The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-01 00:00:00

BANQUET 70 HER 111AJEsTY'S MINISTERS. Yesterday evening a banquet was given by the Lord Mayor and Lady ➢layoress to her Majesty's Ministers, the guests numbering upwards of 250. The toasts of Her Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and the Army, Navy, and Volunteers having been proposed and responded to, The LORD MAYOR proposed " Her Majesty's 3linisters," and with that toast the name of one re spected by all, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. (Loud cheers.) Mr. GLADSTONE—My Lord Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,—On the part of my colleagues, not less than on my own, I tender to you my most cordial and respectful thanks for the honour which you have been pleased to confer upon us. There can be no period at which it can beg duty void of inter st for the First Minister of the Crown to acknowledge the marks of confidence and kindness received from asseMblies of his fellow-conntrytnen ; but within this hall that task acquires a peculiar rigiii ficance. lon have been pleased, my Lord May(4-, to propose this toast as the head of the first . . municipality of this country, if not of the world, arid when we become the guests of the chief of that municipality we feel ourselves to be, through no insignificant symbol, at least in contact with the nation on behalf of which we act. To interchange sentiments with a body so qualified to represent that nation, and to acknowledge the tokens of its kindness, is always a task that rises far above the level of routine. At this time, my Lord Mayor, it acquires even a higher character, for you have been pleased to observe that we have taken office with peculiar responsibilities. It is not for my colleagues, it is not for me, to complain of the difficult char acter of the task which we have to perform, be cause we ourselves recognised the difficulties, and we are accused even of having created those diffi culties before we acceded to office. The state of the circumstances with which we have to deal, and the peculiar nature of the questions which occupied the attention of Parliament, did not take us by sur prise. But if we have an arduous task to confront, I speak for myself, we must admit that there have been peculiar advantages attending them. I must mention, first, that gracious favour and that con stitutional support which every Government in this country has, for a period of thirty-two years, received from her Majesty, and I name that as a peculiar advantage, because in my judg ment it is a grave offence on the partTof Ministers to profess or insinuate that special favours are granted to a particular Administration which are denied to another. I say this simply because I think it is a debt of duty to that sovereign who has so long reigned on the throne of England and in the hearts of the nation, that those who have the honour to serve her should take occasion to ac knowledge on every fitting opportunity with what exemplary fidelity, with what perfect but absolute loyalty the prime duties of the Sovereign are at all times performed. (Cheers.) I may presume to say, my Lord Myor, that I Lave not keen un fortunate in the nature, in the qualities and in the stamp of the men whom I was not only enabled, but constrained to associate with me in the works of the Government ; and I do not think that, as far as the experience of the past six months is concerned, that there has been I any disposition on the part of the country to complain of the manner in which either the ad ministrative or the legislative duties of the great departments of State have been generally dis charged. (Hear, bear.) But also, my Lord Mayor, I must venture to discharge a debt of duty to the House of Commons. This House of Commons was elected under circumstances novel and peculiar; it sprang from the heart and breast of the people, it bears upon it more of the notes of contact with the masses of the nation than any house of Commons ever gathered within the venerable walls of West minster ; and it would appear that in proportion as the scope of its contact with popul ir sentiment has I been extended its capacity for the discharge of Par liamentary duties has been increased. At least I may presume to say that, after having sat for very many years as a member of that assembly, and never without a profound and, if may say so, a I filial admiration of its great qualities, at no period, I think, have I known a body of representatives of the people gathered together with as clear a con sciousness of tbe purposes of which they are sent there ; or with as little disposition to waste, either in the pettiness of intrigue, or in the idle and self seeking discussion, the precious time that ought to be devoted to tbe noble task of building up the happiness of the people. (Cheers.) Indeed, my Lord Mayor, to refer to one peculiar subject with which official relations have long connected me, I may say that for the first time—for the first time certainly during very many years—l see a House of Commons more disposed to take a strict measure of its duties, and in particular to take a strict measure of its duties on one critical and testing subject--I mean that of public economy than either the pith lic out of doors, or even that daily Press by which the interests of the public are in general so well represented and defended, is aware of. I dis charge this debt of gratitude to the assembly in which for so many years it has been my daily duty, and I may say my daily satisfaction, to labour for what I deem to be the public good. But your lordship could hardly omit, and have not omitted, at a juncture like this, to refer to that special pur pose, that high, transcendent interest, which, rising far above the mass of public questions, involves such great issues and results, and attract to it and claims for itself a special character—l mean the great question connected with the condition of one of these three kingdoms, to the loyal and main por tion of which it has been our duty during the pre sent session to address ourselves. The Lord Mayor, this company is well aware, as the whole country is well aware, that the House of Com mons, and that her Majesty's Government in the House of Commons, have at least bestowed their best endeavonrs upon the conduct of the measure which is, both by what it is in itself and by what it promises in the future, almost a vital and essential , portion of the work of peace for Ireland and for the security of the Empire. (Cheers.) During three months, my Lord Mayor, we expended the chief part of our care upon the maturing of that mea sure, and on that measure three months were but a short time to spend. Since it passed beyond our portals there has been—or I have been told there has been—an excitement in the country. We have read of meetings here and there, and there has been a blaze like the blaze of sky-rockets, repeated from point to point around the whole horizon. We are told of the indignation of the public—we are told of the reaction in public senti ment. The course we have pursue 1 and the mea sure we have proposed are branded in language more severe than it would be convenient on this festive occasion to recal ; and sanguine anticipa tions were entertained, in the first instance, that that measure would elsewhere meet with a speedy doom. But since these anticipations were disappointed, other anticipations have been raised up to serve the same turn and purpose ; that though its name and phantom perhaps might be suffered to escap e from legislative condemnation, yet it would come back to us so altered that we should nut know it, and that we should not have any choice except total and utter failure in both the name and sub stance of our work, or else to accept but the name with the loss of the substance. My Lord Mayor, under these circumstances, and amidst this tumult and excitement, as we arc told there is, we have re mained--I speak for myself and my colleagues, and I speak as an °Wryer of the House of the house of Commons—we have rente ined in a'`ate of per fect tranquillity. (Cheers.)lVe have rem tined trim quil for these reaso n s. I n t h e first place, it is to us a matt r not of grudge, or of jealousy, but of satis faction that our work should be reviewed elsewhere. We can honestly say that we have bestowed upon it the