The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITANALS, The Times, in discussing the reopening of the debate on the Irish Church, observes that as the House of Commons has got into committee, there is some hope that the pro gress of the bill may now be pursued with business-like despatch. It is conceivable that the bill may be so expedited as to pass through committee before Whitsun tide. The amendments in the notice-book are not numerous, and they are easily divisible into classes, so that if one of a class is rejected the others will fall with it. We cannot, for example, suppose that when Mr. Disraeli has been defeated on his first suggestion, to endow the Church Body with some large multiple of the aggregate income of Irish incumbents, he will think it consistent with his dignity to persevere with amendments precisely similar in scope, though varying from it in terms. Indeed, the end of the warfare is already at hand. Mr. Disraeli shewed it by the few hesitating words he spoke at the close of the debate. What force can withstand the strength of national opinion grojeing fuller and firmer every day the subject is dis cussed ? The majority of the House of Commons on Thurs day, though greater than the triumphant majority on the second reading of the bill, is yet insufficient to express the strength of the supporters of the measure, for, as Mr. Gladstone justly boasted, the supporters of the Ministerial policy are as one man, while its opponents are an army of distracted councils and divided policy. The Standard declares that, highly as it respects the character, thoroughly as it appreciates the motives, of the hon. member for North Warwickshire, it cannot but think that he was mistaken in the course he pursued on Thurs day. To call that course factions, as Liberal journals have done, is the very extravagance of unreasoning partisan ship. The forms of the House, as Mr. Newdegate justly observed, are carefully adapted to protect the right of minorities against the tyranny of the majority, and especially against that species of tyranny which is legalised in French assemblies by the permission to Tote " the close of the debate," and in America by the nse of " the previous question." If he had resisted the temptation to expose the habitual disloyalty of the Roman clergy, and the pretensions of their chief, and had directed his efforts to shew how seriously their power would be increased by this measure, taking for granted the injurious character of that power, he might really have made an impression on the House, and exercised an influence on the opinion of the country. As it was, the respect which a high character, unscathed by the political trials of a quarter of a century, commands in the House of Commons secured a patient hearing for the orator ; but so far as any effect on the feelings of his hearers or the fortune of the struggle goes his opportunity was worse than thrown away. The Post hardly expected that the House of Commons would resolve itself into committee on the Irish Church Bill without any preliminary debate. True, the only question raised on the motion for going into committee had been exhaustively discussed previous to the second reading of the bill, and it is no less true that the opinion of the House in favour of the measure had been then de clared by an immense majority. Still there are always to be found men who, like Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Greene, are so conscientious. or so perverse that they con ceive themselves not only justified in throwing every obstacle, however ineffectual, in the path of their opponents, but morally obliged to do so, if they would maintain their character for consistency. In one sense, perhaps, what passed in the House of Commons can scarcely be described with propriety as a debate. Those who joined in it were, almost without exception, the opponents of the bill. The Liberals, satis fied with their strength, remained silent. Nothing new was advanced, and nothing needed to be refuted which had not already been refuted over and over again. In replying, at the close of the night to the collective speeches of the members of the Opposition, Mr. Gladstone merely performed an act of courtesy. At all events, it must be a source of satisfaction to him, as well as to everyone else, that the last occasion for the discussion of vague generalities has now passed away. Having once gone into committee on the bill, no further discussion can take place on the -0- , formal motion for the Speaker to quit the chair. The Daily News criticises the different speakers in the debate, and shews how the noisy vulgarity of Mr. Greene, the flabby platitudes of Mr. Holt, and the loud debating. society harangues of Mr. Charley, made Mr. Whalley appear sensible and moderate, and were an admirable foil for the very promising speech of Lord Sandon, which was admirable in its manner and temper, if not very strong in argument. Lord Sandon recognises that there are two parties in the Roman Catholic Church—the Ultra montane and the Liberal party. He has no fear of the latter. He wishes to strengthen it. Has he ever asked himself why it does not exist in Ireland? If he considers the question, he will probably see that the Protestant Establishment has thrown the Roman Catholic laity into the arms of the priesthood, and prevented the growth there of Liberal Catholicism. Let the struggle against Protestant ascendancy cease from without, and the strife will begin for liberty within. The Telegraph thinks that Thursday's scene in the House of Commons was discreditable to a great legislative assembly. As if the principle of the Irish Church Bill had never been debated, as if the second reading of the measure had not been carried by the overwhelming majority of 118, member after member rose to urge that the House should again go through the dreary work of discussing whether the Irish Church should be disestab lished and disendowed. Mr. Newdegate, Colonel Stuart Knox, Mr. Holt, Mr. Percy Wyndham, Mr. Greene, Mr. Charley,and other members of the Conservative party, did not hide the fact that their aim was to kill time. And with what view? They know that the passing of the measure is a foregone conclusion ; nevertheless they go on resisting, protesting, and threatening, with a species of blind fury. Yet they sadly err if they think that by such tactics they can do any service, either to their party, or to the Irish Church. Not a single Liberal of the slightest eminence took part in the debate. By abusing their power of obstruction the Tory members have been guilty of an innovation on Parliamentary practice for which they will be condemned by the country as severely as by the House itself. The Times, in discussing the debate in the Lords on the two bills for the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts, jurisdiction satisfies that the present state of ecclesiastical satisfies no one. The whole machinery of ecclesiastical law needs renewal, for though there has been a good deal of legislation on the matter during the last forty years yet this has been affected in the piecemeal manner to which Parliament is prone, and the old fabric, though patched up with some carefulness, is old still, and can never be adapted to present wants, it is not difficult to see in what direction reform must tend. There must be .more unity and centralisation. The present system is that of an a ge w h en th ere was littl e communication, and the bishop was the spiritual ruler of a territory which was ecclesiastically complete, and almost independent. With the facility o f t ra ffi c and the increase of communication it is unnecessary that a separate appa ratus should be maintai ne d f or each diocese, or even that each of the two provinces should be distinguished for such a purpose as clergy discipline. The English Church will soon exist for England only ; the union with the Irish Church is about to end ; the Colonial Churches will soon have their separate and independent organisations, and in any legislation with respect to England we need not look beyond the northern portion of this island. It cannot, therefore, be said that the extent of the territory or the multitude of persons who will come under jurisdiction are so great that a single court will not be able to dispose of all the business that is likely to arise. In this respect the Times approves of Lord Shaftesbury's bill, and in some other particulars it prefers the present system to the Archbishop's proposals. It is said that a ritualistic bishop might have protected Mr. Mackonochie, and a latitudinarian the " Essays and Reviews." But, even if this had happened, it would have been a less evil than the subjection of every clergyman