The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

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Mr. Eamon; Muses Foote sad Ltaknoc—And FLYING SCUD. Mews. Neville, Fel more, Flake, VoWire, &c. ; Mesdames Y. Josephs, C. &madam Bark loots. 'Wm. Locum, Raymood, £c. BRITANNIA.. TRW rwtolgO, THP. OCl.7lrarigTUß WINDING SHEET. 31r. Reynolds, ; DIsOOON. Mies & Coranoy.—CHEßßY AND FAIR OMAR. Resort Bigwond, Leslie, & Elton Sirs. S. Low! Macs Edwin, Booth, and Macartity.—And BLUE BEARD, HUM SIAM AT LONDON BRIDGE. TWA DAY —Kongo& Ob. Om Afternoos, Ob. tro. Ifolloahow—llornlmig, ob. ms..— Attereoca, Oh. 66)t0. LONDON, WP:DNESDA Y, MAY 15. Ma. Rom WasoN, who appears to be a gentle man of considerable leisure, cannot endure that the newspapers should publish correct reports of - what passes in Parliament, when by his own seek ing his words and acts are discussed there. A few weeks ago he applied to the magistrates at Guildhall for a summons against the proprietors of the TirneA, on account of an admittedly cermet report, which our contemporary had published, of some speeches delivered in the House of Lords on the 12th of February, when Mr. Riese WASON'S own petition, in which he had brought very grave charges against the Loan CHIEF BARON, was under dis cussion. Yesterday he appeared at Bow-street to ask for a summons against the proprietors of the Morning Post for the publication of a truthful report of the mine proceedings in Parliament, and as he was not successful , we presume we shall soon hear of him again at some other police-office. Mr. RIGBY WA.4ON thinks he did not get justice at Guildhall, because Sir JOHN MUMGROVE and Alderman SIDNICY could not see the distinction between " the slander " which a member of either House of Parliament " is privileged to utter and the conversion of that " slander into libel by publication in a newspaper " which is not privileged." Mr. RIGBY WASON i■ a barrister, and has a keen eye on privilege. We will not, however, trouble the public with this part of the case. It is true that we are all liable to actions at law fur anything in our parliamentary reports which anybody may think to be libellous iu its published form ; nevertheless every newspaper publishes the best report it can get, and must continue to do so. The " "lan " derers" in this cue, whose reported words are assumed to be libellous, are Earl Russ Eu., the LORD CHANCELLOR., and Lord ST. LRONARDB, and their accuser is a gentleman who admits that his own published counter statement is " libellous if " not true." The Magistrate, having heard Mr. RIGBY WASON at great length yesterday, and having taken time to consider the case, declared himself satisfied that the criminal law could not be put in motion against the Morning Post, and declined to grant a summons which he was sure must on investigation be dismissed. That Mr. RIGBY WASON is still unconvinced is but too pro bable. On the other hand, the very unreasonable ness of his application may have prevented the public carrying forward its thoughts so far as to consider what would be the consequence if his views of law and justice were correct. Parlia ment is not only visibly and rapidly drawing to itself a larger proportion of the business of the country, which, to a great extent, involves the discussion of personal conduct, but is the great court of appeal for the whole nation, in which character, by the way, Mr. RIGBY Wasps regarded it when he brought charges against the Loan CHIEF BARoN by his petition. It is right that Parliament should hear complaints of all kinds, even when they are most libellous, if not most true. Is the country, however, to know what takes place in Parliament ? And if so, is it to know all or only part? Suppose a private person to induce a member of either House to present a petition, declaring that one of the highest judges of the land a few years before pledged his honour as a gentleman to the truth of a statement for the purpose of deceiving a committee of the House of Commons, and praying that that judge may be dismissed from the bench—is the report of that petition, containing charges so grave, to be suppressed ? Suppose, again, that the member of Parliament who has thought it his duty to present such a petition declines to support its prayer ; suppose the Loan CHANCELLOR to declare that the petition will remain a perpetual record of the falsehood and malignity of its author ; suppose the Psalms to denounce it as scandalous and calumnious—would it not be rea sonable to infer that a matter which bad moved so many persons to the use of strong language was of considerable importance, and that their proceed ings in the question should be fully and im partially reported ? Surh we conceive would be the judgment of the public. The country would not be satisfied, we suspect, to have the conduct of the most eminent judges of the land impugned without the fullest discussion of the charges against them, nor would think that justice had been done if the opinion of Parliament upon those charges were not folly expressed and fully re ported. Mr. RIGBY WARW.( would do well to acquiesce in the judgment of the public. THE belief is becoming sironger that good iril: come out of the ordeal through which the railway interest of this country is now passing, and from day to day remedial suggestions acquire better form and greater consistency. As one point, it is becoming recognised that a government audit in some form would be a great boon. Such an audit need not be compulsory—need not be forced upon any company whose pileprietors are repugnant to it. Little doubt can be entertained, however, that shareholders would be very glad to avail them selves of the advantages it would offer, both as conveying an assurance that the debenture and other imams are in the legal form, and as tending to check financial irregularities in every way. The argument that there is no occasion for parliament to step out of its way to relieve the railway interest is perfectly untenable, for our whole system of railway legislation is admitted to be a national disgrace. Tho interference of par liament has been incessant, and for the most part highly mischievous. Parliamentary proceedings from first to last have cost the companies an im mense amount of money, while, as regards all the financial arrangements, parliament has been ab solutely despotic. Now that railway affairs are falling into a chaotic state, parliament must do its duty by coming to the rescue. As a