hest of our care, and have laboured with no stint of our time or of our faculties to perform the duty committed to us by the country. But at the same time, no doubt, there must be faults in our work, and, as was well said by my noble friend Earl Granville—for whom perhaps,parenthetically,l may be permitted to convey the expression of his deep regret that grave indisposition, and the absolute ne- cessity of husbanding his strength for exertion in his place in the House of Lords, has prevented him at the latest moment from sharing your lordship's hos pitality —as was well said by my noble friend, we shall be grateful for every improvement that can be effected in our measure, and every change pro posed we shall respectfully consider, even though at the first moment—and possibly at the last—we may not be able to find that it is an improvement. (Cheers and laughter.) But our respectful consi deration will be given to it, subject to the recollec tion of the position in which we stand, of the words we have spoken, and of the pledges which we have given. (Cheers.) These pledges Is ere few and simple. We told the country, in language intelli gible enough, that in our opinion, if the Irish Church was to be removed from that position of legal preference that it bad so long enjoyed, it must be removed subject to these conditions, that there must be a most careful and literal attention paid to every just and equitable claim. The second of these pledges was that these just and equitable claims must be concidcred not only in the case where they were crude, and on behalf of those who had been ministers or members of the dominant Church, but wherever directly or by consequence They could justly be held to arise out of arrange ments connected with the winding-up of this ancient system, which must be applied with the greatest impartiality on behalf of every religion. So far as respects the arrangements growing out of the complicated and exceptional state of ecclesiasti cal affairs which we found existing in Ireland. But the basis of the plan was this, that it was a plan for disestablishment and a plan for gene ral disendowment. And there was a third pledge no less momentous and no less definite than the rest—a pledge freely tendered to Parlia ment, and freely tendered at the hustings ; and I do not hesitate to s•ay a pledge which, even if it had not been freely tendered, would have been ex torted by the national sense and opinion, namely, that for the satisfaction of these equitable claims upon principles of equity as between the different religious denominations, the remainder portion of the property of what is now applied to the Church of Ireland should be applied for the benefit of the Irish people, but not for the maintenance of a Church nor the support of a clergy. (Hear, hear.) Th, S 9 declarations, which are matters of historical fact, define our position between us and the coun try. We tendered the terms of that covenant when we sat in the exile of the Opposition, and we will not forget them now that we are in stalled in the seat of power. (Cheers. I believe that both branches of the Legislature will apply themselves to the adj , istment of this great contro versy in the full and clear perception of what the nation expects, and of what the times and.circum stances permit ; and I am sanguine enough to be lieve that within the shortest period the work, which I believe to be alike one of justice and peace, will have reached its final term of consummation. (Cheers.) I beg again to thank you, my Lord Mayor, for the kind way in which you were pleased to propose this toast, and the company for the courteous reception of it. I venture to assure you that no exertion on our part will be wanting to show that as far as depends at least on our will, whatever our power may be, that your confidence is not misplaced. (Cheers.) The Lord Chancellor responded for the House of Lords, Mr. Bruce the House of Commons, and the company shortly afterwards separated. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo -American 2 Imes.) NEW YORK, June 12. Our sensational papers got up a fine scare this week—nothing less than that the lumen steamship City of Paris, which bad sailed on Saturday, filled with prominent Americans, had gone down with every hand. As nearly all of us had friends on board, you may imagine the state of consternation created by the big headings announcing the terrible catas trophe. There was a rush to the office, into which despatches were beginning to pour from the court try asking for intelligence. All known about it there was that the vessel, when last heard of, was rapidly making her way across the ocean, with every prospect of a prosperous voyage, and I venture to ray that, before this letter reaches you, her pas sengers will be scattered over Europe, and all their names recorded as safely arrived in the columns of the Anglo-American Times. Some of the crew and passengers of the steamer Mississippi, wrecked at Martinique, May 12, en route from Rio Janeiro to New York, arrived here in the Columbia from Ha vannah last Wednesday. The Mississippi left Para Ma y 7, andstruck,Mayl2,ashoal seven milesfrom the east side of Martinique. Next day the French steamer Carirel rescued 28 passengers and carried away the mails. The vessel could not be got off, and she was abandoned by the crew shortly after. The fillibustering expeditions try the patience of the United States Marshal. Rumours have been float ing about as to the sailing of another strong force, and they make no secret of the fact at the head-quar ters of the Junta, The expedition got off in a clipper ship at daybreak last Saturday, with 850 men, commanded by Colonel W. Hendley, of Cin cinnati. The men, some of them Western soldiers of Sherman's army, got on board from schooners near the lightship, and the vessel cleared for San Fran cisco. The Spanish Consulate are well aware of the fact, and have telegraphed to the A3inister at Wash ington, and although the United States Marshal has no information on the subject, the expedition will probably be followed by another, if it has not already started, for it is sail that three are fitting out in New York, and they will be off before he can act. There is a dispatch from Admiral lloff, dated May 27. He had arrived at Matanzas, where he found the feeling far less bitter between the volun teers and the Cubans than reported ; in fact a stranger would not know a revolution was raging from any feeling he could detect in Matanzas. He reports a success about the Bth or 10th May ; some bands having attacked the convoy on the railway to Puerto Principe, captured 43 officers, including a colonel, destroying the bridges amt injuring the road. General Lesca, the Governor of Puerto ' I F Principe, had been removed by Dulce for cruelty in bombarding a camp of women and children, but this action had given great offence to the volunteers. I nc Admiral considers that the landing, supposed I I or actual, of lillibusters had thrown new life into the insurrection, which some time before hal died out, and it bad blazed up effectually in some parts of the island, which were a l most wholly in the hands of Ithe insurgents; his words are—" One fact is posi tive, however, and that is, the actual or supposed successful landing of these expeditions has infused new life into the insurrection, that to all appear ances was dying out some two weeks since.' Cyrus W. Field, Esq., and family arrived last Saturday evening in the Weser. The immigration continues on the same large scale ; the Mahe and City of Baltimore on Monday brought 2,000 passengers. Another vessel has come in with smallpox, but no particulars about the Oee,re have been received. It is officially stated that there have been 143 cases of this disease on Blackwell's Island during the past month, making a total of 171 under treatment. Of these 97 were discharged and 9 died, leaving at present 65. Of the admissions, 83 were from quarantine, and the remainder from the city proper. Yellow fever has also appeared, brought by a North German vessel from Havannah, which put in for medical atd. Two of the crew were buried at sea, and the second offie..s in a fit of delirium jumped overboard and was drowned, and the captain and four of the crew were ill. The waiters have come off second best in the strike they inaiwurated, as the hotels have not