The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-18 00:00:00

/L. , z / N 1. ‘‘ S l'A PE R 04 • dy. ssauaxs * -Nardi it w D.-t. ,aWre war names*. Fw4l aoruworr— M LL Ma Wha WsWon— LL !AD: 5 1 1. rr ail =L i tirtml Irk= of • Pessorm. CIF. Wei& 4 Anat. MEM mei& No. 8,591.] (Stamped id. AdditiosaL) [TWOPENCE!, CRT PHILLIP Direct (to IQ lot Much, all padlenge be ~el. eel dwell by ebe rob.). the dap JVLINDU/L. • 1. Miran Mtn., (11101101 L'ammyymkr. at the Jszy t Lsolue Dub. Wm fell J•11111rt11•101Tr SAIPO Um= T A X II te MUMS awl Co, et.LD MONT BLANC DI OPEN TO-NIORT. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. LONDON, THURSDAY WICKING, FEBRUARY 18, 18158. as attempt wee made by a well disposed clergyman to raise a enbserton it of levying a rate, hr was met by ills rep , " Why do you come and mak f or a subscription hom you re a legal memo of obtaining what you want r The power to levy a rate was made the excuse for ref:wing a subscription. Some year§ ago there was a proposition mob In that house exempting from the payment of church isles all psrwas not members of the established church. He eOaYsed there appeared to him in that proposition nothing unreasonable. Objectiona to it, however, were raised on both sides, and It woe said it would have t he effect of drawing a social line of demarcation between the two classes. Another proposition wee that the rates henceforth should be laid for the maintenance of the building only, and should not in clude any of the expenses for carrying on worship; but that was one of those ocenpromiees which satisfied nobody. A third proposition, which was brought forward by the primate of the church, mounted to as abolition of the rates, but with this peculiar revision, that la whatever pariah they we abolished the., i met have been psviously a certain amount of Mtation. He 'Mindy areal la those provisions, but he thonnt the object would be better attained without the prelitninary step of a bell agitation. It seemed to him that none of thee* compro mises rust the approbation either of the house or the tioun. One by one they had been discussed and condemned. The present state of the law had been equally condemned. Of this he wee quit* sure, that the country gmwaliy wished to Ipv• the wont state of the law aMed. That being the OK he felt he had no option but to support the MIL (Cheera.) DR. HAHN'S MUSEUM awl GALLERY of ro ao i rtstattreM i krar k tio.. 11 =1p Mod i r o as • qur. Co tam sala . erflar Is !WA gum. : ma .... t sae :ea . ramaresA i aa • 'Wis:/ard" MIR . : sad ea " al . ." al Elm TM Mime Ow Valid TM asoOloaata. analalog TIM VIM •WI sir .....tbli. Va .. tin 6... is Stri a = sk. .• Illjela= alalla De. %lam lieleras lad s preorms mg pea fro aa Ye NNW al 1 MEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Wr.Dwasnas, Fn. 17. LITERATURE. The History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke. By Thomas MACKNIOTIT, author of the "Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. : a Literary and Political Biography," &c. 2 cols. Chapman and T HE VANDERBILT EUROPEAN STEAM SHIP LINZ. riTSD IV NAIL STUMM. ems ftelamplui a Vl:rti CAVIUIDT LIN Ins. mal I.a. u sti ri:2l,ll,lolrMiais L i pi d% V ei Tra s is i C Miy.7 . asfel Pa 34 n pro m icicrE Vila= gr am AS; Eined dm SC VILO IrliM . =,s4n"rifi l e I. II ts EL 13. e.: Mr. ALAIN It. (3111TISTIN (S in Am 1.4 ole M.A. ll i = IMI IC MISNAME. awl 011., mud NEM% Marian. PRIVATE BUSINESS. 81(NIND READINGS.—MadaI• Stinted Psalms; Maul' bead Improvement Connaimioners (Osa and Water) ; Black burn Railway; IlaselwAir Poor; Stank and (iambi& Railway; Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley, &c., Rail way Companies Amalgamation ; Warrington and Stockport (Capital) ; and Cheater Osa, Bab. r ÜBLIC BUSINESS. Tule CONSPIRACY BILL.—By Mr. J. C. EWAN; frame the Pees Society Liverpool, in favour of the 818 for COD =to Mader. By Mr. BANS from the Rev. Mr. al Derby, egainst eel alteration of th eist, eileain Mk= la Utie ooaatry. NOTICE INVEIVTOIIB-.01 1 71131 airmat • t oi tu t arprogre gia.t MITr reword . Nrii'="44, grew Prat 7..,/ ± maw t. she ~el gad ON INS. eb. not tliti Ilellelserf Now. roo. a. al las [CAL RESIDENCES (IRELAND) BILL. . _ Amor. IM. St at the at Ur finals liall. . at the liarift Me. . , tor mou COMP4V. After our riiWjellt yolhor4tho .Of thanks to the - peaMlonnt ill yes . 6 • to, only three Wog bid op to few Se , _.. t. Tai Coath all foompfol '—" That 04 thanks opt , lio Alq . Goma Mr CAI it.o . . -',.. ' ''' - _ ,Intlia • Meier- . ' g. 4 • • -Omen' oir . A•dosei‘womio,.nri, • ii.: • t DIEM - .. _ ►rw I& at Ohs Royal M Is Ilrithli Rook IMRituals Join. d Use Ilegink Iturvicz. iftessralk, LOME* Ildishurak. 1•0411. reb. U. ft tbie Omar of made. 1x0.:3. rec.. 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"1 . 04 Or law lion* Era. I 1.41.10,4 ANAL to, eook.etoo. by notebas. btrko. le • lOLA. tiMite.i. by t• lend. tar to 14arlk. H.... rotas Loot. whorre rtsezdt. by till ham.. Ng.. d Iftoo•• Vtitliore Partook 10‘..1 Atter OAP. -. P. Allwo*. w. r.t.c.t....r a K Airway*, lay A. algebter dirk I.lwlrs. cur Im=a rib 'WNW. 'omegas! &TEAM to NEW YORK Direct, sad the darkNM Swart roe° to Our& Wal.—Ths cod 'VILA MPH' A WM 1111/HP 0011PAUIT Mac tal.prowood kce swam Wipe froln . Elf i nFOOL to NSW TOSS co Mira r NAXOS'S° CITY of ULTIMO"' CITY of WASHINGTON . Saw Mats. 14 H. sad 11 writ's. Ws soomwinseco lea Coronool maw II Parraoaro tar Ocarr= Wa l.d r i sNarailit s ackal dm" ea we adermanexa arms ler foribor sorop.broliCuriEll:::l42l.ll.ll44.3. ToorscbcColacs W . cc IA -.41 looms Rums was. a. MIGRATION to CANADA obi tbr UNITED CS II amalleANlClra=t i = dm 4 , Ctl.lo se elli A le u rill=l* Wait Alpo et Se i VT .E....,:a0r.........,.. i .---:—...nr."Birstliftle"glialiaaismossbjell at maw OD jou et Orids in Owl iillia min as ..aI.L I'm tin tittll a grang doisia awl way bionmilsk appli so Ouri tesek Isilwas el Clambh S. Oti 211•4011111. 1.0. LONDON and NANTES LINE of STEAMERS sad CLIMIIL—OIisse. LeadaWeielese•—The men lowa CITY DIA XVI& Casale W. TAMIL domed • I leave leeillon f q Twins We SW sad se wow issedk assise Id sod ILL Three" wise by railway le llorlessw&es• sad s• srsirdlsie swasses —Yee he seeds ==tzell(11031 sad WILSO weir N. sr L au RANK of DEP 081 T, 3, Pall-mall East. Nisbilisi Nay. LK 'NOTICE IS MUT OIVINII. eat ham Ws ft mil ti U MO" INTMNIn NOM& OM deg ammin FM CUNT. pie soma ftrolo levoilog man re gi=ile doe Ng pis of Os NM NgasesTr y iat Me on NO N. Ikaselogritimbst. lib I. SR TA VE ST MENT in MINES.—DIVIDEND NUM pa *to 30 der orat. per ramor. simbrodr war two or am arafi Aga sestany 6 7111:11 . V. ATlNTerrforied Omegas ruderirals &my dromilogred d olio. la berm mod awl ow a dog WW risr =NM.I.Ii dr WM .dr Or samilderOdll NOY prionair. Ml_ We Dto Imo rile ay do die I 11.1 of Illord Al& is ma sr prima rddli amilmor salty roommardoldlur Orr loweinrat sr • somidededis roe turbo. 