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JOHN BRLAILLNIS CLASSIC JEWELRY. pARIsHSI-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, 1567. JOHN BltOtirDE:i'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROODEN'S GEM and WEDDING RINGS. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. NO. 16, IiENRIETTA-STREET, Covent- Garden. ' a - , a reputation looks very much like an une&sy sense that a reputation is at stake. Had the ministerial defendants confined themselves to in.. dignation and avoided statement, their case would have been more satisfactory and more complete. The British public has a natural respect for Peers ; it is disposed to be lies e in their noble innocence of the petty arts of political warfare, and in their noble supe riority to what the Duke of Morentoss calls " dodges." It is unfortunate that the Loan PRIVY SEAL, fortified with a letter from the Pee wee, brimming over with native candour and simplicity, should have endeavoured to show that there was "no reason and no excuse" for the strong though not unprecedented course taken by the majority of the Liberal Peers, in leaving the House in a body rather than appear to countenance even by sitting silently on their benches the combined tactics of the minis terial leaders and the independent Tories. Nor can Lord MALMESBURY be congratulated on his expression of surprise at the Liberal Peers having accepted, on Tuesday last, the discussion on the Scotch Reform Bill, and refused, two days after, to discuss the amendments on the Boundary Bill. Neither the Government nor its independent supporters, with or without previous concert, have interposed such delays to the passing of the Scotch Reform Bill as would pr►ctically prevent a dissolution and a general election at the earliest possible moment. Had Ministers sup ported a motion to strike out the clause in the Scotch Reform Bill for the disfranchisement of seven English boroughs in favour of Scotch constituencies, they would have exposed them selves to the charge of breach of faith with the House of Commons which they incurred in sup porting Lord BEAUCHAMP'S motion to set aside the decisions, as accepted by the Commons, of the select committee on the Boundary Bill. Mr. DISRAELI is astonished at the interpretation of his words " virtually settled." He meant only so far as the House of Commons was concerned ; he never pretended to anticipate the course of his colleagues and their Mends in the Lords. It is a "painfully distorted " notion to suppose that Ministers in the Commons and Ministers in the Lords ought not to be as inde pendent of one another's motives and actions as ono House of Parliament of the other. If Mr. Duntszu is content with this very limited liability for his Earls and Dukes, ho is no doubt the fittest judge of what is due to his own dignity and self-respect. The " imperative reasons" which the Loan CHANCELLOR stated last night for " abstain " big from any support of &proposal which would " alter in any substantial manner" either the Boundary Bill or the Scotch Reform Bill might have occurred to him with equal force when he supported Lord BEAUCHAMP'S amendment on Thursday night. The Government, says Lord Cusss, as sumed that both bills would receive the Royal assent on the 13th, so nicely had the time been calculated to a day, almost to an hour, so eager was the Government to call the new constituencies into existence by the Regis tration Bill, and to hasten the Dissolution. The Loan this.xezemat complains that the with drawal of the Liberal Peers on Thursday, and the generous unwillingness of the Government to take advantage of their absence, have made it impos sible to send amendments on the Boundary Bill to the Commons so as to secure its passage in duo time. Does Lord CArass expect the public to believe that if the Liberal Peers had remained in their seats, and let the amendments on the Boundary Bill be carried, the amended bill would have been in a condition to receive the Royal Assent on Monday week ? If the secession of the Liberal Peers on Thursday needed justification, the Loan CHANCELLOR has supplied it, and to spare. One result of that secession is that Lord MALMESBURY now pathetically implores his independent supporters to cease from their amendments, and to let the Scotch Reform Bill and the Boundary Bill pass unopposed. Once more, too, we have a loud declaration of the anxious desire of the Government to face the new con stituencies, and to meet their accusers in the mar ket place. After the scenes in the Upper House on Thursday and Friday we think even the conservative public will acknowledge it is high time to trans fer political discussion to some calmer region than ,the Palace of Westminster. Lord RUSSELL and Lord GRANVILLE deserve well of all parties for having saved the two Houses from a serious collision on the eve of a general election. When Lord SALISBURY is obliged to step in as a peacemaker, and to complain that he finds it " a good deal warmer work than in the " House of Commons," those delicate and fasti dious critics who profess to fear the irruption of coarse language and bad manners into a house hold suffrage Parliament, need not be too squeamishly apprehensive of the contact of our hereditary Brahmins with legislators of a lower caste. THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND MR. SPURGEON. Ir would be difficult to find two people more completely the anti-types of each other than the Bishop of OXFORD and Mr. SPURGEON. The genius of the one is eminently sickly and soft. A courtly polished man of the world; a graceful ecclesiastic, well versed in the ways of winning hearts; a supple pleasing intellect, which has been trained and coaxed up to its highest point of culture, are all found in Dr. 