first step, it must modify its despotic edicts with respect to railway finance. The restric tions under which the companies now labour with regard to the mode of borrowing and the rates of interest at which they may raise money must be relaxed, and the companies must be allowed to make such terms with their debenture holders as may seem best to both parties. It is quite impos sible that the debenture holders can be paid off, for these debts represent railway capital, and to demand that railway incense shall pay off capital is obviously unjust. Such an arrangement would entail an almost indefinite postponement of dividend on the ordinary stocks. With the de bentureliabilities capitalised or otherwise arranged for, it would be easy to deal with the comparatively limited amount of fimit;og indebtedness, and then, with all outlets, leaks, and extensions stopped, and with the power of the board-rooms curtailed, railway property ought to be placed upon stronger basis than it has ever held yet. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1867. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(LAST NIGHT.) CLERICAL VESTMENTS (No. 2) BILL. Moved—That the further debate on the motion for second reading be adjourned to this day two months—(The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury): On question" Contents, 61 ; not-contents, 46. OUR CONTEMPOR&RIES. (TIIIS DAY.) THI MALT TAX. Though the government have assented to the ap pointment of a select committee to inquire into the opera tion of the malt tax, the Tiara says the course of the dis cussion last night will certainly not encourage the expec tation that the present or any future government will be ►ble to dispense with the proceeds. The labours of the committee are clearly limited to an investigation whether the incidence of the tax can be alleviated by any change in its mode of imposition, and their principal task will be to examine the alternative proposal of a direct tax on beer. It may assist their decision to remember that the revenue commission appointed in the United Staten for considering the means of raising a national income deliberately chose a beer tax, and even invented a machinery to simplify its collection. The great obstacle in the way of following this example arises from the practice of private brewing amongst us ; but the Times inclines to the opinion that the brewers might be appeased by a rearrangement of their license duties, so that private brewing might be relieved from any tax. No free trader, the Daily News remarks, was ever found to defend the malt tax in the abstract, or even on its own special merits as affecting the producer and the con „mixer. The rising prices of barley, the increasing exporta tion of English malt liquors, and the gradual absorption of the brewery business by a few gigantic funs, are reasonable and interesting subjects of investigation ; but the Daily News trusts that Mr. Gladatone's weighty word. of warning "against holding out false expectations of government being allowed to part with enormous sums of money, there being at the time no means of replacing those sums"—will not be lost upon the deliberations of the committee. The evidence will be available for legis lative purposes when some future Chancellor of the Exchequer sees his way to • reduction of six or seven millions sterling in the estimates of the year ; naive, indeed, the brewers' license, as it was suggested last evening, can be safely multiplied by 12, or a beer tax be made • substitute for two-thirds of the present malt duty. . . The Star thinks the opponents of the malt tax must be disappointed with the course taken by the government. Though Mr. Disraeli had nut pledged himself or promised anything, he had suffered gentlemen conspicuous in his party, and one of whom ix now a member of his govern ment, to vapour against the late government as especially identified with the defence of the tax. It is certainly worth recollecting, considering the attitude of the present administration, that the late ministers were solemnly warned that there were limits to the forbearance of the agricultural classes. It was even declared, as Lord Edward Cavendish spiritually reminded the house yesterday, that the maintenance of the malt tax was owing to the im placable hostility of Mr. Onvistone to the agriculturists, upon whom Mr. Disraeli now says the tax is not a burden. 11114CELLANZOI9 TOPIC 4. The release of Jefferson Davis is commented upon by several of our contemporaries. The Times cites the leniency of the American government in this case, and in all similar ones, and the good effects which this policy has produced, as additional reasons why we should deal for bearingly with the Fenian prisoners. To send these men to penal servitude will be a wiser course than to give their memory the dignity of death in a political cause. If • commutation of the sentences could be safely decreed in Canada it can hardly be necessary to execute them here. The Pug loudly extols Mr. Davis, and declares that he will carry the confidence of the Southern people with him to the grave. The Ease does not share in this enthusiasm for Mr. Davis, and reads the many proofs he gave of his detests tion of the principles of human liberty as applied to the negroes. An ignoble peculiarity of nearly all Davis's manifestoes was his virulent denunciation and coarse sown of his enemies. Even civil war became more odious in his hands. He proclaimed the Northerners to be "a people devoid of every mark of civilisation ;" "disturbers of the peace of the world;" " miscreants ;" "dirty Federal in. waders;" "wretches whose atrocious cruelties have stamped infamy on their government ;" " whipped spa niels," and so forth. If brag and brutal abuse could have won success for the Southern Confederacy, Jefferson Davis would now be the conquering hero of the South. _ . Reviewing the proceedings of the late annual meeting of the National Society, of which it gives some fresh par ticulars, the Daily News state that every bishop in Eng land, in spite of the disclaimer of the Bishop of Oxford, is committed to a line of policy by which one set of sup porters is encouraged to interpret the terms of union to mean, as Sir John Coleridge has pronounced that they do mean, that all the children are to be instructed in the catechism and formularies of the church ; while another set of supporters is allowed to hold that the " discretion" reposed in them by another of the terms allows them