The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-20 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERV ICES in 1867.—During the Storms of the pre eat year slow the lifeboats of the Na tion:it Lifeboat Institution hose saved 413 lives from various shipwrecks and 19 vec,li from destrui tins. The Institution also expended 1:1::. , O! in the value period on its Lifeboat Esta blishments in addition to grunting c 1,779 for rewards. The Coo 'tier of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for assistance. to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands tin their 179 Lifeboat Establidinients. Csuitriliutious will he thankfully received by the London end Country hankers.:net by the set rotas). iticharil Lewis, Fey., at the Institution. 14, John-fitrect, Adoliihi. bunion. B R EAKF AS T.-EPPS'S COCOA. B ROWN and IhIIAO,4N'S CORN FLOUR for CU I hetet:vs UI Ix. To obtain extra 1•1"..lit 13) Ca.; Sale other Linda are onnetnaes Offered Inbtewl of BKOWN and VI IN's. "John Brown, - •• John roinali. - in signed by the makers on each p4eket. ghe erpreisis. TO CORREAPIINDENTS. 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Mr. Vallairr ; 111c.hrtlei .411.1 rs —And 1 1, 18 ANTI 1'4)1,r,5. Moor, I.: C.:m.4ot. V.Haire. 4; Price, Make. K. Thorne. mid S. Emery ; Mesam..• Hien Terry, tia),siond. and C. Saunders. KRITANNIA RvENINn. DINI: 1) , Oa; NV ILI.; Olt, TOR ARNO' 'HEWS TALE —%li rr 1111dt - or-old mid • ttttt ode E NIA Ha I AGE cEnriFicATE ult.. % mtorilEit'S HONOUR. %In. S. Lai.... —And 0 EOM: EliAlt7sW ELL. Mr. J.ll. Hose, Miss S. Mlles MOO W \TKII AT LONDON MINS. TQfe Div —%l.4lling. :th. 4h Ilm. 10-I.loriow—Mondou, td eym Aftvnux,n, 4b. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. A BRIEF and almost casual conversation in the House of Lords on Monday evening went to the root of one of the difficulties which perplex and encumber the proposed bankruptcy legislation. The tendency of public opinion has set strongly in the direction of abolishing imprisonment for debt. It has been abolished for a quarter of a century in the cam of debts under 201. In the Bankruptcy Act of 1862 provisions were made for its virtual abrogatio nin other eases, and i n the !tills of both last year and this year its almost entire abolition in the Ca8l! of debts to any amount has been proposed. Yet, strange to say, it has been resuscitated in the case of debts under 201. by means of machinery devised in statutes only a year or two later in date than thus,' which first attacked the principle. The County Court Judge is entrusted with power, either in his original judgment or by subsequent summons, to inquire into the circumstances under which the debt w as contracted, and if the debtor's conduct has been fraudulent the Judge may commit him for 40 days. Moreover, if the Judge is satisfied that he has means of paying, but will not pay, the like power of commitment may be exercised ; and as it may be exercised time after time, the impri sonment may become of indefinite duration. But no such power is entrusted to courts of higher jurisdiction. And though the debtor to a small amount may be imprisoned till he has paid the uttermost farthing, having no power to escape by bankruptcy, the debtor to a large amount is not only free from gaol, but is entitled to liberate himself entirely from all his obligations by a sur render of his property in bankruptcy, even though it does not pay so much as a penny in the pound. This anomaly is hard to justify, and it is not won derful to find that, though Lord CHELMSFORD, the Tory Lord Chancell , ,r, defends it, Lord CAIRNS, the late Tory Attorney-General and present Lord Justice, declares it to be indefensible. Yet, on the other hand, we must not leave out of view that the County Court Judges, in whom the dis cretion of imprisonment for small debts is reposed, are all but unanimously in favour of its exercise, and declare that but for its existence their tribunals might be shut up. We need not, however, allow our minds to be much disturbed with this alternative. A court of law is not in itself an essential blessing, but only a means of obviating injustice ; and if we can obviate the injustice otherwise, we may recon cile ourselves to the closing of the institution. And it is to be observed that the right to imprison a debtor is not inherent in the relation of a creditor. Credit, when not given on pledge of a security, is really a confidence based on opinion, but carrying no abstract right of punishment if the opinion proves to be ill-founded. The community may superadd the right of punishment if it thinks fit, but to do so is at its option, and cannot be demanded in any other name than that of public convenience. Now, public convenience is evi dently concerned in the punishment of fraud, when practised by a debtor, as well as when practised by a seller, for in both cases it implies a wilful deception, from which ordinary precaution would not secure the other party. But when the question comes to be one, not of fraud, but merely of refusal to pay what is due, what is then the nature of the demand that a promise shall be enforced by punishment ? It is plainly that the ' State shall provide machinery for ensuring honourable conduct. This is not very reasonable, if no stronger reason can be supplied. The State might justly retort that tho maxim in other trans actions, Carrot imp/.0, should he applicable to cases of loan. The creditor should not lend without security, unless he feels certain of the amorality of his debtor. He has no justification in calling on the public to build and maintain prisons only to enforce a morality which he was not compelled to put to such a test. Sensible of this weak point in the case, the advocates of im prisonment for small debts say that it is only re sorted to in the case of obstinacy combined with ability to pay, and that it is useful in enabling the poor to tide over seasons of distress by the power of obtaining a credit that must otherwise be refused. But there is something self-contra dictory in these allegations. If a man has the ability to pay a small debt, he must in general have some little property which could be diatrained upon fur payment. If he has