The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-08 00:00:00

TILE MAY MEETINGS. The head of the house of Ashley was again hard worked on Friday. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided over two Dceter Hall meetings on that day, addressing each one Apropos to the work of the societies whose respective anni• 'rersaries were commemorated. THE' :PBOMOTION OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS. The Societir te , .! the Promotion of Christianity amoni,, the Jews held its ni'fieting in the morning. The proceedings began at half-past - tun' e, ahen the Hebrew children educated in the schools of the society bap s a number of hymns and anthems. At eleven o'clock t he chair was taken by the Earl of Shaftesbury. The secretary read an abstract of the annual report, which iihewed the income from all sources for the year ended March 31 to be £34,917, and the expen diture £32,550, leaving a considerable surplus. The report gave a full account of the society's operations. Respecting Abyssinia, the report said the latest accounts from the interior chewed the country still to be in a very disturbed condition. Mr. Fladd is prepared to return to Abyssinia when !the country is sufficiently settled ; but Mr. Stern, after twenty-five years of missionary service, and his severe sufferings while in confinement, feels no longer equal to the work. The Lord Bishop of Mauritiusmoved the first - resolution, approving of the report. Obstruc tions were occasioned to the society's work by the diffu sion of of ritualistic, and more especially of rationalistic, principles. He also, from personal experience, repudiated the idea that the Jews were a people whose conversion was hopeless. The Rev. R. W. Forrest, M.A., from Ireland, seconded the resolution. Ile said that whatever might be the effect of the present legislation on the Irish Church, there would never be wanting in that country sincere witnesses for the pure Gospel. Some thought the disestablishment and disen dowment a settled question. But he confessed that he was obsolete and old-fashioned enough to bear in recollec tion that there is a House of Lords and a beloved Pro testant Sovereign not yet altogether powerless. Mr. R. Baxter, the Rev. James Bardsley, M.A., Canon Clayton, and the Rev. H. A. Stern, one of the returned Abyssinian captives, also spoke. THZ RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. In the evening the Religious Tract Society held its meeting. The report stated that the past year had been one of singular activity, both at home and abroad, and above 200 new tracts and books and five periodicals, com prising 850,000,000 pages, had been published;during the year. The number of publications issued from the depo sitory had exceeded 40,000,000, and the proximate circulation from the formation of the societyl,2B6,ooo,ooo. The total receipts, including the balance left from last year, in ere £119,170 Os. 6d., of which £10,488 10s. 11d; were subscriptions and other free contributions, and £4,818 9s. 9d. were legacies. The total expenditure was £112,611 3s. 2d.; £3,500 had been invested, and a balance remained in hand of £3,058 17s. 4d. The noble chairman delivered an energetic address, in which he declared that there were few societies in the present day that were equal to this society, and, excepting the Bible Society, none superior. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. Arch deacon Hunter, the Rev. W. Muirhead, the Rev. James Fleming, Mr. J. Ashworth, Mr. J. Gurney Hoare, and Mr. C. Reed, M.P. THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. BENNETT, OF FROME. In the Court of Arches, the case of " Shepherd v. the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett" again came on, before Sir R. Phillimore, on Friday. It will be remembered that on Friday last the court refused to accept letters of request from the Bishop of Bath and Wells in order that certain charges of alleged heresy on the part of Mr. Bennett should be heard and determined, and his Lordship ex pressed an opinion that it was a case for the Bishop to hear, embracing as it did some of the awful mysteries of our religion. Mr. A. J. Stephens, Q.C., applied to the Court for leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. His lordship had given a learned and elaborate judgment, and declined to accept the letters of request, on the ground that no reason was alleged why the case was sent to the court to be heard in the first instance. Sir R. Phillimore was of opinion that he ought to grant the application for leave to appeal, and it would decide the two questions whether it was competent for the court to refuse letters of request, or whether they were letters of command ; and secondly, whether he had pro perly exercised his discretion in this case. Mr. Stephens asked if his lon'shit) would, as in the case of "Martin v. Mackonochie," allow an authenticated copy of his judgment, as it would be of great assistance to the Judicial Committee and counsel engaged in the case. His Lordship acceded to the application. THE ENGLISH JOINT STOCK BANK. The rumour which has prevailed for some time that the late directors of the defunct English Joint Stock Bank were to be charged with fraud turned out to be correct on Friday. Mr. Samuel Greenway Finney, the late manager of the English Joint Stock Bank, who has already undergone two examinations, Mr. James Abbiss, formerly an alderman of the City of London, Mr. Thomas Bradshaw, and Mr. Charles Edward Mangles, were bought before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, charged with the making of improper entries in the books of the bank, the publication of false balance-sheets, and conspiracy to defraud the shareholders. Mr. Lewis, in opening the case, said the prosecutor was Mr. Lambert, one of the shareholders of the bank. Mr. Mangles, Mr. Abbiss, and Mr. Bradshaw were from the earliest period directors of the English Joint-Stock Bank, and were gentlemen of very high position in the City of London. They were charged with conspiracy to defraud the shareholders and creditors of the bank by issu ing false balance-sheets and reports, and they were further charged with conspiring to purchase shares of the bank with the bank's money, contrary to the articles of associa tion; but before stating the facts with reference to these matters, he wished to call attention to the position occupied by the defendants. They were adepts in directorship, and unless they wilfully shut their eyes, they must have been fully acquainted with all the circumstances of the bank. Mr. Abbiss, besides being a director of. the English and Joint Stock Bank, was a director of the General Insurance Company, a director of the South of England Oyster Company, and the chairman of another company. Mr. Bradshaw was also a director of other companies; and among the companies with which Mr. Mangles was con nected as a director were the London and Blackwall Railway Company, the English and Foreign Credit Company, the Exeter and Tiverton Railway Company, the Transatlantic Steamship Company, &c., and he was also chairman of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Com pany, and of the London and South-Western Railway Company. The English Joint Stock Bank existed for eighteen months, and it succumbed in May 1866, the loss to the shareholders in the concern being about 2250,000. On the 31st December, when the last balance-sheet of the - bank was issued, the defendants represented that the bank was in a pezfectly prosperous condition and that it had made profits amounting to £14,000, out of which they proposed, and did pay, a dividend of 6 per cent. to the shareholders. Trim far the balance-sheet was truthful would presently appear, for he would shew that instead of there being a profit of £14,000, there was a loss of £20,000. A sum of £50,000 advanced to the bank by the Imperial Mercantile Company was not entered as a loan, but as a sum due to their own customers on current and deposit accounts ; that a sum of £25,000 advanced by the City Bank was entered in an account headed Kennedy and Co. ; that £lOO,OOO was paid for the goodwill and premises of Messrs. Oldings' bank, whereas there was only an entry that would lead the shareholders to suppose that only £50,000 had been paid ; that, con- trary to the articles of association, the defendants pur chased £lO,OOO worth of shares with the bank's own money, in order to raise them to a premium ; that Mr. Finney at this period sold out 70 shares of the bank which he hell. In 