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TITRE'E BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. is. Box-oftict open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mendays, Cd. Children under twelve, Cd_ • 11111 - 444 Ito . , LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1869. A momentous decision was arrived at on Satur day afternoon by the Conservative majority of the House of Lords in regard to the Irish Church Bill, and the policy in that House of her MAJESTY'S Oppo sition. The determination of their lordships, as the whole country knows by this time, is to throw out the Bill on the second reading. It was a determina tion not come to impetuously, upon the spur of the moment, in a flame of passion, but as the resu lt o f the maturest deliberation. The significance and the importance of this decision is that it brings the Lords and Commons into direct antagonism. Remember ing, indeed, that it was distinctly upon the Irish Church Question that the late Conservative Admi nistration went to the country, and remembering also that the enormous majority by which the Suspensory Bill was carried in the last House of Commons, has been nearly doubled in the present House of Commons, as the answer, through the late General Election, of the enlarged constituencies, it may even be asserted more emphatieally that the resolution ar rived. at by the Conservative Peers on Saturday brings into direct opposition to each other, not merely the Lords and Commons, but the Lords and the People. Again, therefore, it must be said, the decision of the Lords, is, indeed, momentous. It is likely to be all the more momentous, because of the impulsive temperament of the First Minister of the Crown, backed as ho is at this juncture, aided and abetted as he has been increasingly ever since the last House of Commons was dissolved by an overwhelming majority of supporters avowedly bent at every turn upon obeying his behests to the very letter. As 'we have just now remarked, the majority enabling him to pass the Irish Church Bid through the present House of Commons, is, as nearly as pos sib!e, double the very large majority by which, in the old House, the Suspensory Bill was ca.lied. Sup posing, what it is of coaro needless to suppose, TFIE SUN, LON 1 because the last appeal to the country was made upon this very question of the Irish Church by the Conservative party themselves—suppos ing it were necessary for the now Prime Minister to appeal once more to the country for its decision because of the rejection of the Bill by the House of Lords in spite of its having been carried through the House of Commons by a series of overwhelming majorities, the result would, in all human probability, be this, that after one of the stormiest General Elections that has ever taken place in the United Kingdom, the Liberal Party at Mr. GLADSTONE'S back would be more numerous even than it is at present. Such au appeal to the consti tuencies, however, is altogether superfluous. The appeal has been made already—it was made, as it were, but yesterday—it was made upon this very question of the Irish Church and it was made by the Conservative Party themselves, then in power, under Mr. DISRAELI'S Premiership. The Government, as it is, therefore, has a perfectly con stitutional right to act, as it is declared to have the intention of acting immediately after the Irish Church Bill has been thrown out of the House of Lords by the Conservative Opposition—namely' without appealing to the country to do with the Bill precisely as if tha country had been appealed to on it. That is to say, Mr. GLans - rosz and his col leagues will in that conjuncture have a perfectly con stitutional right to cause the Houses to be prorogued as soon after that as possible, simply for the purpose of their being convened again immediately after wards, so that the Irish Church Bill may, in the second Parliamentary Session of 1869 be passed anew rapidly and silently through the House of Commons, and thereupon taken anew up to the House of Lords with thaw suffi ciently familiar threat (not hinted at now for the first time in our Constitutional History) of transferring the Liberal Minority in that House into a Liberal Majority by means of a wholesale addition to the number of our Hereditary Legislators. A threat of that kind was muttered ominously, it can not but be remembered, at the period of the stormy dis elusion which took place a very few years ago in refer ence to the remission of the Paper Duties. At the crisis of the History of the First Reform Bill it was held— thatsatne threat—in terrorem over the House of Lords, and worked its way, as it will probably work its way even now, that is to say, by inducing the Conservative Peers when the time comes to absent themselves from the House, and thereby deprive the Liberal Government, in regard to their threat, of any plea for carrying it into execu tion. One fact ought not to be lost sight of at this critical juncture, one truth ought to be especially borne in mind, that the determination of the Conser vative majority of the House of Lords is perfectly constitutional. Their lordships have a full and an undoubted right to resolve upon acting as they have now intimated their intention to act. It is a case of diamond cut diamond. It is the action of one " tyrant majority," if you may please to call either so, against another—the hereditary majority of the Conservatives in the Lards as opposed to the Liberal majority at the back of Mr. GLADSTONE and his Irish Church policy in the Commons. Be tween the two that policy of the Liberal Party in regard to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church Bill is certain to triumph, though it may for a brief interval be delayed. Our one earnest hope at this juncture, as Consti tutional Liberals, is that in the delay the dignity, and the power, and the influence of the House of Lords as one of the three great component