The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-16 00:00:00

SrIRIT OF THE ; ÜBLIC JOURNALS. 'The Times observes that the Conservative Peers, exer rising their constitutional privilege, have recorded their genteat against the third reading of the Irish Church Bill. In the meantime, the course which the leaders should take it rendered even more obvious by the exercise of this right of protest. The Conservative Lords will not be disposed to deny that, rightly or wrongly, disestablishment and dis. endowment are in accord with the verdict of the country. The question has been before the public in the shape of a practical measure for more than a year; a general election has turned upon it, an immense majority has been chosen of one way of thinking, rill. neither that majority nor the constituencies who created it have shewn the slightest sign of faltering. More over, the majority of .the Lords themselves for the hill was larger than most people, and particularly the Opposi tion Lords themselves, expected. Now, it is recognised by every theorist concerning the functions of the Lords that when the will of the nation has been once declared it is the duty of the Upper House to submit. The bill will now go back to the Upper House restored almost to the shape in which it left the House of Commons originally. The Commons have decided that the amendments made by the Lords are not consistent with the principle of the Lill, and there is no reason to suppose they can be induced to surrender this opinion. The bill must be passed in the form on which the Government has decided, or not at all. If, then, the Lords decide to maintain their amendments, they vtually declare that they will not pass the bill. The importance of such a decision need not be dwelt upon. A collision would ensue between the two Houses, the only result of which would be popular agitation, and the renewal of the mea sure in Parliament in a more bitter spirit and with a fiercer determination to carry it through. The Lords would have abandoned their own principle—that it was right and just to pass the bill—and they would have abandoned it to no purpose. We sincerely trust, there fore, that the Conservative Peers, satisfied with the pro test which usage allows them, will no longer persevere in their opposition, nor make the maintenance by the Com mons of its own opinions a pretext for setting aside the The Standard says that Mr. Gladstone acted with hb usual skill and judgment in " forbearing to trespass on the attention of the House " with a long introductory speech on the Lords' amendments. Had he done so, not only must he have put himself palpably and flagrantly in the wrong before the country, and exhibited himself and his party, and the collective House, in e most odious light, but it is doubtful whether he would not have strained too far even the astonishing fidelity and obedience of his retainers. On each particular question it was easy to make out a decent pretence for adhering to his original purpose, and not difficult for a great orator to persuade a partial audience that in each instance he was in the right. But had he discussed the whole subject at once he could hardly have failed to impress upon all reasonable and honourable Liberals a strong sense of the hateful and unworthy character of the course he was urging the House of Commons to pursue. The principle of the bill Is endorsed by the country, and to the country both Houses must bow. But the clauses of the bill are not even the work of the Commons ; they are the production of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, and of no one else ; and .they carry with them no other weight than the authority of those two gentlemen can give. The Lords cannot pretend to resist the country, but they ov-e no deference to the House of Commons on matters on which its mem bers speak as individuals, and represent only their own ,opinions. But when the issue lies not between the collec tive intelligence of the two Houses, Lut between the individual opinion of Mr. Gladstone and the col lective wisdom of an assembly containing half a score of men individually his equals in knowledge, intellect, and statesmanship, and even in eloquence, it is clear which party is likely to he right, and which ought to yield. The imperious and peremptory style in which the Minister has struck his pen through all the amendments of the Lords, and the tone in which he spoke of an assembly superior in rank and in nothing inferior to that which he addressed, is calculated to give offence to thou sands who care comparatively little about the original ground of the dispute. Intolerant vanity and imperious arrogance have ruined stronger Ministers than Mr. Glad stone, and his conduct on Thursday night savoured greatly of the pride that augurs destruction, and the " haughty spirit " that precedes a fall. The Herald declares that the fate of the Irish Church Bill was decided in the curt announcement made on Thursday afternoon by Mr. Gladstone of the course the Government intended to take with regard to the more material of the Lords' amendments. Not one of them is to be accepted. A question is therefore deliberately raised far more momentous than that involved in any one of the amendments of the Lords. In the most defiant and insult ing manner, with a deliberate purpose of forcing the Lords to confess their impotence, and to subscribe themselves the humble servants of Mr. Gladstone, the Government rejects all idea of compromise ; refuses to yield anything in deference to the opinion of a branch of Legislature of co-ordinate authority with the House of Commons ; and, relying upon the servility of its majority, sacrifices to a paltry personal feeling, as well as the measure, the immediate adoption of which it declares to Le necessary to the peace of the Empire, and those good relations between the two Houses of Parliament which it might so easily have maintained. The Peers cannot possibly eat the leek which the Premier so insolently holds out to them. They cannot yield all their amend ments, and anxious as many of them may be to end the strife, ready as some of them, perhaps, are to purchase a brief peace by a fatal surrender, they must reply to the message of the House of Commons, declaring that it has disagreed to all their amendments beyond verbal and technical ones, by another message announcing their insistence upon them. Ancient Pistol, the swaggerer, will have to eat the leek himself. Mr. Gladstone renders it impossible for the Peers to give way if they had ever so much heart for it. They must fight, and the result will be a very awkward if not a decisive defeat for the Govern ment. A correspondent of a fashionable contemporary, says the Daily News, in which the performances of pigeon shooters are industriously registered, wrote to complain of what was stated to be a practice in the sport—the taking out the eye of the bird, in order to ensure its flight in a certain direction. The charge is answered in a highly facetious manner by " Winchilsea and Nottingham," the distinguished critic of Milton, who inveighs " against the loathsome mass of sensibility so much on the increase in the present day." Despite all that " Winchilsca and Nottingham " can say in his elegant style for pigeon slaughter we hold it to be a cruel and wanton amuse ment, with which sportsmen of the best school have constantly expressed themselves disgusted. It requires but little skill, and that little of the quality which may be found in the billiard-leg or the skittle-sharp. It is not even a good preparation for the cowardly tattue, as it is well known that famous hands at scoring pigeons shoot wildly enough when brought into the preserves. No doubt the noble pigeon-shooter is an authority on the usages of the aristocratic pastime; but that is no reason why he should burst into a rage against everyone who says a word in favour of humane ideas. His letter, if taken to prove anything, includes an apology for badger bating, cock-fighting, and the habits of intemperate cattle-drovers, who are, no doubt, sufferers with "Win chilsea and Nottingham" from the "loathsome mass of sensibility" which obtrudes itself upon the notice of the gambling gunners of Red House, whose recreations are of so civilising a character. The Telegraph observes that after many days of excite ment, not quite without anxiety, on the part of the pro jectors and the contractors, the French Atlantic Cable has been laid, and it now adds a third electric nerve to those which previously bound together the Old and the New \Vorlds. There has been a brief period of silence, while the mists were lifting and the