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Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME - EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALIIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET?. Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL G ARDENS, Regent's -park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. c,1.7 #lOl y eijit Sun Acdt LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1869. To-morrow the Irish Church Bill will go back to the Lords almiist exactly in the same shape in which it was first of all sent up to them from the House of Commons' The Lords' Amendments having, in the meantime, as we all know, been struck out curtly, inexo rably, unhesitatingly. The obliteration from the Bill of all those elaborately arranged and (as we none of us can doubt of course) most conscientiously consi dered emendations, must necessarily be looked upon by the Pcers as something very much like an indignity. It is a cut direct, in fact, which their lordships may naturally enough feel disposed to resent. The ques tion now is—Will they resent it? The leaders of the Opposition are understood to be at this moment making up their minds as to the course they will have to-morrow evehing to announce as the one they are deliberately prepared to pursue under pre sent circumstances. Those circumstances are in a very great measure unprecedented. They necessitate the devolving upon the House of Lords of an enormous responsibility. It is not, as we take it, that the Peers are proposing to run counter to the wishes of the nation. They maintain—mistakenly, ES we conceive, but, as we cannot but admit at the same' time very comprehensibly, from their point of view— IT is unfortunately too clear that the British work man in many districts is still left without protection against the evils of the truck system. The reports we are ever and anon receiving plainly establish the conclusion that the Truck Act is either an inadequate measure, or—which is much the same thing—is inadequately enforced. The enthusiastic reformers who passed this law in 1831 rejoiced in what they deemed a triumph of legislative skill ; but the experience of well-nigh forty years has miserably undeceived them. The Truck Act was designed to put a stop to the system of paying wages in goods—a system by which the workman was defrauded both in quality, weight, and measure, was unable to invest his money according to his own choice, and, worst of all, was tempted to drink. It was pro vided that the employer who paid wages in goods should be liable to penalties, and that all wages so paid should be void. The workman might still bring an action for cash payment, just as if he had received no equivalent whatever. This stipulation was at that time deemed a fine stroke of legislative strategy. It was expected to make the Act " self-working." Unfortunately the result has been quite the reverse. In many cases the law is evaded ; in not a few it is openly defied. The other day we noticed the case of an employer who was convicted of giving one of his workmen a ticket for goods at a store instead of wages. The breach of the law in this instance was flagrant, and the magistrate was enabled to inflict the full penalty. The employer was fined £lO, half of which he had the satisfaction of knowing would go to the witness who had informed against him, and another proportion to the informer's solicitor. This further provision for rewarding a witness may do something to prevent the open breach of the law ; but few employers adopt this crude and unscientific system, and consequently in few cases does the reward secure any goo d resu lt. It is much more common to evade than to ostensibly violate the Truck Act. The ordinary course is to entrap the workman by paying wages at long intervals. This at once brings the employed within the power of the employer. Few workmen are enabled to so regulate a month's pay as to live upon it the whole time. An advance is needed, which the liberal minded master at once supplies. The money is mostly paid in cash, and not a word is said as to the place at which it will be spent. But the tacit understanding is not the less complete. To conclude any bargain as to the application either of wages or advances would be a direct breach of the Truck Act ; and, moreover, it be quite unnecessary. The workman knows that a store is connected with the establishment in which he is employed, and he is fully aware that if he spends his money elsewhere he will vainly look for an advance in future. He applies to the store, the manager of which " takes care of the balance" by giving him a check or "credit slip" instead of his change. The truck system, with all its vices, flourishes unchecked. An inquiry which has just been made shewa that this evasion of the law is common throughout the manufacturing district of Lanarkshire. The prin ciple adopted is always the same, though the details of the swindle are less discreditable in some cases than in others. All the evils of the system before the Act are reproduced in Lanarkshire, the goods THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1869. that the wishes of the nation in