parts of our admirably-balanced and wonderfully liiisted system of Government, may not be in any way wantonly or needlessly jeopardised. No true Englishman will make merry over the dilemma in which the Conservative Peers found themselves last week; for no true Englishman wishes t see any important party in the State distracted and divided. The Constitution, in the widest sense of that word, works best when every part of it is performing its proper function. But sometimes the great difficulty is to be sure what that function is. Let even the most Liberal of our readers put himself for a moment in the place of the noblemen who met in St. James's-square on Satur day, and, if he be not devoured by partizanship, he will feel keen sympathy with those illustrious men. It is easy enough to do one's duty when one is quite sure what that duty is ; but all is anxiety when one has to decide between two courses, for each of which there arc powerful arguments. It is just in this position that the Peers found themselves. On the one hand, they were told that if they allowed the Irish Church Bill to pass they would estrange the Irish Protestants and that important class through whose efforts they carried the English counties last I autumn—the country clergy; that they would break up their party; that they would prepare the way for the destruction of the English Church ; that they would abdicate their functions as a legislative assembly : and that they would be indirectly the authors of a civil war in Ireland. All these arguments were urged upon them with a vehemence and a clamour whereof the newspapers give no idea. Day after day deputations waited upon this great nobleman and upon that ; day after day floods of angry letters came pouring down upon them in a resistless stream. It seemed impos sible that such tremendous pressure could be resisted. On the other hand, the Peers having among them such a man of genius and foresight as the Marquis of SALISBURY, the dangers of yielding to clamour were sure to be vividly represented. Granted that the bill were thrown out, what next ? The Conservative peers could not complain that they were left in the dark as to the intentions of the Government. The course was plain enough. A Conservative Ministry had appealed to the nation with special reference to the Irish Church question. The nation replied to that appeal in so unmistakeable a manner that they who made it did not venture to meet the Parliament which they had summoned. The majority which passed the Suspensory Bill last year was almost doubled this year. There was not the smallest sign that the nation had regretted its decision ; on the contrary, the Liberals have gained a majority in the House of Commons by the elections. Clearly, there fore, if the bill were rejected by the Lords, Mr. GLADSTONE would neither resign nor appeal to the country. The country has not lost confidence in him ; the country has by anticipatimn answered that very appeal. The only course to take would be to wind up the present session immediately, to begin a new session as shortly afterwards as possible, to pass the bill through the Commons sub silentio, and to ensure its passage through the Lords by the creation of sufficient Liberal peers. Thus the rejec tion of the bill would save neither the Conservative party, the Church, nor the country from all those terrible calamities which the Irish deputation threatened. It was not a question of will, therefore, which the Conservative peers had to discuss, but a question of power. Beyond doubt all these considerations have been well weighed by their lordships before arriving at the grave decision which was the result of the meeting in St. James's-square. They have had every opportunity of appreciating the difficulties of either course, for the duty of the Lords with respect to the bill has been discussed almost as exhaustively as the bill itself. Never theless, with the consciousness that the country so anxiously awaits their decision—that this is one of the most momeL tons • crise3 in their history as a legislative body, the Conservative peers have decided that the second reading must be opposed. We regret this det,:rmination. Of two evils the peers have chosen the greater. ON, INIONDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, L 69. But their resolution has been honestly framed, sand the dominant party in England may feel sure that, though the peers will thus endeavour to defeat the wishes of the national majority, they do so only because their sense of duty leaves them no alterna tive. They have decided to meet the danger of opposing the bill, even though at most its rejection can ensure only a very brief delay. With the full knowledge that nothing in their power can prevent the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, they have chosen to incur the unquestion able jeopardy of staving off the inevitable end for a little while. They might plausibly have urged upon their party that the die was cast, that the bill must become law, and that a few months' gain of time was not worth fighting for at so much risk. They might have pointed to the impolicy of hazarding all for a very trifling advan tage. They have not done so, and their decision must command at least respect. Liberals who loudly condemn the peers for opposing the bill of the nation, ought not to forget that the peers them selves have nothing to gain by their policy. Quite the reverse. The rejection of the bill will, as we have shewn, be followed by such an infusion of Liberalism into the Upper House that the Conser vative majority will be lost. Is it desirable that the party which has lost its supremacy in one House should abdicate it in the other ? This fruitless hostility to the decree of the nation is deplorable, but the onus of it must not be thrown upon the Peers, but upon their party. That party will, doubtless, learn as salutary a lesson from the Irish Church Bill as they did from