The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

VERY ARTICLE of CLOTHING, READY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE, FOR ALL CLASSES. pRICES BASED ON READY-MOI SYSTEM A, N UNE Q UALLED In EVERY DEPARTMENT. OVERCOATS from 19s. to 15. BOOTS and SHOES. HOSIERY and DRAPERY. A ND HATS and CAPS, I N GREAT VARIETY. _A_ LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS , a t unusually Low Prices. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES, ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES A RTICLES NOT APPROVED OF EX CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. A N ea.". and accurate Syst em o f S e lf- measure, introduced by E. HOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom, ORDERS by POST p rompt l y and carefully attended to. I - 4 IST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and poet-free. 1 1 MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS A. are CLOSED every Friday Evening at suwet till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoo Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresse3 of E. MOSES and SON:— CITY ESTABLISH3IENT. 15.5, MINORIES 15', 3 IINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 87, ALDGATE 83, ALDGATE 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCII. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET sOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM -COURT-ROAD BRANCR. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 133, TOTTENHAM -COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL .NO I ICE.---In consequence of frequent mtsrepre tentations, E. MOSES and SON tilt' it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their nly Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE RU YAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. P. B. Cbatterton. THIS EVENING will be performed MT' WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRI3IALKIN THE GREAT; GR. Puss IN Bom, tND THE MILLER'S SOss, with new and magnificent Scenery ny Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Tro'npe of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage efreets of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A Rtley, &c, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. dcssrs. Comp ton, Kendal, Weathersby, Buckstone, jun., &c. ; Mesdames Caroline Hil!, S:lott, Gwynn, &c. Box-office open daily. AT an aggregate Meeting of the Members of the Central War.l and DiArict Committees of Liberal Elec tors for the City of London, held• at the City Terminus 'Hotel, Cannon-street, on the 18th February, 1869, to take into considera tion a recommendation of the Election Committee for the nomi nation of a Candidate for the Representation, Sir BENJAMIN S. PHILLIPS, President of the Election Committee, in the Chair, _ _ On the motion of J. P. GAsstOT, Esq., seconded by JAMES SPICER, Esq., it was unanimously resolved—That the recommen dation of the Election Committee be adopted, and that the Cen tral and District Liberal Electors' Committees pledge themselves to use their best exertions to secure the return of Baron LiosEL DE ROTHSCHILD at the ensuing Election for the City of London. On the motion of R. W. CaAwFORD, Esq., M.P., seconded by W LAWRENCE, Esq., 31. P.—The cordial thanks of the Meeting were unanimously passed to the President for his able conduct in the chair. E MOSES and SON. EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS, STOCK A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY SIYLE AND MATICRIAL. Commence at Seven. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama, in four acts, entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. Vining; Count Fersen, Mr. William Rignold (his first appearance in Lon don) ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Beatrice; Messrs. Dominick Murray. J. G. Shore, D. Leeson. New Scenery by frir.F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. Ooors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 tills. p OYAL STRAND THEATRE. it Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs Claim Belford, Joyce; Mesdames B01),In and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TILL CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, etc. • To conclude with HUE AND DYE. ROYAL, AMPHITHEArRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Oscar Carre and his Fifty wonderful performing Horses, and the incomparable Scenes in theA r _ma, including A.Bradbury. Eng land's Champion Equestrian, A, Salamonsky, A. Carre, :Mlles. Montero, Schwartz, Kremser, and Salamonsky, in a series of unparalleled acts of horsemanship. Castelotti and the Brothers Girardes in their Thrilling Ladder and Trapeze evolutions. The Clowns Burgess and Loyal, the greatest grotesque of the day "Many persons form their estimate of a circus f rom some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor awl Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall. Warner, David Asher, Andrevti, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GEORGE'S HALL, Regent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great'and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minst re l sy h as a company ma d e suc h a decided nit. Every song was encore d on th e fi rs t night of performa,n CP. ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY MINSTRELS (Proprietors', Messrs WILSOM and MONTAGUE) The Only Company of Cbristy's who have had the honour to appear, by special command. before E QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVENING at EIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE an d EIGHT. Special Grand Performance for the People every Satur day night at eight. Admissi on, O ne Shilling. Private Library, boxes an d places may ehell s Royal be secured - at Mr. Mit at the muscsellers, and at the h a ll. Actin g - manager, Mr. AND REW — NIMMO. lIE "SUN" NE WSP.APER.-- G. R. (4LE Savers po the LAT?: a ry, Srting Connaught - terrace, Edgew arc - roa d , EDITI4ON of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Jopies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of tile country at a comparatively early hour the sante evening, say 40 miles by 9.45 o'clock Orders by poet punctually attended to' V HE LATEST EDITION of " TH SUN " E to be seen Every Evening by 8 10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCVS, Britannia, liensal New-town, THIRD EDITION OF , c THE SUN," 1 giving all the SPORTI A G NEWS of the day. mayb e s een at Pal rY M A NTON'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little . Britain, City, E.O. WH O'S GR AIN GE R? L ICENSED VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S -BUSH. T SPORTING 14.D17'10N of "TUE SUN" can be seen at GRAINGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight Valook. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND Yr/ITR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. &t 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. (3 Belmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, - - ST. ALBANS STEEPLECHASES On THURSDAY and FRIDAY, February 25 and 2d, a SPECIAL TRAIN will kave London (King's Cross Station-) direct for St. Albans at 11.0 morn. each day, arriving at St. Albans (Great ;Northern Station) about 11.50 morn. Fares for the Double Journey : First Class. Covered Carriages. se. 2s. 61 Returning from St. Albans (Gnat Northern S . ation) each day at 5.20. p.m. Also, on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, Febrtiary 25 and 26, a SPECIAL FAST TRAIN at ordinary first and second class fares, running direct to St. Albans, will leave London (King's Cross Station) at 11.45 morn. each day; arriving at Sr. Albans (G. N. Station) about 12.35 noon returning from St. Albans (G. N. Station) at 5.1.5 p.m. each day. Passengers at ordinary fires only will be conveyed by these trains. SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager. London, King's Cross Station, February, 1869. THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. SMITH'S Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 4ole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7. MY WIFE S OUT. Followed by the Grand Fantomime, PUSS IN BOOTS. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARKET. THIS EVENING, RAI , ING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, jun., Misq Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale. &c. ; NfesdamesCavendish,Burke, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR: Messrs. Compton, Kendal, Buckstone, jnn., Weathersby, &c.; Mesdames C. Hill, Scott, Gwynn, ao Commene#, at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Toss EVENING. at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE A:'.TOINETTE : Mr Vining, Mr. W. Rignold, Mr. Dominick Murrb.y: Mdlle. Beatrice. Concluding with A. CUP OF T A : Mdl e. Beatrice. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CA3IB;;RW VI.L. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling, G. Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &o. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames "Torkrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar sold, and Stephens ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Ifesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To Conclude with HUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Liston. THIS EVENING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole. L. Brough , IT. Irving, S. Fmery, Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVSNING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAID. Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. After which, FETTER ED Messrs. Cowper. :\ eville, Parselle. Drew, Brunton, W. Arthur, Bartleman, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Josephs. To conclude with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, George Honey. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. Tuts EVENTSG, at 7, SLASHER &CRASHER: Messrs. Atkins, Zaug,han: G. Vincent, ctc.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which_ at 7.45, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan, H. Ne ville, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson; Mesdamas Furtado, Sehavey, N. Harris, and at. Henry. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. MB EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF - WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management. of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague Addison, Glover. and Bancroft; Mrs. Puckingbant White. Miss , C. Addison, and Miss arie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And IN TR IG UE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tim EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Thrs EvENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and :. - aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL HAUB It A PALACE. THREE BALLET 4 , Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerts-balk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mrndays, 6d.; Children unler twelve. Al. C l ;/ • . 1 ) 1 A, 11111 - " • LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 18C9 A more striking instance of the uncertainty of human calculations has seldom been afforded than that which was witnessed on the opening night of the new session. Who does not remember the excite ment which prevailed when the first notes of . the election w a r f are soun d e d , an d th e eager anticipations with which all looked forward to the great political skirmish? All has been changed, however, and a more tame commencement to a session has never been heard of. Perhaps it is all for the best, and so the country will think when the first disappointment is over. There has been enough, and to spare, of words of late, and the whole of last year was wellnigh wasted in idle recrimination of one kind and another. Great credit is certainly due to the Opposition leaders for the tone they assumed, and the Government, to do them justice, seemed to appreciate their modera tion. Mr. DISRAELI has never been a factious politician, and he showed on Tuesday night that he was quite at home again at the left hand of the Speaker. To begin at the beginning, the Royal Speech was care fully framed, and thus a good example was set. Lord CAIRNS commented on this in his inaug,ura tive speech as l eader of his party in the Upper House, and he wiselrdeclared that they had better not follow the plan of other years, and waste their time till NVhitsuntide. This was a good reminder, for what with the delay in commencing the session and the early arrival of Easter, it seems as if one interruption after another would intervene. The only exciting episode of the evening in the House of Commons was when Mr. GLADSTONE gave notice, amid much cheering, that on the Ist of March he would move that the house go into committee on the acts relating to the Established Church of Ireland. Mr. DISRAELI came to the point at once, and said that the absence of controversial topics in the Address was very fitting in the case of the present Government, which had come into office from the unmistakeable . wish of the country to have the,lrish Church question disposed of. The right hon. gentleman briefly dis posed of this part of the subject, by declaring that the House ought to have the case put before it in an entire fashion, and not in a partial and incomplete form. Mr. GLADSTONE'S first speech to the House as Premier, if not one of his most brilliant displays, was ce r t a i n l y characterised by great caution, and exhibit e d a statesmanlike bearing that promised well for the future. He exptessed his sense of the moderation and fairness of the opposition leader in appropriate term 3, declaring that in his re marks on the question of the day the right hon. gen. tleman had acted in a spirit worthy alike of its in. ainsic importance and of the high position which he held, C cannot rely upon the promises which Mr. GLADSTONE made at the conclusion of his discourse being carried out, because circumstances may be against him, but so far it must be admitted that he speaks fairly and with a sense of the gravity of the task before him. He declared that iu prosecuting the work of dealing with the Irish Church establishment the Ministry would use every means in their power to settle it satisfactorily, and not to provoke any hostile lle hoped that the llouse would treat the question in a comprehensive spirit, and not so much with a view to carry out Loy scheme at first proposed as to conciliate various opinions, and thus let all parties co-operate in the settlement which had been declared necessary. Considering the i m pe rious manner in which in -which Mr. GLADSTONE was wont to address the Hon ie when ho was last before it in the capacity of leader, it would seem as if he had employed the interval -to.some pu.rpose. At any eelia .