engineers were snaking the splice at St. Pierre ; but the great ship has spoken again, and felicitations have been flashed to the French Emperor upon the virtual completion of the work. The interest of the public in thr enterprise, though considerable, has not been so intense as that exhibited when the second' cable was deposited and the first one picked up ; for the simple reason that the extraordinary skill and perfect mechanical and nautical resources demonstrated on those occasions had proved that submarine telegraphy had ceased to belong to the realm of wild speculation. With the huge Great Eastern to help them, our electricians and line layers have become masters of their business ; and the Est triumphant success will inspire fresh confidence in their powers. The developments which many sciences may receive under the impulse of this instantaneous communication of fact and thought, can only be guesqel at present ; but remarkable progress has been made already, and future advances are sure to be still snore signal. Imperfect as the network of our magnetic system is at the present time, in political and commercial matters the electric wire has worked a silent revolution. The latest excellent achievement in cable-laying will give a fresh impulse to magnetic enterprise everywhere, fur the feats accomplished even during so comparatively uneventful a, voyage conclusively show that we are masters of the conditions of success, and the only question now is where we want lines laid, not whether we can lay them. THE ATHENA:UM. —The Committee of the Athe rifc:tun Club, in virtue of their special rule which gives extraordinary facilities to the election of a Cabinet Min ister, have elected Mr. John Bright,M.P., to be a member of the club. The election was unanimous, the committee having been specially summoned. Lord Stanhope was le the chair. THE MANCHESTER SHOW. The trial of implements is still going on at the Royal Agricultural Show, Manchester. Meanwhile several prizes for other things have been awarded. The following for models of cottages, for instance :—For plans or models, specifications, and estimates of labourers' cottages, to be built in pairs, with not less than three sleeping rooms each, having regard to cheapness, arrangement, and con venience, prize of £lO, the Central Cottage Improvement Society (H. Martin, secretary), 37, Arundel-street, Strand, London. Prize £lO, two sheets of drawings for labourers' cottages, with specifications for same, Edwin Clarke, Lin coln. Prize £lO, plan, with printed specifications for a double cottage, with estimate of cost, Mr. James Martin, Wainfleet, Boston. There are also some prizes for sheds and roofing. Model of hay and corn sheds, prize £lO, Mr. George Jackson, Tattenhall Hall, Chester. Circular felt roofing, prize £5, Messrs. M`Tear and Co., Belfast and London. Gal vanised iron thatch substitute for hay and corn ricks Peal prize), Messrs. Morton and Co. (Limited), Naylor street, Liverp.ol ; ditto permanent, hay, barn, or corn shed, Messrs. F. Morton and Co. (Limited), Liverpool, highly commended. ADULTERATION OF SEED. Some rather striking evidence was given on Thursday to the select committee on the Seeds Adulteration Bill. Mr. Bitching was examined, and claimed to know something of the feeling of those who engaged in the seed trade. He himself was engaged largely in the sale of clover seed both in this country and on the Continent. The tradedie said, as a rule, was opposed to abill for preventing adulteration. It was a practice in the trade to mix seed so as to reduce the price. The first quality went to Ireland, the second to Scotland, and the worst stopped at home. These remarks applied to clover seeds. If the Seeds Adultera• tion Bill passed and farmers failed to have their seeds germinate as well as they would wish, they would be sure to infer that the seed had been adulterated. He saw no necessity for the bill, as the germinating power of 75 per cent. was sufficient, below which adulteration was not carried. They always said whether it was a " genuine" seed or not. Thought it was a honest thing to sell clover seed in the way it was sold. Did not think it was a honest thing to mix sand with sugar. Did not think it fair to mix water with milk ; but did consider it fair to mix new milk with old milk. Believed that good " middling " would answer the same purpose as superior seed. Used to adulterate clover seed, but it did not answer, and had given the practice up. Never heard a farmer express a desire to have adulterated instead of pure seed, but had known them ask for the cheaper. Really believed that the majority of those in the trade were either opposed to the bill or remained neutral in the matter. HARVEST PROSPECTS. There has just been completed this week (says the Tines) one of the finest hay harvests that have been gathered for a great number of years in the agricultural counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester. The rains in the early part of the summer excited a luxuriant growth in the grass, and during the last three weeks there has been almost uninterrupted sunshine. The crop is generally very heavy, and owing to the favourable weather it has been got in in excellent condition. Only in two or three isolated positions is any grass now uncut, and farmers are beginning to think of the corn crops. These are generally good, and the recent hot weather has much improved their appearance. The cold and wet a month ago had a damaging effect for the time on the wheat crop, which made no progress, but the blossoming time just over has been a vet y favourable one. Wheat is now just filling, and a slight change of colour is visible in the landscape. In some situations the corn is thin, Lut on strong clay lands, well farmed, the wheat promises an abundant yield. Winter beans are very thick on the ground, and generally well podded, but some farmers complain of want of pod. Spring beans are free from blight. Peas are now being harvested in the Vale of Evesham. Oats are not much grown in Worcestershire, but on the Cots• wok! Hills in Gloucestershire and in Herefordshire the promise is good. Barley is a promising crop. Marigolds are now doing well, the hot weather suits them, but swedes would be benefited by a few July showers. Hops are much blighted ; the cold weather in June was greatly against them, but if anything can restore them and give a chance of a crop it is the present hot sunny time. Apples and pears are a good average crop, and plums in the Vale of Evesham are abundant. Potatoes good, and free from disease at presen t , The Western Morning News, in an article on the crops in North Devon, says that the wheat crop, notwithstand ing the icy cold rains of May and the high, biting winds which prevailed during the first ball of June, appears, on the whole, to be looking well, and nearly every district promises a good crop .- indeed almost the only complaint one hears is of the immense number of poppies. Earley dues not promise to Le so good a cmp, having first been checked by an unfavourable May, and latterly by the drought. The same remarks in a great measure apply to oats, which are in general short in the straw. Man gold wurtzel having taken deep root before the drought set in, looks well everywhere ; it is expected that the crop will be immense. Flat-pole cabbages too, which are not so much affected by drought a 4 turnips, appear to be getting in more request. With reference to turnips, if copious rains do not quickly set in, the crop must again he a failure, for one sees as yet but very few fields in which turnip seed has germinated. Pasture land is already getting very bare, and it is feared that farmers will be compelled to force a sale of their stock, which may for a week or two occasion a fall in the present very high price of animal food, but it must of necessity be followed by a rebound, particularly if the turnip crop again prove a failure. LAJV AND POLICE,. THE BLAKELY ORDNANCE COMPANY.—In the Rolls Court, on Thursday, several shareholders of the Blakely Ordnance Company disputed their liability to be placed on List B as members during twelve months prior to the winding up. Mr. Creyke, who had forfeited forty shares fo non-payment of a call, was retained on the list, his lordship holding that forfeiture did not put an end to the liability for debts contracted prior to the forfeiture. Mr. Bailey, who had been induced to sign his name to two transfers of partly-paid shares, believing them to be fully paid, was removed from the list on the ground of the fraud practised on him ; and Colonel Rolland was also omitted from List 8., as no debts now existed which were incurred prior to the time when he ceased to be a member. TRADE MARKS.