The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

E Ma EXCE LLE NC E WITH CHEAPNESS, EVERY ARTICLE of CLOTHING, READY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE, F OR ALL CLASSES. PRICES BASED ON READY -MONEY SYSTEM A N UNEQUALLED in EVERY DEPARTMENT. STOCK A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY STYLE AND MATERIAL. OVERCOATS from 19s. to £5. B OOTS and SHOES. HOSIERY and DRAPERY. AND HATS and CAPS, I N GREAT VARIETY. A LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS, al unusually Low Prices. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES MOW ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES A RTICLES NOT APPROVED OF EX. CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. N easy and accurate System of Self- measure , introduced by E. NIOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom. ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully iJ attended to. T 4 IBT of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. 141 MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS • are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. EMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSE 3 and SON:— CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 87, ALDGATE 88, ALDGAT E 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 307, NEW OXFORD-STREET SOS, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. ( SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre sentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their nlv Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. _ _ THIS EVENING will be performed MY WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; OR, HARLEQUIN Puss IN BOOTS, tND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magnificent Scenery ny Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupe of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage effects of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. ',. , HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Blackstone. THIS EVP_,NING, RAISING THE WIND: MCSATS. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. Messrs. Comp ton, Kendal, Weathersby, Buckstone, jun., &c. ; Mesdames Caroline Hill. Scott. Gwynn. &c. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBE RWF,LL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. !fit 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G. Belmore. Mr. H. Phillips. Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, VISA Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. T HIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama. in four acts, entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. Vining; Count Fersen, Mr. William Rignold (his first appearance in Lon don) ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Beatrice; Messrs. Dominick Murray. J. G. Shore, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA, 3ldlie. Beatrice. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. f 0 YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. ' THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs aLrke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames BuLim and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TRE CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude Nth HUE AND DYE. "DI OIAL AAIPIIITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. _ _ _ 0 7 car Carre and his Fifty wonderful performing Horses, and the incomparable Scenes in theAr3na, including A.Bradbury, Eng land's Champion Equestrian, A, Salamonsky, A. Carre, Mdlles. Montero, Schwartz, Kremser, and Salamonsky, in a series of unparalleled acts of horsemanship. Castelocti and the Brothers Girardes in their Thrilling Ladder and Trapeze evolutions. The Clowns Burgess and Loyal, the greatest grotesque of the day. "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.'0, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. T. GEOR GE'S H ALL, Regent -street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. 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A more striking instance of the uncertainty of human calculations has seldom been afforded than that which was witnessed on the opening night of the new session. Who does not remember the excite ment which prevailed when the first notes of the election warfare sounded, and the eager anticipations with which all looked forward to the great political skirmish? All has been changed, however, and a more tame commencement to a session has never been heard of. Perhaps it is all for the best, and so the country will think when the first disappointment is over. There has been enough, and to spare, of words of late, and the whole of last year was wellnigh wasted in idle recrimination of one kind and another. Great credit is certainly due to the Opposition leaders for the tone they assumed, and the Government, to _ . do them justice, seemed to appreciate their modera tion. Mr. DISRAELI has neverbeen a factious politician, and be showed on Tuesday night that he was quite at home again at the left hand of the Speaker. To begin at the beginning, the Royal Speech was care fully framed, and thus a good example was set. Lord CAIRNS commented on this in his inaugura tive speech as leader of his party in the Upper House, a n d h e w i sely declared that they had b etter not follow the plan of other years, and waste their time till Whitsuntide. This was a good reminder, for what with the delay in commencing the session and the early arrival of Easter, it seems as if one interruption after another would intervene. The only exciting episode of the evening in the House of Commons was when Mr. GLADSTONE gave notice, amid much cheering, that on the Ist of March he would move that the house go into committee on the acts relating to the Established Church of Ireland. Mr. DISRAELI came to the point at once, and said that the absence of controversial topics in the Address was very fitting in the case of the present Government, which had come into office from the unmistakeable wish of the country to have the Irish Church question disposed of. The right hon. gentleman briefly dis posed of this part of the subject, by declaring that the House ought to have the case put before it in an entire fashion, and not in a partial and incomplete form. Mr. GLADSTONE'S first speech to the House as Premier, if not one of his most brilliant displays, was certainly characterised by great caution, and exhibited a statesmanlike bearing that promised well for the future. He expressed his sense of the moderation and fairness of the opposition leader in appropriate terms, declaring that in his re marks on the question of the day the right hon. gen tleman had acted in a spirit worthy alike of its in trinsic importance and of the high position which he held. We cannot rely upon the promises which Mr. GLADSTONE made at the conclusion of his discourse being carried out, because circumstances may be against him, but so far it must be