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BANK OF ENGLAND, 18TH MAnctr ? 1869. TIIE GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND give notice— That the GENERAL COURT held at the BANK this day is Adjourned till TUESDAY next, the 23d instant, at 11 o'clock i❑ the Forenoon, for the purpose of taking the determination by Note, in print or writing, of the Question on the following Resolution proposed at the Court for a Dividend, viz. : That a Half-Year's Dividend of Interest and Profits be made on the sth April next, of £4 ss. per Cent. without deduction on account of _lncome Tax. The Voting will commence at 1.1 o'clock, and terminate at 4. HAMMOND CHUBB, Secretary. THEATP,F.-I;CYAT. DT:UPS-LANE. Lessee and Ilan:wer, Mr. F. B. Chatterton, • Tins EvEsiNG, at 7, GIRLS OF THE PERIOD. Followed by MACBETH: Mr T. C. King , Mr C. Dillon. Concluding with BEDA. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Tius EVENING. RAI-ING THE WIND: Messrs. 'Kendal Buckstone. jun., Miss Laws, fie. Afier which. HOME: Sothern. Chippendale. fic. : Mesdames Cavendish. 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Slltt LONDON, SA7 URDAY, 111ARCh 20, 18G9. - Jocularity appears to be the Order of the Day in regard to the tone of discussion, among the principal speakers at least, in the debate on the Irish Church Bill in the House of Commons. Mr. BRIGHT, at any rate, has so far followed suit in the wake of Mr. DB RAELI that his speech is plentifully interspersed with parenthetical indications of the laughter it provoked. Again, too, Mr. BRIGHT, according to his odd wont, is scriptural in his facetiousness. Just as he likened his now colleague's isolation upon the subject of Reform —Mr. LOWE'S isolation that is—to a retirement into a sort of a Political Cave of Adullam, he has the questionable temerity, now, to compare the declaration made a year or two ago at a public dinner, by the noble lord the member for King's Lynn, to the mysterious handwriting upon the palace wall at Babylon, the awful inscription which it required the prophet of GOD to interpret at the Feast of BELSIIAZZAR. Otherwise than in this bne instance, however, the drollery in which Mr. BRIGHT repeatedly indulged during the course of his singu larly varied and effective speech of last evening was in the best taste imaginable. And what is more— often as he was humorous, be was far more frequently earnest and even impassioned in his ad vocacy of the great measure, in the preparation of which he himself doubtless participated more largely than any of his colleagues, always excepting, of course, the First Minister of the Crown, himself, whose individual work, of course, the Bill mainly is. Speaking of the growth of the measure under the deliberations of the Cabinet of which he is a member, the President of the Board of Trade remarked imme diately before the close of his address to the Home of than th the m e ajo o r m ity e C om mons last evening, " Whe n I loo k at this great In:' measure — and," s a v u e r e lookedand a said a it d t h n e u , h more " leln assure h H h of members, because I to have seen an ni d t grow have line w fr ,a o t m ehedits to line, and from clauseclause, growth and completion lookgreat increas ingatantdmsroeai ashen i e s a ith 1 a interest—l s .y v ore t sure, I look at it as tending to a m and solid union between Ireland and Great Bri tain." llt•re, it was that occurred n telling points —one, it should be said, entirely, oe fth ien mostfact quite obviously, unpreineditated, when lie added, "1 see it giving tranquillity to our peojilti"—whereupon there arose a laugh from the Opposition, answere 1 by loud cheering from the Ministcrialist —Mr. BRIGHT, pausing for an instant, and fixing a stein look upon the occupants of the benches from which the laughter had come, said, under hi 3 voice, but with all the em phasis of severity—'' When you have a better remedy, I at least will fairly considerjit." A remark followed, as a matter of course on the Government side of the House, by loud cheering. Then came the two clos- THE SUN, LONDON, SA t URDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1869. ing sentences of his address. Firstly, "I say, I see tranquillity given to our people, greater strength to the realm, and new lustre and new dignity added to the Crown." And lastly these impressive words— " I dare claim for this bill the support of all thought ful and good people within the bounds of the British empire, and I cannot doubt that it will be accom panied by the blessing of the Supreme in its beneficent results; for I believe it to be founded upon those principles of justice and of mercy which are the glorious attributes of His eter nal reign." It was almost like calling down the benediction of Heaven upon the gigantic measure, then under the consideration of the Legislature. Upon the close of Mr. BRIGHT'S oration, the adjourn ment of the debate until Monday evening, was moved by no obscure member of the House of Com mons—by no less distinguished or less conscientious an antagonist of the Biil than the eminent juriscou suit, whose personal objection to it was the sole reason why he was not elevated to the Wool sack upon the inauguration, in December last, of 'kr MAJESTY'S present Government. What is particularly noticeable already about the debate, night after night, in the House of Commons, for and against the Irish Church Bill introduced to Parliament on the first instant, by the Prime Minis ter of England in one of his most elaborate ora tions, is this--that the opposition raised against the measure is, after all, little more than a show, than the merest make-believe and pretence. The Leaders of the Opposition know that nothing will come of it, that the Bill is safe to be passed through the House of Commons, what ever arguments they may adduce against it. Similarly, of course, the Leaders of the Government have the consciousness upon them that it is safe, and that therefore it really matters little or nothing what they may say about it. Hence all that familiar touch-and-go jocularity upon which we have already commented as cha racterising the principal speeches delivered upon this intrinsically most grave and serious measure-- a jocularity, at any rate, serving the good purpose of enlivening this memorable and historical discus sion. WiiEN the great champion of the sacred union of Church and State, finds in the threatened dissolution a subject for laughter, the end is not far off. We do not blame Mr. DISRAELI for being funny on Thurs day night. We think that to be funny was the wisest thing which he could do. A year ago he attempted the grand heroic style, and the failure was so complete that he prudently resolved he would never try it again. It is better for men to laugh with