The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

EMI OF _THE PVBLIC_JOURNALS. The Saturday _Review thinks there is reason to hope that .the risk of a collision between the two Houses may still be averted. The time which has been afforded for reflection las certainly not in all instances been wasted, and it is believed that some eminent prelates are disposed to restrain the ardour of impetuous laymen. If the majority, under the rash guidance of Lord Derby, persists in its intention 'of throwing out the Irish Church Bill, the general duty of 'the Government will be clear, although there may be some difference of opinion as to the course which ought to be immediately adopted. Some of the volunteer advisers who disguise their counsels to Mr. Gladstone in the form of imaginary rumours of his intentions, suggest the extravagant course of a fresh appeal to the country, not on the abolition of the Irish Establishment, but on the existence or constitution of the House of Lords. It is difficult to say whether the dissolution of a devoted House of Commons on a revolutionary issue would be more criminal or imbecile. The figment of a reaction would be for the first time accredited by a wanton repeti tion of the question which was so distinctly answered at the last election. Violent language in the House, or out of-doors disturbances, would enlist the sympathies of the great body of Conservatives on the aide of Lord Derby and his adherents, although their policy has hitherto been almost universally condemned. When the party which haa right on its side happens also to be the stronger, it would commit a great mistake it it were deliberately to put itself in the wrong. An extraordinary session held for the peremptory adoption of the Irish Church Bill would provide a pretextto hesitating members of the party for refusing to follow Lord Derby a second time to the breach. As the Ministers are not exposed to the • temptation of chewing deficient firmness, they can well afford to be temperate and courteous, and not even to bare too ostentatiously the steel gauntlet which their ; adversaries well know to underlie the velvet glove. It has probably not occurred to any politician that the doomed Establishment of Ireland is in the smallest degree inte rested in the efforts of the House of Lords to prevent or delay its extinction. In the event of an autumn session- taking place through the rejection of the Irish Church Bill, the Spectator believes that the true course would be to summon Parliament to meet for that extra session not in London, but in Dublin. Mr. John Bright long ago suggested that some one session of Parliament should be devoted chiefly to Irish affairs, and that it might be desirable to call together such a session, by way of special exception, and in order to assist the Legislature in forming a more accu rate conception of the condition, character, and wishes of Ireland, in Dublin. To this, however, there are, of course, almost insurmountable objections. But the grave objections which would render it simply impossible to carry out Mr. Bright's idea, would none of them apply to holding an extra long vacation session in Dublin simply for a single legislative object, and that object an Irish one. It would be only due to the enthusiastic old gentlemen who have convinced themselves by a sort of intel lectual coup d' eat, that a majority of near I'2o in a Household-Suffrage Parliament, for an opinion, means that the nation has suddenly decided against it, to give them the amplest means of studying the question on its merits, since they seem so entirely unable to judge of the wish for it by the second. hand testimony of representatives. Ireland would gain a slight pecuniary advantage by the inundation—just enough to put it in good humour. The Irish politicians would gain more, for they would have proved to their constituents the full strength of their influence, without doing anything injurious to the permanent progress of Ireland. And English politicians would gain most of all, for they could not meet in Dublin, even for the few weeks necessary for such a purpose, without realising far more vividly than they bad ever done before the difference between the genius of the English and Irish peoples, and understanding the hopelessness of making both peoples happy by identical processes either of administration or legislation. The John Bull asks whether the Conservative peers could with any sense of self-respect adopt at this early period of the struggle any other course than that of sober, deliberate, and unflinching opposition to the Irish Church Bill. " But the Lords will yield after all, and they know they must." But is this either clear - err •even probable? It is always unwise, either in war or in politics, to assume anything but the highest intelligence and most clever strategies on the part of the enemy. Are we to suppose that the leader of the Government is ever likely to follow such childish tactics as some of our contemporaries sug gest? To try and swamp the House with new peers, or, even worse, with mere irritated pugnacity, to send up the bill again after a fortnight's prorogation, and so to call out that very sympathy for the bayed lords which would nerve them again to reject the measure, are courses which no leader who had not lost either head or temper would ever dream of. What we must consider as before us is an autumn session. If the country during the vacation plainly makes it manifest that it adopts this bill and nothing but this bill—that it is for spoliation and secularisation of religiens funds, w hy. then, as regards this measure, the great Conservative host must resolve itself into its individual elements, each member must adopt his own conscientious convictions independently of party ; it must in the end be a soldier's battle, and, like many a soldier's battle, not without many a probability of ultimate victory. If however, on the other band, the country spews itself languid, as is not improbable, or, as we rather think, increasingly averse to many provisions of the bill, why then the future is easily forseen. The autumnal legislators in the Commons will be much more reasonable than the vernal legislators ; impor tant concessions will be made ; the Lords will be able to tolerate, and then to do that which is now, as the Times honestly warns them they cannot do—amend the measure. The Economist considers that the present crisis in the House of Lords is in one respect without a precedent, because the influence of no single peer now predominates, and many of the lords will have thus to act on they own judgment who have before deferred to their leader. It reminds the moderate peers that the rejection of the bill will throw the present power and the management of this controversy into the very last hands in which the rejectors could wish to see it. There are "no moderate people," it is said, " in a revolution," and though the rejection will not bring on a revolution, it will cause a great crisis in which loud voices only can be heard, and where all half and-half opinions will come to an end. In At word, if the quiet peers, with whom the power is, want to help Mr. Bright, they will reject the bill, for then his' 'words will again move multitudes and his genius be supreme, for it is a genius that suits a storm, and he will have the power to settle what shall happen. But now the quiet peers have much power themselves, and we cannot think they will be so infatuated as to transfer it to their oldest, their strongest, and most dangest opponents. The Saturday Review, in discussing the strength and unreasonableness of national antipathies, observes that no one can say that the difference between civilised nations is so marked as to justify one in regarding another with simple contempt, If civilised nations are on the whole approximately at the same level, we feel it to be as foolish to hate savages or the semi-civilised ...races as to dislike animals or children. They are at an imperfect stage of development, and, in fact, excite no antipathy, unless in some few unexceptional cases. And this suggests what is the real cause of such national antipathies. It is not that we seriously believe another race to be less moral or less intelligent than ourselves ; for in that case we should hate the Chinese or the negroes more than Frenchmen or Americans. t We really bate nations because they are so nearly our equals. It is felt to be intolerable that people who do not enjoy the blessings of the British Constitution, and who cannot even talk intelligibly, should be in many ways as good as ourselves. A wretched being who, with unaccountable perversity, says oui when he means yes, spews himself to be capable of building towns and making railways, and even fighting battles, as well as we could do it ourselves. This is the inexpressibly provoking thing about foreigners ; and it is to relieve our