admitted that he speaks fairly and with a sense of the gravity of the task before him. He declared that in prosecuting the work of dealing with the Irish Church establishment the Ministry would use every means in their power to settle it satisfactorily, and not to provoke any hostile feeling. Re hoped that the House would treat the question in a comprehensive spirit, and not so much with a view to carry out any scheme at first proposed as to conciliate various opiuious, and thus let all parties co-operate in the settlement which had been declared necessary. Considering the imperious manner in which in which Mr. GLADSTONE was wont to address the House when he was last before it in the capacity of leader, it would seem as if he had employed the interval to some purpose. At any rate he has begun his arduous work in the right spirit, and apart from party feeling and political prejudice, all must admit that he is fully entitled to the proud position he now holds, alike from his ability and from long devotion to the public service of his country. In the secondary portions of the debate, we may discern an active spirit of reform, and there seems little reason to fear that this session will be wasted as too many have been. Mr. GLADSTONE emphatically declared that physical impossibility would alone prevent them from carrying out all their wishes, but that the house must accept the mention of Scotch education as an earnest of their desire to have the whole question brought forward as soon as pos sible. The ratepaying question must be looked to, he declared, without reference to party conflicts. The public will have seen with satisfaction that Mr. BRUCE, in the course of yesteriay's sitting, ob tained leave to bring in a bill for the more effectual repression of crime. This is a step in the right direc tion, and it is fortunate that the right hon. gentle man has had his attention called to it so soon, as we may now have a chance of seeing some legislation taken place on the subject, a consummation earnestly to be desired. The new Session has commenced calmly, but with more dignity than might have been expected, and it seems suitable that at an ex citing juncture like this the two great party chiefs should abstain from irritating encounters, and turn their thoughts entirely in the direction of the public interests. They may fail after all, it is true, in persuading their followers to keep within due bounds, but meanwhile we should accord just praise to the ex-Premier for this graceful recognition of the claims of his rival, and to the present possessor of the confidence of his Sovereign for the spirit of mo deration which he has displayed in a time of much temptation. But really great statesmen must always rank their country's interests higher than the passing chances of the hour, which bring defeat or victory alternately in their train. "FALSE, fictitious, and fraudulent" commercial , ransactions, as Vice-Chancellor MALINS alliteratively terms them, are becoming a drug in judicial reports. The history of companies worked for the sole benefit of 'directors, and of private firms eking out theirnecessi ties by instalments from the public purse, is drearily uniform. The expedients by which responsible persons appropriated the money entrusted to their care, and yet managed to steer clear of the criminal law, are varied, and exhibit much ingenuity, but are all founded upon a common basis of falsehood. And yet it is only at the present time that this great national evil is likely to be seriously dealt with. The disclosures are now being made; public indignation is daily recruited by fresh revelations ; the losses to many thousands of all classes are still unrepaired. If the new phases of fraud in the guise of commerce do not receive serious attention now, they are likely to remain neglected. But certainly the directors of the company of which Mr. HARVEY LEWIS, M.P., was one of the chosen guides, have succeeded in realising all that is possible in the way of commercial originality. The suit in which the member for Marylebone figures so prominently has revealed " arrangements " of more than usual complexity. Mr. HARVEY LEWIS and others got up a company to buy the bank ing house of LAFITTE and Co., Paris. They intended to do an extensive business at both the great capitals, and they designed that their company, like a huge magnet, should attract " other banking and financial companies," which were to be incorporated with the old. One of these was the Ottoman Company, but as the proprietor of tha Paris Bank would not give up his property until 40,000 shares in the new company had been taken, and as the assets of the Ottoman Company were not ready to meet the claim, an extraordinary manoeuvre was resorted to. The International Contract Com pananaythweaps a o s ff sis er t ed th Ottoman to e givethe Company, directors of ar a is sk b ed ani t r o er this company £25,000 if they would raise the 40,000 shares. The matter was further involved by the National Bank, of which Mr. ll.tEvEv LEWIS was a director, consenting to discount the promissory notes of the International Company to an amount sufficient to enable that company to takethe 40,000 shares in the new company. It was arranged that the National Bank should discount the promissory notes, but that the new Paris and London banking company was to keep a balance sufficient to cover the advances made on these notes. This arrangement, with various fees and pay ments, was carried out. When the directors of the new banking company applied on the Stock Ex change for a settling-day, they produced a letter, signed by the sub-manager of the National Bank, and certifying that the new company had a balance in the National Bank to the amount of £337,000. It now transpires that the guarantee was worthless ; the greater part of the sum in question was held, but held only to be applied to the liabilities of another company. Money had been paid into the National Bank for a specific purpose, and yet the directors, Mr. HARVEY LEWIS and others, allowed it to be quoted on the Stock Exchange for an entirely different purpose. The transaction was one which entirely justified the VICE - CHANCELLOR'S dictum that all the parties concerned ought to be turned out of court. And few persons will question a judgment which represents Mr. lIAnvEY LEWIS and his col leagues as guilty of acts " false, fictitious, and fraudulent," which will give Marylebone the opportunity of electing another representa tive, and which holds the National Bank liable for the whole amount of the false guarantee on which these transactions were based. In point of fact, the shareholders of that bank are punished for the deeds of their directors. It was to obtain the j 325,000 that this falsehood was employed. Mean while, whatever benefit Mr. LEWIS and his colleagues may have derived from their manufacture of docu mentary authority, it is the old story with the share holders. All the companies are being wound