1865 shares were purchased by Messrs. Abbiss and Mangles and others, with money advanced by the bank, the money thus advanced not being debited to their private accounts, but entered in the ledger, under the heading " Suspense share account ; that £lO,OOO worth of the bank's trade hills were handed by the directors to Messrs. Thomas and Co., sharebrokers, to recoup that firm for the purchases they had made of the bank shares such trade bills being afterwards recovered. The evidence taken against Mr. Finney was then read over in the presence of the other defendants and the pro secntor, and fresh evidence was then called. The Lord Mayor adjourned the inquiry till Monday week. The same bail was accepted for Mr. Finney as before—namely, himself in £2,000 and one security in £2,000, and the other defendants were liberated on their personal recovizances to the amount of £2,000 each. Sir Travers Twiss gave judgment in the Con sistery Court on Friday in the case of Dr. Evans v, Slack and Smith. It was an application for a faculty or licence on the part of the rector of Si. Mary-le-Strand to make certain alterations in the interior of the church. The de fendants, as the churchwardens, opposed the grantiogof the faculty, and it was alleged they were required for Ritualistic practices. Sir Travers Twiss expressed himself of opinion that the rector had failed to establish his position that the alterations were required, and on a view of the whole case ho )1011114 to_reftlo a faculty. LAW AND POLICE. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AcT.—On Friday the Court of Common Pleas delivered a decision affecting the power of appeal from a judgment of local magistrates under the Friendly Societies Act. A dispute between an officer and a member of a benefit society was adjudicated upon by a bench of justices, and there was an appeal against their decision. The judges of the Common Pleas on Fridayheld that as in such a case the magistrates acted in the cha racter of arbitrators, their decision could not be reviewed by a superior court. MR. BIRLEY'S COSTS.—On Friday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Mellish applied on behalf of Mr. Birley, M.P., for Manchester, for costs in the case respecting his election, which was decided in his favour on the previous day. The court granted the application. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A lady was on Friday summoned before the Westminster p.lice magistrate for having infringed one of the bye-laws of the Metro• politan District Railway Company by having alighted from a train whilst in motion. It turned out that the summons was not applied for until several days after the company had been threatened with an action for damages, the lady alleging that she had sustained injuries solely through the moving on of the train after it had once stoned. The magistrate charac terised the course which had been taken by the company as discreditable, and dismissed the case. THE AGRARIAN OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. The special correspondent of the Daily News, who is writing from Thurles, Tipperary, on the state of the country, and the reason for the many outrages which have recently taken place, contributes a long letter, calling attention to the history of the land. " The English reader ought to know," he says, " that in the early times through out all Ireland, and in comparatively recent times throughout the greater part of it, there existed no such thing as individual property in land. Rates, taxes, and rents were unknown. The land belonged to the Sept or Tribe, and not to the individual; and there was a code of laws especially adapted to this state of society. The first great collision after the invasion took place between the system of land tenure in use amongst the native and the feudal system which the Norman barons brought with them. It was not till the country had been re conquered under Henry VIII., Edward VL, Mary, and Elizabeth, that the Irish code was superseded and declared to be no law, but a ' lewd custom.' The great Irish proprietors were dispossessed at this period, and English law was substituted for Breton law. If the revolution had stopped here it might have been well for both countries. But, unfortunately for Ireland, she was sucked into the whirlpool of the new revolution in England, and at the close of the parlia mentary contest Ireland was left prostrate, bleeding, exhausted, dying. It was whilst in this condition that the people of Ireland received a further lesson from their English conquerors on The Rights of Property.' The Breton laws were by this time gone, and Ireland had been annexed to England at this period for nearly 500 years. But Cromwell's soldiers had arrears of pay due to them, and speculators who bad advanced money to the Govern ment to carry on the contest in Ireland against the royal cause were clamorous for repayment of their advances. It is said that it was the Protector's intenticn to make a Yorkshire of Ireland, and the occasion and opportunity were at hand. On the 11th of October, 1652, a ukase was issued, announcing the confiscation of the Irish lands. On the 26th of September following all the ancient estates and farms of the people of Ireland were declared to belong to the adventurers (or debenturers, as they are sometimes called) and the army of England, and it was announced that Parliament had assigned Connaught (then utterly wasted by the soldiers of Coote) for the habitation of the Irish nation, whither they must transplant, with their wives and daughters and children, before the Ist of May following (1654), under penalty of death if found on this side of the Shannon after that day. The difficulty of pressing a nation into a fourth of its area was found very great, but the commis sioners, overwhelmed with a sense of their difficulties, invited the officers and commanders of the army to join them in lifting up prayers with strong crying and tears to Rim to whom nothirg is too hard, that his servants whom He had called forth in this day to act in these great trans actions might be made faithful.' There was due to the adventurers £360,000 ; to the officers and soldiers, for arrears of pay, £1,550,000 ; and to other creditors, for advances of money or supplies of provisions, £1,750,000. The whole of these debts and claims was to be satisfied by the confiscation of 2,500,000 acres of land in Ireland. On the 20th of July, 1653, the drawing of allotments took place at Grocers' Hall, in London, Alder man Avery drawing for the adventurers, and Colonel Hewson, a military officer, drawing for the soldiers. Many a sad tale is recorded of the sufferings of the un happy Irish and Anglo-Irish who were driven across the Shannon." At this period the whole of Tipperary was put into the hands of Cromwell's soldiers. "I find," writes the correspondent, "amongst the list of adventurers to whom lands were allotted in this same barony of Elio garty the name of Margaret Shakespeare. It is a curious revolution in the wheel of fortune to find a person of the name of Shakespeare becoming an Irish proprietor under an Act which banished a Sperser from his lands in Cork to Connaught. William Spenser, the grandson of that Edmund who sang so sweetly while be was recom mending famine as the panacea for Ireland, was amongst the transplanted ; and although he wrote to Cromwell to intercede for him, and although Cromwell wrote to his `Right trusty and well-beloved' commissioners for the affairs of Ireland, pleading for mercy, he was driven from Kilcolman with the ',lrishry' into the wilds of Connaught." Having regard to this history the correspondent writes : " The history of confiscation has been bequeathed from ousted sire to son, and although there is not the slightest design to get rid of the present proprietors on the plea that they are in forcible possession, some excuse may be alleged for the Irish tenantry if they have not the same clear notion of proprietorial rights as persons whose property has not been interfered with for a thousand years. When Irish farmers simply ask for a mea sure to secure to them the value of their labour—and such a measure, I hear on every side, would satisfy their expectations—it is unblushing effrontery to be told by the possessors of confiscated estates, by proprietors whose title-deed was the sword, that what they ask for is confis cation and a destruction of the rights of property. A bill securing the tenant in the possession of his land on pay ment of his rent would satisfy the people now. The masterly inactivity' of the landlords on this question may lead to far wider demands." " EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT."- Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to present a copy of this work, with the royal autograph on the fly-leaf, to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Mrs. Langford, at Lynn, a few days back adminis tered strychnine to her , household. The baby, who had taken some, died. The jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Langford was of unsound mind. SiLce then, however, Mr. Langford has died, the result of the poisoning. Proceedings are being taken against Mrs. Langford. At the annual general meeting of the Reform Club held on Thu' sday it was resolved by a large majority to appoint a political committee, designed to watch over and advance the interest of the Liberal party. A good deal of dissatisfaction exists in the club in consequence of the admission of anti-Liberal members, who have, it is said, used their connection with the club to discredit and oppose the principles of the party. It is stated that Mr. Stansfield is to be offered the post of Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, in the room of Mr. Hamilton, who has been named as one of the three commissioners for carrying out the Irish Church Bill. Mr. Seargeant Barry, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, is to suc ceed Mr. Justice Lawson as Judge of the Irish Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Justice Lawson takes his pension as well as his salary as one of the Irish Church Commissioners. The post of Irish Solicitor-General will fall to either Mr. Dowse, Q.C., or Mr. Sherlock, Q.C. THE NATIONAL ARMOURY IN THE TO WER. _ Attention has been more than once called to the unsatis factory condition of the national armoury in the Tower of London. The Builder now announces that Mr. J. R. Planch6, Somerset Herald, has been appointed by the Government to arrange the collection. An order has been sent to the Tower that he is to have all assistance necessary, and he has already made a preliminary survey previously to reporting to the Government what he con siders should be done. With Mr. Planch6 for superinten dent, and a proper use of the funds which the sight-seeing public and art-loving students furnish, and will, of course, supply to a greater amount than ever, we might hope soon to have one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world. THE STAFFORD ELECTION PETITION. —ln the mat ter of the Stafford election petition, Mr. Pochin, ALP, was examined, and denied very strenuously having been guilty of bribery. Mr. Pochin stated that the election in 1865 cost him about £3,200, and out of that sum he supposed about £2,000 was spent in practices which he considered were improper then, and no doubt would be illegal now. Mr. Yellows was his agent in 1865 as well as at the last election. But having once been bitten, he was very care. f nlithis time. He on that occasion had such an experi ence•of what contesting an election at Stafford was, that he bad:never forgotten it, and in consequence he gave the strictlst injunctions on this occasion that no expenses should be incurred that were not only not legitimate but in an 747 jay at all doubtful. He was promised that they abLikil not. • THE SUN, _LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. COLOATAL EMIGRATION, . _ Sir George Grey, the late Governor-General of — New - Zealand," has "been been giving his opinion at the Society of Arts on colonial emigration. He was very strongly in favour of sending persons who had failed to obtain employment in this country to Australia or to New Zealand, there to commence a new course of life ; and he became quite angry that any one should think differently from himself. He denounced the nation, which grudged the money necessary to the exportation of paupers, and urge 4 that the poor assisted to emigrate would, when suc cessful, willingly refund the outlay. 110•7 the nation, as such, could obtain such a hold over emigrants as to be able to come down upon them, when success ful, for money lent, Sir George did not say. But he did go on to find fault with our treatment of the poor in this country, and told a story of having seen some miserable wretches huddled together near Buck ingham Palace late one night. He spoke to them, and learnt that they meant to sleep there. This (he went on to say) would have been impracticable in Austra lia or New Zealand. " The colonists would have taken all to their homes ; they would have fed, lodged, and provided for them. It was a sad fact that such a state of things existed in England. It seemed a terrible thing that there was no great English statesman found who could be able to move a hand in the matter." Here, again, what did Sir George mean,? It would undoubtedly be a very nice thing if we could get society into such a state that charity being met by honesty, the well-to-do might assist the " outcast ; " but for that matter it would be better if there were no outcasts at all. While there are, while any favour shewn to them serves only'to increase their number fourfold, and while they are usually dishonest as well as poor, the State cannot do more than provide a refuge for them, cannot do less than insist upon the mainten ance of order where they rest. If they want liberty rather than shelter, the State cannot be at fault. t is very well to strive after the ideal ; but Sir George should blame no one for not having accom plished the impracticable. THE UNITED STATES V. THE UNITED KINGDOM. This long-drawn cause does not seer' to be ap proaching anything like a termination. The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, writing from Washington on April 23, says that Mr. Motley was in that city, and his instructions were being drawn up by the late Attorney-General and Mr. Caleb Cushing, both able lawyers, and the new ambassador will present in a very formal and elaborate manner the American case as against England. The correspondent goes on to give particulars which, if they be well founded, show that the position of this question is extremely grave, and that the relations between the two countries, instead of being of that friendly and cordial character which Mr. Reverdy Johnson has all along described them to be, are likely to become exceedingly strained. The correspondent says, " Motley's case, I have been assured, will not greatly differ from the line of argument pursued by Mr. Sumner; he will contend that the recog nition of belligerent rights in the Confede rates was a wrong to be acl:n3wledged, and that the Alabama claims shall not be put upon the ordinary footing of international claims ; also, that the measure of damages is not to be limited to the ships actually destroyed by the Alabama and her consorts, but that something like a hundred millions of dollars is to be added for the general loss to the national marine. In a word, I apprehend that views will be presented which, if not going quite so far as Mr. Sumner's speech, shall, at least, transcend the limits of the American claims as heretofore pre sented." Mr. Sumner, at least, expects this; but the correspondent does not suppose that the public men of the country anticipate that England will yield. He imagines that they rather think to keep the question open, unsettled, in order to press it at some time less favourable to us, and when, therefore, we shall be compelled to concede something more than we conceded under the Alabama convention. War is not looked for, at least not with England. The ships in the American dockyards are, indeed, being got ready with so much haste and energy, under the supervision of Admiral Porter, that evidently some thing is on hand ; but that something is supposed to be the annexation of Cuba rather than a raid up the Mersey. In a leader on this subject, which is evidently of official inspiration, the Daily/ 7'elegraph considers that Mr. Sumner's speech,. wild as it was, did, never theless, express the opinions of a very influential party in the United States. Our contemporary fully expects that Mr. Motley will be instructed to make demands for the most part embodying that speech, and says that while Mr. Motley will, of course, be received with courtesy, "he will be told, in language of the utmost clearness and sincerity, that his pretensions are utterly inadmissible ; that the claims he advocates cannot even be examined, in the absence of a basis for discussion; and that the concessions