selves from the uncomfortable sensations which the circumstance produces, that we brag so loudly about our supposed points of superiority. Our ostensible reason for the antipathies we cherish is the belief that our neigh bours are really degraded beings ; but the real cause of the antipathies is the uncomfortable sensation that, how ever superior we may be in some points, they manage to keep tolerably abreast of us in the race for national excel lence. Englishmen were hated on the Continent so long as they presumed to interfere in continental matters, and were hated by their allies at least as much as by their enemies. If we consent to reduce ourselves to insular insignificance, and allow our commercial supremacy to be entirely upset, we may take such ccmfoSt as may be in the thought that people will begin to do us justice, as they would to specimens in a museum, or monkeys in a zoolo gical,. garden. Even the Americans, when they have taken Canada, exacted four hundred millions of compen. sation from us, and set up an independent Republic in Ireland, will begin to be a little sentimental about the old country, or such fraction of it as may still Le left on its legs. Lord Stanley of Alderley has had a relapse these last few days, arid is in a very weak condition. THE MURDER IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. —Tile ad journed inquest on the body of William Nichols, who, as well as a man named Davies, was shot by John Lane, the son of a farmer, near Chepstow, on Saturday last, termin ated in the jury finding a verdict of Wilful Murder against Lane. Davies, who was shot in the arm by the prisoner while looking at the body of the deceased man Nichols, has had the injured member amputated. The gun with which the murder was committed was found in a hedge, reloaded and capped, about five miles from the spot where the man. was shot. 'OIIBNALS. -- STIOCIZIAG RAILWAY -ApCIDENT. - , aeon to hope that About one o'clock on Thursday afternoon a fearful accident oases may still be occurred on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway , when two rded for reflection men were killed in a dreadful manner, and three others wasted, and it is isposed to restrain were very seriously injured. It appeared that about one 3 majority, under o'clock in the afternoon a trial trip was taken on the is in its intention Antelope engine, which was started from Newport to Bargoed on this line. The engine had been undergoing 2e general duty of here may be some some repairs, and additions had been made to the fitting vhich ought to be up, and this trial was for the purpose of testing them. On o l un t eer advisers the engine were five persons, Mr. J. Kendall, the superin • Gladstone in the tendent of the locomotive department on the Rhymney a t en tions, suggest Railway; Mr. C. Simpson, the superintendent of the i appeal to the locomotive department on the Brecon and Merthyr ,sh Establishment, Railway ; and the driver, named Stokes, who lives ie House of Lords, at Maesycwmmer ; together with Mr. Crane, the ution of a devoted traffic manager of the Brecon line, and a fitter y issue would be named Pollard. Several waggons were attached con rent of a reaction taining iron ore. All went well until they neared a y a wanton repeti- bridge crossing the turnpike road at Maesycwmmer. inctly answered at Here there is a curve towards Bargoed, but the engine , he House, or out- instead of turning, went straight over the rails against sympathies of the the girder on one side of the bridge. The girder gave way, ide of Lord Derby 1 and was thrown, together with the engine, tender, and has hitherto been waggons, into the road beneath, a distance of 16 feet. • the party which Stokes was buried beneath the wreck, no part of him i be the stronger, it being visible, while the limbs of Mr. Kendall were pr o. ere deliberately to jecting from the mass of iron. Mr. Simpson and oth ers, nary session held , being more fortunate, were thrown out of the debris, [rich Church Bill the former breaking his leg, and being also severely Imbers of the party scalded. The others were more or less severely i n j ured ' second time to the by the shock and the falling fragments. Assistance was exposed to the obtained, and the injured men removed, and effo rts were :mess, they can made to recover the bodies of the two who had been killed. :ow, and not even Kendall was found frightfully mutilated. Stokes wa s in a similar condition. nutlet which their ' !lvet glove. It has - , ~ n that the doomed ' A STRANGE TRIAL FOR MURDER ugliest degree lute- ---o--- aords to prevent or A trial for a remarkable double murder has just con .. ~.....,.. , . .. eluded at Tours, in France. A husband was charged with A trial for a remarkable double murder has just con cluded at Tours, in France. A husband was charged with murdering his wife, and his son was accused of attempting to murder her paramour. Owing to the good position of the prisoners and the peculiar circumstances of the case the trial has excited great interest throughout the country. The elder accused, Mousier Patry, a banker in Tours, was married twenty years ago to a young lady possessed of a fortune of 160,000 f. (26,400). Five children were born of the marriage—Arthur and Theodore, now aged 19 and 17 years, and three daughters, of which the eldest is under 13. About ten years ago M. Patry observed too much intimacy between his wife and M. Baillou, a friend of his partner in the bank. After some violent altercations between husband and wife on this sub ject, both of them went to Auvergne to visit her father, and returned to Tours after a year's absence. Soon the intimacy between M. Baillou and Madame Patry was renewed, and her light conduct became the town scandal. During the temporary absence of the husband, Baillou was frequently seen by the neighbours and the children visiting the wife. Patry was aware of the state of affairs, and sought to deaden his sorrow by stupefying drinks. On the 23rd of February last, at nine o'clock, the father and two sons retired to their rooms on the first floor. The mother went to hers on the ground floor, where her daughters also slept, the youngest being then absent. At the end of her chamber was a door opening on a staircase of five steps, leading into the garden. The accused tells his own story. Not being able to sleep, he happened to look out of the window about eleven o'clock, and saw a light in his wife's apartment. Going down softly he listened at the door, and distinguished the sounds of two voices. He then went upstairs, took a gun and loaded it, awakened his son Arthur, and bringing him to the window looking out on the garden, desired him to watch there and fire at the man who would endeavour to escape. Then he took another gun and went and knocked at his wife's door and demanded admittance ; she refused to open ; with a violent effort he burst in the door, and, as he did so, heard two shots fired by his son upon the man in the garden. Madame Patry was nut in the room. Mad with grief and rage, the unfor tunate man rushed to the stairs, and tired at his wife, who had fled to the garden. Then he returned to his son and daughter, and wept and prayed with them. Madame Patry died instantly, one ball having penetrated her brain and the other her heart. Much sympathy was felt for the unhappy murderer, whose domestic troubles were well known, and whose repu tation was unimpeachable. The case concluded as such trials in France always do—both prisoners were acquitted, the verdict being received with loud applause. LAW AND POLICE. AN ADMINISTRATION CASE. —The House of Lords, on Friday, gave judgment on an appeal from a decision of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, a special case having been stated for the opinion of this court. Mrs. Shard, widow, died intestate, in 1819, leaving personal property which no person claimed, and the-Solicitor to the Treasury took out administration to the estate, which realised £20,000. In 1858 its value, with accumulated interest, was £31,000. The next of kin was Isabel Cook, the wife of Ellis Cook, who was domiciled in America. She put in a claim in 1823, which was not recognised by the Crown, and she died two years later. Iler husband died in 1830, without having substantiated the claim. After his death their children applied to the appellant, Partington, to recover from the Solicitor to the Treasury the proceeds of Mrs. Shard's estate, and under a power of attorney he took out letters of administration to the estates of Ellis and Isabel Cook, and instituted proceed ings against the Treasury Solicitor, and in the course of the suit the court declared the solicitor to be chargeable with the accretions by way of interest. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue claimed an amount of stamp duty on the letters of administration, which should include all such accretions. Partington having objected to make such payments, the present proceedings were instituted for the purpose of recovering the duty. The Court of Exchequer, where the case was first tried, decided that probate duty was payable on the full value of the estate, and the accretions on the letters of administration to Isabel Cook's estate, but not to those for her husband's. The Court of Exchequer Chamber affirmed the judgment of the court below on the first point, and reversed it on the second. Their lordships were of the same opinion, and dismissed the appeal. MISS SHEDDEN'S CASE.—OU Friday Miss Sledden had recovered sufficiently from her indisposition to resume her address to the Lords, but her arguments were not concluded when their lordships adjourned. NORFOLK POISONING CASE.—William Davy and his wife, charged with attempting to poison John Davy; at Swaffingham, have been committed for trial. SAD CASE.—A distressing case was brought before the magistrates at Manchester a day or two since. The daughter of respectable parents, about 17 years of age, was charged with stealing a quantity of jewellery and other articles from her parents. It was said that she was incurable, and nothing could check her propensity for stealing and obtaining money by false pretences. She pleaded guilty, and was committed to gaol for four months. TIIE DIAMOND ROBBERY.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Clifford, who had been convicted of stealing a valuable diamond bracelet from Hunt and Roskell's, was sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude. The Earl of Radnor's personalty (the Illustrated News states) Las been sworn under £l6O 000. A local journal states that Mr. Whalley is rapidly recovering from the effects of his late accident. He is, how , eve:, rather lame, and suffering from an injured knee. CHARGE OF POISONING A HUSBAND. —On Friday, Fanny Frances Maria Oliver, widow of Joseph Oliver, boiler-maker, of Hertshill, Dudley, was again arraigned before the magistrates in that town, charged with the wilful murder of her husband by administering poison. Oliver died on Whit-Sunday, and was buried on the following Wednesday, after a certificate had been given by Mr. Simmons,. surgeon, who bad attended him, that the cause of death was " hepatic congestion." Information which reached the police, however, principally through the medium of the neighbours, and relating chiefly to the conduct of Mrs. Oliver before her husband's death, aroused their suspicions that Oliver had been wilfully poisoned ; and the inquiries they made resulted in the ascertaining of facts which they conceived justified them in arresting her on the terrible charge of wilful murder. The facts, as they were brought out at the previous two sittings of the magistrates, after the body had been exhumed, were briefly the following :—The parties were in a comfortable position in life, and the accused is the daughter of a respectable citizen living at Handsworth, Birmingham. The ileceased was a shareholder in a building and investment society in Wolverhampton, and his wife drew out in the pant twelvemonths about 1:100 in eight different sums, after having had letters giving notice for the withdrawal of the money written in her husband's name, but by a youth whom she strictly charged never to tell her husband. Deceased became ill, and the prisoner nursed him, always preparing his food. About the time of the illness the prisoner obtained arsenic from a druggist's professedly. for bonnet cleaning. Deceased was often very sick and vomited greatly. Once, when be was taking milk, he complained that it was hot with pepper, vomited very much, and so, too, did his mother and another person who tasted it. The body, on an order from the Home Secretary, was exhumed the second time, chiefly for the examination of the brain. Evidence was given to shew the presence of arsenic in the hods. and the ac cuse 4 was comzuittO jg.. 410. _ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TITE CONSERVATM: VAVP. The Conservative Cave daily grows larger. Lord Wharncliffe writes that lie, as well as Lord Devon, had to present a number of petitions against the Irish Church Bill, and in doing so he said that he agreed with what Lord Devon had said on the pre vious day. Lord Powerscourt writes contending against the theory of his political friends that the disestablishment of the Irish Church involves an abnegation of the duty of supporting the religion professed by the State. He says :-- "The English and Scotch peoples stood up - for their rights, and won what they struggled for, and has the Irish people no right to its own religion, and freedom of its use on an equality with the other parts of the United Kingdom ? I believe that the Irish people will never be contented and peaceable as long as they consider them selves in a condition of inferiority and less favoured than the rest of the Queen's subjects. Beneficial and remedial measures may be passed, but as long as the ecclesiastical grievance exists Ireland will remain the weak point of England, and a byword among the nations." Lord Powerscourt, it should be remembered, is an Irish peer and landowner. The two English Archbishops would not care t) be classed as Conservatives, nevertheless, on Church matters, they have usually voted with that party, and did so on last year's Suspensory Bill. Neverthe less, it is now stated that they will not vote against the Irish Church Bill. We have already mentioned that the Bishop of Oxford has determined upon the same course. It is understood that Bishops Jacobson and Thirlwall will vote for the bill. The Bishops of Carlisle. Exeter, Winchester, Chichester, and Salis bury will be prevented by illness from voting. The Bishops of Lincoln and Sodor and Man have no vote; and thus twelve out of the twenty-eight English it is no less confidently affirmed that the noble lord, her husband, will Speedily follow." It would have been just as well to have mentioned the name at once. For want of franloess each and all the noble mem bers of the Government are liable to suspicion. There is reason to believ3, however, that the rumour refers to the Countess Spencer, wife of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. bishops will fail the Conservative party. THE PEERS AND THE BILL. Attention is called just now to the speech delivered by Lord Cairns last session on the Suspensory Bill. In this speech a rather remarkable passage occurs. After explaining his view on the subject under dis cussion, his lordship proceeded as follows " These are the issues involved in your lordship's deci sion now, and `they are the issues yet to be presented to the country in the great appeal to its enlarged con stituencies.' My lords, in that appeal—for I agree with the noble Duke (the Duke of Argyll) that it is fitting that a Government should uphold a standard of political faith—in that great appeal the Government will stand as the defenders of all that this bill and the policy of its promoters would seek to over throw. By the result of that appeal we are prepared to abide ; and, my Lords, be the result what it may—and I, for one, have confidence in the true heart and faith of the country—a nobler cause for which to fight, a fairer field in which to stand or fall, no Minister and no statesmen need desire." It is now asked whether Lord Cairns is " prepared to abide " by his words, or whether they were intended to be interpreted by the addition of the words it in case the country endorse my opinions." The Earl of Harrowby is not " reserving his voice for Monday " so completely as he promised. His lordship presided on Thursday nig ht at a meeting of the Church of England Young Men's Society, called to protest against the bill. He took occasion to defend himself against the aspersions of the press. It had been said he should not go about the country as a stump orator kindling a flame. He did not Intend (he declared) to kindle a flame, but to bear witness to its existence. The great aim of the new legislators had been to turn their hands against ancient institutions. If the Church were destroyed little hope would there be for future progress. They were degrading their humiliated brethren for the sake of a momentary gratification. He trusted that all would see that the House of Lords did its duty — that it would not act the part of trade winds. He trusted that the decision of Parliament would be appealed against in another quarter. The Church Times says that "an unparalleled amount of pressure has been put upon the Peers" is order to make them throw out the Irish Church Bill. But our contemporary can hardly believe that they will do this ; for " what good can come of such obstructiveness after the majorities which Mr. Glad stone has obtained ? At best, Parliament will simply be prorogued, and at an autumn session, after the creation of a batch of Liberal peers, the bill will besent up again