0011111111101.-0. pordided at We el Wilk. ems. Id per dini ea liarmandr. _ _ _ _ war—Valsa Bask d Loads& C ia . 1= 8 :4 1141 . 0. V.LVP ant. ain.iiad Jew . i.o. TIN sad COPPER MINES. row esti w.lllllloSalth ER MINES. Mel Mel PAZ T. sad esperlmee Ow NWT MAX mr a Aeon Ilse Vbre4mage of SS Pit bele delft lb. ermine pm d 4140 pa tee as sold. Mot base dr usiMiljt im iree perebeelog es= premal pirPim'. =albs ri:se sa ri l s e Z. 14 7 7 1rbe DI V I DX 3 D ire s ereg his i p si .un zar ea . t,= . 113111 . e ga a ziz aw areme Minim ebeeereireee Wet beeemed. Ern WEDDING TOUR of the PRINCESS IneaIANITIWITA 711411114ll i traDAT .116 the 4 6 4 e a um nele a rl Or Pilaw mei Meow toperegulth Mos Istimillo g PIMA= tom the wa ft Limber N o of Me Illestabad ?Imes *Ow M.. sit am.- O amplee. wit i et ll ik rot lo rat as r A awirrnaga. c 4.r 1:4 T j N.—PLAN se the ATTACK and lIIMINARDIIIL‘T of CANTON. Mum the of the ;to Aro fa.. or OIL WM* Pi ra l io" . =ir, ma M. so Law "fee la Pro; to Awn It GI. otsoSo d Closonallows ra w IL GS, Is m054.114_ Tie WAY se Pamir to Ant moo St. Amp sb4. Soopopler to Ile Pow Chmloooroso /11^ was dor to de ~winos sal Sag al leasisespo J.* •411.1 rd. cAWNPOO R.—CITY sad ENVIRONS at altzra= Os. 11... IS laic le obeis b.: Is TlAX:and of Ye S. ALI, me 4116 WYK *ow Cialeesele Bs" wit dew 1. las P. 4.460; Ili M Y pan Svo,_lls.. WHAT OU WIL L. t.km lemelst aans Me W. Pwassi=ired Wort RE I 4NHEN WAS IT & F.. cANTii r o gter A Palk AND WOO PAID VT • Spud= dellwared le Ws Beer GB tie al 101*Bary. t . r . g. 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Ana al umelsklP.4% .. ..17 -16 -- --I I.—Tbe WITH. rehisvi:, r a = gala Mr CIE of had with -. a nd children, in the face of Lucknow by Wm-General M▪ r Atha laio—Chertra ;I —would live is hilkey es long ao the Mfg* nem Mr. Law= objselei le the loWedatelead Har James Oldrela's min. Hs woe the Nue del lie kedlliae. He men the peeeiele Mari CILIVSNA C 1 16.4 1111111141118 st. Mr. liffu.Loron Br mil Os ode led no rime in the oseaNdea el Oude ; k had only the mamas Is white the Watery eperetioas had been conducted. It sees wee tees diebaguiehed this another, it wee oil only ter hie piste" la the field, bei iris his hen* earlaet in ilsollelar in emu= the chief ocamead, oder ad le deplete eaelke heave sinew of the lamer he woe Judy tailnel et renew* la ionises etlisielsow. (impala lArnnez weld no ma la the woke wee NOVI aleileguielotel foe chivalrous character, lofty didulseeledses emd devotion to the publi , merrice. Mr. Lswi o disclaimed any imputation on ftk Janes Oweven's military cherseter. The CH•IIIMAN Sidi 10 led done 1,01/0 : he had amend fain if allowing lassmit is be made • tool of by Lerd Dell • laimea. lay ma who bed the slightest acqualahmes with has kaaw he VS/ lithely beepable of anything of the kind. The preview question we thea put and negatived, only twe heat bag held up to Meer of it, end the resolution alfea..„ . _ „to. S ai SA 11.111 A X thin most the third resolution —" That the tholes el tide wart he glom to the other gallant officers el bee M i r t u e si ittrey, Navy, sad Marines ; and also of the HonoursWit Company's mervioe ; for the in tepidity, the paths. endurance, and other high military which hem wearied their discharge of those arduous which they haven sowedully performed." He did net IWk It called to s y murk. Aare ease commits', the resolution was agreed to lad the know one sandwl by the insertion of Captain Pietism& Ths Clll4lllll AN moved the next resolution —" That this earl dad highly approve and acknowledge the high eon" the devoted loyalty, and the brilliant services of the narmsommieloned °films and men of her Majesty's military sad bevel brass ; of the European troops in the service of the Nee. Zest lade Company ; and of the great body of thorn nodes corps throughout India who have remained faithful to ear standards ; and that the rams be signified to them by the cenunenders of the several corps, who are desired to thank them for their gallant behaviour." The resolution sea agreed to, as mui also the neat resolution —" That this court do highly appreciate and cordially approve toes self•devotioa, and exemplary conduct of the prom who, though not holding military rank, have nevertheless paribrused valuable military service in dines of the various posts throughout the distnrbed dis tricts la In& at width they ware resident; end that the Osones-Oenerel De requested to thank those persona for disk staritail sal pembeie exertions." Mr. CILAWSIIAT moved the addition of mother resolution, ltfvfrKl4e thole at the court to the aeth poise of Tile CNA:IMAX opposed the motes He did not wish to detract tram the ealost services of them ma, but other native Wars had been squally faithful, and they ought not is asks a dielisodal. He begged to more the previous geodes. The geodes ems then pat, and ies a show of hands the easiness deinred the previous vireos to be decided in the re. CLIFIZAT demand I a pad. The embus wen— te: 22 ne zeolite vas Wigton mot pet. 9-13 ...-- ^ • • The CIAIIIIMAN that Slid that it was his ditty to 11111:10t1b011 that the wet wee farther made aperial for the porgies of laylag before Ur prophesies • draft of a bill now before per limes' entitled WI kir enabling the Bast India Com pete, to rase nom" IN W the United Kingdom for the service at rase no" it." 111 r. SIM tam was great ignorance In this emir, as to the re power of India. If the re ams were prvotrl, atenaged there would be no used to have • ken in this country. It had been mated In the house that the land tax jn India amounted to two-thirds or thres h:ewes of the redt. Such was not the fart ;it did not exceed ewe-twentieth. In Seagal the land tai peaduad about 000/, whilst the manual vase of the lend was 100,0001. • in tire North Weet Provinces the revenue wee 4„00W. ex an annual value of 75.000,0001. The hen. proprietor was proceeding to eats the facts on whisk be based his auction, when it was moved that the mat be am.* iiiiiireiprietore set being present, the court adjourned. 81111lIZT ARCHTOLOGICAL SOCIETT.—Sir Henry Rawllneen, thenewly-elected member for Reigate, hes m oped the Agee of Vicet-President of the Survey Aremologi cal Ileelety ; sod the 'Mop of Wincheeter has finally ar ena the amine, congress of the ' shall bc held v e7r i seedity, the 13th of July, at Farnham Pdero. ROYAL OZOGRAPIIICAL SOCIETT.—At the !Ten hag merlin on Monday next, at Barlinfton-house, itir Roderick Murchison to the chair, the following papers ore to be read:-1. Explorations in the DIMS of the HattrAn ;by C5l C. Graham, Esq. 2. Account of the Arras Islands; Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., F.R.G.S. 3. Extract of that unreal of the Schooner Eliza 800tt ; by Captain J. Balkony ; communicated by Charles Enderby, Esq. F.R.0.8. IM Nzw CAPITAL OF CANADA.