found it difficult to supply their places, although the temporary inconvenience was considerable. Of course the proprietors ar,c greatly annoyed with the men who left them thus uncere moniously in the lurch, and are glad to be able to return the compliment by leaving them out in the cold. The St. Nicholas and Fifth Avenue hotels are still underhanded, but the Astor has sufficient help; the consequence of the strike has been that a number of waiters have lost good places and a num ber of new men have a chance of qualifying for them at the expense of the guests. At a meeting of the association the waiters passed a resolution allowing those on strike to work for the wages they THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1869. could get, a sufficient acknowledgment of defeat; but the proprietors refused to receive them back un less they repudiated the union, which they refuse. The coach-drivers are organizing a strike for $3 a day ; the journeymen potters are collecting funds here to support the Trenton strike, and they have collected $600; they express the determination of the men to hold out against the introduction of machi nery ; the German cap makers are on strike for an increase of 50 per cent., but they desire to carry their employers with them by proposing to raise the price of the article. Some of the shops have con sented to the advance, and a bill of prices, increas ing the pay 20 per cent., is to be presented for the consideration of the employers. Strikes are very general all over the country, showing labour to be in - a very unsettled state, and this is attributed to the universal cause of all our ailments in the opinion of some—the paper currency. Mr. Edward H. An derson, son of Dr. Ande. snn, of Fort Lee, N.J., and Miss Josephine Allen, were married la-t Wed nesday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Seventh Regiment marched down Broadway on Monday and proceeded to Brooklyn, to be reviewed in Prospect Park by Di igadier-General 1. esserole. A de'ach►ncnt of the batta'ion, Washington Gray Cavalry, left on Tuesday afternoon for Boston, to take part in the Peace Jubilee. They take with them the original Pine Tree flag, and are accom panied by Generals M'Quade, Morris, and Tweed, of the staff of Governor Hoffman. Journals are fond of announcing startling conversions, and per haps you may have noticed, for it is more notice able on your side than ours, that any convert to Rome is widely published ; but if the same indivi dual retraces his or her steps, little is hetrd of the matter. According to some authorities here, one of England's richest peers went over to the Romish Church, but I believe that was more true than the . report circulated here that New York's wealthiest merchant, A.'l'. Stewart, had become a Catholic, which story, after going the rounds, has been con tradicted. The President was received quietly, as he gave but little opportunity for demonstrations, but a hungry pack of office-seekers started instantly in chase to West Point, and remained like terriers at a rat-hole, watching their opportunity. Under ' • his quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative manner, the President feels deeply, and the narrow escape of himself and family has had more effect than appears on the surfac.. Mr. It. Young, instead of going to Europe, as was formerlyreported,has gone toKansas, and Mr. Ottarson has returned to the Tribune. Mr. IVhitelaw Reid has assumed the place vacated by Mr. Young. As regards the stage the attack on the dancing girls continues. It is said that two American actresses only are left on the New York boards, and that one of them is a German. The Spirit and the action taken by Mr. Butler has raised the storm, and the blondes are now in the shade, but whether they will continue there I can not tell. Mr. Peabody, after stopping at 16, Waverley-place, the guest of Mr. Westmore, left for Boston, where he arrived yesterday, and after visiting Richard H. Dana (junior) he proceeded in the evening to Salem. On Thursday the Annual regatta came off of the New York Yacht Club, but it rained and it blew, and although there was a good gathering at Fort Hamilton, Staten Island, and other points, the day was propitious neither to the races from the anchorage off Staten Island and round the Lightship, nor to the horse races in Jerome-park. The prize for second-class sloops was won by White Cap, and for first-class sloops by the Sadie ; for second-class schooners by the idler. The Phantom met with an accident, or she would have won, as she was far ahead at the time, and by the same squall the Palmer carried away her foretopmast and gaff topsail, and the Sylvia her jib-boom, flying jib, and jib topsail. The press grieve over the fall of Governor Hoffman, who signed the Tax Levies Bills, and no doubt it cost him a great effort, and resulted from a very heavy pressure ; but Major Hall, in his message to the Common Council, takes high ground, and hits at everybody. At the press for meddling with muni cipal affairs, at the legislators, whom he terms "rural," and he says " concoct tax puzzles." These, he declares, hamper the city authorities, to whom they have left but few matters of government in the metropolis, and on their shoulders Major Hall piles all the blame for bad docks, ill-kept streets, and whatever there is to find fault with. He tells us there are 212 miles of streets in New York city, of which 81 miles are in Llock, and five miles in wooded pavement. The rernain3er are either subjected to cobblestones or await pave ment. After quoting President Lincoln's saying— " Arrange a plan, and then peg away at it until it is successful !" he adds, in like spirit, let the City authorities patiently peg away' upon this matter cf City improvements, for the solution of the two great problems so vital to the interests of com merce and citizens' comfort. The Tite Barnacle Ring of Illinois has shown how little behind us they arc in the great West. Salaries and perqui sites are manufactured in Chicago, as audaciously as in New York, and they are maintained by the same style of organization ; it is, I presume, one of thii drawbacks of universal suffrage. Bishop Staley, of Honolulu, who has been in London trying to raise funds for a new cathedral, will find his flock in rebellion, ai they I:ave sent to the Episcopal authorities in England to withdraw the reformed Catholic mission and its missionaries, as they want a low-Church pastor, who they are ready to support without assistance from abroad. Frank Leslie's illustrated paper gives a series of most interesting sketches of the vegetable culture in the• South by Joseph Becker. It is a pity that this excellent picture paper should often coot tin articles couched in so un friendly a tone towards England, or it could scarcely fail as America becomes better known to Britishers to obtain a wide circulation among them, for it conveys ideas which no writing can do. Frank Leslie also reproduces the most stupid and malicious of the cartoons which lately appeared in the English comic papers to satirise America. This is the way in which the truly charming, amiable, and profit able relations between the countries are maintained. The speeches and resolutions of "War-Horses" in Congress are replied to by abuse and ridicule in England, which re produced in America generates a fresh crop, iind , the two nations scream at each other like angry Billingsgate fish women. If a war which ended in maiming and burying half a million of men, and doubling the National Debt of both countries, could settle the hatred and establishamic able relations for a century, although at the intense suf fering and cost of the present generation, it might not be an unprofitable bargain for the world at large. When it is considered why there should be this sacrifice at all, it is seen how purely this work is that of the Devil ; an immo lation to some hideous idol—though, unfortunately, in ste .d of attaining the object, the reverse would be the result ; for it would but leave another war for another ge neration to atone for the successes and defeats of that. The number of patients relieved during the week at the Hospital for Heart Disease, Newman-street, Ox ford-street, was 130. [AD VERTISEMENT. —lrollOway's Ointment and Pills.— Listlessness, Headache, Flatulency.