The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-03 00:00:00

F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad-- dresses, see following advertisement. A. RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CLIEAPNESS will be fount in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all cla sees. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Booms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate sY , fem of self-measure introduced by E. 31 ,- )S ES and SON enables them to guari.ntee a fa nitleFs fit. Orders I. ont persons who are not. known to Ile firm should 7.9 accompanied by a ll:mit t:lnes, or a London reference. Any article not approved of will be cheer- Nil , : exchanged, or, if desired, the money Will be returned. _III are marked in Plain Fi4ures, fr"rn which no ah , tement can be The Sto,.k of 110-iery and Drapery, lists an I Cap.. and Boots and Shoes, is un egnalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap- -- • • . Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the vovapl. Lists of Prices, with Pules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-!roe. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset- till Saturday eveninz at sunset, when lusiness is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Beady-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakors. Woollen drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turars, and General Outfitters for all Classes. Tho following aro the only addresses of E. MOSES and S LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINOILIES 156, 311NORIES 157, IIMORIES 83, A LDGAT E 84, ALDO A T 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 87. ALDGAT 88. ALDqAT 39, ALDO ATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 505' NEW OXFORD-STRE ¶O7, NEW OXFORD-STREET •0 4 , NEW OXFORD,STR 14:ET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COMIT-ROAD BnANcn. 137, TOTTEN - HAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 253, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YOKES. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. T HEATRE ROYAL, TI A Y MARKET. Colo Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. TEEN RVENING, FAMILY JARS : Mr Ccmpton and Mrs ritzwiniam. After which, MARY WARNF'.I3: Messrs. TTowe, Comn'on, Kendal, Rogers, and Clark; Mesdames Bateman, C. Ilill,White, Lacs, &e And HI ':TT T,TFE BELOW STAIRS: Messrs. Nei:stone, Howe. Kendal; Mesdames F. Wright, and F. Cwynn. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven, p I - lEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. 1 Sole Fropeeter and Manager. Mr. R. WEBSTER. Directress. 3Trs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Del more and Mrs. Leigh Murray. - At 8 o'clock, EVE. Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs. Henry Neville. T. G. Taylor; Miss Furtado, Miss Lillie Lee, and Mrs Alfred Mellon. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBER WELL : Mr. G. Delmore, Mrs. L. Murray THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, the very laughable fare THE SMOKED MISER At 8 o'clock. Sheridan's inimitable Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Supported by the following celebrated artistes :—Alltry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George H prey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, D. Evans, Lin T:avne, A. Bernard, E. Dyas. and W. Arthur; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, Miss Louisa Thorne, Miss Amy Fawsitt, and Mrs. Charles Horsman Acting Manager—AmonY S LLI vA OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sofa T occaa and Mann gsress. Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENT 'r. at 7.r0, FnX v. eIOnSE. Messrs. "2,larlze and Belford: Mesdames Bufton and Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorns. James. Fen ton, Turner, Chamherlaine; Mesdnmes Burton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYF ri LOBE THE A TTI E-ROYAL. Soo Proprietor awl Manager. \Tr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7. ELOW FOR PLOW: Ves Frg, W Farnu, Veraon, 1 arid Fisher, and J. Clarke; 11i,s Lydia. Foote At 9.15. IT. .T. Tyron's grand Buriesoue. TFIF. CORSICA N " fIOTTTFTts4:" or. Tie Trc,ul , leFeme Tw!?.s: Mess SJ. Clail7e, 3Tanhall. A ndrews and ITurlBtone ; Meednines Julia St. George, Brennan, Berend, and 0 Thorne. THE ":)1.7N" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE delivers the I,aTE FDITMN at. Chelsea.. 7.40: Ktlllrn, ' :Starch-g - reen, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, V. 20; Watford, 1,45 ,~-._ cZPORTING.—J MIN 110BET:TS supplies the LAWS r EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub .lshed.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " J. lI.)L3IES begs to inform his friends and the public qencrally that he snuffles the LATEST EDITION of "TUE BUN " as soon as pnblished.—No.lo, Ilarnpstea4-road N.W. 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FIIE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN' at L JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellin,gton," Wellington-street, rand. rilE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," giving all the SPORTI G NEWS of the day. may he seen st JEM YM t TO\ 'S house, "The Swan and Horee Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W LEXA DER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, No. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street. UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET, consisting of Three Rooms and Dressing Room, wVh use of Kitchen. Nit , garden. Four minutes' walk to 'Bus and Ra'l to City and West-end.-44, St. Paul's-raod, Camden-square, CLERICAL, MEDICAL , AN D GENERAL lJ LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. NNT'A L INCOME, steadily increasing, £220,000 ASSURANCE FUND,' safely invested, £1,598,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. All Persons who effect Policies on the Pal - tic:jesting Scale before June : 7 ;()1h, 1869, will be entitled at ffe NEXT BONUS to one year's additional Share of Profits over later Entrant , : Tables of Rites and Forms of Tropical can bo obtained GEOP,GE CUTCLIFFF, Actuary cod Sccretary. 13, St, James',-splarc, London, S.W, nr•HE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY, Enn;liet under r and 7 cap 12, a the Con,cr7a five Berefit.Builslinit co-operattnz with the 1511:tei Land COl 11 , a13.7 hmrrorated urn.h.sr the Coninaille,; - ..tc . ts I Sr; . 2 crial3fi; -` ,. `ice is ifereby Given. that the , IXTY-9ttiVE T Q 1 J RTE'- LY UrF.NERAL AIEETL‘G of the 31, tubers of the Conservative Land Society will be held at the Offices, No. :1,. Norfoliz-street, :strand, London. W.C., on TOTE DAY, the Cth day of July, 16 at Two of the Cock preehely i Vi s eonnt RANI' LA.tal in the Char, to receive the Report of the xecutive Committee, and for general purposes By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS ORUNEESEN, Sccrctary. r.ondon . ....7nr_s 22. 186 P. rcspectuccs tbo Share and Deposit. lr.restirg Depart ;lnc: of Plf,: , F.ng and ott_sy: . - .l.7ance Depart=mts sent ‘f Trof.A - :nt rata of iLte - :ik.t, riva pc: a...:- nurn on ti-,I arebble aud tour per cent. per ann.= on Deposit Ac counts, pay kttlf-yearly. CALLAGHAN'S OPERA, RACE, and FIELD GLASSES, of Matchless quality. 2)A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street). N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the past eighteen months the National Lifeboat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,270 lives from various shipwrecks and 32 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended £27,641 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £3,793 for rewards. The Institution has now 207 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution. 