~... THE SUN, LONDON, 7HURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1869. "FALSE, fictitious, and fraudulent" commercial zansactions, as Vice-Chancellor MALINS alliteratively terms them, are becoming a drug in judicial reports. The history of companies worked for the sole benefit of directors, and of private firms eking out theirnecessi ties by instalments from the public purse, is drearily uniform. The expedients by which responsible persons appropriated the money entrusted to their care, and vet managed to steer clear of the criminal law, are varied, and exhibit much ingenuity, but are all founded upon a common basis of falsehood. And yet it is only at the present time that this great national evil is likely to be seriously dealt with. The disclosures are now being made ; public indignation is daily recruited by fresh revelations ; the losses to many thousands of all classes are still unrepaired. If the new phases of fraud in the guise of commerce do not receive serious attention now, they are likely to remain neglected. But certainly the directors of the company of which Mr. ILutvEY LEwis, M.P., was one of the chosen guides, have succeeded in realising all that is possible in the way of commercial originality. The suit in which the member for Marylebone figures so prominently has revealed " arrangements of more than usual complexity. Mr. llaiivEY LEWIS and others got up a company to buy the bank ing house of LAFITTE and Co., Paris. They intended to do an extensive business at both the great capitals, and they designed that their company, like a huge magnet, should attract " other banking and financial companies," which were to be incorporated with the old. One of these was the Ottoman Company, but as the proprietor of tha Paris Bank would not give up his property until 40,000 shares in the new company had been taken, and as the assets of the Ottoman Company were not ready to meet the claim, an extraordinary manoeuvre was resorted to. The International Contract Com pany was asked to assist the Ottoman Company, and the Paris banker offered to give the directors of this company £25,000 if they would raise the 40,000 shares. The matter was further involved by the National Bank, of which Mr. HARVEY LEWIS was a director, consenting to discount the promissory notes of the International Company to an amount sufficient to enable that company to taliethe 40,000 shares in the new company. It was arranged that the National Bank should discount the promissory notes, but that the new Paris and London banking company was to keep a balance sufficient to cover the advances made on these notes. This arrangement, with various fees and pay ments, was carried out. When the directors of the new banking company applied on the Stock Ex change for a settling-day, they produced a letter, signed by the sub-manager of the National Bank, and certifying that the new company had a balance in the National Bank to the amount of £3:37,000. It now transpires that the guarantee was worthless; the greater part of the sum in question was held, but held only to be applied to the liabilities of another company. Money had been paid into the National Bank for a specific purpose, and yet the directors, Mr. HARVEY LEWIS and others, allowed it to be quoted on the Stock Exchange for an entirely different purpose. The transaction was one which entirely justified the VICE-CHANCELLOR'S dictum that all the parties concerned ought to be turned out of court. And few persons will question a judgment which represents Mr. IlarivEY LEWIS and his col leagues as guilty of acts " false, fictitious, and fraudulent," which will give Marylebone the opportunity of electing another representa tive, and which holds the National Bank liable for the whole amount of the false guarantee on which these transactions were based. In point of fact, the shareholders of that bank are punished for the deeds of their directors. It was to obtain the £25,000 that this falsehood was employed. Mean while, whatever benefit Mr. LEWIS and his colleagues may have derived from their manufacture of docu mentary authority, it is the old story with the share. holders. All the companies are being wound up. LATEST INTELL LGENCE (REU'^Ell'S TELEGRAMS.) THE formal statement of Mr. WATKIN EDWA.RDS in the Bankruptcy Court must possess a certain per manent value. As it is uncertain when the charge against the directors of the - great discount company will come on for hearing, or whether the eccentrici ties of British law will ever allow us to hear the last of it, so clear and lucid a statement of an important part of the case must be of great service. The special jurymen must be thankful for a document which will save them so much trouble. No amount of evidence-weighing could put the history of Messrs. OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co., so _ _ _ far as Mr. EDWARDS was concerned in it, in a clearer light. What may be the effect of this narrative upon the future position of Mr. EDWARDS it is for the LORD CHANCELLOR to decide; but, as a matter of fact, the nature of the official assignee's explana tion does not admit of the remotest doubt. The evidence given before the City magistrates told its own tale. The explanation is simply another edition of the evidence, softened in some places, but very materially embellished in others. The public may charitably allow Mr. EDWARDS the full benefit of his illness in 1867. There can likewise be little dispute that his examination before the magistrates was severe, and that he met with " great hostility from all parties," meaning that public feeling was unanimous on the subject of his transactions. Nor is it worth while to contest the point whether Mr. EDWARDS attended the meetings of the Atlantic Company once or twice a week, whether the absorption of time in this sort of business was so great as is generally believed, whether his emolument were so far reduced by the Bank ruptcy Act of 1861 that his embarking in trade was only to recruit a diminished income. The conclu sions drawn from the evidence of Mr. EDWARDS he became the paid adviser of the discount company whilst official assignee at the Bank ruptcy Court—that he was connected with many firms with which the company had dealings, and he received money from both sides; that during his period of advice the nun of the great house was , were, rate he has begun his arduous work in the tight spirit, begun and completed. These matters of fact, and apart from party feeling and political prejudice, notwithstanding Mr. EDWARDS'S " confusion " at all must admit that he is fully entitled to the proud the Guildhall, are in no wise altered in the explana position he now holds, alike from his ability and from tort' - • document. The LORD CHANCELLOR will base his judgment upon the s t ory, b ut t h e story itself is long devotion to the public se rv i ce o f hi s country. In the secondary po r ti ons o f th e d ebate, we of the plainest descriptio n . All that Mr. EDWARDS does in the way of m iti ga ti on i s to subject may discern an acti v e spi r it o f re f orm, and there his evidence to a species of reduetio ad seems little reason to fear that this session will be absurdum reasoning. He solemnly denies that he wasted as too many have been. Mr. GLADSTONE used any information derived from his official posi emphatically declared that physical impossibility tion for the benefit of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. would alone prevent them from carrying out all their The £5,000 lent to Mr. CHAPMAN was made over wishes, but that the house must accept the mention of from motives of the purest friendship. His relations Scotch education as an earnest of their desire to have with OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. were no secret, the whole questi on b roug h t f orward as