the Reform question. They have found out that political advantage is not to be gained by the abdication of political principle. They will, if the Irish Church Bill be not read a second time, dis cover that the Constitution is not to be upheld in one part by violating it in another. The Conserva tives cannot save the Irish Church by defying the House of Commons. The Constitution now is that the voice of the nation must prevail, and if the opposition of the HoeSe of Lords end in rejection, this great fundamental principle will be decisively confirmed. EIGHTY thousand pounds and nothing to shew for it ! Such was the burden of Mr. HADFIELD'S very just complaint to a Ministry whose forte is economy. And the Ministry had no answer to the complaint, except that the waste was none of their doing. Six and thirty years ago a commission was appointed to revise the statute-book and codify the law. For the greater portion of that time the commission did nothing but spend money profusely. It dwindled down at last to one commis sioner, " a notorious individual," as Mr. LOCKE KING called him. But at last the commission was broken up altogether, and we still have to seek our laws through fifty ponderous volumes, costing about £l3O, quite a fortune for a briefless barrister. It is very sad, very disgraceful. The first NAPOLEON found time in twenty years not only to conquer Europe, but to codify the French law, and the Code Napoleon will be remem bered when Marengo and Austerlitz are for gotten. But our peaceful legislators have spent nearly forty years, and produced absolutely no result. Mr. GLADSTONE did, indeed, announce that a new commission had been appointed, without salaries. But if well-paid commissioners, appointed especially for that purpose, have done nothing, what hope is there that amateurs with abundance of other and well-paid work on their hands will do more ? It must be confessed that he is a very sanguine man who trusts that he will live to see the Code Victoria which was promised us some thirty years ago. THE present tone of public opinion in England and the United States warrants the conclusion, not only that the relations between the two countries are peaceful and likely to remain so, but that the moment is highly propitious for a settle ment of the difficulty which at one time seemed to threaten war. The balance of informa tion is to the effect that Mr. MOTLEY is not autho rised to reopen negotiations. But public opinion in America, is clearly caning for a settlement. A question which is not to be reopeneil would, one would think, disappear from discussion, but the Alabama question is more vigorously dis cussed in the United States than at any previous time. The telegrams we have received spew clearly that Mr. SumNmes speech has been utterly discarded by statesmen and journals, that the Americans will take a moderate settlement, and that they would wish it to be speedy. We publish another message of pacific tone to-day. The people of the United States may well discard the bellicose advice which has been tendered them. Experience has shewn that bullying England and keeping the Alabama difficulty open is a costly sort of pastime. If it does not lead to war, it leads to rumours of war, which are also very disastrous. There is a large section of the American people who have everything to lose by the present state of suspense, their com merce is injured by uncertainty almost as much as by war, and it is the policy of this class that must prevail in the end. tc t-LA CO 1) lit , - • HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 5. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, walked out yesterday morn ing. Her Majesty drove out in the aftenoon to the Glassalt She, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. LATEST INTELLEGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, June 6. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon left at eight this morning for Southampton, where she may be looked for on the evening of the 10th instant. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, June 7. The North German Lloyd steamer Deutschland, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived here this morning. She brings 264 passengers, 45 sacks of mails, $194,624 in specie for London, and $100.50 for Bremen. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. STJNDIT, June 6. Once more we may say Atea jacta cst. The two great struggles fixed for this day have commenced; one has entirely terminated, and the other is half complete. The Grand Prize of Paris has been won, and the first day of the second polling is over. Horseflesh being of so much more importance than the destinies of nations, it is seemly to begin with the Grand Prize. The Drummer, the hope of the English party, has been defeated. On the other side of the Channel your sportsmen were confident of The Drummer's success, and racing authorities here were much afraid of him. Galignani, which has started the system of prophecy so much patronised in England, pronounced for The Drummer. Most of the English prophets did the same. But whilst human affairs in general are uncertain, and all is vanity and vexation of spirit, this is specially the case with horse. racing affairs. Neither the best English nor the best French horse (so esteemed) have won this extremely valuable stake. Glaneur, the successful animal, was only third in the betting. The Drummer, who, however, was not the favourite at starting, got second. It is believed that the English horse would have won but for a collision. Boulogne struck both The Drummer and Tim Bobbin, causing the former to fall on his knees, and considerably injuring his chance. But defeated horses, like men, always would have won but for Somethink. Wild Oats, who at one time came to a short price, made a miserable figure. He gave up the contest altogether after the first half. mile, and was walked home. The weather has been dreadfully hot