—Summer brings these symptoms, so frequently the forerunners of serious diseaseA, and when neglected too often terminating in palsy or apoplexy. The moment giddiness, dimness of sight, or headache comes on. llclievray's Ointment should be freely rubbed into the nape and glands of the neck, and his Pills should be simultaneously taken to complete the patient's security, which will be thoroughly guaran teed by a strict obedience to the directions for us, and which envelope every pot and box of these purifying and ' preservative remedies. 13oth Ointment and Pills act beneficially, by drawing the blood from the head, balanc ing the circulation, removing all undue pressure from overgorged veins, and invigorating the nervous system. lAevaarissmiorr.)—Avold Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best moat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, am' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 63.000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413. " Rome, July 21, 1864. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which he consume!. a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beue tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 5.3,213, of the Marchioness (le Brehan, of seven years' live' complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, had digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1.771; Lord .Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Walerford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832; " Fifty years' indescribable agoey from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, tlaiuleucy, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure No 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 80 years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 63 5 lbs Ils 12 lbs 22s ; 21 lbs 40s. - Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABIOA CHOCOLATE BoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at: s, for 2• cups at 3s 63, for 48 cups at 63, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 3es and 555 tine are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order,— Birth Y DU BARRY and Co., N 0.77, Regent-street, London; and all QrQCerlo Awl Chemists. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in discussing Mr. Gladstone's speech at the Mansion House, reminds him that the beginning and end of all the main propositions of last year was the message of religious equality to the religious communions of Ire land. But if we are to, observe equality—and from this there can be no departure--we must either deprive the disestablished Church of its parsonages and glebes, or we must counterbalance these gifts by similar gifts to other communions. If the Episcopal Church be allowed to retain their parsonages and glebes, the Presbyterians will demand the same. There is no question about their accepting these gifts. They will insist upon them. Every hour adds to the conviction that the feeling of the Roman Catholics, laity and clergy, is the same. And what stands in the way of this statesmanlike result? A prejudice so feeble that it is the shadow of a shade, to be dissipated the first moment the light of thought is brought to bear upon it. The House of Lords, avoiding the falsehood of extremes, will reconcile the promises of her Majesty's Ministers with themselves, rejecting all proposals for redistributing the funds of the Irish Church, or fur permanently endowing the servants of re ligion in Ireland, but balancing the modest resi dences left to Protestant. Episcopal clergymen by the proffer of similar advantages to Presbyterians and Roman Catholics. More than this the House of Lords may not do ; less than this they will not do. And our confidence is increased I,y the language of the Prime Minister at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, that when this modification of the bill comes before the House of Com mons, supported by the votes of three-fourths, or, it may be, four-fifths, of the Peers, and approved by the acquies cence of the country, it will he sanctioned as a judicious and laudable settlement of the great question before Parliament. The Herald says that the proposals of Lord Grey, Lord Westbury, and the Duke of Cleveland cannot be dis missed without consideration upon the bare ground that they involve the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church. By common consent the principle of such an. endowment has already been surrendered, and Lord Grey and his friends ask the House to advance further in the only path open to it. Shall we consent that the Irish Church shall be starved on condition that the Roman Catholics shall not take over a stiver beyond the Maynooth commutation money ; or shall we con cede more liberal terms to the Roman Catholics as the price of gaining infinitely larger terms for the Protestant Church ? Let no one suppose that it is not a hard and bitter alternative which is offered by the advocates of concurrent endowment. The question is, whether it is not the least of two evils, one of which appears to be inevitable. The staunchest Protestant may well reflect whether it is not worth while, whether it is not a very onerous duty, to make concessions which, how ever painful and repugnant they may be, will be com pensated by such a provision for the Irish Church as will enable it to discharge its responsibilities with vigour and efficiency when it is thrown upon its own resources. We can sympathise very earnestly with those who regard it as a matter of conscience to protest against the diversion of Protestant money to the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. But we are face to face with a situation in which to refuse a com promise is to sacrifice everything, and we venture to urge that, under all the circumstances, the first duty of the friends of the Irish Church is to endeavour to gain for it the best terms they can. If we thought it possible to secure its property intact, we should counsel them not to yield one inch. It is because we see no other way of re taining for its use even an appreciable portion of its revenues that we are compelled to urge the necessity of accepting some such compromise as we have indicated. It is announced, says the Standard, that Messrs. Bright and Forster have ceased to be members of the Reform Club. The alleged cause of this portentous secession is the blackballing of an American gentleman whom the two Cabinet Ministers had proposed as a member of the club for one month—a recognised practice with the Re form. Who is right and who is wrong we aro unable to say. Messrs. Bright and Forster entertain such very enlarged views and such very narrow prejudices on American questions, that it is quite possible they might overlook, in their admiration for his talents, the want of some of those social qualifications which every club has a right to require in those who aspire to its mem bership. He might even be a gentleman of colour and still not generally acceptable. On the other hand, it is difficult to believe that the club would have blackballed a thoroughly well qualified candidate merely because lie was an American, and recommended by Messrs. Bright and Forster. It is true that there are rumours of a somewhat iron tyranny now in vogue in the headquarters of Liberalism, under which freedom of opinion is a crime, and the severest measures are threatened against members not possessing absolute and unquestioning confidence in Mr. Gladstone ; and this may be a pratical remonstrance. Whatever is the result, let us hope it will end with thc coif unorifio. of Messrs. Bright and Forster, and that Mr. Sumner will not add this new outrage to the long list he has already handed in a. compensation and apology. As for the Reform Chub, will probably survive the secession. If it has lost Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster has it not gained Lord Granville and Mr. Gladstone. The Post declares that the statement made on Wednes day in the House of Commons—that the wrongs and wants of Ireland would not have been listened.to by the Govern ment and Parliament of the United Kingdom but for the course pursued by the Fenians—is wholly at variance with patent facts. For the argument it is assumed that Irish grievances are considered with a view to their being redressed, because and only because, they have been, as it were, shouted through a Fenian speaking trumpet; and