not he must be living in lodgings, and existing from hand to mouth on his woes, and by going to prison his wages and his means of payment are stopped together ; so that the remedy is solely applicable as a threat to induce such a man to lay aside something out of his wages rather than go to prison. But ought credit to have been originally given to a man of such character and position? Would not the simpler legal remedy have been that which would have been applied at an earlier stage, by warning the creditor that if lie trusted a man of such cha racter he did it at his peril ? Nor can it justly be THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVEtTING, JUNE 2O, 18671"' ie said that distress would "eishance4 is hard times by contraction 4redit *run& 1 characters. Having, ee h, v hesi, no p re terty, they must always be of very AM: 111 u! c for they have no tie to any locality, and even the power to imprison after judgment may be easily evaded by removal to another district before judgment. Hence the bad security must be in sured against by high interest, mid this process is not the way to alleviate distress. On the other hand, the really honest, really industrious family does not need to have its honesty fortified bydread of imprisonment after it has again begun to accu mulate some property ; and it will find credit as cheap, acconling to the state of the times, without as with that suspended but needless power. It seems, on the whole, clear that we must at least make one rule for all classes of society. It will never do to maintain a power in tereorcat over the mechanic from which we absolve the master. If we make up our minds that property and not the person should be the basis of credit and the means of payment, we must not apply to the poorer class a harsher treatment than we im pose on the wealthier. Probably, as in other cases, the wisest course will he found to be that which least interposes law at all, and leaves most to the agreement of individuals. And, as we have seen, while a creditor may fairly ask us to give him his debtor's property, which has been virtually pledged to him, he has no right to ask us to give him his debtor's body, which the debtor has no power to pledge. Even the right of attaching wages or income before it is paid, which the law of Scotland gives in lieu of the right to imprison for small debts, has been found to lead to the gravest evils. The best remedy of all would be to shorten in every case the period of credit. Times of distress do not last for more than a few months, and ono, or at most two years'cr,mlit would be ample to allow in the lowest as well as the highest cases. Such a limitation of actions receives great opposi tion from those who make large profits out of cur rent accounts. But that is a class to which neither rich nor poor owe any gratitude, and which there is no reason we should favour by keeping the - courts open to them for an absurdly long period. OUR CONTEM I'ORARIES. (THIS DAY.) of Broadhead. They We been given time for Ode pur pose ; but ES seems impeasible that Broadhead's position can be morally separated from the general charaster of Shefflelif tokenism. The witneasHallant also confessed to an outrage scarcely less murderone, to whirit he hod been expressly hired by the members of another trade. He was asked to " waylay" a man named "old Sammy Sut cliffe," and was promised, and paid 71. He "was to make him as he could not go to work for a week or two," and be struck him several times on the head with a life-preserver. " Had you," said the Commissioner, " any quarrel with Linley r [the man who was murdered.] " I did not know him," said liallam, "et the time, and I never spoke to him in my life. I had no malice ag►inst him, only his being obnoxious to the trade." The general state of things revealed by such a fact is awful, and might seem almost hopeless. But what is to be said about Mr. Broadhead and the union itself? Be it observed that Broadhead made a distinct agreement beforehand with these men that they should shoot Linley, fixed the price of the crime, and himself paid the moneys• Broadhead will be examined, and it is possible that he may make even more revelations. But a deliberate agreement be tween the secretary of a union and two members to shoot au " outcast " for 201. is quite sufficient. Our attention has been called to a report headed " Ibbotson r. Cutts," under date of 27th May last, in which it was stated that the court granted a rule to strike an attorney off the rolls. This was erroneous, as the court simply called upon the attorney to answer the affidavits, which has been done by him satisfactorily. We greatly regret that Mr. Cutts should have been subjected to the tem porary annoyance which this error must have occa sioned to him. the Court. BALMORAL, Jura 18. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday morning ; and in the afternoon her Majesty went out with Princes', Beatrice, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Atholc and Miss Macgregor. Her Majesty, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, will leave the Castle this morning for Windsor Castle. The Duke of Richmond left the Castle yesterday. WINDSOR CASTLE, JUNE 19. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Christian Victor, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, arrived at Windso r this morning, at a quarter before 9 o'clock, from Balmoral. The suite in attendance consisted of the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Miss Macgregor (who attended her Majesty to Perth), the lion. Mrs. Ales. Gordon, Lady Susan Melville, Major-General Sit T. M. Buldnlpb, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Mr. Legg, Mr. Bahl, and Dr. William Hoff meister. On arriving at Windsor Prinoe and Princess Christian and the infant Prince proceeded to Frogniore-house, at tended by Lady Susan Melville and Mr. G. D. Engleheart, who met their Royal Highnesses at the railway station. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with the Princesses Victoria Elizabeth and Irene, ar rived at Windsor Castle this afternoon, from Marlborough house, attended by Baroness Schenck and Captain von Westerweiller. The Marchioness of Ely hu succeeded the Dowager Duchess of Athole as Lady-in-Waiting. The Hon. Mary Lascelles and the Hon. Florence Sey mour have arrived at the Castle, aa Maids of Honour in Waiting. Viscount Strathallan and Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe have also arrived as Lord and Equerry in Waiting. A deputation, consisting of Sir M. W. Ridley, M.P., the Hon. H. G. Liddell, ALP., Lord Henry Perry, 31. P., and Mr. W. B. Beaumont, 31. P., had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council Office yesterday, to present a petition from landowners and fanners of Northumberland on cattle plague restrictions and the opening of stock tale markets. A deputation from the University of Dublin, consisting of the Right Hon. the Earl of Rowe (Chancellor), the Rev. the l'rovost of Trinity College, Anthony Lefroy, M.l'., the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Rev. Joseph Carson, D.D. (Senior Fellow), the Rev. Professor Houghton, and Mr. Coates, had an interview with the Lord Pre-ident of the Council at the Privy Council-office on Tuesday last. A deputation from Leeds, consisting of the Mayor of Leeds, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leeds Exhibition 1868, Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. W. Beckett Denison, and Dr. Chadwick, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council at the Privy Council-office on Tuesday last. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Cey lon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Strait. Settlements, and the Australian colonies. MAHHIAGB I 9 HIGH LIFE.-(HTh DAY.) The marriage of the Duke of St. Alb* and Kiss Sybil Grey, daughter of General the Hon, ,Oar le ad Mrs. Grey, and niece of Earl Grey, was solemnised thin morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. His alred Highnem the Prince of Wales, their Royal Highnailee Prince and Princess Christian, her Royal Highness PROMOS Louise, hie Serene Highness the Prince of Teck, and their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe- Weimar witnessed the marriage. There were also present at the chapel the Duchess of St. Albans, the Duchess of Suther land, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Her tington, the Earl of Zetiand, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess of Yarborough, the Marquis Cam den, the Earl of Morley, the Earl Cowper, the Marquis Conyngbam, the Earl and Comdex' Granville, the Countess of Leioester and Lady Anne Coke, the Countess of Antrim and Mise Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Ha lifax and Hon. Miss Wood, Viscount and Viscountess Walden, Viscount and Viscous:item Chelsea, Viscountess Jocelyn and Hon. Miss Jocelyn, Viscount Hinchingbrook, Viscount Torrington, Viscount Hamilton, Viscount Evereley and Hon. Miss Shaw Lefevre, Lady Churchill, Lord Albert Leveson Gower, Lord and Lady John Manners and Miss Hughan, Lord Henry G. Lennox, Sir Frederick and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison. the Doan of Windsor and Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Right lion. Sir George and Lady Grey, Hon. Oliver Montagu, Hon. Mr. Calthorpe, and many others. The bride, accompanied by her father, arrived at the chapel soon after 11, the bridegroom having previously arrived. The bride WA attended by six bridesmaids, namely, Lady Dianalleaa clerk, sister to the bridegroom, the Hon. Alice Wood, the Misses Victoria, Louisa, and Mary Grey, sisters of the bride, and bliss Charlotte Farquhar. The bride was attired in a dres of white satin trimmed with rich Brussels lace and wearing a veil of the earns costly fabric, and a wreath of orange flowers. The bridesmaids were similarly dressed in white tarlatan trimmed with gold braid, and white tails bonnets with gold leaves. The ceremony was performed by the Honourable and Rev. John Grey and Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey, assisted by the Rev. H. Fletcher. After the marriage had been registered in the usual manner, the wedding party and friends adjourned to General and Mrs. Grey's residence at St. James's Palace to breakfast. In the afternoon the noble duke and his beautiful bride left for the duke's seat, Beetwood Lodge, near Nottingham, to pass the honey moon. NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SHOW. THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. FAKENHAM, TROVIDAT. The banquet in connexion with this show took place at the Corn-hall last evening, the Earl of KIMMEL- I.F.T in the chair, supported by Lord Londe., Lord Wel singham, Lord Haatings,Sir T. Beauchamp, Sir Willoughby Jones, Sir W. H. B. Ffolkes, Hon. T. de Grey, H.P., C. S. Read, M.P., Colonel Fitzroy, Hon. Harbord Harbord, Hon. Vivian, J. Hudson, R. Leeds, B. Gordon, IL Ayl• mers, T. Brown, K Beck (agent to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales), &c. Upwards of two hundred and thy of the leading agriculturists of the eastern counties were present. _ _ _ After the ordinary toa.ta had been disposed of, The Earlof KIMBERLEY was received with loud cheers; and after some local references went on to address himself to the establishment of chambers of agriculture, which he re joiced at, as they gave the agriculturists an opportunity of discussing matters of the utmost importance to them. selves, and afforded them • capital interchange of opinions. They were living on the eve of great and important changes—he would not directly or indi rectly say anything sa to the policy of this—they were about to make one of the most momentous changes known in this country, being about to transfer to a consi derable extent the political power from the middle classes to the class below them. He did not intend to say a word as to the manner in which this was proposed to be done, or to the pan which one party or the other had played. It was in consequence of this fact, that he rejoiced at the signs of life, and the discus sions which the agriculturists would be able to undertake throughout the country. The state of society here was exceptional ; there were large landlords, tenant farmers, and • large clam of labourers paid by the day. This stat e of things did not exist in France, Belgium, Italy, nor to anything