— On Thursday Vice-Chancellor James granted an injunction to Messrs. Upmann, cigar manu facturers, at Havannah, Cuba, to restrain Messrs. Ellean, of Great Tower-street, from removing from St. Katherine's Docks cases of cigars bearing a fraudulent imitation of their trade mark. MANSLAUGHTER IN SOUTHWARK.—James Doulton, who had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Henry John• son, was brought up for judgment at the Central Crimi nal Court. He was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. THE UXBRIDGE MURDER. -At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, William Murray, aged 23, was in dicted for the murder of Frederick Redrup, at Uxbridge Evidence was given to spew that the prisoner had beer drinking for some six weeks, and this was pleaded in his defence, as the murder, it was urged, was unpremeditated. Chief Justice Bovill said that there was no such thing known to the law as that drunkenness should Le a defence against a crime. There was no evidence of insanity in this case, or of anything more than a temporary frenzy produced by dritk. The jury, after ten minutes' consultation, found a verdict of Guilty. and the prisoner, uho was quite unmoved, was sentenced to death. During the course of this trial some disturb. ance was created by Mr. Brierly, an elderly member of the Bar, who insisted on scene of the junior counsel making way for him, and attempted to drag one of them from his seat. After couch disturbance, he was removed by order of the Chief Justice, who said he was afraid Mr. Brierly was not responsible for his actions, or he would have committed him. A PRIVILEGED CABMAN.—A privileged cabman on Thursday summoned a gentleman at Clerkenwell for 17s. fare. The cabman had taken up the defendant at the Shoreditch station of the Great Eastern Railway ; but as the Court of Exchequer lately decided that a cab-stand at a railway station was private property, the complainant had now no remedy in the police-court. The srmmoils was dismissed, with an intimation that the defendant could be sued only in the County Court. The Record states, on the authority of peers who attended the meeting at CIA sterf,,hl House, that it related exclusively to the election of a new Irish peer in the rocns of Lord Cast], ntaine, az.d that the Irish Church Bill had n , part in the deliLeration ,, . The Midland Comrany have been mulcted at the Leicester Assizes in £250 damages for injuries to alittl9 girl sustained by being run over by one of their engines at a crossing, alleged to Le negligently guarded, near to tilt Coalville station, on the 17th of August last. The post of Secretary of the "English Church Union," the society which defenecd Mr. 3lackonochie nn:l the other Ritualists who Lave been attacked, is about to become vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hope Johnstone. There have been some dissensions in the society of late, and some of the Conservative members have retired. The secre taryship is worth £3OO a year. 44 • ~ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1869, and Sudden Death. There is a very little man, with a particularly lively, jerky sort of gait. He has been christened " the Flea." A man who looks like a hideous caricature of a Jew, with the most forbidding countenance ever seen, and a young woman by his side — never the same young woman two weeks together—is known as " Satan." He is a money-lender, and his average rate of interest for loans on good security is not more than 150 per cent. All sorts of good wishes attend this gentleman as he takes his fair companion out for an airing. This class of frequenters is increasing, while the country squires and the young bucks of the very first water seem to be deserting the Row. The Regency is re turning upon us in an aggravated form. The huge pile of scaffolding which the frequenters of Kensington Gardens have noticed for some time past will soon have given place to a colosseum-looking building, known as the "Central Hall of Arts and Sciences." In the foundation of this structure 2,000 tons of concrete have been used, and the whole building will absorb six million bricks. The organ will be the largest in the world. Who is to pay for hall and organ and who will use them are matters not yet at all clear. That victim of the aristocracy, Mr. Grenville Murray, is to be sat upon at an inquest instituted by the Conser vative Club, whereof Mr. Murray is a bright particular star. But the club will, I believe, concern itself less with the Carington affair than with the reason which led to Mr. Murray's dismissal from his post as Consul at Odessa. That the season is drawing to a close there are evident signs and tokens. The picture galleries are announcing the day of their closing, and actors are taking their benefits. To-night, by the way, John Parry gives a fare well performance at the Lyceum, which has been reopened, after being shut for many months. Before Londoners leave town they will have an opportunity of seeing something new in the way of statues. Yesterday, as I was passing through Trafalgar-square, I noticed some figure being erected on the only one vacant of the four pedestals in the Square. The figure was veiled, but I fancy, from the glimpse that I got of it between the canvas, that it was fearfully and wonderfully made, as all our statues are. I was at Warwick a few days ago, and had the misfor tune to go over the grand old Castle with the worst cicerone that it has ever been my bad fortune to come across. " Very fine Murillo ; Rubens much admired ; Limoge enamel, the best in England ; the ceiling ; the mirrors, the furniture," and so on, gabble, gabble, as fast as she could speak, so that I came away almost as ignorant as I went in. Why don't our great peers get rid of these pests? Poor old Jerdan has gone at last. Some fifty years ago he was editing the Sun, of which be was partly a pro prietor. It was, however, in connection with the Literary Gazette that be was best known. His autobiography, published some seventeen years ago, was an amusing work. He was writing to the last, and in his 87th year be was contributing to Fraser. Another notability has been taken from us this week—Lord Taunton, the Henry Labouchere of days gone by. He did what, I suspect, no other nobleman has done. He paid back £lOO,OOO compensation money which the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company had paid his father for cutting through his lands. Lord Taunton had the honesty to see that his estate was enhanced in value by far more than the ordinary price of the land taken from him. The Khedive of Egypt means that the opening of the Suez Canal shall be a great event. He has given invita tions to a large number of London journalists to he pre sent, and some of them are likely to accept the offer. Let me commend to your readers two books which II have just been reading with great interest ; for light read ing, Walter Thornbury's " Vicar's Courtship," a novel full of incident ; for grave reading, Mr. Stopford Brooke's Sermons, which are equally- full of original thought. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Tur, POLITICAL CRISIS. At last the Times is compelled to confess that there is no chance for concurrent endowment. Behind a cloud of words it conceals the retreat which was inevitable from the first. It still likes the principle, just as the men on board the Tarshish ship liked Jonah, who was no doubt very good company. for all that the prophet had to go overboard when the storm came. So is it with the principle. It is, says the Times, a good principle; it " marks a certain progress towards religious progress on the part of the Lords. But "no change of front can be effected in the face of the enemy." It might have been explained to the constituencies at the last election, and the constituencies which vehemently repudiated Lord Mayo's proposal to level up would, the Times thinks, have approved Lord Stanhope's proposal. It is all the fault of the bishops that this was not done. If instead of pronouncing at St. James's Hall against any alteration of the status of the Irish Church, they had but gone about the country pointing out the supreme advantages of giving glebes and manses all the way round, the position would, at the present moment, be different. " However, it is now perhaps too late for this via media, and with it must assuredly be abandoned the hope of re-endow ing the disestablished Church directly or indirectly out of funds declared to be State property." The Times then goes on to tell the Lords, whom it has hitherto encouraged