soon as pos- was also notorious. M r . E DWARDS pleads that the and the gift of the yacht b y M r. S TEFANOS XENOS Bible. The ratep a yi ng quest i on must be looked to, he declared, with on t re f erence to p irty conflicts. commission he received fr om M r . Z . C . P EARSON The public will h ave seen w i t h sat i sfaction that M was received with the f u ll k now l e d ge of at leastr. Mr. HENRY GURNEY. From these and other BRUCE, in the course of yesterday's sitting, ob- similar arguments he deduces that his business tained leave to bring in a bill for the more effectual transactions out of the Bankruptcy Court repression of crime. This is a step in the right direc- were not improper, and were merely for the purpose tion, and it is fortunate that the right hon. gentle- of eking out a reduced income. To investigate man has had his attention called to it so soon, as we such a conclusion now that Mr. EDWARDS is himself may now have a chance of seeing some legislation on trial would be trenching upon delicate ground; taken place on th e su bj ect, a consummation earnestly but it may b e observed th a t some of the gravest points of the Guildhall revelations are w h o ll y to be desi re d. T he new Session has commenced calmly, but w ith more di gn i ty than might have untouched. It is somew h a t surpr i sing to been expect e d, an d i t seems suitable that at an ex- learn that the LOR D . C HANCELLOR of 18641 V citing junctu re like this the two great party OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. But taking Mr. chiefs should abstain from irritating encounters-, and EDWARDS'S answer, " that he was undertaking turn their thoughts entirely in the direction of the arbitrations, references, and negotiations," in the public interests. They may fail after all, it is true, fullest acceptance of the words, it is clear that it in persuading their followers to keep withi n d ue does not describe the nature of his extra-official bounds, but meanwhile we should accord just praise work. He did not say that he was a paid official to the ex-Pre ra i er f or t hi s graceful recognition of the adviser. Nor does he exp l a i n h ow he got the claims of his r i va l, an d to t h e present possessor of appointment with the discount company; nor how the confidence of hi s S overe i gn f or the spirit of mo- in many other c a ses he w as pa i d b y various firms for driving h ar d b ar gai ns w ith them in the interest deration which he has di s pl a y e d i n a ti me o f much temptation. B u t re all y grea t statesmen must always ofOVEREND, G URNEY , an d C o. rank their count r y' s i n t eres t s hi g h er t h an the On the imp or t an t po i n t w h e th er h i s receipt of passing commissions was sanctioned by the directors who chances of the hour, which bring defeat or victory employed him, Mr. EDWARDS and the directors them alternately in their train. selves are hopelessly at variance. But as Mr. EDWARDS contradicts himself on other important points, the calculation of probabilities is not diffi cult. He first affirms that his official knowledge was not used for the benefit of the discount com pany, and then, in a very remarkable series of revelations, states that it was. We now learn that one of the chief duties of the principal adviser was to keep certain ruined firms out of bankruptcy. The discount company was so involved that the revela tions of a bankruptcy court would have produced an immediate catastrophe. " With all cases with which he had to deal," he was to avoid the Gazette at any cost. Had this employ ment no connection with his position as official assignee ? Yet thi s was th e wor k upon w hi c h he laboured " ni g ht and day, " and so far successfully. It must be owned that he faithfully carried out the " scheme of concealment " which had been laid down, and kept estates out of bankruptcy. But though lie made himself master of all the firms with which he had to deal, h e did not fail likewise to make hims e lf master of t h e di scount firm. He gained suc h knowledge of this great concern that everything h e asked for was conceded to him. It was then that his destructive powers came into full play, and everything commercial crumbled up before him, as if touched by a magician's wand. The GURNEYS might well have paid £O,OOO a year to escape his advice ; but this could riot be. The rupture came at last; but Mr. EDWARDS'S know ledge was still in his hands, and by means of it he insisted on receiving gentlemanly treatment, and upon being paid £20,000. His scheme of con cealment was so effectually carried out that he con cealed both his own an d hi s employers' transactions from 1804 until his defective memory recalled a part of them in 1800. Mr. EDWARDS'S explanation ex plains much. TILE CIiURCII CONGRESS. The Liverpool Church Congress will open on Tuesaay, October sth, under the presidency of the Bishop of Chester. The sermon will be preached by the Bishop of Derry. The following list of subjects has been fixed by the, Executive Committee :-1. Improvement of our Church Services ; Rivision of the Rubrics; How to improve the attendance at public worship—(to be taken at one session ;) 2. The Church's work in our large towns ; 3. Phases of unbelief, and how tc meet them ; 4. Diocesan organisation ; 5. Exploration o f Sinai and Palestine : the Eastern Churches 6. Clerical education and the ancient universities ; 7. Capabilities of our cathedrals ; 8. Education, including Sunday schools; 9. Foreign missions; 10. Church patronage, and superannuation of the clergy. The secre taries specially appointed to correspond with speakers and writers are the Rev. T. E. Espin, rector of Wallasey, Cheshire, and J. W. Cropper, Esq., of Liverpool. The Congress will occupy four days. One of the evenings is to be assigned to a working men's meeting. THE HARTLEPOOL ELECTION PETITTON. The petition against Mr. Jackson, the Conservative member for the borough, which was appointed to be tried yesterday, has been withdrawn. Counsel on both sides stated that there was no case against the sitting member, and the matter was formally adjourned to allow any one else to take up the petition, should they feel disposed. It is anticipated that nothing snore will now be heard of the matter. At the general election the candidates were Mr. Jackson (C.) and Mr. Richard. son (L.), and up to the close of the poll it was doubtful which side had obtained the victory, the committees of both gentlemen placing their own candidate in a majority. At the declaration of the poll, however, Mr. Jackson was returned by a majority of three, the numbers being : Jackson, 1,550; Richardson, 1,547. The defeated midi date demanded a scrutiny in the petition, but this has been abandoned. OWL'S WIT. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) (From Fun.) (From Judy.) A. GREAT COMPOSE R."— Chloroform. THE 0 S'EREND AND GURNEY MYSTERY.—Mr. E. TIIE WAG ! —Mr. B. Osborne asked the Premier to dinner a few evenings ago, and had a huge dish of Irish sidle placed before him. THE NEW LAW COURTS—IN CONTEMPLATION. —lt ap• pears that should the New Law Courts be erected on the site originally selected for them, the judges will have to be craned up to their respective courts. However a lawyer at the bar may like "a lift," we should say that those in ermine wouldn't care much about it. Letters from Norwich yesterday say It is considered almost certain that a Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into electoral corruption at Norwich. Meanwhile the writ will bo suspended." The final arrangements for the reception of the volunteers at Dover were made at a meeting of volunteer officers held on Tuesday at the Lord Warden Hotel. Various questions relative to the removal of guns, the lodging and victualling of the volunteers, &c., were put in train for settlement. The review will be held on the ground used in 1867, and the necessary steps will be taken to procure the presence of the fleet. VISIT OF LORD STANLEY TO GLASGOW.