you than at you. So the clever member for Buckinghamshire, being no longer bound by the restraints of office, but enjoying the freedom of Opposition, made up his mind to abandon the impassioned appeals to antiquated prejudices which no one more than himself despises, and, remembering the Iloratian epigram about the value of ridicule, gave free vent to his natural disposition, threw the reins to fancy, and was as amusing as though he were answering Mr. "WHALLEY instead of pleading for a doomed establishment. The House expected quite another style of speech. Remembering the " foreign prince," the dangerous encroachments upon the tenure of the Crown, the conspiracy between the Ritualists and the destructives, and, above all, the fervid appeals in behalf of the above-mentioned " sacred union," members anticipated a speech full of fervour invective, passion, and fire. But Mr. DISRAELI is like a good singer. Encored, he will not repeat his song, but give another of a wholly different character. Ile felt that the high pitch of last year did not suit his voice, did not suit his face. It required all his bound less powers of self-control to prevent an ex plosion of Olympic laughter as he appeared in the character of a new Sir ROBERT INGLIS or Lord GEORGE GORDON. He would not play that ride again. Ile would take one in which he felt more at home. And so, trusting to his inexhaustible fertility of imagination and pungency of sarcasm, he came for ward, not as the great Protestant hero of these latter days, but as the polished, finished satirist, who makes it his object to ridicule the beliefs of others. How far the gentlemen who sat behind him approve this change of part it is not for us to say. It is conceivable, however, that they did not like it. They did not last November make fiery speeches, nor print hysterical placards illustrated with crown and bible and sceptre, in order to make the great controversy between light and darkness a tournament of rival wits. They looked for denunciations, and lo epigrams! for arguments, and lo jests ! Th e y cou ld not, of course, help laughing, for they are not Scotch men, and do not need trepanning to receive a joke. But reading over in the morning the brilliant witti cisms of the previous evening, they must have been painfully reminded of the comparison between certain kinds of laughter and the crackling of thorns under a pot. We do not mean to say that Mr. DISRAELI used no arguments. A speech of over two hours all jokes would be like a cake all sugar. It was neces sary to set off the wit by a little discussion, to give flavour to the rhetoric by an infusion of logic. But the leader of the Conservative party avoided the arguments most familiar to his followers. There was that most humourous picture of three sets of clergy, all discontented because all disendowed. There was the vision of perplexity, called up for Mr. GLADSTONE'S special advantage, the vision in which the Church would absolutely refuse to assist him in reorganising itself, and throw upon him the burden of, looking after all the church fabrics and rectory houses and glebes. There was, however, with two exceptions, no resort to the old weapons. The duty of maintaining pure the light of the gospel in Ireland, the duty of maintaining Pro testant ascendancy in order to keep down Popish error, the duty of preserving the Act of Union, and all the other venerable engines of the Tory and Orange armouries were thrown aside. Mr. DISRAELI did so far condescend to the pre judices of his party as to argue in behalf of a State religion, though he carefully avoided enter ing upon the question as to how there could be any advantage from the State supporting a religion which the nation abjured. He also dwelt at some length upon what he called the policy of confiscation. It is on this point alone that it is necessary to com ment. All the rest was sparkling, brilliant, clever, but not intended for any purpose more serious than that of enabling the speaker to damage as far as possible the Ministerial proposal without committing himself to the defence of a position which he knew to be untenable. What is meant by confiscating the revenues of the Church ? In order to understand, we must have a definition o f t wo terms, " Church " and " confisca tion." Mr. DISRAELI'S theory is that the Church is a definite permanent corporation, with rights of property as inalienable as those of any private pro prietor. It would be difficult for him to establish that theory. The Irish Church consists really of a number of corporations which, for the most part, have no rights of property beyond the lifetime of those who now hold it. This is proved by the fact that Parliament has dealt with this property in time Past as it chose, has taken it from the Church of a large majority of the nation and handed it over to the Church of the small minority. What Parlia ment had power to do in the sixteenth century it has power to do in the nineteenth. Moreover, while the first transfer was essentially an unjust act, and accomplished in accordance with the policy of the time—the policy of coercing the Irish into loyalty— a re-transfer of the revenues to their original holders would be perfectly just. There are other circumstances which prevent this trans sliknAeEt:L eec -D b l , w fe o r u , ld,alitfhowueghareittois ju o d n g e e f l r v o h m i c hh his make. Another course has to be adopted. If England will not sanction the diversion of the Church funds to Roman Catholic uses, it has no objection to their diversion to Irish uses. And here we come to what is called confiscation. It is no more confiscation than that change which occurs whenever the Charity Commissioners order that the funds of a charity which can no longer fulfil the objects set forth in the trust shall be applied to objects having the nearest possible similarity to them. In fact, Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure even less deserves to be called confiscation than does the order of the Charity Commissioners. Had he pro posed to use the funds in purchasing railways and draining bogs, there would have been some ground for the charge; though even those uses would have been better than the handing over the Church property to private persons, as happened at the Reformation. But he does not propose that; he does not even propose to apply the Church funds to a purpose akin to those for which they were originally destined ; he proposes to apply them to one of those very pur poses themselves. The relief of the sick was as much one of the objects for which Church endow ments originated as the teaching of religion. It has been found that the funds are far too large for the second purpose, just because the great bulk of the people refuse to accept the teaching. It is therefore not only expedient, but strictly just and wholly in accordance with the original purpose, to apply the surplus to such religious uses as are available for the whole people. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, March 19. The rumours of war frequently do great injury, but in this instance they have produced at least one good effect. The French people some years ago discovered that foreign conquest does not necessarily imply domestic bliss, and they have accordingly received these rumours with a very unanimous protest against war. As I have previously remarked, the great majority of the candidates for the Corps I.6gislatif have decisively pronounced against war in their addresses to the electors. In this respect at least they represent to the lettersthe spirit of the nation at large. The Frenchman may love aggrandisement abroad as much as ever, but he is certainly not inclined to pay such a heavy price for it. Recent expeditions, too, in search of glory have produced anything but a satisfactory result. There can be no doubt that public opinion is now generally on the side of peace. The Opposition journals— which are the only papers read by the masses—are mostly against war, the Libertj being the chief and almost the only representative of the opposite policy. Now the Opposition papers are not only read by the bulk of the nation, but they represent it, and are far too prudent to write against a sentiment which is at once popular and wise, They see that the bias of French thought is in the direction of internal reform, not foreign conquest, and almost unanimously are they engaged in fostering this feeling. The people and their organs are united in demanding better government, more liberal institutions, and an end of irresponsible rule. As one of them says : "Of all the conquests of which France would be most proud is that of recovering by wise modifications her constitutional liberties, of becoming mistress of her own destinies, of no longer being obliged to consult oracles, or, to speak prosaically, to guess riddles, in order to know if some months hence she is, yes or no, to undertake a war of extermination against all Germany." There can be little doubt that this fairly represents French public opinion. The war of the future will be a war against Imperialism. This is no vague general impression, but is the openly manifested spirit of the nation. It is rumoured that the unhappy Princess Charlotte is in a very critical state of health at present. Dr. Jenner has arrived from England in order to attend her. Amongst a great variety of unfounded political rumours one or two items of undoubted fact deserve attention. One of these is that the Chevalier Nigra is to be retained as the Ambassador at the Tuileries. The King of Italy has tele graphed to the Legation here that the reports of General Cialdini's appointment are utterly untrue. The second is that a marked change has of late come over Prince Napo leon. Formerly the ballast of the Empire, the great ad vocate of peace, he is now observed to be on the most intimate terms with the war party. The fact may be of little significance, but it is eagerly noted. The most extraordinary project of a gathering of sove reigns and their consorts is seriously put forth as a positive fact by one of the journals here. The Viceroy of Egypt, it is affirmed, is expected shortly. His journey has been attributed to some projects of navy constructing, but, in reality, it has another object. Ismail Paella, informed of the Empress EugfCnie's desire to be present at the inauguration of the Suez Canal, is coming over to invite her in person, and he will, according to this scheme, make a tour, inviting the sovereigns of the other leading States. "The affair has been arranged with the Prince and Princess of Wales, and hence it may concluded that Queen Victoria will also honour the ceremony with her presence. The war-ships which will accompany the Royal personages to this great international rendezvous will render it an imposing spectacle." Undoubtedly the assem blage will be imposing if it ever meets together. But I can hardly bring myself to believe that the Queen of England, who cannot undergo the fatigue of opening Parliament, is likely to find herself equal to opening the Suez Canal. The explosion at the Sorbonne is still the topic of tho hour. Thousands of people visit the scene daily. The number of deaths has been increased by two : one a girl whose ribs were broken by one of the flying fragments, the other a woman who was crushed by the fall of a beam. One incident which occurred during the first moments of the disaster shews that even a catastrophe of this kind does not always induce human nature to display only its better feelings. One of the tenants of the house had in a portfolio different securities of the value of £2,000. He was absent at the moment, his wife, child, and a servant girl being alone in the apartment. These persons were all saved from the windows by ladders. The mother carried the infant in her arms, and entrusted the portfolio to the woman. The latter in her descent, how over, dropped the treasure, and on looking for it after reaching the ground found that it had disappeared. The collection of pictures kept by M. Delessert is being sold by auction. They are fetching enormous prices, for indeed the collection was one of the finest ever got together by a single amateur. It includes one real Raphael which is, of course, deemed the gem of the collection, though there are many finer pictures. " A Dutch In terior," by Hooghe, fetched 16,000, and "A Fish Market," by Teniers, rather more. The sum realised the first two days approached £55,000. The British Medical Journal states that by special order of the French Minister of Instruction Miss Garrett, licentiate of the Apothecaries' Societies of London, has been admitted to and successfully passsed the first of tho series of five examinations for the degree of doctor of medicine, without being compelled, as usual, to reside and attend tho courses. Three other ladies are being educated in the medi cal schools of Paris. A severe contest is anticipated at Blackburn when the new writ is issued. Mr. J. G. Potter, the defeated Liberal candidate at the late election, will be again in the field, having probably for his colleague Mr. John Morley, editor of the F' rtnightly Review, and Mr. N. J. K. Shuttleworth, who contested North-East Lancashire in November. The Conservative candidates will most likely be the sons of the late members, Messrs. llornby and Feilden. The Pall Mall Gazette says Captain llozier, it is said, will offer himself to the constituency on Liberal Conservative principles. At the Manchester Assizes on Thursday Mr. Justice Lush and a special jury were engaged the whole of the day in a case in which Mr. Thomas Sagar, an ironfounder at Burnley, sought to recover compensation from the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, for injuries received by him in August, 1865, when travelling to Manchester. The engine of the train in which he was a passenger broke down, and an engine that was following dashed into the disabled train, the plaintiff receiving injuries, followed by paralysis, which, it is feared, will shortly prove fatal. The damages were laid at £lO,OOO, and the jury awarded £4,000. Mr. Beecroft, late member for the borough of Leeds, died in London on Thursday, after a short illness. 