Sosithampton,tailor,April ll , at 12. JOHN Moms. Norwich. beereeller, March tit, at 11. LIMO COME Langton. Staffordshire, ineekeek. March 51, ffill. WILLIAM TACIT, Brighton, bootmaker, March 29, at 11. WILL AM EDNowre, Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. botcher. MUNE Trottauk Birmingham, iron safe maker, Mar. 2', at 10. WILLIAM BENCH and RESET /ALLMAN, inn., Birmingham, late vestal refiners, March 29, at 10. HAMM BEECHER, Birmingham, furniture dealer's assistant, March 19, at 10. LAST EXAMINATION& April 19. Geraldine Harriette Somerset, Eaetbourse. Sussex- April 19. H. Dawn; Pagestatreet, Lambeth-walk, threatens ger-Aprill9. R. Rowlands, Wealook4treet, St. Luke, late cow keeper-April Is. J. Phillips, Walmer'stemos, Bayswater, ear peeler- April 19. G. Crook, Grosvenor-road, Bt. John's-wood, baker-April 9. F. 8. Jackson. St. Peter's-alley. Cornhill, ship owner, and Douglas. Isis of Man. nonfounder , 10. A. Brennan, Durham-place, Lambeth-road, musician -Amid 19. H. Newnham, Gloucestemstreet, South Belgravia, news agent's assistant-Aprill9. W. Gillespie,* Brighton, tobacconist-April 24. E. Joseph, Alderegate-street and Mecklenburg-square. jewel ler-April 114. W. Mitchell. Well sleet, Poplar, baker-April M. Mary Ann Evans, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-equate, net-April 24. E. Stephens, Post's-corner, Westminster, con. trader-April 26. B. de Cuadra, Mincing-lane, commtmion spot -Aprll27. S. Levy, St. James-place. &Wren, cigar dealer-April V. O. Strudwiek, Arundel-terrace, Kensington-park, coffeehouse keeper-April 27. T. Twirpr, 1.90.. Sheerness, government con tractor-April 17. C. 8. Bakewell, Mildmay-villea, Islington, ' ooaarMal traveller-April 17. L Fordong Osiedonlan.road, Xing'. arose, butcher-April 27. A. C. Blackwell. York-place, Banistiary, cab builtier--April2s. W. Roan, Colealtin, Warwick shire, late publican-April 21. B. Farmer, Stafford, brewer-. April SM. E. Brooks. Birrainetuun, gun manntaniner-March 16. W. Howlett, Weston-super-Mare, Bonsenetabire, builder-May 7.J. Wheeler, Plymouth, trait dealer-April 10. M. H. Skelton, Halifax, woo/stapler-April 10. D. leNaughtem. M.r.ke York shire, grocer-April 10. T. Farrar, Stmanlngley Weblike, Inn keeper-April 111. W. Fallon, fikiplon, Yorkshire, groom- April 9. H. if er Liverpool-April 10 J. Lee, West Derby. Lanca shire, coal r-April 12. W. Balehew and C. Roberta, Liver pool. jokers -Aprn 9. J. D. Plant, Monies Coppenhalt, Ch shire. builder-April 9. R. Campbell, Liverpool. printer- April 11. T. Lewis, Kerry, Montgomeryshire, miner-April 11. T. Barbee. Mealog, near Holyhead, builder-April 1 1 . W. Ow kill and J. Wright, Liverpool and Manchester, auctioneers- April It J. Boyle, Liverpool, dealer In drugs-April 18. R. Go. mil, Manchester, poor-April 11 W. Clark. Barrow4n-Furness and Dalton-In-Furness, Lancashire, timber merchant-Argil 10. C. Pratt, inn., Unocal, commercial traveller-May 19. J. R Shute, Devonshire, painter-April 10. J. Ries NarbertETZ brokeeltire. draper-April S. G. S.Chapman. Yarley, Somerset. shire, cattle dealer-April 14. W. Clarke. Ross. Herefordshire, cheese dealer-April 20. G. Dimay, Whiteombe, Munster. shire, butcher-Apra 16. G. Biehnp, Mattock, Somenetahhe, plumber-April 19. L. Roberts. Xlinsibridge, Yorkshire , slabber -April 19. C. Scholleld, Huddersfield, Joiner-AprllA M. Back, Felmingham, Norfolk. builder-April IL R. Baxter. Norwich, hay dealer-March 29. J. H. Milk, Moseley. Lancashire, late grocer-April It Martha Roberts, Manchester, p coition dealer -April It W. Restock, Manchester, labourer to engine filters- April 12, I. Wright, Levansbnlme, Lancashire. joiner- April 12. J. Traynor, Manchester, rimer-ONi 16. W. Fletcher, Fox holes. Yorkshire, Innkeeper • April 16. J. Pickering. North Prodingbant, Yorkshire, tailor-April 6. J. H. Ilinehcliffe, Mor ley, Yorkshire, tailor-April 10. 0. R. Williams, Llanattni, An glesey, Innkeeper-April 17. J. Craves, Medford. paper bag maker-April 17. 0. Threapleton, Calverley, Yorkshire, late boathouse keeper-March 29.1. Fenny, Crewe. Cheshire, saddler -April 10. 0. Wright. York, manufacturing jeweller - April 18. Ellen Manion. Ineelahill, Shropshire. Innkeeper-April U. B. William., Wellington. Shropshire. tante yer-April 17. J. New ton, Pontos. Lincolnshire. grocer -April 9. W. Whlieley, Al mondbary, Yorkshire, farmer. BANKRIIFTCII3 ANNULLED. If arch 18. CHARLES ANDIMW HOWARD DOUGLAS BIIIHTIORD Carron. Haar nas„ cornet In tbi 6th Dragoons. March It. Crain Unita, GEORGE Room% and 01101141 SEAM. WILL, Macclesfield, cotton spinners. DROLLIATIONS OP DIVIDENDS. JESSE HALL, Huntingdon, butcher-Ist dividei..l of Its. 64., March U. and subsequent Wednesday, at Parkyns', Basing hall-street. Joint GEORGE JOMLOKIL ManebstisT, merchant-let dividend of M. 1014., any Tuesday, at Hong to's, Manchester. DIVIDENDS, April It W. Skinner, Tunbridge Wells, bricklayer-April It A. Hoare, Basinghsll-street, cloth merchant-April 12. J. Ban deman, Southampton, grata perches dealer-April 12 /L. Morley, Upper Wbitecrometreet, baker-April 6. A. Jones, Pontlan- Ranh, Monmouthshire, miner-April A J. Ifaliphant, Bryn mawr, Brooooshire, grocer-March 24. J. A. Pme, Bradford, Devonshire, tailor-March 19. G Bailey, Batley Carr, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer-March 29. J. Steel, leads-March 29. 1. Swaim, Helmsley, Yorkshire. chemist-March 29. F. A. Tensplin, Liverpool, commission merchant-March 25. J. M. Smyth sad 0. M. Craig. Liverpool, booksellers-April IL W. Revel, general printer-March 28. 0. Ells. Brickporth, ah li ric er t s t echoolmester -March 28. T. Jones , Ruabon, Dank hire, Mach 29. T. Walton, Inoue, lanauhire, coal ealer- March 12 J. Vickers, Brethren., Cumberland, butcher-Mareh 20. C. H. Gray,Brighohne,Cumberiand, general dealer-March 29 F. Goddard. Gloucester, pianoforte maker-April 6. T. Chaffer and R. Chaffer, Uverpool and Burnley, stone merchants-April 6. T. Chaffer (separate caste). Liverpool and finrnter. *tone merchant-April 6. B. Chaffer (aspirate estate), Liverpool and Burnley, stone merchant. PARTNER/18/PS DISSOLVED. T. Edgley, H. Jarrett, and J. Petry, High Holborn. woollen drapers-A. Winward and J. Hindle, Accrington, Lancaahire, *crew bolt manufacturers-J. L. Brindley and K Pearson, Bure ttes. Staffordshire, coalmasters-J. H. Chemise, J. Pearson, and I. M. Morgan. Wolverhampton. coahnsaters. 