to exempt some children from such instruction—the other side meantime sneering at these fur laxity of con science in so interpreting them. However, with the outspoken declarations at the meeting from churchmen of very different shades of opinion, and men who are not likely to be satisfied with speeches, Mr. Chester may be congratulated on having procured a real contribution towards a settlement of what has long hindered, and threatens still further to retard, the pro gress of popular educatifin, the rupture between the repre- sentatives of the church of England and the education department of the state. There is one circumstance which leads the Herald to augur most hopefully of Mr. Hardy 's qualifications for the Home Secretaryship, namely, that "he has been known for years as perhaps the best chairman of quarter sessions in the kingdom." Last year 187,519 marriages were celebrated in England end Wales. The births in the year were 73,188, and the deaths . - .00,933. The number of males born was slightly in excess of the females, being 384,742 against 368,44 G. There were also 12,776 more deaths of males than females. By far the greater number of marriages were registered in the December quarter. The greatest number both of births and deaths were in the March quarter. OONTE.NTS. LT. eIIANMELLoR EARLR. viKorwr. LORDS. thetinatottt Dartmouth Templet...T. De Tables ARCHBIsHorS. Derby Bianol'.4. Itgerton Canterbury Devon Chester Feversham Dublin. Doncaster Ely roxfortt ..._- __ ... . . .. . urging Eldon . _ ....._ 1. - drucester and Hart'mere Buckingham Erne Bristol and Mandos Lauderdale Llandaff N e f te ; bury Marlborough Leven and Mel-oxford Lytlelton Richmond rllle St. graph. Lyveden Rutland. Leman wens. Monteagle NA ROM. MINNeSbNIT NagOt Penrhyn Bath % teller). Ilanvers Carow Redeadalejeller W 1... Nelson Clinton Rollo Beauchamp Tankerville Colonsay Romilly Behoore 'Pendant Colville of Cnlsherhorne Cadugan VISCOUNTS. TOO Silcheeter cardigan Bawardeu Delamere Southampton CUntarron Ilford be Roo Tredegar. NOT-CONTESTS. WARQrIq/X. SARIS. 1114HnPS. tocee. ii °dearth, Mexclestleld Dow . F e. Farnham Westmeath. S ry, haftesbury Peterborough Foley , teller) EAI:I.S. f teller . Ripon (Winstead Albemarle VISCOUS T. Winchester. Inehiquin Bandon Leinster, Lome. t iserstono Chieheater DISHuPS. }Wiper Polt a more Cowper Carlisle Boyle Ponsonby tMrtrey Cork, &e. 'Weddell Port man Ellenhorough Down, ite. Castlemaine ItayleMh Fortmieuo Durham Congleton balterdord (trey lachfleid Cranworth Stanley id Alder- Ilarrowby Lincoln De Manley ley Kimberley London !;bury Wentworth. NOT.CONTENTS. Earl Granville CONTENT. Toed de Seem's.** K.rl of M. [orlon ►arl of Hoene _ ......_. Earl of Clarendon ILord Ravensworth Earl Kuaaell Earl of Dunmore Lord Dacha Earl Vane 'Viscount Ever.ley Earl of liarewood Earl of Effingham Lord Wyssfoed Lord WecUsury Earl of 'Limonll Karl of Cirlle Viscount Poweraeourt Viscount :Sydney. tits !Court. OSBORNE, MAY 14. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Prinoeas Louise, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Prince Leopold. Primus, Louise drove out this morning, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Gordon. Princess Beatrice went out also. The Prince of Leiningea visited her Majesty, and re mained to luncheon. The Rev. George Prettier° bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. Colonel Maude left Osborne to-day. The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the Hon. Flora Macdonald as maid of honour in waiting. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. On Monday morning the Prince of Wales left the British Embassy at Paris to pay a visit to the Universal Exhibition. He arrived in a carriage and pair at the grand entrance at the Pont d'lena at twenty minutes to 12, as by Lord Royston and Major Teesdale. The Prince was met at the entrance of the Exhibition by Mr. Cole, C. 8., the British Commissioner, and was afterwards joined by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. He ascended the iron gallery, from which he had a good view of the machinery below in motion. In fact, he followed the pro gramme of the Emperor on the previous day. The Prince and suite then visited the French section, pausing frequently before many of the more im portant stalls, such as the Sevres china display, Gobelins, and jewellery. He; then passed into the English section, and directed his attention more particularly to the displays of the London jewellers, proceeding after wards to the fine arts galleries, where he remained some time before the pictures exhibited by British and Ameri can artists. The Prince seemed to be very much inter. sated in some American canvases representing • view of the Rocky Mountains, the court of Washington, • Ken tucky home, General Sherman, and other characteristic productions of American painters. After smoking a cigar ette in the central garden, the Prince returned to the in terior of the building and visited the Italian court. The :Actions occupied by Russia, Sweden, and Denmark were next rapidly glanced at by the royal party. About 2 o'clock the Prince and his friends took luncheon at Catelain's American cafe, where they remained an hour, and afterwards walked round the restaurants of the outer circle of the iron amphitheatre. After luncheon his royal highness proceeded to the Portuguese wine depdt, and here indulged in a little mild tasting. The Spanish Court was then visited, and a little later the Prince imbibed some British beer at Spiers and Pond's buffet. The Prince now wandered from the Christian to the 3Lahumedan world, where, after visiting the temples of Egypt, he and his friend, went into the Arab café and indulged in long pipes. The Arabs, in honour to the heir to the throne of England, brought out their camels, when amateur races were indulged in, in order to show the paces of Oriental quadrupeds. The Prince seemed to have attracted a good deal of interest wherever he went. THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.