unaltered—and what then ? One thing is perfectly clear—the policy which the Lords are adopting will do more than anything else to hasten on the disestablishment of the Church of England." PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATIONS. The Conservatives are making every effort to spew the country that a reaction has commenced against the Irish Church Bill. But the way they are obtaining examples of the opinion of the country is calculated to weaken very considerably the value of their demonstrations. In the North of Ireland they aro offering tickets to London at re duced prices to persons who will join de monstrations at the Crystal Palace against the bill. At Manchester they are paying the whole railway fares of people who live around. And, as another illustration of the same kind of thing, the _Leeds Mertztry mentions that a number of Wortley people were induced to attend a meeting at Bradford on Thursday night by being paid 3s. per head in addi tion to their railway fares. D.R. EDMOND BEALES Mr. Edmond Boales is ready. He declares, In a letter to the Sim., that, should cause arise, he will be happy to oblige again by leading an agitation for the Irish Church Bill, and, if need be, against the Lords. He puts the matter this way. The Lords think there is a reaction in this country against the bill. Should they act upon that idea, and reject the measure, it. will be the duty of the country to shew by derma.: strations that their lordships are wrong. if the Re formers of the metropolis wish Mr. Beales to act again he will have no objection to organise these demon strations, but he suggests that he might be excused for hesitating, considering' t3ifr , sacrifices he has already made. Should these meetings fail to con vince the Lords, Mr. Beales thinks " they will have only themselves to blame if the question be raised as to whether two legislative assemblies are any longer necessary, and whether they and their order, as a separate body from the Commons, are not a feudal relic, encumbrance, and obstacle unsuited to the nineteenth century." THE QUEEN AND THE CRISIS. During the passage of the Reform Bill the Queen went off to Scotland, at a time when crises were occurring so often that Mr. Bright protested they were too many for his nerves. Now, however, her Majesty will not be similarly unconcerned. The Advertiser states that she will return from Balmoral on Tuesday neat, and remain at Windsor until the course of parliamentary action, consequent on the expected reje3tion of the Irish Church Bill by the house of Lords, is arranged. • THE CRISIS IN IRELAND. Dublin correspondents of the London journals give very different accounts of the state of feeling in Ireland. The correspondent of the Times says that " although the monster meetings have been sus pended for a few days, the organisation of the Protestant democracy is extending, and there is a fierce and - ungovernable spirit, fanatical in its earnestness, which may lead to violent collisions, but, fortunately, it has not been opposed. Those who would offer moderate counsels are whirled away in the impetuous current, and obliged to be silent where they cannot approve. As yet the agitation has not extended farther south than Dublin, the Church defenders in the south and west being too few and scattered to make any imposing demonstrations,. but they are strongly urged to take part in the movement." The sup porters of the bill are not wholly inactive. The National Association is demonstrating in favour of it, and it was said that if the Lords threw it out the most serious and dangerous consequenceswould result. The correspondent of the Morning Herald, directly contradicting the Times, says, There is a dead calm in Ireland. The great agitation against the House of Lords has not broken out. People are attending to their business just as if there were no Church ques tion,' and no imminent constitutional struggle. On the Protestant side the holding of great meetings is over for a few days only. Others on a large scale aro being organised. Meanwhile petitions are being prepared, with the view of strengthening the Lords in their line of action. It is now universally accepted that Mr. Gladstone's bill cannot, in any possible event, pass into law. Its extreme character, it is commonly said, will be the ruin of him and his party." Other journals refer to the meeting of the National Society, but very wisely refrain from giving any opinion of the state of feeling generally. ELECTION ITEMS. Several of the London papers are authorised to state that there is no foundation for the report that the Right Hon. Henry Corry intends to retire from the representation of the county of Tyrone. The nomination for the Nottingham election takes place on Monday next, and the polling is fixed for the following day. There are four candidates before the town. Mr. Charles Seely is the party candidate of the Liberals, Colonel Nassau Lees that of the Conservatives. The latter announces himself as an independent constitutional candidate, and in his address sap' am Rtrongly adv Arse t o the measure (Irish Church Bill) which has passed the House of Commons, but which has not yet passed, and in its present form at least will not, I hope, pass the House of Lords." Mr. Rigby Seymour is the independent candidate, and declares, in his address, that his views are identical with those held by the late Sir Robert Clifton. It is stated that, with regard to the Irish Chureh Pill, the 'learned gentleman is a follower of Sir Roundell Palmer. Mr. George Potter, the working man's candidate, is apparently very popular among those to whom he specially appeals. ANOTHER SECESSION. The Morning Advertiser publishes a confident statement to the effect that " a lAdy of distinguished rank, and whose husband fills a most important novarwmAnt race. has joined the Church of Rome. DR. PUSEY ON REUNION WITH ROME. Dr. Pusey's ansver to Dr. Newman's reply to the Eirenicon is published. It is entitled " First Letter to the Very Rev. J. H. Newman, D.D., in explana tion chiefly in regard to the reverential love due to the Ever Blessed Theotokos and the doctrine of her Immaculate Conce?tion, with an analysis of Cardinal De Turrecremata's work on the Immaculate Con ception." This work extends to 1520 pages, and in a P.S. Dr. Pusey says that he has begun his second letter on " happier subjects," which seem to be chiefly the terms and means of obtaining a reunion of Christendom. Dr. Pusey urges that the Roman Church should come to some agreement with the English as to what is de fide. He says : " - Union is possible, as soon as Italy and England, having the same faith and the same centre of unity, are allowed to hold severally their own theological opinions.' I do think this. 1 do not think it necessary that we should extend or contract our several systems to one Pro crustean length. Faith is one ; and on what is of faith,' we must be agreed. I think that, not by concessions' on your part, but by mutual explanations as to what is of faith,' we can be at one in all which is really ' of faith,' if only, as to that large system which lies outside that centre of faith, neither we have a quarrel with you, because the majority of your people practically hold it, nor you u require of us, that, in case of re-union, our people should be practically taught it." He urges that there are two parties in the Roman Church, the one rising . to full Catholic, that is, primi tive belief, the other sinking into the abyss. Twenty or thirty years will determine which has the upper band, whether that which is now private opinion be erected into a dogma, or whether present excesses will be repressed. He says to Dr. Newman : " I trust that your voice, which once blew a deep trumpet-call among us, will again occasion others also to speak, who love troth and soberness. I hope that I see in your words and your disclaimers a dawn of a hope of restored union, when yours shall not be a single voice, and those who think as you do shall by God's help prevail. What we want is to have it made clear by authority, in some way which God the Holy Ghost may suggest, that these non-primitive doctrines are not 'de fide' or proxi mate to faith, and are not to be required of any." The Tablet, reviewing this book, says that Dr. Puse o v t 's r nesteiri are t eof the Blessed Virgin, and his reve rence far beyond that of the great mass of Protestants, Yet confesses that "we all who have fondly hoped to see Dr. Pusey become a catholic before his death must be sadly disappointed by the book before us. Dr. Pusey remains as good and staunch a Protestant as Dr. Cumming. Not that ho does not hold a , greater iiember of Catholic truths than Dr. Cumming ; but that whatever he holds, he holds upon the same basis, the same principle, that is upon the Protestant principle of private judgment." THE SCOTCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH. A petition is about to be presented to the Canter bury Convocation, asking the bishops to take cogni sance of an act o f sc hism, by which bishops and priests in Anglican orders invade the dioceses of the Scotch bishops and officiate in places where the authority of the Scotch Episcopate is repudiated. Dr. Suther, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, in acknowledging the gift of a new set of episcopal robes, writes :—" I saw s omewhere that a noble lord in his place in Parliament had spoken slightingly of what he was pleased to call ' subscription bishops but lam not ash ame d to be reckoned among that despised class of clergymen who receive their support from the voluntary offerings of the members of their own communion. Besides being a method of support peculiarly Christian-like, as things are going in these times it appears likely to be the most secure and per manent." 