and the crowd countless. The Emperor, Empress, and the Queen of Holland were present. "All Paris," in fact, was there, except the working men who remained behind to vote. There cannot have been much devotion iii this city to-day. The polling-booths in the four undecided circumscriptions were again crowded, and the renewal of the struggle seems to have awakened even more interest than the first encounter a fortnight ago. Well it may. Everything—the position of the Liberal party and the future of France—depends upon the contest which will terminate to-morrow. Now or never will the Opposition establish itself. The men of both parties are well aware of this. Their writing, speaking, and propaganda have been incessant and terribly earnest. We now wait to see what they have been able to achieve. The authorities have managed to get up another fright. ful story of revolutionary proceedings. A night or two ago two manuscript placards announcing a public mani festation on the Place de la Mairie were posted up in the town of Vicrzon, in the Cher department. The authorities imagined that these two placards afforded due justifica tion for alarm, and they accordingly sent to Bourges for assistance. A detachment of about one hundred men was immediately despatched, but tranquillity was undisturbed, and the men went back to garrison the next day. There was not the slightest ground for the apprehension that a riot was projected. This is another specimen of the style in which revolution and insurrection are hatched by those who have an interest in frightening the middle class. The Imperial Court of Paris, after several adjournments, has just given its judgment on racing sweeps, and what is called the mutual betting system. IL is decided that sweeps are really lotteries, which, not being authorised, were illegal. But the "mutual betting' system, the court decided, was not a game of chance, and could not, there fore, be termed illegal. Everybody knows what a sweep is. But the mutual betting process is not so generally known, and as it has been pronounced legal, and is carried on to a fabulous extent here, I think it will be well to give a description of this system, which I find in one of the Paris papers. Mutual betting is based on the " immutable laws " of demand and supply ; the odds obtained being more or less, according to the smaller or greater number of persons who have backed the winner. A sum, which may be a franc or a louis, is fixed for the unity, but each person who wishes to invest a larger sum can purchase several chances. Subscribers, on paying their money, name their horse and receive a ticket bearing a corresponding number; when the race is about to be run the operations are closed, the stakes put together and afterwards divided among the supporters of the winner. Supposing the total to amount to 500 louis, in 500 tickets at 20f. each ; if a favourite, on which say 200 persons have placed their money, wins, each would receive 2i louis, or 50f., making the odds 30f. to 20f., or 3 to 2 ; that is, they win 30f. and might have lost 20f. ; if, on the contrary, an outsider only backed by five persons comes in first, each gets 100 louis for his 20f., or odds of 99 to 1. In all cases a commission, generally of 10 per cent., is made by the keeper of the agency, which is consequently a safe and lucrative specu lation. Those operations, which are controlled by a system of dials and tell-tales visible to the public, are in general fairly conducted, and as many of the agencies receive stakes as small as one franc, the immense business done by them is almost incredible. One of the principal establishments of this kind received and paid out last season millions of francs. Each of the agencies has, besides, large vehicles fitted up as offices, and affording room, some for as many as a dozen clerks, which travel about from one race-meeting to another and conduct their business on the ground. Considering that little capital is required for this business, and that there is no risk whatever, the commission of 10 per cent. is decidedly too high. Brussels has gone into raptures over the birth of a son to the Count of Flanders, the brother of King Leopold and heir presumptive to the throne. The Belgian capital was illuminated on the occasion, and all the journals were filled with exordiums on this fortunate event, which affords " a fresh guarantee for the future prospects of the dynasty in default of a direct heir of the elder branch." The joy of the Belgians is to be respected. It shews, at least, that they prize their independence. The Marquis of Bute has just passed through Lyons, on his way to England from Jerusalem. FRANCE. BOURSE, June s.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month... Ital 4 an Fives 57 35 3 per Cent End of month 7l 221 Mexican Loan ... Credit Mobilior End of month... 255 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier _1617 50 Homo Debt — End of month... Deferred — RAILWAYS. Cash ..... 9221 i Orleans Northern . f , ...... 10921 Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 045 : Southern Western Eastern • • ........................ --- Sardinian Austrian 765 Lombard 495 North of Spain SG Saragossa ............ 75 Roman 65 Now that the Duke of Hamilton and the Duke of New.. castle have relinquished racing, thei : e is not an owner of horses of the rank of Duke on the English Turf with the exception of tha Duke of Beaufort, and that nobleman has only Scottith Queen in training. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The Irish Church Bill being finally out of the way, ior this session at least, allows the other measures which have hitherto been in the background to come to the fore. The House of Commons has hard work cut out for it to-night. There are no less than twenty-nine orders of the day, and these include such important subjects as the Amendment of the Reform Bill, Habitual Criminals, County Adminis tration, the Rating of the Metropolis, the Municipal Fran chise, University Tests, and the Reform of the Beerhouses- The questions which in practice precede the order contain just two important queries. Mr. Huntmakes his inquiry as to what the Government mean to do about the acquirement of the telegraphs; and from all accounts a definite answer will be returned. Mr. Osborne Morgan asks some infor mation about the reading of the Riot Act at the Mold Riots—information which is not made less needful by the way the inquest was conducted. In Committee of Ways and Means Mr. Lowe intends to make a proposition for raising a sum by the issue of Exchequer Bonds. Mr, Adderley will move that the Habitual Criminals Bill may be referred to a select committee for the purpose of sub stituting a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Agency throughout the kingdom, to which the supervision of criminals may be entrusted, instead of to the police, and for the purpose of adding provisions for the infliction of corporal punishment during imprisonment for brutal assaults on policemen and others ; and of more completely carrying out the object of the bill in punishing habitual disorderly conduct and drunkenness. Mr. Torrens opposes the laying on of any further burdens on the people of the metropolis in the way of asylums and hospitals for the poor until further inquiry has been made. Mr. Jacob Bright moves an amendment to the Municipal Franchise Bill which shall give the " female sex of man" the franchise. The University Tests Bill is opposed by Mr. Bentinck who will endeavour to prevent it going into committee, and objected to by Sir Roundell Palmer, who wishes to make every professor of a un i vers i ty solemnly declare that he will never teach any doctrine o pposed to the Divine authority of Holy Scripture, or t o the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. Mr. Stevenson, on the other hand, likes the bill so well that he will propose tq extend its previsions to Ba r h am . The Bankruptcy Bill is up to-morrow, and th ere are • no end of amendments on this most intricate subject. The° co llateral subjects of Imprisonmentfor D e bt an d Insolvent Debtors' Repeal Bill are also down for discussion. Mr. Candlish raises the subject of the Abyssinian War Lord Elcho that of the adulteration of manures ;Vi bill to amend ;sceuet calls the attention to l E a n w fi e e ; ld and brin iu gs r. ina Pollard-Urquhart the injustice; of posting extra police in certain districts of Ireland. The Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister Bill is down for committee, and h as various fe's amend ments proposed to it. The O'Sullivan Disabilities Bill will probably be discharged, the eccentric gentleman who called it forth having retired into pri va t e life On Wednesday there are several Irish bills for discus• sion, amongst others one for the amendment of the law concerning the sale of liquors on Sunday in Ireland. That bill, Mr. Murphy, the member for Cork, opposes on the. ground that the whole system requires remodelling. The Sunday Trading Bill is also down for committee. On Thursday trade-marks come under review. The Mines Regulations Bill is down for committee, and the bill to amend the law as to salmon fishery is to be read a second time. Mr. Graves will ask the President of the Board of Trade what has led to the resignation of the Local Marine Board of Liverpool. There is nothing of lipportAnce fiet C19i1_193 Friday night. AN INDIAN FATHER. The news that three Bengalees had been successful in the Indian Civil Ferviee competitive examinations is said to have given great satisfaction to the native community. Two of them, it seems, had some difficulty in getting away from India. "One of them (the Indian Daily News says) was, in the language of Indian officials, 'granted four years' leave of, absence to England' by his wife and two or three of his relatives, the only persons who knew of his intention ; the other was obliged to steal away as quietly as he could ; the third was freer to act, and the passages in the Peninsular and Oriental steamer were taken in the name of the latter and two friends.' The runaway's father pursued him down the river; there was a scene on board the vessel, but the young man was obdurate, and the only promise the parent could exact from him was that he would not marry in England. It is quite an event among the natives, but it is not so much the fact of these men having passed, as the excellent effect it will have, that is most gra'ifying to others." The di,ap pointment that will be felt when it is known that they have been pronounced disqualified by age will therefore, it may be presumed, be very great. CO3IMITTING BIGAMY FOR MONEY. The person giving the name of Major-General Haynes, who was recently charged with marrying a lady and obtain ing her money, he at the time being a married man, was again on Saturday before the sitting Alderman at the Mansion House. Mr. Lewis, who prosecuted, said that inaddition loth° charge of obtaining money under false pretence; the pri soner would be charged with bigamy. Some three years ago the prisoner married a young lady named Richards, belonging to a highly respectable family, and they had two or three children. the true name was James Walter M'Al pine, and he had no title to assume the name of Major-Ge neral Haynes of the Madras Army, who was a married man, and to whom the announcement of a marriage contracted in his name had given great pain. It appeared that some short time ago the prisoner made the acquaintance of Miss Lee. Ai thing at King's-cross station he complained of being un well, and sent her off by herself. On reaching home she was informed that she had been done, and she then came to London, and gave the prisoner into custody. Evidence was given in support of the charge, and the in quiry again adjourned. THE ENGLISH JOINT-STOCK BARK. The prosecutions in the matter of the English Joint- Stock Bank do