up. THE formal statement of Mr. WATRIN EDWARDS in the Bankruptcy Court must possess a certain per manent value. As it is uncertain when the charge against the directors of the great discount company will come on for hearing, or whether the eccentrici ties of British law will ever allow us to hear the last of it, so clear and lucid a statement of an important part of the case must be of great service. The special jurymen must be thankful for a document which will save them so much trouble. No amount of evidence-weighing could put the history of Messrs. OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co., so far as Mr. EDWARDS was concerned in it, in a clearer light. What may be the effect of this narrative upon the future position .of Mr. EDWARDS it is for the LORD CHANCELLOR to decide; but, as a matter of fact, the nature of the official assignee's explana tion does not admit of the remotest doubt. The evidence given before the City magistrates told its own tale. The explanation is simply another edition of the evidence, softened in some places, but very materially embellished in others. The public may charitably allow Mr. EDWARDS the full benefit of his illness in 1867. There can likewise be little dispute that his examination before the magistrates was severe, and that he met with " great hostility from all parties," meaning that public feeling was unanimous on the subject of his transactions. Nor is it worth while to contest the point whether Mr. EDWARDS attended the meetings of the Atlantic Company once or twice a week, whether the absorption of time in this sort of business was so great as is generally believed, whether his emolument s were so far reduced by the Bank ruptcy Act of 1861 that his embarking in trade was only to recruit a diminished income. The conclu sions drawn from the evidence of Mr. EDWARDS were, that he became the paid adviser of the discount company whilst official assignee at the Bank ruptcy Court—that he was connected with many firms with which the company had dealings, and he received money from both sides; that during his period of advice the ruin of the great house was , T HEATRE-ROYA L, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, juu., Mis 4 Laws,•&e. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale. kc. Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR: Messrs. Compton. Kendal, Buckstone, jun., Weathersby; &c. ; Mesdames C. Hill, Scott, Gwynn, &u Commenc., at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TIITS EvEms& at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE A TOINET'I'E: Mr Vining, Mr. W. Rignold, Mr. Dominick Murray• Mdlle. Beatrice. Concluding with a CUP OF T A : Mdl e. Beatrice. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADF.LPHE. Tins EVENTNG, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOLTR WIFE TO CAM B ,;;RW FLL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling, G. Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, RROWN AND TUE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke: Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold. and Stephens ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7.10, THE WID()W HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, Tames, Fenton; %/esdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. Tins EVENING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. T. L. Toole, L. Brough , H. Irving. S. Finery, Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLB ORN. THrs EVENING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAID. Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Wcathersby. After which, FETTERED: Messrs. Cowper. .\ eville, Parselle, Drew, Brunton, W. Arthur, Bartleman, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Josephs. To conclude with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, George Honey. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, SLASHER & CRASHER: Messrs. Atkins, eraughan, G. Vincent, &c. ; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which. at 7.45, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan , H. Nev ill e, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson; Mesdames Furtado, Schavey, N. Harris, and St. Henry. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss 1L Oliver. THIS EVENM, at 7.30, A LOVING CliP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Trim EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. T. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tins EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tals ErENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and ;:aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. V r : l7 l Sint THE SUN, LONDON, 1 HURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1869, begun and completed. These matters of fact, notwithstanding Mr. EDWARDS'S " confusion " at the Guildhall, are in no wise altered in the explana tory document. The LORD CHANCELLOR will base his judgment upon the story, but the story itself is of the plainest description. All that Mr. EDWARDS does in the way of mitigation is to subject his evidence to a species of reductio ad absurdunz reasoning. He solemnly denies that he used any information derived from his official posi tion for the benefit of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. The £5,000 lent to Mr. CHAPMAN was made over from motives of the purest friendship. His relations with OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. were no secret, and the gift of the yacht by Mr. STEFANOS XENOS was also notorious. Mr. EDWARDS pleads that the commission he received from Mr. Z. C. PEARSON was received with the full knowledge of at least Mr. HENRY GURNEY. From these and other similar arguments he deduces that his business transactions out of the Bankruptcy Court were not improper, and were merely for the purpose of eking out a reduced income. To investigate such a conclusion now that Mr. EDWARDS is himself on trial would be trenching upon delicate ground; but it may be observed that some of the gravest points of the Guildhall revelations are wholly untouched. It is somewhat surprising to learn that the LORD CHANCELLOR of 1864 called Mr. EDWARDS to account for his dealings with OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. But taking Mp. EDWARDS'S answer, " that he was undertaking arbitrations, references, and negotiations," in the fullest acceptance of the words, it is clear that it does not describe the nature of his extra-official work. He did not say that he was a paid official adviser. Nor does he explain how he got the appointment with the discount company ; nor how in many other cases he was paid by various firms for driving hard bargains with them in the interest of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. On the important point whether his receipt of commissions was sanctioned by the directors who employed him, Mr. EDWARDS and the directors them- selves are hopelessly at variance. But as