90 far as regards J. Pearson-R. Barnard and H. W. Carter (deceased), Walton, Norfolk, butchers-G. Haniham. C. Tovell, and J. Chlnnock. Ipswich. masons, so far as regatta C. ToveD -A. E Barry and P. W. Freeland, Cheapside, attorneys-R. Whiteley and A. gal lows, Oldham, cotton spinners-i. Sham and F. Shaw, Oldham, oaten doublers-R. O. Blasphemy and J. P. Jorgensen. Hartle pool, coal emsniets-J. Moorhonae and J. Wielding. Bradford, iron furniture dealers-J. loss and J. Stenhope, Morley and Batley. Yorkshire, cloth manufacturers-H. Marken& K. C. Hole, S. Hole, and R. Hole, Manchester and Stockport. calico printers -T. Wright. sen., and T. Wright. Jun., Birmingham, tailors-Mary Ann Stubbs and R. D. Stoll a, Worthing. Sussex, bakers-R. Wittffinsen and W. Eagles. Salford, braseinonders- C. Webber and W. Trem att. SPecks-bundings. Spitalitelda. and Coach-yard. Wells-street, Hackney. wheelwrights -G. OW and C. E. Muirliston, Skinner-street, Clerkenwell, gold chain makers -J. Davies, S. Merril, and J. Wheeler, Audenshaw, near Man. cheater, mnallware mantifecturers-W. IL M. Blews and P. Bdelnen. Birmingham, brassfeundent-D. Jones and W. H. Tile ton, Wrexham. Dennghshire. cheese factors-B J. Candler and A. Onto, Birkenhead and Rack Perry. Cheshire, grocers-B. Scarf and A. Croysdale, Bradford. stuff merchants-D. Cane and Hay, Lverpoog wine merchante-D. Jaccsrd and A. /award, Percival-strew, Clerkenwell, watt-hunkers-H. Oilmen and H. Watt. Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, colonial brokers- W. Main and R. Mann Upper Norwood. tobacconists. socrrea SIQUISTRATIONE W1712= Glamor& IPACILIADM, Bothwell. grocer, March 20, at the Faculty Hall, Mart , NSW Meneti, Glasgow, slater, March 20, at the Faculty r. 11.1, Glasgow. i num a vay tA r, 111 . 1ofe ct D ither, Nerd% 23, at the Cont. IHfrffial hetet, sAimm.ns. The annual distribution of the Architectural Museum's prism to art workman will take photo in the Theatre of the Geolonkal Yuma In Jermportreet. on Wedneeiey, the 21st leak, at 8 o'clock p.m., by Mr. Bee. ford Hope, president of the society. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING MARCH 17, 1866 I LIFEBOAT SERVICER—During the storms of II mind yarn year the National Lifeboat Instliation, hy lie life boat other meths contributed to the navies elf 707 ponces from different wrack, on our masts. The isetiWion also ei pended 111.874 in the same period on Us lifeboat catablialimeths, in addition to granting 14,950 for rewards be ring life mad exercising the Webers. The committee of the Inetitation earnesthy APPNAL to the public for AB3ISTANCS, to enable them to mast the continued Wavy demands en the thatitution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received b the London and Country Bankers and by the Secretory. Lasts, laq., at the lo etitutioa, Jobbat:est, Adolph% Modem JOHN BROGDEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 11, 00VINT-GAZDZIC. JOHN BROGDENI3 18-oarst GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROODEN'S G OLD ALBERT CHAIN S. JOHNEROGDENS GOLD MO OOR 0 HAIN B. P 311 DAL AWAID/A) ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TBAYILLLIIO BAGS wira won WARDIIOIIII 1111:11i15. 1 71.1 . 118VM18, with DW I = 110113, warrnio and DUBS1:110 CAM, ad We other arteries tor booze ee ocattorstal travalling. Meatirstod latalegore post tree. Oleo Alisee's Barra& Pamßare Catalogue at Portable Had toads, Drawees, Zia Chairs, Waabbood-denda, Canteens, &a, Atli &eta__ i:*:iusit. Wades. W.C. Ned Pateatee, 37, West Dirand, ►rIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. .a. Clear. Thick. sad lavirld MIMI SOUPS always reedy, A ST. JAIUMHALL, KNOCNT4ITIRAT, PIOC.ADILLY. NIL DONALD, Proprietor. ne erpreoo. Abingdon's's.' utlirjtotor • Tb i a 4 ll l.4ir Loaon s. 'wafts =mut A 7 Two Is as Its day ad peWleallke. If ItTICARLIEf. W. TIEN Emus% VIZ OTZLIAND BOUM. Moors. Buck- Chippendale, and Sonya ; Miss Snowdon at i nit lory Moons. —II.II3ZIRI IN HS HA Y NABIZT. Mows. D. Asher and Manta; Mass L. leeley t L Wool gar. P1112(01111%. ibn lauFara Al GHOST IN SPITE OF HIMMELF.—Aftar wake IT In NIVIIRTOO LATH T* MIND. Mama VlM'''. G. Malvin% T. Maad, Murray, a Oinara,Mara G. Murray, sad Z. GOMM ; L. Mows mad L. Rodgera INCIIIIL rae EvEnp, THE uliffrirotm trritAwome. Kr. H. WWdbomb.—Tla MAIM OW ILLVIINBWOOD. Vows. Ireohter. Jordan. Val; Imory, NI/amas. fitqlairlak. Xmas ; Ilaidsme Tyne; liswariky. lova; C. Law* svirunnii. Tos Ernaiß THE CASTAWAY: 0., THE ORPHAN'S HIGH-BORN HUSBAND.- -Mr. J. G. Fordo.—Miss Zama CASKerrldge. &edam sad She ephysz.—Wia „THE UAL WARD. SIGH WATIM ♦T L03D0N71111112101. CM Dili Itaming, lb. Um ..I.lbeseen. °b. Ilan. TO4IIOIIIOII-. litzeulas. Mi. 64m..... Aftareson. Sa. 14s. LONDON, SATURDAY. MARCH IT. Aw intelligent foreigner, if he were a stranger to human nature as well as to England, might form a very exalted estimate of the functions of the Home of Lords in British legislation. An assembly of men devoted by their birth to poli tics ; endowed with wealth, leisure, and the means of cultivation in a degree in whit% no other class enjoys them; and secured by the very nature of their possessions from the fluctuations of fortune which ' attach to other forms of property—are moat favourably placed, it might be supposed, for the consideration of questions of policy. Removed from the turmoil in which other men live, breathing a purer air, it might be thought their business to reconcile theory with fact, to welcome new truth, and to give it the shape which will reduce it to the level of popular apprehension, and procure its em bodiment in laws. It cannot be pretended that the Lords really perform this work for which an &priori reasoner might imagine that they were especially fitted. They discharge a humbler, but not a less useful offioe. They act as the dignified " foolometer "of the nation. When the Peers are convinced that any change is nem,. sexy, the stupidest man in the country has been converted, it may be safely assumed, to the same opinion. Yesterday, being St. Patrick's-eve, was appro priately occupied by their Lordships in discussing the state of Ireland. It would have been Quixotic to expect from them any recognition of new political theories, or of the necessity of heroic re medies for the chronic malady of the sister nation. The very mild propositions of Lord Garr went far beyond their apprehension of the needs of the cue. But the able and generous speech in which he supported the resolutions of which he gave notice, and the not less able reply of Lord DurrEßne, did Ireland a real service. They will favourably affect , popular feeling in that country. The harsh Phs risaiam and the crude Philistinism which mark ordinary English opinion on Irish affairs were con spicuously absent from Lord GREY'S speech. Even English repentance is generally self-glorifying. We are usually content to say that though our ances tors behaved very badly to Ireland, we are above reproach, having done everytb;ng that justice could require, and much that only generosity would cowed°. This we call " humiliating our " selves " for the past. It is really adding to our common boast of superiority over foreigners, a second bout of superiority over our predecessors. Lord GREY very properly rebuked this eelf-oom