—The intelligence that Ottawa bad been selected by the Queen as the new /spited of United Canada, was setui•officially promulgated het Tuesday. It is generally admitted that the selection is the haat that was r•.• 41., The. noeitiott of Otaaara. one portion of which Is in Cpper and the other in Lower Canada, renders that city the only compromise, geographically speak ing, that could have been made ; and when tidal. said, there remains of those questions nothing but that local selfishness which rendered it impossible for the Canadian parliament to settle it. Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto would each have pretend that it had been 'elected ; but even in these cities there as • general disposition to admit that, after them, Ottawa is the next best place. Moro than this could not be tOttawa is approachable by railroad, and is, be• eed on the finest river, alter the St. Lawrence, in Canada. Between the river and the Georgian Bay there is aitibelits for settlement 24,000,000 metes of land. There may I mos sot undoubtedly is, some waste; but making all due for this, it in evident that Ottawa roust be the entre of the future population of the country. The naviga tion between the Ottawa River and the Georg,ian Bay will wee day be completed by means of the French River and Lake Nipissing. When this is done, • large portion of the heavy produce@ of the great west most end its way through the Ottawa into the St. La. =co.—Toronto correspondent of Oriserhan News. A COILIPOZATION TAKEN IN EISCIITION.—Lord Thurber used to my that a corporation had neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to be lost , but it would seem that It turnthe agreeable power of being taken in execution. . does not operate against a municipal body, • Lh. doe,. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon than mil* have bleb seen in the Guildhall of this city. new the deer, • C d e r n Y ipO r e e e i kr eas intodivtreullorl middy_ plmiT — ire m et thl Nub& of the Temple, or the Rev. W. Conway on behalf of our soldiers' wives—but turning a pair of sharp, wear goad round the room, on the Mayor's chair, on the plebiese sof ether " fining," not reverently, but in • ooestenreil spirit, and with the eold cyntoel examination of a pawn- Weber who holds • different opinion from Ton in Ito lihswarth of • aliirt or a fist-ir in. fa fact, this individual lePeallaild the Sheriff of this county, and as soon es the we ever took paeraaafoa fa the Queen's name of all the sod casuals of the corporation of this city, under a distress Mar mot. This startling sweat owes its origin to the ei of the Town Clerk, whose little bill amounts tol e rdir. 19s. led., to which may now be added 9CI/. fur the expressed the essentials, makieg altogether a total of sot far from USSt., to be paid before the dire uressity of ettipptag the Galittell and all that thereto is can be avowed.—Rorketer OW Clatiain Journal of Wednesday, Feb. 17. • Mr. NAPIER moved the second reeding of this WD, the object of which was to codify a mass of confused legislatien en the subject with which it dealt. The old law was most ugust—k west on the aasumption that bends. house Auld always be kept up as new houses. The question of mein Wu wee most unfairly treated, and the families of deareeld eiergynian had often to pay over end over again for ablarßy bill which he Introduced some te r = are into annual and Ent •It wee found Nat the law, a r O ula the a be u required to be repaired, sad in this came the neesseity arose the between the old en:l a w He had a of the koonventenore and whisk the bet ad net meet. This ME for ' t "E c4 2 t o b o 'met, be proposed to reed the bill a second time. all sot gommeit It seta after Nester. sir O. GREY had no objection to the second reading. It was full of details which could not be commidired now, but might be dealt with In committee. The bill wu read a second time. CHURCHES (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. NAPIER moved the second reading of this MA which made provision far churchyards in conneske with now churches, for which sites were even. The bill was reed a wooed time. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. Sr 3. TRELAWNY moved the second reading of this bill. It was not his fault that it was not in abler hands, but as the chairman of the church , rate committee, It was thought proper to leave it in his hands, and he had reluctantly consented to take charge of it. The principle for which he was contending had already been established by the abolition of the vestry cesa and ministers' mosey. (Hear.) In the course of last session • bill was introduced by the noble lord, and the country expected that the measure would have been carried into effect, but se yet nothing had been done; and when • deputation waited on the noble lord the other day, he turned them round his fingers In his usual happy way, and they received no no re st all. (Laughter.) - Various plans had been propounded at different tines as aubetitutes for church rates--such as charging the amount upon the land tax, upon church property, and upon pew rents; but he decided)rnat jected to the latter proposition, because the working a had a right to the nos of the church. (Haar.) It would be • good thing if some steps were taken with regard to that point. Oa the continent, Ifs person elated to go to church on a week day he found the doom open. (Hear, leer.) But in this country the churches were cloeed on theirs days, with very few exontiona. Sometimes double SWOON were given, and then the children were kept sitting for two or three hours listening to maxims which were systematically falsified in privet* life. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) It would be much better if the clergy had abort services on week days, and spread the merriest over the entire week—( b ear, bear) — and instead of rendering the Sabbath • day of morn/sem sad misery would encourage the opening of parks and museums on Sundays. (Rear, hear.) It wee high time for the clergy of the church of England to Initiate • better system than the present. (Hear, hear.) He implored the country gentlemen to give him their support on the present occasion. He ap pealed to the government to brush awn the cobwebs in this as they had done in other eases, and trusted the house would give its puppet t to the mason, the second reading of which he sow begged to move. (Hear, hear.) Get. THOMPSON, In seceadhig the motion, said he would entreat hon. gentlemen to lay ride all feelings of preju dice, which had been engendered in dive of contest, and en deavour to put an end to the spreading sore, which could do nothing but reduce the strength sad happiness of the country. (Hear.) The question having been put, Lord R. CECIL said if the hon. gentleman who had pro posed the second reading of the bill would extend half the mien which he had shown in the cause to the sweeping away of the system of pew-rents he would be a great be nedsetor to his country. (Hear, bear.) Without entr a i n / church len the merits of the doctrines of the of England, lea would address himself simply to the question of church rates. The law regarding church rates, as laid down by the bun gentleman anointed to this, that every perish ba d the aimed= of granting or refusing a church rate. 