Mr, EDWARDS contradicts himself on other important points, the calculation of probabilities is not diffi. cult. Tie first affirms that his official knowledge was not used for the benefit of the discount coin- pang, and then, in a very remarkable series of revelations, states that it was. We now learn that one of the chief duties of the principal adviser was to keep certain ruined firms out of bankruptcy. The discount company was so involved that the revela- tions of a bankruptcy court would have produced an immediate catastrophe. " With all cases with which he had to deal," he was to avoid the Gazette at any cost. Had this employ ment no connection with his position as official assignee ? Yet this was the work upon which he laboured " night and day," and so far successfully. It must be owned that he faithfully carried out the "scheme of concealment" which had been laid down, and kept estates out of bankruptcy. But though he made himself master of all the firms with which he had to deal, he did not fail likewise to make himself' master of the discount firm . _ He gained such knowledge of this great concern that everything he asked for was conceded to him. It was then that his destructive powers came into full play, and everything commercial crumbled up before him, as if touched by a magician's wand. The GURNEYS might well have paid £5,000 a year to escape his advice ; but this could not be. The rupture came at last; but Mr. EDWARDS'S know ledge was still in his hands, and by means of it he insisted on receiving gentlemanly treatment, and upon being paid £20,000. His scheme of con cealment was so effectually carried out that he con cealed both his own and his employers' transactions from 1804 until bis defective memory recalled a part of them in 1809. Mr. EDWARDS'S explanation ex plains much. LATEST INTELL ME GE (REU - ER'S TELEGRAMS.) FR &NUE. PARIS, Feb. 18. A circular of the Minister M. Forcade de la Roquette, dated the 16th inst., has been published to-day relating to the right of public meeting. The circular says that until the present day the Government considered it a duty to confine its functions to vigilantly watching that no abuses of the newly-granted liberty occurred, without even interfering with those speakers who might discuss matters legally prohibited. N evert h eless the Go vernment could no longer tolerate such contraven tions, and intends henceforth to suppress all licence, and thereby separate from the right of free meeting those excesses which could only have a compro mising tendency. The Constitutionnel of to-day says The jour nals which have excuses for the attitude assumed by Belgium apparently forgot the question of cour and which alone would place the act in its true li g h t. " tesy involved in the proceedings, The Constitutionnel de,nonstrates that those pro ceedings are as unusual as th ey are galling, and refutes the assertions of certain journals which blamed the French G overnment for fe e li ng asto nished at it, and which even w ent so far as to deny the existence of any public excitement or nat i onal susceptibility on the subject. The Constitutionet, on the other hand, gainsays the exaggerated views held by the opposite side on the matter in question, and contradicts those organs of the press which regarded th e a b ove inci dent as a complete humiliation endured by France at the hands of Belgium, and ev en cons id ered a rupture to be unavoidably imminent. The Constitutionnel believes that the Belgian Ministers will offer satisfactory explanations to the French Government, that they will appeal to the prudence of the Belgian people, and to their well understood interests, and thus counteract the grievous consequences resulting from the law as voted by the Chamber of Deputies, and now wait ing ratification by the Senate. The writer then continues :—" We have little reason for doubting the issue of this Belgian incident. Our national feeling is sensitive, even irritable. Our great French nation maintains a haughty attitude when ever it suspects malevolent designs, or fancies it perceives —erroneously, perhaps—the sign of foreign interference." " But," the article concludes, " a matter like the above cannot have the effect of disturbing the peace of the world." R 0 UMANI A. BUCFIAREST , Feb. 17. The budget has been voted. The estimated re ceipts are 74,362,883 fr., and the expenditure 74,217,961 fr. The Chamber has authorised the Minister of Finance to issue Treasury bonds bearing interest to the amount of taxes in arrear. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Feb. 17. Baron Eder, lately Consul-General at Bucharest, has been appointed to the post of Austrian Envoy at Athens. HUNGARY. FESTH, Feb. 17. The Imperial decree convoking the Hungarian Diet for the 24th of April, will be promulgated to- morrow. The Emperor and Empress of Austria will visit Agram on the Bth of Alarch, and frime on the 14th. THE CHURCH CONGRESS. The Liverpool Church Congress will open on Tuesday, October sth, under the presidency of the Bishop of Chester. The sermon will be preached by the Bishop of Deny. The following list of subjects has been fixed by the Executive Committee :-1. Improvement of our Church Services ; Rivision of the Rubrics; How to improve the attendance at public worship—(to be taken at one session ;) 2. The Church's work in our large towns ; 3. Phases of unbelief, and how tc meet them ; 4. Diocesan organisation ; 5. Exploration of Sinai and Palestine : the Eastern Churches 6. Clerical education and the ancient universities ; 7. Capabilities of our cathedrals ; 8. Education, including Sunday schools ; 9. Foreign missions ; 10. Church patronage, and superannuation of the clergy. The secre taries specially appointed to correspond with speakers and writers are the Rev. T. E. Espin, rector of Wallasey, Cheshire, and J. W. Cropper, Esq., of Liverpool. The Congress will occupy four days. One of the evenings is to be assigned to a working men's meeting. THE HARTLEPOOL ELECTION PETITTON. The petition against Mr. Jackson, the Conservative member for the borough, which was appointed to be tried yesterday, has been withdrawn. Counsel on both sides stated that there was no case against the sitting member, and the matter was formally adjourned to allow any one else to take up the petition, should they feel disposed. It is anticipated that nothing more will now be heard of the matter. At the general election the candidates were Mr. Jackson (C.) and Mr. Richard son (L.), and up to the close of the poll it was doubtful which side had obtained the victory, the committees of both gentlemen placing their own candidate in a majority. At the declaration of the poll, however, Mr. Jackson was returned by a majority of three, the numbers being : Jackson, 1,550; Richardson, 1,547. The defeated candi date demanded a scrutiny in the petition, but this has been abandoned. OWL'S WIT. CONVENTIONAL IDEA. —To wash your dirty linen al home. CONVENTUAL IDEA.