placent spirit. The three great Reforms which have marked the later dealings of England with Ireland belong, as he pointed out, to a generation that has either passed, or is passing away. For seventeen years we have done nothing. The one notorious abuse which yet remains, though the' opinion of the civilized world outside these islands condemns it, and though only interest and preju dice defend it here, is untouched, and almost un threatened. It is by no means so certain as Lord GREY suppose, that the Protestant Establishment is the only real grievance of any considerable magnitude of which the Irish people have reason to complain ; and it is at lust doubtful whether the more equitable distribution of ecclesiastical revenues among the three churches would have all the remedial effects which he anticipates from it. The exclusive endowment of the Protestant Church in Ireland is one, but it is probably not the sole cause of Irish disoonteut. Still it is an acknowledged evil, and it should therefore be promptly dealt with. On the land question there is not yet that consent of opinion which makes legislation easy. A measure which should establish ecclesiastical equality in Ireland, by a redistribution of church revenues, or more satis factorily still, by their secularization, would heal the justly offended pride of a people sensitive on all points, and not least on those which touch the faith for which they have suffered much and long. It would be welcomed as a pledge of good feeling and honest intention on the part of England. Lord Durreare's speech, valuable as it was in many respects, was in only a very slight degree a reply to that of Lord GREY. It was pervaded by a very strange fallacy. Bemuse Fenianism is • sign of diseonteet, the DEDEN-SICRAYARY for WAR seemed to think that we must look to the salmi futons of Feeian leaders for an accurate and authudie exposition of the real grievances of Ire land. This is as if fin physician should not only listen to the complaints pf the patient, but should swept his diagonals of his own ape. It is Otte Woe that neither the .abolition of the Church listablishment, nor fate revision of the Wes affecting the land, would put dont; rebellion. We have shorter and more summary ways of doing that, and we are naing them. But while we restrain the mad outbreak, we should not neglect the means of curing the maniac. To consider the special provocations of Fenianism is to regard simply the immediate excitements to an access of the malady, instead of inquiring into its tan* causes. That the Irish Church Establishment is one of these causes, few can seriously doubt. Is is only a " sentimental" grievance, it is true ; but then the Irish are a sentimental people. If they are weak enough to feel anything to be wrong, which simply offends reason and national self-respect, without taking money out of the pocket, this is one of those Irish peculiarities which a superior rose should smile at and humour. The more flagrant abuses and the grosser oppressions connected with Protestant ascendancy belong, it is true, to the past. But you cannot sever an institution from its his tory. The kindly feeling which the great body of the English people, even the Nonconformists, en tertain towards the Established Church in this country, is derived from the part which it has played in many of the noblest passages of the nation's life. It is strong in popular recoi -1 lections and associations. The Irish Establishment is weak and even odious in both. It is a standing memorial of unexampled sufferings and humilia tions. While it remains, it keeps the record of them open, and it will be in vain to expect peace between Catholic and Protestant, or a better feel ing towards England. In fixing attention upon it, Lord Gaav has done a service, which is not dimi nished by the doubtful expediency of some of his practical recommendations. tally false bads in assuming that the only end of repre sentative institutions is to produce a good governing body and that the Rollie of Commons fulfils every function which that body could perform. The object is to-ensure • cordial, ensign living, reeponsive accord between the governing body and the people it represents. The per sistence of the aristocracy, the business sense of the middle elan, the useful eoaser►atism of the land owner, the softening =Ruts of the universities, even the brave audacity of the Wish sportsman the House of Commons represents, and represent■ well ; bet the rough popular force, the infinitely multiform power of action which lives only in the working multitude,—this, the agent of all other excellencies, it does not represent. It is because it doss not, because, too, we believe, that a eountry belongs to the people in it, that the Spectator pleads for a reform bill which, while refueieg dominance to any den, to the handicraftsman as much as to the foxhunter, will will once more connect the works of the nation with • sew and stronger spring. The Economist complains that the statistics only give us one-half of the required information. They do not show us what sort of persons the proposed measure will admit to the franchise. They indicate • faulty state of the representation, and show that some sort of reform ought to be tried, but they slam prove that the common and stereo typed reform is • bad sort. We have now exactly as much knowlege as to prove how much more we should have and ought to have ; we only now know what is, and are quite in • mist as to what we design. The Economist is inclined to believe that the reduction of the county franchise le W. would improve the 'aunty member, but is much in the dark about it. If • skilled commission had reported on alerted counties as to the class of persons whom a particular reduction would admit, if it had stated what wan their employments and their petition, end what their morns, we should bane good data for judgment. Bat now we are legislating by guess. We cannot tell why we pause at the carious figure selected, or why we do not pause at some other. The most ear tain conclusion which can be advanced as to the present bill is that the changes ie the borough suffrage will deteriorate the character of the constitnennes, and will enfranabise •11 over Ragland a very large number of persons who will consider their votes em so much saleable property. The Becnomin proceeds to oonte•d, according to its peculiar and, that in whatever very large towns the lowest clam hes an unquestioned predominance, La those towns the higher duns ought to have by a compeesatiog machinery the means of telling their wishes. The Press says that of all the reform projects intro duced into the House of Common sine 1832, the sew bill is by universal consent declared to be the worst. The prospect of what mot follow the passing of such a measure must