to the attacks of the most ignorant and bigoted of his flock. Let it be remembered that a great number of the clergy are more liberal in theological matters than their congregations, and that to restrict them further by holding before them always the prospect of a prosecution for heresy is a mis take that educated men ought not to make. The Herald believes that the independent Liberals find they have made a mistake in surrendering themselves wholly to the dictation of Mr. Gladstone. The Liberals had but one motto on their flag ; their creed had but one dogma. Every man was to pin his faith upon Mr. Gladstone—to think as he thought, to speak as he spoke. To doubt Mr. Gladstone's infalli bility, to shrink from sundering the connection between Church and State, to strain even at the camels of their leader's new gospel, was to sin beyond hope of forgiveness. And what is the result? They have knocked out the brains of Liberalism in the House of Commons. There is a majority which is willing to follow Mr. Glad stone anywhere and in anything. It is their business. It is what they are sent to the House of Commons to do. The lesson was sternly imposed, and these men have learned it to perfection. Docile pupils, they have come to understand that everything with which they are con cerned centres in the present Premier. The whole faith, Liberalism, from its Alpha to its Omega, is summed np in Mr. Gladstone, and whichever way they speak or vote, it is for no other reason than that " the Great Mogul does so." The Star thinks that there is now a moral certainty that the street tramways scheme will have a fair trial in this metropolis. At no time i could any doubt be enter tained that this would be the issue of an appeal to Par liament by responsible persons who were willing to meet any reasonable objections which did not affect the principle for which they contended. The public expectation has been amply justified by the decisions at which the com mittee appointed by the House of Commons has arrived.lt is of opi n i on th a t some li m it a ti on s hould be placed on the proposed monopoly ; that, after a period to be fixed,_ the street a u th or iti es s h a ll h ave power t o p urc hase the tramways • that the police shall have full authority to regulate the traffic and that the bye-laws shall be sub ect to the approval of the Home Office. To these regu lations no just objection can he taken • but the principle having been affirnied, the matter may be regarded as practically settled so far as the judgment of the committee is concerned. The public roads are public property ; and the use to which they may be put must be determined, not by the commer cial interests —real or supposed— of individuals who have no claim to enjoy more than that common right of way which will still remain wholly unrestricted, but upon the broad grounds of the public convenience, which, in the estimation of the people themselves, will be enhanced by the construction of tramways on the great roads that intersect $124 4494r0p01i0• LORD POWERSCOtTRT ON HIS POSITION AS A PEER, Lord Powerseourt ,lias forwarded to the Irish Times a reply to the letter of his grandf.ather, Lord Roden. He was elected a representative peer, he says, by Lord Derby through Lord Roden's interest, but he had the votes also of a good many of the Liberal peers, " because they saw in my canvassing letters the expression of a wish to be elected independently." He felt pledged to the Conservative party by the fact of his election, and he intended at that time, 18G4-5, to act and vote with it. " But I soon," adds Lord Powerscourt, " began to find my position a very irksome one, as I con stantly felt a desire to vote with the Liberals, and yet I was bound to the Conservatives. Last summer, when the resolutions of Mr. Gladstone were before the country, my position became intolerable to me, and I asked Lord Derby to release me from my pledge, stating as my reasons that I could not follow him on this important (the Church) question. Lord Derby then wrote to me, releasing me as regarded himself, and the only thing now that I feel I ought to have done is to have written circular letters to all the peers asking them also for the same favour." " But I cannot," Lord Powers court finally says, "but think that they would not wish any one to vote against his sense of right, though it might not be in accordance with their own individual views." ELECTION PETITIONS. The charges against Mr. Beaumont, in Yorkshire, and Mr. Hutton, at Northallerton, having signallyfailed, only one petition is still in hearing. At Hastings, on Thursday, several additional witnesses were examined to prove that electors had been supplied with drink, and driven to the poll, which closed the case for the petitioners.—Mr. Serjeant Ballantine having addressed his lordship on behalf of the respondents, Mrs. Brassey, wife of one of them, underwent with much patience and good temper a long examination and cross examination, and denied patron ising any tradesmen with a view to influence their votes in the slightest degree, or bribing witnesses who said she had done so. Her reason for canvassing for her husband was that she understood there had been an active canvass by ladies on the other side. Mrs. Standen, the woman alleged to have been bribed by the last witness, was called, and utterly denied that any such transaction ever occurred at her house. She did not know the witnesses Knight and Brissenden. Mr. T. Brassey, jun., M.P., one of the respondents, was then examined. When he entered upon the contest at Hastings there was an honourable understanding between him and his colleague, Mr. North, that the election should be perfectly free from corrupt practices, and so far as he was concerned he carried out that agreement in the letter i and in the spirit. TIVO MEN BURNED TO DEATH. A shocking fatality occurred at Clverstone on Tues day morning. At a public-house, which overlooks More combe Bay, John Proctor, boatbuilder, aged forty-fivo years, and James Tyson, quarryman, fifty-two, both single men, lodged. On Monday night, the two went to bed drunk. At seven o'clock on the following morning two lodgers per ceived a smell as of something burning, and they went to the room in which Proctor and Tyson were. Upon their opening the door the bedclothes burst into flames, and it was then found that the men were dead. Tyson's right hand was burned off to the wrist, and one side of his head was entirely gone. Proctor was only slightly burned, and his death had apparently been caused by suffocation. The latter was fully dressed, and in his pockets were matches and pipes. LAW AND POLICE. r MIL BRAIDLAUGH.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Thursday, Mr. Bradlaugh, proprietor and publisher of the National Reformer, Secular Advocate, and Freethought Journal, obtained a rule nisi, on the ground that the verdict against him for not having registeredhis publica tions at the Stamp Office was incorrect, as they we not newspapers within the meaning of the Act. A COUNTY COURT CLERK.—At Bow-street, on Thurs day, Samuel Foulkes, late clerk to the registrar of the Wolverhampton County Court, was charged with embez zlement. His defalcations were said to amount to about £l,OOO, and he was committed to Wolverhampton for examination. Dr. F. R. Lees, who is leaving England for a twelvemonth's tour in America, was entertained at a public breakfast in the Trevelyan Hotel, Corporation-street, Man chester, on Wednesday, previous to his departure, by anumber of the friends of the temperance movement connected with the different associations in Manchester and other towns. The Chancery Bar has lost one of its most pro mising rm mbers by the untimely death d Mr. G. Druce, Q.C., which sad event happened this rn.rning at his re sidence, Kenton-ball, Clapham. The learned gentleman on Wednesday evening was out riding, and was thrown from his horse, and died at six o'clock on Thursday morning. The oldest of the Austrian generals, Baron de Lebzeltern, has just died at the age of 83. The distin guished veteran served in the campaigns of 1811 and ISI3, and the Archduke Charles confided to him the military education of his sons. After sixty years of active service, the baron became governor of the military school and president of the high military court of Austria. He was a personal friend of the Duke of Wellington. An extraordinary fatality was reported to the Live - pool borough coroner on Wednesday. On Tuesday after noon George Nicholl, a sampler, in the emp'oy of Mr. Ben jamin Sykes, wine and spirit merchant, was sampling runs in the vaults under the Temple, in Dale-street. By some accident he spilled a quantity of rum over his clothes, and though he was seen to enter the vaults with a covered lamp he caught fire, and was so sever ely burnt that he died the same evening in fearful agonies. A telegram in theStandardsays that M. Gressier, the French Minister of Commerce, handed to M. Rouhey the project of a settlement of the Franco-Belgian dispute, drawn by M. Frere-Orban. That draft was on Wednesday submitted to the Emperor. It is con fidently asserted that the difference is in a fair way of being satisfactorily settled, and that M. Frere-Orban will be able to leave Paris for Brussels in two or three days to lay his amended draft before the King and his colleagues. A great agricultural congress is to take place at Copenhagen in xt July, from the Cth to tho 10th. Bcs:des the congress proper, at which papers will be read and Lis cussions engaged in upon agricultural sebjects, there will be a show of cattle, an exhibition of agricultural implements, an exhibition of agricultural products, including under that term butter, cheese, bees, and fish ; and a flower shop. The prizes, which are very numerous, are open to universal com petition. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer has fixed Tuesday, May 4th, as the day on which he will call attention to the relations between Great Britain and the United States. On Friday, the 23d inst., the hon. baronet intends to ask the Undei Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why l er her Majesty's Government intends to prolong its present unsatisfactory position with respect to the Government in Spain, and he will also call attention to the absence of official relations with that country. DR. LIVINOSTONE.—We are glad to see that our well-known traveller, Dr. Livingstone, has been elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of France, in the section of Geography and Navigation. No worthier representative of English energy and perse verance could have been selected; and we trust he lives to enjoy the honour.— The Lancet. THE TRIAL OF THE DIRECTORS OF OVEREND, GURNEY, AND Co.—At the approaching trial of the direc tors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), in the Court of Queen's Bench, Westminster, it is the intention of Dr. Adam Thom, the prosecutor, not to appear by counsel, but to conduct the proceedings on his side in person. Though the defendants have retained the leaders of all branches of the law, against this array of legal talent he "confidently pits his case in all the sim plicity of its undeniable strength, while the technical question of guilt or innocence—the only matter at issue— he calmly leaves to the judicial representatives of God and the country." Those who have had much experience of the manner in which suitors of any kind handle their own law cases, will probably think that Dr. Adam Thom is not well advised in the determination at which he has arrived. A NEW MALIBRAN.--One of the musical journals of Paris makes a startling announc3ment with reference to a young American lady, who is at present under the tuition of M. Wartel, the professor who enjoys the honour of having tia . n2d Mdile. Nilsson, the first can tatrice of the day. The young lady is described as 1 , 4 years old, and as having been introduced to M. Wartel by Mr. Eenetliet. She is named Violette Col ville. " Wartel," says our contemporary, "speaks of her with the enthusiasm of a true artist,•and with the com petent appreciation of a professor who thoroughly under stands that of which he speaks. `lt is a Malibran I shall produce,' he cries. 'She has the sacred fire. She always :overcomes me. She apprehends too quickly. She has the most beautiful musical organisation I ever met with in my life. I shall brin her out at 18, and I only ask Providence to bless me with ;ife till then. In three years we shalt have a Malibran.'" Miss Violette Colville is, , we believe, the niece and adopted daughter of Miss Mary Provost, who, daring a brief career in Lcznlon some years ago, left us the minds of playgoers many brilliant aial touching souvenirs. Tilt SUN, LONDOS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL, 16, 1869, IMPERIAL PARLIA II EN HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wcolsack at five o'clock. THE POPE'S JUBILEE, (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, APRIL 10. Since I last wrote to you gifts and addresses have poured in with unceasing rapidity. I have just returned from the Vatican, and have been perfectly astonished at the number and variety'of the presents which are exhibited in the cortile of San Damaso. First in order are those of the Pontifical States. Each town has sent its offering in kind : Trascati, wine of the finest quality for the altar ; Gensano, Albano, and Montefiascone, wine and oil ; Ronciglione, cutlery and wax ; Labian and Gerano, oil and silks ; Cervetri and Corveto, antiqus and modern pottery ; Sutri, sheep; Sezze, Mentano, Bag noria, and Monte Libretti, wheat and oil ; Tivoli, oil, paper, wine, and beautiful dyed wool ; Monte Rotondo, a cartload of wine and oil, with the beautiful grey oxen which drew the cart. Besides these the Piazza of St. Peter's was thronged with carts arriving from every commune and every town of the patrimony of St. Peter's. As for the gifts from foreign countries it would be impossible to enumerate them, and many will only arrive to-morrow. The English Catholic clergy offer a magnificent gold medal of Vechte's, executed by MM. Hunt and Roskell, and the laity an offering in money. The United States have sent above a million of francs in a splendid casket. Italy gives as much more, besides the same sum which arrived last week. The King of Prussia has sent a magnificent Berlin vase by his envoy extraordinary, the Prince Hohenlohe, who has just arrived for the express purpose of complimenting the Pope. The Prince Vladimir, of Russia, also presented his congratulations last week, but did not, as far as is known, make any present. Austria has charged her Ambassador, Count Trauttmansdorff, with an autograph letter from the Emperor, and Count Mensdorff's mission has thus been rendered unnecessary. The Emperor Napoleon has sent a splendid set of church ornaments and vestments, and Victor Emmanuel himself has sent a chalice, of £720 value, of pure gold, studded with diamonds. The English lay Catholics now in Rome intend presenting an address and purse to-morrow, and the ladies of different nationalities another. Every great town in France, Germany, and Italy sends its deputations, and they will be received by the Pope at four in the afternoon in the Peristyle of St. Peter's. The Pope Went this evening (Saturday) to close the Tridero, or three days' prayer at the Lateran. The great Basilica was crowded, and the approach of the Pope was the signal for a tremendous burst of cheering from the vast concourse of people. He looked well, but seemed much affected. He himself intoned the "Te Deum," and gave the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The same enthusiasm awaited him on his exit from the church. The streets are more crowded than at Easter, and as the railways throughout Italy have lowered their fares till the 10th 40 per cent., thousands of persons are arriving by every train from Bologna, Florence, and Naples. _ _ Apropos of Naples, Menotti Garibaldi has arrived there, and has carried his wife, who was spending the season there, to the mountains of Calabria, where, it is said by those who ought to know best, he intends organising a revolution and attacking Rome. The Cupola will be illuminated this evening, and a series of fireworks, illuminations, &c., occupy Sunday and Monday evenings. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ALPINE RAILWAYS. For some time past the semi-independent Swiss Cantons have been engaged in a fierce conflict respecting the question of a tunnel through the Alps. These Swiss Cantons enjoy complete liberty in dealing with their individual affairs, and it is not unnatural that in the question of a railway each should have an eye to its own interests. Some preferred the Simplon, which would run close to French territory, others the Lukmanier, which would run not far from the Austrian boundary. But the majority were in favour of a line by the St. Gothard, which is, indeed, the central and truly Swiss route. The dispute appears to be settled. Switzerland cannot make this railway without aid from countries interested. Italy has declared her preference for the St. Gothard, and Prussia positively declines to support any other. The tunnel will be a stupendous work—ten miles long—and must occupy many years in construction, even with the experience of Mont Cenis. A summit line on the Fell system has been pro. posed, but the Times Florence correspondent thinks there is no chance of its being adopted. A tele gram from Switzerland states that a company h as been formed for the purpose of undertaking this important work. The Swiss companies of the centre and north-east and the chief banks of the Confederation find the greater part of the capital. The necessary assistance from foreign countries--23,600,000—has been obtained. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, April 15. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. April a. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 0 Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur rent creditor 154,509,822 63 155,608,280 14 Current accounts, Paris 263,437,174 90 216,648,475 44 Do. branch banks 42,724,878 41,970,021 Dividends payable 1,036,279 979,540 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries April 15. fr. 182,500,000 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 35,658,290 01 35,940,463 22 5,207,6:)7 GO 5,511,463 96 933,790 85 933,790 83 Total CREDITOR. April 8. April 15. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- 196,294 62 counted, not yet due 253,263,352 57 263,534,069 81 Do. branch banks 235,408,626 236,87.5,068 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch .banks 3,144800 Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 17,C05,200 2,563',800 13,635,100 - 13,704,900 6,583,080 - 6,44.6,580 38,611,600 28,319,300 996,200 - 995,800 958;400 - 959;500 60,000,000 serve Do. disposable lien tes Immobalisees 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 80,633,437 21. 80,627,187 21 (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 klotel and furniture of the Bank and landed propel ty branches ... Expenses of manage- 100,000,000 9,003,812 - 9,022,395 went Sundries 1,151,169 52 1,174,503 92 9,854,085 16 9,385,403 56 Total ' 2,050,346,479 64 2,055,760,431 16 Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) RoULAND. ARCHBISHOP .11.41V1V/NG AND IHE FENIAN PRISONERS. The formal reply promised by Archbishop Man ning to the deputation that waited upon him on Monday from the English Amnesty Committee, with the view of obtaining his grace's sanction to signatures being taken at the Roman Catholic Church doors in London to the petitions praying the Queen's pardon to the Fenian prisoners, reached the secretary of the Amnesty Committee, Mr. J. P. M'llonnell, late on Wednesday night. It is in these terms : " 8, York-place, W. April 13, 1869. " Sir,—l have carefully considered the request made to me yesterday by the Amnesty Committee, that copies of their petitions should be signed at the Catholic churches in London. I need not assure you, and the committee through you, that anything directed to the obtaining mercy would always have my sympathy, and, if I am unable in this instance to comply with their request, my decision is dic tated by duty, and I may add by the strong con viction of what will _best promote the object you have in view. " The invariable rule of the diocese handed down to me by my predecessors has been to exclude from our churches all matters which are not religious or ecclesiastical. From that rule I am unable to depart. " I desire very strongly to express my opinion that your hope of obtaining an amnesty for political offences will be greatly weakened by seeming to identify your appeal with the Roman Catholic churches in London, and that it will be greatly strengthened by disengaging your appeal from all special associations of nation and religion, and by addressing it to the kindly and merciful feelings of our country at large. With every good wish, I remain, sir, your faithful servant, " f HENRY EDWARD MANNING, Archbishop of Westminster. "J. 1114)ot:well, Esq." IMPORTANT TO GAS CONSUMERS. At the justice-room of the Mansion , Hous,e yes terday the Gaslight and Coke Company, Curtain road, was summoned by Ernest Marshall, of 12, Aldgate High-street, who complained that he, being desirous of obtaining a supply of a gas, was unable to agree with the company upon the amount of security for the payment thereof. Mr. Curtis, solicitor, appeared for the defence. The complainant, Mr. Marshall, stated that he was an eating-house keeper, and last Friday week entered into possession of the premises, 12, Aldgate Iligh-street. On Saturday afternoon, finding that the gas had been cut off, he went to the company's office, and saw a man, who told him that all the people had left. On Monday, being busy, be sent his brother, who signed a contract for him, and paid a deposit of £3, for which he received a receipt. Later in the day he sent a request that the gas should be laid on, but his messenger brought back the deposit of £3, and said some body in the office had taken the receipt from him. Complainant then went to the office him self, and was told that a mistake had been made by one of the clerks in accepting the £3, that £5 16s. was owing for the last tenant's gas, and that they were not going to be " done" by him (complainant). Complainant replied that he was willing to pay a deposit of £3 or £5, but he refused to pay the last tenant's account. Tne company refused to accept this offer, and declined to put on the gas. He then came for the present summons. He had made two applications since, and they stated that they would accept half the last tenant's debt, but - would not put on the gas without. In reply to Alderman Finnis, complainant said the ordinary consumption was from 30s. to £2 per quarter. In cross-examination by Mr. Curtis, he stated that he did not tell the company's officer that he had agreed to pay the back rates and taxes. He did not know there was any account owing for gas. It was cut off before he took possession. The shop had been shut up. . . Mr. Oke (chief clerk) said that according to the Act of Parliament such security was to be given as the consumer and the gas company might agree upon, and if they could not agree the security was to be determined by the magistrate, whose de cision was in all cases to be final. Mr. Curtis re mar k e d th a t the company were will ing to let the complainant have the gas without a deposit, if he paid the arrears of the former tenant. Alderman Finnie—You have no power to force the incoming tenant to pay the arrears. Mr. Curtis said .23 was the sum agreed upon, and they would take that. Mr. Oke--They refused to take £5. Mr. Curtis said £5 was required as due from the outgoing tenant. Alderman Finnis repeated that he had no power to enforce payment of the arrears of a former tenant, and decided that the company should take 0 as a deposit from i the complEduant, and pay Bs. costs. I - ADVERTISEMENT:I — HoIIow:I y'sPills.—lmportant to the Sick.—'l'hongl► the mind. be do wneast, and be enfeebled by continued indisposition, the sufferer should at this seascu mrike a List effort to ri , gain health by takitur Holloway's Purifying Pills which, • by cleansiog tli . e blood, will s, , arch out the hidden cause of mischief and expel the seeds of most diseases. No invalid is too much reduced to undergo this very gentle treatn. , ent with safety and advantage. Neither youth nor old a,70 need fear any in jury to the system from a regulated c, ourse of these fills. They are infallible in stomach comply hats, bilious affec tions, sickness, want of appetite, disordeced bowels, con stipation, and the annoyances which sprink - from derange ment of the digestive and assimilating organ's• NEW PEER. Lord LAWRENCE took the oath and his seat on being created a peer. The noble lord was introduced by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Chelmsford. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. The Earl SHAFTESBURY moved 1;;;e - -ond reading of this bill, the object of which was to cheapen and ex pedite the mode of procedure in the Ecclesiastical Court. After a short discnssion the bill was read a second time, and referred to a select committee. The Clergy Discipline and Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was also read a second time, and sent to the same committee. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COSINIONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. TIIE IRISH CHURCII FUNDS. Mr. WHALLEY gave notice of his intention to move that any surplus that might remain of the revenue of the Irish Church after compensation had been made should be ap plied to the reduction of the national debt. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The Marquis of HARTINGTON said it was the desire to protect as far as possible the health of the persons en gaged in the transmission of mails, and with that view it was about to try the experiment of sorting the mails be tween Plymouth and Bristol instead of as was now done at sea. lie did not say that the arrangement for sorting the letters was completed. RESTORATION OF COMPOUNDING. Mr. GOSOHEN, in reply to Lord Henley, said it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the Assessment Bill, but he might say that it was his inten tion to move the introduction of clauses to enable the owners of small properties to make arrangements for the payment of the rates levied thereon. He would lay upon the table the clauses he proposed to introduce as soon as possible ; care would also have to bo taken that the rights conferred by the Reform Act of last session were not interfered with. (Hear, hear.) WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. Mr. CHILDERS informed the house, in reply to a question from Mr. Mills, that Mr. Barnes was not entitled to a pension for his 25 years' duties as Admiralty pilot, as he had received full pilotage, which was considered quite sufficient for the services rendered. No eligible offer had yet been made for the premises at Woolwich, and at the present moment he could nut say what would be done with it. BAT LIING-BAT T ERS EA PARK. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to Mr. Peek, said it would be inconvenient to allow persons to bathe in the concreted water in Battersea-park until a bathing house was erected. The water was very shallow, and he doubted whether, if the use of the water was allowed, the bathers would de rive any great benefit from the privilege. LANDLOEDS'TAXES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr. Greville, said tenants' called upon in January next to pay their landlords' assessed taxes would be entitled to deduct them from the rent due in March. The tenant, he did not think, would suppose it any great hardship in being called upon to pay the charges before the ordinary time. THE CORN DUTIES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was intended to collect the corn duties until the 4th June. after which, if the house sanctioned the proposals he had sub mitted to it, it would altogether co.Lse. He could not alter the answer heshad given the other day, that it was pro posed to allow any drawback. COAL MINES. Mr. BBUCE said he intended that evening to move for leavo to introduce a bill to consolidate the law with regard to coal mines. THE TELEGRAPHS BILL. The Marquis of HAR EINGTON, in reply to Mr. Baines, said he was afraid he could not give any further information on the subject than that he communicated the other evening. The arbitration of the sums to be paid to some of the companies if the Government took the lines had been completed, but the greater part yet remained to be ar ranged. When the arbitration had further advanced, so as to give an idea of the gross sum required he would at once state the course proposed by the Government. Ho might, however, say that he should in a few days move, in accordance with notice given in the Gazette, for leave to bring in a bill, when the bill of last session was carried into operation, to give the Government the monopoly of transmitting telegraphic messages. MEXICO. Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice of his intention to make a motion on as early a day as possible for the re-opening of diplomatic relations with Mexico. IRISH CHURCH BILL. On the motion for going into committee, Mr. lIEWDEGATE rose to move that the house would, on that day six months, resolve itself into the said com mittee. He said he was quite aware of the desire to press forward the proposals of the Government, but he felt he had also a duty to perform, and that was to give the bill the most uncompromising opposition. He ajected to go into committee on the bill of the right hon. gentleman, because it would effect a state of things that would be most lamentable for time to come. He objected to the bill, because he believed it would impair the supremacy of the Crown and the supremacy of the law in Ireland. (Loud cheers from the Opposition.) In fact he looked upon it as a direct invasion of the royal prero gative. (Hear, hear, and cheers from the Opposition.) Colonel S. KNOX seconded the amendment. Mr. S. AYTOL T N complained of the manner in which the College of Maynooth was dealt with in comparison with the Established and Presbyterian Churches. Mr. GLADSTONE defended the course taken by the Ministerialists, which he pointed out was justified by the silence of the Opposition leaders. In reply to Mr. Aytoun he pointed out an amendment which would clearly de fine the trusts on which the compensation would be granted to Maynooth, and assured him that his figures were entirely wrong. The lesson Mr. Gladstone drew from the debate was that the majority of numbers did dot fully re present the actual preponderance of the opinion of the bill, for, while its supporters were unanimous as to their aims and objects, no two speakers on the other side were agreed as to the mode in which they would deal with the Church. To illustrate the divided counsels of the Oppo sition, ho went through the debate, and compared the various speeches. A t the same time Mr. Gladstone did not complain of Mr. Newdegate's motion, though many of the arguments did not require an answer. The only argu ment which he did answer with any pains was one of Mr. Charley, that the Throne rested on Protestant ascendancy. The Protestant profession of the Sovereign was not as cendancy in the sense obnoxious to Catholics, nor had they ever complained of it, end he showed that the most Protestant of Sovergignsi WilliaM 111., bad in his day con templated a measure of religious equality not falling far short of this. Mr DISRAELI, though he bad not expected so long a debate, was not surprised at it, seeing that only four nights had hitherto been devoted t o di scno9 l ng t h e prin ciple of one of the mostimportant measures ever_submitted to Parliament. Neither did he think' the 'evening wasted (and this sentiment was cheered both l y Me. Gladsfono and Mr. Bright), for there had been made some of the best speeches he bad ever heard. .After animad verting on the unparliamentary and unseemly inter ruptions of the Miuisterialists, he concluded by expressing a hope that after this division no further obstacle would be offered to going into committee, for he was anxious to convince Mr. Gladstone there that the views of the Opposition were more decided and compact than he gave them credit for. On a division Mr. NEWDEGATE's amendment was re jected by a majority of 126.-355 to 229. The house then went into committee on the bill at 12 30, but the Chairman left the chair at once without making any progress. The Newspaper Bill was read a second timo, and Mr CARDWELL Obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the. law relating to the Militia, The house adjourned at a quarter to 1 o'clock. toreien lkiail i'acKet List. MAILS DUE. lustralla and New Zealand, via e. outhamptCa , April 24 Ditto, via .Y useillos .......... • . 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Arbitration in trade disputes seems to have been tried with some success in Switzerland. For some little time Geneva has suffered from a strike, or a series of strikes, got up, it is said, by the International Society of Work: men. First the society persuaded the printers to cease work, and when these went in the masons were induced to strike. This.dispute, however, has now been settled. A. mixed commission of workmen and employers assembled under the presidency of a Councillor of State, and suc :eeded in coming to an arrangement which has been accented by both parties. ThE HUSH CHURCH BILL. A correspondent of the Times suggests some improvements in Mr. Gladstone's bill on the Irish Church, and says that it is not likely so extensive a proposal should be faultless. He considers that no representative body should be incorporated until its construction has been laid beforo Parliament for a certain definite period. The gravest error of the Government scheme appears in the liquidation divi s ion, where it is proposed to give up the tithe rent charge without any consideration whatever. If this be done with a view to propitiate the Irish landlord, the motive would be pusillanimous, but the better solution seems to be that the scheme is a blunder. He thinks that the proposal to compensate the vested interests • of Maynooth and the Presbyterian Academy out of the Church funds is a right one, and that there is no ground for com plaint. He objects to the proposed appropriation of the surplus, and questions the wisdom of the gene rous machinery for accomplishing the works of mercy. In conclusion, he declares that he writes in no spirit of hostility to Mr. Gladstone's aim. It may ' be worth mentioning that Mr. Trench, writing to the Guardian, declares that the so-called present of the tithes to the