3IARRIAGF.S IN IRELAND. Mr. Lecky, in his "History of Morals," has urged that one of the great virtues of the Irish people has been one of the causes or their misfortunes. Their love of chastity hi.s made them marry early, their early marriages have led to an excessive population, and an excessive population has led to the extremity of poverty and misery. The statistics recently pub lished by the Registrar of Ireland show that the first of these propositions is untrue. He says that Ireland, hitherto considered the most marrying of countries, is almost celibate in comparison with the two sister kingdoms, the Irish proportion of mar riages to popul a ti on b e ing a third less than the Scotch, and not much more than half of the English. . Moreover, it seems that tare belief in the imprudence of Irish marriages is a popular error, for the proportion of males marrying under age is in Ireland not half as great as in England or Scot land. The rate of births gives a corresponding result. In Scotland _it is nearly 3'l per cent. on the population ;.in England more than 31 per cent. ; in Ireland less than 23 per cent. As regards illegitimacy, England is nearly twice, Scotland nearly thrice,worse than Ireland. The contrast is even more striking if we take Catholic Ireland alone, which has only 1.9 per cent. of illegitimate births as com pared with 6 . 2 in Presbyterian Ulster and 0.0 in Scotland. CHARITY. We in England certainly work our charities most expensively. An instance is supplied by the Peter borough Tnnes. An appeal was recently made in the Cathedral of that city on behalf of the Curates' Augmentation Fund. Two clergymen were brought clown from London to preach. The Bishop was there, so was the Dean ; so too was the Canon in residence, but as hearers; and the collection, we are told, amounted to only £ll. The writer who supplies these facts also give a calculation that after paying the salary of the organising secretary, the travelling and other expenses of the preachers, and the cost of printing and advertising, the magnificent sum of one solitarviixpeuce remained for the working clergy of Great Britain. THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BILL. The Middlesex inagieti•atos do not altogether like the Government County Administration Bill. They have discussed it, and inasmuch as it interferes with their power, they have put tteir objections before Mr. Bruce. They complained to him that there were too many elective members under the bill, and asked to have provisions inserted whereby they should retain power over certain county property, and jurisdiction in respect of schods and prisons. Mr. Bruce declined to discuss the principle of the mea sure, but promised to consider the other points. CO-OPERATIVE BANKING. Mr. Ludlow writes with regard to his scheme of co-operative banking that it is unadvisable to throw open to all the world the banks which he proposes to establish, because they would at first be the objects of much suspicion and jealousy, and it would there fore be necessary to prevent panics that might be got up if any persons other than those interested in co-operation were allowed to make deposits. A few years hence this objection may no longer exist. In the meanwhile there is plenty of opportunity for doing business on a large scale. There are 200,000 co-operators dividing £400,000 a year, and with collective balances in hand of about £150,000, besides all their individual resources ; there are also at least 500,000 trade society men, whose collective balances cannot possibly be reckoned at less than £1,000,000. From these two sources alone a sufficient starting capital should be obtainable / even if one could not touch the Building Societies, which have, probably, some £3,000,000 disposable, or the Friendly Societies, whose reserved capital has been reckoned at from L 11,000,000 to £20,000,000. The great object of these banks is to meet the difficulty that distributive co operation has by this time at its command more capital than it knows what to do with ; that, over and above large sums deposited with joint-stock banks at a low rate of int eres t, its most successful establishments are, in one shape or other, daily paying back capital to members and depositors, and amongst such depositors to trade societies, which find themselves thus compelled to take their money ovt of the co-operative movement. party resigning (Fr om. the Anglo-American Timm.) The Democratic tactics, to defeat the XVth so as to Amendment in Indiana, by the members of that prevent a seats u i m n the b oi n S g t a t p e r L e s e o g n i t s a t h u a r: e , failed, as the Republicans proceeded to pass the Amendment, and the Attorney-General pronounces their course to have been legal, and the Amendment lawfully passed. The Republican State Conven tion of Kentucky4met on the 28th May, and recom mended the speedy ratification of the Amendment. These are the States whose ratification of the XVth Amendment has as yet been signified to the Secre tary of State :—Missouri, March 1, 1869 (Defec tive) ; Kansas, Feb. 27, 1869 (Defective) ; North Carolina, March 5, 1869 ; West Virginia, March 3, 1869 ; Massachusetts, March 9-12, 1869 ; Wis consin, March 9, 1869 ; Mline, March 12, 1869 ; Louisiana, March 5, 1869 ; MichL!an, March 8, 1860 i SouthC;irolina, March 16, 1869 ; Pennsyl vania, March 26, 1869 ; Arkansas, March 30, 1869. On the 27th May the Rhode Island Senate adopted the Amendment by a vote of 22 to 11. Secretary liontwell will acquire more knowledge of human nature in a year or two of office than the experience of a life teaches others. From the ra pacious office-seeker, such as Dr. Mary Walker, to the man who remits him, as one did the week be fore last, $lOO, with the observaion that it comes " from one who wants to be honest," he gets an in sight iuto every variety of temperament. The amount of advice he receives anonymously, or with tile name perhaps of a barber's clerk attached to the document, or in interviews; ought to- carry a Finance Minister over any difficulty; and as he cannot require it all, we recommend him to make a fair distribution to Greece; Spain, Austria, and some of the Republics down South, where it might be utilized. A gold "bull," quite a different style of animal to the calf Nebuchadnezzar set up, saturated with patriotism, and overflowing with a desire to benefit his country, earnestly, warns him to con sider what the result may be of his reckless mode of dealing with the gold surplus. It seems to have been a habit in the Treasury Department to loan money in anticipation of salaries, doubtless conve nient for a hard-pressei clerk, but not the system on which men of business conduct their establish- ments, hence the Secretary has stopped it; but he has reduced the working hours from 4 to 3 o'clock, to take effect from the Ist June. It will be long before the Washington Depart ments lose their vestiges of the rebellion. An in quisitive Senator got three boxes opened which had been sent by the War Department into the Trea sury for safe keeping during June, 1865, as they were said to contain articles of great value. The army of the Tennessee under Sherman had sent them from Georgia and other States from the banks abandoned before the approaching Union Army. On being opened diamonds, pearls, and other pre clops stones, set in brooches, rings, and necklaces, were displayed, with a variety of rare and costly jewellery. Besides gold and silver plate, some of great age, there were silks, velvets, and laces ; the amount of specie was small, but the quantity of Confederate notes and bonds was very large, as well as notes of State banks. A difference of opinion exists on the disposal of this property, sonic officers of the departments holding that it should be returned, the family crests, initials, and monograms being stamped on many of the articles: Others that they ought to be sold for the benefit of the Treasury, and others that their disposal will re- quire a special act of