we have already made go to the extreme verge of what our national dignity and our rights as an independent Power will permit." The Telegraph does not imagine that this step will lead to a rupture. The truth is the Americans are just now sore and suffering ; especially do they feel the burden of taxa tion, and they would be very glad to transfer half their national debt to our shoulders. But we shall at once shew that we have not any intention of listen ing to such wild novelties, and it is not likely that the Americans will increase their burdens by entering upon another war. Our policy is silence and patience, believing that the wholesome influences of time and the mature judgment of the American people will bring about the desired settlement. The Times, in a leader on this subject, admits that the matter has become very grave. It deeply laments that Mr. Sumner's speech should have revived an unreasoning animosity that had subsided. It points out the absurdity of Mr. Sumner's supposition that the power of the North was paralysed by a single piratical steamer, and that the mere sound of a royal proclamation struck such terror into the ranks of the Northern armies as to cost them two or three years of war. The Times plainly tells the Americans that we shall absolutely refuse to listen to their new demands. W e endeavoured to do what was just, and we altogether decline to submit our motives to any arbitration. W e are willing to submit our conduct to such arbitration, to leave it to the arbiter to say if we were culpably negligent, and to pay the cost of our negligence if it is proved. More than that we cannot and will not do. In fact, the demand for more is so unreasonable that, unless there is a settled intention to pick a quarrel, Mr. Stunner's policy is too preposterous to be entertained. Mr. Goldwin Smith writes to the Beehive, from Boston, April 18, on the present relations between the two countries. They are not what he could wish, and though he does not expect hostilities, he thinks that war is a by no means impossible contingency, lie says : " The information respecting the prospects of English emigration, which I was requested to procure, had been collected to the best of my ability, and I was about to send it for publication in your columns ; but the speech of Mr. Sumner has had so great an effect in reviving American hostility to England, and the continuance of friendly relations between the two countries appears at this moment to be in such peril, that I fear the promoters and organisers of English emigration cannot for the present prudently turn their thoughts in this dizection. Judging from what I know of the general temper of the American people, and from the language respecting Mr. Sumner's speech which I hear held in conversation, I should say there would be no rupture; but at the same time I hold myself prepared for a turn of affairs which would oblige English residents to leave this country." THE YOUGHAL ELECTION. If the Mayor of Cork should actually carry out his threat of standing for Youghal, the Government will have been rightly hoist by its own petard. The issuing of the writ was a very discreditable party act, which only a few Independent Liberals like Mr. Morrison had the fairness to oppose. Should Mr. O'Sullivan get elected and present himself to take the oaths as a member, instead of at the Bar as a delinquent, Ministers will be placed in a deserved dilemma. MR. MIALL. This, for the Liberation Society, is a time of con gratulation. Its members are happy in tasting the first-fruits of their labours. They no longer form a clique; the great men of the day smile upon them. No time could be more appropriate than the present for holding their congratulatory meetings. And so, on Thursday morning, Mr. Miall was entertained at a breakfast. Mr. H. Richard, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, himself, like Mr. Miall, at one time an Independent minister, presided, and his namesake, the member for Cardiganshire, together with Messrs. Illingworth, McLaren, and Maguire, M.P's., came to do honour to the recently-elected member for Bradford. In thanking the meeting, Mr. Miall said that his reward had been in his work. He never had looked forward to the ultimate triumph of his principles during his lifetime. Ile had, it is true, many times speculated as to what would be his feelings if he were to live to see a day like this; and but for the good which he believed was to come out of the triumph of their principle in its application to Ireland, and through Ireland to the United Kingdom, he could have wished to have gone on labouring and fighting as far more congenial to his feelings than receiving honours. THE LAND QUESTION. " Christopher revile," we presume the Notting hamshire clergyman and landowner of that name, writes from the Athenaeum Club to the Beehive on the land question. He says : " It is heart-breaking to me to read of myfellow-country men being driven away by absolute want from •their own country and homes, which, in many cases, are dear to them, when I feel confident they could all be maintained happily at home if they were willing to work at fair wages. I know all about land, and if it was cultivated as it ought to be, and might be, we have not men in the country to do the work which would be wanted." He is not very precise in describing his scheme, but so far as we understand it, we infer that the land owner is to borrow money, which is to be spent in the improvement of his estate (the breaking up of waste lands, &o.), and that he will thereby give em ployment to a large number of labourers, who them selves will give employment to a large nury.V.vo .0 shopkeepers, and that the landlord will find him rent increased more than enough to pay the labra.urers caul the interest upon the borrowed money.. LOCAL TAXATION AND THE AGRICULIItatitIST... The special party to whom the magistmagistrate;.,vtAkilil probably look to preserve to them all their privileges and rights inviolable shows signs o f helping the enemy. Mr. Gladstone has already given his adhesion to a scheme for a thorough . reform of local taxation, and the creation of county financial boards. The farmers through the Chambers of Agriculture nro taking steps to help him. A committee has just been formed, having for Its object the collection of facts and figures on the intricate question of Local Taxation, with every prospect of practical utility. Sir 'Massey Lopes, i Bart., s the chairman, and several members of Parliament and gentlemen of influence throughoutposition thehon. mem t b h e e r efoourntrsyoutahre Devonasso ciated in and with his efforts to throw light upon a subject which is expected to be dealt with shortly by Government.. The Tekgraph announcing this movement, says : " The committee do not intend to set up their opinions in opposition to those of the Government. They rather wish to strengthen the hafftls of Ministers, by placinc , at their disposal documentary evidence gathered from 'the best and most reliable sources, on which to construct any measure they may be pleased to bring under the attention of the House of Commons. We are assured that this is no party political movement, and, indeed, the names of the committee, which includes men of various shades of politics, are guarantees of the honesty of this assurance. The Local Taxation Coin mittee simply seek, by means of indisputable statistics, to diffuse sound views on a subject which they believe has been much underrated, if not misunderstood. They will take the best means to obtain information on the question of local taxation, and, when it has been obtained , they will avail themselves of every opportunity to circulate that iuformation." . _ INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION. At the last council meeting of this association, held in London, some very strong things were said about "the Belgian massacres." The cruelties of the Government, and the " exceptionally villainous" treatment to which the working classes of Belgium are exposed, were described with much vehemence, and an appeal was: made -to the workmen of other countries. The Paris members of the association have issued their electoral programme. The principal points of it are :—Suppression of the standing army and popular armament, separation of Church and State, election of magistrates by uni versal suffrage and trial by jury for civil and criminal offence; compulsory secular education at the expense of the State, liberty of meeting, unre stricted liberty of