appal the most inveterate advocate of change. If the bill became law, a diseolutios must seossearily take place in the course of the autumn, and a new parliament returned by the working classes would assemble next year to discus the Irish and Scotch Reform Bills end the re distribution of sees. Supposing that each of these three instalments occupied only a single session, there would be three more reform campaigns and three mote diuolutioes. This certainly is • pleasant prospect for a e•hi net which does sot enjoy the confidence of its own followers. And in the heat and the tur moil of suck • series of ooadiets, it is impomible to say what rash experiments might be tried, or what wild schemes ea/rafted upon the oonstitutioe. No wonder, therefore, that the democrats, who delight in strife and confusion, can scarcely conceal their esthete:loos at the revolutionary proposals which ministers have ventured to introduce. The danger has been so well pointed out by members of the liberal party that the Press does sot believe the fate of the measure to be for one Lenin doubtfuL PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR THE IHSUING WWI. --•--- The fallowing notices of motion and orders of the day stand on the order book of the House of Commons for the ensuing week : _ Mow Dar, Kasai 19. Onrissa or ran Dar. Parliamentary Oaths Amendment Bill—third read ing ; Supply—committee ; Court of (Malmsey (Ireland) Bill adjourned debate on seemed reading (16th March) ; doosolklated Fund (19,000,0000 Bill eon miter" ; Exchequer and Audit Departments (Salutes, he.)—report thereupon ; Supply—report • F.Ad India Military, tux, Fluids Transfer Bill--esiond reading ; Exchequer Bills and Bonds Bill—as amended, to he eonsi dered ; Dockyard Eitenstocie Act Amendment Bid—woad reading ; Contagions Diseases Bill—second reading—Way; and Means—committee ; Hull South Bridge (Advanes)— report thereupon; Waterworks &7l—second reading; County Courts Bill—committee ; Public Odices (Site) (re committed) Bill—oommittee ; Sheri/ Donee Roane (Scot land) Act (1860) Amendment Rill—omega** ; Railways Clauses Bill—moond reading ; Legitimacy Declaration, to., Bill- second reading. Norma or Marion. Mr. Maguire—To ask the Attorney-General fee Ireland whether it is the intention of the government to introduce a bill for the improvement of the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland ; ead, if so, at what time such bill is likely to toe introduced. Sir H. Hoen—To ark the Obsociellor of the Facinequer whether, in the event of the bill for the representation of the people passing into law, it is his tatsudea to bring for ward a measure for the redistribution of mats and the set tlement of borough boundaries early in the ensuing session. Mr. H. Seymour—To ask the Chancellor of the Exche quer, whether, in the event of the Franchise Bill. pries this house, it is the intention of her Majesty's government immediately to lame a royal commissios composed fairly of men of all political opinions, to report upon the boundaries of boroughs, and a fair redistribution of sesta, so that par liament may be able to legislate upon the subject early in the sowing esesion. Mr. 1). Griffith—To ask the Ohtheeller of the Ezobsquer, in the case of his giving an affirmative *newer to the qua this of the hoc baronet the member for Windsor, whether be will state to the house what will be the extent of the btll which the government may propose to bring la for the redistribution of seats ; sad how many sed which of the existing boroughs they intend wholly or partially to franchise. Colonel North—To ask the Secretary of State for War, whether it is the intention of government to carry out the recommendations a s s p mards Jammed pay, tut, of the com mittee which was Uri to inquire tato and report upon the grievanees of m edical officers of the army and eery. At half-past four o'clock the Chancellor el the Exchequer —committme—to move "That no select committees do meet to-morrow before one o'clock." Mr. Cowper—(ThammEenbankassat (North) Approaches Bill, Ac.)—That the Thames Embankment (North) Ap preaches Bill, the Thames Embankment (Melees) and the Park•lane Laptev/meat Bill, be referred to a select committee, consisting of eleven members, six to be aominated by the house, and Ave by the econmittes if seleetion. Sir George Bowyer—lnns of Court—Bill to ensbie the heathers of the Inns of Court to appoint judicial 401 MI• mittens in certain cases, and to give the necessary powers to each oestatittem. Mr. S. Mill—Municipal Government (Metropolis)—Bill for the establishment of a municipal government for the . - metropolis. Sir R. Knightley—Cionimitteee—stern of the members of the late House of Commons who did sot serve durh)g any sera° os any oommittop, either a eelecteommittee, a eons. reittee to try election petitions, er a committee on priests bills, specifying those who are members of the premed par- Mr. Newdegate—On third reading of Parliamentary Oaths Amendment Bill, to move, that the bill be re-committed, for the purpose of iassetiog, in page 1. lies 17, "sad I do declare, that no foreign prom, prelate, state, or potentate bath by law or ought to have any rightful joriedietioe power, superiority, preeminence , or authority within thii realer." Lord 0. Paget- Navy Minutes (in committee of suP/- mar l quis of Harlington—Army Estimates (in committee of supply). On going into committee of supply. Sir L. Palir—On nav7 estimates, to move for a molest committee to inquire into the services rendered by the meters and staff commanders to the navy sod neer motile marine, especially in surveying harbours and coasts ; to Inquire whether it is for the be neat of the country them serviess should be dir pleased with, and the appoi•tmest of mooed-car cadets to her Majesty's navy diseootinited. And to inquire into the grievances alleged by the masters and staff room menders, and to examine w hether, if they exist, they cannot be removed without detricipent to her Majesty's service. Mr. O'Beilly—On army estimates, to cell stiff:Aim to the preempt mode of oonduct.mg the relief of troops sta tioned in India ; and to make suggestions. In committee of supply ; Mr. Baxter—On army estimates, vote 14, to maul the reduction of the vote by 100,0001., being the sum required for the dehisces of Quebec. TUMMY, MARCH 20. Names or Morton*. Mr. H. Bernie—Fishery (Scotland) Act (1882)—Select committee to inquire into the operation of the Fishery (Scotland) set (1862). Lord R. Montego—Art Unice Laws—Select committee to inquire iota the operation of the Art Haim Laws. Lord R. Montagu—Victoria—Motion relating to the dis pute between the two House of Legislature in the colony of Victoria comeming the Appropriation Bill of 1865. Mr. Cowper—Coatroom (Metropolis)—Bill to make pro. vision for the