111 r. Beccroft was first returned to Parliament in June, 1857, and he re tained his seat until the dissolution last year. Ho thcn re signed rather than go through the fatigue of a contest, and the result justifies the step ho then took. Mr. Beecroft was a Conservative in politics, but he was highly esteemed by all parties in the borough. He was born in 1809, and was married in 1812 to the daughter of Mr. George Beaumont, of Halifax, who survives him. He was a West Riding ma gistrate, and a deputy lieutenant of the same division of the county. A very singular instance of the occasional absurdity of the Engliish poor law has just occurred at Birmingham. A working man named Simpson, who had emigrated to the United States, sent for his wife and eight children, who were being supported by the parish, paying their passage from Liverpool to New York. The guardians r a:d their expenses from Birmingham to Liverpool, amounting to £B, thereby relieving the ratepayers from a continu ous and indefinite expense, and benofitting the family. Tho auditor, however, disallowed the charge, and the Poor-law Board refused to sanction it. Tho Board of guardians requested the chairman not to pay the money, and accordingly a distraint has been levied on his goods for tho disputed sum. .Dr. Petermann, the originator of the first German expedition to the north pole, announces, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that a second expedition is to leave Bremer.. haven in the first week of June. The expedition will consist of two ships, milled the Greenland and the Germania. The object of this expedition, as of the former one, is to investi gate the polar regions along the coast of East Greenland north of the 75th degree of north latitude. It is to be provided with a strong scientific staff, and to pass the winter in the Arctic regions, so as to return by October, 1870. The Greenland is to serve as a transport, and also to keep up the communication with Europe, and will return this winter, leaving the Germania to pursue its journey alone. The t• - jurrey coroner has just held an inquiry at for mondaey rest ecting the death of Annie Burden, a dress maker, aged 23 years, who, it was alleged, was on Monday night wilfully drowned by being pushed into the Thames. Eliza Frewen, a young woman, said she used to meet de ceased every evening. On Monday she was in the company of Harry Kent. There was a young woman named Eliza beth Smith with her. Coroner : Was the deceased a re spectabl! air ? Witness : Yes ; she did not speak of Harry Kent as Ler sweetheart. They left me and Elizabeth Smith at eleven o'cl ck at night. They went towards Dockhead. The deceased was not addicted to drink. On Monday night Harry Kent gave her drink. Harry Kent is a lighterman. Kent led her away from the direction of her home on Mon day night towards the river. The coroner's officer said that a man had, at two in the morning, heard a man near the river cry out, '4' Annie, Annie, where aro you ?" Coroner (to Kent): I shall ask you no questions; but I shall bind you ,ver in recognizances to appear at the next sitting of the court. If you do not come forward I shall issue a warrant for your arrest. The_corper th9n aftiournesl Ups ijmuopii MR. DISMIELI'S SPEECH. The Clobe, sp?aking. of Mr. Disraeli's speech, says of it: Under many stimulating—under some unquestionably depressing. circumstances, Mr. Disraeli opened the oppo sition to Mr. Gladstene's Irish Church Bill. The right hon. gentleman had a splendid audience, but the great Liberal majority, in view of which he had deemed it his duty to retire from office, now stood before him ; and, Although he was quite conscious that false issues had been raised, and that the real bearings of the question were wid misapprehended, he was at the same time obviously conscious that, so far as the second reading of the bill was concerned, the judgment of the House was predetermined. His speech therefore, was framed, not so much with the object of controlling results, as of expounding and vindicating principles—not for the purposes of conflict, but of protest—not to command the majority on a division, but to leave to all time a testimony in support of views which, essentially true and reasonable, were being impetuously sacrificed to the exigencies of party interest." The Express says: " Mr. Disraeli's grand parliamen tary display on Thursday eveningocan only be described as phantasmagoric. It was one of those performances of a magic lantern and a white sheet which are apt to shake the nerves of a childish audience so agreeably, and to send them home full of a fearful joy to dream of all sorts of fantastic and horrible appari tions. One cannot help fancying that the most honest and devoted of his Tory followers must have directly felt in his heart of hearts that he was being made fun of, and that his dearest prejudices were'being solemnly burlesqued." VIPGIXIA. The account of a week's visit to Virginia by a recent traveller, given by the New York Bound Table, does not convey a very favourable impression of the state of the country. The search for gold has been the ruin of the place, and the new men coming in from the North find it almost impossible to improve the land. Many of the corn panics recently established have acted in so improvident a manner that confidence is well-nigh destroyed, and negroes and whites agree in looking upon Northern promises with suspicion. Almost every trace of war has disappeared near Fredericksburg, and the old Southern homes are being replaced by Yankee -looking houses. In Fredericksburg itself little change can be seen ; but business is not in a thriving condition. Some Northern men have been on the look-out for land, but the land owners are exorbitant in their prices, and at times unwill ing to sell at all. At Richmond great dissatisfaction is expressed that the North does not send more capital to reinstate the place. The men are quite willing, it is said, to meet the Northern men and do business with them, but the woman keep back, influenced by a kind of social league, which is hardly likely to last much