Congress. The sales of con fiscated property have been negligently transacted, and in consequence the Treasury has suffered. Mr. Boutwell, at present investigating the circum stances, has directed his attention more especially to Virginia, where rebel property bas been sold under the authority of officials at low prices to themselves, and even the proceeds pocketed by the purchasers. General Beauregard furnishes us with another example of these vestiges. Shortly before the war, he then a Major, was superintendent of the West Point Military Academy, but he was sent in January and February, 1861, by the War Departnient to his old post at New Orleans. Lately the Treasury Department have discovered that he owed $10.30 ets., which he was requested to pay. To this Beauregard replied by enclosing his ac count for $165.50 cts. transport to New Orleans, which the Department at the time had failed to pay him, asking that the difference between the accounts should be remitted. The Treasury had to submit the claim to the law officers, and it was decided under a recent Act of Congress that it could not be admitted. It was raining at Washington on the 28th M.y. and it looked as !f it intended to rain on the 29th, which was to be observed ai a general holiday ; all the departments, offices, banks, and leading busi ness houses being closed. Commemoration Day this year having fallen on a Sunday many of the committees iu charge of decorating the soldiers' graves had named either Saturday or Monday. Colonel I)upont's battery were to fire a salute at Arlington, and a battalion of marines, 200 strong, together with their band, were to he conveyed there at the expense of the Government. The Beethoven, Saengerbund, and the Anion Quartette Clubs were to sing. There are three cemeteries within reach of Washington, for at Alexandria 5,000 soldiers are burital, and the coloured soldiers lie in a cemetery by themselves, where the ceremony of decorating their graves was to be conducted by the coloured men of Washington. The President had accepted the invitation to be present at the ceremony at Arlington, to take place on Saturday, May 29. The New England Woman Suffrage Convention met at Boston on the evening of May 26, and passed the following resolution :—" That the Executive Committee of the New England Woman's Suffrage Association be authorized to correspond with the fiends oft he cause throughout the country, and to take such steps as they may deem best for the orga nization of a National Woman's Suffrage Associa tion during the coming year, in which all parts of the country shall be fully and fairly represented.' Mrs. Julia Ward Howe real an essay on the social and political condition of w)tnen ; Lucy Stone and Mrs. Livermore spoke, es did also IViMaui Lloyd Garrison and Whitney Griswold, Chairman of•the Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts Le gislature, which has elaborately reported in favour of female suffrage. That committee assert women to excel men as judges of character, doing so by instinct, lut we confess to a prejudice (perhaps an unreasonable one) against being judged in such a way. The committee contend that women gene rally form a truer opinion than men as to the effect of public measures. Next evening the New England Anti-Slavery Society met and declared, as well they might, the progress of the nation on this sub ject to be satisfactory. Now that they have secured political privileges for the negroes, they have turned their attention to the still more difficult subject of their social equality with the whites. The Ameri can Tract Society also met the same day. The Treasurer's report gave the total expenses of last yeir at $136,401 66 ; received from the sales of books and tracts, $57,498 75 ; periodicals, $34,142 53 ; total receipts, $131,947 68. The financial condition of the society gives a balance of $160,936 85 in its favonr. A telegram from Washington on Tues,lay says : "At the municipal election, which took place here yes terday, the Republicans succeeded in electing the collector, surveyor, and registrar. The latter and seven members of the city council are negroes. The Radical negro's mobbed a Democratic negro, and attacked the police who were protecting him. The police used their revolvers, and dispersed the negroes, killing one and wounding many. President Grant, in response to an application of a dele gation of the' Georgia Republicans, has ordered the re moval of the negro postmaster at Macon, who was repre sented as obnoxious to the entire white population." From the. Washington Territory the success of the Republican Congressional candidate, Mr. Garfield, is announced. Mr. Russell Jones, whose name was submitted to the Senate, strongly recommended by the President as Minister to Belgium, where there was no va cancy as General Sanford's transfer to Spain had not been sanctioned, has now been appointed on the resignation of the latter gentleman. Mr. Charles Andrews goes to Stockholm as United States Mi nister. Samuel li. M. Byser has been appointed Consul at Zurich. There is a rumour that the po liticians are plotting to make vacancies in the mis sions to Berlin and Florence, with the sole object of giving these posts to their friends. They will find it difficult, hoWever, to get rid of the distin guished incumbents, although the attempt will be made when Congress reassembles. The commercial Convention at Memphis has been followed by another meeting at New Orleans, of 400 delegates representing the Southern and Western States. What they require is a redistri bution of the currency, the interest on the National Debt reduced, direct foreign trade with Southern ports, Government aid for repairing the levees, and repeal of the usury laws. They desire the con structiou of a Southern railway to the Pacific, urging the advantage the climate gives in enablinc , such a road to be kept open all the winter, which is not the case with that via Omaha. The majority favour the Pacific line, a direct route from Cairo to Mazatlan ; the minority the Memphis El Paso Grand Trunk route. The establishment of direct communication to Europe will, it is hosed, be fol lowed by immigration. General Sickles has received and accepted his commis: ion as Minister to Spain. lle was to leave about the middle of June so as to retch Madrid on the lstJuly, when Mr. Ilale's term expires. Dr. Mary Walker has demanded the appointment of Secretary of the Legation to Spain. Secretary Fish asked her when she called to claim the appointment, if she could talk Spanish. Spanish, retorted Mary, this is not a question of languages ; it is a question of the rights of women ! The Secretary then advised her to see General Sickles, who fnight have some thing to say on the selection of his Secretary, and so she left to have an interview with the General and to purchase a Spanish grammar. We may here observe that Mr. Hale has wriAen a long letter in reply to his Secretary of Legation, Mr. Perry, whose letter be calls "an atrocious libel." lle asks if it can be seriously believed that he, a stranger in Spain, ignorant of the Spanish language and customs, would commence relations with a commercial establishment for the importation of merchan dise under l.is diplomatic . franchise. Like Mary the idea of a knowledge of Spanish being required from a Minister to Spain, does not suggest itself to Mr. Hale, though in hig case the ignorance re- suited in disagreeable consequences to himself. His account is that it being necessary to furnish a house, he learned from Mr. Perry that by the law of Spain he was entitled to import furni tun?. free of duty up to $7,000, awl Perry un iertook to cirry this out for Mr. Hale. Mr. Perry made every application in Spanish, all which, without knowing tht-ir purport, were signed by Mr. Hale. That petition dated Oct. 1, 1866, to which Mr. Perry particularly alluded, was written by him, and signed, as were the others ; and on reading his statement Mr. Hale went to the State Department with two witnesses, to whom all the petitions were submitted, and found it to be in Mr. Perry's hand writing. He then charges Mr. Perry with import ing, withinlsix years, goods to the amount of $6,750, in which list there are nine carriage=, eight being ordered within three years, while denying that his own importations were even up to what was allowed by law. Mr. Hale answers the smuggling charge of La Politica by a letter from Marshal Serrano, where we fail to catch the point of exoneration. In the same paper is a letter in reply to another from Mr. Smalley, in defence and confirmation of his first comtnunicaton about the Spanish Minister. He alludes to a curious printer's error which crept into the letter, and gave point to some abuse from Mr. Hale and Democratic jour- , nals which bad undertaken his defence; " than" was printed " that," and came out, "I was indebted to him for a cordial reception, and for many more offers of hospitality that I was able to accept." President Grant left Washington June 9 ou'a visit to New York and Riston. Ou the 10th the train in which the PreAdent was with his party came into collision with a cattle train near B.