to resist the Government, what they must do. We need not go into details. The various points insisted upon are, of course by a mere fortuitous coincidence, just those which Mr. Glad stone had previously made known he would insist upon, just those which the Liberal journals generally have insisted upon. The leading jouinal has com e to the same conclusion by a rather roundabout way, and considerably after time. But then it is " leading journal. ME7ROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Thursday, A week ago I wrote " I feel as certain as I am of any future event that the Times will find itself utterly mis taken on the present occasion, and that Mr. Gladstone will not accept the scheme of concurrent endowment." To-day my prophecy is fulfilled. On Monday evening Mr. Gladstone's letter to the Ulster Orangemen was pub lished, in which he declared that he would not accept con current endowment in any shape. That letter the editor of the Times seems to have overlooked, for on Tuesday morning there appeared an article rejoicing in the carrying of Lord Stanhope's amendment, and insisting that this solu tion of the difficulty must and would be accepted. Not till We dn esdaywasMr. Gladstone's letter published in th e Times. For that day its leading columns ignored the Irish Church as completely as though that institution had never been heard of. This silence was a very clear indication of what was coming ; and those who had studied the signs of the Times were not at all surprised to find this morning that the leading journal had thrown concurrent endow ment overboard, on the ground that it was " too late." What Lord Salisbury thinks of this desertion on the very eve of battle may be, as the penny-a-liners say, "better imagined than described." He had fallen into the delu sion that the Times represented the nation ; the Times had fallen into the delusion that it was possible to bring about a coalition Government, with the Marquis at its head, and the old Whigs, like the Duke of Somerset, Lord Halifax, and the Duke of Cleveland, and the true Liberal-Conservatives like the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Stanhope, and Earl Devon among its members. Never was there a greater mistake. The whole scheme has utterly collapsed, and now the Times contemptuously tells the Peers that their recent vote for concurrent endow ment is satisfactory because it "marks a certain progress towards equality on the part of the Lords." But now they must go still farther. As the via media is impossible, they must take the strait and narrow way of total disendow ment. They must, in a word, restore the bill to its original shape. The Times has made many blunders in its time, but never so serious a blunder as this. It is the more serious, because all its contemporaries, both London and provincial, except, of course, the Conservative organs, have been saying all along what the Times has not said till to-day. While the " leading" jour nal was declaring that the whole nation had changed upon this point of concurrent endowment, the Independent and the Liberal journals were maintaining that the nation had never wavered, and that the Government would not waver. This blunder shews that the Times has lost the power which it once had of ascertaining the direction of popular feeling. The truth is, the ruling class, the class which makes public opinion, is now of a lower social grade than formerly. Of old, the ideas of dukes and marquises prevailed ; now it is the ideas of traders and shopkeepers. The Times has forgotten this, and has been still looking for its oracles in the House of Lords, and so has fallen into the most remarkable mistake that it has ever made. Everybody knows now the course which Mr. Gladstone will take. It is that which I said a week ago he would take. The real point of interest now is, will the Lords accept the bill which the Commons will send back to them ? At the end of last week they, or rather the majority of them, were determined that they would not. But circumstances alter cases, and the circumstances of this week are very different from those of last week. Then the Times was counselling concurrent endow ment, now the Times declares that it is too late. Then Lord Salisbury was declared to be the master of the situation, now he is eimply one of many peers who will have to give way gracefully, or to yield to pressure in November. Then the nation had not spoken except by its representatives in the Commons, now, challenged to speak, it has spoken, and is speaking, and the papers contain columns of reports of meetings all over the kingdom. Nor is this all. I mentioned on a former occasion that a leader of the trades unions had made arrangements by which he could set those bodies in motion at twenty-four hours' notice. To-day I read the following advertisement in the Times:— A RE the PEOPLE or the LORDS to RULE ?—A .tom MEETING of WOr KING MEN to support Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill, and, if necessary, to arrange for a great demonstra tion, will be held at the Arundel-hall, Arundel-s•reet, Strand. THIS (Thursday) EVENING. July 15. Chair to be taken at 8 o'clock. by EDMOND BEALE:4, Esq., M.A. The Meeting will be addressed by leading working men and Members of Parliament. On behalf of the Committee, GEORGE POTTER, Hon. Sec. In fact, we are to have the old story of the Reform agita tion over again. Will the Lords, remembering what came of resistance befcre, resist now? It is at least doubtful. Yet, remembering that they passed the second reading of the bill at a time when there was no agitation, there is reason to hope that they will not reject the bill now that agitation has begun. At the same time I am bound to say that up to the present moment I have not had any definite information that they will yield. The postponement of the Government Telegraphs Bill is causing great dissatisfaction. However, there is every reason to believe that the Government mean, if possible, to pass it this session. An attempt will be made to deal with it on Monday night, by which time the Irish Church Bill will have left the Commons. Some com plaint is made that the Government should at the same time fix so high a tariff as ls., and claim a mono poly. I believe that Mr. Norwood, to whom the bill in great measure owes its existence, will propose to substitute a sixpenny for a shilling rate. Louder and more urgent become the rumours respecting the great scandal of the day. The utmost efforts have, it is said, been made to suppress it, but the wronged husband is determined to pursue the matter, let who will be ruined in character thereby. The erring wife is now insane, but he who is accused of having destroyed her is still occupying his position in the State and in society. It is a miserable subject, and may well make one anxious about this country's future. From first to last in his career the person whose misdeed is now the theme of common talk has never displayed a single quality to redeem him in the estimation of the country. Meanness is freely attributed, together with more serious vices. The love of play, say those who have seen it exhibited by ,the person in question, is keen enough ; but while he scrapes together the winnings, he never pays when he loses. " Another Plunger " might be almost kept standing by your compositors as a weekly heading. The last is the son of a nobleman who has shewn himself on more than one occasion a statesman. The father of the plunger is himself the son of a plunger. By strict self-denial and thrift, and by business talents far above the average, he had succeeded in reestablishing the position which his father had lost. But what profit is there for a man in all the labour that he hath under the sun ? No sooner has the earl of to-day extricated himself from the difficulties in which the earl of yesterday plunged him than the earl of to-morrow rushes into the wild courses of his grandfather, and is compelled to leave the country and, I suppose, to vacate the seat which he won a few months ago, after a severe contest. Thus another of our ancient families—and this is one of the most ancient—seems destined to go to the horses. And then our aristocrats wonder at " the advance of de mocracy." Yesterday morning saw one of those alliances between the noble and burgher classes which will do more to keep back democracy than any amount of senile indignation at the Carlton and White's. The Marquis of Huntly, the premier Marquis of Scotland, who came of age a few months ago, was married at Westminster Abbey to the daughter of a Manchester banker. All the world was there, including royalty itself. Everything