like • Ihrilat extent in Germany. The mention of the labourer brought him to the subject on which he wished to make some remark, and that was as to the condition of the labouring classes—berneant the aericul tural labourer. With some remarks that had recently been given ut'erence to, and which had excited great in terest—they had no idea how much—he freely owned he did not agree, except in part, whilst some opinions he entirely dissented from. (Expressions of dissent.) The noble earl was sure they would hear him fairly. (Cheers.) He was only animated by one desire, and that was to express his honest independent opinions. Before going into the matter be particularly desired to refer to they would excuse him for referring to another, viz., settlement, and it was only that which could produce • salutary change in the matter of the labourers' cottages , such achange es he trusted would ultimately beatoomplished. (Cheers.) Under the old law it was the direct interest of all parties not to have cottages built for labourers in close parishes. It was as much contrary to the in terests of the tenant farmers as the landlords. ;No.) He hod heard tenant farmers say so. He had heard them with his own ears say " Don't put us cottages upon our close parishes." He did not refer to this except as doing what they would naturally do, and he did not blame them as being more than ordinarily selfish. As the law now stood the tenant farmer would go to his landlord when he went to hire his land and would say in the same way as be would may, " I want more sheds, I want more cottages." They will operate as • gentle prey sure on the landlords, and the difficulty will be removed. The question was one of the utmost importance, is there was nothing which pressed more on the mind of every employer of labour than the rise in the price of labour ma the tendency (which existed) of labourers to leave them, which be took to be the pressing question of the day. (Cheers.) He held that they should by every means in their power endeavour to place the agricultural labourer in such a position as not to desire to leave his employment. (Cheers.) It was of no use to talk of old times ; they had lost the control of the men, and if they were disposed to go they would simply do so, unless it was made their interest to day. That brought him to the subject to which he had been anxious to direct their attention, viz., agricultural gangs, the restriction of the field labour cf women and children, and the educa tional question.ZaThe employment of women was strongly insisted upon as being absolutely necessary, and he re gretted but recognised the necessity. The Agricultural Chambers had shown • disposition to recognise the per missibility of making some change in the present gang system. Still lie, as a Norfolk man, felt ',shamed of • recent decision of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture on this subject, • de cision which had excited much interest out of the county, much more than most of them would imagine. Legislation on the subject was now imminent. He did not altogether agree with the provision of Mr. Fawcett's bill •, but Lord Shaftesbury had charge of • bill on the subject which he had not seen ;• but which he had learned the principal provisions of from a noble lord. This bill proposes, as to gangs, that no woman under 18 years of age shall be employed, and doubtless Lord Shaftesbury would propows, and if the noble lord did not, he (Lord Kimberley) would, that there should be no mixed gangs, and that the gang master should be licensed. (Cheers.) Lonl Shaftesbury proposed that nobody shall he employed under 8 years of age, and no girl under 13. He thought it was monstrous that children of the tender age of 6or 7 should be employed in these gangs. (A voice : There are very few.) The fewer the better. (Cheers.) It was not merely the fault of the employers, there were mercenary persons who would sell their children's services. They ought not to send a girl of 13 to these gangs to form habits which would unfit her to be the mother of a family and prevent her ever being a good servant. Lord Shaftes bury's bill would make compulsory the education of children, and though this was beset with many difficulties be held • very strong opinion that the present great change of political power that was about to take place in towns would shortly extend itself to the counties, and it was • political axiom, that to I pl a ce political power in the hands of men at once igno rant and immoral would be very dangerous. (Cheers.) He foresaw great difficulties in the way of this education— social and religious. The noble earl went on to allude to the queation of slaughtering cattle at the point of disembarkation, which, regarded as • pounds, shil lings, and pence question, ought to commend itself to the government. He supplemented the advice of the member for Best Norfolk as to the agricultural statistics, and thought it should be men tioned as honourable that on • previous ooeasion when these kind of leaflet's:a were asked for the county of Norfolk was by no means backward. After expressing his regret that the Highways Act had not been adopted in the county generally, his lordship made some remarks on the meats gmeatio as to the preservation of game. He had never been • great preserver, but if they bad not • greet bead of game theywould not have so manyresident owners, and the landowners would corns to regard property only In the light of profit, and would dispose of it where the highest price could be obtained, to the entire destruction of the good understanding at present subsisting between owner and tenant He trusted that whatever changes might take place they might be enabled to hand down to r esteriti unimpaired the pure fabric of the eoastitutioo. LATUST INTELLIGENCE. •! - (asona's Tzunpuits.) - • FRANCE. PAWS, Joss 20. The Monifeur of this morning says :—" Yester day the Emperor visited the Viceroy of Egypt at the Pavillon Matson. Immediately afterwards his highness went to St. Cloud to pay his respects to the Prince Imperial, whose health is now com pletely re-established. He was received by tho Prince most affably, who thanked him warmly for his gracious attention." LIJXEMBURG. LUXEMBURG, JUNE 20. Yesterday the Chamber sanctioned the treaty of London in reference to Luxemburg, one member only dissenting. The proposal that Limburg should participate in the expense of dismantling Luxemburg, has been referred to the sections for consideration. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. Describing the present govennnent as without a policy in regard to Irish University education, the Doily News proceeds to urge that the direction in which they ought to move is clearly indicated by the resolution which Mr. Fawcett submitted on Tuesday regarding the ban placed upon Roman catholics in T. inity College. The reasons which were good for abolishing the d squalifications which have been removed apply with equal force to those which still remain. The line of Dublin liberality curiously enough seems to atop where the highest emoluments begin. The Roman catholics and dissenters at present in Trinity College may in its lecture-rooms prepare themselves for other professions, but they are excluded from what is of itself a profession, an academic career within the wall, of the college itself. Despite the contrary scheme of Mr. Monsen and The O'Conor Don, there is reason to believe that the adoption of Mr. Fawcett's propositions would, for the majority of catholic laymen, solve eatisfactorily the perplexed question of university education in Ireland The exclusiveness of Trinity College is the answer invariably given to those who deprecate the recognition of an exclu sive catholic university in Dublin. Sectarianism fosters rival sectarianism. TNB BIRIIINGHAW RIOT% Observing that the above disturbances reveal the depths of fanaticism still unsounded in the lower classes of Eng lish society, the Times says the presouiption is strong that Mr. Murphy is the representative, if he he not the hired agent, of some protestant organisation, nor is it unworthy of remark that an organisation of this kind brought about the riots of 1780. It would be idle to waste remonstrances on persons who imagine that protestant truth can be in culcated by vulgar abuse of Roman catholics, or that any religious object can be gained at the expense of law and order. Tomorrow Mr. Murphy proposes to lecture on the confessional. Of course, if the magistrates have no legal power to silence him, or to block up the access to his Tabernacle, he must be protected against brutal violence, however provoked. If they have such a power, they should exercise it firmly, and leave Mr. Whalley and his friends to seek their remedy at the bar of public opinion. It appears, says the Post, from the answer given last night by Mr. Hardy to Mr. Mennen, that he is afraid no steps can be takes against those who originated this dis graceful affair. It will seem strange, however, to common place people that the reason given for this inability to bring them within the law is, that the language which pro voked the riot is held to be not " such as would necessarily lead to a breach of the peace." The reason for its exclu sion from this category is, probably, that it was applied to • body of men, and not to any single man ; but it is at least unfortunate that it should go forth to the world and to Mr. Murphy, that he has only to include a sofficient number in his accusations of murder, lying, and picking pockets to escape the punishment with which the laws would certainly visit him if he used it to any one indivi dual. HUNDAT LCCTURIF-9 BILL. The Star thinks Mr. Beresford-Hope made a good sug gevtion when he recommended in the House of Commons yesterday that Lord Amberley's Sunday Lectures Bill should be referred to a select committee. It was • pity the recommendation was not adopted, for no one can deny that the condition of the law on this subject is at present anomalous and inconsistent, and yet it was quite evident that very few members indeed suffi ciently agreed with Lord Amberley's proposals to enable them to give • thorough support to his bill. The awkward condition of the law at present is that it can hardly be said to prohibit anything which is absolutely evil. In public-homes on Sunday men and women may drink them selves into matinee' or death, and in the tea•gardens of the suburbs is held on that day the high carnival of juvenile vice. In fact, as the law stands, any performance may take place, any buffoonery may be celebrated, any doc trines may be preached, any revelry may be kept up on Sunday in buildings or gardens where people are not asked to pay money at the doors. When, therefore, Lord Am berley moves the second reading of • bill to allow strictly scientific lectures to be given by eminent men on Sundays in a hall for which tickets of admission are sold, it seem■ a little strange to my that the charicter of our English Sabbath will not allow us even to submit such • proposal to the consideration of • select committee. That money is taken at the doors of a building is certainly not an objection which can be broadly applied. Mr. Bright stated that in some provincial churches money is charged for admission ; and the Star is informed that it is the invariable practice to take money for admission at the doors of Roman catholic chapels. When Mr. M`Laren seemed to think the introduction of Lord Amberley's measure might henna theatrical performances on the Sunday, he must have entirely forgotten the fact which Mr. Locke pointed out, that no theatrical performance of any kind can take place without the Lomas of the Lord Chamberlain or the local magistrate,. ERE SFIEI77ELD OUTRAGEB.-A MURDER. At length, says the Tines, the Sheffield outrages are laid open in an their honor. There may be points of detail, more or less, to be brought out, and particular unions may be able to offer special defences, but the broad features of the revelation made yesterday can hardly be explained away, and will absorb in the mind of the public every other consideration. To be brief, two men have clearly confessed that they combined to shoot a non unionist, who subsequently died of his wound, and that the secretary of the Saw Grinders' Union, who has been the moat prominent character among the re presentatives of the unions, either instigated them to the murder or consented to it, and paid them a stipulated reward. The eau is so damaging that the solicitor for the Defence Oommittee bas asked for time to consider their position, and intimates that it may be necessary to separate the general cans from that THE LEVEE. The following were among the presentations (about 150 in number) yesterday : Ensign O. Alleard, by Colonel N lison-Patten, M. P. The Hon. and Bev. Francis Byng, on appointment as Hon. Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, by the Lord Chamberlain. Mr. Charles Bagnall, M.P., by the Earl of Bradford. Earl of Craven, by Viscount Chaise& Lord Clifford of Chusileigh, on accession to the title, by the Earl of Denbigh. The Earl of Devon, on his appointment as President °Piths Poor-law Board, by the Earl of Derby. Sir Bartle Frere, K.C.8., 0.C.5.1., on return from the govern ment of Bombay, and appointment to the Council of India, by the Secretary of node for India. Mr. John Pope Hennessy, on appointment as Governor, Com mander-In-Chief and ViemAdmiral of Leman, by the Duke of Buckingham. Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, on his return from the North American and West India commands, by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. Thomas George Knox, her Majesty's Consul at Siam, by Lord Stanley. Admiral Slr Fairfax Moresby, G.C. 8., on appointment an }tear- Admiral of the United Kingdom, by the First Lord of the Ad miralty. Admiral Sir William Faushawe Martin, Bart, K.C.8., by the First Lord of the Admiralty. The Bight Hon. Sir Joseph Napier, on being made a baronet, by the Earl of Derby. Mr. toseph W. Pease, M.P., by the Duke of Cleveland. Mr. D. J. Bearden, ai.P., by the Bight lion. Chichester Samuel Yortescue, M.P. Ile Martinis of Waterford, by the Karl of Lucan. Her Majesty's ship Galatea left Gibraltar for Madeira on the afternoon of the 11th of June, and the Duke of Edinburgh has now bid a long farewell to Europe. The departure of his royal highness was attended with all the pomp and circumstance befitting the occasion and the errand upon which the Galatea is bound—to circumnavi gate the world, and any a royal duke in the footsteps of Cook and Anson. Tho Grand Duchess of Mocklenburg-Strelitz, at attended by Lady Caroline Cast and Baron Lulus, honoured Lord and Lady Foley with her company at dinner, in Gros vener-eqxuue, yesterday evening. A select party had the honour to meet her royal highness, and a small company came after dinner. The Karl and Countess of Wilton entertained his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl of Malusesbury, Viscount and Viseountess Barrington, Lord Courtesay, Colonel the Hon. James and Mts. Macdonald, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vceux, &c., at dinner, at their mansion in Groevenor-square, yesterday evening. The Earl and Counted of Carnarvon have re turned to town from Paris. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortrane had a dinner party yes terday evening in Cariton-gardens. There were ',relent : . . Then :Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchesad'Aumale, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer. the Viscount and Viscountess Stretford de Radcliffe, Lady Herbert and Lady Mary Herbert, Lord Ronald Leveson- Gower, M.P., the Hon. E. and Mrs. Russell, the Hon. J. F. Wortley, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M P., Mr. Bagwell, M.P., and Mrs. Bagwell, Mr. Slum Leftism, M.P., and Captain Beauchamp Seymour, R.N. Viscountess flolinesdaie has been prevented going into society owing to an attack of the measles. Her ladyship is going on favourably, the malady being of very mild form. The Duke of Devonshire gave a brilliant ball last evening at his noble mansion in Piccadilly. The ball room and saloons were brilliantly illuminated, and shortly after U o'clock were crowded to meas. SPAIN. MADRID, Joss 19. The Senate have rejected two amendments for the alteration of their standing orders. A great number of other amendments have still to be dis cussed. The official Gazette will in future be published by private parties in accordance with an arrangement concluded with the government. PORTUGAL. LISBON, JUNI 19. The King of Portugal will personally take part in the procession of the Corpus Christi to-morrow. AMERICA. (BT ATLANTIC TELEGILAPH.) NEW YORK, JUNE 19,6 P.M. The Attorney-General has decided that the mili tary commanders cannot legally remove Southern State officers. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices :—Gold, 138. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 0-20 United States Bonds, 114. Illinois, 1204. Erie, 691. Cotton, middling upland, 27. Petroleum, relined, 24. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MOW 013 E OWE COMIESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The impression in the lobby of the Corps Legis latif to-day was that the Emperor had yielded to the wishes of the conservative majority, and that the Chambers will be prorogued immediately after the budget is got through. M. Glair-Bizoin has promised on the part of the opposition not to occupy more than three or four days in speeches on the press bill, but M. Rouher seems to be only too glad of an excuse for postponing the " liberal measures." The opposition deputies are now re duced to " hope" that there may be a supplemental session in November ; they " fear" that the bills which the country has been looking for ever since January 19 will be thrown over till next year. M. Jules Favre has expressed his determination to take his seat in the Chamber during the debate on the budget, but his physicians absolutely forbid him to say a word. The France has reason to know that the state ment of the Bourse Gazette that the Emperor Napoleon had accepted an invitation from the King of Prussia, and would go to Berlin in Octo ber, is totally unfounded. " There has been no question of anything of the sort up to the present time." The Frawc also says there is no serious founda tion for the news that the Pope is coming to Paris. The "Affairs Bravay"—that is the solemn desig nation it has already acquired—is further eluci dated to-day by along letter written to the Figaro by M. Bravay himself. The deputy for the