—The North British Daily Mail understands that Lord Stanley has intimated that he will, if possible, arrive in Glasgow on March 30, in which case his installation as Lord Rector of Glasgow University would take place on Thurs., day, April 1. A party banquet is usually given to the new Lord Rector on such occasions ; but it is believed that it is Lord Stanley's express desire that any banquet which might be arranged should be non-political in character. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH AND THE PARIS PRESS. —The Queen's Speech is generally published in Paris shortly after its delivery in London, but this year there was some little delay, owing to the disabled state of the telegraphic wires. The Journal Officiel of Tuesday announced, in fact, that of the five cables uniting France and Belgium with England, two had been broken by the l a te gales, and that the land communications which join the three others on each side of the Channel, were also broken, so that all telegraphic correspondence between France and England was suspended. The royal speech reached Paris, however, at four o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, and was published in the Moniteur issued the same evening. A CONFERENCE ON CHURCH MATTERS.--Steps have been taken, at the request of the Archbishop of York, to hold a conference of the clergy and some of the laity of Sheffield, to discuss Church topics, more especially those affecting Sheffield at the present time. Neither the exact subjects to he discussed nor the time of the con ference has yet been settled. The Archbishop himself will preside at the conference, and the following form the committee for making the preliminary arrange ments :—The Vicar of Sheffield (the Rev. Dr. Sale), the Revs. J. E. Johnson, G. Saddford, W. Milton, T. E. Sale, G. B . Atkinson, J. Aldous, and Mr. A rt h ur Thomas ; Mr. Thomas and the Rev. T. E. Sale being secre taries. The congregation of each church will be invited to appoint four lay members to represent it at the confe rence, the two principal objects of which are rumoured to be the creation of a better feeling between the clergy and laity, and to consider the ritualistic tendencies of certain clergymen and their congregations. Other subjects will doubtless be discussed, and the desire of the Archbishop is to promote the usefulness of the Church in Sheffield and neighbourhood. CRUEL IMPOSITION.—Mr. Greenwood has just made Public some startling facts concerning loss of life at re has been informed by e well-known life-bel. and buoy maker of Sunderland that grave suspicions are entertained of the life-buoys manufactured in London, and supplied to the Jew slop-shop. Some of these were made of the most indifferent materials, and bits of common rush formed a sample of the interior. A number of seamen have declared that they will have nothing to do with life-buoys, for they would rather go down and have done with it, than hang in the jaws of death a few hours with the certainty of drowning after all. Not one in a dozen of the buoys which are stamped "warranted corkwood," Ai • - - is anything- of the kind. Mr, Greenwood has subjoined the result of his own experience in dissecting three " good life buoyi " bought at Shadwell, llatcliff, and Poplar. One consisted chiefly of straw, covered with cork shavings ; another was stuffed with rushes ; and the third was composed of cork chips and rushes. They were placed in water, and all sank in the space of foul Lours. CONVENTIONAL IDEA.—To wash your dirty linen al home. CONVENTUAL IDEA.—Not to wash it at all. FUTURE MOTTO FOR Sin R. PEEL.—Where there's a Wino there's a way. THE LATEST rum AMERICA.—The Alabama claims are half-caste. TRUE TO THE CORE.—Mr. Whalley has taken strong objection to the Address in the House of Lords having been moved by a Monk. A SOUND JUDGE.—A musical critic A RESPECTFUL NEGATIVE."—The photograph that flatters. IRISH ITEM.—There have been floods in Cork. Cork, as usual, kept afloat notwithstanding. IVIIOLESALE.—Patron (yawning, to artist shewing his water-colour paintings) : "Hugh, well, these sort of things are all much the same to me. I'll take a lot by weight— mounts and all. how much a pound for this lot ?" LITTLE AND GOOD.—Gentleman " Who do these pigs nelong to, boy ?"----` Chaw ' : " Why, this 'ere owd zow." Gentleman: " Yes, yes; but I mean who's their master ?" ----` Chaw': " Why, that there little 'un ; he's a varmun to foight !" GREAT INGRATITUDE.— Cumberland and Westmoreland people are about to petition the House of Commons against the appointment of Mr. Henry Lowther as their Lord. Lieutenant, Mr. Disraeli's last snug little arrangement, done just as the door in Downing-street was closing upon him. Unreasonable counties ! Why not be satisfied to remain contented and happy under the sway of your great family at the Castle, and so enable us, envious outsiders, to realise the idea of a Lowther Arcadia? A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.—The Siamese Twins. POOR RELATIONS EVER WELCOME.—The Reduced Three per Cents. NOT MEDAL AND MUDDLE.—Who says our public departments do not practise economy ? Are they not apparently going to delay the issue of the Abyssinian medal until there is a chance of several of the claimants being dead? And is not that a saving? TILE I VEATIIER.—The continued rain which has fallen to our lot lately has given a great deal of dissatisfaction in certain quarters. We may, however, record that the cab interest regards it as particularly fare-weather. Six HUNDEED LlNES.—Laxnartine is said to be writing a new poem of about six hundred lines to be called "For- getfulness." It is to form his " literary testament." There is much modesty in this desire to be remembered hereafter by " Forgetfulness," and the sincerity of the intention is guaranteed by the length of the poem. FR INCE. PARIS, Feb. 18. A circular of the Minister M. Forcade de la Roquette, dated the 16th inst., has been published to-day relating to the right of public meeting. The circular says that until the present day the Government considered it a duty to confine its functions to vigilantly watching that no abuses of the newly-granted liberty occurred, without even interfering with those speakers w h o m i ght discuss matters legally prohibited. Nevertheless the Go vernment could no longer tolerate such contraven tions, and intends henceforth to suppress all licence, and thereby separate from the right of free meeting only have a compro mthiossinegextecnedsseenseyl.vhich could The Constitutionnel of to-day says The jour nals which have excuses for the attitude assumed by Belgium apparently forgot th e question of involvedcour tesy in the in i heprt: trueceedinlgigs and which alone would place h. , t theac The Constitutionnel demonstrates that those pro ceedings are as unusual as they are galling, and nt for feeling erntae certain journals whi c h blamed s t t h h e e as F s r e e r n t e io h n s Go o v f asto nished at it, and which even went so far as to deny the existence of any public excitement or national susceptibility on the subject. The Constitutional, on the oth er hand, gainsays held dby the opposite