that could be done was done to impress upon the young bride the hall mark of nobility. This banker's daughter, now the premier Marchioness of Scotland, brought a dowry to her husband which may well conceal any defect in that way. She has had £20,000 a year settled upon her, with the promise of as much more when her father dies. The vicissitudes of great families have formed the subject of many a volume. The Ellesmere family would contribute a good chapter. The ancestors of the young Earl who, next week, is to entertain the Prince of Wales, were at one time far from wealthy. But of late years the family property has increased in value enormously. As with the eccentric Earl of Dudley, so with the Earl of Ellesmere, it is coal that has done it. Nearly the whole of the latter nobleman's Lancashire property is situated upon a thick bed of coal, and through it run twenty-eight miles of underground canals. By means of these the necessity for raising coal to the surface is obviated, and it is taken to Manchester and other places without change of carriage. The Earl of Ellesmere came of age last year. During his minority of six years his estates were most carefully superintended by his steward, Mr. Tereday Smith, and his trustee, the Hon. Algernon Egerton. The result of their management is that this young nobleman will be almost as wealthy as the Gros venors. Future etymologists will, I fear, derive the word rowdy from the Row with an unsavoury name where of old the beau monde, but now the demi-monde, disports itself. Early in the day Rotten Row is pleasant enough ; but in the afternoon flock thither all the disreputable people in London. An old frequenter tells me that the women with carrnined cheeks who used to take their airing in Burlington Arcade now come out farther west, followed by a tribe of over-dressed men, who seem to have been turned out of all warehouses and drapers' shops in town. The old stagers are so well known that they have received nicknames, not always of a complimentary character. There is a curled and dyed man whose rigid walk and cadaverous face have won for him the appellation of " the Corpse." A stern-looking woman who drives a pair of ponies is known as " the Fury." Then there are three brothers, with very sandy hair, each a little uglier than the other. These are respectively called Battle, Murder, THE NATIONAL REFOIIII UNION MEETING. The metropolitan demonstration against concur rent endowment took place on Wednesday evening. St. James's hall is said by some of the papers to have been full, but that expression admits of some latitude, and it does not appear that at any time the room was inconveniently crowded, though there was a large and enthusiastic gathering. The chairman was Mr. Samuel Morley, N.P. Mr. Miall, M.P., Sir 0, Duke, M.P., Mr. Rogers, Mr. Potter Mr. Mason Jones, and the Rev. Newman hall addressed the meeting. All denounced concurrent endowment. The chairman sneered at the Episcopal Bench renouncing the principle of establishment, and " haggling for sums of money, as though the weight and importance of religion lay in money-bags." Ile went on to call the alterations which the Lords had attempted to make as " the acquisition of plunder," which they wanted to make safe by endowing other sects. He held that truth was too sacred to be subsidised by political parties, and, therefore, opposed all endowments. Mr. Rogers, late Professor of Oxford, spoke in much the same train, saying that priests everywhere were sworn enemies of liberty, and therefore ought not to be endowed. The Lords were irresponsible. Since 1688 had they (he asked) done even one good thing for England If a collision were provoked, he went on to say, he cared not if it were as fatal to them as Abergele, or whether fear (which animated some creatures) would induce them to keep within the Constitution. Mr. Mall declared it most humiliating to see the bishops seeking after worldly rather than spiritual gifts for their Church. The way in which, forgetting the vital principles of Christianity, they had of late been "in hot pursuit of worldly stuff," had done much to convert many to infidelity. Mr. Mason Jones characterised the proceedings of the primates and prelates as being more worthy of minis ters of Mammon than of our Lord. The resolutions passed at the meeting were in favour of " the bill, the who7e bill, and nothing but the bill;" and re quested the House of Commons to support Mr. Gladstone. DISESTABLISUMENT (F THE SCOTCH C Mr. G eorge Anderson, the junior M.P. for Glasgow, is not satisfied with the disestablishment of the Irish Church this session ; he wishes for Scotland to be dealt with at the same time, and is not without an opportunity for raising the question. Mr. M'Laren has brought in a bill on the Edinburgh Annuity Tax, and to this bill Mr. Anderson has proposed several amendments which—as far as their obscure meaning can be discovered—aim at the separation between Church and State in Scotland. The Liberal papers of Scotland don't seem to see it ; and they mildly rebuke Mr. Anderson by telling him that he has more courage than prudence. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The Star, assuming that the Lords will throw out the Irish Church Bill, has an article full of menace against that illustrious body. Their lord ships are vehemently accused of having . never resisted a bad bill, a nd of having never faikd to resist a good one. All the great reforms of the last forty years are detailed, and Vie treatment which they received from the Pecis described. , Their lordships are told that the country is weary of them and their fictitious grandeur, that the superstitious apathy with which the obstruc tiveness of the Peers 1 a 3 been viewed hitherto is at an end. The country is weary of that obstructiveness, of that "mischievous abstird:ty, and are stronziy disposed to visit it, not with idle wrath, but mith some very efficacious cure. Popular surgery is not often forthcoming, but when it does come it is always thorough. This chronic evil of patrician obstruction may probably be cut out of our political system at no distant day with less ado than a yen. ago we might have expected." If this is Mr. John Morley's writing we do not congratulate our contemporary upon its new editor. This stlge thunder style of writing is out of date. If there is to be any great change in the constitution of the Legislature, if not by eloquence cf the Beales type that it w. 1 b; brought about. TIIE GREAT ORANGE SHOW. The great Orange Show of the year—that which most amuses the people, and which in tho Quietest times never falls tq " craw " we::--is ae:d in tho' vicinity of Searv4bi the county of Down, It is a representation of the battle of the Boyne. Some 15,000 persons v,itnessed the ridiculous travesty this year. King William 111. was represented in flowing robes of orange, mounted on a plough-horse, and attended by two " generals," who looked as if they had been specially engaged from a travelling theatre. His brave army consisted of an awkward squad of about 30 men, dressed in monstrous orange uniforms, and carrying firelocks old enough to have done duty at the Boyne. The figure of King James was not cal culated to convey a very exalted notion of regal dignity. He appeared in a suit like a bedgown, and carried in addition to his sword a large gingham umbrella. The sound of ear-splitting fifes innumerable, and of huge drums beaten as if by machinery, mingled with the rattle of muskets, the shouts, cheers, and 80 0 7 ( 3 of a multitude numbering from 12 ,000 to 15 people, made the terrible encounter between the hostile forces an indescribable scene of ludicrous ex citement. After a hand-to-hand combat King James was taken prisoner and the army put to rout. Cheers were then given for the " glorious, pious, and immortal memory," and for the " Church and the Orange Institution." Thus the principles of Pro testantism are impressed on the people. INDIAN AFFAIRS. When Parliament does condescend to come down from important local affairs to the trivial occupa tion of considering the Empire of India, it seems likely that it will have to discuss some new propo sals, and one especially of railway extension and reform. It is said to be the intention of the Duke of Argyll on Monday next to communicate to the House of Lords a proposal for the undertaking on the part of the Government of Indian railways, a board representing the shareholders being appointed to work with the Ciovernment. New lines arealso to be proposed, and various reforms brought under the notice of the House. BISHOP JENNEB. Bishop Jenner is about to turn up again, like a bad