►lti- more and ran off the rails, when one passenger was killed and twenty others more or less injured, Secre tary Boutwell having a narrow escape. From Philadelphia last Monday came the news : —" Constant Indian massacres arc reported from the Kansas frontier. Fifty settlers have been killed in the past two weeks. A panic exists, and the set tlers are coming east." The valleys of the Solomon and Republican Rivers have l.een devastated, and the settlers are fleeing from Western Kansas to the more settled East. The Santee Sioux attacked the settlement of Muscle Shell, Montana, May 8, when a desperate fight ensued, ending in the death of 30 Indians. A strong reinforcement of Sioux was re ported to, he coming up, but the whites were pre pared. It is evident therefore that the Indian war is general, the outrages ranging from Montana to Arizlna, in which territory a fight is now reported between the troops and an Indian band at Iveson,* wherein 30 Indians were killed and eight captured. News from Shirley, Cloud County, Kansas, says four men out of a party of six buffalo hunters were killed by the Indians on Monday, May 24, near White Rock, 24 miles west of Shirley, and it is evilent that nothing but the most vigorous pacific efforts of the new Indian Commission and the persuasions of the civilized tribes in the conference proposed to lecture on the advantages of civilization will save the savages from extermination. An extraordinary crime has been perpetrated at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The national depository has been robbed of a quarter of a million of dollars, and the person in charge of the building murdered. A telegram from Washington on Tuesday said President Grant has appointed a commission of seven members to investigate Indian affairs, with instructions to ic . spect the records of all Indian agencies, to superin tend the disbursement of annuities, and to report on the best means of civilizing the savage tribes. 'The Indians cause great difficulty to the officers sent to protect the settlements and to carry out ope rations against them. The soldiers cannot attack an , encampment upon which they come without evi dence that its inhabitants are hostile, altiv;u:;11 per suaded that the pipe of peace is ready for them if the stronger party, and the knife and bullet if the weaker. General Sheridan asks how he is to treat such Indians as the Cheyennes, who refuse to go to their. reservations, and have left Arkansas to join their forces with those defeated by Captain Carr. It is more than probable that it was these Cheyennes who have again spread such desolation in the valleys of the Solomon and Republican Rivers; yet, although the General had the oppor tunity of destroying them, he could not avail himself of it. General Sherman recommends that 'a procla mation be issued that all Indians will be treated as hostile when absent from and not going to their re servations ; but that in their .reservations officers should be ordered to treat them liberally and kindly. To this, he adds, it must come at last, and now is the appropriate time. 'The Volunteers forced Captain-General Dulce to resign the Government of Cuba to Espinar, pend ing the arrival of General de Rodas, whose depar ture from Spain was hurried by the news. Dulce left on Saturday, June 5. The reason the Volun teers give for this deposition is that his wife, being a Creole, influenced him to be too lenient to the in surgents. From Washington, however, the Spanish Minister; telegraphed to the Volunteers, warning them to desist from further revolts. The 500 Ame rican filibusters were reported to have landed under General Jordan, and, after defeating some Spanish troops, they had joined the insurgents. From Spanish accounts the filibusters who landed in the Bay of Nipe were routed the next day, losing their vessel, artillery, and provisions. Large bodies of Cuban insurgents, they also state, have surrendered to the Spanish authorities, and as large numbers have been continually surrendering there must have been a considerable number to begin with. Chili has re cognized the insurgents as belligerents, and Peru is said to have given bonds not to use the American monitors purchased in the United States against Cnba. No. I. of Political Economy, by Horase Greeley, 1 appeared in the Tribune, o n M a y 29. It b eg i ns b y an essay on labour and production, which is continued through more than three colanns of leading article type. We do not intend to sip these sweets, but to make a great feast of the 25 papers when com pleted, and then tell their celebrated author how we feel. By the way, the Tribune published the list of contributors to the Free Trade League, and has been busily engaged since in analysing it, and its Secretary must be amazed at the results. A correspondent asserts that Gen. Grant had an interview with a strong Protectionist, wherein he showed a marked leaning towards Free Trade--" He was decidedly opposed to any legislation which had for its object an in crease in the taxation of articles or merchandise imported into the United States, as-he did- not be lieve that the revenues of the country required it. He would not conceal the fact that a small tariff was necessary, but be would like to see the revenues of the country raised as far as possible from internal taxes, and not from heavy duties upon imported goods." We learn by cable that the Nova Scotian House of Assembly, by 27 against 7 votes, has rejected the resolution in reference to the annexation of their province to the dominion of Canada, but the ques tion will probably be reconsidered. On May 26, Mr. Murray, of Pictou, moved the following r‘i- solution : "That an humble adiress bo pr,-s)nted to bel• Majesty asking once more that our beloved institution be restored to us, or that her Majesty will bo graciously pleased to absolve us from our allegiance to the Nitisli throne, and enable us, as a free and independent people, to adopt Ito political institutions which we, in our judgmepk, may deem most conducive to our happine.ss and prosperity." Ile approached this, with seven " hereas," show ing what a down-trodden people were the colonists, and with what contempt they were treated by the Imperial Government and Legislature. Mr. Murray denied Mr. Vail's suggestion that it was an annexa tion resolution. Mr. Kidston having seconded it, thd resolution was to be considered on the Ist inst. Tveson I s probably a telegraphic misprint * This for Tucson. The report comes from New York that « the Attor ney-General of Nova Scotia has deliverel a speech in the Legislature declaring that confederation was forced upon Nova Scotia, and favouring an ahr •eal to England, or, if necessary, a more extreme mea sure." The Canadian Legislature at Ottawa, how ever, has passed resolutions admitting Newfound land into the Confederation. A telegram states that Mr. John Tobin, ex-member of the Nova Scotia Legislature, has committed suicide. IMPERIAL PARLIA 'if ENT HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The LORD On'MELLOR. took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE HUSH cnrrßorr. Lord BATEMAN asked what course the Government intended to adopt with respect to the Irish Church 13i 11 ' He was deeply sensible of the difficulty in which the house was placed with respect to this bill, but ho folt the ques tion he wished answered would relieve many of theta from the anxiety which they felt. On the one hand, there was the bill introduced by a powerfu l party, and supported by a largo majority of the House of Commons: It was also well known that a large majority of their lordships were opposed to the bill, but they were threatened on every side that they must accept and not modify the measure. Now he wished to knot whether tha Government endorsed these threats. The Earl of CARNAR VON protested against any inci dental discussion. Lord CAIRNS agreed with the observations of the noble earl. Lord BATEMAN said in deference to the observations of his noble friends ho would not put his question, but he still felt that it would greatly have facilitated the course of their lordships' business. Earl GRANVILLE thought the remarks of the noble lord as most inopportune, as he thought a premature dts cession was, above all things, to be avoided. Re wou ld state the course that would be pursued by the Govern meet on Monday on moving the second reading of the bill, but in the meantime he could only remark that there was not the slightest intention on the part of he r Majesty's Government to depart from the re spectfu l position which they owed to the H ouse o f C om mons, he would at the same time add, to their