'WILBERFORCE. He can rebuke so gently as to make his sweet censure seem like the chastening of one who loves; and ho can denunciate, and sneer, and ridicule with a vigour and force which make upper-class Chris tians and High-Church penitents look up to him as to a champion indeed. Who so gallant or chivalrous as this episcopal defender of that forlorn hope, the Irish Church ; who so full of common sense and real charity as this compassionate protector of Sun day school children ; who so playful yet so digni fied as this urbane utterer of placid witticisma— who never seems to forget his position in the Order of the Garter, and that deferential devotion to the fair is a paramount duty of every true knight, be he clerical or lay ? Mr. SPURGEON is the reverse of all this. BAL- Fora of BURLEY is the sort of knight he resembles most. Bis genius is natural and bluff ; his humour of the rough Saxon sort, and his pathos of the broad and hearty kind which appeals to the people of everyday life, the people who buy and sell, who bear their share of common everyday burdens, who have neither time nor inclination to sentimentalise or to " dress up" their thoughts or feelings or sorrows, but who grieve when they grieve, and rejoice when they rejoice, with a hearti ness and simplicity which makes plain-speaking essential to their comfort. " Salem Chapel," with its back parlour discussions on the minister, gives a fair and tolerably unexaggerated notion of the cho.s of hearers to whom Mr. SPUROEON ap peals. But the admiration and liking he in- ~ ~...: spires is to the full as wide-spread and sincoro as that paid to the Bishop of OXFORD. Esch man is a power in his own realm, and the crowds who used to press round the en trance to the Surrey Gardens for the chance of touching Mr. Sennattotes hand as he held it out of his fly on leaving, wore as respootful in their way as any of the fair ritualists who hang upon Dr. WILDERFORCR'S honied words. The letter which is published to-day assails the Bishop of OXFORD'S argument, and dispute his inferences in the House of Lords. The poverty of dissenting ministers, says Mr. Seua- OEON, and with reason, is no more an argument against the voluntary system than the distressed circumstances of poor curate is decisive us against the union of Church and State. The Church of England certainly cannot claim exemption from the charge of asking for extraneous help. Each party has, in short, its begging-letter writers, and neither would consent to make its principles depend upon their appeals. Perhaps the moral of the dispute between the rival luminaries of Est►blish nu and Dissent is that both Dissenters and the Church might do mere for themselves; and above all might abstain from language, and tones of words, which would be con do Haled as inappropriate to other concerns in life. Perhaps King TliEouottE's letters may send the misuse of Scriptural phraseology out of fashion ; and both members of the Establish ment and the ministers of dissent may learn that common English is good enough for expressing the common sentiment, endorsed by OLIVER TWIST, and familiarly known as " asking for more." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Timesisso well satisfiodwith the practical re sult of yesterday's conversation in the House of Lords, that it would willingly let the memory of the manuenvros which provoked it die out of mind. But the arguments used by the ministerial speakers render it necessary again to state that Mr. Disraeli's words, together with the context and the circumstances under which he spoke, led to the natural and reasonable construction that in the opinion of the Premier, the Boundary Bill and Scotch Reform Bill were virtually settled. Besides, if the amend ments moved by Lord Beauchamp had been discussed and adopted, the contemplated dissolution in November would have been made impossible. The best way for the ministry to efface the memory of those unpleasant recriminations is to expedite the Registration Bill as much as possible. In another article, the Times takes it for granted that the Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Bill will pass, for at this period of the session it will be difficult to got another mining to spend in debate, and the government have not the power, nor apparently