not conclude with the one of conspiracy to de fraud the shareholders. Mr. Lewis, it will be remembered, announced that he should obtain a summons for perjury against Mr. Finney, and on Saturday the case cam e before the Lord Mayor. Mr. G. Lewis conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Littler and Mr. Straight appeared for the defendant. It appeared that in the course of the proceedings that had previously taken place in Chancery, the defendant, in his examination, swore that he had never received a sum of £666 from a gentleman named Howard, who had nego tiated the sale of the Bideford Bank to the English Joint- Stock Bank, and another larger sum of money from Mr. Bradlaugb, who had negotiated the sale of the Nottingham Bank. It will be remembered that upon the facts dis closed in the examination of the directors it was positively sworn that these sums of mousy had been paid to the defendant, and upon this evidence the present charge was prepared against him. The first part of the evidence was much the same as that whichwas given upon the examina tion of the defendant upon the other charge. Mr. Lewis, in opening the case for the prosecution, said that it was instituted by Mr. Lambert, the prosecutor in the former case, at his own expense, and the official liquidators had nothing whatever to do with it. THE REPORTED MASSACRE 'N ABYSSINIA. Confirmation is to hand of the massacre reported from Abyssinia by Mr. Iteutet's telegrams. A despatch from Newport says : " Information has reached here that Mr. Thomas Powell, of Coldra Hall, his wife, and child, have been mur dered in Abyssinia. Mr. Powell was a wealthy colliery proprietor, and some time last year he conceived the idea of going on a shooting excursion to Abyssinia, inwhichhe was to be joined by several other gentlemen. Many of his friends were strongly opposed to his going out, but he per sisted in it, and some four or five months ago left this country for Abyssinia, accompanied by several keepers, his wife, an amiable and beloved lady, and his younger child. The writer has not been informed whether any of the gentlemen that contemplated joining Lim really went out or not. About a fortnight ago it was reported that he had been taken prisoner, but the report was disbelieved, and a contradiction subsequently appeared. " Full confirmation of the distressing news is, however, now to hand. The information reached this country in the following manner. A telegram was sent by the agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company at Aden to the chief officer in Londe'', conveying the sad intelligence. This arrived on Friday night, and on Sunday it reached Mr. Walter Powell, M. P. for Westbury, brother of the unfortunate gentleman. Mr. Powell, Mrs. Powell, and their child are said to be murdered, but it is not known whether the English maid-servant and the keepers that accompanied them escaped cr not. Mr. Powell was the eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Powell, of the Goer, near this town, the great colliery proprietor, and he has two brothers living, Mr. Walter Powell, M.P., and Mr. Henry Powell ; there are also several sisters. He was a magistrate for Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, and married the daughter of the late Mr. John Jenkins, of Caerleon. There were five children living by the marriage including the one they took out with them." It is stated that early in the present week the Lords will discuss the propriety of agreeing to addresses to the Crown for the issue of several royal commissions to report upon the corrupt practices at elections, sanction to which has been already given in the House of Commons. It is understood that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has another surprise in store for his friends and his enemies. The succession and the probate duties will undergo a considerable alteration, and possibly amalgamation, with a general result undreamed of in the philosophy of ordinary Finance Ministers.—Eastern Post. THE YOUGHAL ELECTION.—A petition has been lodged against the return of Mr. Guest for Youghal on the grounds that he was the nominee of Mr. Weguelin, and that Mr. Weguelin acted as his agent, and canvassed for him ; also that Mr. Guest was guilty of corrupt prac- tices. The petition prays that the election may be declared void. The Bishop of Carlisle is still staying in London. The Carlisle Journal says that an improvement in his health reported last week has teen somewhat checked by the cold weather, and his lordship "continues in much the same state of physical weakness." His medical attendants decline giving a positive opinion as to the precise nature or the issue of the illness; but it is satisfactory to know that there has been a diminution of suffering for some time past. At a recent meeting of the Council of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, a memorial was adopted to the Prime Minister, praying that a bill might be introduced by the Government, based upon the report and recommenda tions of the majority of the Commissioners. The memorial has been presented by Mr. Hadfield, who has received a reply from Mr. Gladstone. The Premier says (addressing Mr. Hadfield):—" Will you be kind enough to assure the memorialists that I will not fail to bring their wishes under the consideration of my colleagues, and that they may be confident that the whole question will receive the careful attention of her Majesty's Government. . - FIRE AND LOSS OF THREE LIVES.