the press and printing generally, guarantee of the liberty of individuals, abolition of indirect taxation and the substitution of a progres sive property tax and the expropriation of all financial companie; and the conversion of all con cerns such as banks, canals, railways, mines, &c. into branches of the public service. Old Raspail has accepted the invitation to stand as one of the candidates. THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. The whirligig of time does bring about some very strange revenges. Eighteen years ago the British Parliament, acting under the influence of a panic fostered by the English clergy, passed a bill pro hibiting Roman Catholic prelates to assume terri torial titles. The Act has never once been put in force, and now it appears that, after the Irish Church Bill has passed, the Irish Protestant bishops will be exposed to the same_pains and penalties as those to which their Roman Catholic rivals have been ex posed. This is really the sublime of comedy. SIX DAY CAB LICENSES. A portion of the London cabmen are again in arms against the Government. Mr. Lowe is their oppressor this time, and he intends to grind them down by the w a y i n which he is removing the license duties. The class whose claims the Chancellor of the Exchequer is called upon to consider are the six-day cabmen. Mr. Lowe proposes to abolish the dis tinction between them and the seven-day cabs. This the six-day cabmen think eminently unfair. They urge that they work one day less, and ought not to be taxed as much as their seven-day brethren, and they ought to have the day of rest preserved to them, and not to be liable to be called upon to ply on Sunday. They have just held a meeting, and passed resolutions to this effect. Mr. Charley, M.P., presided. Probably he intends by this means to work his "righteous retribution" on the Prime Minister. TIIE ROYAL ACADEMY AND ITS RIVALS. We stated a few days ago that in consequence of the large number of resections from this year's Royal Academy, a movement had been set on foot to start a rival institution. Mr Moy Thomas, editor of Ca3seles Magazine, is undertali:ng the active part of this design, and has issued a circular, in which ho states " that a considerable number of pictures actually accepted by the council have been finally omitted, on the ground of want of space." Messrs, - Solomon llart, F. G. Watts, and F. Leighton, the R.A.'s who constituted the hanging committee, write to deny this. They say that " all pictures accepted by the council have been Owed, and together with them some few subsequently selected from the category of the doubtful.'" It Is but fair to those gentlemen to say that they have not sacrificed other artists for their own benefit. Their own pictures are by no means in the best places, and Mr. Leighton's diploma 'picture of St. Jerome absolutely suffers from being hung too high. It would have been well if the three principal portrait painters, Sir F. Grant, Mr. Knight, and Mr. Richmond, h a d s h ewn the same amount of consideration for outsiders. (From the Anglo-American Times) There is no position without its drawbacks. If there were, it o ught to be that of the United States Senator dispensing patronage without incurring re sponsibility. It must be very pleasant to pension off poor relations by quartering them on the coun try, and thus to repay political and other services. It must be delightful to be surrounded by the sycophantic throng, eager for a look of recognition and proud of any notice bestowed. But, even Sena tors often have a hard time. Their privacy is in vaded, their digestion disturbed at meals, if any cranny is left open an office-seeker gets in through it, and a Senator complains that on one night, he was three times routed out of his bed ; what a de lightful interview the third office-seeker must have had ! and in what a peaceful and happy frame of mind the Senator must have returned to his luxu rious repose ! The senßational book of the season might be, "The Adventures of an Office-seeker in Washington," if graphically t o ld. It may be remembered that when Andrew John son temporarily appointed Grant, Secretary of War that General commenced by clearing everything su perfluous out of the department, and reducing in a material way its expenses. The tendency of every bureau is to increase, and this is one of the draw backs of the American principle that to the victor belong the spoils, for if the victor can increase the spoils it is natural for him to do so, while the public who are plundered recognise the conqueror's right. Hence employe's multiply, offices innumerable are created to satisfy the greedy crowd through whose means the party triumphed, the country being mer cilessly fleeced to support useless hangers-on. The President's policy is essentially a clearing-out one, and while this is his natural taste the bent is none the less that he regards this overflow of employes the leavings of Andrew Johnson. It is calculated that fully a third will be discharged from the departments. The Secretary of the Treasury has dismissed 300 clerks of both sexes, whose salaries range from £l5O to .£4OO a year.• Congress in these departments was denied 'even a voice in the expenditure, for this was the way in which it was managed;—Certain appro priations were discussed and made ; at the close of the fiscal year the Secretary sent in an enormous deficiency bill for his department, and the Repre sentatives were then much in the position that a husband is in who at the close of his quarter finds that his wife had expended a sum far beyond that set aside for house-keeping- He may storm and rave, but he has to supply the deficiency, the ex penditure hiving already been in .t le by his autho rised agent. General Grant is going to be the eco nomical wife, who has a genuine and not a pretended turn for saving. General Butler has lately been at Baltimore con ducting his own defence in the case brought against him by Messrs. Kimberley and Co. Chief Justice Chase heard the case, and give judgment for the defendant upon the demurrer, when the. plaintiff's counsel asked leave to amend the bill cf parti culars, which the Court granted, and at the re quest of the defendant the case was continued to the next term of the Circuit Court, the plaintiff paying the costs of the present term. The Chief Justice ruled in this case, that the privilege of a member of Cungr se does not extend to exemption from wrest, in the sense of forbidding process of sum mons in a civil suit, though members ale exempt from a forcible detention, looking to imprisonment. The Senate adjourned on the 22d of April sine .NG, MAY 8, 1869 die,_ after a night of it, during which the excitement sustained, the'personal qualifications and characters of gentlemen being discussed, while all said being " privileged," friends and enemies had a fine time. On the 23d Senators Bayard, Brownlow, Conkling, Edmunds, Ferry, Grimes, Hamilton, Hamlin, Howe, M'Creery, Morrill,—Norton, Prett, Scott, Vickers, Willey, and Fenton:left Washing ton for their homes. It was reportdd. that Senator Morton had been stricken with paralysis on the floor of the Chamber, but this proved to be a gross ex aggeration, as he had merely fainted from over work and heat. Secretary Boutwell has also left Washington on a short visit to Boston. The closing scene which excited most interest was Senator Nye's response to Mr. Sprague, which cul minated in the evening in something very like a " row." The Senator from Nevada made a long speech in defence of Burnside, the Rhode Island troops, and himself, showing that he was not " the harlequin of the Senate," as he had been termed, but although hewas followed in the same strain by Sena tors Chandler, Abbott, and Morton, Senator Sprague still boldly confronted his foes. la the President's chair was Senator Anthony, his colleague, with whom he is at war. While in the fling of his remarks, he fell foul of Commodore Vanderbilt and the in famous Fisk (junior), as he termed that gentle man. In answer to Mr. Abbott, be was reminded of a little illustration the Senate might apply, which occurred in his travels into the rural districts, through the woods and farms of the surrounding neighbourhood. Chance brought him to a place, where he discovered, on looking up, a large mas tiff and a mongrel puppy dog. The little dog moved on him with rapidity, barking at his heels ; but a kick sent, him away howling to take shelter by his larger companion, and the overgrown mas tiff followed. We give these