the will, to give any effectual remind to the mewore. The Daily News compares the elnilect of the liberal peern on Thursday evening to that of men who, detect ing an opponent in the employment of loaded dice or marked cards, leave the room and the society which has limn defiled by these disreputable practices. Mon learn a good deal between Thursday and Friday, and the real character of the device attempted by the government were shown last night by their abandonment of it. If the unhappy disparity between the implied promises of the Prime Minister—for Mr. Disraeli is careful to avoid explicit declarations—and the intentions and subsequent conduct of his colleagues and himself be repeated, the continuance of the present government in office will involve questions graver than those of party, or even of political principle. The Daily News expects to see the bill for the abolition of compulsory church-rates become law before the present senior' closes, and points out that one or two additions have been made to it which are quite inconsistent with its principle. The Post sees in the opposition of the government last night to Earl Beauchamp's amendments ample justifica tion of the course taken by Lord Russell and his former colleagues. If the premier will nse somewhat ambiguous language, he has no right to complain if he is misunder stood. The Telegraph thinks both aides are to blame ; the government for not making known, through Mr. Disraeli, their distinct intentions ; the opposition for hastily accusing the ministers of bad faith. By their amended course the peers will lose neither in influence nor in public esteem. According to the Standard, the liberals have gained the advantage " by moans of which few parliamentary leaders would be proud, and which will tend to deopon the shade of trickery—the suspicion of sharp practice—the taint of meanness and insincerity—which always, and especially of late years, has clouded the reputation of Lord Russell." ME COMPULSORY CHURCH 11,17'E$ ABOLITION BILL. THE IRSUOP OF OXFORD'S AMENDMIIPPTIC The following amendments will be proposed on report of the above bill in the House of Lords by the Bishop of Oxford : "At end of clause 7 insert 'Nothing in this act shall prevent any agreement to make any such payment, on the faith of which any expenditure shall have been made, or any liability incurred, from being enforced in the same manner as other contracts of a like nature might be en forced in any court of law or equity : provided, that in any suit or proceeding to enforce such agreement as last aforesaid it shall not he necessary to join as parties any other person or persons than the party to be made defendant, and the churchwardens, thapelwardens, or treasurer hereinafter mentioned.' "Page 3, line 11. Leave out, 'B. No person who makes default in paying the amount of a church rate for which ho is rated shall be entitled to inquire into, or object to, or vote in respect of the expenditure of the monies ari•ing from such church rate ;' and insert 8. No person shall have any right to vote upon any question as to making any such voluntary rate, or to vote or set, as church warden or chapelwarden or otherwise, in or as to the d:s petal of funds raised by any such voluntary rate or by such voluntary contributions as aforesaid (the rector, vicar, perpetual curate, or other incumbent of a parish o r ecclesiastical district excepted), who shall not have paid up his voluntary rate for the last prece ling u1e , 1341011 on which such a voluntary rate as aforesaid shall bac.; teen made, or paid a voluntary contribution in aid of the fund which in amount is not leas than that of his volun tary rate. "Page 3, line 20. After have stood' insert if any churchwarden makes default in paying a church rate for which he is rated, a treasurer who shall not have made such default may be elected in his stead, and shall possess all the powers appertaining to such churchwarden in re spect of the church-rate.' "Lino 3G, clause 9. After Churchwardens insert or to the treasurer,' and in the same line after • by' insert 'him or.' "Page 4, after clause 10, inuert tho following clause This act shall not take effoct until a fortnight after Easter, 1869: " Slit Court. WEiDSOR CASTLE, JULY 3. The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edin burgh and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday after noon. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Duckworth, also drove out. Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke and the Prince of Leiniugen and Viscount Newry, arrived at the Castle yistertbiy, and tuft fur Lon don this morning. The Marquis and Marcbioness of Aborcorn and Lieut.- General Sir Robert Napier, G.C.8., arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Honourable Caroline Cavendish and the Honourable Flora Macdonald have succeeded the Honourable Lucy Kerr and the Honourable Horatia Stopford, as maids of honour in waiting. The Prince of Wales, attewled by General Sir William Knollys, Colonel Kingscote, and Captain Ellis, wont to Aldewhott yesterday, and was present at the review hold by the Queen. The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. In the evening the Crown Prince of Denmark took leave of the Prince and I'rincesa of Wales, and, attended by Captain Lund, left Marlborough House for Dover, en route to the continent. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, Gibraltar, and Malta. A deputation from the council of the British branch of the International Decimal Association and the Metric Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, consisting of Colonel Sykes, M.P., Sir John Bowring, F.R.S., Mr. James Yates, Dr. Jones, Professor Leone Levi, and others, bad an interview with the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, at the Colonial-office, on Thursday, to urge the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures in the colonies. A deputation, introduced by Mr. C. Turner, M.P., Mr. Borstal!, M.P., and Mr. Graves, M.P., and consisting of the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Yates, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Allen, Mr. Thornely, and Mr. Baines, bad an interview with the Duke of Richmond, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill. The Royal Commission on Military Education met yes terday at the War-office. Present—Lord de Grey and Ripon (president), Lord Eustace Cecil, Lord de Roe, Lord Northbrook, Sir C. Russell, Bart., Lieut.-General Sir Duncan Cameron, Colonel Haythorn, Lieut.-Colonel Chesney, Rev. Dr. Butler, Rev. W. C. Lake, and Lieute nant Hosier (secretary). Curt = Corimi..—A Cabinet Council is ap pointed to be held this afternoon at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing street. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edin burgh honoured the Earl and Countess of Bradford by their presence at dinner last evening,: at the family resi dence in Belgrave-square._ Princess Mary and the Prince of Teck honoured the Earl and Countess of Denbigh with their presence at dinner on Thursday in Eaton-square. There were also present the Duchess of Bucclench, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Archbishop Manning, the lion. Captain Francis and Lady Louisa Egerton, the Countess of New burgh, Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosee, Lord and Lady Lindsay, Lady Mary Feilding, Madame de Bulow, Prince de Polignac, the Bavarian Minister, and Colonel M ilward. Last night a magnificent ball was given at Knightsbridge Barracks, by Lieut.-Colonel Duncan J. Baillie, Lieut.-Colonel Owen L. C. Williams, and several officers of the Royal Horse Guards. The open space in front of the barracks in Hyde-park was entirely covered in by several tents, and covered ways connected the tents. which were used as waiting, cloak, and refreshment rooms. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, arrived at 20 minutes to 12 o'clock. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, ac companied by the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived a few minutes before 12 o'clock. General Sir Robert Napier, G.C.8., and Lady Napier arrived rather late, nearly half-past 12, and were received with marked dis tinction by all present. The gallant general and his wife were accommodated with seats on the dais set apart for the more distinguished guests. Among the leading visitors were Prince Teck, the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and the Duke de Penthii:vre. The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews held a meeting yesterday afternoon, on the occasion of a public prayer and thanksgiving for the safe return of their missionarice,the Rev. H. G. Stern, Mr. Rosenthal, and Mr. Flad. Freemasons'-hall was the scene of the demonstration. Shortly before the hour for com mencing, the Earl of Shaftesbury (who afterwards pro sided at the meeting) arrived, and be was taken into the ante-room, where the late captives and their wives, who were in attendanoe, were severally introduced. Another action for assault and falso imprison ment, in which the damages are laid at 5001., has been taken against the county inspector of Cork and two of the police force of that city. In this instance the plaintiff is the sister of the wife of "Captain Mackey," the Fenian leader, and the defendants plead that they did the acts complained of in the exercise of their duty. A law case, which was awaited with much in terest owing to certain bearings it might have on the ques tion as to the correctness of the verdict in the trial of Mr. Wilkinson, the manager of the Joint Stock Discount Com pany, a year and a half ago, and which resulted in a sentence of penal servitude, was to have come on yoA:r day, but was announced to have been settled by agree ment. This agreement is likely to prove of great im l-ortance, and the particulars of it will, it is said (Times), Le made known on Monday. Mr. Wyse, of Cork, has contributed 2,6091. to ccmplete the ?rum of 12,000/. required to bo collected Within a limited time, which expired on the let inst., in order to complete the reetoration of the cathedral. 