lordships' house also. The Duke of ABERtiORN presented a petition fc° l33 Belfast against the Irish Church Bill. The noble duke, is presenting the petition, stated that a great change h ad taken place, not only amongst Protestants and PresbY: terians, but throughout the north of Ireland, with resp ea ' to the bill, but he might say that at the meeting o°l which the petition emanated there were not less 80,000 persons present. Several bills were forwarded a stage, and their lordAV adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LAST EvENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock. The discussion of the clauses of the Bankruptcy Bi ll in committee was proceeded with. The principle pot' ,, " - cussed was tho constitution of the Court of Bankreptelj under the new 13111. During the discussion it transpire that Mr. Commissioner Bacon was the person who, in event of the bill passing, would receive the appointmeet ° superior judge of th e cour t. S evera l mem b er s objected t° the appointment, on the ground that there would not sufficient business to justify such an appointment. It vial stated that the result of the sanctioning the bill would° the lead to the expenditure of £5,0)0 for the salary ° 1 new judge, as Mr. Commissioner Bacon would , °ll the abolition of th e o il system, rece i ve a „n; sion of £l,OOO, and he would prefer ma his services available for the public service rather than being placed a lt oge th er i n ret i rement. Th e Attorl; General said th a t i n p l ace o f th e present di s trict eo ur ij which would b 3 abolished by the bill, the business w°llo, be transferred to th e coun t y cour t s, w h o, b e f o re any P 1 , 13 position was made t o i ncrease th e i r sa l ar i es , it was th o* advisable to ascertain the amount of additional work P`r formed before any settled arrangement was made. . The consideration o f th e various amendments oce°l3l° the house until the sitting was suspended. ; tlle At the evening sitting, on the order of the day o r second reading of the G reenw i c h H osp it a l Bill, some 0'13; versation ensued, but it was ultimately agreed to, on t% understanding that the discussion should be taken °p p _ motion which was on the paper in the name of 31 r• DELL, that the measu re b e referred to a select cornalit ti ", The other business was di s p ose d o f, and the hens adjourned. LONDON GAZETTE—Las Evening• WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 11 . . 1 ; Ist Regiment of Life G uar d s —J o hn Edmund Ph l 1 : 1 Spicer to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant; hich Marcus Brooke to be Cornet and Still-Lieutena nt. 3d Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Henry Arthur t "`"t Captain ; Cornet Otho Bolitho to be Li e utenant; Cu rne George D'Albiac to be Cornet. Ist Drag•ions—Limit° tant Charles Morton to be o , 'P t : i k Li e , Cornet Robert Stubbm to be Lieuten an t ; Alfred Sel` f to be Cornet. 6th Dragoons—Captain Geor ge M. Billi ag t on to be A":!,, ° ,, r; .. Lieutenant St. Aubyn 11. Player t o b a Captaia ; . tenant Albert Frootn to be Adjutant. 16th Lancers—Cornet William Bark e r to be Adjutaete'o,(l Royal Artillery—Lieut. William Wyndham to be Se ar ter Caotin, Sergeant-Major Richard Hall to be Wl' master. Lielr Royal Engineers - The temporary Commissions as, p e tenant of the undermenti one d o ff icers to be ins-Z;hr ilsol manent:—William James Home Logan-Home, , Aldworth Home Hare, an d A r th ur O c tavius G , e e 7; and Scots Fusilier Guard s —A r th ur P aget t o be -En" - Lieutenant. 15th Foot—Lieutenant Albert Smyth to be CaP tl 'te sign Ralph Allen to be Lieutenant, Arthur Crowe Ensign. 20th Foot—Arnold de la Poer to be Ensign. 35th F oe 4 26th Foot—Major Thomas Bl o mfi e ld, from the to he Major. Lieut: 32d Foot—Major the Hon. Bernard Ward to be Lieu' Colonel, Captain Horatio Priestley to be 3 1, V r 'Quesn e Edmund Lakin to be Captain, Ensign Chas• to be Lieutenant. t 33d Poot—Ensign Baptist Barton to be Lieut en9u inund Newman to be Ensign. 0 00 0 33th Foot —Major Simpson Halkett to be 3 10 -P r ' . Cavendish to be Ensi rsn. 3Gth Foot—Lieutenant John Atkinson to be ‘-' 3os o Ei r° sign John Rose to be Lieutenant, Gervas to be Ensign. V IP ft 4 43d Foot—Esign Alfred French to be Lieutenant' Matthias Lancaster to be Ensign. . 45th Foet - Hugh Lyons-Montgomery to be Ens i : gttene lltt 47th Foot—Ensign Henry E. Pcole to be I,l° Adolphus Dennis to be Ensign. sigo• al Slat Foot—The Hon. Cospatriek Home to be -. 11 0010 13- n i 56th Foot Major George Patey to be Lieu en 3 n,': - ,, u teei l ,". Captain Will:am Clutterbuck to be Major, " 1 "d to ' 1 " Livius King to be Captain, Ensign Arthur Fe' Lieutenant. 63d Foot—Lieutenant Bigg to be Captain, siolt Robert t3ll Studdy to be Lieutenant. be l'i 81st'Foot—Ensign the Hon. Hugh Arbuthno tt to tenant.' 87th Foot— Ensign Hassall Gardner to be Lieetc utint io be 90th Foot—Captain Sir Henry H. Goodricke , 133 rt " 0 01 Major. O - 92d Foot—Lieutenant Cha r l es D as hwood to bee cave° EnsiLn George Hives to b e Li eu t e nant, Ricliar dish to be Ensign. Debility, Consumption, and a11006%1 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia • stion), Ct s , liver complaints in every stage, are nervous, onaggr aVated 11 1 I,i ted drugs of every descrition, but perfectlY c ur tirocs`,,' as la(inaigebilious, st°"deaseea Barry'shealth-restoring Itevalenta Arabic& Food, as t g, thousands of cases which had been considered hoPeles',:,,pialts. —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver ee flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throln„rs, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head anu i 7 i , irri b ";, matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, n eural is bility, Sleeplessnel's, acidity, palpitation, heartbuol' eve n e ss debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and tby pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, sCrOftnweell, of the chest, pains •at 'the pit of the stomach and b ' es tors'oe shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 1. 1: e sbas u pa health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially ' sin Well tc jalr ing all other remedies, he has confined himself el' s O, P Barry's Revalenta Arabia Food, of which he consurewoofo; ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingZs oc 01 ,: s to effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pruis e . r t food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi , u,& No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant., " wo od. J u l s rt Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting 0 ' L aco t ,, s io derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1, 771- L. dysPel',lo , de Deeies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many Psios No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable an f.," c y, dysP e nervousness, asthma. cough, constipation go , fla y tuien sicknes, and vomiting.—Maria July." Importantoits, Beware s of them any unsavoury and more than slolT ra ost s to which. without authority, Baron Liebis's name ciously attached. , 11)5 /, - 0 14 In tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 0,1; 2lbs 4s 6,1 5 lbs co pe° _ u o 24 lbs 40s.— Also Du BARRY'S REvALEis;TA ARABIe.A for 2 c to g POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups st ‘ l 7 % cues * seo at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Cs, for 288 cups at 308, for !. tins ar(!er. —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 6flico tYci and free of carriage in England on receipt of Post - i dol; BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. t O f"' B ALFO UR —On the 10th inst., at 149, Warwick•s-r ee feof Henry Balfour, of a daughter. the vr i lIRATR On the 10th inst., at Clay hill, Enfi eld, H. G. Heath, Esq., of a son. BEvAN MARRIAGES. tle ot 4 s 1 .:1 A: To re Eo‘ xßlt f ri, 0 ov r 1. d. ... Ernest o O cifi n i ri3at, t hi, : le i ne e ss 111,1,30enevt_lv.:qtsinunt,:slyrt,e.ho,,euLann tgoi;osigi :st f e o t, oo r d irve b er T ito s or r c l e e oh : f J i-i nlia a T n i n la Elt u si g qio r —f ~,tri' LrTwYCITE —On the 10th in:,,t., at the ' r., of church, , treathatn, Philip 11. Waterlow, second Oc"ood daughter of the la' e Edgar Lutwyche, of Streathatil' DEAT27S. FIELD—On the 10th inst., at Lymingfon, u - (l °L4 John •-•°' Field, Captain :i.N., aged 50. li f ,rtill , MARTIN—On the 10th inst., suddenly, Thomas ..16 Esq., 155, Cannon-street, E.G., solicitor, aged 1 8 . 00 NEELD - On the 11th inst., at 26, Upper Brook-stre,i3hsrl o f Lady Caroline Neeld, d aug ht e r of the sixth 14' Shaftesbury, _! London : Printed and Published by WILLIAMAIIp° S a of No. 112, ztrAnd, Printer, at THE Sot Office, of d iddleseX . -- N 0.112, trati in ti.e Precinct of the Savoy, in the County Saturday, June 12, 18E9. "ME SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J 'NE 12, E 69.