Gard corrects several inaccuracies in the version pub lished yesterday. The son of the Minister of Public Instruction, whom he struck, was not M. Anatole, but M. Albert Duruy. M. Durny did not get into the same railway carriage with him, but into another ; and it was not true that he got out at the first station, for lie saw him at Dijon. M. Duruy did not wait for M. Bravay's return to Paris to call him out, for the challenge was re ceived by his secretary in his absence. After these not very essential corrections, and after repro ducing M. Albert Duruy's written challenge and throat of legal proceedings in case of satisfaction by arms being refused, M. Bravay gives as his own version of the affair the following letter, which he addressed to M. Duruy yesterday : Paris, June IS. Sir,—On arriving in Paris only yesterday I found your letter. lam astonished that you should have instructed two of your friends on the 14th to put that letter ii.to my own hands, as you write that you did, because you knew perfectly well, for I told you so, that I could not then have returned. The tattle I now hear in all direc ions shows me that you have not had the prudence to hold your tongue, and the letter in which you assume the character of • victim compels me to state the facts precisely as they occurred. On the evening of the 12th I was in the Lyons Railway station with my ticket in my hand, and was signiug a paper to give to my brother, when my servant told me that the signal for start ing had been given. I ran forward, the train was already in motion, and I saw the station-master talking with you. I said to him that he had started the train one minute before the proper time. I was very much annoyed, some what excited, and, therefore, mymanner and language may very likely have been too vivacious. Reserving to myself the right of complaining in the proper quarter, I asked the station-master, telling him who I was, to let me have a locomotive at ray own expense. There upon you burst out laughing and shrugged your shoulders ; I se-Iced you the moaning of this iusulting con duct; and you then, mixing yourself up in a matter with which you had no concern, exclaimed, " Oh, yes, M. Bravo'', the deputy,—we know all about him, and a pretty story it is." Every right-minded person will understand that I could not reps e-s my indignation, and I struck you • blow. You then said—and this was to me • revelation— ". I demand satisfaction; I am M. Albert Duruy, the son of the minister." I replied, "I um sorry for your father ; and as soon as I return to Parisi, I shall be at your ser vice; if necessary I will not leave." For two minutes after that you continued to insult me, and I was going away when you rushed upon me and struck me. My servant interfered. He repelled your aggression as he bad • right to do. If your face bears the marks of his blow, I am sorry for it ; but you brought it upon yourself. I found you in the station at Dijon, and there you asked for satisfaction. The demand was very ill-timed. I told you that I should be back in Paris in a few days, but that although I had said at one moment I was ready to meet you, I could not do so after you had revenged yourself in • manner unworthy of • gentleman, notwithstanding that I had offered you satisfaction. After these facts, the correctness of which shall be proved if you deny them, I am astonished that you should transpose the positions end endeavour to make out that I am the aggressor. My age and position make it impossible for me to accept a part so at variance with truth. You ask me for reparation, either by arms or in a court of law. You shall have both. But as I have excellent reasons for dreading calumny more than lighting you will please to understand that I shall not go upon the ground until we come out of court, when a judicial inquiry will have apportioned the wrongs of both of us.—l have the honour, kn. FRANCOIS BRAVAT. The much talked-of match between an Arabian and a French horse, from the Bois de Boulogne to Chantilly, will not come off. Khalil-Bey, the owner of the Arab, bang persuaded that his horse would 'tend no chance declared forfeit yestenlay at the Jockey Club. The Bourse was firmer on the strength of a very doubtful rumour that mope reductions in the army are contemplated. The Amount of business dune, was, however, very small. Rente rose Vic. for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 45c., and 69fr. 50c. ; Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c. ; and Italian 2Uc. THE REFORM BILL. MR. LAING'S PROPOSALS. The Parliamentary Order-book o 'Mains the fol lowing notices of motion in committee on Representation of the People Bill :—Mr. Laing—First Schedule. Borough ' to return one member only in future parliaments : Andover, Bridgnorth, Bridport, Buckingham, Cirencester, Cockernionth, Devizes, Dorchester, Evesham, Harwich, Hertford, Huntingdon, Knaresborough, Leo minster, Lewes, Lichfield, Ludlow, Lyn.ington, Radon, Mahon, Great Marlow, Marlborough, Newport (isle of Wight), Poole, Ripon, Stamford, Taviatock, Tewkesbury, Windsor, Wycombe, and Wells. Second Schedule.—Boroughs and places formed into groups :—Bodmin end Launceston ; Torquay, Dartmouth, and Ashburton ; Honiton and Lyme Regis ; Eye and Thetford ; Chichester and Arundel ; Chippeelum and Caine ; Richmond and Northallerton : each group return ing one member. Sixth Schedule.