remarks, for on this little story hung the fight. Mr. Abbott, satisfied that be was the puppy, wanted to know in the evening session whether the application was correct, and if an apology was refused he intended to have satis faction outside the Chamber. As he observed the Senator " had skulked out," he now gave notice that he would exact such retribution. Then Sena tor Sumner, springing forward in :an excited tone, raised a point of order. The Senator had avowed his determination to violate a law of the lard, but Mr. Anthony ruled that he did not consider the de claration an intention to infringe any law. Mr. Abbott explained that he was not a duellist, and did not mean that sort of thing; nevertheless, satis faction he would have outside, and to this he ad hered, while theSanate went into Executive Session. Senator Anthony's ruling is generally condemned. Senator Sprague filled 12 columns of the Globe with the letters the Senate had given him permission toprint, he had received from all parts commending his recent speeches. They come from Henry Brooks Adams, son of Charles Francis Adams, 0. S. Halsted of New Jersey, William Barney of New York, Nahum Cassum of Boston, George M. Wes ton of Bangor, Maine, Charles Stanford, a Re publican member of the New York State Legisla ture, John Mullally, editor of an Irish Detno• cratic paper in New York City, and over 100 others. We are bound to say that Mr. Sprague has spoken with much precision and openness, and although he has raised a hornet's nest, he is not without merit. During the day following Senator Abbott's terrible threats, he remained quietly at home while the latter wo advised says went about transacting his busi ness an d b reathing vengeance, sternly resisting the friends Spragueds h him to let the matter drop. Senator he will defend himself, but not accept a challenge, and this was the stage the Rhode Island Senator's proceedings had reached when the mail left. General Grant has taken the extraordinary course of endeavouring to avert future Indian wars, by nominating as Indian agents eighteen Quakers. The following are the names of the "Friends :" Howard White, at Omaha; Laurie Tathem, for Kiowas, Apaches, and Comanches ; Briuton Dar lington, Upper Arkansas; Albert E. Green, Upper Missouri; Edward Painter, Upper Platte; Reuben L.. Roberts, Shawnees; Kansas; Thomas 11. Stan ley, for Pottawatomie Indians, Kansas; Jacob M. Truch, for Pawnees, Nebraska ; Thomas Lightfoot, for Great Nehemas ; I. M'Neal, for the Sac and Fox Indians; A. M. Jansey, for the Sante Sioux ; Edward Prayne, for the Pawnees ; J. G. Tyson, for the Winnebagns; James Stanley, for the Usages; Richards, for the Delaware Indians in Kansas; J. Newsen, for the Kansas Agency ; Enoch loge, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Central Superintendency; and Samuel M. Januery, Super intendent for the Northern Superintendency. Two of them were rejected by the Senate, and others substituted. Colonel Parker, the Commissioner, was about to enter on his duties. Major Charles E. Mix, who has been Chief Clerk, and has acted from time to time as Commissioner for Indian Affairs, for 33 years, has been removed, and is succeeded by Mr. B. Waugh of MArylAnd. The former retired on the Ist of May. Mr. Sumner's speech is producing its natural re sults. Bills for damages can be made out by other nations, as well as by the great Republic, and the Dominion is about to try her hand. The Spaniards no doubt can bounce a little too, and if they suppress the insurrection in Cuba, a Spanish Sumner may draw out in the Cortes a bill against the United States. The Hon. Galt, in order to give the Canadian Parliament a means of express ing an opinion on the proceedings in the United States' Senate, and the proposal to surrender the British American possessions as the basis of negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama claims, moved for a return of the expenses incurred in preparing for the defence of the frontier during the threatened Fenian raid. Ile desired that the papers should be laid on the table relating to the cost in 18G3-64, and subsequently, as constituting a claim for indemnity against the United States. The Spanish Minister, at Washington, urged the President to forbid by Proclamation, the citizens of the United States from aiding the Cuban insur gents, but Secretary Fish had resisted the pressure, drawing a broad distinction between the fillibus tering expeditions of 1851 and the generous assist ance now tendered to the Cubans struggling for their independence. Although Admiral Hoff, who com mands the squadron off the island, reports that no munitions of war, in any material quantity, had been landed, so far as lie could ascertain, letters had been received at 'Washington showing that a cargo of rifles and three heavy guns had been re ceived by the insurgents. They contradict the report of Spanish successes, but acknowledge that they await the arrival of more war material from America before inaugurating a regular campaign. Whether Admiral Hoff shut his eyes, and, like Nelson at Copenhagen, did not see what he did not want to see, we cannot tell, but it appears to be a fact that from New York City alone the equip ment for 20,000 men had been safely dispatched. Not only are Cuban volunteers drilling, but the men are being conveyed to the scene of action as soon as ready ; GO having embarked on the 22d of April, trained and officered. The next party were to sail from Boston, and several officers employed in the late war had already arrived in that city. From Philadelphia a supply of men and ammuni tion, sufficient to fill a big steamer, had been shipped at a point near Cape May. Several Southern cities were also supplying their quota. The usual monthly statement published by the Secretary of the Treasury shows the Debt of the United States on the Ist of May to have been $2,691,900,000, including accrued interest and Pacific Railway Bonds. This represents a de crease during the last month of $1,200,000. Dur ing the past month the Government receipts were in excess of the expenditure $6,-100,000. Reuter's telegram announces the decrease of the debt dur ing April to have been $6,250,000. The Secre tary has given public notice that he will receive sealed tenders for the purchase of gold until noon on every Thursday in sums of not less than $5,000, payment to be made in greenbacks or Three per Cent Certificates, the successful bidder deposit ing 5 per cent. of the purchase money on the day of sale. By pre-paying the coupons, the Treasury has so far saved something under $2,000. Senator Sumner's speech is said to have opened a lively time to the New York speculators in gold, but if what the Loudon Times says be true it must have an effect in hastening the financial crash it there predicts. What the Ci6y Article states is, that there is great inflation in America, fostered by the sale of United States Bonds in Europe. One hundred and fifty millions sterling of these Securities have been transferred to Europe, yet this is but half the sup ply available, and the other moiety, so long as Europe will purchase, can be used as gas for the New York balloon. These Securities not only pay for the excess in the value of the imports into New York from Great Britain over the exports to that country, but are causing a drain of gold from the Bank of - England, which has so far been felt as to cause a - further rise in the rate of discount from 4to 4} last Thursday. If Mr. Sumner's speech has shaken the growing confidence in United States Securities, it will, of course, render them less sale able. From Frankfort the report is that there is a flatness produced by genuine alarm on the part of small holders, and if this feeling spreads the Bonds would go back to New York at a rate which would apply a most effective test to the state of trade there. Senator Sumner may have helped gold spe culators, but he certainly did not help the investors in, or the speculative holders of, American Securi ties, and we fear that the ground lost through his action is not likely to be soon recovered. A terrible accident occurred on the Long Island Railroad on the 23d April, just beyond Jamaica. Three cars left Hunter's Point at 10.30, and when there the driver was startled by a sudden jar and crash, when he instantly stopped. The third car had been thrown from the track by a broken " Eng lish" rail lately hid. In some unaccountable way its foremost truck was tipped up so as to be per pendicular instead of horizontal ; the