regard to the set tlement of the Irish Church Question, as embodied or realised in the Government measure still before the Legislature, were never expressed at the last General Election. They maintain, for that matter, that the wishes of the nation upon that Question could not then, by any possibility, have been articulated, seeing that the mode of settle ment was not then decided upon. Disestablishment— Yes ! Disendowment•—or, at any rate, this particular form of Disendowment—No ! That is the Lords' ar gument. They insist upon it, that at the time of the last General Election, the question before the coun try, the question which was then unmistakeably answered by the country, was this—Shall Mr. GLADSTONE be made Prime Minister, and shall he be made Prime Minister for the express pur pose of sweeping the Irish Church altogetlim. out of existence as a state institution or establishment ? The answer given—was given, as we have said, in a manner quite unmistakeable. It was articulated so clearly and so authoritatively by the Constituencies that, before the newly-elected House of commons could be called together, Mr. DISRAELI had vo:un tarily given in his own resignation and that of his colleagues collectively. Mr. GLADSTONE was called to power—and immediately the House of Com mons had been constituted and had settled down to its sessional labours, the promised Bill iu regard to the Irish Church was introduced by Mr. GLADSTONE as Master of the Situation and as Leader of the Government. Thereupon, according to the Lords, according to the Conservative majority of the Lords, it became at once apparent—immediately, that is, that the Government measure came to be scrutinized—that the issue before the country in the December of last year, was, in the March of this, in a very great degree transformed, was, at any rate, in several particulars, altoge ther different from what had been foreshadowed in hustings' speeches, and more especially in hustings' speeches in Lancashire. That was the Conservative conviction in regard to the Bill, as indicated plainly enough, first of all, by the minority in the Commons, and afterwards, when the right time came for their so doing, by the majority in the Lords. Mr. GLAD STONE'S supporters in the Lower House were, there, in such overwhelming numbers, however, that, so far as that branch of the Legislature was con cerned, the Opposition was powerless to obstruct or even to retard the passing of the mea sure, precisely as that measure was submitted to the consideration of Parliament by the Leader of the Government. Not so, of course, was it to be, was it for one moment likely to be, in the Lords. There the majority was altogether the other way— not for the rejection of the Bill as a whole, it is true, but certainly for what the Conservative peers con ceived to be its emendation. Hence the amendments introduced into the bill during its passage through the hereditary branch of the Legislature. Those amendments, as we know, have since been swept out of the Bill again by the bold and inexorable hand of the Prime Minister, he being enabled so to do by the " tyrant majority," as it is called, at his back. Natu rally enough the Lords don't like to be thus ridden over roughshod by the House of Commons. Their lord ships conceive themselves to have constitutionally a will, a power, an opinion of their own. Their Legisla tive function, as they opine, is not simply to endorse or countersign the Acts passed by the House of Com mons. An insulting letter, penned by Mr. BP.IGHT, they can, as it seems to them, with no derogation to their dignity, allow to pass by with comparative indifference. But to have the whole of their amendments erased almost scornfully—certainly, it must be said, very summarily—by the Commons, exceeds their lordships' powers of endurance. The result of these last few weeks' contention between the Lords and Commons, in regard to the Irish Church Bill, will, at any rate, become apparent to the comprehension of us all to-morrow evening. Every thing will of course depend upon the decision which may then be announced in the House of Lords by the responsible leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. That decision, we feel assured, will be one mainly significant, as evidencing the fixed determination of the Lords to vindicate what they (not unnaturally) regard as the outraged dignity of their House, as the hereditary branch of the Imperial Legislature, as the second of the three great estates of the realm, as an integral and not insignificant part of the deli cate and complex machinery of the Constitution. are bad, prices very high, and as the stores are frequently licensed to sell beer and spirits, the Truck system is a very unnecessary encouragement to intemperance. The man is a slave, and his wife and family are compelled to exist on what is left from the ' extortion of the employer and the drunkenness of the employed. Unhappily this inquiry into the state of affairs in Scotland cannot claim the poor merit of revealing a novelty. It has not required nearly forty years to reveal a mode of evading the Act from which so much was expected. It was evaded almost imme diately. The