'Met were the law where wee the grievance? (Hear, hear.) The pieces w hich sent members to that house were not obliged to oubecribe a farthing. They infused to sup port the fabric of the church. But why did they say that those who wished to subscribe should not do so P (Hear, hear.) It was said that it was hard on the minority to be compelled to sabecribe against their will. But the question wee, ought the minority to carry oat their opinions in de in= li the majority P (Har, hear.) There were many gorwho *rood to woe l who might just well say u wee el set lo be celled ari to co to as the f . The objection in the ens of church ntribute ratewa d i, that the majority might not to have the power of taxing the mi. aptly. Di how did the case stand ? The returns which Ira lets perste" to the house showed that independently of is elves wires the church was supported by other means, there were 7,337 wines in which the question of church rates had when, of which 6,960 had adhered to the payment, sad tidy 157 had resisted it. (Hear.) In other words, more than 95 per net. bad paid, and not quite 6 per cent. had refund. In Wales, out of 640 parishes, 457 had Pala, and 83 had resisted. In the counties of Steen, Wilts, Somerset, Devon Hertford, sad Cumberland, out of 1,633 1,501 h ad paid, and only 32 had re s isted. (Hear .) result of experience proved that in ell place ' s when the church et England had held her away the longest, she had been almost absolutely undisturbed. But in some densely populated towns, which had . rapid)y in creased, and where the means and energies of the church had not been able to meet the require ments of the people, the rate had been ne fused. It had been said that the voluntary system would meet an the necessities of the can. But in many instances where it had been tried, it had broken down. And it had not succeeded even in the matter of education. The church had been established for ten centuries : the voluntary machinery was out of gear, and she could not raise 350,0001. • year at a sudden notice. Although the church powered many advantages from her connexion with the state, she wu labouring under some dimadvantages. The dissenting bodies were at liberty to move from one place to another, but the church was fettered by the parochial system. She did not appoint her own clergy and her own bishops. He objected to the bill because it sought to remedy a grievance which did not in reality exist, that if it did, it was a grievance without a cause, but principally because it was the first blow for dividing the church from the state. (Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances he moved u an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Sir H. ELTON mid, although he was not prepared to agree to all the details of the bill, he would candidly late that if there were no other means of giving up church rates than by doing so without compensation he would willingly NOCTiiiOIP th em. (If •-as, herr.) Ily ,lotus imrtlia.aunat wowla extinguish • nuisance and confer a great boon on society. (Hear, hear .) Church rates were the greatest obstacle in the way of the church. A wealthy dissenter had told him that he wished to see a division of church property, but he should object to the abolition of church ratee, bemuse they gave a handle to the dissenters to give the church a good slating now and then. (Laughter.) He knew many disin ters who had contributed largely toward* the church, and believed that they would readily co-operate in the rennte• trance of the fabric. In the event of the abolition of church I rates he thought some provision ought to be made by the state towards the support of the fabric. The state ought not to indulge in the luxury of being generous without being just. (Hear, hear.) He thought some such plan might be adopted as that which was carried into effect with regard to the building and maintenance of schools, and that one-third of the amount necessary might be contributed by the estate if the other two-thirds were raised by the inhabi tants of the district. Ho looked upon the question as me in which churchmen and dissenters might meet half-way, and tented they would unite in bridging over the way kw • per fect reconciliation. (Hear, hear.) Mr. E. BALL believed there was nothing which caused so much dissatisfaction enmity, and bed feeling as the duestion ut church rates, and be was heartily desirous of oing all he could to deliver the country from the payment of such an obnoxious impost. Mr. DRUMMOND said that, in his opinion, this bill WNW to destroy the church of England, and on that grand be opposed It. Sir G. Grey then eon but there being loud cries for Lad Stanley, whores, at the rms time, Sir George gave way, end Lord STANLEY said he believed it was an acknowledged lace, that win the hat few can the animosity which timely noisiest between the great bodies slash. erillessiste and the seteMbhed church had greatly osbollol. (Neer. base.) UMW thaw Myrumstoscao the pray of the sioliiiimd aura woo clearly a policy of eon • bear.) Bet what did they do wherever the ad. i party was sommrically week or where it woo bowwombly iloposod P Tiro .they put a tax ow them ; but whirr, Se seateskesist pat was sloes tied bad a pier swiries they rides' free =hew He wilesel le mg !fret twee • wee set a antis" is sr merles the chum P tr e n thou, with to the ladles et the dewy, he had often heart from= whew= pills* eavareest with the esker that who . .. . . Sir 0. GREY said he ventured to suggest that they 4 0 .... ld recognise the abolition of church rates where, for a time, thes bi r d been abolished by the will of the robs , that should sot deprive the vestries of other More mem willig to tio so, sad when their constituents were willing to pay the rate, from making a nits. And farther, though at me time be was opposed to It, yet, with a view to relieve the Individual-con sciences of those who differed from the established church, and with • view to lessen the chances of a contest, that persons should be /stilled to declare them selves, not memben of any other denomination, but not mem bers of the established church, end that thereupon they should be exempt from the payment of the rate, coupling that with • prohibition an their taking pert in the vestry in any eerie smatical affairs. He would further propose that, with a view to supplement the funds, there should be a general power gives to churchwardens to raise a certain proportion of the fonds required by pew rents. C. Oh.") He knew