improvement of commons is the neighbour hood of the metropolis, and the protection thereof from noisiest. Mi. EL B. Sheridan—lies Insuranoe—To move the following resolution :—"That, in the opinion of this house, • further reduotion of the duty on fire insurances would have • tendency to bring within the protection of insurance • large amount of the present uninsured property of the country, and at the Fame time materially improve the Ames of the repayment to the revenue of the amount lost by the previous redactions of the duty ; and that therefore it is expedient that a further reduetios of the duty should be made at the earliest opportunity." Mr. Hubbard—Fire insuratroe—As en amendment to Mr. Sheridan's resolution, to move. that the character ai the fire insures°, duty being that of • tax on property, operating with exceptions in favour of wealth and inspro wrienoe, it is inexpediest to reduce the rate of duty epos pomade which iavolve the continued inspoettioa of • tar unsuitable es • source of revenue. Mr. Bentinak—New Courts of Jodie@ and lery—Thet, in the opinion of this house, it is act expe dient that the compettion for the building of the New Comet of Justice sod of the National Gallery should O respectively be limited to six architect, each. Sir O. 'Loghlea—Declaration against Tranaulistas tiation Abolition—Bill to abolish sweetens deelesation eon roonly wiled the dude/Miss spinet erusenbelantiation and the invocatlea of the saints sad the saorifles of the mass es practised in the church of Rome, and to render it an secessary to make or subscribe the ems as a qualification for the enjoymeat of say civil coos. fissehise, or right. Omen or THE DAY. Write Ragiatratine (Scotland) Bill —Sewed reading ; Sam nary Procedure (Bcotiand)l3lo Mooed readies ; Tinos (Sootlaed)13111--8eoand reading ; Poor Relief (Scotland) Bill --Second reading ; Cattle Sheds in Burghs (Scotland) Bill —Second readies. Nunes or MOTION. Mr. Sairdled—On Second reading of Writ, Resistrathe (Scotland) Bill, to move, that it be read • mooed tame upon that day six months, WIDIDIRDAY, MARCH 21. Osors or TIM DAY. Tests Abolition (Oxford) Bill—second readies. Norm or Mows. Sir Stafford Northoote—Oo second media( of Teets Abo lition (Oxford) Bill, to move that it be read a sewed time upon that day ma months. THURSDAY, MARCH 22. ORDERS or rag Dar. Ltbourieg Classes' D welliage (recommitted) bill—cour mittee ; Merchant Shippiog Act (1850 Amendmeat Bill— mooed reading ; Lead Tax Commestmers' Names Bill-- mooed readies; Vsociaatice Bill—comatitese. Norms or Monona. Mr. Oury—To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, considering that, in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining an adequate supply of efficient recruits for the Royal Mari it has been found seceseary to redoes the standard height twice during the kat two whereby it has been reduced from 5 feet 7 inches to l e ;e% 5 inches, sad oonsiderieg also that the number of marines borne in December last wee 738 men short of the octa -1 blishmeet, the Admiralty will refer the exedras system of ' recruiting • for the corps to the royal commission about to appointed. Lord H. Lenoox—To ask the Chancellor of the Ex , chequer whither her Majesty's government have hat under their coosideratiou any scheme for the Improvement of ' the wastitution and administration of the British Museum; sad, if so, whether they will lay upon this table of the house Ma 'overspends's, whisk has tam place on this subject between ben Majesty's geveranaest end the trustees of the British Museum •. whether it ice been &sided to ffil up the post of Secretary Librarian ceder the some conditions as it was wrestle held by Xr. Paunch : end, whether the government will lay apes the Wile of the hems any ear respondent* that hes reused between the trustees of the British Mumma awl the various depart:mote of Ms severe meet respective, the removal of she ethaegraphisal teller lions lo the asst of London. FRIDAT, MAIM 23. ORD= OF URI DAY. Coloatel °overawe (Retiring Peasioas) Act Amendment Bill—amend mediae. Norms or Mottoes On going into committee of suppl Mr. Bands — That, he the of this house. it Is ex pedient that an items of poor law expeatiliere Mirsenhout the Oohed Eingdoes, sot beteg is-maintelesse se waters. lief or otherwise winder the immediate esontret cad dirseelen of hoards of guardies er parkh cams, sksedd buses a nathaal 'barge. Mr. Blake—To call the attention of the Attw o . ral for Ireland to the advantages winch wa l k 1,1 3 1.114. result in ineremiag the supply of fish sod additionel employment, without the pre loos to the government, by exteoding th e Lend Improvement (Inked) kat. 10 and and subsequent acts anteeding setae, to mee fisheriee of Ireland. Kr. Hual—To sill attention to that pert of of the flea Fisheries Commissioosra (UMW which relates to the desirability of 'evincing( tr Lion of oysters by the appropriation of Public) estuaries and other places for the formals* rf and to ask the President of the 8 srd of Tr intention of the government to briog in - upon the subject. MILEAGE DUTIES ON STAGE CARELC -..._ Yesterday afternoon a deputation, proprietors of dam mange, and others, a emend members of oariismest, waited upon of the Exchmeer official residence skeet, to request the interference of - she premed aaomakius duly on the travel, Amongst the members of parliamoot io a, L. Aynon, LP., Mr. Deleksh, ag.p.. Cumin Howley, IL P., Mr. Bright. IL P., M.P. Oolong Bardeld, M.P., Colossi Urdu, LP., Mr. R. Culling Hasbary , Edda" Bart., Y.P. Xi. Whitworth, LP. ?tuner, L.P., Lord E. Cecil, IL P., the gN King, IL P. Sir Sc Maxwell, IL P., M e r LP., Mr. Hadfield, IL P., Mr. Pull, Li' kLP., Mr. Goodson, ILP., Sir Edmund larni, Fables, IL P., sad Mr. Honda% M.P. The various towns sod public cot = tad on the occasion were--1, Birmligham, Blasdford. Liverpool (Liverge i zeid u Omnibus Wei nerd Omnibus y, end the m a t, Atiociatiess. The taken having Use , ' Mr. Arica, M.P., Mr. J. k Smiling= explithed the °bled of tacks by a statement. the purport of which was asempielned that the mileage duty on the travelling, velum was anomalous and exceptioul in Mane sabot and oppreesive is operatics ,• that it ores, posed ea conveyance, is behind, and Only se sad onsibeees to Eoglud, Wales, sad p o t' vas levied without referoom to tbe homes employed, or the number el ""In augaBoral : o ;o o. 4 th i l ed er th.V.Ma st ; accaniset Pr Od: paues ie u : PridairL u l d i was ild thi ' ora t : d at oon iou rsesiP n cit " i ng titi t hw ha r es te neisageop m desidiad d w i , it ere sneth it imae o low ne : i seriltatimi: then those in coma, pleas by the is. build less commodious vehicles. the omn i bus was yede - eoeveysacts for the middle end industrious thou ad a some of the roads in large towns the