— The Queen, accompanied by Princesses Louise and Beatrioe and Prince Leopold, is expected to leave Osborne on Friday and return to Windsor Castle. Her Majesty is expected to leave Windsor for Scotland about next Wednesday. The Queen has just conferred on Sir Benjamin Guinness the hereditary right to bear supporters to the family arms, a distinction limited, exempt in special cases, to the peers of the realm. This favour is granted in re. cognition of his munificence in restoring Bt. Patrick's Cathedral. The Queen, on the recommendation of Lord Derby, has conferred on Sir George Merman, late mem ber of the Supreme Council of Justice in the lonian Is the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The Lord Lieutenant has left Dublin for London. The committee of the Alexandra Orphanage for Infanta, Upper Holloway, announce that her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland has kindly consented to lay the first stone of the new orphanage on a day which will be shortly announced. At the meeting in Dublin yesterday in favour of a commutation of Fenian punishments, a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant was adopted, praying for a reapite on the grounds of policy, and citing the late Canadian clemency to the Fenian, as a precedent. A letter read from Cardinal Cullen expressed approval of the object. The anniversary meeting of tho Royal Geo graphical Society will be held on the 27th. Mr. George Peabody arrived on Sunday evening by the Scotia at Queenstown, sad put up at the Queen's Hotel. THE HZFORY MELTING AT ST. JAIIEb'S HALL, TO-NlGHT.—Great interest is excited by the announcement that Mr. Bright, Mr. Stuart Mill, Mr. W. K Forster, Mr. Vernon Harcourt, and other well-known reformers are:ex pected to address this meeting. On going into committee of supply on Friday Mr. Daiglu& will move fore select committee to con sider the operation of the Small Tenement■ Acta, and to re port their opinion to the hound as to the best means of adapting the position of the compound householder in par liamentary cities and boroughs to the exercise of the ekc tive franchise. _ _ _ It is reported that the morning sittings of the House of Commons will be commenced in the first or second week of next month. " If lodgers," says the rims, " will really sub mit to the yoke of the franchise, of which we have the gravest doubts, they will do something to redeem the gift from its base material affinitiel. Without house or land, and unsoiled with the sordid business and low quarn Is of parishes and boroughs, the lodger will be the pure and simple elector, standing in nothing but his own clothes, and forming the golden unit of the British constitution. Perhaps a pardonable curiosity to see this new creation of legislative wisdom allayed the prejudices and lulled the alarms of the House of Commons. It never did a great stroke of business in a more offhand style, and with lees appearance of qualms. On the whole. we aro disposed to think that its hopes and its fears will he alike diaap. appointed by the paucity and insignificance of the result." PAIRS lATIST DTTFZIAIGENCO. ONVIWII TUBOBANIL) HUNGARY. PESTH, MAT 14. Baron von Benet has submitted to the Emperor the draft of the speech to be delivered by his Majesty at the opening of the Reicharath. It is said that the speech is characterised both by forbearance and frankness, promises liberal measures, and dwells upon the fact that the Hungarian Diet has greatly contributed by its attitude to the reconciliation of Austria with Hungary. ITALY. YLORINCE, MAT fl. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties Signor Ferrara, the Minister of Finance, brought in the Ecclesiastical Property Bill. He stated that GOO millions will be levied for the use of the state on the ecclesiastical property. This amount will be made up partly by the public rentes inscribed in the Great Book and appro priated to the department of public worship, and 12 millions of lire from the ecclesiastical establish ments. The remainder will be obtained by an extraordinary tax on the ecclesiastical pro perty in the proportion of twenty-five per cent. of the capital. The payment of the extraordinary tax will be effected in eight half yearly instalments, the first commencing Jan. 1, 1867. The amount remaining after deduction of the extraordinary tax will be applied to ecclesias tical pensions, and to defray the expenses of public worship. The financial operations sanctioned by this law will be contracted for by a commercial com pany which will receive a maximum commission of 3 per cent. SPAIN. MADRID, M.ty 14. The printers and editors of Spain are signing a petition to the Cortes against a bill brought into the Chamber of Deputies by the Catalonian members increasing the import duty on paper. ARRIVAL OF THE HECLA. QU EENSTOWN, MAT 13. The Cunard steamer Hecht arrived hero at 12.30 a.m. to-day, with 88 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1 a.m. All well. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rum ova owa coauaroNocirr.) PARIS, Tuzisuer EVENING. The impression I conveyed yesterday that the Marquis de Moustier's communication to the Chambers was eminently satisfactory, is abun dantly confirmed by the furious attitude of the discomfited organs of the war-party. First of all comes the Pays, whose editor is M. Grimier de Casaagnac, the authorised historian of the coup d'etat, the sometime political director of the Con stitutionnel and the favourite framer, until the abolition of the address, of that echo of the speech from the throne. The Pap' enthusiastic desire to protest against the pacific conclusions of the treaty of London leads it to tamper with truth. It says that the Moniker re cords the fact (coots:ate) that the Marquis de Mous tier's communication was received by the Corps Legislatif with " chilling silence." Now the truth is that the Mouiteur, which stated that the com munication was received by the Senate with " marks of approbation," says nothing at all as to the reception it met with in the lower chamber. This reticence, assuming it not to be accidental, which is most likely, is something very far from the affirmation that the message was received with icy coldness. It should be remembered that the coup d'etat constitution expressly prohibits any applause or disapprobation in the chambers, and that it is only by virtue of recent toleration that the Moniker takes notice of either. The Pays, moreover, pro ceeds to contradict itself. For it says that there was in the Corps Legislatif a timid movement of approbation, but which was stopped by cries of " Hush! hush !" Assuming, therefore, the autho rity of the Pays to correct the report in the Moniker, it would not appear that the coldness of the reception was "icy," but that there was a difference of opinion which led the Mtmitetir to conform strictly to the rules and take no notice of any manifestation. If any credit were to be given to