there wen great objections to that proposition, but he did not think that when that course wee adopted with the consent of the ordi nary there could be any sound objection to It. lie farther proposed that there should be power given, 17 a relaxation of the Mortmain Act, to landlords in parishes to charge their estates to a limited amount es • substitute for church rates. Those were the terms of the compromise which, in 1866, he submitted to the house ;'and his hon. friend (Sir W. Clay), who then had charge of the bill, expressed hie sada factioa with them. His' hon. friend the member for Surrey objected to the course he took at that time, and said that those intendment' would ahem. the character of the bill, and he thought the better course would be to bring in a new bill. Not having received the same serorancs from his hon. friend who had charge of this bill that he had before, he wee in clined now to object to the second reading of this bill, and if the bill was rejected be should then be prepared to lay before the house a bill having the objects he had stated. - - Mr. A. B. HOPE (who spoke amid loud cries of " Divide") observed that no two speakers had viewed the question in the same aspect. He had heard strong arguments in favour of church rates from those who supported the bill, and equally strong arguments against church rates from those who supported the amendment. He should have supported the bill which the right hon. gentleman proposed but for the ob jectionable principle respecting the abolition of church rate. in towns w he re they had been refused, which were utterly irreconcileable with those principles of Christianity that made the church the church of the poor man. He believed if the question were not periodically agitated it would =beide. Mr. GARNETT said be had been • churchwarden, and could speak to the unpleasant duty cast upon churchwa rdens of having to sei as the goods of dissenters for church rates. He believed that the abolition of this twopenny-halfpenny rate would establish the church of England on a foundation on which she bad not stood for a hundred years. He me dially supported the motion, The CHANCELLOR of the 11XCHEQUER sold the compromise offe e r i e t de n lir George Grey re sot one of the re ordinary natuoff • certain re— of the extremes with • view to parties, but if it should be acceded to would bring about a mecum! solution of the question. His right hon. friend had explained to the house that there were two classes of pariahs.. In one class ohurch rates had not been levied for several years. A substitute had been found, and local opinion had acquiesced in the abolition of the este. With regard to that ekes of pariah's it would not be • cemervadre but ft would be, so to soy, • revolutionary proceeding if they were to attempt to force on them a re newal of church rates. Therefore his right hon. friend pro posed that in those parishes ;where the question was prac- Welly settled, where there had been no church rate for • per number of years, no church rate should be levied here after. But then there was another large class of parishes, constituting 90 per oast. of the whole, in which church rates were regularly made, where there was no desire to suppress them, and his right hon, friend proposed that they should not take away Iron those parishes the power of making church rates. But then there wee this objection—then was • minority of dissenters who might object to the rate. Well, then, with regard to them, he proposed that they should be exempted on making a declaration that they had • conscientious objection to the payment of the rate, and did not belong to the church of England. Any person, therefore, who signed a declaration that he was not • member of the church of England would be excused from the payment of church rates. It was • remarkable fact that the persons upon whom the burden of church rates chiedy ill in thernral d stride were those who were willing to main tain the present system. Church rates were really a deduc tion from the landlord's tent ; and if they were abolished the gainers would be, not the rstyers, but the landlords. He thought the house would sea that his proposal was not • mere compromise, but that it would afford • practical solution to this difficult question. (Hear, hear.) Mr. (MANEY would support the measure of the govern ment, because, while it would remove all praotioal objections, it would provide for the maintenance of the fabrics. On this ground, and on this only, he should vote against the bill of the lion. baronet. (Oh, oh.) fiir J. TRELAWNY, in reply, noticed the remark of Mr. Drummond, that it was no grievance for a minority to be compelled to pay • rate made by a majority. It the hon. gentleman thought so, why did he not, being in a mi nority, bow to the decision of the Howe et Lords! (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentlemaa Sae the great aaaroh. He saki that the decision of the House of Lords war " scandalous." He (Sir J. Tralawny) was scandalised by that remark of the hon. gentleman. (Hear.) The measure proposed by the go vernment was not a statesmanlike one, but a ntere atop-gap. They might easily have devised a better plan. Why, for in stance, had they not brought in a bill to define the objects of church rates f (Hear.) That would at once have removed a greet part of the evils now complained of. At present, when a vestry had an item they dH. not know what to do with, they charged it to the church rate. There were oases in which mums for rat catching and fox killing had bi en so charged. To kill foxes was bed enough—(hear, hear)—but to kill foxes by church rates was a double desecration. The boom then divided. For tbe wooed reading 213 Against it l6O-63 PRESCRIPTION (IRELAND). Mr. BLAND obtained leave to bring in a bill to limit the time of prescription in certain oases In Ireland. RETURNS ORDERED. On, e•twtca nue , . la —On the motion of Sir G. B. PIRCHELI A a copy of a memorial, dated the 16th day of January, 1868, to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, from the easel captains end other officers of Greenwich Hoe/tits!, pray ing to be allowed their half-p a y to the mine manner as ft ts now granted to the admirals of that establirh went, together with tidy lordships' reply to the same. HAMPTON COUNT PALACE AND Kew GARDENA.-011 the motion of Sir G. B. PECHELL, en address for return of the number of visitors admitted to see the apartments and pictures at Hampton Court, and the Gardens at Kew, daring the year 18.7, distinpoirhing the number in each month, and the number on the several Sundays (in continuation of parliamentary paper, No. 318, of session 2, 1867). The house adjourned at half-past Sr.. WITNESSES' FEES AT ASSIZES AND SESSIONS.