2 THE EXP fbUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre.--Manager, n reputation looks very much like an unewy spires is 're Mr. W. H. LISTON.-Scontl time, at a q Lrt-r to a, ' sense that a reputation is at stake. Had the that pi Miry« Act Romantic Drama. entitirat TIME AND THE HOUR. A. n it. an. J. L Toole. atfrEatta }trough. claTtork ; Mamas ministerial defendants confined themselves to in- man is li. Lucia.... ?dad:haw. 1 nal NOV Moore. dignaiioD and avoided statement, their case crowds } , OWL PLAY.—PEVER PIPER PICKED A would have been more satisfactory and more trance 01 I'EPPLIL-Speech for the Deffat , e, 10.20. - • - kw I. PLA V - Mr T1N11.17. ON THE TEA- _ 5,.. . ia d iannanl to be. i ' NS LAX DIGESTION. PEPSINE:-SIIVE - ii .. MEDAL.- PARIS EXHIBITION, 957. Momon'n rewire Wine, Globules, and Losenjes—the popular term.ay for weak digestion. Manufactured by T. )1011.9025 and BON, 31, 33, and 134. SOCTHAMPTONMOW, Rumellequare, W.C. Bottles, from 3a Boxes from B. 6d. Globulin in bottlce, from M. The Price of THE DAILY NEWS O now ONE PENNY. The proprietors of the "DAILY NEWS" have great matletaetion in announcing ■ step which they believe will be accepted by the public as its own justification, for the journal only advance. in the line of its natural development when it adjusts its publishing arrangement.. to a state of things which for two-and•twenty years It has laboured not unsueees.fully to promote. In preparing for this transformation one thought has predoml• noted in the solir•itud the proprietors. Their aim has been to make "THE DAILY NEWS.' universally accessible, not 4 alter its character; and they would consider their labour worse than Lost were they to consent to changes which would lower its tone or in any way impair its title to bold its accustomed place in publie favour. THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY Direction of the Journal will remain Unchanged, AND BE SUPPORTED BY AN ACCESSION OF EMINENT WRITERS. 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Novas' of BIRTHS, MAIRIAORS, and DIATHII, ars receive until 19 o'clock for assertion same evening. Price 24. dd. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4. THE AMENDE OF THE GOVERNMENT. Tux excited conversation in the House of Lords last night abundantly justifies us in having treated " the honour of the Government " as imperilled by the strange proceedings on Thursday. Lord MALMESBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and Lord DERBY as the representative of " the chivalry," all rose to vindicate " the honour of the Govern " ment" with more or less warmth of indigna tion or ingenuity of excuse. It would per haps be ungenerous to insist that, in excusing the Government so emphatically, they confirmed the grounds of the accusation, but it is scarcely too much to say that so great an effort to vindicate LONDON STATUES. MORALISTS toll us of the worthlessness of fame, and poets sing its praises, but there are certain arguments in favour of insignificance which have not occurred to either. Reputation has its incon veniences during life, but posthumous reputation is an evil which may well be dreaded by a sensitive man. How does he know who will write his life or who will execute his statue ? A bad biography is a terrible injury, but it ia even a greater injury to be set up in a public place to the derision of beholders, to be eternally condemned to stand in an inconvenient posture, to be placed in a critical pillory, to be blackened with London smoke, to have one's features marred with smut, or encased in cement, like the caricature of her MAJESTY in the Royal Exchange ; to be shifted hither and thither in accordance with the fickle taste of some temporary official, and at last per haps hidden out of sight in an obscure retreat known only to policemen and to nursemaids. Had we not better leave sculpture alone, since it is not an art which does us credit as a people ? Or if there is still a demand for marble busts, and naked nymphs, and sleeping beauties, and respectable bronze gentlemen in surtouts, let us at least deliver our public thoroughfares from the grimy abominations which add in no slight mea sure to the ugliness of London. The Duke of York on the top of a column with a spike through his head, the abominable exhibition at Hyde park-corner, Sir Robert Peel in Palace-yard, and Sir Robert Peel in Cheapaide, Lord Clyde and Dr. Jenner, Sir C. Napier and Sir H. Havelock, would have a fairer chance of appreciation if they were not thus openly maligned. And why should we persevere in injustice to the living as well as to the dead ? Is there any mortal man who derives ono iota of satisfaction from the sight of a sooty hero on the top of an arch, or of a sooty bareheaded statesman in a Roman gown ? If such a recognition of worthy deeds stimulated others to noble actions, we could endure a display which promoted national virtue although at the expense