—On Saturday evening, at about half-past nine o'clock, a fire broke out in a five-storey house in Pentonville-road. The premises were occupied by lodgers, and the occupant of the lower storey let fall a bottle of paraffin oil, which took fire, and unfortunately reached the stairs. In an incredibly short space of time the staircase was so enveloped in flame as to be impassable, and retreat from the upper rooms was cut off. The screams of several women from the upper windows were frightful. Several scrambled over the roof to a neighbouring house, but before the fire-escape could arrive, two young women, Martha Naylor, 23, Letitia Thomas, 22, and a child, between 3 and 4 years old, were burnt to death. The engines, on their arrival, were able to pour such copious streams of water into the building that in half-an-hour the fire was extinguished, and the charred remains of the deceased recovered from the &brio. The two girls were dressmakers, and were late at work on a dress intended to be worn on the Sunday. THE GREAT PETITION IN FAVOUR or Oricrunio MUSEUMS ON SUNDAYS.—On Friday night, Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P., conveyed to the Hous© of Commons an affidavit that this petition contained fictitious signatures. Mr. R. M. Morrell, of the National Sunday League, writes denying that the petition does contain such signa tures. The council had detected the practice of frauds, dismissed the two men, Beck and Biggs, and con demned the sheets, which were therefore not put to the petition, but remain in the office of the League, as evi dence of their honesty of purpose. On being discharged by the League, these men got employment of the same kind from the Lord's-day Rest Association, on learning which Mr. Morrell wrote to the secretary informing him of the facts. Mr. Morrell states— "Of the 60,714 signa tures sent into Parliament, fully 40,000 were collected by the direct agency of the council and personal friends, and of 'the other canvassers such a supervision has been exercised as to warrant our belief in every signature b eint DECISION OF THE PEERS TO .REJSCI THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. A meeting of Peers and Bishops was held on Satur all ., / at the residence of the Duke of Marlborough, St. Jaul es . ,;'d square, for the purpose of considering what course he adopted in connection with the Irish Church Bill 1/11e ' it comes on for the second reading in the House of There were present—Duke of Abercorn, Earl of A ber ; gavenny, Earl Amherst, Earl Bandon, Bishop of Bang ° " Viscount Bangor, Lord Bateman, Marquis of Bath, Bathurst, Earl Beauchamp, Duke of Beaufort, I S Berners, Lord Blayney, Lord Bolton, Earl of Braat " Marquis of Bradford, Marquis of Bristol, Earl Brow no Duke of Buccleuch, Duke of Buckingham, Earl Ced ° ,.,,g ap r i Lord Cairns, Earl Carnarvon, Lord Castlemaine , Chelmsford, Lord Churston, Earl Clancarty, Lord C cheater, Lord Colville, Lord Claxina, Earl Covent* -"; Courtown, Lord Crofton, Earl Darnley, Earl 13 ' . mouth, Lord de L'lsle, Earl Denbigh, Lord Derail/1 Earl Derby, Lord de Ros, Lord de Saumarez, Vist de Vesci, Earl Devon, Lord Digl , y, Marquis of Down sb ''-' Marquis of Drogheda, Earl Dunmore, Lord Dunb eln' Earl Dunsany, Lord Fgerton, Earl Egremont, Lord Elphinstone, Earl of Enniskillen, Viscount Exlo` % , Lord Faversham, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Galway, wi Bishop of Gloucester, Viscount Gough, .Vig e . °ll „ e n Gormanston, the Earl of Haddington, Viscount Ilarduib Earl Hardnicke, Earl llarewood, Earl of Harria t : 4 ll ' Viscount Hawarden, Lord Headley, Lord Henn Viscount Hereford, Lord Heytesbury, Earl Horne , _ of Huntingdon, Lord Hylton, Lord Kesteven, v ;,,i Kilmaine, Earl Lauderdale, Earl Leitrim, r e f Leven and Melville, Earl of Limerick, 1:: 93. `„. 4 , Longford, Earl of Lonsdale, Earl of Lucan, Lordl,l4';', Earl of Macclesfield, Earl of Malmesbury, of Manchester, Earl Manvers, Duke of borough, Viscount Melville, Viscount Middleton , 0 Nelson, Lord Northwick, Lord Ormathwaite, O'Neill, Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Penrhyn, Bishopr,l Peterborough, Earl Portarlington, Lord Raglan , Eavensworth, Lord Redesdale, Duke of Richmond , v ,P ",,f Rivers, Earl of Romney, Earl of Rosse, Duk e td , Rutland, Lord St. Leonards, Marquis of Sali'7 o l Lord Saltoun, Earl of Sandwich, Lord Scarsdale, 5 111 ,, Selkirk, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Sinclair, Lord S' r c ,, mersdale, Earl Stanhope, Lord Sondes, Earl of Stradr r Lord Strathnairn, Earl of Tankerville, Viscount Teul io , town, Lord Thurlow, Lord Tredegar, Earl 'Vert Lord Walsingham, Earl of Warwick, Duke of NN T e ij i ton, Marquis of Wesmeath, Earl Wilton, Marq uia 4 Winchester, Lord Wynford, Archbishop of Dublin, 7,1 of Kingston, Bishop of Tuam, Bishop of Derry, P re Harrowby. et 4 The meeting was a strictly private one, and the le— t o firmly refused to give the slightest indication of the e° l / 9 which had been agreed upon. Nevertheless we are to present to our readers substantially what of place. As the leader of the party in the Let) House, House, Lord Cairns spoke at considerable I° o l So far from wavering or being in favour of the paes /ge t y the bill, he very firmly and strenuously urged t hat t second reading should be opposed and the bill r e i ecte d The leaders of the party, be said, did no t to dictate, they were anxious that the iudg m : t ill of each peer should be unfettered ; but ; l et they felt that as the country bad /1- 00 yet pronounced an opinion on the bill itself, and to feeling of the Upper House was so decidedly OPP °5e l ,O it, the most politic course, the course most consistenb rd, best under all circumstances, would be that tb eir , l i fo ships should repudiate the measure. At the same " tio d he did not think it right that the motion for the rej ec . t io4 of the measure should come from the front OPPlor bench. He therefore suggested that the Earllfs rowby, as an independent Peer, rather than bi w- pi should move an amendment to the second readin' or doing so, the Earl would, of course, rely upon the , 173 „,,. r 0 bers of the party for their support, which Lord hoped would he accorded to him. The Marquis of SALISBURY succeeded Lord Ca1 0 , 13 '.4.4 • ~rd very earnestly deprecated the course which Lora d icl had recomme n d e d. The agitation which W.,,,°-01 succeed the rejection of the bill would be 7,ivi; disastrous to the country, and would in the end do O tP , h - I to save the Irish Church. It was better (he declare d) their lordships should accept the bill and modify it ill c° , - mittee than that they should renew all the ill-fe eli t ' excitement which had already prevailed to such extent, th°l4ll The Earl of CARNARVON spoke in the same sense, of the meeting appeared to be decidedly against bin'' urged that the House under present circumstanc es a position to make terms for the Church, while it 131'9 not be so hereafter. A pith The Earl of DERBY spoke with great warmth, a n ' the manifest approval of the majority of those pr esem favour of the rejection of the measure, contending t ' 1 1: 1 fear as to themselves should deter them from doing they thought to be right in the matter. 