side on contradicts those the e exaggerated matter i n viviews h question,e and organs of the press which regarded the above inci dent as a complete humiliation endured by France at the hands of Belgium, and even considered a rupture to be unavoidably imminent. The Constitutionnel believes that the Belgian Ministers will offer satisfactory explanations to the French Government, that they will appeal to the prudence of the Belgian people, and to their well understood interests, and thus counteract the grievous consequences resulting. from the law as voted by the Ch am b er o f D epu ties, and now wait ing ratification by the Senate. The writer then continues :—" We have little reason for doubting the issue of this Belgian incident. Our national feeling is sensitiv e, even irritable. Our great French nation maintains a haughty attitude when- ever it suspects malevolent designs, or fancies i ___ • perceives—erroneously, perhaps—the sign 0, foreign interference." "But," the article concludes, " a matter like the above cannot have the effect of disturbing the peace of the world." ROUMANIA. BUCIIAREST , Feb. 17. The budget has been voted. The estimated re ceipts are 74,362)883fr-1 and the expenditure 74,217,961 fr. The Chamber has authorised the Minister of Finance to ime Treasury bonds bearing interest to the amount of taxes in arrear. -~_. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Feb. 17. Barou Eder, lately Consul-General at Bucharest, has been appointed to the post of Austrian Envoy at Athens. HUNGARY. PESTI!, Feb. 17. The Imperial decree convoking the Hungarian IVA for the 24th of April, will be promulgated to- morrow, The Emperor and Empress of Austria will visit Agram on the Bth of Mardi, and Frieze on the 14th. CUASCED,Y PROCIEEDINGS AGAINST AIR ITARVEY LIIT3TIS, 111. P. providing that if the old firm retain any realised securities for the purpose of helping them to get in those not realised, the same shall be debited when retained, and credited when paid in. The "suspense account" was also to be credited with the interest on the pre•payment of the shares taken by the members of the old firm, with the dividend on the same, and the produce on their sale. On the debit ba'ance of this account interest was to be paid. On the part of the limited com. pany it was provided that they should have a lien on the shares held—in payment of goodwill—by the members of the old firm. The " suspense account" was to have re mained open until the 31st of July last, only, unfortu nately, these "excepted accounts" and other things had long before so embarrassed the company as to cause it to "suspend" payment. It should be added that Mr. H. G. Gordon, one of the directors of the Limited Company, says, in answer to the charge of fraud, " All I can say is, that the lawyers are alone responsible for the legal forms that were used under their advice. I believe that two deeds were suggested and prepared by an experienced counsel, under the instructions of the company's solicitors ; and I know that they were I sanctioned by another experienced counsel, instructed by independent solicitors, whom the new directors retained g to the c ompany a for the special purpose o securin re gular and efficient transfefr." It is generally understood that Sir John Barring ton will be the Conservative candidate for the representa tion of Dublin city. It appears that Bradford will witness a contest for the vacant seat after all, since the proposal of a test-ballot has faller to the ground. Mr. Thorupson's sup porters have declined the request of Mr. Iliall's friends, and the example of Manchester will not be followed. DEATH FROM THE STrNG OF A BEE.—Mr. Samuel Perkin, of Beardon, in the parish of Boyton, near Laun ceston, has met with his death under the following circum stances : — Deceased, in moving a hive of bees, broke the comb. He subsequently went to look at the bees, when one of them stung him in the neck, on or near the jugular vein. lie immediately felt faint, and died in 15 minutes. FATAL ACCIDENT THROUGH THE FLOOD. —Two men employed by Mr. Hoperaft, brewer, of Brackley, were attempting to go through the flood near Oxlane bridge, at Lenborough, in the parish of Buckingham, on Friday, when the force of the current swept them away, and the men and three of the horses were drowned. The bodies of the men were taken to the New Inn, where an inquest was held before Mr.. King, and a verdict of acci dentally drowned returned. POOR ASYLUDIS.—Mr. Torrens has given notice that on Wednesday, the 10th of March, he will mova " That in the opinion of this House the proposed expenditure on district and separate asylums under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 is excessive ; and that no further outlay for such purposes ought to be sanctioned by the Poor-law Board until full inquiry shall have been made into the expediency of the same for the better relief of the sick and infirm, and into the ability of the ratepayers generally to bear such increased burthens." A man named Illingw•orth has committed suicide at Oscett by burning himself to death. Persons who wore passing the house observed a glare of light proceeding from the kitchen of the deceased, and went to see tti hat was the matter. To their surprise and horror they found Kling_ worth seated on a pile of burning coal on his own hearth in a blaze. They rushed into the house, dragged the man off the fire, and extinguished the flames. The deceased was able to say, iu answer to a question, "1 s:tt down on the lire. It was my owu evil deeds that caused me to do it." He died shortly afterwards. Another case of lynching is recorded in ono of the American pipers. A negro of Memphis eloped with the white daughter of his employer. It is not stated that the young woman was forced to go wits her black admirer, but her parents at least objected, and somehow the negro fell into the sheriff's hands. The Ku-Klux -Klan delivered the man from cus tody, and then proceeded to dispense justice in accord ance with their own ideas. They first poured turpentine over him, "hung him up by the neck, and set him on fire 1 When half roasted, he was allowed for the I,noment to escape, but was shot down in the attempt." This outratie le que pt tfie m)At licniblo on record. THE TWO DEEDS OF OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. A great deal has been said about the "two deeds" executed by " Overend, Gurney, and Co." The charge against the directors in respect to them is that in their lealings with the old firm, as to the assumption of the susiness, they fraudulently separated their transactions . nto two indentures, the one disagreeing in many material points from the other ; one having in 't such as might go before the world, the other :ontaining what was most convenient to "keep ;lose." These two deeds are now published, and, as was stated at the Guildhall, there is a great divergence the one !rom the other. This is most marked with respect to that !arge item, " excepted accounts.' These accounts are iescribed, in a schedule to the second deed, as referring to allmatters outstanding between the old firm, theMillwall ::',ompany (transactions including a large sum), all accounts 'resettled as to bankrupts, or companies in liquidation, all accounts as to companies which had become dissolved, tnd all open accounts "in respect of any unrealised property or security (if any) accepted or taken by Overend, Gurney, and Co., in satisfaction or settlement of any account which has heretofore been open or subsisting and insettled." With regard to the "excepted