14, John-street Adelphi, London. CITY OF LONDON BONDS. METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET (SITE AND APPROACHES). -£231,000. The undersigned is direc . ,d by the Finance Committee of the Corporation of Lou ion, acting under an ord. r of the Court of Common Council of the 17th of June. 1869, to DISPOSE OF CITY BONDS to the above amount, for the purpose of completing the purchase of lands and the execution of works connected with the Site and Approaches (other tl an the Western Approach, called Charter-bouse street), of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market at Sinithileld. Thu Bonds will be issued, at par, tinder the common seal of the Corporation, for sums of £l,lloo, £5OO, or £OlO respectively, for a period of nine years, and bearing in terest, payable half-yearly by means of coupons, at the 11,,nk of England, at the rate of XI ss. per cent. per annum. Security. The Bonds, principal and interest, will be paid out of the moneys to be received by the Corporation from the rents and other payments of the tenants of the said Market (subject to existing charges); and in the event of those funds proving insufficient, then out of the general revenues of the Corporation. Parties desiring to tender for any of the said Bonds must make application at the Bank of England (Private Drawing Office), in the form annexed ; such applications to be accompanied by a payment or remittance to the said Bank of le per cent. upon the amount applied for. Appli cations will not be received later than throe o'clock on WEDNESDAY, the 7th of July Allotments will take place at. this Office by J. T. Bed ford, Esq., the Chairman of the above Committee, with the undersigned, on Friday, the 9th of July ; and in the event of an amount greater than the sum of £234,000 being offered, a rateable allotment (not less than £lOO in any case) will bo made to each applicant. No application for a greater sum than £50,000 will be received from any individual or firm. The balance of the amount allotted must be paid at this Office not later than Friday, the 23d July instant ; upon payment of the balance Scrip Receipts will bo i~~ued to parties producing their Letters of Allotment and Bank of England Deposit Receipts; such Scrip Receipts will bo exchanged for Bonds, so soon as they shall have been pre pared and sealed by the Court of Common Council. Interest will commence front the dates of payment in full respectively. Printed FormA of Application will be furnished at this Office and at the Bank of England, BENJAMIN SCOTT, Chamberlain. Chamber of London, Guildhall, July 2, 1869. FORM OF A PPL IC A T lON. LOAN hoot). METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET (SITE AND APPROACHES). • To the Chamberlain of the City of London. hereby tender the sum of - Pounds by way of Deposit of 10 per cent. upon the sum of Pounds, on account of the Loan of £231,000 to be raised by the Corporati of London for completing the purchase of Lands and the execution of Works connected will the Site and Approaches (other than the Western Approach, called all terhonse-stroet) of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market at Smithfield; and I request that City Bolt& may be delivered tome, or to my order, !u respect theteof, in accordance with the announcement in respect of the said Loan, which has Leen made public, Viz.: [lf Ponds of par- -- 'Bonds for £l.OOO each - ticular amounts are Bonds for £5OO each - required, here are - details.] - X Total Name in full Address in full Quality or description Dated Ibis day of , B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Tread Offices, 42:), Strand, London. The distinguishing featnres of this Association aro Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-TITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCIf. Work by Hand and Trea Ile, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. CBE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The peculiar simplicity of they: Machines enables any one to acquire thoir perfect use in a few hours. ed Price Lists post free. THE "SINGER" 111ANUFACTURING COMPANY. Chief Ocii.ep in the Unity d Kingdom: 147, CUE IPSIDE. Branch Depots or Imen, Agents in every Town rtn ENTS T I I F,RE introd•tee co W mmod N ED i ;es valuable to E EX every h W ouseholder high and low. This offers a bighlyremunerative Coruna- sion '0 Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants. dc. Apply with two stamps to 1:. 31ArtRIsON, Great Orrord-street, Norwich. T 01IN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY t , TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a rarl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a plea: ant frazranco to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUN AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what ago. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public In a more concentrated form, and at a lower l rice. Soil in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. fid., and 15s. each. Including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE-ROYA L, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, BLUE D7.VI fS : Mr Compton and Mrs Fitzwilliam. After which. MARY WARNER: Miss Il ill. Miss Bateman, Messrs. Howe, Compton, &c. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELONV ii STAIRS : Messrs. ruckstone, Howe, Kendal; Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADF.LPHT. TAM EVENING, at 7, LOMESTIC ECONOMY: ➢lr Ceo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web ster, Mr 11. Nevale. Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon. Sze And MD YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Belmore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. IHIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. W. Farren, Vernon. David Fisher. J. Clarke: Miss Drilla. L'oote. At 9.15, the new burlesque TII N: CORSICAN LOTHERS: Messrs. J Clarke, Marshall. Andrews. and Hurlstone : Mesdames Julia St. George, Berend, Brcman, and C. Thorne. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followrd by A ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, at - .30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Coy per, Mr. 61. Honey, Mr. C. Coghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin, Mrs. C. Horsman, Bz.c. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. tinder the Management of Miss ➢farie Wilton THIS IVE xiNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H.i.,llfontague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALIIAIIBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-offlcc open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL G &EDENS, Regerra-park. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Adiiission, Is.; on Meudays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d. " . q B , 21,111; LONDON, SAI'URDAY,IJULY 3, 1869. A tremendous majority against the Government in the House of Lords last evening marked the acupt ance of Lord SALISELT.I'S Amen.:ll - neut. Against that amendment were sixty-nine. For it, were 213. So that tie clear majority was. 141 is favour of the omission (from clause 27 of the Irish Church Bill) of the words, requiring that, in consilcration of hand ing over the glebe houses to the Church Body, the Commissioners should be paid either ten times the annual value of the sites estimated as land, or, in the alternative, either any building charges on the glebe bouees, or ten years' annual value of them. As ori ginally arranged, according to the actual wording and significance of the particular clause or portion of the clause he was objecting to, the scheme as propounded by her I‘.IAJESTY'S Ministers, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1869 was stigmatized by the noble marquis in no measured terms—as one worthy of being envied by SHYLOCK ! The excitement caused by the very animated debate which followed upon Lord SALISBURY'S caustic and biting speech was hardly allayed when the division was taken—with the extraordinary result just now indicated. During the discussion, accusations and recriminations were freely indulged in. The Secre tary of State for India attacked the Leader of the Opposition, and the Mover of the Amendment, for putting forward irreconcilable arguments. Lord STANHOPE remonstrated very warmly with the Duke of ARGYLL in regard to one of his statements. Several Peers contended with almost unmannerly e2gerness for the ear of the house in their solicitude to take part in the discussion. And eventually, as the debate itself foreshadowed, and as the Division List has since then clearly enough demonstrated, the number of the majority was appreciably enhanced by many of the Liberal Peers voting, for once, with the Conservative Opposition. How far the Cabinet will feel disposed to concede in regard to this amend ment, and in regard to all the other amendments in troduced into the Irish Church Bill during its p issage throegh the House of Lords in Committee, is the grand problem of the session now remaining to be solved. Rumours of the most contradictory character are not unnaturally rife as to Mr. GLADSTONE'S determina tion as to this matter of vital importance as affecting the whole policy of his Government. His tempera ment, naturally or constitutionally sensitive and im pressionable, has, according to some very confident statements, been sofar acted upon by the course already taken by his opponents in the House of Lords that hehas already come to the fixed resolve of listening to no sug gestion of anything at all in the nature of a compromise. The Lords, according to these rumours, are to be ridden over roughshod. Their amendments are to be rejected, one and all of them, in the lump. The session is to be brought to an abrupt conclusion, and Parliament, as soon after as possible, called together again, for the purpose of passing the Irish Church Bill once more intact (just as it was sent up only the other day to the House of Lords) thtough the Muse of Commons. All the machinery—very ques tionably constitutional some of it, as many of those conceive who arc fond of assuming to themselves par excellence the distinctive title of Constitutional ists—all the machinery which has, within the last few weeks, been so frequently sketched and described, and held in terrorem over the House of Lords, is at last in real earnest to be brought to bear upon the House of Lords and to be set in motion adversely to the interests of our hereditary legislators. In the truth of these rurneurs we cannot for an in stant believe. Mr. GLADSTONE is so strongly in power that be can—if ever a Prime Minister could—afford to be calm, and self-possessed, and considerate to his antagonists. He is too powerful, as the undisputed leader of the dominant party throughout the country, to necessitate, or, as one might say, to admit of the possibility of his being angered. The loyal majority at his back in the House of Commons preclules him from the hazard of being irri atvd. During the session of 1866 and 1867 he had re Isons euow for being fretted and worried to the last possiVe de - gree, for—with all the will and all the capacity in the world to lead—he c )uld not, for the simple reason that his followers were utterly disorganized as a following. They were broken up into rival secdons. They were divided amongst themselves. There were Tea room cotnpacts, and Cavea of Adullam. All that was in the old Ilouss—the house elected under the auspices of the popular Premier who was dead and gonebefore it could be called together—under the auspices, that is, of Lord PALMERSTON. The new Ilouse of Commons, on the contrary, has been elected, as we all know, under the auspices of the name and influence of Mr. GLADSTONE, and, what is more, under that name and under that influence, in connection with this very question as to the sweeping away of the Irish Chu: oh by means of its complete disestablishmcnt, c ;ITU, in some way or another, with it; inevitable disendowmenf. Strong in his position, a ;. Leader of the Party and Heal of the Government, Mr. GLADSTONE can afford to be magnanimous and conciliatory in his manner of dealing with the amendments of the liousq of Leeds, or, in other words, with the rival policy of the Conservative Opposition. THE disastrous explosion in North Wales coming so soon after that at Newcastle is raising the ques tion as to whether the use of nitro-glycerine ought not to be prohibited altogether. This is always the first impulse when one hears of calami ties arising from comparatively new and rarely-used materials. We have clone without them hitherto, they are terribly destructive, therefore let us go on as before, and surrender what ever advantage might be gained in order to avoid a fearful risk. All this is eminently unphilosophical and unpractical. As a matter of fact, nitro-glycerine has been long and largely used in the very district where this last explosion occurred. It has been far less dangerous than gunpowder, for it is far more manageable, and we have no doubt that if the slate quarrymen were asked even now if they would wish to sub stitute the older for the newer explosive, they would say No. Of course, when nitro-glycerine does explode the results are more terrible than those which follow the explosion of gunpowder. This is a reason, not for prohibition, but for greater care. Any one who material hoisac knows aintedrit that it can b with the properties ofrendered sn r de th ed is formidable innocuous, and that the transport of it may be rendered as safe as the transport of wine or beer. THE Marquis of BATH was one of the Peers who gave most assistance to the Government by persuading a large number of Conservative Peers to read the Irish Church Bill a second time. The Marquis is now inclined to regret that assistance. Excited by the Duke of ARGYLL'S confirmation of Mr. GLADSTONE'S assertion that no part of the Irish Church funds shall be devoted to the purposes of any other Church, he vehemently declared that if the noble Duke had made that statement on the second reading, he (the Marquis) would never have voted for the bill; that the Duke had thrown down a challenge which he (the Marquis) would take up. He was willing to accept a moderate re-endowment, but without that he could not accept the bill. "On that principle he must stand, if he were to pull down the walls of that House about his ears, bring down the Constitution, and ruin himself and the order to which he belonged." This emphatic declaration, say the reporters, was received with " cheers and a laugh." The cheers would seem to imply that certain lords share the opinions of the head of the THYNNES ; the laugh would indicate that one lord, at least, thinks them ridiculous. We are not careful to say which is the correct estimate. If the Peers really believe that it is a solemn duty after they have dis endowed the Church to re-endow it, they are, we suppose, bound to maintain that opinion at any cost to themselves, though it is difficult to understand what good object can be served by taking away the revenues from the Church in order to give them back again. At the same time the Lords, however con scientious they may be, must be prepared to accept the consequences of their conscientiousness. The Commons, for instance, will respect that noble quality in others all the more because they them selves possess it. But that being so, they are as much bound to carry out their convictions as the Peers aro to carry out theirs. Consequently there must be a collision, in which both