—Not to wash it at all. FUTURE MOTTO FOR SIR R. PEEL.—Where there's a Willes there's a way. THE LATEST FROM AMERICA.—The Alabama claims are half-caste. TRUE TO THE CORE.—Mr. Whalley has taken strong objection to the Address in the House of Lords having been moved by a Monk. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) A SOUND JUDGE.—A musical critic "A RESPECTFUL NEGATIVE."—The photograph that flatters. Irdsu ITEM.—There have been floods in Cork. Cork, as usual, kept afloat notwithstanding. WHOLESALE.—Patron (yawning, to artist shewing his water-colour paintings) : " Augh, well, these sort of things are all much the same to me. I'll take a lot by weight— mounts and all. How much a pound for this lot ?" LITTLE AND GOOD.—Gentleman : " Who do these pigs nelong to, boy ?"--` Chaw' : " Why, this 'ere owd zow." Gentleman : " Yes, yes; but I mean who's their master?" ----` Chaw' : " Why, that there little 'un ; he's a varmun to foight !" GREAT INGRATITUDE.—CumberIand and Westmoreland people are about to petition the House of Commons against the appointment of Mr. Henry Lowther as their Lord- Lieutenant, Mr. Disraeli's last snug little arrangement, done just as the door in Downing•street was closing upon him. Unreasonable counties ! Why not be satisfied to remain contented and happy under the sway of your great family at the Castle, and so enable us, envious outsiders, to realise the idea of a Lowther Arcadia? (From Fun.) A PAIR OP SPECTACLES.—The Siamese Twins. POOR RELATIONS EVER WELcomE.—The Reduced Three per Cents. NOT MEDAL AND MUDDLE.—Who says our public departments do not practise economy? Are they not apparently going to delay the issue of the Abyssinian medal until there is a chance of several of the claimants being dead? And is not that a saving? THE WEATHER.—The continued rain which has fallen to our lot lately has given a great deal of dissatisfaction in certain quarters. We may, however, record that the cab interest regards it as particularly fare-weather. Six HUNDRED LlNES.—Lamartine is said to be writing a new poem of about six hundred lines to be called "For getfulness." It is to form his " literary testament." There is much modesty in this desire to be remembered hereafter by "Forgetfulness," and the sincerity of the intention is guaranteed by the length of the poem. (From Judy.) A. GREAT "COMPOSER."—Chloroform. THE 0 VEREND AND GURNEY MYSTERY.-111r. E. THE WAG !—Mr. B. Osborne asked the Premier to dinner a few evenings ago, and had a huge dish of Irish stew placed before him. THE NEW LAW COURTS—IN CONTEMPLATION,-It ap• pears that should the New Law Courts be erected on the site originally selected for them, the judges will have to be craned up to their respective courts. However a lawyer at the bar may like " a lift," we should say that those in ermine wouldn't care much about it. Letters from Norwich yesterday say :—I , It is considered almost certain that a Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into electoral corruption at Norwich. Meanwhile the writ will be suspended." The final arrangements for the reception of the volunteers at Dover were made at a meeting of volunteer officers held on Tuesday at the Lord Warden Hotel. Various questions relative to the removal of guns, the lodging and victualling of the volunteers, &c., were put in traiu for settlement. The review will be held on the ground used in 1867, and the necessary steps will he taken to procure the presence of the fleet. VISIT OF LORD STANLEY TO GLASGOW.—The North British Daily Mail understands that Lord Stanley has intimated that he will, if possible, arrive in Glasgow on March 30, in which case his installation as Lord Rector of Glasgow University would take place on Thurs day, April 1. A party banquet is usually given to the new Lord Rector on such occasions ; but it is believed that it is Lord Stanley's express desire that any banquet which might be arranged should be non-political in character. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH AND THE PARIS PRESS. —The Queen's Speech is generally published in Paris shortly after its delivery in London, but this year there was some little delay, owing to the disabled state of the telegraphic wires. The Journal Officiel of Tuesday announced, in fact, that of the five cables uniting France and Belgium with England, two had been broken by We late gales, and that the land communications which join the three others on each side of the Channel, were also broken, so that all telegraphic correspondence between France and England was suspended. The royal speech reached Paris, however, at four o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, and was published in the Moniteur issued the same evening. A CONFERENCE ON CHURCH MATTERS.—Steps have been taken, at the request of the Archbishop of York, to hold a conference of the clergy and some of the laity of Sheffield, to discuss Church topics, more especially those affecting Sheffield at the present time. Neither the exact subjects to he discussed nor the time of the con. ference has yet been settled. The Archbishop himself will preside at the conference, and the following form the committee for making the preliminary arrange. meats :—The Vicar of Sheffield (the Rev. Dr. Sale), the Revs. J. E. Johnson, G. Saddford, W. Milton, T. E. Sale, G. B. Atkinson, J. Aldous, and Mr. Arthur Thomas ; Mr. Thomas and the Rev. T. E. Sale being secre taries. The congregation of each church will be invited to appoint four lay members to represent it at the confe- rence, the two principal objects of which are rumoured to be the creation of a better feeling between the clergy and laity, and to consider the ritualistic tendencies of certain clergymen and their congregations. Other subjects will doubtless be discussed, and the desire of the Archbishop is to promote the usefulness of the Church in Sheffield and neighbourhood. CRUEL IMPOSITION.—Mr. Greenwood has just made public some startling facts concerning loss of life at sea. He has been informed by a well-known life-belt and buoy maker of Sunderland that grave suspicions are entertained of the life-buoys manufactured in London, and supplied to the Jew slop-shops. Some of these were made of the most indifferent materials, and bits of common rush formed a sample of the interior. A number of seamen have declared that they will have nothing to do with life-buoys, for they would rather go down and have done with it, than hang in the jaws of death a few hours with the certai. my of drowning after all. Not one in a dozen of the buoys which are stamped " warranted corkwood," is anything of the kind. Mr. Greenwood hae subjoined the result of his own experience in dissecting three " good life buoys" bought at Shadwell, Ratcliff, and Poplar. One consisted chiefly of straw, covered with cork shavings ; another was stuffed with rushes ; and tha third was composed of cork chips and rushes. They were placed in water, and all sank in the space of four houre, THE TWO DEEDS OF OVEBEND, GURNEY. AND