accounts," the first deed provides that the old firm shall still retain the title 'Overend, Gurney, and C 0.," for the express purposes of winding up, closing, liquidating, managing, settling, and arranging any outstanding accounts, debts, liabili ties, transactions, business matters, affairs, or things incidental to or connected with the business of Overend, Gurney, and Co., which the directors of the Limited Company shall deem it expedient shall be wound up, closed," &c. It is further provided that all securities, bills, promissory notes, mortgages, or property )f any description in connection with these accounts shall be retained by the old firm. Indeed the spirit of the whole arrangement would seem to be that the Limited company should have nothing whatever to do with these matters. In the second deed, however, a totally different agree ment is made. Here these " excepted accounts" are required to be balanced on the 31st of July, and, in respect to them, an " 0 verend and Gurney suspense and guarantee account" is ordered to be opened between the old and new firm. This "suspense and guarantee account" shall (it is provided) be debited with the total amount at debit of the " excepted accounts" when these are balanced, on the 31st of July, with all sums that shall become due from the old to the new firm under the first indenture, with the rebate of dis count on current bills and notes, and with the unpaid interest on deposits to the day of transfer. The account .the deed goes on to say) shall be credited with the £250,000, half of the goodwill which the Limited Company agree to pay, the price of the premises and furniture, the balances of " private ledger account," and the not money realised from the securities connected with the excepted accounts. Then comes a clause enacting that any money lent to the old firm in respect of these " excepted accounts" shall also be debited to the "suspense and guarantee," and another Judgment in the long and important trial instituted by Mr. Gray and other shareholders in a joint stock company called Charles Lafitte and Company (Limited) against Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P. for Marylebone, and other defendants, was de livered on Tuesday by Vice-Chancellor Matins, in a court which was crowded with commercial men. The facts of the case were referred to at length by his Honour in the course of an elborate judgment. The Vice-Chancellor having disposed of the vari outi objections which had been taken by the de Pendants to the institution and character of the suit as stated in emphatic language that the object, of the meetings held by the directors as stated alone were entirely illegal, and were for the purpose of giving falsehood the appearance of truth. Consequently no one who was a party to what tcok place would be allowed to receive any benefit from the arrange ments then entered into. The intention of the effect of the plan pursued by the directors was directly in opposition to the rules of the bill, which did not admit of the purchase of its own shares. The National Bank must have been aware of the character of the proposed arrangement, and if not it was one of so unusual a kind that the directors ought et once to have set themselves to inquire into it. They were bound to regard the money paid into their hands for a specific purpose as applicable to that purposo above. On the whole case," said the Vice - Chancellor, "I must pronounce the proceedings as false, fictitious, and fraudu lent." The National Bank would be held liable for the re turn of the £230,000, as also must Mr. Harvey Lewis, Mr. Kitson, and Mr. Bates, who had been guilty of a breach of trust. His Honour further decreed that the National Bank and Messrs. Lewis, Renshaw., Kitson, and Bates must pay :he costs of the suit. He felt more sympathy for the share holders of the National Bank:, but they must suffer for the icts of their director; Tho bill was dismissed against the Dther defendant; without costs, except Sir John Ennis, who was entitled to costs. The costs of the official liquidator would come out of the estate from where the money was t' bo got. The H era l d predicts that Mr. Gladstone will get difficulties if he departs from his original progratnnof 512 , appoints a royal commission to decide about the seg ue :: tration of the revenues of the Irish Church. To do the' justice, the political Dissenters are not prompted by anY mercenary motives in assuming their present attitude 6" this question. They look upon the disendowment of the Irish Church as a secondary consideration in comPa ris Z with its di sesta b l i shment. Their object is rending of the tie which unites the Church the State, an d t h e motion for the Ist of I‘l3rc fully answers their wi s h es i n t h at respect. It i s very different, however, with the Roman Catholi cs ' Very dear t o t h em i s the prospect of seeing t he Protestant Church degraded, but they cherish the h °l : that a more solid gratification is in store for them. 0 1,2,, t them th e d octr i ne of " revendication " is a passion. .-11/ hold w ith i nflexible pertinacity that all the proper*? , the Anglican Ch urc h acqu i red previous to the Refor ult tion, whether in England or Ireland, is the lawful prope rty of the Rom an C a th o li c C h urch, and that sooner or late r it must revert to her as the sole rightful owner. Thep tests to the contrary of Cardinal Cullen and his episel, brethren are of no m ore wort h than those of their Pre e I , cessors at the time of the Emancipation Act. They 117 °, 1 to hold on ce more i n some form or other the revenues 0 ° possessed by the P ro t es t ant C hurch in Ireland, and ther e is little reason to conclude that they will be patient °I " course of action which will indefinitely postpone the real l, sation of their dreams. The Daily News considers that one paragraph in the Queen's Sp eec h w ill h ave been read with satisfaction a nd relief in n ear ly every b orough in the kingdom. It is that l in which her M a j es t y recommends that an inquiry sll7, be made " int o th e present mode of conducting Ffir mentary and municip a l e l ect i ons, " with a view to ..„ - vide "further guarantees for their tranquillity, pur ity ' and freed om ." S uch an inquiry will give universalsa "" faction ; but probably the most satisfactory part of it to is c: ~,' the inhabit an t s o f municipal boroughs-is that the inqu i ry to emb race mun i cipal elections, and that an effort is '- be made to apply to those elections some gu arant ee of purity. Th e great defect of the present 13.: is that by making municipal corruption practica l- 4 safe it enables timid hands to learn the trade. ' l t is like an elaborate sham fight, in which, wi tll°Li f much danger, they can learn all the manoeuvres .