the pouting of the Pays, it would only amount to this, that the Senate was pleased and the Corps Legislatif displeased, an4l as the vast majority of both bodies are equally devoted to government, one does not see what practical inference can be drawn from their divergence in point of enthusiasm on this occasion. The Pays, however, draws the conclu sion that the coldness of the Corps Legislatif was equivalent to a " demonstration," and shows that there is a perilous " general situation " in no way changed by the settlement of the Luxemburg affair. There was some hesitation at the Bourse, but the upward movement ultimately prevailed. The announcement in the Moniker that the soldiers of the class of 1860, whose term of service does not expire till December 31, are to be discharged im mediately, is an earnest of some importance of an intention to relax war preparations, although it is justly observed that these men, who go only en conyi, and are old serviceable soldiers, may be re-called to arms at any moment, whereas the reserves called out, and who require drilling, are not sent back to their homes. Rente rose 35c. for cash and 40c. for account, closing at 69fr. 50e. and 69fr. folic. Credit Funcier ruse 12fr. 50c., and Italian 15c. Mobilier remains neglected. The Northern and Orleans railways rose 7fr. 50c. each. A Hungarian journal announces with no little aatietaetion that at the election which has just taken place of deputy for the town of Ktausenburg, votes were given for Kossuth and Alexander Teleki. The white charger to be ridden by the King of Hungary at the coronation is now perfectly broken in and proof against shouts, " Eljens," waving of handkerchiefs, music, salvoes of cannon, and the like. A grand rehearsal has taken place, and the noble animal showed the most stoical indifference to the enthusiasm which wee vented for his edification. The dress of his Majesty will consist of a crimson dolman, worked with gold, with pantaloons of the same ; light yellow boots, coming half-way up the thigh ; a blue imperial mantle, and the ribbon and order of the Colden Fleece. On his head the Bing will wear the crown, and at his side the sword of S. Stephen. The bit and bridle of the horse are of gold, and the trappings will be ornamented with the arms of the different " comitate." The Gazette of Venice contains a long account of the reception given to King Victor Emmanuel on his arri val in that city. The grand canal and the square of St. Mark were magnificently illuminated at night, and the King was enthusiastically cheered. M. Guizot has left Paris for his estate at Val- Richer to pass the summer. The bar of Paris is organising, it is said, a grand banquet in honour of 11. Jules Fevre, on the occasion of his election to the French Academy. Pius IX. completed his 75th year on Monday, having been born May 13, 1792, He will have occupied the Pontifical throne 21 years on the 16th June neat. UNIVERSITY OP LONDON. The annual meeting of the Convocation of the University was held yesterday at Burlington-house ; Dr. eronaaa, chairman of the committee of convocation, presiding. The working plans of the new university building were presented by Dr. CARPENTER, the registrar, on the part of the senate, who explained that it had been found impossible to produce photographs of the elevation, the original design for which was in the library of the House of Commons. He added that Mr. Pennethorn, the architect, had shown a dis position to meet the views of the senate as to the in ternal arrangement, but that the Board of Works would not allow any interference with the elevation. As origi nally designed the elevation was in the classic style, which Mr. Cowper, while he was at the head of the de wtment, insisted upon, but Lord John Manners, when be succeeded to the office, directed that something in the medieval style should be prepared for consideration. That was done, and he (Dr. Carpenter) being requested by Lord John Manners to state which he preferred, while disclaim ing any right to speak for the senate, expressed an opinion in favour of the mediaeval, rather than the classic, design. The board had accepted the suggestions of the senate as to the theatre which, as now arranged, would ac commodate 800. He tendered this explanation, because the discussion which took place in the House of Commons conveyed • very erroneous impression of what actually occurred. Mr. W. P. O'RE/LLT, 8.A., M.P., presented the re port of the annual committee, which, he said, gave a his torical account of what had taken place during the year, and as the more important suggestions it contained would be made the subject of resolutions he need not further advei to beyond moving them. He moved therefore the reception of the report, together with the following reso lutions, viz. :—"Ttuitit be ao instruction to the annual com mittee for next year to co-operate with the senate in every effort that it may be thought desirable to make in order to secure the full and practical recognition by the legislature of the claims of the university to parliamentary represen tation." " That in the opinion of convocation all persons who have passed the Matriculation Examination in this university are entitled to any electoral privileges which may be accorded to persons who have passed any Senior Middle Clams Examination of any university in the United Kingdom." He explained that the object was to obtain two members for the university instead of one, which, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had shown a disposition to depart from the mystic number of 658 members, he thought possible. As to the second resolution, it merely proposed, that if the educational franchise was &dented, the passing of the Matriculation Examination should qualify, in regard to the right of voting for counties or boroughs. Dr. stemoN seconded the motion, but on the suggestion of a member the resolutions were separated, and upon the first a discussion arose, in the course of which the claim of the university to two members was canvassed pro and con. In reply to a question from Mr. CERAM, as to what steps had been taken to secure a second representative , The CHAIRMAN said that the circumstances had not so much altered since last year as to give rise to any hope that they were likely to obtain the second member; at the same time, as by the Scotch bill the Scotch universities were to have a larger representation, it might he desirable that the subject should again be