CO. A great deal has been said about the "two deeds" executed by " Overend, Gurney, and Co." The charge tgainst the directors in respect to them is that in their lealings with the old firm, as to the assumption of the husiness, they fraudulently separated their transactions nto two indentures, the one disagreeing in many material points from the other ; one having in t such as might go before the world, the other :ontaining what was most convenient to "keep ;lose." These two deeds are now published, and, as was stated at the Guildhall, there is a great divergence the one crom the other. This is most marked with respect to that l arge item, " excepted accounts." These accounts are iescribed, in a schedule to the second deed, as referring to all matters outstanding between the old firm, the Millwall company (transactions including a large sum), all accounts misettled as to bankrupts, or companies in liquidation, all accounts as to companies which had become dissolved, and all open accounts "in respect of any unrealised property or security (if any) accepted or taken by Overend, Gurney, and Co., in satisfaction or settlement of any account which has heretofore been open or subsisting and msettled." With regard to the "excepted accounts," the first deed provides that the old firm shall still retain the title :` 0 verend, Gurney, and C 0.," for the express purposes of winding up, closing, liquidating, managing, settling, and arranging any outstanding accounts, debts, liabili ties, transactions, business matters, affairs, or things Incidental to or connected with the business of Overend, Gurney, and Co., which the directors of the Limited Company shall deem it expedient shall be wound up, closed," &c. It is further provided that all securities, bills, promissory notes, mortgages, or property )f any description in connection with these accounts shall be retained by the old firm. Indeed the spirit of the whole arrangement would seem to be that the Limited company should have nothing whatever to do with these !natters. In the second deed, however, a totally different agree ment is made. Here these " excepted accounts" are required to be balanced on the 31st of July, and, in respect to them, an " Overend and Gurney suspense and guarantee account" is ordered to he opened between the old and new firm. Thi s " suspense and guarantee account " shall (it is provided) be debited with the total amount at debit of the " excepted accounts " when these are balanced, on the 31st of July, with all sums that shall become due from the old to the new firm under the first indenture, with the rebate of dis count on current bills and notes, and with the unpaid interest on deposits to the day of transfer. The account (the deed goes on to say) shall be credited with the £250,000, half of the goodwill which the Limited Company agree to pay, the price of the premises and furniture, the balances of " private ledger account," and the net money realised from the securities connected with the excepted accounts. Then comes a clause enacting that any money lent to the old firm in respect of these " excepted accounts" shall also be debited to the " suspense and guarantee," and another providing that if the old firm retain any realised securities for the purpose of helping them to get in those not realised, the same shall be debited when retained, and credited when paid in. The "suspense account" was also to be credited with the interest on the pre-payment of the shares taken by the members of the old firm, with the dividend on the same, and the produce on their sale. On the debit ha'ance of this account interest was to be paid. On the part of the limited com pany it was provided that they should have a lien on the shares held—in payment of goodwill--by the members of the old firm. The " suspense account" was to have re. mained open until the 31st of July last, only, unfortu nately, these " excepted accounts" and other things had long before so embarrassed the company as to cause it to " suspend" payment. It should be added that Mr. IL G. Gordon, one of the directors of the Limited Company, says, in answer to the charge of fraud, " All I can say is, that the lawyers are alone responsible for the legal forms that were used under their advice. I believe that two deeds were suggested and prepared by an experienced counsel, under the instructions of the company's solicitors ; and I know that they were sanctioned by another experienced counsel, instructed by independent solicitors, whom the new directors retained for the special purpose of securing to the company a regular and efficient transfer." It is generally understood that Sir John Barring.. ton will be the Conservative candidate for the representa tion of Dublin city. It appears that Bradford will witness a contest for the vacant seat after all, since the proposal of a test-ballot has fallen to the ground. Mr. Thompson's sup porters have declined the request of Mr. Iliall's friends, and the example of Manchester will not. be followed. DEATH FROM THE STING OF A DEP.—Mr. Samuel Perkin, of Beardon, in the Parish of Boyton, near Laun ceston, has met with his death under the following circum stances :—Deceased, in moving a hive of bees, broke the comb. He subsequently went to look at the bees, when one of them stung him in the neck, on or near the jugular vein. He immediately felt faint, and died in 15 minutes, FATAL ACCIDENT THROUGH THE FLOOD. -TWO men employed by Mr. Hoperaft, brewer, of Brackley, were attempting to go through the flood near Oxlane bridge, at Lenborough, in the parish of Buckingham, on Friday, when the force of the current swept them away, and the men and three of the horses were drowned. The bodies of the men were taken to the New Inn, where an inquesl was held before Mr. King, and a verdict of acci dentally drowned returned. --- POOR ASYLIIMS.-111r. Torrens has given notice that on Wednesday, the 10th of March, he will mova " That in the opinion of this House the proposed expenditure on district and separate asylums under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 is excessive; and that no further outlay for such purposes ought to be sanctioned by the Poor-law Board until full inquiry shall have been made into the expediency of the same for the better relief of the sick and infirm, and into the ability of the ratepayers generally to bear such increased burthens." A man named Illing worth has committed suicide at Oscett by burning himself to death. Persons who were passing the house observed a glare of light proceeding from the kitchen of the deceased, and went to see what was the matter. To their surprise and horror they found Ming worth seated on a pile of burning coal on his own hearth in a blaze. They rushed into the house, dragged the man off the fire, and extinguished the flames. The deceased was able to say, in answer to a question, •' I sat down on the fire. It was my own evil deeds that caused me to do it." He died shortly afterwards. Another