pawn* add* entirely of the Madrid clam. Maar stathl fig at parliamentary clam fens, but id tre sei r: . railways, °beds exemption fee seek *IV Is some came the duties were se as to take away nearly half the gesihort proprietors. In the sem of the Metropelitas lltiq omnibuses and the trans ran, the one wise the en, two, the surface of the emu raid. The workiegegu al of that railway were under 30 per cen t of ik mega whilst those o f the omnibuses on the same mute meal 90 per out. Added to this, the steam boat, while en, powerful rival to lied ecumenism*, wee net kid OA Tbe railway was taxed caly as the high pried it* le first sod second chat peamegers, makim the spiiielfig of five per cent. in reality a Mlle over three and a tell p mat on all peassugen, whilst the omnibus was *I all its paineour% whether at high prices Of asp to in the most (avowable mess at soar use per amt., erne half profits in favourable semou, and io othen man* per cent. an receipts, sad as high an mooed of fore SOL postman was imposed on each Londe, lbu, hl in ei ne :r o B63: 9 " w par e ere r"Kh coo lil i. s, l B6 °'l ll l.l. e t at 3d. °m proe , ati:binebefitaxeanioesialliPle:76Al,64ll,llll t. twibr eduids 1074661. Ile. 7d., which took 90. 7d. of every Ilk, west half of the whole of the onspaoy's profit The CHANCELLOR of the ExcillOnlim—Do yea ppm get that 9a. 7d. of the tax removed? Mr. liadninui—No. The Leedom Omni pale Company pledged itself lad year to a oldie MON which wee pomaded to the House of Canons by lb Looks, the member for Southwark, stating the eashees, circumstances of the ewe. From that otaloneet peered that whilst the receipts of the Luke Coen Omnibus Company were 600,0004, the duty es. 61,dt An offer was made ea that statement if the dole at te duty were taken off, amounting, be believed, to del 131,0001. The CHANCELLOR of the Excemollx—fire you 6 pared to offer soy definite boos is the paha *elf ! Yr. Amroa, ALP., mid he thought the bast malt that was that the Omnibus Compoy had sot yet hind secured any remunerative profit le feet, tisk tuna eommercially speaking, had been below Odd other * companies. The CH•scamea of the EiMmetoma nii bo nand* that a year or two ago some deanite maker um sumo* A penny • mile on railways would ad, el genne L ipply omnibuses, with their takirgs up end esttiep dews; WI something he knew was said es to what meld le dose lith omnibus companies if the duty were talon et Mr. BRADFIELD said he made the statement m Mena doe referred to, sad it was in mower to a dreseise pelt the right hon. gentleman Moult Whet he nit le that the omnibus companies was prepared to west k public convenience in every conceivable way, mosinsila with their owls trade interests. The Ca•sosuon of the Emmons said the mall of the deputation had better thick the eeatteresw, rl commusicate with him. It would be better thin to 6 tempt to preen it in converestioe. Mr. BRADFIELD said that if the Micelle, of Soft* quer could not see his way to the remiss* d its.* duty, the deputation would suggest that it eight al placed ore a sums just and reasonable bins, by esiedimee of the follow* arrangemects :-1. A r4sothe of mi halfpenny a mile each way. This modified* mold pi all coaches end omnibuses on an equality as to the tow/ ling duty, but the less capacious vehicle wield Unapt. forestial pecuniary advantage if the liaises deity, pid additien to the mileage, were paid at the redo el one shifting per ear - for each Or for die the omnibus was 2. Or the /My wild be levied on the principle of the railway tee, lei ibe same extent of inemptios for peamegen *weed 11 the rate of one penny per mile shook' be ellem" the duty might be levied as the principle of She post.ku duty (that is, a tax on all horses), at one peed per He urged, in goncludeo that the urbane was a W I Z sally fixed on the coaching system, when step Cealbeiggi LT nearly the only mode of conveyer ce, and that in mar &ace as an impart on the molds system of modes Ni t vlr al asm ease w s tith wa wea s no s t esea userei tiall y y op oo pow e o si f , th e e m middle the riosli tedlefse but prejedeiel to the public interest. • 11 Aldermw MACIalt of Manchester, pointed oat sol/ the nomad* connoted with the duty imposed es met Inc.. lug, atthattlims. did time, and it the same rgen tl e mes coanectel other I9II Mr. Ikurtne, M.P., said be did not think conks ee other conveyance companies could rooks an 7 u to what they could give to the public in the ereethew , duties being removed. Running as they did der le_ llol ‘. mike of dream sad roads, some of the ainvenneeke posed, paid meth bootee then others. Some d dawn must, at lean for a time, prom unprofitable. be thought it would be iropeseible for people**, an 113 y speci fi c preposition in reference to the lessee tell • rived by the public in the went of the reduction a ; ed the duties. All that, he thought, might hs eel/ left to competition. His own view went beyond tea gastlemen who had already spoken, sad who he _ bed been looking =airily to the r own interests oa ts laved that there would be enemy hooked solailiseal al!! beds in the Gantry Wares and districts if it were lea et lime dude*, and that the public would derive efieeek/ islinitely bathed anything the indium In the brother thought of. After all the te"' re lPnw believ inwn ed *s it would wh bud he d bs id i c a ul i t n to t" lr a d iam b' 6."1111.4 ,1 eseseweld dertaking which was so ernelly maltreated b 7 ins. that which provided for the conveyanos of the public % had held that view a long tiros—long before soy m gestletnen combated with the present movement hi ts anthem to him about It. It was his hormone tbst all that had been doe* daring the last tweety Moe relief might be granted to the treas. (Heer.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQCTR said he ere.' math with the views of the geollemea who Ind siekello" ha felt at the same time boned to say that a Mae debid had hoes propagated, sided by newstalter , " 4 " . „, be well-informed, as to the immediate ItreePeel",; Exthequer, sod that people bed bees led to bens"' vest sum of mosey would be et the disposal of do ;, moot Al l he could say upon the matter el. I. ' thould be very glad indeed to see it. He would mot wrier a dissuasion with the members of the deputation ee nature of the tax which had been brought under ow h a r az a ri derstioo,and woald eel, say that wbeo the mane be would seek to deal justly with all the ahthss might be 'aged epos hies. Be had nothing to ml , hies to a qualifieetion of what bad been !Md. TW if the Inland Revenue collected the tit se met' mold, sad the tax knelt mad smesserily be Tay hive. At the same time be fully iodinated that to t .. popular locomotion from any fiscal burden ough t greet °Wad of policy with say well advised al The deputation then thanked the Chancellor of t shop* for his ceeeteey god withdrew. The Committee of hes. Majesty's Commies'/SO for the Paris Exidbition on Group EIL (Waiter, set thjsets for the use of dwelling') met yesterday at Mel Isesissiens Mumma ; presser —Sir Wisdom* Bat. 11. P., Mr. FAlpir A. Dowries. 