parties, being equally conscientious, but both parties not being lequally strong, the weaker will have to give way, Which party is that ? The Lords have already answered the question by voting for a bill which they did not approve. But the same reason which made them take that step should, one would think, make them go a little farther in the same direction. The nation pronounced for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, and the Lords voted for a measure carrying out that object. Having done this, it is illogical to vote for re-endowment, the more so as the nation will not listen to any such proposal. This is clear and indisput able. The Times of Thursday argues in favour of it ; the Times of Friday publishes its Dublin cor respondent's letter, stating that the proposal is rejected at every side. Even Irish Churchmen will not listen to the gift of glebes to Roman Catholic priests ; English Nonconformists are equally emphatic. The proposal will not be accepted by the nation. Is is not, then, unfortunate that the con scientiousness of the Peers compels them, having accepted the greater, to resist the lesser ? But pro bably they do not mean to carry resistance to an extremity. Having " delivered their souls " by turning the bill inside out, they will scarcely resist the action of the Commons when in a few weeks the Commons reverse that process and restore the measure to its former condition. THE narratives of thcwrreat commercial failures which have been mand " since the memorable S i t Black Friday are mon onously uniform. It is always the same story of prosperity attained by strict adherence to the legitimate laws of trading, and of prosperity thrown away through failure to recog nise the principle that the same care which is neces sary to gain wealth is likewise requisite to keep it. In the history of these ruined firms we invariably find an epoch to which a distinct change in the . system of conducting business is traceable, when ignorance and incompe tence find a place in the board of management, and when some commercial MEPHISTOPHELES sees his opportunity, and steps in to ruin the concern for his own benefit. This is, in brief, the history of the latter days of the OVEREND and GURNEY firm, and it is the outline of a scarcely less remarkable narrative—the failure of the Bombay Bank. For many years the Bank of Bombay, like the great Lom bard-street firm, enjoyed a career of uninterrupted prosperity. It was established in 1840, with a small capital of about half-a-million, the management was so sound that it paid very good dividends, and so cautious that it never incurred any losses of great moment. But about 1861, owing to certain changes, a large increase of capital was proposed, and an Act was at length passed in 1863 authorising great and most unwise departures from the old system of business. It is needless to recount what these changes in the position of the bank were. It is sufficient to remark that they in no wise justified the alterations in the mode of carrying on business under the old Act. In its early days the Bombay Bank could dis count no securities unless two persons, not connected in trade, were bound by them. The new Act authorised discount on the signature of one person. The old Act limited the amount of advances and the tine during which they must be repaid ; the new one abolished all restrictions of the kind. The old Act forbade advances on bank shares and perishable goods ; but these and other salutary cautions were not deemed needful under the itew system. It must be evident, even to those persons most innocent of commercial knowledge, hov widely the door was opened to fraud by these new regulations, or rather want of regulations. Large sums of money might be—and indeed were— lent on the promissory note of one person. Accounts might be overC,rawn, and money advanced upon the security of perishable goods which might actually turn out to be no security at all. In short the Lew Act provided ample means for the ruin of the bank, but something more was needed to complete it. Good managers would have carried on the bank in safety, notwithstanding the loose principles on which they were permitted to do busi ness. In order to take full advantage of these facilities, and launch the concern safely on the way to ruin, bad management was necessary ; and this was speedily forth coming in the shape of a weak and unprincipled sccretai y, an incompetent president, and equally in competent directors. Mr. Buten, who was president in 1863, as well as the officers of succeeding years, knew nothing of com merce. They were dependent on the secre tary, Mr. BLAU:, who did not fail to use his power. In August 1863 he commenced lending money on personal security. This, it need hardly be said, means that he supplied money to whomsoever pleased him, on the faith of their personal signature —a mode of business which would be ridiculed by a village trader, but which is very commonly prac tised by men who have the command of other people's money. The years 1864 and 1865 were a very critical time at Bombay. Speculation was rife, and the bank ought to have withstood the wild current by extra caution. Under the management of Mr. BLAIR and the recklessness of the directors the Bank onlyencouraged the flow of the stream until it was swept away with it. The business of the bank was dis creditably neglected by those appointed to watch over it. Mr. Bawl!, the president, did absolutely nothing, though he was quite able to embark in many speculations of his own. In fact, he received numerous allotments of speculative shares, and laid himself open to obligations from company promoters. He was thus unable to protect the bank either from the greedy speculators who swarmed to it for money, or from the secretary, who was surely manoeuvring for its destruction. The course of reckless advances went on, the secretary dishonestly concealing his transac tions from his superiors. The dramatis personce, however, are not complete. In order to fully destroy the Bank, the MEPHISTOPHELES — the Mr. WATKIN EDWARDS— was wanted; and it seems that Bombay could pro duce even a greater man than the illustrious official assignee who "advised" Messrs. OVEREND and GURNEY. PREMCHUND ROYCHUND was the hero of the speculation period at Bombay. This gentle man had amassed a large fortune in cotton, and he gradually attained such influence at Bombay that nothing in a commercial way, and especially in speculative commerce, could be done without him. No company had a chance of floating without his aid ; he was either promoter or largely participated in all. He was called by some the " key-stone of commercial prosperity in Bombay," and the expression is so far true that when the key-stone chose to get out of joint Bombay suffered grievously. This man ruined the bank. The secretary was weak as well as unprincipled, and he, accordingly, soon fell a victim to the worthy PREMCRUND, who was unprincipled, but not weak. PREMCHUND did as he pleased with the funds of the bank, procured loans for himself in the name of friends, and, in brief, absorbed. the neat sum of about £070,000. Between him and the secretary lay the whole management of hundreds of thousands sterling; the directors were neither con sulted nor cared to be consulted. It is needless to prolong the story. On January 13, 1868, it was resolved to wind up the concern, and in the follow ing November the liquidator issued a report shelving that a total sum of nearly £1,900,000 had been lost. A commission was appointed to inquire into the history of the affair. We have given in outline the result of its labours. The commissioners blame the new Act ; they declare that the secretary was a foolish and unprincipled man; that Mr. Butcu, the president, was idle and incom petent ; that PREMCITUND was a designing rascal ; and that the officers were generally unequal to their duties. There the story ends. It is simply another example of the general rule that commercial failure, and especially the failure of great firms that have once been prosperous, is to be traced to cue uniform cause. But. since the dishonesty and negligence of those who thus precipitate the ruin of the hufainesa entrusted to them is lucrative and safe, we can hardly hope for a change in the policy of directors until they are held answerable for their deeds. From this, however, we appear to be far off at present. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, July 2. The political events of to-day are highly important. The interpellation on the policy of the Government, of which I spoke yesterday, will be supported by at least eighty signatures, and may probably receive eighty-five. It is couched in the following terms :--" We ask to interpellate the Government on the necessity of giving satisfaction to the wishes of the country, and of associating it more efficaciously in the direction of affairs." Now, I hardly need say that deputies are not allowed to question Ministers at will, as in your highly-favoured land. Every interpellation must be submitted to the bureaux, of which there are nine, and which decide whether the question is ono which ought to be put, so that it is by no means certain that a disagreeable question will be permitted, and if permitted, it is still more unlikely that it will receive any very satisfactory reply. But this interpellation is really a very serious matter. Amom.-st the eighty or eighty-five who have signed it, there is not one Red or any of the extreme Liberals who sit on the far Left. In order, therefore, to get so many signatures, a goodly number of independent Imperialists must have joined the Third Party, or moderate Liberals. The members of the Left who have not signed—Favre, Easpail, Gambetta, and all the lesser lights of the same persuasion—are about thirty in number. These will certainly support the Moderates on a division, so that there aro at least 110 deputies who favour reform of a more or less pronounced character. More than this, the .Petrie and the Constitutionnel, whilom such staunch supporters of an inflexible Imperialist regime, express themselves rather pkased with the pro ceeding. The former has no objection to the principle of the interpellation ; it is of opinion, in fact, that the legi timate wishes of the country ought to be satisfied. It sug gests only that the terms of the question are vague, and do not perceive what special reforms the eighty Mode rates woukl like. The Constitutionnel is delighted with the manoeuvre. It would be unwise to disregard the significance of these symptoms. When Imperialist journals write in favour of granting the country direct control over its own affairs—that is, in favour of parliamentary government more or less—and when Imperialist deputies, who owe their seats to the prefects,prepare to support such changes, it is impossible to mistake the direction the tide of affairs is taking. In some well-informed quarters it is estimated that one hundred deputies will sign the interpellation, and these with the extreme Liberals will very nearly number half the whole House ! M. Roulier is very low in the political share list to-day. There can be no reform unless he go. The success of the moderate Liberals can be attained only by his downfall. There was nothing of particular interest in the sitting of the Corps Legislatif yesterday beyond what I have already announced. To-day the business of verification goes on, inside and outside the Chamber being crowded with listeners and spectators. It is agreed on all hands that the business at the Palais Bourbon never excited so much popular interest before. The signs of this revival of domestic politics in France are apparent everywhere. Au immense petition to the Senate is now being signed in Paris in favour of elective municipal government. Your readers will be aware that the capital has no voice in the management of its own concerns. The municipal council is purely an Impe rialist body. The Parisians are now petitioning to have their old privilege of electing the men who spend the City funds restored to them. If this request be accorded them it will be odd indeed. The Parisians would at once elect men who would stop Baron Haussinann's pulling down and building up which have made Paris the most beautiful city, but the Parisians the most heavily-burdened race in Europe. . _ - - Al. Garabetta was present at the first sitting of the House ; but his health is so indifferent as to lead to the apprehension that he will be able to do little for the Left. The orator on whom the mantle of Mirabeau was sup. posed to have fallen is suffering from some affection oi the lungs. The trials in connection with the late riots still drag their slow length along. One which took place two days ago gave rise to a rather remarkable scene in court. A housepainter was brought up charged with uttering sedi• tious cries. He protested very vehemently against the behaviour of the police, He dubbed them savages, brutes. and dech,ted that they struck recklessly at everyuuoy. Cayenne, he intimated, would be a more desirable reii• dence than Paris under such a Government, and he did not care if he were sent to Cayenne. The court, how• ever, after ordering him to Ile removed for his violence, decided not to gratify his proclivities for a voyage to thr undesirable penal colony. Ile was sent to prison for three months and fined a small sum. So also was a pr.( fc.sor of the LycLe Buonaparte, who said that he was irritated b) the violence of the police, but did not use seditious language. The men on strike at St. Etienne have again assumed s menacing attitude. Twenty miners attempted on `Yednes• day to stop the work which was going on at one of tho pits, and, in fact, succeeded. The engineer was obliged to bring up thirteeen men who were labouring below. The rioters, largely reinforced, then went to other pits; but some of these were guarded by soldiers, and at one a charge was made resulting in the capture of about thirty culprits. An extraordinary story of domestic immorality nay been revealed through an attempt at murder at St. Denis. A man, named Sennery, and a woman with whom he lived, named Muret, kept a wineshop at the corner of the nue des Carmelites. The woman had a daughter 15i years of age, and this girl the fellow Sennery proposed tc marry, the mother, incredible to relate, giving her con• sent. But the girl, who was at a boarding-rchool, refused, knowing that the man cohabited with her mother. Being, however, importuned by her parent, she at length consented, but on condition that she should remain at the school and complete her education. The marriage took place, and in the evening, as arranged, the bride returned to her school, and the bridegroom with her mother to the wineshop. That state of thing? lasted about three weeks, but Sennery at length got tired of his equivocal situation, and exercised his marital authority to force his wife to return to the conjugal domicile, and she was obliged tt submit. As may be imagined, peace did not reign long in this household ; quarrels arose daily between the man, the mother, and the daughter, and three evenings back, after a fresh dispute, the husband fired a pistol at wife, lodging a ball in her chest. She was removed to a hospital, but is in no danger of her life. Sennery has beer. arrested. 61) . 11 s", %TWILIT HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 2. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High. nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, arrived at the Pavilion, Aldershot Camp, yesterday, at 12 o'clock. Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, Prince Leo pold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived at the Castle this morning at 26 minutes past one o'clock. MARY WARNER.—Crowded houses and enthu siastic audiences have no power to change the managerial fiat which long since decreed the close of Miss Bateman's engagement, and the termination of the Haymarket season on Saturday next. Miss Bateman's benefit is appointed for Friday evening, and the theatre will undoubtedly be filled to its utmost capacity. All lovers of the drama will regret that the English stage must be deprived for a short time of an artiste who has done 53 much to elevate the profession she adorns, and who has justly won the esteem and admi ration of all classes of playgoers. A PHOTOGRAPHIC TOUR DE FORCE.—W hat would our forefathers have said if some wag had told them tl.at a time would come when men would travel on land and on sea with the help of a small quantity of boiling water ; that they would bold a conversation with each other from one end of the globe to the other by means of a wire ; and finally, that they would engage the sun as a miniature painter, and make him take their likeness ? Probably the unlucky prophet would have expiated in prison or at the stake the unpardonable wrong. ,of being right tao soon. Ana yet all these things have become true to the letter. Photography is certainly one of tao more wonderful discoveries of this ago of wonders, and it is m king every day new progress. It has actually acquired the power of raising tho dead from their grave, and of bringing them to life again. Any person who should have doubts on the subject might set them at rest by looking at the splendid proof now on view at Mr. Hewett's, photographer,' 4, Rutland-terrace, Abbey-road. By means of an old oil painting, of some cartes de visito sent from India and other parts of the globe, this artist has composed a family group, all the members of which seem to have been taken from life. He has united again those who wore separated by death or by diatmit climes. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in referring to Priday's debate, says that the Lords have lost an opportunity of doing a deed of high policy and of far-seeing wisdom. It does not attempt to disguise the fact that the vote on the Duke of Cleve land's amendment is a defeat and a disappointment. We must, indeed, point out that, by his mistaken compliance with the wishes of the Protestant Opposition, the Duke severed the branches of his „amendment, and almost invited disaster. But, apart from this error of tactics, the result, taken in connection with the previous vote on the question of the Protestant parsonages, has left the Irish Church Dill transformed into a shape which cannot possibly be accepted. The result would be a mockery of legislation. And the mortification is that this threatened end of the measure is due to the Ministers themselves. They rashly promised churches, parsonages, and glebes last year, and they have been kept to their words this session. They devised a scheme for commuting the claims of Maynooth by the pay ment of fourteen years' purchase money of its annual . grant, and they have been required to apply the same method of commutation to the disestablished Church. The way was open to them to have reconciled their pledges with equity, and they refused it. They are now landed on this conse quence—that the redemption of their pledges is claimed at the cost of the principle of the bill. The Herald remarks that the confusion of parties caused by the question was a very curious one, resembling much in some respects that occasioned by Lord Cairns's amend ment to the Reform Bill in favour of the minority vote. The occupants of the front Ministerial and Opposition benches went into the same lobby. The stream that passed into the other lobby with the Duke of Cleveland was composed in the main of Whig peers faithful to their principles and refusing to take their creed from ignorant Welsh or semi-crazy Scotch dissenting preachers, with a good sprinkling of Conserva tives who regarded the question in the same light as Lord Salisbury. The amendment defeated, the clause was adopted, shorn of the words requiring pay ment, to which Lord Salisbury objected, and the question of concurrent endowment is therefore practically disposed of. We cannot say that we regret the defeat of the par ticular proposal of the Duke of Cleveland, but we do regret that the House of Lords has not pronounced by a decisive majority in favour of some proposal which, secu ring to the clergy of the disestablished Church a fair pro vision, should also give decent residences to the Catholic and Presbyterian ministers. We are afraid that there is but too much truth in Lord A thlumney's speech, and that a great opportunity has been thrown away. The Star declares that, snaking every allowance for the Whig peers who supported Lord Salisbury, the 213 who voted for his amendment may be held to represent the principle of securing for the Church all that could be saved, without reference to the interests of any other denomina tion. How was it, then, that the House addressed itself with such good will to the discussion of the Duke of Cleveland's proposals for general endowment? The answer is easy. They had to consider the House of Commons. The majority of the Peers believe that House may be induced to grant comparative opulence to the dises tablished Church, if only supplies are found with which to gratify the Catholics, by housing their priests and pro viding them with glebes. But it need not be imagined that members of the House of Commons are so ill-informed and so thoughtless as to be ignorant of the principle of concurrent endowment. It is with a thorough know ledge of its merits and vices that they have rejected it, and inspired by the spirit shewn by Ministers on Friday night, they will neither be cajoled, intimidated, nor even wearied into what they firmly believe to be a retrograde policy, The Tdcgraph asks, If we begin to endow, where are we to stop ? On the minds even of men who have no °Lice- tien to religious endowments in themselves, that question operates with such force that they resist the creation of any fresh endowments. For a variety of reasons, in short, the country and the House of Commons have pronounced against the principle of concurrent endowment ; the Ministry has, with striking emphasis, repeated the pro test; and the House of Commons is too inflexible on the subject not to be absoluteiy independent of the chance/ that hang on any division of the other House. The Daily News thinks it hardly possible to conceive hat even in the House of Lords any large section can be so entirely blind to all that is passing round them as to believe indiscriminate endowment to be possible. Even the Church of England itself could never consent to a policy which, as the Rev. H. R. Ilaweis points out, would stultify its position towards the Church of Home. The result of this piecemeal restoration of the present endow ments is otherwise the restoration of ascendancy. The Conservative peers may or may not sanction the endow ment of the other Churches,but they will at least re-endow their own Church as far as possible, and if they consent to g've an d t-• - 0 -- 0 1 --ehes it will only be that they may give the disestablished Church the more. The Saturday Review remarks that if Mr. Gladstone's Teeth at the Mansion House is to be understood in the ;ease which the majority of the commentators place on it, t is obvious that no scheme of concurrent endowment can be carried if the present Ministry is to retain office. Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues will then have to say that they entered into an express compact with the nation not to entertain any suggestion such as that made by the Duke of Cleveland. It would, we think, be a national gain if the Duke of Cleveland's amendment could be car ried in the Lords and accepted by the Commons. But it is quite open to the present Ministry to refuse to acquiesce in it. They may say, and we are confidently told they will say, that they have come into office and have framed their bill on the express understanding that they will have nothing to do with any scheme for giving any new benefit to the clergy of any religious sect. They may have been right or wrong, but this was their programme, and it would be quite out of place for them to propose to the House of Commons to adopt a scheme for giving the Anglican Church a large slice out of the surplus in return for a slice more or less large to be given to the Romanists and the Presbyterians. A Ministry that would consent to such a radical alteration of their bill would be, Mr. Gladstone may urge, a very poor Ministry —a Ministry that, by clinging to office, would greatly damage its own credit and that of the Reformed Parlia ment. This Mr. Gladstone may say, and we are inclined to think that this is what, in a very cloudy way, he meant to hint at the Mansion House ; though still the question arises why, when the opportunity was open to him, Earl Granville did not say this distinctly in the House of Lords? The Duke of Cleveland's amendment is in itself justifiable on grounds that seem to us conclu sive ; but the peers who support it at the present crisis ought, if such is the resolution of the Government, to have been distinctly informed that they can only do so success fully if they are prepared to form a Ministry that will possess the confidence of the nation in a greater degree than the Cabinet of Mr. Gladstone possesses it. The Spectator thinks that the Home Secretary's defence of the Government for declining to continue the "Overend prosecutions " was a very lame affair. Government has a right to prosecute, and Mr. Bruce could not, therefore, take his stand upon law ; and it has once or twice used its right, and he could not, therefore, rely on a total absence of precedent. He was obliged to say that " the Cabinet saw nothing in the circumstances of the case for an excep tion to the general rule "—which would be conclusive, but that the Cabinet represents the country, and the country does see reason. The magnitude of the Overend failure takes it altogether out of the rank of private misfortunes, and makes an inquiry into the causes of the catastrophe a matter of national moment. It may not be the duty of the Government to inquire into every explosion of nitro glycerine, but if one happened in London and destroyed half the metropolis—a disaster not by any .mea,us impos sible—inquiry would become a peremptory duty of the State. There is not an income taxpayer in England who is not the poorer for the conduct of the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co., and an inquiry whether that conduct was legal or no is, if for that reason alone, within the legitimate business of the Government. In denying that the circumstances are exceptional, Mr. Bruce denies patent facts, and gives just occasion for the remark that in England there is no justice except for the very rich. Dr. Thom, the private prosecutor, has, as he believes, been defrauded of a large sum of money by men who have been committed for trial, yet because those men can secure great counsel and he cannot, he cannot have them tried, though the law, at the same time, fines.him £5,000 for not going on with an impossible suit. Mr. Bruce's refusal would have been received with less annoyance if he had promised even to inquire into the expediency of creating public prosecutors ; but he did nothing of the kind, avoided even an allusion to a subject which, as he knew quite well, greatly occupied the public mind, and left an an impression—we trust an erroneous one--that on this, as on many other subjects, the Cabinet is opposed to the policy of imposing new duties upon the State. That deci sion, if it has been taken, a point about which we profess to know nothing, may delay referrn for a time, but it cer tainly will, in the long run, be overruled. The reform is one of those in which public convenience and the weight of argument go together, and whenever that is the case, the innovators are sure, sooner or later, to prevail. We shall be told, we dare say, that the task is too great for the State to undertake ; that it would be loaded down with business, that it would be better to clear the path for the private prosecutor than to supersede him. We reply to the first objection that the State does it in Scotland without being overloaded at all, the system itself gradually diminishing the necessity for itself by the corn parative uprightness it ensures ; and, to the second, that we do not propose to supersede the individual prosecutor. We desire to do so, believing that his proper position is that of witness, and that he is ten times as likely t 4 be " squared " as the State officer is ; but the ohaxActel : )t our ople as yet offers too many objections to that course. They have still to learn the great lesson which ;he nobles taught Scotland—that the State is the best protector of the weak unit against the oppression of the powerful one ; but it is not necessary to go so far. All that is needful is to give the public prosecutor his locus standi in court whenever he sees fit to exercise it, leaving the aggrieved quite free, if the official fails him, to take his own course. The official will not fail without some sound reason for failing, or he will bear of it from an office which will dread complaints in Parliament about prose. tutors as it new dreads complaints about police. It is an addition to the present machinery; a most powerful addi tion, which we seek, and not a reconstruction of tlie entire machine. The Eonontist repeats Mr. Lowe's question, "If any bank notes arc good, why not £1 bank notes? The com mon answer is that they take the place of sovereigns; the paper being of the same denomination will soon drive out the coin. But all bank notes take the place of coin, and are only valuable because they do so. If therefore it be true,,as no doubt it is, that £1 notes, being of the same value as sovereigns, take their place more and sooner, this fact of itself only shews that they are better than other bank notes, not that they are worse. They economise a ;renter quantity of coin, and economise it more rapidly after their introduction. They have more of the charac teristic use of bank notes, and are so far preferable to all others. There used to be a notion (and it is deeply fixed in English currency books) that a large metallic circula tion, using circulation in its strictest sense—a large mount of coin going daily from hand to hand and laily serving in the market—was of use to correct the exchanges. When the exchange became adverse, 't was said, and gold or silver had to be sent away, there was, owing to this common circulation, more gold that could be so used. But, in fact, you cannot get at that circulation when you want it. It is in the pockets of the masses and in the tills of shopkeepers. There would be much labour and much time wanted to collect it, and exchange business is a very quick business. When gold has to go to pay our foreign debts, it must go at once and when foreigners ask for it. We cannot "ask for time ;'• we cannot grope about in the country markets for our specie ; we must pay to the hour, or our credit is gone. There must be in the central money market a great hoard )r hoards of the precious metals, where a large sum can be immediately found, and where it can at once be taken. If we have this ready and sufficient