system adopted in Lanarkshire was common in 1842, when a select committee investi gated the subject. This committee found that the Act had done little or nothing, and that the evils of the truck system were still felt all over the country. In 1853 the Government em ployed a Mr. BURTON to make inquiries, and this gentleman found the very system of monthly pay ments and advances which we now hear of flourishing in Scotland at that time. It is evident that the Act of 1831 has proved of very little utility, and that the evil can be repressed only by much more effective machinery. Mr. BURTON was of opinion that it could not be suppressed at all—that the Act of 1831 only promoted the truck system by bringing about more perfect organisation on the part of em ployers. This conclusion seems to be as hazardous as it undoubtedly is deplorable. Legislation can never be expected to wholly exterminate offences ; it can be beneficial only in proportion as it renders them more difficult. That no effective improve ment on the crude Act of 1831 is possible is a decision which ought not to be accepted without experiment. Despite Mr. BURTON'S authority, there can be no doubt that the law might render this indirect truck system more difficult, for, in fact, nothing could be more easy than the present evasion of the statute, The intervals of time in which workmen's wages are payable, the increase of penalties, and a system of inspection, are all matters for considera tion. There can be little difficulty in discovering where this indirect system is practised ; and why should " indirect truck" be less punishable than direct ? It will be deplorable indeed if we have to confess that the evil is one which must go unchecked. because we can do nothing with it. WE enter upon this week with some anxiety. The points upon which the two Houses of Parliament are opposed are now narrowed to a very small compass. Concurrent endowment is dead ; was, in fact, never really alive. On some important points Mr. GLADSTONE has made considerable concessions. There are but two points which now remain open, and out of which a dangerous collision is likely to arise. The first is the Appropriation Cause—and here we do not despair of a compromise which will allow the bill to pass. The Lords want to get rid of the clause which specifies the uses to which the fund shall be applied; and in this they are supported by a considerable number of Liberals, who hold that the objects named by the Government are not the best, and will open the door to jobbery. The Lords want also to strike out that part of the preamble which forbids appropria tion to ecclesiastical purpcses. This is the second point of difference. Now, it is clear that the two points here raised are widely different. Mr. GLADSTONE is pledged over and over again in the most solemn manner that the fund shall not be applied to eccle siastical purposes, and rather than yield that point he will resign, and call upon the Conservative party to undertake the hopeless task of forming a Ministry. But while he is thus resolute as to the pur pose to which the fund shall not be applied, we see no indication of such a resolution as to the purposes to which it shall be applied. In fact, Mr. BRIGHT defended the Ministerial scheme more as a ' pis-aller than upon its intrinsic merits. No one, he said, had devised a better. But that is no reason why, if time were granted, a better should not be devised hereafter. This is the feeling which influences a large number of Liberal M.P.'s, a much larger number probably than those who had the courage to vote against their party on _Friday night. The argument that the want of unity among the critics proves that the Government ought to persist with their own plan will not stand. It does not follow that because no better plan has been thought of none is possible. All may be bad, the Government scheme included, though we do not think it is, rather we believe it to be good. But if so, it will stand the test of investigation and competition. Moreover, it is possible that there may be enough money for both the Ministerial scheme and some other, such as that which Earl RUSSELL means to propose—educational purposes. The money will not be in hand for some years to come. And though the history of the Appropriation Clause thirty years ago may make Ministers anxious to avoid keeping this question open, a very-strongly pronounced opinion in favour of that course ought to have weight when it is urged by their own supporters. We need hardly add that such a concession ought to be accepted by the Lords, and all the more because it would, according to the opinion of many of them, still render it possible to do, so far as legislation is concerned, that which we believe to be really impossible. LATEST INTELL MENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, July 17. One hundred and forty men belonging to Colonel Ryan's filibustering expedition have been captured on Gardener's Island, and sent as prisoners to the Brooklyn Navy-yard. The North German Lloyd steamer Rhein ar rived here at 4 a.m. to-day, and the Leipzig at Baltimore at 9 a.m. to-day. The steamers which leave to-day for Europe take out $450,000 in epecie. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 136 the highest quotation dur ing the day was 136 ; the lowest, 1351. Sterling Exchange on London llOl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l23k. 11 " 1885 l2li. " 1867..0,• l2Ol. 10-40 11 Illinois l44k. Erie 29k. Cotton—Mid. upland 34/le. Petroleum—Standard White 3 l le 4 • Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, 100 e. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, July 18. The new Ministry has made its appearance in the columns of the Journal Officiel. We expected that it would be an ordinary affair, and our expectations have been realised. Five new Ministers have been appointed; the rest retain their portfolios. The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne will leave the Embassy at London to become Foreign Minister. He belongs to one of the most illus trious of French families, and has passed all his life in diplomacy. As a politician he is making his first essay. M. Duvergier becomes Minister of Justice. He has been one of the leading French barristers for the last thirty years. In 1855 he became a member of the Council of State. He is old man—born in 1792—but still hale and active. M. Alfred Le Roux, the banker, has been Vice- President of the Corps Ugislatif since 1863. He now takes the portfolio of Commerce and Agriculture. He is a politician of very polished manners. M. Bourbeau takes the Ministry of Public Instruction. He is Maire of Poitiers, and i a new member of the Corps Legislatif, but his reputation as a jurist is considerable. The Count tie Chasseloup-Laubat commenced political life about forty years ago, and has already been Minister of Marine and of Algeria. He now becomes President of the Council of State. All the new Ministers are Imperialists. Not one of them claims fellowship with the Moderate Liberals, and only one, M. Bourbenu, was amongst the famous Cent- Seize who got up the demand for Ministerial responsibi lity. The new party has been excluded. There is no • doubt that the claims of MM. Segris, de TalhouCt, and 011ivier, the leaders of the moderate Liberals, have been considered by the Emperor, but this consideration has not ended in their appointment. The new Ministry is of the old materials. The Moderates are angry at the result, and, judging by the tone of their representative, the Literte, I should say that they intend to make a further attack upon the Imperial system, reformed though it be. It appears that offers were made to some of the Moderate Liberals, but the changes which the Emperor offered to make were not deemed sufficiently trenchant by 011ivier and his colleagues. The dissatisfaction at the prorogation of the Corps L6gislatif is by no means on the decrease. It is now cer tain that the step was taken on the advice of M. Schneider, the President of the Chamber. The Emperor admits that it was an error, and we are in full expectation that the deputies will be summoned together again in aday or two. Our Members of Parliament, as you know, are paid about £4OO for a session's work. For this supplementary session they were to receive a sum of £lOO ; but the pay office has been closed, and no money distributed, showing that the supplementary session is not yet at an end. A mine was exploded in a quarry near Marseilles a day or two ago. A mass of stone, weighing fifteen tons, was detached, and hurled over the brow of the hill by the force of the explosion. It rolled down gathering impetus as it went, carrying everything before it, and finally breaking through the wall of a church at the bottom of the declivity. It made a hole five square yards in extent, and destroyed part of the altar. The block had to be sawn in pieces in order to get it out of the edifice. A strange story of the adventures of a French crew comes to us from New Orleans. In the month of August 1863 the French vessel Adelina Eliza left Bordeaux for Hong Kong, and was never heard of after rounding the Cape of Good Hope. A hurricane in the Indian Ocean drove her for thirty days towards the Pacific, and at length wrecked her on a coral island. The crew took to their boats, and reached the island, where they were assailed by savages. Only three escaped, and of these two speedily died. The third managed to reach another piece of land, in a canoe. This proved to be part of South America. The solitary sailor crossed the whole of the Continent on foot, enduring incredible hardships, until at length he fell in with some Spanish Americans. He has recently arrived at Bordeaux, after six years' absence. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 17.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 44 per Cent. End of month... -- Ital'an Fives 55 25 3 per Cent End of month 7l 80 Ottoman Loan ... 320 Credit Mobilier End of month... Spanish Threes Credit Foncior ...1037 50 Rome Debt — End of month... Deferred 2B 73 RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ... 