of national taste; but it is folly to expect that objects which excite contempt should at the same time stimulate ambition. No doubt if a great sculptor arose with genius enough to overcome the dis advantages of the age and of the climate, these arguments against open-air sculpture would be set aside as worthless; but so long as the art is only suggestive of mediocrity, or, at best, of mis applied talent, it seems injudicious to encourage it with grants from the public purse. THANKSGIVING SERVICES. IT seems strange to unsophisticated persons that a simple matter, such as the arrangement of harvest thanksgiving services, should not only require to be discussed in Convocation, but that a committee should be appointed " to consider and " report as to the way in which the clergy " and people might be able to use the proposed " new service without infringing the law." Even this mild proposition was too great an innovation for the Bishop of SALISBURY, who " ex " pressed great apprehension as the result "of thus tampering with the services "of the Church." If the BISHOP'S fears are rea sonable, it is evident to the non-clerical mind that there is something grievously defective in an arrangement which does not admit, even after the lapse of centuries, of alteration or re-adjustment. This rigidity of purpose, this resolution to alter nothing, to improve nothing, to recognise nothing that is new, has been in years past the bane of the National Church. It led during the last century to the secession of Jorer WESLEY and his fol lowers, and it keeps many out of the pale now who would be good Churchmen if our Bishops did not drive with such timorous exactness in the old ecclesi astical ruts. On points of doctrine we can under stand scruples, and make large admissions for prejudice ; but it is passing strange that, on the lighter points of church reform, the clergy should evince such repugnance to a change. Beautiful as our church service is, almost everyone admits that it might be improved by some additions, and several omissions ; that it is wanting in variety, in brevity, in elasticity. Sensible people ask why, when this is so generally acknowledged by the clergy and the laity, no improvement is effected. It is enough to reply that, in the opinion of the Bishops and Archbishops, " whatever is, is beet," and that the Bishop of SALISBURY reflected, in some degree, the feeling of his order when ho ex pressed his belief that to introduce into the prayer-book a thanksgiving for harvest would be to " tamper " with the services of the Church. THE first of the orders of the day in the House of Commons on Monday next, is the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practical at Elections Bills which has reached clause 5 in com mittee. The measure is viewed with growing favour by Liberal members, and it is generally felt that its disappearance would be a misfortune to the cause of electoral purity. The Minister of the Interior at Brussels, the Erlto Ala l'orlement states, has prohibited the use of nitro glycerine in Belgium. BALL AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—Lad night a grand ball was given at the Mansion-house by the Lady Mayoress. There were upwards of 600 ladies and gentle men present. Dancing commenced in the Egyptian-hall at ten o'clock. The excellent band of the Royal Artillery was in attendance, under the direction of Kr. Smyth. THE WEEKLY PRESS. It se'ms clear to the Saturday Review that the Tote of the peers on the Suspensory Bill was perfectly jus tified, because they looked upon the bill as intended to pronounce a decision against the Irish church before the decision of the country has been formally expressed on the subject, and, under these circumstances, their lordships were free, according to every possible view of the consti tution, to declare that they would not abandon their sin cere opinion, which was strongly in favour of maintain ing the Irish church until the voice of the constituencies "hall have made itself heard. Reviewing the part taken by the bishops on tho Irish church debate, the Spectator says that not one of them, by speech or vote, showed himself desirous to sacrifice something of outward wealth and power and dignity to win the hearts of a moe more open to the impression of generous sentiments and the genuine spirit of self-sacri fice, than Englishmen themselves. It was a great spiritual opportunity ignobly wasted by all the spiritual heads of a great church. The London Bairn,' remarks that it would have been strange had not the Peers rejected the bill. Their lord ships are committed, by a long course of precedents, to a fruitless straggle with the progressive enlightenment and liberality of the times. There is nothing we have gained in the last half-century—eo fruitful in reforms— that we have not had to wring from their un willing hands. On every occasion on which reason has come in conflict with prejudice, justice with the exclusive rights of a class, a large and liberal policy with an effete and worn-out