0.8., Mr. A. Zeggisferd Ham M.P.. Mr. William limns, Mt. D. Hollins, Mr. P. W. S. Mils. The essimittee Wm" — smoolOsi for the several o'suiss somprisei is Sae PooP We (Deblis Esessieg Mail) deeply regret to 11111 2. that th e Bishop of Limed& is is Dmblie say earisedl,' o u r wmid and aff, air the Das h eag izalt gr is • Lag de pd,, i ;Lof .0 and ft V ie. cd to the o;ga c that port et th e era (Una., I)rnnothig the at Public cm , °emotion of ar --1 ord of Trails it n "Y Metal *. 40ir „mum langion, „ • . ethers, rind upon lb. ft ae—""a rewigns a ;raveUng 5 C 4 get ...::: et IS Miamian s .P., " c u .. Jana 4. ILP., jt e - ,r s i • )elonal One X p 'rib LP, 4, •-•, X P., M e. 0. • Psall. _ Imund Imes, Li t. .P. wirfalaneo a--Manabastes. ✓d. Brinol, I Compaq), Deg as .01 I. mins h ow lasimmid ad the object situ t of whi c h WIS . tk o k 00 the in** ptiosal in elaraitar,u6oi ; that ;a Ind only c . 41 , h sad , toak a to u m , mamba 0 t plu ngi fuel if the „ . 11 a!' it had t wos Z i a i l s r 5, it nett to ha N 4 mood for roomy we * organ, aad Una Gs In : br e? el. all 4. *a, Ld°ostrioadimnilx" wzmsessiaid: ke paanogors . 1 6: 116 Year Ilia. arid AM fan s . h es fas m e' 'a . arsas df ths p se ih d the on mar, tba 01. Tho varkkg ow n r bsearcnt.e t eli tta iimainest atom boat, AM m u ow, was net 4d al he high ri n d s o k mallialt the alantislati over three and s kag p be °melbas was tad igh PriOM Of al. be WIZ Din pit ant, a ft and in others main igh an amont r nil a ch Londoo ronfloa kb ibos Company Yon* tha itberes raloadeg4sui 74. of entry Sooners 's voila Pla pug , ed Landon Gang Onlo Far to a Carina attar OWN of oourour by% rk, atatlig tin oksktfib nn that stain* Mup is of the Lorton Goat 04, the duty ea. 51,(11, moot if the viola at ar OUR CONTEPAIPORLRIRS. (TM DAY.) THE WEEKLY PE AND THE REFORM BILL. In the opinion of the Examiner the bent thing that has been said, or that can be said, of the new Franchise Bill is that whisk a shrewd and cautious Mead dropped quietly in the hearing of the writer attn. lietseieg to Yr. Gladstone' speech :—" It will do." All kinds of faults were awe to be found with the meteor*, no matter what it contained or what it left out. Had it embraoed questions of re-distribu tion or questions of voting, =nye! the gentlemen who were openly on the look out for any stick to best the dog of a Reform measure, and who ars Dow mooutiag" stogie-barrelled* bills, would have been quite as ready to lift up their hands and oak the gorrernment—" Why caul you do one thing at a time Is not the affair of the suffrage weighty and big enough to occupy your beet thoughts and your best hours from this until Whitsuntide; and what is the need of uking both houses to sit on tall Michaelmas, as possibly to Candlemas, this year, to do the rest of what requires to be done, to the neglecter stoppage of all the other bruinass of the county r Instaadof this, ministers proposed to proceed stop by step, like sober and thoughtful mesa. Even worked ky a mere addition sum the middle classes would still preponderate in the electoral scale by three to one ; but it never was true that the elec tors who live by labour are equally distributed over the whole, or a half, or a fourth part of the number of lo eoliths and oiremenseriptioes, rural or turban, that said member@ to parliament. The influence of merest labour may become more powerful over the representation of par ticular spots; but in the Faun proportion will its balance elsewhere diminish. When, therefore, we talk of one elector out of every four belonging to the artisan clue it does not follow, and it never can follow, that one consti tuency in four will be liable to be swayed by the distioo live feelings or wishes of artisans. If we said one consti tuency in ten, it would be nun to the mark. Where, them, Is the ground for misg:vieg or alarm? But the Examiner does not believe in the reality of that portion of the go vernment returns which or/feel to make a calculation of the somber of working men in large town constituencies. Oh vionely that &relation has been based upon mere guesswork. We no more believe that there a•e at present 26 per nat of artisans in the existing borough coostituesudes than we believe that there are 90 re cent. In small country towns —where every joiner sad bncksmith and mason is known, and where the revision of the borough list is • clue sifting process which takes phi*, every year, it is easy to come at the accurate proportions; though something even there may be debateable, according as the line of avocation b drawn high or low. But in the twenty large boroughs whose population and whose eleton knish the main figures of the total estimee, we have neither the sans precision nor any approach b it. The Examiner concludes by expressing its content with the bin as the ben bidding we have had yet—toe only tertian from which it dissents being the disfranchisement of the craftsmen of the dock yard. The Saturd,ay Review adopts the estimate of Lord Oranborne that if the workin; ewes were united they would control, under the new Reform Bill, slightly more i I than one-third of the emostituncies, but in relents of course they would break off into sections just as the middle class would do. sad U we gnome the secnity and ex pediency of some manure of the kind and attach any weight to the arguments f.r giving the working men a sensible share in the c ntrol of public affairs, the main proposal of the government does act seem an uoreasonable one. The Saturday Review, however, loss some potent ob- *tins to the miner pars of the usbeme, and ft pre maids to urge that the Saving, Beak Chinn would afford opportunities for the corrupt manufacture of votes sod is unfair as limiting persons to • form of investment which gives them an exeee 'iag'y low interest. Why lodgers are to pay 101. sod h-msel o'ders but 71. to get aeon Mr. Gledstons d'el not explain ; lain' he eves seems to Woolen that, by an air it maeonvre of empelling them I to asks as maul claim, their enfrasehisement would poises no politi nl result. There way be no great oh*. I bon to the proposal as to copyholi qua ikeition in boroughs for county votes, but we are without the data by which to judge of its effect.. The whole schema, which is confessedly fragmentary, is mermen, only jostillable en the suppositios that the franchise might be extended while the present distribution of seats might be sad ought to be kept as it is. Its results oa constituencies that do not exist no one CM tali It is idle to think that the ori