the Irish Church Bill is described as a concession extorted by apprehensions, arising out of the Fenian conspiracy —as a measure in every line of which the fear and trembling of England may be read running. The public interest in the matter is all we have to do with, and in that sense we are bound to protest against an imputation affecting the character of our legis lation, and the honour and independence of the Legisla ture, without entertaining any irrelevant considerations. It is said, however, and was said in the House of Com mons, that the Fenian conspiracy has done a vast deal of good for Ireland ; and, as good sometimes comes out of evil, that may be. Fenianism, we do not doubt, has done its work ; but it must be added that the reaction is, at least, as marked as could be wished. The head-centres and the triumvirates have fulfilled their mission, though not to the end they seem to have proposed to themselves. Their reign is over. They were fairly tried ; they richly deserved their fate ; the punishment they are undergoing, heavy as it is, fella far short of the misery they have im posed upon Ireland ; and, for our part, we can discern nothing in their case to entitle them to any remission of the sentence of the law. The Daily News calls attention to Mr. Gladstone's i ia n nn g ad Like i f t ol s vr t avowal that he would be grateful for any improvements which the Lords might make in the Irish Church Bill ; and that any changes which they might introduce would be respectfully considered, though they might at first, and, as he significantly added, perhaps at last also, seem inad missible. It will be allowed, it imagines, even by those who have been encouraging the notion that the Government was not indisposed to concurrent endowment within certain limits, that Mr. Glad stone speaks the mind of the Ministry. The indirect opponents of the Irish Church Bill in the House ii t to i eh t , l e e iluf:ei h arceo a hll i c ie lelseL n n o ;og t r: t o 'Talbot, with in Mr. sha Gladstonesperes play, alone.he of Lords, who would transform substance while retain "is but the shadow of himself." The people behind him, who have already spoken through their representatives, tishegaiev,e,pas, wwililsefinedoumnseealtarsofwislpietaekli the Peers, " are hi s su b s t ance, s i news, arms, and strength "—they need not add, finishing the quotation, " with which he yoketh your rebellious necks." The good sense of a majority of the House of Lords has led them to acquiesce in the decision of the nation, so far as their preconceptions have allowed them to understand it. They have sliewn what Roman Catholic theologians would call an implicit acceptance of it, though they may have made an innocent error of interpretation, which further information and a docile spirit will enable them to correct. Be this as it may, the Government has taken its ground. In President Lincoln's phrase, it has put down its foot. Another Ministry, another House of Commons, and, we may also say, another England, will be necessary in order to give effect to the policy of concurrent endowment in Ireland. The Times reminds its readers that thirty-five years age Lord Brougham declared the appointment of a public prosecutor was then contemplated by Government, and ever since the measure has been from time to time taken up, to be for a brief period strenuously advocated by this or that distinguished lawyer, and then quietly dropped. It might, indeed, possibly have continued this spasmodic and chequered career of activity and repose for another five.and-thirty years but for the interest felt in the extraordinary miscarriage of justice which the want of a public prosecutor now threatens to occasion. Apart from, and in addition to, the magnitude of the pecuniary st a k e , th e Overend and Gurney trial is of vast importance as constitutins , a new epoch in the history of commercial morality. It was, we believe, the first case—certainly it was the first case of general interest—in which the directors 'of a company were treated as criminally responsible for misconduct which had been previously looked upon as .only matter for a civil action, and, considering the incalculable mischief ' which in these days may be done, and is constantly done, by the neglect or dishonesty of directors, it is of the last consequence that all possible light should be thrown upon the point at which the criminal responsibility of a director begins. Nor should. it be forgotten that the social * position of the accused greatly increases the public scandal that must result from a gross failure of justice in their case. It is no secret that they have powerful friends and connections in , very high places; it is inevitable that a large portion of the public will, rightly or wrongly, attribute their escape to this fact, and believe that the arm of the law is strong only against the poor. When all these facts are taken'into oonsulera• tion, who can for a moment doubt that such a national disgrace as the break-down of the Overend and Gurney trial would be impossible if there existed a public prosecutor, or, if this be a perilous i nnova ti on, some o ffi cial bound to exercise, even in the most modified faun certain dudes of tulniumeatal • THE PROSECUTION OF THE VICAR OF FROME FOR HERESEY. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, Sir William Erle, and Sir J. Napier) have given their decision in the case of " Sheppard v. Phillimore and Bennett," an appeal from the Arches' Court. The question was whether the Dean of Arches was bound, under the Church Discipline Act, to accept letters of request from the Bishop of Bath and Wells, without any reason being assigned why certain charges against the Rev. Mr. Bennett, vicar of Frome, were not heard in his own court before they were sent to the Appeal Court of the Province of Canterbury. The Lord Chancellor pronounced the judgment of their lordships, and, after dwelling on the facts and referring to the argument on the part of the Dean, said the case had been ably argued on the part of the learned judge. The point was as to the construction of the 13th section of the Church Discipline Act, which empowered theßishop of a diocese to send a case to the Arches' Court to be, as stated, " heard and determined according to the law and practice of the court." heir lordships were .... ' , at it was obligatory on the Dean of Arches to accept such.letters of request when sent to him by a bishop, without the ease being heard in his own court in Cie first instance. Their lordships would recommend to her Majesty that the appeal he allowed and the case remitted to the Court of Arches, to be heard and determined according to the law and practice of the court. No costs would follow the appeal. Mr. Walter Phillimore craved permission to say one word on the part of the Dean of Arches. The Dean had no other desire than that right and justice should be done, and, after the intimation of their lordships on the impor tant question which had been raised, he would proceed to hear and determine the case on the letters of request sent to him. The Lord Chancellor said their lordships were quite sure on that point. They had inquired into the practice whether it was necessary that the judgment should be formally given, and finding it was so, the judgment now given would be submitted to her Majesty, in order that the case might be remitted to the Arches' Court. The case will now be heard in the Arches' Court. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. Both Houses of Parliament are sheaving them selves unusually industriou . s. The Lords have not for years sat so long, spoken so well, or trans acted so much business as they have done this year. Probably, they will befor e l ong resort to t h e innova tion of Wednesday sittings. The Commons began morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays at an un precedentedly early period of the session, in order to carry the Irish Church Bill through ; but now that this is accomplished the sittings are still con tinued, and will be held during the remainder of the session. Thus measures not introduced by the Government have a chance of passing. But more work accomplished by the Commons means more for the Lords. Thus when Sir John Coleridge has succeeded, as he no doubt will succeed, in carrying his University Tests Bill through the Lower House. the Upper will be called upon to consider if it shall reject the measure or adopt the policy which is now in vogue of accepting a certain amount of change " lest a worse thing should befall." The Bankruptcy Bill has actually passed the Commons, and thus we are now humanly certain of having carried into law a reform which has been mentioned in every Queen's Speech for about half-a-dozen years. THE LORDS AND THE DILL. The Lords have succeeded in carrying their first amendment against, the Government by a large majority. The date of discstablishment is thereby postponed until 1872, But, if the Owl is rightly informed, Ministers will not accept that amendment. We doubt the accuracy of the Owl's informa tion. There is none of the amendments which has so much show of reason on its side— its object being to allow the Churcli time to reconstitute its government ; none which so little affects any vital principle. A refusal to yield on this point would seem to imply an intention to yield on none, and would thus render inevitable a collision between the two branches of the• Legislature. LAW AND POLICE. THE STATUTE OF MonntiN.—The case of " _Kirkman v. Lewis" has been tried in the Rolls Court. The testator in this cause gave the residue of his personal estate to be applied in sinking a well and erecting a pump for the use of the inhabitants of his native village, in Wales, and he directed that any surplus should 'be applied for the benefit of the parish school. The bequest was claimed by the next of kin. His lordship held that the gift for the well and pump was void under the Statute of Mortmain, and that the gift of the surplus for the school was void for Uncer tainty, as the amount could not be ascertained. The next of kin were therefore entitled. LANDLORD AND TENANT.—The case of " Pugh v. Arton " was heard by Vice-Chancellor - Mans on Wednes -day. The question at issue was as to the right of a tenant to remove certain trade fixtures. The plaintiff was the landlord of a house at Worcester, and the de fendant the assignee of his tenant. The lease was still running, but there was a proviso that if the tenant executed an assignment for the benefit of his, creditors, the landlord should have the right of re-entry. In March 1868 the tenant did execute such an assignment, and as soon as the plaintiff became aware of it, he entered formally and filed this bill to prevent the fixtures from being sold by the defendant, who was the assignee. The Vice-Chancellor was of opinion that though a tenant might remove fixtures at any time during his tenancy, if lie once allowed that to expire he could not do so. But as the suit was unconscionable and ungra cious, he would not, though the plaintiff was legally right, allow him his costs. THE" ROYAL ALBERT ALMANAC."-- -In the Second Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, Mr. Shaw, the pro prietor of the "Royal Albert Almanac," sued Mr. Cook, the successor of Mr. Harper Twelvetrees, for a sum of £74, for advertisements inserted in the almanac. The defence was that the order had been given through the mistake of a clerk, and the charge was excessive. The defendant paid £3O into court and obtained a. verdict. AN ALLEGED FALSE PROSPECTUS. The Lord Chief Justice and a special jury commenced yesterday morning, at the Guildhall, the trial of the cas.. of " Jacomb v. Watkin" and another. The plaintiff is an attorney at Huddersfield, and the defendants, Sir Edward IVatkin and Mr. Julius Henry Thompson, were formerly directors of the " Humber frou 'Works Company." The action is brought to recover damages for false and fraudulent misrepresentations put forward lu the prospectus of the company issued in April 1864, through which the plaintiff was induces to become ultimately the purchaser of seventy-fire shares, of 250 each. The company was esta blished for the purpose of purchasing and extending the business of Martin, Samuelson, and Co., shipbuilders, a:- Hull ; Mr. Moss and Mr. Samuelson, members of the old firm, being on the directorate. The prospectus com plained of set out that the capital of the company was to consist of £1,000,000 in £20,000 shares of £5O each, of which 10,000 shares had been subscribed. This was the first misrepresentation complained of. Secondly, it wa represented that there was work on hand of an exceed ingly valuable character to the extent of £300,000 ; this, too. was untrue. And, thirdly, that railways ran into the work and connected them with all parts of England. This wasmis presentation number three. In addition to this it is charged against the. defendants that there were heavy mortgages on the works, the knowledge of which was altogether ~concealed from the subscribers ; and, finally, that the reports and balance-sheets issued were falSe 'and utterly untrustworthy. The plaintiff, attracted by the advertisement in the news papers containing the prospectus of the com pany, and also by Sir Edward (then Mr.) Watkin's connection with it, purchased twenty-five shares imme diately after its establishment, and subsequently in Janu ary 1866 he purchased fifty more shares. The second purchase had been preceded by the issue of most un truthful reports concerning the affairs of the company. The defendant, Sir Edward Watkin, is represented as the life and soul of the speculation, and it is alleged against him that he 'either knew, or that, if he did not know, he ought to have known, the untruthfulness of the various representations complained of. The company has now been wound up, and every shilling of the capital called in. THE LATE OUTRAGE ON A POLICEMAN IN CORK. —A telegram from Cork states that the man Cornelius Connell, arrested for attacking the police and breaking a constable's leg, has been committed for trial. The police called on the magistrates to support them in the dis- charge of their duty, as they were constantly being attacked. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S CASE.—The Duke of Newcastle's case stands in this position : On the 24t1 , of June the Court of Bankruptcy made an order giving the petitioning creditor fourteen days from that day— namely, the Sth of July—to "proceed with his petition." In the first instance it was contemplated to make the Duke bankrupt as a dealer in horses, in which case the process would have been easy, and completed without delay, pro vided satisfactory evidence of the trading could be pro duced. The act of bankruptcy sought to be established is "seizure and sale," under Section 73 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861. The petition has been allotted to the court of Mr. Commissioner Winslow. A NEW WORK OF ART IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. —A new work of art, of rare structure, has just been. placed in the entrance.h..ll of tho Daltiala bluotrum. It Ss a large marble vase, of the most refined classical art of the age which it represents, and is most elaborately executed. This gigantic vase was orginally found amongst the ruins of the villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Patestrina (Pro nesti), near Rome, The original engraving of the vase may be found in the great work of Piranesi, " Varie Candelabri Xlll."—tbat great artist describing it'as in the possession of Mr. John Boyd, an Englishman then travelling in Italy, and was discovered in 1169. The vase is composed of three parts--a , krater,• or large vessel for mixing wine ; a tripod formed by three lion's legs fantastically combined with the bodies of Grotesque satyrs, and a triangular vase ornamented with bulls' heads and festoons in rich and bold relief. ADVICE TO BATHERS.