955 Northern ... lO9O Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 6lB l Eastern • 9 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 560 North of Spain Saragossa 4%,,.., TO Roman , I 111 TO LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails tb quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth, it causes the Hair to grow think and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large bottles— Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists sod rerftutters. Dept, 266, High Holborn. THE QUARTERLIES. Some of the most interesting topics treated of in Mr. Lecky's able " History of European Morals" form the subject of the first article in Illeliora. In some respects the advance of time has shewn little improvement—as witness infanticide ; but the effect of Christianity and civilisation has been most decisively shewn in the promo tion of most virtues, and the repression of most vices— especially suicide, slavery, and cruelty to animals. In the days of Roman and Grecian philosophy, suicide was at least not blamed if it were not deemed positively meritorious. Cato, we all know, made a virtue of it. The Roman Emperor Otho killed himself to avoid being the eftlatic _ soldiers so admired the deed that they slaughtered them selves before his corpse. Others who were not present likewise committed suicide when they heard the news. Sometimes a Roman would announce his intention of taking his own life, and would gather together his friends for the purpose as if to a party. This raising of suicide to a virtue was due chiefly to the teach ing of the Stoics, who regarded death as the end of sorrow, and, without affirming there was no future life, looked the notion as little more than a beautiful unceitainty. Death, therefore, was the last hope of the Stoic, the only solace to which he aspired, his refuge in trouble. Plato condemned suicide, first, as a wrong to the State, then as an injury to God ; but it required the Christian revelation to fully expose the enormity of self-destruc• tion. Though suicide is nowhere expressly condemned in the Bible, it was one of the great good works of the early Christian fathers to emphatically condemn this crime. In the Koran suicide is expressly forbidden, and the offence is, therefore, unknown to Mahommedans. The downfall of slavery is another of the triumphs of civilisa tion. Slaveholding was first an improvement upon the early practice of killing captives, and it was long recog nised by law in many parts of the world. It took many centuries to fully overcome this flagrant breach of moral law, and the victory is hardly yet complete. Cruelty to animals is a branch of morality which, in modern times, has made the greatest advances of all. After this interesting review comes a paper on "The Liquor Traffic in Relation to Capital and Labour." The facts are such as cannot be too often put in print. Drunkenness is the cause of both physical and intellectual loss to the commu pity. Whilst the drunkard is idle his labour ceases ; when he resumes work it is with greatly diminished power, and the longer he subjects himself to the influence of intellectual loss the weaker he becomes. The loss to the community is not less serious. The brutalisation w ell as the weaken in g of humanity is one of the great evil effect s of drink. It is likewise to be noted that the labour engaged in the manufacture of drink, as well as the labo ur lost through intoxication, is equally wasted ; and not only that, but the capital en gaged, producing no bene ficial result,. is practically lost. The loss to the nation from an economical point of view, apart from the mere expenditure of money in drink, is enormous. " Backward Glances—England in 1869" is an article on a topic which well deserves more extended treat ment. Nothing is more difficult than to form a correct idea of the state of our country in past times. The facts we have ; but they are not symmetrically arranged ; we have few complete tableaux of the social condition of our land at any given time. Macaulay gave us a splendid representation—vivid and comprehensive— of England in 1688. 211tliora attempts the same for 1769. The paper is interesting, but the space is not enough for the undertaking. An article on " Somersetshire" is historical and descriptive, and it must be confessed that the history is far more gratifying than the description. Somersetshire has given birth to great men ; its records abound with stirring incidents ; but "it is by no means amongst the foremost counties in manufac tures or apiculture, in education or morals." The popu lation is too great ; it has risen from 280,000 to 460,000 in the last half-century —a great increase for an agricultural county. Education is backward, that is, the middle-class schools, The primary instruction is, perhaps, up to the average ; but the higherschools are woefully defective. The rate of crime is high, and the happiness and prosperity of the inhabitants are greatly hampered by unfavourable condi tions, of which the truck system is the chief. The custom of receiving part of the weekly wages in cider instead of money is ruinous to the health of the labourer and injurious to the interests of his family. The Cotirt Journal says, her Majesty will not again visit Claremont, as was intended, but leave the Castle for Osborne to-morrow (Tuesd