° real battle. No effort to check electoral corruption W u !: therefore, be of the least avail till municipal corruptio n .' put on the same basis. The law as it now stands c 111 1 0• courages prosecutions for municipal bribery. ft offers. no motive to prosecute. It inactd certain penalties age' ll/s , it, but makes no effectual provision for their enforceine u " . In all these matters any parliamentary inquiry mus t , suit in assi m il a ti ng the two modes of election, and in making th e guarantee against corruption one and t'iL". same. The revelations of such an inquiry will, bowevet, show all mere penalties to be insufficent. M r . Mundel l ; knew what h e was speaking about when he anticipa ted that the result of the inquiry would be the adoption of t ll6 Ballot. It is only by rendering all external influence over a man's vo t e utterly powerless to affect it that we shall make e ith er mun i c i pal or parliamentary elections Oa or "provide any further guarantees fur their tranquillitif purity, and freedom." The Star in discussing the prospects of the Liberal candidates for Bradford, expresses great anxiety for t il l !: return of Mr. Miall. When a public man of Mr. Al ia. " distinction app ears as a candidate for a seat in Parliame nt ; every genuine Lib era l na t ura ll y feels the keenest intere s . in the result. Mr. Miall is the representative N° llc°ll formist of our d ay an d generation. He was the Pioneer, the able and ar d uous a d vocate of a cause which now pron3l3',o to b. in the ascendant. There can be no one who will de l o l the advantage of M r . Mi a l l ' s presence in the nous° Commons during the approaching, debates on the . 1 " 9 1 Church. His exclusion from that assembly at so criti el ' i a time would be a public misfortune and almost a na,tionl reproach. He does not in this instance appear in P er f ie as a candidate fo r th e representation of Bradford. stands simply and solely on the merits of his own reln its ; tion and services ; and in this connection the elect°l,, body who have t o c h oose b etween him and Mr. ThomPs-0 should remember th a t a l though he occupies a consp i cu ell 4 position as a champion of religious freedom, there 113 . been no oc cas i on on which he has b een wanting 0 fidelity to any o f the great questions which for years past the Liberal party have carried, or atte!npte. tc) VArrYt tc#._ L oucceseful iesue. BELAU OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times remarks that the question of the TO, Church is very cons i derably complicated with that °' national education. The Irish Catholics have a1 °5.9 demanded a d enom i nat i onal system of education, 0° tbe [round that the English have it. The other alternat ive is that th e nat i onal education of this country, too, 811, be deprived of its present denominational character. educational question, which the Conservatives Pt °fe : themselves s o anx i ous to see cropping out in the presen t war of p o li t i cal and controversial elements, would ce', ' tainly bring u p w i t h i tself the question of the religiou s charact er t o b e i mparted to the English village school., ° allowed to re ma i n i n i t. It is hardly to be imagined that half a m illi on more will be granted to nu r schools f or th e poor, whether out of the °leo or out of the rates, without our own Dissenters' Roman Catholics, and others having a good deal to 113, to the theological uses that may be made of it. ought to see our way to the principles on which the qu e '; tion of the Church and the school is to be decided, lie f°r d we plunge hastily into the creation of several thous° new schools, and the reconstruction of still more upoil new system. For the present, at least, we should thil it would ans wer th e purpose of the Conservatives, an all good En g li s h Ch urchmen, to regard the Englis h par t of the question as still awaiting a final settlesot. If it is distinctly and decidedly recognised that t he English nati ona l system is denominational, and tha t every respectable d enom i nat i on in this country P'.l demand its f u ll measure of State aid for a school in vvile, its tenets a re t aug h t as it pleases, and none other allo wed' then it follows that the Irish Catholics, in this their W I of triumph and virtual establishment, will be deemed °n an equality in this as in other respects. We conceive; however, th a t th e t rue spirit of the Government ille3t,,r before the n a ti on i s IRA i n this direction, and that w e not going to strengthen and extend our religious establish ments, whether they be called churches or schools. Sub. cient for th e d ay i s t h e evil—And the work, too—thire°; and we cann o t em b arrass ourselves with th e atteraP to perform simultaneously various tasks, just possible when taken in d ue sequence, i mpossible when accumlaw- The Post thinks that the session will be a very bus 9 °ll .l and that pl en t y o f work will be done. Th e 31inistel l t ; notices, as disti n g u i s h e d f rom those made by PriVily members, wer e t o some extent fulfilments of the pieug ag given in the Speech from the Throne. The Attorney' General will on F r id ay week bring in a bill for the anle°.d, ment of the la w o f b an k ruptcy. These measures have, '- Lord Cairns pithily observed in the House of Lords, b . e ; come "annuals ;" and we can only reciprocate his wil t that in the pr esen t sess i on some bill will receive the 3es_jeng of the L eg i s l a t ure wh i ch will remedy the glaring °Pi existing und er th e present system. Mr. Forster intimated his intention (though without naming the day) of bringl in the promi se d measure for the better regulation. ° endowed schools ; and Mr. Ayrton, in his official caPa a t:' will on the I s t o f M arc h ask the House to cons id e r '- committee the Acts which at present enable her Algi e l: to recompense the services of persons holding high ci office. The question of official salaries is one of Pe rilg ,be r the mo s t i mportant that can be submitted to " House of Commons, and opens a field of discuse l° : which i s a b so l utely limitless. Lord Robert Montagu 11-, already introduced the bill for the amendment of the eV s ;; ing Acts f or th e prevention of infectious diseases in C 3 t,;- of which he gave not i ce ; and the Solicitor-General 0 " notwithstanding his accession to office, brit , in the the Abolition of University Tests, which in his caP 3°l 7 l ' ,i of an indep en d en t mem b er he introduced in the °' Parliament. The Telegraph remarks that Lord Cairns, as the C° lieet ; vative leader i n th e H ouse of Lords, furnishes arl'the%, remarkable evid ence o f t h e readiness with which the 3131. tocracy of England we l come t h e foreign aid of MO ) iiite lect in th e i r p o liti ca l work. To those who represent " , -.t England is ruled by titles and influenced by rank, it 111 . ° % be some a nswer t o po i nt out that, of the four lea t n, men in Parli a m en t, th ree Lord Cairns, Mr. Glad stone, and M r . Di srae li are sprung from ,0 middle classes, and owe no public advantage to their birth. Th e p o liti ca l career of any of the three is possible to the son of an y mem b er of the middle classes. Gladstone's elevation to the Premiership over the heads many Whig Peers is in one sense remarkable, sill3P because the Liberal party, as a rule, have generally ample supply of ambitious noblemen who are able an ready to take the first place. The Tories have been led b 3; Canning, P ee l, Di srae li ; w hi le their Liberal opponents have been ruled by Lords Grey, Melbourne, Busse; Palmerston. Why is this? Why does the I popular side adopt the less popular plan ? Why 119g es party usually oppo se d t o excess i ve l y aristocratic pr i v ileg selected, as a rule, aristocratic leaders ? It may be througi personal accidents, or because Liberalism has ill k • hell ' some charm th a t st i mulates to activity men who ul-T high rank. Con servat i ve no b les submit to the lea dm % ship of a p arvenu with a consent which springs fr o the essence of their creed ;, they seem to say, " W;;! 'natters it wh o saves us, so that we are effectually savP u. g But when a p eer b ecomes a Liberal he so far surrender " any exceptional claim arising from his birth. The too actual . lead ers o f the new Toryism—Mr. Disraeli and Ler-A . . 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