penny. Consecrated in 1865, ho reached his diocese after between three and four years lingering in England. But, though too late, he was too soon. His flock will not be shepherded by him, and he is about to return to England, where ho will be, we suppose, a sort of bishop in partilus, available for any incapable bishop who is not afraid of Dr. Jenner's very pronounced views. RETLTIZNING GOOD 781 z, EVIL. The Zulus having converted Bishop Colenso, the S. P. G. and the S. P. C. K. are about to return good for evil by sending out another bishop to convert the Zulus. The idea has originated with Miss Mac kenzie, sister of the late Bishop Mackenzie. This new bishop will be placed under the metropolitical superintendence of the Bishop of Capetown, and will be one of his suffragans. Five thousand pounds will be deemed sufficient to endow this bishopric—a modest sum, not more than half one year's income of the Bishop of London. It is not stated if any guarantees w;11 be required on behalf of the new bishop, so that, in the event of accidents, the money shall recur to the founders of the bishopric. Remembering what has happened once, such a precaution would seem .only wise. It would not do to have two bishops retaining their sees after being converted by the men whom they were sent out to convert. THE WEATHER AND THE CROFS. Mr. Allnatt, writing to the Times about the weather, says that from the 4th of this month to the 12th the mean temperature was daily above the average of July. At four o'clock - on Monday the shade heat was 74 deg. The mean day temperature was 07 deg., 5.1 above the average. Mr. Allnatt calls special attention to phosphorus on the sea at Eastbourne on Monday. It is there a most rare phenomenon, and Mr. Allnatt, attributing it to the presence of insects, enters into some speciali ties as to the cause. He closes his letter with the question—" May it not be that a certain combination of positive and negative electricity is necessary to elicit in a calm sea the vital action for luminosity of these minute infusorial rotifers ?" "Minute infusorial rotifers" are very interesting creatures doubtless, but probably the crops are more generally so just now. Mr. Mechi contributes his opinion on the latter subject. It is still to the effect that there will be a large food produce this year. The wheat, he admits, is rather under quality, and perhaps under average in quantity; but abundant peas and beans, good oats, an average crop of barley, promising potatoes, the excellent condition of pasturage, and the fine hay produce, make it evident that the gain will be very large. The heat and sunshine of the last few days have, Mr. Mechi says, done wonders, brightening the prospect considerably. The want of heat has caused a serious and singular injury to the wheat crops, and to some barley. The moisture, not being withdrawn, has rotted the stem between the root and the first joint. This part of the plant, which should be hard and glassy, has became soft and pulpy, and the kernels arc consequently spongy and undeveloped. The evil is not general ; how extensive it is Mr. Mechi does not informs us, but he thinks it sufficiently extensive to cause a diminution in the crops. CONFERENCE ON PAUPERISM. On Wednesday, the Conference on Pauperism and Emigration was resumed and concluded, at the Sessions llouse, Westminster. Lord A. Churchill presided, and presented an amended memorandum containing the chief facts and propositions. It stated that there had been an increase of pauperism lately, and the total cost of main taining this burden was £1,300,000. The chief point of the memorandum was the recommendation that the Poor-law Board should levy a rate of a penny in the pound in the metropolis, uniformly assessed, and to continue for ten years, in order to defray the cost of pauper emigration. Several of the guardians were of opinion that country tramps would keep up the rates if the metropolis were relieved of paupers by the emigration scheme. After some discus sion had taken place the votes for the memorial were taken, and the guardians voted so as to reject all the propositions. Colonel Maude severely censured their conduct. It was stated that the memorial would be adopted and presented to the Poor-law Board by individual guardians. TAXES ON USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Twenty-one years ago an association was formed for agitating against taxes which prevented the spread of education. The Paper tax, the newspaper stamp, and impediments to printing and publishing, were each denounced. The society—the " A ss oc i a. tiOn for Promoting the Eepeal of Taxes on Know ledge"—has just now ceased to exist, its p urposo having been accomplished. The last evil which it strove to remove was the newspaper security system. An Act for the repeal of that s y ste m received the royal assent on Wednesday. Clearly we have made some little progress since '4B. PIGEON SHOOTING. The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham writes to the Morning Post to deny the statement made by one of its correspondents, that pigeons have one of their eyes put out before being s h o t at i n pigeon matches. Both the dual Earl and other correspon dents are very indignant at all the outcry which is being raised about a few birds. The Earl quotes the Pharisee against those who would put down this detestable sport, tells them to mind their own busi ness, and says more money is forthcoming to prosecute him who flays a cat than him who flays a Christian. The Earl forgets that it is the very same class which is now protesting against the doings at Hurlinghain which also insisted upon the abolitiAr of flogging in the army, and t it is the pigeon shooters who always upheld flogging as one of the institutions of the country. " Harliaway," the reporter who does tile pigeon matches for the Post, says that " those who arc desirous of putting a stop to this skilful and harmless pastime should endeavour to obtain an Act of Parliament in order to dispense with the killing either of fish, flesh, or fowl." So it comes to this, our golden youth are merely butchers in disguise, with this difference, that, whereas the ordinary butcher slays because it is necessary to do so, the aristocratic butcher slays because he enjoys it. If this is the best apology which noble lords and hon. commoners can offer, they must not be surprised if the country takes them at their own estimate, and ranks the kid gloved habitues of Hurlingliam something below the blue-bloused frequenters of Smithfield. ALDERNEY BREAKIVATER. • Captain Saumarez, of Jersey, describes a visit which he has lately paid to Alderney breakwater. He states that this work has cost 11 millions, and is utterly useless. At present repairs are going on, but the effects of the last gales will not be removed before fresh gales set in. The captain asks that an inquiry should be made into the whole matter before any more money is squandered upon a work that is absolutely worthless. This, we may remind the gallant writer, is not the only work of the kind. There is one in his own island. A little beyond Mont Orgueil are a harbour and a magnificent pier, llle narbour is so shallow that no ships can enter it; the pier is grass-grown, and the only useful portion )f the whole works is the lighthouse, which has to be kept burning in order to warn vessels off this har bour of refuge. These were some of the little freaks with which that most popular of Ministers, Lord Palmerston, used to amuse himself at the expense of the taxpayers. FOREIGN NOTES- INDUSTRAL EXHIBITION AT AMSTERDAM. Yesterday the Netherlands International Exhibition of Domestic Economy was opened at Amsterdam. The world hay lately supped so lull of these shows that nothing save the most exceptional grandeur can command attention for the future. But the wthibition M Amster• am miry are to pass unnoticed. It has a 41stftetrve feature. Its object is to bring to the knowledge of the working classes and others such articles of household use, furniture, clothing, food, tools and implements, and ob jects of information and instruction, as combine useful ness and durability, so that the working classes may be enabled by judicious economy to improve their condition. Articles of luxury, of fine art, of elegance, and ornament, are excluded, and the exhibitors will be expected to put prices on their goods. The subjects for exhibition include houses, household necessaries, clothing, food, tools and implements, means of moral, intellectual, and bodily de velopement, and reports, statues, and regulations of associ ations for promoting the well-being of the working classes. Every