longer. It is the opinion of one who holds an important place near the general in command that the Virginians are the Chinese of America. They regard every change as most injurious, and discourage all efforts to educate the negroes. The houses in Richmond are not in a flourishing condition, and Virginia carries out the idea of having been the martyr of the war, both in the appearance she presents and in the attitude she assumes. • A week's visit to the Old Dnmininn will be suMobnit to shew the traveller the chief points of interest, and will convince him that Northern men cannot get the South reconstructed by staying at home ; they must exam'ne the question on the ground, and answer it if they cal. It was rumoured in Liverpool on Thursday that a young clerk in the employ of a cotton-broking firm in that town had absconded with a large amount of money. The young man, who has been missing since Tuesday last, is respectably connected. On Tuesday he was sent with Xl,OOO to pay an account, and he has not since been heard of. We learn from Aberdeen that Mr. Froude was on Friday installed as Rector of St. Andrew's University. Principal Tulloch presided, and in the name of the Senatus conferred on the eminent historian the degree of LL.D. Mr. Froude delivered a suitable address to the students. A WOMAN CAPTAIN.—The ship Chieftain has arrived at New York from Calcutta. When five weeks out the captain (Maguire) was prostrated by fever, and his wife taking command brought the vessel sa f e ly t o p or t. Mrs. Maguire, it is said, has sailed with h er h us b an d f or 20 years, and knows every rope and spar aboard ship. Several years ago, while in command of a brig, Captain Maguire with his crew were taken sick, and Mrs. Maguire navigated the vessel to port with scarcely any assistance. Professor Fawcett addressed his constituents "posing the up the subject the Lords threw the assed it, o t h f e the other Iris Irish h, c a h t B h e r i s g a h i t d o : n a s n uyw d p , ould, he would recom mend Queen to dissolve the House.out the A he If ,Gltvlhahedi cslCommonsbelieved dvagisa t e h i n e p and the Lords still , p:osed it, if he were Mr. Gla lstone be would have country another election. This course would increase the majority inortdhse would d m se o e thnsaant the d in its favour, and the L they were pursuing an unconstitu tional course, and their resistance would be as futile and feeble as that of the weakest child attempting to stem the flow of a mountain torrent." THE RENTING OF PEWS IN HOUSES WI WORSHIP. --The Bishop of North Carolina recently spoke at New York on the subject as follows Whatever tends to erect barriers between class and class, and to hinder the diffusion of religious truth among men, is opposite to the purposes of God and hinders the salvation of mankind ; and these serious consequences seem to flow very certainly from the practice so prevalent among us of dividing the house of God into comp ar tments, and then renting these to him who will pay most for them, and thereby making Mammon the porter to stand at the the door of the temple of God to open and shut as he is or is not propitiated by those who desire to come in ; for this is incontrovertibly the effect of the pew system. It gives the right of entrance into the sanctuary of God to the man with a purse ; but to him who, like the Apostles, is constrained to say Silver and gold have I none,' its reply is, then know you not ; depart from me.' If you have no money, you have no place in this house of God. 'for you there are no sacraments, no ministry, no worship. What, then, is its effect? That the gospel becomes one of the luxuries of the rich, and not the bread of life to hungry souls. What, then, follows ? That a Church—by which I mean a society of Christians—consistently acting on this system must estrange itself from the mass of the people and abandon them to religious ignorance and insensibility." REMARKABLE CASE OF S O MNOLENCE.—It is reported from Paris that a young man is now sleeping in the madhouse at Bicetre, and has slept soundly on for six months without waking. He was first admitted as an insane patient, seven months ago ; he had been a careful, honest, painstakin g clerk, and had saved up EGO by con stant thrift. He sallied forth with his money one clay, and threw it into a mud-cart. He was then removed to E: 6 0, fell asleep shortly after his admission, and has never s' since woke up. They have stripped him, flogged him with nettles, tickled the soles of his feet, administered medicines still stronger than their flagellations, but still he sleeps on, in a persistent somnolency, which the editor of the Gaulois, who has seen and shaken the sleeper, maintains he has never known to have been produced by the perusal of the Pat) e or of any other official journal. Nutriment is administered to the sleeper by means of a tube inserted in the nostrils. The doctors believe the sleep to be feigned, that it is all part and parcel of his insanity, and that he is a very wide-awake young fellow ; but if his torpor be feigned, he must indeed be a most accomplished and per *ming actor. WARMTH FROM THE STARS. The Daily New has an article on the warmth from the stars. "It would scarcely be thought by most persons (says our contemporary) that the stars supply the earth with an appreciable amount of heat. Even on the darkest and clearest night, when the whole heavens seem lit up by a multitude of sparkling orbs, the idea of heat is not suggested by their splendour. It will, therefore, seem surprising to many that men of science should assign no inconsiderable portion of our terrestrial heat supply to those distant twinkling lamps. It is not many years since Professor Hopkins, of Cambridge, went even farther, and expressed his belief that if the earth's atmo sphere were but increased some 13,000 yards in height, so as to have an increased power of retaining the warmth poured upon it from outer space, we might do without the sun altogether so far as our heat supply is concerned. As a glass-house collects the sun's heat, and renders it avail able durj„ the time that the sun is below the horizon, so he held that the additional layer of air would serve to garner the warmth of the stars in quantities sufficient for all our requirements. But until lately all these views, however plausible they might have seemed, had not been founded upon facts actually observed. It has been reserved for these days in which discoveries of the most unexpected kind are daily rewarding the labours of our physicists, to see that established as a certainty which lid before been founded merely upon considerations of pro' ability. Mr. Huggins, the physicist and astronomer, has just published the results of a series of inquiries addressed to the actual