y) with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian, the Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and Pii,:ce Leopold. The Queen intends to re n.ain at o,borne until the middle of August, and will then proceed to Scotia: d. A bill 11;18 been Irou;ht in by the Government to amend the low relating to the office of Clerks of Assize, and to cf:f:ftin i - deS fcr ryinent of witnesses in criminal pro ceed:tig9. The appointment of any person not duly qualified shall he void, and persons appointed after the passing of the Act shall not be entitled to compensation. Fees upon order; titAdet 30 and 31 Victoria, are to be included in the account of the (York of the Peace. Some dissatisfaction has been caused in Liverpool by the recent appointments to the borough magistracy. The Est of new magistrates contains the names of some Conser vatives, while several Liberals have been passed over. The Liverpool Mercury explains that the Chancellor of the Duchy determined that when, as in the case of Liverpool, political parties are about equally balanced on the bench, be will not difr.turb thc4ll4atT;ll._ / 1 14*MR to....E : j i t.Pl4# Opatc l ow . • • • SERIOUS ACCIDENTS TO EXCURSION TRAINS. On Saturday two accidents happened to excursion trains en route to Liverpool, one of which might have resulted in a great destruction of life, but which caused but one actual death. This unfortunate train was corn• posed of twenty-two carriages, and contained about 600 passengers, chiefly members of the Crewe Co-operative Stores and their friends. The train was announced to leave Crewe (London and North-Western Railway) for Liverpool at 6.30, but did not leave until a quarter of an hour later. Soon after passing Winsford station a coal train of about twenty carriages was shunting off the down line, but had not got quite clear, and the engine of the excursion train, together with the carriages, came into violent collision with the hinder part of the coal train, the result being that a saloon carriage was entirely destroyed, and also a third-class carriage in the centre of the train. Although the latter carriage was nearly full of passengers we are glad to say not one was injured. All the windows on the coal side of the train were broken, and many of the steps, handles, and rails were wrenched off, and a number of the passengers re ceived serious injuries by glass, &c. A little girl, aged 7 years, the daughter of a Liverpool publican, named Anderson, who was returning home from a visit to Crewe, was killed, and her sister, who sat next to her, was very much hurt. The shock was .so great that the buffer of the excursion engine on the side of the coal train was twisted out of all shape. The passengers were brought on to Liverpool after a delay of half an hour. Blame is at present laid upon the shunters, but no doubt a full in vestigation will be made. The second accident was on the East Lancashire Railway. The train in question was composed of twenty-five carriages with excursionists from Bradford and the district for Liverpool. About a quarter-past nine, when between Bamber Bridge and Lostock Junction, the excursion train came into collision with a goods train, and the engine and three carriages of the former train were thrown off the line, and many of the passengers received severe injuries, none, however, we understand, that are likely to terminate fatally. Several of the goods train waggons were also smashed. MR. GRENVILLE MURRAY CHARGED WITH PERJURY. At the Marlborough -street Police-court, on Saturday, Mr. Grenville Murray appeared before Mr. Knox to answer a summons charging him with having committed perjury while giving evidence in support of a charge of assault against Lord Carington, on the 7th instant. Mr. Giffard and the Hon. Mr. Thesiger were for the prosecution, and Mr. Gill for the defence. The court was crowded with well-dressed persons, as on the occasion of the hearing of the summons on the 7th instant. The Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Townshend, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Teesdale were present. A prolonged discussion took place as to whether th 9 magistrate should hear a charge of perjury while the cast out of which it arose was still pending, having to come on at the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Knox decided that he was justified in proceeding with the matter at once, but said he would onlynow take initiatory evidence, and then, if necessary, grant an adjournment, in order to allow the learned counsel for the defence sufficient time to consider the several assignments of perjury. Mr. Giffard said the alleged perjury arose in cross examination of Mr. Grenville Murray, the object of which was to shew whether he was or was not, either directly or indirectly, the author of a :libel attacking Lord Carington and Lord Carington's father. Lord Carington had not very long succeeded to the title, and however much he (Mr. Giffard) might as a lawyer say that it was not proper for people to take the law into their own hands, still one could understand how much a young man would be affected by a libel not only upon himself but upon his father, who had only been dead about a year. The first assignment of