arrangement has been made to ensure success to this most worthy undertaking. The Dutch railway companies have undertaken to convey goods duty free. British goods will be forwarded through the Netherlands Consul at Hull free of charge. A London committee is acti !sly oruploy4 , l iu bringing this exhibition before the notice Ent,ish noblemen, of whose attention it is well deserving. re.T POLICY IN CERMANY. Wha aver the cause of Count Bismarck's retire. ment to Varzin—ill-health or otherwise -it is certain that the members of the Prussian Government are not working as harmoniously as could be wished. A correspondent of the Temps, who is well informed on German affairs, says that the majority of the leading Prussian statesmen have prevailed against Count Bismarck, and the move- ment in the direction of German unity is to be stopped. All parties, including the National Liberals themselves, are agreed upon the necessity for maintaining peace, and they perceive clearly that peace would be broken if Baden or any other southern State be annexed to Prussia. They have, therefore, determined to pursue the unity scheme only in the most cautious and indirect manner. Count Bismarck is opposed to this policy. He thinks that to stand still is to go backward. Prussia must either speedily include the Southern States in the Northern Confederation or run the risk of losing them altogether. The Chancellor, however, is outnumbered, and the victory of his adversaries will be of advantage to that party in the South which seeks to establish a separate confederation of the Southern States. ENGLISH AND PRUSSIAN COAL. Some noteworthy facts in connection with the con. sumption of English coal in Prussia are given in an official return. Owing to the rapid increase of the yield from the Saxon and Silesian mines, the consumption of English coals in the Prussian inland provinces is on the decline. But it is remarkable that the use of English coal on the coast provinces has very greatly augmented, it being cheaper to get coal from England by sea than from Saxony or Silesia by land. In the ports of the North German Confederation coals are every year becoming a more important article of commerce. But in the interior the return of the Prussian mines increases with great rapidity. In 1854 the quantity of coal raised in England was ten times as great as that mined in Prussia. In 1867 it was only five times as great. SUFFERINGS OF THE BELLIGERENTS IN CUBA The special correspondent of the New York Times gives what seems to be a satisfactory explanation of the sudden cessation of hostilities in Cuba. We hear no more of engagements, because the contesting parties are too weak to attack each other. Both sides endure great misery. Sickness and disease has either killed them off by hundreds or else laid them up in temporary hos pitals. The Cubans, compelled to wander in the woods, swamps, and mountain fastnesses, poorly provided with anti-scorbutics or medicines, have suffered dreadfully, and only the continual influx of recruits from almost every section of the island has enabled them to keep their ranks filled. The Spaniards have suffered in equal proportion, the disadvantages of being unaccustomed to the climate being balanced by the possession of hospitals and medi cines. One battalion has been left with 300 men fit for duty out of 1,100. The heavy rains will prevent any operations for some time to come. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN MASSACHUSETTS. A liquor law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic drinks, ale, and lager-beer, has come into operation in Massachu setts. The measure is a very stringent one. The penalty for a single sale is 10 dole. fine and from twenty to thirty days' imprisonment ; for a second violation, 20 dols. and from thirty to sixty days' imprisonment; and for any subsequent violation, 50 dols. and from three to six months' imprisonment, with an extra month in each case when the fine is not paid. The keeping with intent to sell is punished by 10 dole. fine and twenty days' imprisonment. The seller is liable for all damage done by the buyer and drinker while drunk, and any person arrested for drunkenness can escape prosecu tion by appearing as a witness against the man of whom he purchased his liqour. The police are vigorously engaged in enforcing this law. The work promises at first to be rather heavy. ENGLISH ACTRESSES IN AMERICA. The New York Times rejoices over a great achieve. ment. British burlesque has made its exit. The troops of actresses and dancers from England and France, whose contortions and liberal exposures gave such annoyance to the moral people of New York, have been finally got rid of. " A single theatre now re luctantly prolongs the existence of British burlesque in this city. All doors, excepting those of Niblo's Garden, have been closed upon it, and at the end of this month we shall have the satisfaction of recording its dismissal from this last stronghold." The news is highly satisfactory. Only it is to be hoped that, now New York has been freed from the indecency and extravagance imported from England, it will set to work to get rid of its native stock, which is not small. CANADA. The Canadians have chosen the Ist of July as tne anniversary day on which the formation of the Dominion is to be celebrated every year with rejoicing. One of the American journals thinks this choice unwise. It will rejoice the Orangemen of Canada, since July Ist in the old reckoning was long their anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, and it will in the same degree disgust the Irish Catholics, who are the majority. This paper recommends the 4th of July instead. SLAVERY IN BRAZIL. The more enlightened portion of the South American press loudly complain that the speech lately delivered by the Brazilian Emperor contained no allusion to the great question of slavery. In the Imperial speeches of the two preceding years distinct promises were made that measures for the emancipation of the three million slaves in Brazil were in preparation. In the speech just delivered not a word is said in connection with this subject. The Anglo - Brazilian Times says it is impossible that his Majesty can have changed his views as to the existence of an evil which he has long desired to remove. " Nothing but the strongest pressure could have produced this silence, and the Ita borahy Cabinet will be universally held responsible for a course which mist be held to be a most unhappy and ill advised retrogression in Brazilian policy." gi 711 E QUEEN'S MESSENGER." (From Me Anglo-American Times.) The Queen's Messenger is a well-written weekly paper, which brings out in each issue a sensational biographical sketch of peers and people of distinc tion. It does for the moral character the pen and ink work that Vanity Fair does in sketching with a pencil the persons of statesmen ; though the one is in the nature of a malicious libel, and the other in that of a caricature. When Vanity Fair intro duced its pictures it began to sell, if not before; but what the Italian artist with his brush did for Vanity Fair, Lord Carrington with his stick did for the Queen's Messenger. It was very kind and considerate of his lordship, for the Queen's Messen ger sadly wanted to be advertised, and this the noble lord did much more effectually than if he had made a sandwich of himself and walked down the Strand between posters, announcing the Queen's Messenger and its sensational article, " Bob Coach ington Lord Jarvy." His lordship, being under the impression that that article referred to his late father and his family, awaited the supposed writer, Mr. Greville Murray, on the steps of the Conserva tive Club, of which he was not a member, to strike Mr. Murray, which he did on the bat, as the latter states, " in a womanly way," when going out about midnight. However feeble and feminine the assault, Mr. Murray retired precipitately, seeking shelter in the club, the more so as be saw a fighting "party" with a stick peeping out of his pocket behind the young lord, wbo had followed him into the hall, call ing him a scoundrel, and announcing that be was the Lord Carrington whose father Mr. M urray bad libelled in his paper. Under these peculiar and unpleasant circumstances, to any but a newspaper proprietor, whose skin is too thick to care for a cow-hiding so long as it aids the sale of his paper, Mr. Murray, restraining the ardour which impelled him to anni hilate his assailant, consulted his attorney, as is usual with Englishmen in trouble, through whom he addressed Lord Carrington. Therein he denied any knowledge of the family of whom he never wrote