—Counties and divisions of counties with a population of 150,000 (exclusive of places represented and to be represented) to return three members :—Chester, (northern division), Chester (southeru division), Cornwall (western division), Derby (northern division), Devon (northern division), Devon (southern division), Durham (northern division), Essex (northern division), Ease (southern division), Kent (eastern division), Kent (western division), Lancaster (northern division), Lancaster (south- western division), Lanosster (south•eastern division), Lin coln (parts of Lindsey), Middlesex, Norfolk (western division), Somerset (eastern division), Somerset (western division), Stafford (northern division), Stafford (southern division), Surrey (eastern division), York, North Riding; York, West Riding (northern division) ; York, West Riding (southern division). Sir Edmund Lawn, if the principle in Mr. Ling's amendment be assented to, that all divisions of counties with a population of 150,000 shall have three members,will move that the eastern division of Norfolk, with a popula tion of 179,186, including Great Yarmouth, be added to schedule. THE IRISH REFORM BILL. Mr. Chichester Fortescue has given notice that on Friday week he will move :—"That this house considers it essential to the satisfactory settlement of the question of parliamentary reform that there should be an amendment of the law relating to the representation of the people in Ireland as well as in the other portions of the United Kingdom; and considers it desir.ble that in accordance with the expressed promise of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the government should introduce and lay upon the table their bill upon that subject before the house is asked to read for the third time the bill for the amendment of the Representation of the People in Eo;• land." The boroughs in England and Wales with a population of less than 10,000 in 1801 returning two tone bers, are :—Andover, Bodmin, Bridgnorth, Bridport Buckingham, Chichester, Chippenham, Chipping Yip combo, Cirencester, Cockennouth, Devizes, Dorchester, Evesham, Guildford, Harwich, Hertford, Honiton, &At. logdon, Knaresborough, Leominster, Lewes, Lichfield, Ludlow, Lymington, Malden, New Mallon, Marlborough, Great Marlow, Newport (Isle of Wight), Poole, Rich mond (York), Ripon, Stamford, Tavistock, Tewkesbury, Thetford, Toter.. Wells, and Windsor. Captain Vivian intends to move on going into committee of supply:—" That the volunteer force was established solely for the purpose of security against foreign invasion, and that the members of that force, in cases of domestic tumult or disturbince, have no obliga tions or duties distinct from those of other citizens, and are in such cases no more than any other citizens liable to orders or instruction from the military or civil authori ties." Viscount Enfield will ask the Secretary to the Poor Law Board on Monday whether any nominees have been appointed under the provisions of the Metropolitan Poor Relief Act, paned during the present session, to act as joint guardians of the poor throughout the metropolitan parishes and unions ; and, if such nominations have not taken place, whether it be in consequence of one of the provisions of the above-mentioned act, which stipulates that the nominees and ex-officio guardians together Mall never exceed one-third of the whole board, the resident justices of the peace in several unions already constituting that number. The Emperor of Russia has caused a souvenir to be transmitted, through the medium of Baron ile Budherg, his ambassador in Paris, to Mdme. Laburie, who, as is known, was slightly wounded in the attempt of June 6. being an emerald in the shape of a heart, surrounded with brilliants. The jewel was made in Russia, and bears the address of the jeweller at St. Petersburg. The Situation, new journal, at Paris, publishes the following singular note :—" This day is the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, June 18. Let us not forget that date. We have avenged ourselves on all foreigners who crushed us by numbers in Isl 3, 1814, and isn. We coo. quered the Russians in the Crimea ; we defeated the Aus trians in Italy ; we did better than conquer the English - we saved them at Inkerrnann: We have taken vengeance on all except the Feminism When will their tort oome ?" The following paragraph is going the rounds the Paris journals:—" Prince Mokeifayo, son-in-law .: Queen Pomare, is expected in Paris early in October. 11.. i Oceanic prince is a Parisian of pure blood, well known ,2 the Boulevards ; and if we are not mistaken the real na•-t of the prince is Rogues, and he held the piano two ago at the Varietie Theatre as accompanier. Protell finding himself dull in the Sandwich Isles, he has mid , a pretext of wishing to see the Exhibition to return to France with his young wife, and to never go back to l- 1 ! mother-in-law's kingdom." The succession of the late Doctor Jubert .lo Lemballe has just been settled. The portion falling to each of his five heirs is 560,000 fr., or 2„stw,ooofr. " A handsome fortune," says Gatimani, " when the fa-t is remembered that the illustriou. surgeon came to T." a poor lad." The marriage of Prince Paul Demidotf with ilia Princes. Itlestcherski took place at Paris yes.erday, at the Russian church, with great pomp. The young lady. it known (says Gal ignani), had been greatly admired by the Grand Duke, heir to the throne of Russia, before h is nor ' nags with the Princess Dagmar, and it is the Etuper"t Alexander himself, report says, who brought a bout this union between Prince Demidoff and the Princess. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha has arri ved in Paris, and alighted at the hotel of his own repre.en titoe. Prince Humbert is to go to Vienna when ho leaves Paris. Apartments have been prepared for him 'a the imperial palace. Mr. C. Plowden, secretary to the Allalialial Board of Revenue, has issued a report on the census Ca a of the North-Western Province!' on the null of Janearv. 1805. The census reveals the fact that only s'O., are born to every 100 males, and this is true of South , Asia generally. Mr. Plowden finds the cause chieil,v this, that the warmer a country is and the older a hush" is, as compered with his wife, the greater the number • male births. It is an important religious fact that t! , ." ars in the province only 44 millions of Mkt...mini:ins, ..* seventh of the whole population. There seems, says t analyst, to be no mock modesty among the 2 ; who • . scribed themselves as professional thieves, or among pimps, 2,251 eunuchs, and 241,806 prostitutes. Sow returned themselves as " sturdy be Baas," end "bad characters." In the list we rind 479,015 ordal beggars, 29 professed mourners, 111 slmstekers, 2 pedii makers, 220" flatterers for gain." 1 " vagabond." 1 4 piercers," 51 " makers of caste woke," wrele~ charmers, informers, fortune tellers, jesters, Sas hangmen, and gravediggers. CRYSTAL PALACE. —Mdlle. Nilsson will inf.: at the opera concert next Saturday.