Irish landowners will involve them in an absolute pecuniary loss. Clearly doctors differ. POST-PRANDIAL ORATORY. very strong in The Fishmongers' Company has been point of its princely hospita lit y this season. It has far outshone its brother co rporations of the City of London. Ministers of Sta te, ministers of the Church, and both together have dined at the company's board, and spoken through the press to the world afterwards. Another of its magnificent banquets was given on Wednesday, and attended . by Prince Teck, the Archbish o p of Canterbur y , the Earl of Ducie, the newly-create d p eer, Lord Lawrence, Sir Roundell Palmer, the Bishop of Chester, and no end of other celebrities, titled and otherwise. The after-dinner speeches of these notabilities are pub blished in some of the papers to the length of nearly half a page. But the speakers themselves will hardly thank the editors for their kindness. The Arch bishop of Canterbury, for instance, is made to say, at the length of some half a column ' that he knew of no place where a bi shop was more in his position than in joining such a corporation as that. It helped—it may be presumed to some e xtent by its education in th e ethics of cuisine—to sp read refinement and civilisa tion. The only sentenc e which is worthy of remark was one towards the end, in which, referring to the presence of Dissenting ministers, his Grac e said' that he always found amongst those who disagreed with the Church of England more points of connection than of difference, and it was their duty to unite on these points without sacrificing principle. The sentiment is by no . means new, except, perhaps, the in the mouth of a Pr i mate. . Lord Lawrence also dealt out the same kind of generalities, and Sir Roundel). .Palmer hardly relieved full tedium of the speaking whenexhpepdreodc efcallelei fallacy, argue against that so-frequently lo that the old times were not necessarily the com plained times, and to declare that it was necessary for the Legislature to unite tradition with progresS t on but to beware. The speeches cannot b o e in of. Here was a company of gentlemen called upon toltalk, talk a propos of nothing. Wh a t could they say ? It may be very 'oll y . to , C , Ollle p a rii t it a . k en together in this way to eat, drink, and i " but it by no means follows that it should b olat l e l ; down and put into writing—much less into e little L a Lambeth, more beth. Another banquet, which was perhaps to the purpose, was held in the borough '.Ps a f It was intended as a consolation to 11 ° 1 • Morgan of Downshire, Earl Howard, who unsuccessfully contested the " borough at the election. The Marquis .Messrs. Peek, Beauchamp, the Hon. P. W. B. Massey, the member for Westminster,Lord 8 ! Mr. , Smith, 's., attended to Lord George Hamilton, M.P Colchester, Charley, Sidebottom, and Vicars,; m rs p . eek, Horn by, do Iloilo ur to their less successful brother. Mr. B. rod rick, M.P., said of the Irish Church Bill that it was one of those which should be fought clause by clause and resolution by resolution upon which they ought not to fatigue the House, but upon which they ought to take its full and undivided sense. That was the policy of the leaders of the Conservative party. the Of course everyone thought that e Conservative reaction had commenced generallythroughout the country. and particularly in Lambeth, TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. It is expected that the scheme for establishing ovevand telegraphic communication between England and India will be completed this year. Wires are already laid along a great part of the route. The line goes from London by way of Thorn, on the Prussian frontier of Russia. Thence it passes through Warsaw to Odessa, through the Crimea to Tiflis, and thence to Teheran, in Persia, where it will join existing lines. Great difficulties, arising from the nature of the territory through which much of the telegraph passes, have been encountered. The prospect of such a speedy termination to the work is both surprising and satisfactory. CIVIL WAR IN JAPAN. The " settlement " in Japan has been of the most ten;• porary character. The civil war, which was reported as terminated, has broken out again. On the day that the Mikado, the successful prince, was married with great pomp, some disturbances took place between the partisans of two rival magnates. The outbreak spread. An ad miral, a partisan of the fallen Tycoon, took possession of one of the largest Japan islands, and established a Provi sional Government. The party of the North, favourable to the Tycoon, seem to have taken arms again, and tohave made some progress. SIR SAMUEL BAKER'S EXPEDITION. Sir Samuel Baker's expedition to the region around the sources of the Nile is an idea of considerable magnitude. The Viceroy of Egypt is prepared to furnish any material, troops, and supplies that may be necessary. Sir S. Baker is empowered to occupy the whole of the district lying between the fourth degree of north and the second degree of south latitude. The primary object of the undertaking is to put a stop to the slave trade. Khartoum, situated at the junction of the two great branches of the Nile, is the great emporium for slaves at present. Through this town they are sent to Egypt and the Red Sea. Sir Samuel Baker will stop the departure of any vessels from Khartoum. Steamers will cruise from this emporium, and military posts will be established at proper intervals, thus closing the only northern outlet of the Central African slave trade. These posts will extend from Khartoum to the Albert Nyanza lake, two degrees south of the Equator. The whole of the intervening territory is to be subjugated, the wars between the native chieftains will be forbidden, and thus the supply of slaves will be cut off. The undertaking is clearly neither trifling nor easy. THE MASTERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE. The Guardian believes that there is some mistake as to Archdeacon Robinson's resignation of the Mas tership of the Temple. lie will shortly complete the term which will entitle him to a pension; but in the meanwhile he is not likely to resign. Dr. Miller. Mr. Plumptre, and Mr. Liddon have been mentioned in ecclesiastical circles as the Archdeacon's suc cessor. DISABLED BISHOPS. The Guardian, which is, we believe, neither a very Radical nor very Dissenting paper, remarking upon Sir Massey Lopes's question and Mr. Gladstone's reply about incapable bishops, says, " Mr. Gladstone, answering Sir Massey Lopes, very much regrets' that a considerable number of dioceses are at present deprived of responsible episcopal superintendence ' by the illness or infirmity of their respective bishops ; but he believes and hopes that the Episcopal Bench are considering the matter, and that they will be prepared within a reasonable time to advise the Government respecting it. We hope so too. It is evident that, with or without the advice of the bishops, means must be provided for preventing the recurrence of so great an evil." We fear that there is small chance of the first alterna tive coming to pass. It is to Parliament, not to Convocation, that Churchmen must look for relief. The Bishop of Winchester appears to be in a very critical state. It is said that although there is some slight improvement in his health yet he remains in a serious and alarming condition at Farnham Park, Surrey, and very slight hopes of his recovery are entertained by his friends and medical advisers. Bishop Ryan, late Bishop of Mauritius, is assisting in the duties connected with the diocese of Winches ter.. Bishop Sumner is 79 years old, and has been longer bishop than any other prelate now living. Ile was consecrated to the see of Llandaff in 1826 (being then only 36 years old), and was translated to Win chester in 1827. The annual value of the see is now £10,417, but it will be considerably reduced on the next vacancy. Bishop Sumner was the founder and the first minister of the English Church at Geneva, no less than fifty-five years ago. RITUALISM OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. Even if the Church Association should succeed in putting down Ritualism in the English Church, there is no likelihood that it will die out altogether so long as Freemasonry survives. In this institution the ritual is - both elaborate and gorgeous. A very grand ceremony took place at the Freemasons' Hall in London on Wednesday. The occasion was the dedication of the new building. The Grand Master, the Earl of Zetland, was seated on a throne, and sur rounded by a thousand of the officers of lodges from various parts of the country, awl in full attire. There was a sermon, and singing by a large choir, and the dedication was