case of lynching is recorded in one of the American papers. A cegro of 3lemphis eloped with the white daughter of his employer. It is not stated that the young woman was forced to go with her black admirer, but her parents at least objected, and somehow the negro fell into the sheriff's hands. The Ku-Klux -Elan delivered the man from cus tody, and then proceeded to dispense justice in accord ance with their own ideas. They first poured turpentine over him, " hung him up by the neck, and set him on fire I When half roasted, he was allowed for the moment to escape, but was shot down in the attempt." This outragitio ono of the riamt_lorrilgo p rooord. eIiANC.ERY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR, HARVEY LEWIS, M.P. Judgment in the long and important trial instituted by Mr. Gray and other shareholders in a joint stock company called Charles Lafitte and Company (Limited) against Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P. for Marylebone, and other defendants, was de livered on Tuesday by Vice-Chancellor Matins, in a court which was crowded with commercial men. The facts of the case were referred to at length by his Honour in the course of an olborato judgment. The Vice-Chancellor having disposed of the vari ous objections which had been taken by the de fondants to the institution and character of the suit as stated in emphatic language that the objects of the meetings held by the directors as stated alone were entirely illegal, and were for the purpose of giving falsehood the appearance of truth. Consequently no one who was a party to what took place would be allowed to receive any benefit from the arrange l i - ments then entered into. The intention of the effect of the plan pursued by the directors was directly in opposition to the rules of the bill, which did not admit of the purchase of its own shares. The National Bank must have been aware of the character of the proposed arrangement, and if not it was ono of so unusual a kind that the directors ought. It once to have set themselves to inquire into it. They were bound to regard the money paid into their hands for a specific purpose as applicable to that purpose above. On the whole case," said the Vice-Chancellor, " I must pronounce the proceedings as false, fictitious, and fraudu lent." The National Bank would be held liable for the re turn of the £230,000, as also must Mr. Harvey Lewis, Mr. Kitson, and Mr. Bates, who had been guilty of a breach of fxust. His Honour further decreed that the National Bank tad Messrs. Lewis, Renshaw, Kitson, and Bates must pay ;he costs of the suit. He felt more sympathy for the share holders of the National Bank, but they must suffer for the tots of their directors. Tho bill was dismissed against the other defendants, without costs, except Sir John Ennis, who was entitled to costs. The costs of the official liquidator would come out of the estate from where the money was tr be got. 51 1 1.111 T OF THE PUBLIC JOTYRNALS. The Post thinks that the session will be a very busy on e ' and that plenty of work will be done. The Ministerial notices, as distinguished from those made by privat e members, were to some extent fulfilments of the pledges given in the Speech from the Throne. The Attorney' General will on Friday week bring in a bill for the amend' ment of the law of bankruptcy. These measures have, A° Lord Cairns pithily observed in the House of Lords, be" come "annuals ;" and we can only reciprocate his Wish that in the present s ess i on some bill w ill rece i ve t h e asset it of the Le g i s l a t ure w hi c h w ill remedy the glar i ng e vils existing under the present system. Mr. Forster intimated his intention (though without naming the day) of bringing in the promis e d measure f or t h e b etter regu l a ti o n ° endowed schools ; an d M r . A yr t on, i n hi s official capacity' will on the Ist of March ask the House to consider in committee the Acts which at present enable her Majesty to recompense the serv i ces o f persons h o l d i ng hi g h civil office. The question of official salaries is one of perhap s the most important that can be submitted to t he House of Commons, and opens a field of discussion which is absolutely limitless. Lord Robert Montagu h ag already introduced th e bill f or t h e amendment of the e xist' ing Acts for the prevention of infectious diseases in cattle of which he gave no ti ce ; an d th e S ol i c i tor-Genera l will , notwithstanding his accession to office, bring in the bill for the Abolition of University Tests, which in his capacity of an independent mem b er h e i ntro d uced i n t h e 0P" Parliament. The Telegraph remarks that Lord Cairns, as the Conne r ' vative leader in the House of Lords, furnishes another remarkable evidence of th e rea di ness w ith w hi c h the aril' tocracy of England welcom e th e f ore i gn a id o f hi g h lute: lect in their political work. To those who represent that England is ruled by titles and influenced by rank, it uri r be some answer to point out that, of the four leadl men in Parliament, th ree L or d C a i rns, Mr. Olt, stone, and Mr. Di srae li are sprung f rom te middle classes, and owe no public advantage to their birth. The political career of any of the three is possible to the son of any member of the middle classes. 1 Gladstone's elevation to th e P rem i ers hi p over t h e h e ads ° many Whig Peers is in one sense remarkable, 8 10 E 3111 because the Liberal party, as a rule, have generally °a/ ample supply of ambitious noblemen who are able an ready to take the first place. The Tories have been led /3 ", Canning, Peel, Di srae li ; w hil e th e i r Lib era l op poneti t li ' have been ruled by L or d s G rey , Melbourne, Busse; Palmerston. Why is this? Why d oes the 01°.e , popular side adopt the les s p o p u l ar p l an ? Wh y has party usually opposed to excessively aristocratic privileg e h selected, as a rule, aristocr a ti c l ea d ers ? It may b e throw ti personal accidents, or because Liberalism has 10 / somehigh charm that s ti mu l a t es t o act i v i ty men who inherit In rank. Con serva ti ve no bl es su b mit to the lea der . ship of a pa rvenu w i t h a consent which springs fr°: the essence of th e i r cree d ; t h ey seem to say, , matters it who saves us, so that we are effectually savea : , But when a p eer b ecomes a Li b eral he so far surren der' any exceptional claim arising from his birth. The tW c l ° actual lead ers o f th e new T ory i sm — Mr. Disraeli and 14°', .Cairns—are n o t a bl e f or no thi ng b ut mental power ; an It will be curious to trace the effect produced by thel unign on the tactics of the party. The Herald predicts that Mr. Gladstone will get O A ° difficulties if he departs from his original programme, an appoints a royal commission to decide about the eeq ue „, -' tration of th e revenues o f th e I r i s h C hurch. To d o theL" justice, the political Dissenters are not prompted by any mercenary motives in assuming their