wheel being dashed into the car, tore through the floor, rip ping the seats from their fastenings, and ended by knocking off the hind truck, when the car dropped on the track. Unfortunately the coupling held tena ciously, and the carriage was thus jerked along behind the train for 50 yards, grinding the pas sengers beneath it, and strewing the road with the killed and wounded. T. C. Shanahan, a rail way contractor, and much esteemed citizen of Rhode Island, was killed ; as were William C. Rushmore, of Hampstead, Long Island, president of the Atlantic National Bank, at Brooklyn ; his nephew, Dr. Orestes, M. Pray, who a year ago had returned from Europe, where he had been studying in Germany, and had been married but a few months; his mother, Matilda R. Pray; Geo. Van Nostrand and Jennie Adams. About fifteen others were more or less injured. A girl about 14 years of age escaped uninjured, as did an infant in its mother's arms. A passenger described his sen sation as hearing a jar and a crash, but before ho could understand what had happened, felt things hitting him on the head as if he was in a tremen dous hailstorm. Disastrous intelligence was being received in New York when the mail left of the damage caused by the recent heavy freshets and severe storms. It was alike bad in all the Northern States and in Ca nada. At Albany the water reached within two feet of the great freshet of 1857, and was still rapidly rising. The lower section was inundated, Broadway being navigable for a quarter of a mile ; the rail roads were under water and trains stopped. The Merrimac was similarly flooded, a locomotive was lost at Utica, and the Black River carried away a number of houses, as well as the Connecticut river, which at Springfield reached 21 feet above the low water mark. At Saratoga and at Utica the dams were carried away ; at Hartford the Connecticut was more: than 36 feet above low-water mark, and the canals of the Windsor Locks were so damaged as to suspend operations for a month, throwing 300 hands out of employment. At Granby, Canada, the principal bridge was carried away, precipitating 11 persons into the water who were watching the flood, when all were drowned. Two -men were drowned at St. Andrews, two at Upton, two at Longueill, and all these towns were greatly damaged. The Grand Trunk Embankment between Water ville and Lennoxville has been washed away. A bill has been introduced for the suppression of Mr. O'Sullivan, the Mayor of Cork, which will not improbably transfer him from the mayoralty of that interesting and loyal town to the floor of the House. Of course he becomes a martyr, and being a man with a grievance his proper place is in the Com mons. It is evident the people of Youghal think so, for they have tendered, and he has accepted, an invitation to stand for the vacancy there. If he only occupies as much of the time of Parliament as Mr. Chisholm Anstey, who was once the mem ber from that place, he will do something to venti late his grievance and to vindicate the Fenian cause. Iu the North American Review there is an article from the pen of Mr. Henry B. Adams, a son of the late Minister to London, wherein the Alabama Convention is discussed, and many interesting facts connected therewith given. His opinion, although it agrees with that of his father, is opposed to the view taken by nearly all Americans. He considers the treaty so contemptuously rejected bythe Senate to have been a great triumph of American diplo macy; that it conceded the principle demanded by the Republic, and a surrender on the part of the English of the points formerly in dispute. He rightly predioted that it was - all that could be ob tained, and in rejection opened the risk of a refusal on the part of Great Britain again to coneede so mach. An extraordinary delusion appears to exist in the united States that delay and a hostile atti tude injures Great Britain, but does not injure the Republic. Calculating the loss from a money point of view, for £1 lost by Great Britain there will be £3 lost in its credit to the United States, and it not, impossible that a serious fall in the value of the bonds, which must inevitably follow any real alarm, and a rise in the price of gold, would pro duce a commercial panic. Attorney-General Hoar, in reply to Secretary Bone's letter asking the meaning and effect of the Eight Hours' Act, observes that he saw no reason to differ from Mr. Evarts. He thinks the statute has nothing to do with the wages in navy yards, and in no degree interferes with the rate which, according to the statute of 1862, ought to conform with those of private establishments in the imme diate vicinity, modified and arranged by the Com mandants of the yards. Mr. Hoar says : "If private establishments in the neighbourhood em ployed their hands five hours a day only, there obviously would be no justice in reducing the wages of those em ployed in navy yards for eight hours to the amount paid by day in private establishments, and the law intended no such result. On the other hand, I find nothing in the statute which requires you to pay the same price for eight hours' labour which private establishments pay for ten or twelve hours. The amount of service rendered or quality of the work make the fewer hours in navy yards equiva lent in value to the longer time hired in private establish ments, or for some other reason make it consistent with the public interest." Senator Wilson dissented from this interpretation, as the law was framed in response to numerous petitions of mechanics and working men, the inten tion being to meet their views, which, he contended, the wording of the Act plainly did. Secretary Borie issued a circular allowing Commandants to employ the men on extra hours, and thus the law is defeated, the movement only ending in the men getting per mission as a boon to go on for two hours beyond the legal day's work for the same wages as before. A deputation of Virginians, with Gen. Robert E. Leo acting as ch a i rman, is on a visit to Baltimore: to lay before the citizens the importance of extending the Vir ginia Valley R a il roa d , and to urge the assistance and co operation of the city in the work. L AD vERTISEIIENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°, Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy li ver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, am , energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68,000 cures;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirelyto Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Fool. of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It haii produced a surprisingly bene tidal effect on his health, anti his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 53,216, 0 , 7 the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' lives complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agopy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, s i c kness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly.''—f 39 CureyeaNros 46,270: Mr. James Roterts, of Fernley, Surrey, of 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 ..uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2s Ski; 2iba 4s GI; Sibs Ils ; 12 lbs 225: 24 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARity's REvALENTA ARADICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at cs, for cups at 3s 60, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 3 0s, fa' 576 cups at 5-5 s —being about oue penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins aro sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Onler,-- BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lond94 and all Grocers and Chemists. IMPERIAL PARLIA M ENT ROUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wcolsack at five o'clock. The Marquis of SALISBURY called attention to the views of Irish policy which are reported to have been ex pressed by the President of the Board of Trade, and asked how fat they were to be taken as the views of the Cabinet. Lord GRANVILLE admitted that Mr. Bright had in appearance violated the usual reticence in the statement he had made without the privity of the rest of the Cabinet; but the fact was, as explained by Mr. Bright himself to Lord Granville, that the former bad accidentally omitted to mention that in thesa observations of his lie spoke merely for himself. Lord CARNARVON denied tLat Lord Salisbury's ques tion had been really anGwered at all. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that if the object were really to tranquillise Ireland, and not merely to embarrass the Government, a question like this ought to have 133 ea asked in a place where the persons accused could them selves have answered it. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 2 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. BIRLEY took the oath and his seat for Manchester. OPENING OF MUSEUMS ON SUNDAYS. Mr. GREGORY gave notice Om on the 4th of June, on going i❑to Committee of Supply, he should move that the public museums in E❑gland be opened on Sundays. THE INCOME TAX. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had received no memorial from the Scottish banks and insur ance companies requesting that the income tax might run from 15th May to 15th May. When that memorial was received of course it would be carefully considered. THE DERRY RIOTS. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said that through an error only a limited portion of the borough of Derry had been placed under the operation of the Peace Preservation Act, but he -had taken the earliest opportunity of remedying the ruiS take by the issue of an amended proclamation. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill, and commenced the discussion on the 58th clause. Mr. CHARLEY moved an amendment for the purpose of onaLling Irish prelates after the disestablishment of the Church to retain their seats in the House of Lords, and that all prelates appointed before the time fixed for the bill coming into operation be entitled to the same privilege. Mr. GL ADS TONE said it had already appeared to the house when discussing the 13th clause that the sessation of certain priviledges would result as a necessary conse quence of the passing of the bill to the Spiritual peers of the Irish Church then in existence. Ho did not think they were called upon to reopen the matter with respect to those who might be appointed. The amendment was negatived. Some further amendments to the clause having been moved, and after a short debate withdrawn, the clause was agreed to, and ordered to stand part of the On clause 59 being proposed, Sir F: REYGATE moved an amendment, the effect of wbich was to include lunatic asylums and asylums for poor persons of weak intellect as institutions that might parti cipate in the surplus funds of the Church after all the pro visions of the Act had been complied with in exoneration of the grand jury cess. _ _ _ _ Mr. GLAbSiCONE thought there was no necessity for the amendment, as the bill provided for:hospitals, which he believed included incurables as well as curables. The amendment was withdrawn. Sir R. PALMER, Dr. BALL, and others, postponed bringing up new clauses until the Report, in order that the Bill might be got through at this sitting, which was just accomplished,mith a few minty es to spare, and shortly before six o'clock, amid loud cheers from the Ministerial benches, the Chairman was ordered "to report the Bill with amendments to the house." The "Report" was fixed for Thursday At the evening sitting the house was counted out before any business was done. Major-General Kilpatrick, United States Minister to Chili, sailed April 21 in the Henry Chauncey. He was accompanied by his wife and niece. Many of his friends assembled on the vessel, to bid him farewell. Among them were Generals Doubleday, Whitaker, and Mallory; Lieutenant Williams, United States Navy ; W. A. Stiles, Major Gregory, and Colonel Mattison. The following is given as the income returns of citizens of Washington :—George W. Riggs, the banker, stands at the head of the list, with a taxable income of $37,167. Next comes Wm. H. Dempsey, with $36,350. Dempsey is a member of the firm of Dempsey and O'Toole, stationers, who held the contract for supplying the Interior Department with stationery. Mr. O'Toole, Dempsey's partner, returns an income of $32,800.. sup plying stationery to the Government Departments hero is evidently a profitable business. The firm of Philp and Solomons, who also hold several Government contracts of this sort, return an come of $39,108, divided about equally between the two members of the firm. The hotel business seems to be prosperous, notwithstanding the long summer sea son. Andrew B. Potts, proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, returns $27,474; H. A. Chadwick, of Willard's Ifo tel, $8,223 ; If. S. Benson, of the National Hotel, $10,42 2 , and C. C. Willard, of the Ebbitt House, $15,011. Es' Secretary Stanton returns an income of $10,E61; Thos. J• Durant, $10,7G7 ; W. W. Corcoran, the banker, $24,730 ; Amos Kendall, $7,885; the Rives, Brothers, proprietors of the Globe, $19,000; Mrs E. D. E. N. Southwortb, the no" waist, $4,500; R. Sutton, chief reporter of the Globe, $7,195. A correspondent of a Boston paper, $2,116; and ono of the proprietors of the leading papers here, $2,148. Ex-Secretary Stanton is still so unwell that on April 22 the Dyer Court-martial had to take his evidence in his house, when he spoke in term of high praise of General Dyer. From Richmond it is announced that General Canby had issued an order on April 22, which will cause a considerable number of vacancies, as it requires all per sons holding office in Virginia, who were elected to th 6 same and who have not taken the test oath, to take it nog• Dr. Boynton has resigned the pastorship of the First Congregational Church in Washington, the con gregation being too large, and another is to be formed for him. Dr. Holland, the well-known poet, of Spring field, Massachusetts, and the Rev. Dr. Robinson, Chaplain to the American Embassy in Paris, are at 11. Queen's' square, London.—Mr. Cyrus Field is at the Palace Hotel. His family will join him in London, and will all embark on the 25th inst. from Southampton for New York. The firm of Harper Brothers, lately deprived of James Harper, has been augmented by the addition to the partnership of Philip J. A. Harper, Fletcher Harper, jun. , Joseph W. Harper, jun., John W. Harper, and Joseph Abner Harper. Of these gentlemen the first-named is e son of the late James Harper, the second is a son of gr• Fletcher Harper, the third a son of Mr. J. Westley Harper/ and the last two are sons of Mr. John Harper. The - Hon. Charles D. Poston, accompanied by Colonel Grant, United States Army, has arrived in Cal' cutter on a special mission from the United States, to in" quire into and report on the condition of agriculture an d irrigation in India. The authorities there have issued orders to grant them all due attention, and give them every facility in the prosecution of their mission. LITERARY. — With the issue on th e morn i ng °f April 18, the publicatio n o f Th e New Orleans Crescen t ceased, it having been purchased by C. A. Weed, for som e time the proprietor of The New Orleans Times, end 711 e Crescent has be en merge d i n The Times. The Aligns — Daily Press has suspended publication. Suits have begu t tl in the Distri c t C ourt by Wm. M'Garrah against 7. 1 Evening Express an d N a ti ona l R epu bli can newspaper s o Washington for publishing articles regarding the eel e ' brated M‘Garrah claim. Damages are laid at $30,000 is each case. - - The following gentlemen have been selected hi the President as the hoard of Visitors to the Naval Acs dem, at the annual examination in May next:—Georg e H.'Stuart, of Philadelphia ; Cor ne li us Vanderbilt,• of York ; the Hon. J. R. Hawley, of Hartford, Corm.; Dr. v r''' D. 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BRAtiDE-01.1 the 7th inst., at Lewisham, the wife of F. Brande, Esq., of th e Royal Mint, of a son. WO SOUTHESK—On the Gth inst. , at Edinburgh, the Colin cf Southesk, o f a son. MARRIAGES. r c • DRORY — ScoTT—On the Gth inst., at Hampstead, v• ,t Drory, Esq., of Lille, France, to Sarah Emily, the eldeo daughter of A. Scot; Esq., of Hampstead. St DON HE NDREY —O n the G t h inst , at Highbury, AL — A, e h e Low Don, 6, R uss i a - row, Londe' u, to Annie Ritchie, t" second daughter of William Hendrey, 35, Higliburr hill, London. DEATHS. BRANDER.--On the sth inst., at Elg;n, Morayshire, L3d9 Dunbar Brander, of Pitgaven), aged 80. BEAYAN—On the 3d inst., at Brynyrhydd, South W" lell ' Mrs. Beav u, aged 92. PARSEY- Os the 6th inst., at 33, Cathcart-read, th . ° 3.l" ton,.lienry Paysey, Esq., aged 44. London: Printed and Publish3d by WILLIAII ANDEIV , • - e s of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office, N 0.112, Strati.. 4 in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Itliale sex. 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