— The Home Secretary has this inch introduced a a change in the amount of fees to be paid to witilLee lsPia l usilat and earriona, u the following comparative table wal above - . OW Saba New Isk. Preimare la kw FT Innikine. &lug 0710 La i A 0 Mass pretandonully, but not absorbs ...... .. 11 0 Witmer, of tuptulur &mu . 1 1 0 .. 0I 6 Onportnr Ratter %minnows. botailesspirs } I 16 II armada! tramline, i nure' and COW • t 0 1. . 4 3 I Meta, ea 034 0 Small leadsmen, monleM lama% Pehill ° e T s 1.. 011 I ass. wanbsemenes. ac • IS 0 Unseen, eddies, 101.1e0. 0 1 ,21 . 51 . Pr }0 5 0 .. 0 0 0 ten, de. . 0,101. 06:1100 LI mum ram IU • .. • I I eumelntesdante of pollee tares 0 II I 6 .. . 0 hopentors Pon t' Common pnlicen7tu d '''.""l. 0 5 0 .. • 1 6 Only half the moonlit of the new allows:ow will be pad be witnesses meiding In the towns where the courts are held, the mum reduction haying bees made la the old 00110. The bee do not include tamales but these are to be limited Is future ia all the eases without soy moor rim, to 'woad-der railway tem. ere no wity is 'meddle, 3d. per all. la to be allowed ket travelling az- The or* addition to taaa ammo kg the saw Koh Le 'Cis. a k ILI, be peil is all caws where the amins amt hair/radii tie sight. The ow soils le to le Gobi upset M Iteib eseelere sod as see ; bat is the.. ow elms tbr boo at pewee pia ea gado= an Isis then Oise la thy in. they am to ba NIA is. Mr. Macknight has chosen a great subject, and has treated it with very considerable ability and power. This " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke " is the nearest approach yet made towards an adequate biography of the grea t orator and greater statesman. This is not, indoed, • h praise, for Burke has hitherto been singularly unfortunate in memorialists. To write a life of Burls as it should be written is no ordinary undertaking. It demands very extensive political - knowledge ; minute in vesti- ' gat:ion into facts and dates ; a comprehensive grasp of thought ; a cultivated taste in literature ; a prac tical insight into the mechanism of Parliamentary Government; a wide and deep spirit of philosophy. It is greatly to the credit of Mr. Macknight that he should have fulfilled so many of the conditions requisite for success ; it is no reproach to him that he should not have combined all. His work is not a perfect biography, but it is immeasurably the best Lib of Burke that has yet been given to the world. Its faults are easily summed up. It is tee diffuse, too rhetorical, too indiscriminately eulogistic. Hero worship, in its degree, is pardonable in a biographer ; and Berke, in his long-life battle against prejudice, and ignorance, and corruption, manifested as much of the heroic element as was perhaps compatible with the career of a public man in the political struggles of the latter half of the eighteenth century. Hero-worship is well, but abjectly prostrate ido latry is not so well, and it must be numbered as one of the defects of Mr. Macknight, that he obscures the image of his divinity by the vapour of the incense which he is perpetually burning before the altar. If the god must never descend from his pedestal, at all events let us some times see his lineaments as they are, not always through a mist of eulogy. Mr. Macknight again has hardly done all that might have been fairly ex pected in clearing up the obscurer passages in Burke's career, many of which, as he reminds us in his Preface, were a few years back so ably pointed out in a eerie, of remarkable papers in the dthenceum. On some points, indeed, he has shown a commendable diligence of research. He has, for instance, very satisfactorily disposed of the tradition which represents Burke in 1753, when a young law student of four or five and twenty, as having become a candidate for the Moral Philo- sophy chair at Glasgow. He has taken much pains in sifting all the facts connected with the extra ordinary story of Joseph Emin, the Armenian. He has with laudable assiduity studied those portions of tke " Annual Register " which, from its com mencement, were contributed or superintended by Burke, and the importance of which, as throwing light on Burke's political career, it is, as he justly says, impossible to exaggerate. It is to be regretted that he did not push his inquiries more closely into those other matters so peculiarly interesting in their bearing on Burke's personal history, to which his attention, as he admits, had been directed by the singularly able papers referred to. Had he done so, though without snowy, the record of his attempts even would have been interesting, and might have been valuable as a guide to future inquiry. It is impassible not to note the absence of all evidence of such investigation as a deficiency in the present work. These two volumes, indeed, are only an instal ment of the whole biography, and it is possible that Mr. Macknight may be reserving these and other similar elucidations for an Appendix. Before pass ing final judgment we willingly give him the benefit of this doubt. The last defect we shall notice is one of style. Mr. Macknight is fend of fine writing, and fine writing, as a general rule, is out of place in a biography. It is not of course meant that good writing is out of place anywhere, but fine writing and good writing are two different things. The best biographies are time in which the biographer has forgotten himself in his subject. Rhetoric is a very inconvenient medium for the conveyance of facts and the portraiture of man ners. Characteristic traits lose their distinctness amid the roll of rounded periods, and the deli cate touches that paint the man disappear amid the coarser glare of a style that sacrifices truth to point. Mr. Macknight-is too monotonously brilliant, too uni formly energetic. Omnia rule belle dicer,. He writes well, but be knows it. More nature, more repose, less constant tension, would have been a sensible relief. Had he been minded " thus to inter pose a little ease" we should have learnt more of Burke and not have thought less of his biographer. As it is, the rhetorical rattle become, occasionally distressing, the incessant fire works fatigue—we look at everything through a coloured medium, tinted occasionally by the reflected radiance of Burke, but more frequently by the gaudier coruscations of Macaulay. Such are some of the faults of these volumes ; but they have very considerable merits. One of their greatest is that they are what they profess to be, a history of the " Times" as well es the "Life " of Burke. The following passage from the preface states with great force and clearness why, in Burke's case, this is so indispensable : Ia truth, the political life of Burke, as illustrated by the times ia which he lived, has hitherto not been even faintly sketched. Yet it may be said more emphatically of his career then that of any other author or politician, that it la impos sible to separate the private history and works of the man from his times ; for, more then almost any