considered by the annual committee. (Hear, hear.) . . . The motion was then put and carried. The second resolution was next put, but was opposed by Mr. J. Goldsmid, M.P., on the ground that as the naive:- eity matriculation was so superior to the middle class examinations it would lower the character of the university to adopt the same qualification; and supported by Mr. Jewel, Q.C. Mr. Liwx thought the resolution inferred that there would be a large proportion of the students of the univer sity who, having matriculated, had no intention of going up afterwards for a degree. The resolution having further been spoken to by the Rev. P. Swim, who said the resolution did not touch the fancy franchises, and the matriculation examination was a test answering to the middle-class examination for those who did not go on to the degree; and by Mr. thilux, who also supported the resolution, it was carried. A resolution amending the standing orders in regard to the fees payable by members of convocation and reducing them to te. • year or a life composition of It. was, after considerable discussion, adopted by • large majority. In reference to the supplementa l charter to which the assent of the meeting was intended to be asked theCnAta- MAN explained that it had not yet been sent down to the University. A special meeting would be called on the subject. Some criticisms upon the terms of the charter were inter- posed upon a motion for adjournment moved for the pur pose by Mr. Quain, but not without a protest from several members of the violation of the rules of debate and of the standing orders of convocation. Mr. ROl3Ol it moved, as recommended in the report, an instruction to the annual committee for the ensuing year to adopt ,uchateps as they might deem advisable to obtain a suitable budding for the University. They had not been consulted as to the design, and when they complained they were told they were too late. If the design proposed by the government architect were carried out, the building would be an object of ridicule. The motion was seconded by Dr. PTS SMITH, who criti cised both the classical and the Gothic designs as wholly unsuitable for the pumorse. Mr. CREAK inquired whether Convocation would have an opportunity of expressing its opinion in reference to the proposed building. l i The CH A IRMA), replied that the crown provided the building, but had taken the opinion of the University as to the accommodation required. Parliament, however, required last year that the design should he laid before the House of Commons, and the dravrinp were now before the House of Commons, but what would be the result he could not say. He was, however, told that no would be made with the front of the building :TX House of Commons assented to the design. Perhaps the beet course would be in the mean time for the annual committee to canvass the members of the House of Com mons. The Rev. P. SMITH submitted an amendment by way of rider, requesting that the plans and elev►tions might be submitted to the members of Convocation. This was seconded by Mr. CREAN, and, with the original resolution, carried. The ballots for the election of three members to be sub mittal to the crown to select one from as a member of the artiste resulted in the return of Mr. E. Charles, Rev. F. W. Farrar, and Mr. J. Girling Fitch, but the first-named, having the larger number of votes, will, in accordance with wage. be selected. Some other business mostly of a forma character having been transacted, the proceedings terminated. LADIES' MEDICAL CtILLEOE.— The report for three years to the present month states that the third annual session of the society's teaching operations has closed with results that an both satisfactory and promis ing. Fifty ladies have entered as students, of whom twelve entered during the first amnion, nine during the second, and twenty-nine during the third. .Of these ladies, ten were widowed, fifteen married, and twenty-five single. Some were amateur students, who attended the lectures merely as a means of personal education, nine were mid wives previously in practice, one the matron of a mater nity hospital, ten were sisters, daughters, or wives of medical men, one was prepared to go to Delhi II•O missionary in connexion with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a considerable number were or would have been governesses, and some were of no occupation. Many other gen.lewomen would gladly have availed them selves of the college, but were prevented by want of pecuniary means. It is hoped that the foundation of scholarships will shortly extend the advantages of the colleges, an honorarium to gentlewomen thus placed, and who, being of suitable personal charac ter, pass a satisfactory examination in general knowledge. Probably there is no object upon which benevolent end discriminating persons could more judiciously bestow a few hundred pounds than by giving their name to a per manent scholarship in connexion with the infancy of this important public institution. The advantages which this college will provide are now becoming so generally appre ciated that the number of students will no doubt steadily Mclean every session, and the prediction that the college would eventually prove self-supporting will soon be veri fied. But the organization of the college is still very incomplete. In order that ladies may be enabled fairly to compete with gentlemen in this section of medical prac tice, a museum of illustration and library of re ference must be provided, while a charter of in corporation has now become indispensable, in order to give character and proper public recognition to the examinations which, henceforth, will distinguish properly trained Unties from the incompetent, and often unworthy, persons who now call themselves midwives. It is obvious that funds for these objects could not be ob tained by imposing disproportionate fees upon the stu f dents, while such an attempt would only be an obstacle to gentlewomen, whose entrance to this field of usefulness should be facilitated. The present stale of fees is adjusted so as to make the college self-supporting when put into full working order. Not only has the sun of £4M 14s. in fees been cheerfully paid, but it is a fact of much algid ficance that a further sum of 4112 ns. has been voluntarily subscribed to the society's fends from among the students ; and there is no doubt that, as these ladies succeed in practice, they will become substantial commistors in for. warding the general objects of the society. The committn ask the benevolent public to consider the many-sided good which they are accomplishing, and treat to receive that additional support which is now urgently required to ex tend and consolidate their work. The addresses of lady midwives, and all particulars, may be obtained of the lady secretary, at 4, Fitsroy-square, W. Tin Ixerrrvrios or Civit ENoutzsits.