measurement of the heat which we receive from the leading brilliants of the nocturnal sky. The instrument called the galvanometer, which has been made more or less familiar to many of us by the researches and lectures of Mr. Tyndall, was made use of by Mr. Huggins in these investigations. The instrument was fixed to Mr. Huggins's large refractor, so that the image of a star formed by the 8-inch object-glass might fall upon the surface of the ther mopile. It will give some token of the care required in researches of the sort to mention that the apparatus had to be left attached to the telescope for hours, sometimes for days, until the needle whose motion marks the action of heat had come to perfect rest. When the time came for making an observation, the shutter of the dome which covers the telescope was opened, and the telescope was turned upon a part of the sky near to some bright star, but not actually upon the star. Then the needle was watched to determine whether the change of position had produced any effect. If in four or five minutes no signs of change were shewn, the telescope was moved over the small distance necessary to bring the image of the star directly on the face of the pole. Almost always the needle began to move as soon as the image of the star fell upon it. The telescope was then moved slightly away again from the star ; the needle was then seen to return to its place. In this way from twelve to twenty observations would be made upon the same star, so that no doubt might remain as to the motion of the needle being really due to the star's heat. In this way it was found that the bright Arcturus moved the needle three degrees in about a quarter of an hour. So did Regulus, the leading brilliant of Leo, the constella tion at present adorned by the splendour of ruddy Mars. Pollux gave a deflection of 1. degree ; but, singularly enough, his twin brother Castor produced no effect at all upon the needle. The splendid Sirius gave a deflection of only two degrees; but as this star is always low down, and so shines through a greater proportion of the denser atmospheric strata, it is not suprising that its heat should not be proportioned to its brilliancy." AIR. ROEBUCK AND HIS LATE CON- STII'UENTS. The banqueting room of the Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, was crowded on Friday, on the occasion of the presentation to Mr. Roebuck, the late member for the borough, of an ele gantly bound volume containing a highly complimentary address, and he was asked at the same time to accept, on the part of his daughter, Miss Roebuck, the sum of X 3,000 invested in Three per Cent. Consols. Mr. Mark Firth, Master Cutler, occupied the chair, and the presentation was made by Mr. Alderman Fisher. Mr. ROEBUCK, on mounting a table to address the meet ing, was hailed with loud and oft-repeated cheers. "There are times," said he, "when emotion chokes utterance, and I at once confess that at the present moment that.is my case. I have received such a warm reception, I have received so much eulogy—which I do assure you is to me very rare— that lam overcome. It is a new phase in my life, and this day is to me a great day. Well, sir, I feel myself now as if, in going along the journey of life, I approached pretty near to its end. I have arrived at a hill top from which turning round I look backward. To every mar. that sort of retrospect is a bitter thing—hopes disap pointed, wishes unfulfi.led, motives misinterpreted, calumny used. But still, in every desert they say there is an oasis, and I, looking back, see that bright spot in my career, my connection with Sheffield. That has been a bright spot, not simply by my act, but by yours. I came among you with a perfectly candid, explicit statement of what I intended to do—namely, to follow the dictates of my own conscience. That has been my rule through life ; and how have you responded to it? Why, for twenty years you did what the world, I have heard, calls bear ing with me.' People say you bore my eccentricities. I told the truth ; you bore with me in that. That was rather an honour to you. I truckled to neither party in the State, I was therefore hated by both. I have not changei through twenty years of political life. My views probably have been expanded by exile• rience, but is there anything wrong in that? I have not gained by my actions. I have sever allowed personal interests to triumph. My life has been dedicated to my country. I have gained nothing for myself. I hope I have won a - name—but what is in a name? In a few short years I shall disappear. The chances are that my name will be forgotten. In this rush and hurry of the world, in the great mass of the people who come before the world's eyes, there are ten thousand chances to one that I shall be forgotten. But until Ido die I shall have the cheering spirit within me that through my life I have done my duty, and, doing my duty have won the applause and, I believe, the support of the best thinking of my countrymen. I may say, sir, that lam accused of being an egotist. I want to know on this occasion upon what I am to talk, if Ido not talk about myself? Mr. Roebuck then went on to justify his conduct with his constituents. I brought a trained intellect to a business that required a trained in tellect. I brought, as I have often heard it said, a fear less spirit. I feared nothing. I had no other expectation t h an th e good approval of my countrymen if I did right. Well, then, I believe upon the whole, taken as whole, that my life has been a success. Though a defeated candidate I believe yet that I represent the thinking part of Sheffield. My mind is now attuned, I must say it, to a much calmer way of thinking. lam very happy, and I am very well. And although I have lost the seat for Sheffield, I do not think I have been degraded in the eyes of my fellow -countrymen. There are bright times in every man's life. However humble a man may be, there are times in which his heart bounds and springs, and he says to himself lam a man.' Well, that is exactly my present condition. I feel that though I have suffered defeat, yet this is a glorious reward for a life spent in your service." Mr. Roebuck concluded by saying that he was hardly so great a man as he had been drawn by the speakers who had eulogised him. Referring again to his defeat, he said : " When last year I contributed a humble part, but still I did contribute, to bring into the electoral body of Sheffield something like 10,000 or 12,000 persons I struck a nail into my own coffin. The very men for whom I struggled, the very men who got a power they never had before, used that power against me. I believe that as time goes on, and they become more learned as voters, they will find out that they made a mistake. The time will come when they will say, That old man was not so bad a fellow as we thought him.' " A report that the South Warwickshire election petition would be withdrawn is authoritatively contradicted by the Birmingham Gazette. MAGISTRATES' CLERKS.