other individual, he lived intensely and fervently among the events of hie generation. With such rare powers for vivifying the past, it was the present as it might influence the future, and the poet only as it might illuminate the present, that peculiarly co:opted his attention. He was no dreamer. He was no recluse. Above all, he was no mere men of letters, thinking I of what was to be written, and not of what was to be done. It was from the active world as it was stirriug around him that his eloquence derived its inspiration and his wisdom re ceived its application. Hence his times, as they influenced him, and as he influenced them, form so important and in dispensable a foreground to any satisfactory delineation of his individual character, or any intelligible estimate of his im perishable work". Separately they . illustrate one another, though it is only when they are woe-rated together that thej form a complete and Imo rnetive . whole. It would be difficult to give a better specimen of the success with which Mr. Macknight has realised his double object than by transferring to our columns a portion of his animated picture of London life in 1760, the year in which the future statesman first went to eat his way to the Bar in the old Hall of the Middle Temple : The sight of Werdminster Abbey and the Homes of Per dement was delightful to the imaginative and sensitive stu dent. A closer view of the court, senate, and fashionable world, would not, at first eight, have raised them in hie esti mation. We mu now look more narrowly at the men of that time than the young Irish Templar, who, with many high hopes and ambitious longings, for be knew not as yet what, mond, in the early months of 1750, the streets of London, end sated his eager eyes with looking on the objects about which he had lone dreamed. The old King. George If., was residing at Kensington with his Counties of Yarmouth. French and German were the two languages epoken in the palace; the dear native accents of England seldom fell upon the ear. Year after par, with the first approach of summer, the monarch eagerly divested himself of the Majesty of England, and assumed, what he ' so much more highly prized, that of • petty German Prince. Year after year, as soon as parliament wee prorogised in ' April, the King crossed the seas in hie yachts, and the fair realm of Great Britain and Ireland yea abandoned in the oars of • council of courtiers. The darrenign aides re turned to England again until the meeting al pediment In Novenikr, and even then his heart nomand fn his electorate. The heir-apparent to the CTOWlldemnel ems leas dm his royal father the devoted loyalty of a hlgletallndd and pa triotic people. It has been the eon= to aseeibe el good qualities to a Prince at Welsoi yet lottery WWI Mud it bald to say that Prince t at pemend • dbie• virtue. A at WADS was that Wee amid et Milton Howe. If Burke could have a glimple ef the entleas= which George Bnbb wee e•••fammi7 bit own infiuni, became he it Me be deemed dram, I end therefore did mat heads le ask the lima, d the Al mighty on his tedrareers, be egad kdoul at the corruptions et essellsm peillifiees. Did= prayer to the Father el May firr amen se east* exception, the oval Isillerena le = l tad dimesi vim ow M the Deity by • wad do. dl his the m fixed on the earth, confident . ly resumed to rake his eyes to Herres. Tartaffe was at MA 0011aCkna of his own !Wu criey. But Dodington's baseman becomes even sublime, for be never seems to have doubted that be a Wes e m minently good, and that the world would be of the same . Taw men a nd the mat of the toad-eatere at the I ?r iz in ' Pr ince 's table were eager for the new ora which they expected soon to begin. The death of George 11. was anxiously anticipated. Federici and his worthy associates had em w /meeaurewhich was to be taken on the death of his father fa tly discussed and mottled. Many dikes of state were prove , and bad even kissed heads kr. But a Ruler to whom the pkette of this world are of small mama had dermal that Frfnn Frederick should never reign over land. Yet another yew; end all these of state, lords of the trauutry, aittomeyinarrol citer-gesemh, who, • be. days before, had fallen at the feet of the poor scion of royalty, asked him to spit upon them, and had even actually lent his their money, would dead his lihkes retsina, again be humbly courting the old Kiries favotuites, and thrtarbig themselves in him way at Kensington. The Prince of Wales could only have been despised ; hie younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland, was somewhat undemercedly b ated. The severity he had Aetna at Cul loden, had acciaired him the nickname of the "Butcher," and though, like the Duke of Wellington in thia osetary, he was called pre-entinently the " Duke,'• yet this weed of dirtinc tion as applied to the second eon of George ll.,was n o t in tended to exprese a nation's gratitude for a wants, who had suocemaklly upheld the honour of his esuntry's area. But violent popular antipathies are nether always inkßible, nor always reasonable; of all the royal family, the olteractey of the Duke of Cumberland wee certainly the least olueution abbe. Re wee • brave soldier, a dutiful subject, aid a con scieutioue man. diptis royal highness was the friend of the Duke of Bed ford, he became the terror of the Duke of Newcastle. These two noblemen ware the two rival Secretarial of State-. The fullest house and the greatest division of the session was on • Turnpike Bill, being supported by the Dole of Newcastle, whose restless and mischievous energy was then entirely directed to the removal of his rival from the cabinet. The prudent moderation of Henry Pelham, the First Lord of the Treasury, was frequently required to restrain the fretful effervescence of his brother, the Duke of Newcastle. The story of Burke's early years of obscurity and literary labour is well told, and so is that of his sin gular connexion with " Single-speech Hamilton." The character of this strange person is drawn with great elaboration and considerable power. After recounting his splendid oratorical triumph, Mr. Macknight proceeds thus : He spoke spin, but he did not meet with so much applause as at first. The terrors of failure beset him ; he might lose his oratorical reputation. He took the extraordinary method to preserve it, of never again opening hie mouth in the English parliament. Some day, as session after session slipped by, lie thought of making • groat effort which would throw all other speeches into the shade; session after session passed on, but the great day never came. Nevertheless his fortune advanced. For years it seemed that he might live on the celebrity he had acquired. His mind was highly cultivated ; his taste only too fastidious. fio careful was he in the choice of his diction, that if on con , adoration he thought a single expression