—At the meeting of the members of this body on the 14th inst. the president , Mr. John Fowler, announced that the la te Mrs. Locke, the widow of Mr. Joseph Locke, MP, past president, had bequeathed to the Institution of Civil Engi neers the full leurth portrait, by Grant, of her late hus band, tngetkier with a sum of 2,0001., free of legacy duty. ADMIRALTY, MAY 14.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieu tenants—A. B. C. Booth. to the Canieleon ; E. F. Day, to the Mahlar. Assistant-Surgeon—Dr. T. D. Allison, addi tional of Fiord, for charge of Lisbon Hospital. Chief Engineer—J. W. Carpenter, to the Asia, for charge of engines of the Donee. Engineer—d. Wilson, to the Tra falgar. First Class Assistant Engineer—J. Glayshir, to tho Dauntless. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.) The SrLucre took the eba'r et a qrart r put 12 o'clock. SUNDAY TRADING B'LL. A number of petitions were pre. ented in favour of the bill, and two or three against it. Mr. T. HUGHES, in moving that this Lill be read • second time, mid there was a great am not of u.istroder • standing and prejudice on the matter, but he thought he should be able to remove the mistinds retarding to the hill. The law on the subject lay in a r at , ~e 1. The first statt.as on the subject was the act of Henry VI., which was in its mope pretty much the same as that of this bill. That stature recited that fairs al iair. kets had been held on Sundays, "to the abuse of their souls," and it enacted that no more fairs or markets should be held on the Sunday except for four Sundays in harvest time. That statute seemed to have been suE• dent for nearly 230 years. The next statute was pawed in the first year of the reign of Charles 1., and the object of it was to enforce religious worship of • certain kind, and penalties were imposed on attending certain spate such as bull baiting. That statute he admitted was ob jectionable. The statute of Charles IL, the law now in force, was also open to the objection that it was to enforce the observance of the Sunday as a religions institution. The provisions of that statute were extremely striet It prohibited entirely all trading with the ex• oeption that cooked provisions in inns might be sold, and milk before nine in the morning and after four i• the afternoon. There was another act that mackerel might be sold in Billingsgate on the Sunday ; and another,whieh was passed in the reign of William IV., which enacted that bread should not be baked or sold after halliest one in the day ; then there was an act pared in the present reign, which allowed the issuing of crimiaaj warrants on the Monday, and another act was passed a the 14th year of the reign of her Majesty, repealing that provision of the statute of Henry VI. which allowed fairs to be held on four Sundays in the year. A select committee on the subject in 1948 reported that Sunday trading was carried on to • great extent ; that 5,000 tradesmen and 15,000 smitten% were thereby deprived of their day of rest, and that there was a growing desire to prevent Sunday trading ; and the minority of the committee made • separate report recom mending that a measure should be introduced enacting that no goods should be exposed for sale on the Sunday, that none but articles of nem silty should be sold, that no shops should is open after a certain hour, and that penalties should be accumulated after • third conviction. In Las. beth, in 1857, a district was visited in which out of 1,41 if shops 1,0:44 were open teethe sale of goods. It was worse now, and in certain parts of Lambeth the grievance was intoler able, In the other parts of London the inquiries showed that instead of 20,000 persons being engaged on the Sunday there were not leas than 100,000 so employed. From the state ments which had been made to hint he believed that nine-tenths of these persons were desirous that Sunday trading should be prohibited. The law was ineffective. It had been tried. Summonses had been issued, but the parties not attending there In/ no resource but to name • warrant of distress against the goods. But in many cases the goods were of a perithable nature, and bad been sold and consumed the day before. In other cases a penalty of 51. was imposed, but the tradesmen merely offered to pay in advance. He did not think it would be prudent or just to put down Sunday trading altogether. At the same time he denied that there was any force in the ob. jection that this bill legalised Sunday trading. Nor was the bill intended to 'flake people religious by act of parliament; H it were, he would have nothing to do with it. The bill enacted that certain articles should not be pee -1 mitted to be sold at all on the Sunday. Perishable articles, each as butcher's meat and vegetables, were allowed to he sold before 9 o'clock in the morning, and articles sold at pastrycooks' up to 10 o'clock. The bill did not interfere with public.houses and beershops. Mr. FitESHFIELD said he was entirely opposed to the principle of this bill. He believed the present law to be better. It should be called • bill to license Sunday trading. If the boo. member would bring in a bill to render the present law more stringent he would go with him, but believing this bill would have •ha effect by rendering that legal which was now illegal, be moved that the bill be read a second time that day ix months. Mr. POWELL said there was no doubt an evil for which • remedy ought to be provided ; but in country places the bill would no doubt be regarded as legalising Sunday trading to • certain extent. Sir B. BRIDGES supported the second reading, bat objected to some of the details, and said he must vote against the third reading usages they were altered in com mittee. [Left .peaking•] UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. —There is to be a great gathering at University College, London, this evening, which barn been fixed for the annual debate. Be subject is, " Ought sex to be a disqualification for the exercise of the franchiser Mr. Edward Henry Both, WA., LLB., will open in the negative, and Mr. Pluhp Magnus, RA., will reply. Professor Fawcett, M.P., will preside, and "the presence of ladies is requested." "Tea and coffee at 6.30." _ FIISTIVALOi THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.