supply of gold and silver in large sums at the centre, it is no matter whether we use gold and silver in the petty dealings of life, or whether we use paper ; and if we have not this ado plate central supply, the diffused country coin will not do Is work. The John Bull says that it is difficult for those who care more for the principle of establishment than for the retails of endowment to take any enthusiastic interest in the proceedings in the Lords, yet no Churchman can be indifferent to the pecuniary interests of the Free Church should that part of the United Church existing in Ireland unhappily be disestablished. But we are far more con -Trued in seeing the bill so shaped in committee as to secure its ultimate rejection ; and that further appeal to the country, which the Liberal party so evidently dread. The amendment carried by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to postpone for one year the operation of the measure, seems to us a very doubtful advantage. The Duke of Leinster was probably not far wrong when he said that it would keep the country in hot water for another year. A lingering existence could only prolong the agony of disso lution ; and if the robbery is to be effected, the sooner the Church can assert her inherent spiritual powers and adapt Iserself to her new position, we should have thought the better. But if Irish Churchmen think otherwise, they 'save a clear right to a year's grace. Probably this is an %mendment on which their lordships will not insist, even 'f the decision be not overruled when the report is brought sp. Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Augustus Spencer, who is about to proceed to Bombay as Com mander•in-Chief of that Presidency, has appointed as his military secretary Captain V. S. Stephenson, of the Scots Fusiliers, at present brigade-major of the Brigade )f Guards. MURDER IN LIMERICK.—in the county of Lime rick a farmer named Neale had a dispute on Thursday with a person named Fay, who lived in a house which tie. rented from the former. Fahy struck Neale on the lead with a large stone, the injury inflicted causing death 'n a few hours. THE RECENT CORK OUTRAGE.—The adjourned Inquest on the body of Andrew Campbell, the Fenian, who was shot by Mr. Pope Gray, when he entered that gentleman's residence, Ballinaslough House, near Cork, )n the I'sth of April, to plunder it of arms, has concluded. the jury returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide, and warmly eulogised the bravery displayed i)y Mr. and Mrs. ray, and their humanity to the wounded Fenian., EXPLOSION OF A BALLOON.—Lloyd's agent at Buenos Ayres reports the following accident on the 24th of May at the fête given in commemoration of the anniver sary of the declaration of freedom :—"An aeronaut named Baraille made an ascent in a balloon from the centre of the Piazza. It remained stationary over the city for some time, there being no wind, and on descending fell into the harbour. A number of boats and a small steamer named the Cavour, put off to the rescue of the aeronaut, who was lrowning in his car. By some misfortune the balloon in -oiling about came in contact with the funnel of the steamer, and, the gas getting ignited, exploded with terrible force, blowing the crew overboard, as also those in the boats.. The steamer was set on fire, and sustained much damage. The Buenos Ayres papers state that eight persons were fatally injured and twenty-five were much burnt and injured." TWICE SUED AND THEN MARRIED.—In the Small Debt Court, Dundee, on Tuesday, the hearing of an action for the recovery of money expended by a family for the maintenance of a female who had lodged with them revealed how a marriage had taken place under cir cumstances very unusual. A man somewhat advanced in life became enamoured of a young woman, to whom for some time he paid his addresses, and ultimately promised marriage. He, however, departed from the promise he made, and was sued by the injured lady. He had to pay £3O. &second time he came under the spell from which he had only been able to extricate himself by pecuniary aid. He declined, however, to be caught, and abandoned the lady a second time. Her injured feelings would not, of course, stand this, and she raised a second action, which was soldered up for £lO. The attractions of the lady bad apparently been of an unusually potent character. The fickle swain was at last securely hooked. Thinking any further postponement unnecessary, he conducted the invincible lady to the altar. The Sheriff remarked, after the recital of the circumstance, that the man had taken an unusual course—first dowering a woman and then marrying her.—Dundee Advertiser. SCOTTISH ►SURNAMES.—The clanship of Scotland has tended to limit the number of surnames in that coun- try. A hundred and fifty surnames represent nearly half the entire three millions of population. First in number in Scotland, as in England, stand the cosmopolitan Smiths; but Jones, the name which occupies the second place in England, is "nowhere" in Scotland. M`Donald is second in Scotland ; and then follow Brown, Thomson, Robertson. Stewart, Campbell, Wilson, and Anderson. Dr. Stark,of the Registry Office, has ascertained that the registers of births in 1863 chew t*.ese to be the nine strongest surnames in Scotland, and the same result was obtained on a former occasion from an examination of the registers of births, deaths, and marriages in 1855, 1856, and 1858. Scott is the tenth name upon the birth register of 1863, followed by Miller, M`Kenzie, Reid, Ross, M`Kay, Johnston, Murray, Clark, Paterson, Yonne., the spelling sometimes varying a little in different families. In the list obtained from the registers of 1855,1856, and 1858 Fraser and Maclean had place among the first twenty, and Clark and Young were a little lower on the roll. Notwithstanding the large modern accession of Irish and other immigrants, several Scottish surnames still very decidedly predominate in certain parts of the country. In proportion to pope• lation there are much fewer surnames in Scotland than in England ; the total number is about 6,800. The most usual Christian names in Scotland are John and James for men, Margaret and Mary for women. FERNDALE COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—The inquest 00 the bodies of the men .killed by the colliery accident, opened formally, directly after the explosion, has recently' been resumed ; and is likely to last for some time. In the course of his opening remarks, the coroner said the continual recurrence of these fearful calamities must naturally make a deep impression upon all thinking minds, and' he had always felt that they might to a considerable extent be prevented if more stringent measures were taken. lle had from time to time made suggestions, and urged upon the authorities that some legislative measures should be taken ; but he regretted his endeavours had not been attended with success' , and there was such opposition displayed against every change or restriction that had been suggested that there was very little chance of carrying any important measure through the House of Commons. It was melan choly to reflect th.tt where human lives were concerned commercial considerations and interest should preponde' rate. Some formal evidence was taken, and a correct liet of the dead handed in. Walters, the overman, described the condition of the pit previous to and after the accident , and said that the fireman reported the day before the ex• plosion that the colliery was all right, except a little ga g in one heading. The day of the explosion he met the fireman, who said the ventilation was good, but that 0 1 was in the Duffryn district. Kept no register of reen employed, and only knew how ma ny .1,27 the number ot ►ps giro% out.