in an ordinary note might be improved , he would recall his servant, and delibe rately re-write the whole composition. Positive convictions he bad none. On politics he had even scarcely an opinion. That which he stated In his parliamentary logic seems to have constituted his whole political creed; be tells the young aspirant to parliamentary renown that so much was to be said both for and simian any measure, it was impossible to declare beforehand what was good or what was evil, and that it was only when a choice had been made, it should be ao gamed in and defended. On this principle of negation, this bass scepticism of a narrow mind and of a cold heart, he systematically acted throughout • long life. So far from speaking in the House of Commons, for many years, when tr g reatest constitutional principle* were at stake, he re frained even from expressing in private, to his most intimate acquaintances, any cpinion which might commit him to either one side or the other. He had many admirers and flatterers, to some of whom be gave much ; but he never had, as he never deserted to have, a friend ; nor did he ever know what true friendship was. To those who in any way de- Mon him, if they showed the slightest manliness end y, he would be tyrannical and insolent ; to those who had no 000111i011 for his good offices, and who ventured even to treat him ill, he would be humble and respectful. In person be wee tall ; his sountenance was even handsome ; there was an air of aristocratic grace and lofty superiority in all he said and did; he was sarcastic; he was clever; be was remarkably intelligent i he wrote well ; he talked well ; he did his best in all sonatas to be preposeessieg and fascinat- Aim; but, in spite of himself, his presence ; and en acute observer weld not but see that, notwithstanding all hie endeavours to please, and all his varied accomplishments, William Gerard Hamilton was one of the meanest, most selfish, timid, crafty, and deceitful of human beings. After Burke, ni the session of 1766, and in the 37th year of his age, is once fairly launched in public life, the narrative of his biographer follows with great animation, vigour, and minuteness of detail the evolutions of his political career. The portion of the biography as yet completed comes to a close before the commencement of those memorable investigations into the affairs of India which constitute so great a portion of Burke's just renown, and at the present time have such a peculiar interest. Every reader who has followed Mr. Macknight to the close of his second volume will ex pect the continuation of his labours with curiosity and impatience. MUSIC. /LISS ARABELLA GODDARD'S PIANOFORTE SOIREES. Miss Goddard gave the second of these truly dea dest "ntertaulmfins on Tuesday evening; and bar rooms ware lbwsßy crowded to suffecation;many gentlemen, unable to get within the door, being content to remain, and listen u well ss they could, on the Maims& Our young pianist relies °tibia own powers end exertions, performing every piece in het programme, with the exception of the first, in which she wee accompanied by M. Balaton, and the last, in which the had the aid of &Mien and Pique on the violin and violoncello. I ler self-reliance Is completely justified by her success. Every time she le heard, her incomparable performances inspire every listener with greater and greeter delight. On Tuesday night she began with Mozart's sonata in F for the piano and violin, a perfoet gem of simplicity, grace, and feeling, in which she was admirably supported by Sainton's delicate accompaniment. Then came Dussek's once famous, bat now too-much-neglected Sonata, known by the name of "Plus ultra;' a name given to it by way of an swer to • bravado of Woeltre, who had published a Sonata which be entitled "N. plus ultra," by wayof as that di ffi culty could go no feeihm Dumick carried executive difficulty to a height in those days unheard of, while the &meta, independent of its difficulty, is from beginning to end full of real and ster ling beauties. In Mira Goddard's playing the difficulties dis appeared, while the beauties were displajed as they probably never had been before. The fair pianist then travelled up the stream of time, and went back to old Sebastian Bach ; playing two of his fugues, scarcely if at all known in Eng land, and exhibiliog that wonderful clearness in the execu tion of rapid pampa and complicated harmonies for which she is so pre-eminently distinguished. From Bach she passed Sonata the very last of Beethoven's plan3forte works, the C minor ; a composition strongly marked with all the peculiarities of his latest style; lull of fitful fancies, impetuous bursts of passion, and exquisite touches of pathos, to which a performer only of the very highest power. can give adequate expreesion. Xiadelesoha's grand Trio in lit minor concluded this most interastiug concert. • DRAMATIC SICK FUND ASSOCIATION„—Yesterday evening the mooed anuivereery festival of this essociation established for the raid of indigent motors of all branches of the preterits, whether musical, dramatic, or equestrian, took place at Willis's Roams, St. James's. Mr. B. Webster took the chair, stimmted by Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Rbirley,SrooU, &e. About 100 gentlemen, including some of the chief dramatists, sat down to dinner, which wee excellent in itself, and rendered still better by good serving. The customary loyal and patriotic toasts hexing been given and duly trammed, the chairman gave the toast of the evening, advocating the came of the charity with warmth end earnestness. One special and moot praiseworthy feature is this emaciation watt, that unlike other institutions of the make kind, it did not wait till infirtuby and old ego had overtaken its applicants, but extended to wards young end old a helping band whenever its aid wag most needed, sued so regarding nothing but the need of the petitioner. Thus, those whom slight sickness and want of professional engagamens bad thrown into dr. cnnastanoes of distress were always relieved as far as the moans of the easodation permitted, and furnished with funds with which to travel down to the provinces to follow their profession. The statement of the secretary, Mr. Anson, showed that the Imodhtloa wen steadily gaining ground, since the last anniversary festival its funded stock bad only amounted to MI., vane at the present, though after • season which the claims apes the association hough been o b oe during inc prtle.fter4lll,ll.lloo6nt of sickness sad EMT/ de▪ aths in the the feuded stock animated to UMW During the comma Si the mese, sabectiptions to the smoltat of upwards of 1301. MVO sus erred fa the mere. TRO health' of the daimon, Mr. Teter T e llgl . A.T6k eh t% Bt=d , other magma, INN art en eml the winds evere a tag o Ar d a ff with lame "4 ' Kr. Took rob a lalsi iamarrsW.