—The Royal Humane Society publish the following recommendations :—Avoid bathing within two hours after a meal. Avoid bathing when exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause. Avoid bathing when the body is cooling after perspira tion, but bathe when the body is warm, provided nu time is lost in getting into the water. Avoid chilling the body by sitting or standing naked on the banks or in boats after having been in the water. Avoid remaining too long in the water ; leave the water immediately there is the slightest feeling of chilliness. Avoid bathing altogether in the open air if, after having been a short time in the water, there is a sense of chilliness'; with numb ness of the hands and feet. The vigorous and strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach. The young, and those that are weak, had better bathe three hours after a meal—the best time for such is from two to three hours after breakfast. Those who are subject to attacks of giddiness and faintness, and those who suffer from palpitation and other sense of discomfort at the heart, should ap_ t bAtho without first =smiting their me.4l- _ LEVELLING UP. it seems probable thatthe threatened Irish Church agitation will take place after all. The Daily News declares that, as many noble lords' seem to be mistaking the feeling of the country as to levelling up, the country must proclaim what it means. The Protestant Alliance—which exercised no small influence in favour of the Conservatives at the late election—is now issuing advertisements calling upon all constituencies to protest to their several members against any policy of erecting " a new Establishment of persecuting error." This circumstance, together with the very firm attitude of the Liberation Society, the very decided feeling of Nonconformists generally, and the want of anything like enthusiasm among the bulk of those who advocate levelling up, make the adoption of that policy most difficult. SURPLUS FUNDS OF THE IRISH CHURCH. An Irish land agent writes to the Times on the employment of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church Establishment. He approves of the scheme for providing glebes and maims for the priests, and churches and chapels for the people, and he thinks the provision of cemeteries deserves special consi deration. The burial of the dead in Ireland was left to chance down to the year 1850, and the burial places of the peasantry. - still present Some shocking spectacles to the visitor. The last buried corpse is often exhiimed to give place to the later dead, and such a state. of things probably does not exist in any other Christian land. • An Act was passed in 1856 t o remedy this evil, but as yet it has been only partially applied in consequence of the poverty of the rate payers. By the appropriation of a portion of the surplus revenues to the use of the burial-boards, this difficulty would b.l removed and effect might be given to the provisions of the Act. Such an appro priation would give general satisfaction, and s a great public want, while it would include within its scope persons of all religious denominations. THE BISHOP OF LONDON ON THE IRISH CHURCH. Dr. Jackson, as everyone knows, disapproves of the Irish Church Bill ; and, not having expressed his opinion in the late debate, he tool: oc casion to do so at the last meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Briefly, the opinions of the Bishop of London (as he rather dog matically expressed them) are these : The Irish Church ought not to bedisestablished. That sheis the Church of the minority is no reasonfor discstablishment. The Church of England—of which the Irish Church formed part—had fulfilled her mission. She is sending her bishops into all the colonies, the epis copate having increased five-fold within the past twenty-two years- She can in this matter compete with any Church in the world. It is not right to disestablish any part of such a Church. ORDER IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The recent interesting debate on the order of the House of Lords has resulted in a printed notice. Instead of being allowed to do as they will, strangers are now informed that demonstrations will be con sidered out of order, and treated accordingly. Seeing that the order is signed " Black Rod " this ought to have its effect. THE REFORM CLUB. The Reform Club has recently made two eminent members and lost two. It some time back gave Mr. Gladstone and Earl Granville the honour of member ship; and now two other members of the Ministry have cut the Club. Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster, it is announced, had 'joined with Mr. Wentworth Beaumont in a requisition to the committee pro posing, in accordance with the rules of the institu tion, an American gentleman as a member for one month ; but when the ballot was taken the candidate was blackballed, whereupon Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster marked their sense of the refusal by their retirement from the Club. LIBERAL BANQUET AT HORSHAM. The Liberal victory at Horsham was not what is distinctly called a triumphant ono. Defeat was escaped by the very skin of the teeth. Mr. Hurst and Mr. Aldridge both polled 180 votes, and it was only after a private scrutiny that the latter retired. Necessarily, then, the celebration banquet would not be a time for much crowing over the success. And very appropriately the banquet given to Mr. Hurst by his supporters on Tuesday was made the occasion for inaugurating a Registration Society. Little general politics seem to have been talked; the way to make the victory more sure next election was the principal topic of the post-prandial speeches. THE OVEBEND AND GURNEY DROSECUTION. The Star has an article on the refusal of the Government to conduct • the Overend and . Gurney prosecution, which niay be taken as a typical instance of party journalism. Tile Government is Liberal, therefore its action must be defended. The article sets out with an attempt to convict inde pendent critics of an inconsistency. They are charged with complaining that the Government does not institute a prosecution, and at the same time with complaining that no Government prosecutor exists. The two complaints are in no way inconsistent. At present the Government has the power to prose cute or to refuse to prosecute. It decides upon refusing, and so independent critics complain that they do not exercise the power which they possess, and urge that the matter shall no longer be left optional, but shall be rendered compulsory by the appointment of a public prosecutor. It is the Star itself which is full of blunders and bad logic. It confuses the prosecutor with the counsel engaged for the prosecution, and it speaks of the enor mous cost of the prosecution as a reason why Government should not undertake it. A fortiori, a private person ought not to be called upon. We fear that the real reason of the backwardness of the Government is to be found in political considera tions. More than one of the persons who stand com mitted for trial were Liberals, and took a more or less active part in politics. They have no doubt a powerful advocate in one of their co-religioniaeornici cocu Dies 41.. o.tailet. A PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. The necessity of having a public prosecutor is daily becoming more apparent at Westminster. The other day a case came before the magistrate which called forth some remarks from him on the subject. A. poor man brought a boy who had been m uc h injured by his father. He had beaten him with a poker and broken his hand. Mr. Sidle said that the administration of the law was most unsatisfactory. When this brutality was brought to light there was no recognised person to conduct the prosecution on behalf of the State. Notwithstanding the con tinued remonstrance of those who had to administer the law there was no p u bli c p rosecu t or . Thi s was about the only civilised country in the world where there was not some person to see that necessary pro secutions were properly conducted. It was most discreditable that no such official was appointed. In the present case be was driven to inflict a punish ment perfectly inadequate to the offence. LONDON PAROCHIAL CHARITIES. A correspondent of the Time 3 thinks that the condition of the parochial. charities of the City of London deserves public attention. He gives some details respecting the charity estates of St. Mildred's, Bread-street, a small parish lying halfway between St. Paul's and Cannon-street station. 