11°11 Lord STANHOPE counselled that the pe er s should -° the course marked out by the Marquis of SalisburY:i reJ The Earl of DENBIGH, as a Roman Catholic, coaoicevit it his duty to vote for the Government in this mat fet t ' 00 the meeting impatiently refused to hear any 1)11 1/ 1 leaders of the party against the course proposed 19 Y Cairns. f the ,ur Ito The Duke of RUTLAND also spoke in favo , rejection, and nearly all the subsequent speak erg bill% enthusiastic in their determination to throw out the o lo It was finally decided that no formal resolution 6Piclo{ be come to by the meeting. The leaders bad bet tbeif they proposed to do before the party, and bad f0"7 ... ,',4P propositions to meet with favour. The Earl of ill'Pvto it was tacitly agreed, should move the amendraeo t ,oo second reading, and the influence of the Opposition" brought to bear against the bill. Ol e The John Bull declares that the majority ag ain s t g t bill will amount to eighty votes. THE ENGLISH STAGE. fl ya The Daily News, in commenting on the position ° at t e f English stage, arrives at the conclusion tha t ° H t' of the English dramatist has degenerated into a t j eo ce that the playwright has deliberately given P recv- , to the scene.painter, that the comedian hag fo tif to the level of the buffoon. We merely state.;iterl and we do not cast special blame upon the 7- , o 0 for our stage, upon our theatrical managers, or 11 P% get players. The writer supplies a demand ; the l'th e takes the course which ensures him a return:" actors labour to win the applause of the el'esler If the playwright thought more of bigli t Pr ° ‘ than of the requirements of the day, he redg l3 o duce finished comedies at the risk of starviliF oi l te r garret. The manager who set his face against aw.," lesques, and put on the stage nothin g bu t piece° would stand the test of exacting a n d impexti! i t c l: l 1)/.1 would probably achieve an enenviable notoriety 10 of bankrupts. As for actors and actresses, theY E ' r ; lutely helpless. The b es t among t h em must driftwllleP tide,vainly prot es ti ng aga i nst w h at t h e y cannot 06 Another Garrick o r Sidd ons m i g ht a ppear, an d force of genius turn th e curr e nt of public APP sheer i 00 into a new channel. It a r g ues a very strong e °l3 ,:d e fe gl a that nothing is imp oss ibl e , to look for the We"; O . of players who will elevate the tone of the EDO' and revolutionise the taste of the public. he °V GENERAL PEEL. —A testimonial, it Wil l d i tt l membered, iPho° berecl was recently subscribed for by the On - v A of Genera l Peel, at Huntingdon. The presentation COP' t he made on the 14th of July, at a public dinner at , Exchange, Huntingdon , ho le tio le THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. Th e the French Atlantic Submarine Cable has been on board the Great Eastern at Sheerness, a nd day next a grand banquet will be g iven on 1 :" :* , 19 soon as the Great Eastern has comple ted a:tenni:o(lo;i this cable, she will return to Sheer vt s preparations fur receiving the Anglo-Indian °1 to be laid between Suez, Aden, and Bombay' `l -- b le exactly the same length as the French Atlantic fits' viz., 3,250 miles. It is also being ma de by the enrolvp-elit the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance C° 03 0 G L OUCESTER CATHEDRAL RESTORATIOIC--Aii to work of restoration is being carried forwar d in 61°--ce° ' °. Cathedral. Five months have elapsedsi h nce theorifel: t 1 e 'e , o tion begun, of the choir was and much of i t as - m _ pli jog executed. A scaffolding 80 feet in height, re t he ere 4 " , the vaulting, had first t o b e cons t ruc ted. Sine' 1 ',7 be Lion of this the thi c k laYers of whitewash h a pt removed from one-half of the vaulting, froel twhae.se trifolium, and from a large portion of tPiette but nothining e of fainttraces of decoration ha ve been be tiO walls. any value. The stone trac ery °f t 0 1:e ° easternmost windov.-3 on the north side has be • t 136 out and renewed, and the re lazing has been b e g ui ,:ter i° : three remaining windows have to be restored. Tb e e ' work in the south transept has been comPl eted. he ° chapels dedicated to St. Anudrewband St. Pl°lllsl° 'llat ° the restored, the former in amy of t Mr. T. Marling and Mr. Gambierper man ner,ar P arry, con g,5 ; traces ; the latter by the Earl of Ellenboroug°' t Andrew's chapel is one of the finest Works °f itfr tto h i its kind in the kindom. The estimated O s a e d restoration of the choir is £15,000. Funds are n ee Li complete this and the restoration of the Lady C,b6„cbscril):, other parts of the cathedral. The donations an36—iworl Lions promised towards this great diocesan and eat i , °ll o l' amount in round numbers to £13,500. ••• v o i en t.- t ` P ID ie for help was first made it was intimated that the P l ' A boo of subscriptions might be extended over five hare ' re £4,600 has already been paid. The entire Woro' 'oh will 99a gloP - 1t _ M 0 COM Consol ditto, fo duced, per Cent. £lOO, Stock, 4 India ditto 5 Cent., 0 per Cent Debentur 2 pm. 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