policy, they have chosen the worse partand have enlisted themselves on the side of the failing cause. It could hardly be expected that they would turn over a new leaf in reference to the Irish church. The writer attributes this perversity to the influence of the bishops which weighs upon their lordships like an incubus, and leavens, or rather deadens, the whole MAW. Although, however, narrow and obsolete views have triumphed for a time, they 1611 be endorsed by the country. The Examixer does not believe that seditious dis content in Ireland would have been perceptibly dimi nished by the passing of the bill. Its opinion has always been that until the liberal party in parlia ment are agreed about what is to be done with the property of the church, the discontented bulk of the community in Ireland will take comparatively little interest in the settlement of the question. The advantage of the suspensive veto, however, will be that it will give practical opinion time to ripen. - In an article anent the functions and constitution of the House of Lords, the Saturday Review says it le scarcely Feasible that, in the midst of the great changes Which must result from thereform,or revolution,oflastyear, the House of Lords should long retain its actual position. The constitution of that body, first originating in the rela tions of society, has with the lapse of time become more or less anomalous ; but, with all its defects, the House of Lords is the best second chamber in existence. There is no strong inherent necessity for reforming the Upper House; but, in anticipation of the clamour which will shoitly be raised, it is not altogether useless to prepare the way for moderate concessions. With this view our contemporary suggests that the project of life peerages might be judiciously revived, and parliament, which would be called upon to decide the question, would have the opportunity of considering whether life-peers should possess any definite qualification, and whether the dignity might not be attached to the place of some of the great officers of the law. It would not be difficult to take precautions against any at tempt of a government to pack the house with life-peers ; and, if judicious selections were made, they would probably add to the weight and popularity of the peerage. The Stertator thinks that the Liberals are not be having well in their opposition to Mr. Dieraeli's anti bribery bill. It is, our contemporary says, an open, and, as far as any one can perceive, an honest attempt to put a stop to an evil which threatens to hand the entire re presentation of the people over to the Plutocracy, and which, if it spreads much further, will undo the effect of any conceivable reform. A better measure might pos sibly be framed, and we should ourselves prefer a stronger one ; but Mr. Dieraeli's secures the two main requisites, an inquiry on the spot, and a tribunal independent of party feeling. The lizavnitter, considering the further decline in the revenue, as shown by the last returns, contends that it would be unmeaning as well as unjust to hold the Chan cellor of the Exchequer accountable for the existing con dition of things. With such a parliament se the present it would be impossible to keep down effectually the habits of imperial extravagance which lie at the root of the whole evil. The new parliament, however, will have a moral right in finance to insist upon turn ing over a new leaf, and what we have to do now is to use wisely the increased power conceded to the nation in the choice of men for the new parliament, and in making them understand unmistakably that they will be expected to reduce taxation by cutting down expendi ture. The Munich journals speak of the approaching betrothal of the King of Bavaria with the Princess Maria Alexandrowna, daughter of the Emperor of Russia, and born on the 17th October, 1853. The Pontifical military almanack has just boon distributed to the diplomatic body at Rome. In the Papal army there are 8 generals, 24 chaplains, and 704 officers, thus divided as to nationalities-494 Italians. 129 French, 59 Swiss, 19 Gelman?, 20 Rclg...sus, 9 Dutchmen, and 4 English. FOREIGN NEW (THIS DAY.) SHOCKING CATASTROPHE. -A WIIOL VILLAGE DESTROYED. A terrible catastrophe has occurred in the Ft department of the Nievre, where a whole viihs, the village of Anul, has Leon destroyed by hr As many as 130 houses were utterly coticmp, and with them all the furniture, linen, and provi sions, and the corn, hay, and straw in the 1,14.. steads adjoining. The Minister of the hr. and the Prefect of the Nievre have sent 1 each towards the relief of the deNtitute hurl), I. mul a public subscription is opened. TUE CIIINESE The papers brought, by the overl.iii.l ul, rn on ling gIY4 . arl IM (A)lITIt of till' IlloV , 111.111• 11 . 1,1!S ill till . Tl..igitlolldr,o , l ~ f l :• Their forte is ..opposed to hr 30,0440 and they are' said to ho moving O. div:sions, in r.,41 • for Tou- . ...,ng, tlu• capital. The r,bels wt b• their I o I. the walls of Lon:sing Lilo 4.01'11001i of th•• - of April, having destroyed several viii It was thought that their t • to spiaire the grain junks on the I'. were very numerous at the time the 41 , tolint, written. Tll.. British gunboat 1.00,..