'lhe revenue of its charity estates is now over 1:800 per annum. There is some uncertainty as to the original intentions of the donors, as the older deeds perished in the Great Fire. The trustees defray all the expenses of the church, pay the whole poors' rate ,of the parish, and disperse the rest of the income of petty charges, gratuities, &c. including, in one year, a pres en t a t ion p l a t e to the church wardens valued at £6O. The writer who supplies these facts is justly indignant at this lavish expendi ture of charity funds in the wrong direction. The payment of the poors' rate out of the money is the raracinalzamme, , saihmuirtinsusmilailut •arimh. and such payments only relieve the wealthy °an= piers of offices and warehouses. The church has no regular congregation, so that the expenditure on its services is not much more profitable. No more flagrant instances of the waste or misapplication of charity funds are to be found than those which lie at the gates of Parliament in the cities of London and Westminster. ACTION AGAINST THE " TIMES." During the panic which prevailed a short time since about the Irish agrarian outrages much doubt was expressed as to whether any considerable pro portion of the said outrages was traceable to land grievances. Among others the murder of Mr. Bradshaw in Tipperary was rather freely spoken of, and common rumours—which spoke of unhappy family relations—were published in several of the newspapers. The Times Dublin correspondent was very precise in his statement. For this the 7imcs is to be called to account. We are informed by telegram that a conditional order has been granted by Mr. Justice Lawson for leave to serve a writ on Messrs. Smith and Son, as agents of the Times, in n action by Mrs. Bradshaw, widow of Mr. Bradshaw, for libel in a letter alleged to affect her character. The damages are laid at £2,000. THE PRINCE OF WALES. According to the Owl, strong representations are being made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to induce him to consent to propose to Parliament that the Prince of Wales's expenses in the-East should ha defrayed out of the public purse, on the ground that the visit to Egypt and Constantinople hail more of a State than a private character. Our contemporary hopes that the attempt will succeed, at least so far as that 'the Prince's personal expenses should not fall upon his " narrow " income. At the same time, even the courtly bird would not have the State pay the travelling expenses of the Prince's suite, Dr. Russell and the rest, which partook very little of a State character; for when the country undertakes the expenses, it ought, through its Government, to have a voice in the selection of those who are to represent it abroad. Perhaps if that condition had been observed the Prince him self might not have been selected. At all events the country should have been consulted before, not after, the journey. To consult it at all is, however, an im provement upon the recent inclusion of the Duke of Edinburgh's gratuities and presents in Australia in the annual estimates. As to the " narrowness " of the Prince's income, different persons will perhaps form different ideas. Over £53,000 _a year from the Duchy of Cornwall, £40,000 a year from Parlia ment, the interest upon the £500,000 saved during his minority, and, if report be true, the additional pay ment of £40,000 a year recently made by the Queen for State purposes, may be thought narrow by the Prince's entourage. It will scarcely be so deemed by the nation, especially at a time like this when every body is suffering from the depression of trade, and the Government is cutting down expenses with a ruth less but necessary disregard of the unhappiness inflicted upon unhappy clgrks, who thought that they had a post for life, and now find themselves cast upon the world without employment. IYPLOMAT:C CHANGES. It is reported that Mr. Odo Russell, who has long represented us at Rome, will be appointed Minister at Madrid, vice Sir John Crampton, resigned or re called. Mr. Morier, Secretary of Legation at Darm stadt, will succeed Mr. Russell. The last-named gentleman is Lord Clarendon's son-in-law and Earl Russell's nephew. THE ALABAMA NEGOTIATIONS. It is believed that a tacit understanding has been come to between Mr. Motley and Lord Clarendon respecting the Alabama question. It is said that Mr. Motley's instructions are framed in a sense very diffe. rent from Mr. Sumner's speech, both the spirit and the argument of which are now repudiated by all rational Americans on both sides of the ocean. It is not impro bable that a way maybe foundout of the difficulty by frank acknowledgment on our part of a breach of neutrality, unintentional, but still matter for com plaint, in the escape of the Alabama, and a with drawal on the part of the Americans of the plea in reference to the recognition of Southern belligerency. At any rate, the situation is now admitted to have assumed a much more hopeful and agreeable aspect. For the present no active step will be taken. ELECTION COMMISSIONERS. The Commission of Inquiry into bribery in the boroughs reported as corrupt by the judges who.. tried the election petitions are gazetted. Mr. E. re Price, Q.C., Mr. Chisholm Anstey, and Mr. C. B. Coleridge are the commissioners for Bridgwater; Mr. Serjeant O'Brien, Mr. T. I. Barstow, and 11Ir. Homersham Cox, for Beverley; Air. Waters, gal Mr. C. Molloy, and Mr. W. Griffin, for Cashel ; Mr. Heron, Q.C., Mr. J. A. Byrne, and Mr. W. R. Bruce, for Sligo ; and Mr. G. M. Dowdeswell, Q.C., Mr. }{. Mansfield, and Mr. R. J. Biron, for Norwich. What with judges trying election petitions, the parlia' mentary committees on corruption, and these new commissioners, we ought to be able to devise some means to stop abuses. HARVEST PROSPECTS. Notwithstanding the wet and cold which has retarded very considerably the development o f the crops, this will not be a bad harvesting year. Indeed Mr. Mechi thinks it will be a good one. H e has evidence, he says, that the gross total production of food will exceed the total production of last year' Wheat is certainly not of the best; it will be much less in quantity, poorer in quality, and smaller hi weight than that of 1868. But peas, oats, potatoes , and perhaps barley, will be in excess. Last yeait was a good wheat crop; but little else was satisfae' tory. The scorched grass, withered roots, and scanty vegetation sent up the price of meat alarmingly' This year, happily, all is reversed, and though 5 trifle will be lost on wheat, on other plants the farmer will have a good gain. Mr. Mechi adds tha t the harvest in Essex will begin about August 101 , and become general about the 10th. THE WORKING MEN'S CLUB AND INSTITUTE UNIO N ' The annual meeting of the Working Men's Clu b and Institute Union was held on Tuesday, at Dot °t Hall. The report showed that the association was in fl a flourishing condition, since the number of clubs risen during the past year from 312 to 355. Twen t i,, - , three of the forty-three new clubs w ere established \cll . '' the aid of the society, which bears a high charade', among the friends of such institutions. Sir court Johnstone, in seconding the motion for tfle adoption of the report, remarked that the club! possessed great merits in their cosmopolitalla character, and a resolution was adoPt e unanimously, declaring that the establish; melt and development [of working clubs and institutions constituted an importa,l' e agency for ameliorating the social condition of t' l e people, and for preventing many evils which Tr er o difficult to deal with. A . subsequent resoluti o affirmed that the society deserved public support,l the ground that it assisted to improve the conditl ° l l of the people by a thorough co-operation of classes. RELIGIOUS MEETINGS. Two religious meetings have been held in Lona: 9 o recently—one for the better observance of Ascens,v9t, Day, at which Dr. Miller, Lord Eliot, Mr. West, Y t , Fitzßoy, and, in fact, men of all schools were prese . 9 The other was a purely party affair. It was the f?r, ° ~ annual meeting of the Evangelical Chu r ch 11 10 . 6 '0 whose object is to prevent the spread of Romault o in England by promoting th e rev iii on of ti o Prayer-book. Lord Alfred Churchill wa o o, the chair, and Lord Ebury was among' the spew"' THE LATE SIR WILLIAM A'BECKETT. To-day's obituary contains the name of Sir Willia;f A'Beckett, brother of the better known Gil be t A'Beckett. He was born in 1806, educated at We,;,' minster School, and called to the Bar at Lino' e Inn. Like his brother, he t o ok up w ith literail l , f, Ile edited the " Universal I3ioa-Rai,b7,, -,(000, con aa..—?-3---„ , .y.witni or the ueorgian Era.." A was appointed to various legal p os t s i n N e w So it t, Wales, and when Victoria w as erec t e d i n t o a seroL e i colony he was made Chief Justice of it. He rev and returned to England in 1863. 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