perjury was the statement by Mr. Murray that he and his son were not managing the Queen's Messenger, and he would now tell the magistrate what was Mr. Murray's connection with that paper. At the end of the year 1868 Mr. Murray put himself in communication with a printer of the name of Rankin, carrying on business in Drury-court, Strand. Mr. Murray inquired what would be his terms for publish• ' ing a paper of the character—as it afterwards turned out-- of the Queen's Messenger. Terms were given, and the Queen's Messenger was afterwards started. Mr. Murray informed Mr. Rankin that the management of the affair would be mainly with Mr. Reginald Murray, his son. There was no doubt that, first, by means of Mr. Reginald Murray, and afterwards by the intervention of a lady, there should be some shield placed between Mr. Grenville Murray and the responsibility for the arti cles written. But it would be found as a matter of fact that Mr. Grenville Murray was really the moving spirit in the matter. On the 21st of January the first Murray was anxious that Mr. Rankin should take upon himself the character, nut only of printer, but of publisher. Mr. Rankin, however, refused, but intro. duced Mr. John Hughes, who became the publisher. Mr. Rankin received notice from Somerset House that he must register the paper, and then saw Mr. Grenville Murray, who said, "I do not want to appear in it too much. I do not wish to be seen in the matter at all. Make Mr. Reginald Murray the registered proprietor." Accord ingly, on the 13th February, the paper was registered as follows :—Peter Rankin, printer, John Hughes, publisher, and Reginald Murray, sole proprietor. After that time the printer became alarmed at • the libels in the paper, and at his request, on the Bth of February, Mr. Grenville Murray gave him an indemnity in case of proceedings being taken. Mr. Hughes from time to time had conservation with Mr. Murray, and on one occasion said, " I observe that the articles are getting hotter and hotter ; you will be caught one of these days." Mr. Grenville Murray replied, "I have been a diplomatist for thirty years, and am not likely to be caught." Mr, Reginald Murray disappeared in April, and Mr. G renville Murray attended to the management, and it would be shewn that ho also wrote articles in the Quecns s It happened that among other libelled in this paper was Mr. Bidwell, who, n ' p i.f e t r e s r o consulting his friends and the Solicitor-General, gave notice to the printer and the publisher that proceedingr would be taken against them. They applied to Mr. Murray to protect them from the coming storm, but he then said, " I have nothing to do with it ; the lady manager is the person to whom you must apply." The printer and the publisher, seeing what line was to be taken, made an offer to Mr. Bidwell to deliver up the papers, make an apology, and give evidence, and this offer was accepted. Another printer and another publisher were obtained, and the paper came out in a new name for one week ; and after this change came the article attacking Lord Carington. This appearing after the change, &c., with regard to the printer, the prosecution had not the rranuscript of that article, and it was in reference to it that Mr. Grenville Murray was cross-examined at the hearing of the summons. The learned counsel then referred to the answers of Mr. Grenville Murray, by giving which he was said to have committed perjury, and the clerk of the court was examined as to the evidence given by the defendant. Other witnesses were called in support of the statement and the hearing was adjourned. A German astronomer has written a pamphlet to prove we are soon to have a second moon, and that it will be nearer the earth than our present Luna. A statue to Mr. Peabody has been erected by his metropolitan friends, near the Royal Exchange. It is to be publicly unveiled in a few days. The Prince of Wales is likely to assist at the ceremony. A returned Australian found the baby he left at home a miss of fire summers. One day he offended her, and she fretfully exclaimed, " I wish you had never mar ried into the family." Sir Walter Scott was in one of his walks lean ing on the arm of his faithful attendant, Tom Purdie. Tom said, "Them are fine novels of yours, Sir Walter they are just invaluable to me." "-I am glad to hear it, Tom." "Yes, sir ; for when I have been out all day hard at work, and come home very tired, and take up one of your novels, I am asleep directly." THE VISIT OF A LANDLORD TO HIS IRISH ESTATES.