one line, to whom he had never offered any discourtesy, alleging that be was neither the editor nor the proprietor of any newspaper whatever. The solicitors of the peer replied that his connection with the Queen's Messenger was matter of public noto riety, admitting of the clearest proof, and that his Lordship acted in the full belief that he bad made an infamous attack upon his family. In this corret3onelence- was a - letter from the Sec retary of the Club, calling for satisfactory expla nations, in the absence of which an extraordi nary meeting would be convened to take into consideration Mr. Murray's conduct, and his reply thereto, in which be explicitly denied having written the articles, and denounced his assailant. These he despatched to the daily papers, when he and the Queen's Messenger be came the talk of her Majesty's subjects, and the journal began to sell like hot cakes. It is advisable to strike while the iron is hot, and on the investi gation which took place in the Marlborough Police Court on Wednesday a further sensational interest was imported into the case by a gallant attempt to capture Lord Carrington's solicitor, papers and all, in court. "Never before was seen in an English court of justice," was the commencement of various leaders next morning, and before night every edition of the Queen's Messenger bad run out, and all the back numbers were bought at a high premium. We may quote this case to show how infectious is example. Lord Carrington had commenced by beating the wrong man, if Mr. Greville Murray is to be believed, and Colonel Campbell followed suit, by attacking and flooring an officer of the court in plain clothes, under the impression that he was one of the party endeavour ing to deprive the solicitor of his box, and was brought up on the following day to answer for the assault. Mr Murray was cross-examined, and the lawyer discovered a connection persons of ordinary capacity could not see between the rent he paid for his lodgings and the Queen's Messenger. Were he the registered proprietor (who is his son) no doubt the rapid sale of the paper and his rent might be connected, while Lord Carrington has a right he might fairly urge to a commission on these profits. Mr. Murray when shown some of the MSS. extracted from Mr. Newman's tin-box, de clared they were not in his handwriting, and that headed the Duke of Farebrother he would sooner have struck off his right hand than have written. About these documents, we are puzzled to under stand how papers, purporting to be the originals of articles, could be preserved in a solicitor's desk. Ours are written on pieces of whitey brown paper, which go into the compositor's hands, are cut UPI and seen no more ; and we might as well ask for the bottle of champagne we had consumed the day before at dinner, as for the " copy" the compositor had disposed of. Perhaps they do things differently in the Queen's Messenger, and the author of such articles as " The Duke of Farebrother," probably anticipating great renown, preserved the originals as valuable property. We have no desire to criticise Mr. Murray under cross-examination, for Lord Carrington being committed, the case will come on for trial. The English papers say that the scene 10 court was worse than American rowdy ism, and one is good enough to state, " It would be an insult to the Americans to say that the scene which took place in the police -court during the hearing of the Murray-Carrington charge was to assimilate our courts of justi ce w ith th e i rs, as much an i nsult as It is to the four-footed animals to call a drunken wife beater a brute." It is the cool impertinence of such comparisons which annoys sensitive people on th e other side of the Atlantic, although we are at a leas to see why they should care, for one section is pretty sure to compare itself in this way with the other most closely resembling it ; and neither in America will the comparison be favourable to Britain nor 1 0 Britain to America. The sins are ascribed to the following of a bad example set by the other, while anything good is derived from the native elemen t only. TILE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. We have received the following interesting NW' munication from the agents, in Europe, of the Union Pacific Railroad, who have just arrived 61 The Union Pacific Railroad is now in fine running order, and for regularity of trains and fine smooth track+ will compare favourably with any of the roads in the United States. Trains leave Omaha, the eastern terminu s of the road, d a ily, on arr i va l o f tra i ns from New York and other eastern cities, an d run t h roug h w i thout change °I coaches. To these trains aro attached Pullman's palace hotel and drawing-room coaches, the most spacious and elegant in the world. They aro perfectly ventilated, pro vided with state rooms, dining rooms, dressing rooms, f or both ladies and gentlemen, and all necessary convenion ceSt and furnished throughout in the most elegant mann er ; Sumptuous meals at stated h ours are prov id e d in th,es coaches, and the incon ven i ence o f s t opp i ng at s t a tions ": refreshments, often at unseasonable hours, is entirely op: viated. Choicest winos, dtc., aro furnished. The through time is made in 'six day s ' b e t ween N ow Y or k t o S a n Fran' cisco. "J. E. and A. 11. FORSTER, European Agents, Union Pacific Railroad" a The description given of Pullm an ' s p a l ac e, hotel, and drawing-room coaches is more than borne out bY tb ° testimony of travellers who have j us t passed Oct the line ; indeed they are a curiosity worth travel ling far to see, which could have been invented in no other country. The through rates from Englan d have not yet been settled, but the company ought t° issue tickets all the way to China. From Boston to San Francisco now costs $166, and will soon be re duced to $l5O, while the time, according to tb ° Agents, is but six days, and that also may yet b: reduced. To give an idea of th e i ngen uity wi t a which the work throughout h as b een co nstruct ed we annex a single instance, ext r acted from the letter of a traveller who has just passed overthe to line, the station being the mo s t e le va ted point which it attains : " Sherman, like other desert stations, has a will - „g some 20 feet in diameter, whi c h p umps wa t er f ro m as pl . l l :3o into a high tank beside the track. The tank li e e 0 50,000 gallons; the pu m p w ill fill it i n ten h our s. n b e it is full the water lift s a littl e fl oa t ; t h at pu ll s a wire' ~.do wire shuts up the s a il s o f th e w i n d m ill , a dozen Y e ) / away, and it instantly s t o p s . Wh en th e t an k gets ne er he empty, the action of another float opens the sails, and windmill starts again. The cost of the ingenious al' ratus all set up is about $6,000." Six persons left New York on June 15th, for St r John, New Brunswick, there to embark upon a etas or bound for the polar regions. The expedition has been Pi vided with a complete assortment of mathematical, P'two „t sophical, and astronomical instr umen t s, b es id es coulPe te.• artists and men of science, and it i s ant i c i pa t e d that vlst' able results will be obtained. gareS # LADvEirrismorr.j—Avoid Medicines: they alwayllg - chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-res.,rio- Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the 12° "0„030.1 ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other renl_ood and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves , b,i re lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functiollLr_ gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. v" .. „ o ' r ecl tract a few out of the 68,000 cures :—" The Pope's health reo'is66. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. " Rome, July 2 1, —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especiallY:ool9 abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself eL: ii alea to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he conue: a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly_ . :oo l ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise thi s 'b i ro lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 , l iver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yea rs r voq c omplaint, wasting away, debility, nervo usness, w ith a 71. 3 .., p a lpitation all over, bad digestion, constant aleeplessne, a f Lag the most intolerable nervous agitatio n .." C ure N o . I, 77 t: v rt+ Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant o f W aterfor d , of tnatV.lfroVl dyspepsia. 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