present attitude on this question. They look upon the disendowment of t he Irish Church as a secondary consideration in compari son with its disestabli s h men t. Th e i r o bj ect is 74,1: rending of th e ti e w hi c h un i tes the Churc h the State, and the motion for the Ist of Ar ge i d fully answers their wishes in that respect. I t very different, however, with the Roman Catholic; Very dear to them is the prospect of seeing „, 11 6 Protestant Chur c h d egra d e d , b ut t h ey cher i s h theme % that a more solid gratification is in st ore f or th e m. n .,Ly them the doctrine of " revendication " is a passion. hold with i n fl ex ibl e pert i nac i ty that all the prope rty ° the Anglican Church acquired previous to the Refornlr tion, whether in England or Ireland, is the lawful preP ert ! t of the Roman C a th o li c Ch urc h , an d that sooner or later I must revert to her as the sole rightful owner. The P r :i tests to the contrary of Cardinal Cullen and his episod e brethren are of no m ore wor th th an t h ose of t h e ir Pr e- jg cessors at the time of the Emancipation Act. They I° %, to hold once more in some form or other the revenues t°9 possessed by the Protest an t Ch urc h i n Ireland, and then " „f is little reas on t o conc l u d e t h at t h ey will b e pa ti e nt ,:. course of action whi c h w ill i n d e fi n it e l y postpone the rea l ' sation of their dreams. The Daily News considers that one paragraph ill tli cl e Queen's Spe ec h w ill h ave b een read with satisfaction ant relief in nearly every borough in the kingdom. It 1 ,:t„ i i'a in which her Majesty recommends that an inquiry be made " into the p resent mode of conducting l'3rli ; 3 0 ‘ mentary and muni c ip a l e l ect i ons, " with a view t°l3; vide "furthe r guarantees for their tranquillity, if: and freedom." Such an inquiry will give universalsa; faction ; but p ro b a bl y the most satisfactory pare of i r y the inhabita n t s o f mun i c i pal b oroughs is that the ingu- to is to embrace municipal elections, and that an effort iS e 0 be made to a p p l y to those elections some gur- IW3t of purity. The great defect of the present lg, is that by makin g mun i c i pa l corrupt i on practiea it safe it enables timid hands to learn the trade' ti o is like an elaborate sham fight, in which, liv itil° o f much danger, they can learn all the mancellv res , real battle. No e ff or t t o c h ec k electoral corrup tion gijj lo therefore, be of the least avail tit municipal corraPti°l6lvg• c, put on the same ba s i s . Th e l aw as i t now s t a nds courages prosecutions for mun i c i pa l b r ib ery . It offerl 0- st motive to prosecut e . It i nacts certa i n penalties AP-fit, it, but makes no effectual provision for their enfo.-eceule ii t 034 In all these matte rs any par li amentary inquiry 112-e a io sult in assimilating the two modes of election, the making the g uaran t ee aga i ns t corrupt i on on e an vet , same. The re ve l a ti ons o f suc h an i nqu i ry will, h°videe'lloo show all mere p ena lti es t o b e insufficent. Mr. Al u , n- a e d knew what h e was spea ki ng a b out w h en h e 83 16 ' 4) f - t he that the res u lt o f th e i nqu i ry wou ld b e t h e adoption er Ballot. It i s on l y b y ren d er i ng a ll externa l influenc e s - I : l o ll a man's vote utte r ly p ower l ess t o a ff ec t it that iv make either municipal or parliamentary elections r}+, or "provide any further guarantees for their trancluw" purity, and freedom." .bera l The Star in discussing the prospects of the " 1 t he candidates for Bradford, expresses great anx iety f °l : jro return of Mr. Aliall. Wh en a p u bli c m an of gr• gi/It, distinction appears as a candidat e fo r a seat in Parliaine- t every genuine Liberal naturally feels the keenest illter; in the result. Mr. Allan is the representative N°ne-t, formist of our day and generation. lie was the Plop the able and arduous advocate of a cause which nol,vPr'A-53,ei to be in the ascendant. There can be no one who Will of advantage of Mr. Miall's presence in the g° llB Tr i s h Commons during the approaching debates on t he ; - . 1 Church. His exclusion from that assembly at Bo e r '" - n c i d a time would be a public misfortune andahnost a I: l3ti rg °- ° A reproach. lie does not in this instance appear in Pe jl6l, as a candidate for the representation of Bradford. to stands simply and solely on the merits of his own reP o ,i tion and services ; and in this connection the electc'il body who have to choose between him and gr. ThoniP°o should remember that although he occupies a consPiell°o position as a champion a • P ting i° been no o • ccasion on which he has been wan t „,• of religious freedom, fidelity any of the great questions which for ,t; e 4 X 0 C Mrifl?.?4 tho Libeat jart k i t:3o g tia cum tO4l spooot 141116 there 13 The Times remarks that the question of the Irish Church is very considerably complicated with that of national education. The Irish Catholics have always demanded a denominational system of education, 0 11 the ground that the English have it. The other alternative is that the national education of this country, too, AO be deprived of its present denominational character. The educational question, which the Conservatives profess themselves so anxious to see cropping out in the Pres ent war of political and controversial elements, would cer tainly bring up with itself the question of the religious character to be imparted to the English village school, or allowed to remain in it. It is hardly to be imagin ed that half a million more will be granted to our schools for the poor, whether out of the taxes or out of the rates, without our own Dissenters, Roman Catholics, and others having a good deal to 0 1 to the theological uses that may be made of it. W e ought to see our way to the principles on which the clu es• tion of the Church and the school is to be decided, before we plunge hastily into the creation of several thousand new schools, and the reconstruction of still more upon a new system. For the present, at least, we should it would answer the purpose of the Conservatives, and of all good English Churchmen, to regard the English Part of the question as still awaiting a final settlement' If it is distinctly and decidedly recognised that the English national system is denominational, and that every respectable denomination in this country In e i r , s demand its full m easure o f St a t e a id f or a schoo l i n which its tenets are taught as it pleases, and none other allowed, then it follows that the Irish Catholics, in this their bout of triumph and virtual establishment, will be deemed en an equality in this as in other respects. We conceive, however, that the true spirit of the Government measu re before the nation is not in this direction, and that we a re not going to strengthen and extend our religious establish ments, whether they be called churches or schools. 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