ent parliament, if it passed Mr. Gladstone's bill, would have any control over the redistribution of sesta. It ceeld not pass a bill for this purpose before the new voters were en the register ; and, as the governmentoould then appeal to the enlarged constituencies, the Oppadtion would have me alternative but to permit the appeal, or take the redistribution the government chose to prworif e*; and a parli.mse, when the Orval tion I. pt:sk sed in tit way, hes lost all control I over affairs. That a redistribution of sees mud follow an extmecat of the franchise is too obvious to need proof, for enormous constituencies of thousands on thousands will not allow themselves to be perpetually thwarted by what Mr. Bright calls villages in the west of &gland. Practi cally, therefore, the proposal of the government comes to this, that the present parliament shall extend the franchise. and that another parliament, &acted by a different set of snore, shall deride whether the principle on which the present parliament ants is to be maintained. No govern meet ever asked • parliament for a greater coecession, and both their party and the country may justly complain of I the emeelect of the government in making snob a demand en parliament. To the Spectator the Government Ball, so far as it affects the borough franchise, ellefla to lack three important eases tiels,—fint, a principle,—next, an excuse for the purpose less increase of the corrupt and dependent class of elector, in the smaller boroughspari pawl with that of the honest sad independent clue is the larger borougba,—lastly, • gureatee that it is sot going to rob a wen in-represented clue, the massfacturing capitalists, of almost all their I idnease is Pullman% is order to find room fore totally I enreterseseted class, instead of bade' from the aspic. Anus and excessive political inflames of land cue of the talents which it has abused, and heading it over to labour, for more fruitful and worthy use. And yet the Spectator demands reform, and In a mooed leader preen& to conscd at considerable length that Yr. Lem and the piety of meths proceed ea s Mutinies. TORY OPPOSITION TO THE REFORM BILL MEETING OP LORD DERBY'S FOLLOWERS. The fierald of this morning says : " A very large and satisfactory gathering of the Imp porters of the Earl of Derby took place yesterday at the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury, Arliegtonotreet. Is t►e absence of Lord Derby, who was confined to his house by a slight attack of gout, the Right Hon. Benjamin Dis raeli addressed the meeting. The right hon. geatternan's remarks were enthusiastically received, and it was agreed, without one dissentient voice, that the ministerial Reform Bill should be strenuously opposed at every stage. The amendment to the second reading will take the shape of a resolution to the affect that no Reform Bill wilt be seta factory to parliament which does not offer a complete set. dement of the question." The Aderrtiserhears that the party mastered 240 strong. The course to be adopted with reference to the government mamma of Parliamentary Reform was the osteusible object of the meeting, and on that point Mr. Disraeli spoke at considerable length mad with great earnestness, availing himself, however, of the opportunity to criticise the divi sion on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill, and to atter words of songratulationand'of hope =the " insignificant majority' of 14 through whose votes the government farm of oath had been carried in the Home of Commons to the rejection of his Eliza bethan form. " All the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's reform scheme were presented to the assembly in Mr. Disraeli's most sarcastic style. Having worked the party up to a degree of enthusiasm which they seldom ex. hibic, it Will umaimously resolved that the most uncom promising and determined hostility should be offered to the further progress of the bill. SOMs were for meeting the mooed reading with a direct negative, while others thought that a resolution denouncing any interferes°e with the franchise, in the absence of some well considered and equitable plan for the re-distri bution of seats, was the more advisable course. The latter opinion prevailed, and Mr. Disraeli was re quested to prepare and give notice of the Opposites amendment. Should the second reading be carried every succeeding stage of the bill is to be fought with the most dogged determination, aid nothing will be left undoes to prevent the measure beooming law in Its present shape. The 71. borough franchise and the lodger fran chise clauses are those which excite most the deter mined hostility of the Oomervative party. An 81. i borough clause amendment will be moved in tom ' mites, should Mr. Disraeli's resolution be defeated, and the lodger clause will be subjected to a proposition for its emission from the bill. Lord Derby was prevented by severe indisposition from being present. In the course of the conversation which took place after Mr. Disraell's ad dress, it transpired that Mr. Lowe Galmastes on between fifty and sixty liberal members following him into the lobby. There are at least, he considers, that number en the ministerial side who will not have the bill The government. on the other band, maculate on a deer Wai -1 mum majority of thirty votes." M. JULES PAYEE'S SPEECH. M. J. Fevre concluded his able speech on the political liberties of France as foliose ;—"Such is the theory of • personal power, and the restoration of divine right, which we oppose. If the country had been the master of its destinies, we should not have seen so many young men mat to die beyond the Atlantic, and the minims squandered in Mexico might have been usefully employed 1• Frees, and the oolonie I. France is saturated with military glory, and requires moral dignity end greatoses (Interrap tion.) If the literature of the day, which is the expres sion of society. be caesulted, some s.rikhog coseln. sion may be drawo. You have decreed the liberty of the theatre, and with the censorship you can do what you please with the stage. What have you done? Yoa have male it a seat of libertinage and indecency ; yea exhibit on It shameful nudities. ( Murmurs, with some erica of That is true ! You have in your hands • law made to prevest the labour of children in manu factories, and you degrade childhood in • privileged theatre by malting it represent the type and model of debennasee and cynicism, to the medal of all honest people. (Senaatioa.) And then you open =eked balls, end say, come and drink the cup I have plead to your lips. (Marks of dissect ea • large number of beeches, end applause wetted the speaker.) I say Fromm asks for something different ; she desires her moral liber ties. 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