—(TNIS Der.)—This afternoon the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, sad other civic functionaries, proceeded in state to St. Peal's Cathedral, to asset in the celebration of the 21:itli anniver sary festival of the Bons of the Clergy. Their lordship were received by the Very Rev. Dean Milo's.% the Key. Canon Henry Melvin, B.D. (the canon in reddened, and other officers of the cathedral, and by the stewards, on Ms list of whom were the Duke of Cleveland. the Earl el Cadogan, the Bishop of Peterborough, the Bishop of Lich field, Mr. Gaschen, 11LP., Lieutenant-Colonel William Gray, M.P., the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Er. C. J. Monk, M.P., Lord Digby. Mr. R. N. Fowler, Sir J. Phillips, Q.C., Mr. H. RodweU, Q.C., Lc. The seats for the civic pa ty and the more distinguished visitors s"n arranged at the north-east oorner of the Lap open sum under the dome, and the door contained a vast rongtvP tion. There was a full choral service, the choir of St. Paul's being assisted Ly those of her Majesty's CloPti Royal, Westminster Abbey, and St George , Chapel, Windsor,with inembersof otherchoire,about2Ooroicesina , &misting. The sermon was preached by the Iter..l. Russell Woodford, M.A., vicar of Kempsford, honorary canon el Christ Church, and chaplain to the Bishop of 4 Word- Ig weirs that the benefits of the society are extended to ell the dioceses of England and Wales, that the aver* another of persons assisted yearly is about 1,300, of whim 712 are willows and aged single daughters. At the ekes of the service a collection was made on behalf of the fuel of the society. This evening the Lord Mayor will Freial at a grand banquet to be given at Merchant Taylers'.lo ll, the archbishops, bishops, and other distinguished pen* having been invited. THE BISHOP ur LONDON'S Fr sii.—iestenlay an important meeting of the clergy and ehurchwardeos d the diocese of London was held in Willis's-rooms. ne Bishop of London presided, and the object of the meeting was to take into consideration the present position of the Bishop of London's Fund, and the best means of raisin; 3 to the amount required for the acoomplishmvot of ** objects proposed at the commencement. The room ' ll crowded, amongst those present being the Earl of Shrews. bury and Talbot, Lord Ebury, and Viscount Sandoe. After the proceedings had been opened with lover. Os bishop, at considerable length, showed the present rooen. of the fund, the amount reused, the work done, and I , * was still to be accomplished. Although more bid h i en dose than many of them believed they could aciaimehsli ebee they commenced, it was yet not enough to meet * spiritual destitution of the different districts of a* metropolis. He suggested that they should begin ' ln "' and, by forming separate erg:Wadden, in each parish in the diocese, raise the money which was needed for th ew great work. He reminded them that the engirt''' . tions of some persons, to the effect that coutributie the fund would lessen the efficiency of the ,drier hrcsl agencies, had not been realised. Address, were Ja* livered by several of those who were present, but no fe' mal resolution with respect to the fund woo submitted se the meeting. On the motion of the Earl of Shies*/ and Talbot, seconded by Lord Ebury, a conlisl vote s. thanks was awarded to the Bishop of Loudou for calla , : the meeting and presiding over it. His lordship, ie se knowledging the compliment, said that on tire nanbil after next sermons would be preached throurheot tot whole of the diocese in behalf of the fond, mid he 1664 he obliged if the rural deans would take me:tours for making the fact known to the people throughout their esveral deaneries. AN ORPHAN INSTITUTE IN THE. NoNT 11 •"" Mrs. Abbott, widow, daughter of havrrenre Masson, sq., of Douglas, Isle of Marl, late of Whif , lin" . * solicitor, has given 5,000!. to the fund for the erect's° . an institute for orphans in the northern co:Mies — e nd ' krfond Pacqutt. Sir John S. Pakington, M.P., will this year ao tribute the prizes on board the Worcester, off :nth.' the 22nd of June. The cerenubny of initiating Mr. Eslnionil Ntal i and Mr. George Potter u honorary members to t', ° , Ancient Osier of Foresters took place last night 51 C.' " New Adelphi," Char:idol-stmt. Sittings N Jtu Mitt Fray.. I terday. 'Pre the grou a n h.J K obi o bject. fhe Lord (.71 Inn to star • meta after tb ;hat be e u Pr *Rice in re tyff tram ening Wm Fray I eery able sob eruel/y treated father, wh. tr The Lord CI of the plaintiff Mir Fray— dianharge a i. This was a b. &dress, and t in • p,octane in . he Local Ma a. . Mr. D. Keu plaintiff, and I • ; The facts , der an airs b e . 0, Lantaater-] . ear, and at CI the 24th I ht row the vestr ek be defendant ,o paid. IN . the defend& ▪ • distress foi • ',data paid t in • •eipt for this at .pon the distil . pay the exp ed • seised soot Kt urnstanoes the ed distrain. se The Lord CI • difficulty in IM I- ye been me es estry before tl be Mr. Keane — re. nd for it ; an Mr. Salt er ma ord's remedy on • • actually p ▪ A verdict we be nt, subject to bs .uestions of lap a. et • Atings in Bast n. • ennittn r. TN' Mr. Justice at •d this was as re or the breakini e e • from afr or the carrisq elding. At be wheel was t es as shown that , the manufact Iss f detecting it I -on had been et fore starting o be . tests of a. •rn at Durham lieved the evil at . • they found . • new trial M • Blackburn,' carrier of pus. roadworthe t; er an int d not be gun as out of vast i ✓. • Pueenitera, an ▪ owed it had be b e .. time to doe at adhered to tit • law imposed re Mr. Justice MI Mr. Justice EL to the law he con at • a new trial, a at :ligation of rasp es, to provide L a the court ruts Id discharged. kids discharge (B TREE • Mr. Coleridge, • .e plaintiff ; Mr the defendant The testatrix, ughter of • bars It • business in Es • 'Mem, one of (cadent. The p reeman had man attorney in Lo trlx's aunt. ()J , • . bad offende 11, but that he • kly wages till ▪ in Liverpool. • .ereby he left h • ver returned to . bequest was , • 'von, the otl II yore, until ly the who we :t7taiir e" 4 • made on th e t eel by • codici let of October the Plaintiffs ▪ • Were opposed • t Of earsoiey . 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