• was , Tientsin on the 2Stlt April, and stops 11:x1 1...• 4 taken to secure the lives and property of foreig:,..e. in cue of attack. The British gunboat Opp o , ,uni Vi:LS V2(1041,4 t arrive; the French had already two gunls oats 4. Tientsin; and the Russian Consul Witii daily „X . ',Pt:ling one to arrive front the Amoor. The intis:rialists claimed to have 4,000 within the walls, and boasted of their ability hold it, but when the advice :s by this were despatched there had been no colli,i between the imperial and rebel i.,rees. JAPAN. News ha.s lx•en received of a boat whirh reported its missing after the loss of th , ` steamer Wo lga. In her were Mr. Whiti.ilier, as sistauit engineer of her Majesty's ship and Mr. M . Corntick, a civilian I,i-- senger, with some Co:L , t Japanese. It is now found out that Mr. wick, a Portuguese named Josi', Rn.i t!.., Men men and Japanese are saved, and are en :in not far from Yokohama. Mr. Whittak,r• eutubeAl to the hardship of the position and The Vineta visit,Yl thu sp..t, but, i❑ eons.. ..p. its blowing a gale, could not coiumunieute. the weather is more propitious the survivor; w. be brought off. (rintouon astrza's AGENCY ) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jl'I.Y EVHNING. A grand review, by the young Prince lueddiu took place to-day at the Sents Itierate, in b0n , ,,i7 of Prince Napoleon. His imperial highness to-morrow on a short excursion to llou,:a 4•; will take leave of the Sultan early next week. The Viceroy of Egypt is also about to leave• Vienna and Ems. M. Deliyanin, the new Tlvlb•nie MiuMer, p I his first official v isit to the Port. ycsterlity. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Juty 3. The Inman steamer Etna and the Nation 4: Company's steamer Denmark have arrivod out. Closing prices. —Gold, 140: ; Exeliango on London, 1101; 5-20 tinted States Roads, 1812, 1131; ditto, 1885, 1111 ; 10-10 Bonds, 107 i: Illinois, 157; Cotton, middling I.7pl:vil, 32k. Petroleum, stimulant white, ;JO. Flour. extra State, 8 doll. 25e. Corn, Mil mixed, 1 14. 10e. OUR PARIS LETTER. (Fuox ouu OWN counr-sroyorfar ) PARIS, FRIDAY EvEviN In the Corps Legislatil, yesterday, M the Finance Minister, trade a reply t,, M. attack. His arguments, as straini,d nl, 1. ;!.. friendly I'ay3, come to this—That tie, would be in a state of most adadrabh• were it not fur unforeseen nolitical ti, progress of science, and the tr3nsfornttti..n ,•' military arms. 31. Emile °Hider, who mph. I to him in a highly concentrat,sl bar. very effective speech, repented 31. Theers's argu ment that science was always progressing, :ul , l that the transformation of arms should be con sidered not as an extraordinary cause of expendi ture,. o!y but an ordinary one which n,. .• ,, ust recur. But, unlike M. Thiers, M. Emile Olken r did not admit the necessity for the large aruly which the Emperor keeps up. He strongly c In tended that expenses should be met by tax i tion rather than loans, because t,exa , i..n awakened the country, and disposed tip• people to exercise an effectual control government. Ile protested against burning . the candle at both ends as this goverwa.at had always done, namely, carrying on w.er and great public works at the same The reason why it did so was that, as war in th days was always unpopular, it sought to curry favour by spending money among the worklle classes when it declared war, and then boasted: " What a great nation France is, she is able to carry on war and gigantic peace works at the same time:' If the system were persevered in it must inevitably lead, not, he would hope, to bankruptcy, beet CPI-- tainly to paper-money, most disastrous expedient, and taxation which perhaps the people would not bear. It is nmioured that M. Roulier will shortly I. reatell %-iee-president of the Privy Council and of the Colima of Ministers. This dein go would make M. Roular a greater grand vizier them ever is represented in some quarters as a step thwart.: ministerial responsibility and parliamentary go vernment. The united journals the Constitediutinel and l'qqa announce to their shareholders the unpleasant news that in spite of various reductions of expenditure, there will be no dividend for the half year ending June 30. The Liberte fastens upon this fact as confirmatory of the saying of M. E. do Girarilin that the law on the liberty of the press only con ferred the liberty of ruining oneself by starting a journal. The "illegal" monopoly of the Moniteur, whose two editions pay neither stamp nor postage duty, and get the most valuable advertisements, tends necessarily, the I'resse avers, to mince the Paris press within a period of not more than two years to a few journals receiving subventions frein secret service money for defending the policy of government. 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