performed according to the ancient rites, with corn, wine, and oil. It would be interesting to know how many Masons there are in the Church Association, and presuming there to be any, one would like to know ho w th ey exp l a i n t h e i r love for ritualism in the " Lodge" and their dislike of it in the Church, the first being, in their opinion, a religious building, even as the second is. GRANTS TO SCOTLAND. It does really seem that it is an evil thing for England that it is not Ireland or Scotland just now. Mr. Lowe has been closing his fist very tightly when money has been asked forany English institu tion. Compare this with Scotland. The amount to be voted this year for the new Glasgow University Buildings is £20,000; and for the Industrial Museum, Edinburgh, £lO,OOO. Th e Ab er d een C ourt-houses also are to get £lO,OOO ; and the total estimate for Court-houses in Scotland is £20,048. SCOTCH GAME LAWS. The Scotch game laws, as they now stand, have found a very warm advocate in Mr. Horatio Ross, who writes to the Times at great length on the grie vances of landowners and sportsmen. He has not, he tells us, missed a season on the moors of Scotland for the last fifty-five years, and for forty-five years he has rented either a grouse moor or a deer forest, so that he claims to be well informed on the matter. He considers that if any of the bills now before Par liament for the reform of the Scotch game laws should be carried, a " healthful, charming recreation " will be destroyed, and a serious injury inflicted on the owners of property, Mr. Locke's bill, which he admits to be the most popular of the three bills introduced on this subject, is also, in his estimation, the most objectionable. The arguments which he adduces against it are likely, however, to have more weight with sportsmen than with the general public. The clause which cancels in existing leases the agreement made by the landowners with their tenants with regard to game, he holds to be a " monstrous case of breach of covenant," and the power given to farmers to claim damages for injury to their crops from neighbouring proprietors would, he thinks, lead to endless litigation. He reminds the farmers that the rural districts of Scotland have been greatly benefited by the annual influx of sportsmen, and assures them that, if they push matters too far, landlords will farm their own lands, or grant yearly leases. THE PARADISE OF DRUNKARDS. The following advertisement (omitting the address) appears in one of the morning papers :—" Intemper ance.—A clergyman, residing in one of the Orkney Islands, offers a home for a gentleman given to the above. There is no temptation within reach. Climate mild and healthy. Highest references. Communications considered confidential." The Orcadians seem to be in the same happy condition as their brethren in race the rural Norwegians, free from the temptations of the bcershop and the gin palace. It is, in fact, a paradise of drunkards, a place in which they regain lost soberness, health, and happiness. LEGAL TECENICALITIES. Lord Campbell, in " Life of Lord Brougham," just issued, relates so me cur i ous stories of how the latter peer had behaved in his first circuit. He had to defend several cr i m i na l cases. There wasrougi that of a man charged with s t ea li ng a sheep, took objection t o th e indictmentLordn the ground that ßi it did not sp ec if y w h ether the sheep was a tupol a v in e or wether, a r gu i ng that if the indictment , had simply said " animal," it would not have been sufficient. ! - We a re told the legal' mind of the judge was at first much exercised until the prosecuting counsel pointed out the words of the statute. Then a man was charged with stealing " boots," and it turned out that he had purloined " half-boots." The then Mr. Brougham made the obvious objection, and persisted in it until the judge, finding out that he was being played with, put down the counsel with much assumed dignity, Something of the kind has just taken place at Bir mingham. Two prisoners were charged with steal ing " deal boards fixed to a building." That they had stolen certain boards was proved ; but the Recorder, who was trying the case, discovered that what they had taken was " woodwork belonging to a building." And so the prisoners were let loose. What a good thing it must be for a man to have a legal education. The sight of a mere layman could not possibly have seen through these deal boards. A COMET. A comet is announced. A correspondent of the Times writes that on 'Wednesday evening, between seven and nine, he watched one in the north-west heavens. It was a very brilliant one, he says, and had disappeared at nine. Is this a veritable new sen sation for the astronomers, or another instance of a . . „ - hoax "BL A CKW 00D' S MA GAZIN E" ON TO OUTGOJXG AND THE INCOMING PRESIDES r• (From the Anglo-American Times.) There is an article in Blackwoods 1110 azine of this month on " The Outgoing and the Incoming, President." Both Andrew Johnson and Genera Grant are sket c h e d, b u t scarce l y w i t h th e usu al accuracy of that periodical. This outline of Grant career contains many errors which may well SI P prise, considering to what notoriety within so W e a period he has attained. It is not our business! however, to correct these, but we desire to e xtrac t some remarks of interest with which the article a t the same time abounds. The writer says that after General Joseph E. Johnston was removed—a 'l as , take of Mr. Jefferson Davis—and General 1100 substituted, Sherman saw his chance " with inspiration of genius, and telegraphed to Genera l Grant before Richmond for permission to mare with 50,000 men from Atlanta, right through t he heart of Georgia. It was a march of 350 miles t ° the city of Savannah, and the road was full of p 0 sible and but too probable dangers. Grant o va sitting in his tent before Ri c h mon d thi n king $ l3 . smoking, as is his wont, whe n th e t e l eg ram 113 cipher was received. lie read and reread it sel l • ral times, and smoked and smoked with a vig elir apportioned to the importance of his silent cogitt y Lions. When he had thought it over sutlieiendl; he called a council of war , an d su b m itt e d the cur t and emphatic document to the opinion of his off ; cers. Nobody knew w h a t t o ma k e o f it or NO ° to advise. Grant smoked, and passed no °pie° for some time. At last, having heard what ever body had to say, he put the telegram in his pocke t ' drew the cigar from between his lips, and said , while he knocked awa y th e as h prepara t o ry t another whiff—' Gentlemen, the General must a°, as he thinks best. I n th e ar t o f war we are a ll a ° babies compared with Sherman." On the nig h t t of the 6th De c e m b er , M r . Li nco l n addressing tfr excited crowd from th e b a l cony o f t h e Whit e [louse, said, "Fellow-citizens--I know where Sh er ; man went in, but I don't k now w h ere h e w ill Cor e out." Nor did anybody else exc e pt G ran t. Mag a i gives the following foot- no t e t o s h ow th e love 4/ the mass of Northerner s f or th e Union--f°t which they were prepared to sacrifice anythiogt even liberty—" While the Convention that nors l • nated Abraham Lincoln for the second term 1.°6 sitting at Baltimore, in July, 1864, a Weste r : orator, of Irish extraction, relat e d a s t o ry of patriotic old lady at Cincinnati, who had seven 0 3 0 killed in the bloody battl e s of th e North. Th e • \iayor and Corporation of the City sent a depe tl o tion to condole with the good woman on her grog loss. " Never m i n d me , gen tl emen, " sa id the ol d lady, " I only wi s h I h a d k nown w h en I vas 0 younger woman that this war was coming, all ci „ - ,vould have had sev en t een sons i nstea d o f seven I'o ight the battles of the U n i on ." Th e wr it er ivance is the touchstone of General Grant's ro , idency—holding to the opinion that re p u di a tion isfto From being dead. " All o th er ques ti ons are sre 3jil ; nd of poor account, compare d w ith t hi s. And age )f the difficulties in his path—and a very consid er, tole diffi cu lt y h e i s lik e l y to fi n d i t —i s t h a t a veri o , argent and powerful section of the people does ri° o want to pay the pip er a t a ll." "R epu di a ti on is of )dious w or d t o t h e merc h ants and b ankers of Sei York, Phil a d e l p hi a, Chi cago, and B oston, an d toy 0 he leading commerc i a l people throughou t Union ; but not odious to the farmers and mei° nits of the Far West, or to the bulk of the Soutb er „, people, forced by the su p er i or aut h or i ty of t he vincible North t o renu di a t e t h e i r own war debt, $l/f not at all indisposed to be freed from the weight taxation imposed upon them to help to pay the e : o penses of their own subjugation." The quest l 9o is one of expedi ency , o f po li cy, of wisdom, 0 well as of morality. Blackwood's foot-note 11 „ have given, was intended to show what Amer cans will give and endure for the Union. , they are persuaded th a t th e i n t eres t s o f t h a t T.5 01° , 1 will be forwarded by honesty in this matter, $ ieeply injured by dishonesty, why should they 1 1 ? endure in this matter as we ll as on th e b a t t l e -fiel) We do n o t di sgu i se t h e t rut h t h at i t i s poss ible I° 4 the question agai n t o come up, b ut we doubt Who under any circumst ances, can i t advance to °I front u n d er more f avoura b le auspices than last 0'; when it was m os t di sgrace f ully defeated, and driVe,,, with ignominy from the field. We do not think bort holders need entertain much fear, but no one oi l any time say they are absolutely safe. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENC) A general court- mar ti a l h as assem bl e d a t w c!or theater for the trial of Private O'Connell, 0 i Regiment, for insub or di na ti on . Th e pres ident a the Court was C o l one l T ower, C. 8., 3d Drag°l), Guards, and C o l one l L aye appeared as inicigeil Advocate. The sente nce w ill not b e promulPt- until hei• Majesty's pleasure is made known. , 4 Yesterday two t roo p s o f th e 6t h Innisklis'f Dragoons arrived at Aldershot. The remainde r the regiment is expected to-day. ider On Tuesday the Ist Infantry Brigade at A shot, shot, under the com man d o f M a j or- G ene ral Lysons, C. 8., consistin g o f th e 2d b a ttali t u o o 6th Regiment, under Colonel Elkington ; Ist battalion 12th, under Colonel Meade; $ 0) the Ist battalion 25th (King's Own Border er s t i formed up on their respective par a d es an d mare P ho f to the General Parade, South C am p, w h e re v o 'Were exercised by the Major-Ge nera l i n l'a rl d field movements, which were well executed, ; v a s were concluded by the brigade marching pa g the double with arms at the trail. The Lizard, 2, 150 horse-power, iron wheel steamer, has been entirely broken up i° fourth dock at Chatham, and the dock will at °" if be prepared for the reception of the double-Selo, armoured-plated turret ship C er b erus , 2,107 t° ,,r 2 50-horse power, which is shortly expected t° /of rive at Chatham to be prepared for commission service at Melbourne. rl O ll [ADVERTI SEMENT J—Consumption, and all bilious, 1 10- 0 ; 1 stomach,and liver compla i nts iu every stage are only aggrs4, and accelerated by d rugs of every description, but pe r curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabics.lofr. as proved by th ousands of cases which had been consi-,0; hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthuV;., , (4, sumption, habitual co ns ti pa ti on, di arrhoea, all gastric de.`:oo,:', meats, htemorrhoids, li ver complaints, flatulency, n ervo%l biliousness, fevers, sore thr oa t s, diphtheria, catarrhs, cold e , thienza, noise s i n th e h ead and ears, rheumatism, gout , „00, 4 r rides, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplet4 acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, '"of cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnaneY„per, sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the:, Ki pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulde„Trfil We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du P'i t ali Food. Cure No 68,413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866.—The the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, ab an donMcot other remedies , he has confined himself entirely to Du P;tel,'",j Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P,fl o o at every meal. It h as pro d uce d a surprisingly .., effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prais,i excellent food too highly." From the "G azet t e du 70, July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James R o b erts, t i m ber. , chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disease spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial dealu 4 t,„/ Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord LieuterT, Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. —No. 49,832. .4i years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nerVol,'. o asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, siclo 3 ,,e_:o2 vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware a to;itlt , unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, c i j eclio authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audac i ously a tta . 0 , : co In tins, at Is. 14d.; 1 lb. 2s. rd. ; 2 lb s. 4s. 6 d ; 5 ib s ,lls., o 225. ; 4 lbs, 40s, Also DU BARRY's REVALENTA Art PICA fOr? LATE POWDER is packed in tin c an i sters; for 12 cups at cups at 3s. Gd., for 48 cups at Gs., for 288 cups at for 55s.—being about one penny p er cup. The 30s. hoc' a O4 are sent free of carriage i n E ngland on receipt of P°"t. , Order. - BARRY DU BARRY an d Co., No. 77, Regent-s treet don ; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. 1,6 EnEnToN—On the 15th inst., at Devonshire House, Louisa Egerton, of a son. ,D 0 0 - WEBB—On the 14th inst., a t 7 , Belsize-square, Tfam. the wife of Harry Webb, of a daughter. Marriages. e, : 0 4 BALT—ALFORD - On the 14th in s t , a tW es t on -suPer-file Charles My, Esq., o f St. Leonard's-on-'ea, t ° f lifi Maria, eldest daughter of Richard Alford, Esq-, ° ton-super-Mare. f i l # e SKINNER—ROGERS- ga -On the 15th i ns t ., at South fli v , stead, Harry John Skinner, of llatepton, Oxon, t o ° f 1 11 Mary, eldest d aug ht er o f the Bev. T. 0. Rogers; toria-road. Deaths. ia° 46 DRITE—On the 15th inst., from a fall from l'• ; 3 , 1 p l o' George Dru ee , E sq., Q.O , of Lincoln's-inn, an" ii.arli-hill, Camberw e ll. • oe /j' HORNBY— Ou the 12th in s t., at The Ilook, T itell ' Hants, Wm. H ere b y, E sq., age d 73. TILL—On the 14th j us t ,at Sutton, W. T Till, -"1-.--54.' 0 * 52, Lime-st ree t , L.C., aged 52. _......d London : Printed and Pablishod by WILLIAM A' — , 4 . o v o l of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN ANN Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy I n the °° Aliddlesez.— Friday, Apiill6, 1860, RI pri otheLThz:boeAlsiged :N earvvuBn.,e.te,natae A r i tc.: - I ltserEatt A ithAitle N e:Td:p 9 i , h 414:Ua1l a ,LitLuNVhssEisLY: TUr fre Le e (l j n eh e r rj°l : o l ll :d e d i hold NC""Ni 1)1 we ekly, month Fors ROYAL A' Cont Pr, !nu red Mr. Arthur I,`oyd Original Orig Christy 's 1 of the a, p 1 (Magie)—Lella and C. Tiurton. the on !I Miss Packer, fro Mies Lizzie Peed. S Duettists and a h, Notice. —)Tr. P. C Alace on Wrdnesd /Ilan will take the c IRr 111ACL ATADIANIR, Ne w and Bautlfo RACIT FL Un der ten , s e , nd nu• Gd.; ext ARGYL L EVENING Rooms have been t knd Co. The eel( art attractive Dance Music. Pro, Door s_ WIN] aunical Dire, " I THE above Luncheo ] for deviling Len' gu ORIGINAL ANE ASIILE7 Very Fine Pale, l Old Crushed Pori Shipping) Vin Sparkling Choral lery, Qualit6 Su Sample cases bottles Sherry, t , GARR D B. HAI . next th Consignee for ls celebrated BALT Bordeaux Wines Whiskies, from also be seen at ti number of Hotel of others wanted SCIENTIFII nRNAME. v-• and Dini sortment of V/ 11 8118, Inkstand ecc., in Italian, shire Sp ar , &c. TENNANT, : W. 0., London. Mr. Tennant MINERAT,S, of Lyell's Elert tate the into GEOLOGY, E guineas each. PRA.CTICA MINERALOG 149, Strand. THE Ll` G Offices-1, The Invest( Fire Revenue The moderate Bonus for the Value as SPI render them leave is grant( thirty days afl KING'S street, APPEAL fo penses. Assi SEAMEN ,•-" off Green Nivicns, who The receipt £879 less tha SUBSCRII Williams, De the Secretary street, Londe Qualificatit Governor, V. NTATIo/ Ricm, Under the pat whereby a h( Girls of all ag the kingdom. The objelt c Rah education and laundry, Wise provide( suitable Ritual The Commi entirely mute OM*, 121, ORITI JLP Macke Patron- For the destitute or and of all prosperous One bun( stitution ; a Increase( endowed, a assistance. Subscrib Institution, its peculiar The last secretary. Offices, 7 Bankers lane ; and HEALTH I DIT BA and eaves fifty perfect dip refreshing most disc effectually aumption, rangernen nervous:l( catarrhs, rheumath ralgia, i beartbun nausea at fits, bron the pit of the most for invali IMPORT and more rity, Ban _ Honed Du Barr and Tufa! has alres been does nese the by it aft( We quoi 18,418);_ Holy Fat other rei Barry's I plateful boneficia praise U Cure 1 years' li neas, irr di geatioi nervous Cure 7 Stuart d ford Waterfo Cure from dy flatulen i of Lynn e .1 ro nervolu Vous fai Cure years di The 1 b., 4 s , o animal Birry s tin cani Cups at stout c free of ban' also at Gracecl To be