—The office of clerk to the Liverpool borough magistrates is now vacant, and among the applicants are several gentlemen who are not lawyers. At a meeting of the Liverpool Law Society, it has been resolved---" That, without any disparagement to the non professional candidates for the office of clerk to the borough magistrates, this society is of opinion that such office ought to be filled by an attorney, not only as a guarantee of legal attainments and social standing, but also because attorneys as officers of the courts of law arc amenable to a summary jurisdiction in case of misconduct." THE DONEGAL MURDER.—The Daily Erpress Publishes the following particulars, the first which have yet appeared, of the recent outrage in Donegal.—" On Friday night last two of Lord Leitrim's bailiffs were riding on one horse in the neighbourhood of Eallyheirnan Cottage. Three shots were fired at them from the roadside. The first shot took effect, and dismounted one of the men, named Murphy, who was seated behind his companion, and, in the act of falling, dragged down the foremost rider with him. The horse galloped off riderless, which, it is supposed, led the assassins to believe that they had killed both. Murphy is the only man woundel ; the other escaped completely. Three slugs were lodged in Murphy's head, but his life is not in danger. A gun was left at the scene of the outrage not discharged. On Sunday night another outrage was committed on Lord Leitrim's property beyond Kilmacrenan. A house was fired into, and several slugs ly.lged in tie wall and bedstead, whereon the inmates were ENGLAND BEYOND ISBA S. One hundred and one years ago the two British Secre taries of State, who until then had divided the world between them, were joined by a third. He was styled Secretary for the Colonial or American Department. Ominously enough it was in 1763 also that General Gates went to Boston. Nine years later he had captured the British army under Cornwallis ; fourteen years later the "Colonial or American" Department was superseded, for our chief colonies had established their independence. For twelve years after that date, until 1794, the affairs of the colonies as well as of Ireland were entrusted to the Home Secretary, The great war broke out, the war in which colonies changed hands as rapidly as railway shares change hands to-day, and the colonies were then, appro. priately enough, transferred to the newly-appointed Minister of War. Under his jurisdiction they remained all through that 23 years' battle of the giants which ended at Waterloo, and through the 39 years' peace which fol lowed. In 1854 we again had a continental war on hand, and by that time our colonies had so greatly increased that it was found absolutely necessary to separate two offices which had been held jointly until then, only because the post of Minister of War had long been extremely easy. It was because Czar Nicholas threatened to give the sick man at Constantinople his quietus that our colonies attained for the first time since 1782 the dignity of a separate depart meat of State. There is little fear that they will lose that dignity so long as they remain connected with the mother country. The post of Secretary for the Colonies is now one of those most coveted by rising politicians. Fail Granville, for instance, has scorned the luxurious delights of such ornamental posts as the " Privy Seal " and the Presidency of the Council, preferring to pass laborious days in Downing-street, whence he may rule the ten million subjects of Queen Victoria who inhabit England beyond seas. There are forty-eight colonies under the Crown. 'fey lie scattered through every degree of latitude and longi' tude, through every zone, from the Falkland Islands in the far South to the frozen regions of British North America within the arctic circle. They are of every age , constitution, and physical configuration. There is Nes' foundland, which we have held for three centuries. There is Queensland, which we have settled within ten 3 - ear°. There is Gibraltar with its strict military rule, and Victoria with a constitution more democratic than that of the United States. There are the snow wastes of Labrador and the " cinder-heap " of Aden; the spiel/ groves of Ceylon, and the fur-trapper's run in the Hud• son's Bay Territory; there is the rock-fortress of Malts, and there are the inexhaustibly fertile plantations of Jamaica; the continent of Australia, and the rabbit-warre n of Heligoland. There are colonies which have been settled peaceably, colonies which have been ceded by treaty, colonies which have capitulated in war. There are colonies for planters and colonies for convicts; colonies for sheep-breeders and colonies for soldiers There are colonies in which the governor has to be content with a modest £5OO a year, and colonies in which he enjoys the income, and much more than the influence of, an English archbishop. All these peoples and nations and languages are governed in a two-fold way ;by themselves and by the mother country ; by governors and councils an d assemblies, and by a Secretary of State, a Governme nt department, and Parliament. The 48 colonies may be arranged in six groups : EuroPe; which includes Gibraltar, Malta, and Heligoland ; M's' which comprises Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Straits Sett le ' meats, and Labuan ; Africa, by which we include the settlements on the West Coast, the Cape, and Natal, and the islands of St. Helena and Mauritius; America, whi c h comprehends Bermuda, British Guiana, and the Falklaa u Islands, in addition to that great dominion which stretches from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island ; the W est Indies, by which are meant not only the islands, but als e Honduras; and Australia, which consists of Austr alia proper and New Zealand. This division is not oar' ried out in the Colonial Office. In that establish' meat there are eight departments; but four e l these are concerned with finance, registries, Pa rli , a : mentary papers, and similar matters. The rest divide the colonies among them. The West Indies hav e a department to thems e l ves ; E uro p e an d a p ar t of 14 -fr ie. " . go together. The Eastern department includes not 011 the Asiatic colonies, but Mauritius and British Coluwh ia• The most formidable grou p o f co l on i es i s t h a t w hich is P ut under the supervisi on o f th e " N or th A me rican a nd Australian" department. While the Secretary of S tate and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary change with the Ministry, there are tw o p ermanen t U n d er -S ecre taries, wit h : out whom the work would be badly done. Sir Frede ri° Rogers, Bart., has filled his present post since 1860. Previously to that he had a distinguished career* He took a double first at Oxford, and carried off vairkn ia scholarships and fellowships. After being called to the bar, he was appointed Registrar of Joint-Stock Connon ui° :: a commissioner on the Colonial Land and Ernigrel Board, and an ass i s t an t- comm i ss i oner f or the sale encumbered estates in the West Indies. Sir Frederic Rogers was also for some years a journalist. His colleag ue ' Sir F. Sandford, is also an Oxonian, and a first classinan' He was appointed examiner at the Privy Council WW 1 !: 1343, assistant-secretary in 1854 ; was knighted f° l services as secretary to the Commissioners for the Elh'i tion of 1862, and was promoted to his present post at the elides lastyear. But, though holding the most responsible posi ti°ll next to that of the Secretary of State, they are but n ovices in the civil service compared with three other genti era t e r n. Mr. Gordon Gairdner, th e ' c hi e f clerk, Mr. Henry TAP % and Sir George Barrow, the eldest senior clerks, hav ehee d in the office for nearly half a century, the two firsthavitii; entered in 1824, and the third in 1825. Mr. TaY l°r . known outside official circles as one o f our most a ce la pushed poets and es sa yi s t s . Official life has not destroy 0 the imagination of the author of " Philip van Artevelcie,o nor the fine critical power of the author of "Notes on 8°0k5., _„, These gentlemen h ave f or co ll eagues more than a score 0f sistant clerks, junior clerks,and assistant junior clerksjil...,oc are also supplementary clerks, copyists, and other InW es officials, making the total personnel of the Colonial ° ter, about 70 in number. Th ere i s a t P ar k- s t ree t, Westm ios a sort of succurs a l e t o th e c hi e f office in Downing-street; ; ra , it is occupied by th e C o l on i a l L an d an d Emigratio n t i o p missioners, 11 in number. Be s id e , th er e are 15 e migre o, officers, stationed at th e p r i nc ip a l p or ts of the k ing for Their duties are scarcely so heavy as they migh t be 'ths the only colonies which promote immigration f ru° vic• United Kingdom by means of their public fund s are o a tori 9,, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, New Zeal and ' sv ith Tasmania. One might have expected that Can ecia ' ffe red its boundless unoccupied territory, would hav e ° ,O-0 attractions to that capital which she so great l y ne" labour. The political relations between the colonies All a til l mot e her country vary greatly in the degree of closener olonies are of three kinds. There are first the close The colonies, in which the Crown has the entire cc int A r° , - ° Ol legislation, and the administration is carried on by ° '; -e r e under m the upenision of the Home Government. Suc;tabs vir a e l e ta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Heligoland, and ratailo' the Ccrroow t n l r n ce d so i tl a so n nuipe l se s n la i n nee d n s wq ; huie. a ce n ht d here the authority °I o ther or cession. There opoo Australia, the various West th A at f rei: t re ste statute. Such are Jamaica, British Columbia/ " - -- ,pa no, spa Australia, sett ere° • 'oil the Falkland Islands. The secondgreat divot . 0, . ins 6ol° comprises c • olonies posses • sing representative ..authortyi o r oo l but not resp ons ibl e government , an d i n which the - e , Ooze has no m ore th an a veto upon l eg i s l a ti o n, but toe die ss Government retains the control o f pu blic officer s ' in ;one c ce°. laws are made by the gove rnor w ith the oncurte n • er Pr e° of two legislative bodies, of which one, atleast,ie tative. In the Cape of Good Hope both h earts and elective ; in Barbadoes, Grenada, Tobago, Bell 9lni f' the Bermuda the Council is nominated by the Cr°°l-,' E the Assembly is elected. In Natal, Honduras, end 5',.,-tatli West Indian Islands there is a single Chareher,r dp,so nominated, partly elected. The third Prin ciPs e i ll' comprises those colonies which possess representativ whic h stitutions and a responsible government, an d 2 11 ;on° the Crown has only a veto on legislation, and to ° I e pli Government has no control over any public e fficet in• e li ii the Governor. This class is made up of out Pim- e i d colonies, those i n British North America , and Australia. th°ll It begs Our colonial empire has taken long to gr° °4 ,-,,410 01 ' _w l it e h Raleigh, it received a great impetus under Li m.. ..,eje to° rg a rd fi l r esa st c o o f lonists w . ere buccaneers, the second 1q ere soldiers, the third were labourers. The ' 6114 11 possession on their own and were account, . Th e i the rlgh LS of the aborigines. as o f p s th oo laece n ir found that other powers would be 811 reg i " .Clie to regular t fighting , pr otect ° o f l their r d and g II tiuvn themselves under d t e h r e they the were, er e,an d it became ain thee nec e se . 00 f authoritya the age the Crown. To that lawless destination. To that period belong the tw ° _ o in populous of our colonies, the two which together copion, re-ca ci great untilw a t r h a s e g su cceeded when colonies Treaty l o o f n i eisgwse :eel:a:a:pi, i half of our colonial population—the Canadas and asseel 011 the reat in a very few years, belong to the third ag e ,; os age of peace and labour, the age not of the spear all.' sword, but of the pruning-hook and the plougb• ou i ll It need scarcely bo said that there ie no proport ,0 the colonies between area and population• an area of only 24,700 square miles, and a 13430,,1nf/11:0 re over 2,000,000. 9haivles°o9hea anal Ceylon population Queensland three-quarters °f l el9lastha o ann f 13ut thegoe settled Queensland only l tea m] Y t l o a n ib la h Ce rl li there are but some 3000 0 Europeans ; vi:. -Il f 01 Queensland nearly the -whole of the inhabitant' "' not ing area of ow ot, rit et er. lt remains on Iyto b o laic] that 8te:h316pvYillrell"eni't:t11:08P;r1:1111: which the more or less in governing this enlioraidable sun never sets would make a very foia arm'' , Fortunatel , th e duty of 1 for the mo . ---1 0 of tharitibPart, all tiPin. the 019,1470/1 ,----- tfr a - --- Cc bount New iI,OC £5OO, abut. ind ditto Cent., 13 ; d Italia] and 13 80 ex have 12 1; Rai and don, Weste doniar are I follow Great Great Weste South politai Bright 116 f; Uni 'lwpnt the 18 main 1 Great f, to 3 are um A tla the. ret: 28 30 are 221 The Bank y The Plate El The brough dispose id. fro the bet sold at the last It ha Bank t claratio for the cent., n per cen year lE the yea taining years. 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