—The Wexford correspondent of Saunders's News furnishes us with details of an extraordinary scene which occurred a few days ago at Fethard, on the occa sion of the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely visiting their estates there. It is stated that after a distribution of prizes, won at some races got up for the occasion, the people, at the instigation of a Boman Catholic priest, groaned the agent of the estate ; and that, subsequently, an artilleryman, who was mistaken for a soldier who had spoken offensively ta one of the clergyman, was beaten so that he died. STEAM BOILERS UNDER THE HOUSE OF CO7,IMONS. —Mr. Sheridan, the other night, proposed to ask the Commissioner of Works an ugly question about the steam-boilers used in the cellars below the Houses of Parliament —question calculated to shake the nerves of honourable members. Steam-boilers ! What ! Do we sit over steam-boilers ! Yes, indeed. And you would gather from Mr. Sheridan's question that they are in shocking bad order, not properly inspected. But rest, rest, perturbed spirits! calm your fears. The steam boilers under the House are in bad condition ; but they are never used—have not been used for many years. Moreover, the steam-boilers that are used—some hundred yards away—are regularly inspected ; and, whilst they might be worked up to 120, they are never worked to above 18. XII short, the hon, member found a mare's TlMrtgirarTat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 18. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Prince Louise, drove in the grounds yester day afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. TILL' IRISH CHURCH BILL. The first division on Friday evening was taken on the proposal made by the Government that the House should disagree to the Lords' amendment which handed over the Ulster glebes to the Irish Church. The majority was composed exclusively of Liberals ; the minority was swelled by the following deserters from the Ministerial side of the House :—Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Butler-Johnstone, Dir. Maxwell, Mr. Nicholson, Sir Bounden Palmer, and Colonel Stuart. The disposal of the surplus was carried by the reduced majority of 72. Only one Conservative supported the Government—Mr. Tollemache (Cheshire). On the other hand, the following sixteen Liberals voted for the postponement of the surplus funds :—Mr. Akroyd, Mr. Briscoe, Viscount Burke, Mr. Callan, Mr. Dalway, Mr. De la Poer, Sir Wentworth Mke, Mr. Fawcett, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Mr. Matthews, Mr. George Moore, Mr. Morrison, Sir W. Russell (Norwich), Mr. W. Shaw (Bandon), Mr. Torrens (Finsbury), and Mr. Whalley. Of these, nine represent English constituencies, and the remainder sit for Irish seats. No Welsh nor Scotch members voted against their party. The majority of the Irish members went into the lobby with the Government. Shortly after one o'clock on Saturday morning the Irish Church Bill returned to the House of Lords, when Earl Granville gave notice of his intention, on Tuesday next, to move to agree to the Commons' amendments made to the Lords' amendments, and not to insist on the Lords' amendments, to which the Commons have dig' agreed. Earl Russell, in case the amendment by the Lords to Clause 68 be insisted on, will move the following addition : " Provided always, that if after the objects of this Act have been fully attained, and a declaration to that effect has been laid before her Majesty by the Commissioners appointed by this Act, Parliament shall not have directed in the course of a year from the date of the declaration in what manner the said property be applied, the Commissioners shall then make over the said sur plus property to the Commissioners for National Education in Ireland, to be by them applied-1. To the increase of the salaries of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. 2. To the building and maintenance of schoolhouses. 3. To the building and maintenance of dwellings for the school-, masters and schoolmistresses in the vicinity of the school house. And an account of the sums so applied shall be contained in the yearly report of the Commissioners of, National Education in Ireland." UNDETECTED CRIME IN IRELAND. Mr. Justice Lawson, in opening the Westmeath Assizes,• said it was melancholy that there should bo such an amount of undetected crime in the country as he saw stated in the ()fa cial report. Two persons, Patrick Byrne and Patrick Murray' were charged with having been concerned in the murder of Anketell, the Mullingar station-master. The case rested , the judge added, on the evidence of an informer. There had been thirty-five offences committed since the last assizes —two of murder. In addition to those there were ten cases connected with intimidation respecting land. In no less than eleven of those cases the injured persons' had declined to lodge informations, " When this exis ts, added the judge, " and when there is an organization in the country rather in favour of than against the criminal, it augured something very wrong in the social condition of the country. It was not for him to give an opinion as to the cause of these matters. The experience of all man kind was that punishment, though it march with slow a nd halting step, rarely fails to overtake offenders." ; JURYMEN AND NEWSPAPERS. In the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on; Saturday, judgment was given in the case of the Queen v. ' Murphy on appeal from New South Wales, the hearing e' which we reported on June 22. It will bo wiu e n i nnY, was foun d guilty, after a trial lasting some days, and sentenced to death. The Supreme Court granted a rule nisi, which was afterwards made absolute icr a venire de 7101'0, in effo"t a new trial, on the ground that the j ury, while under t he care of the Sheriff, had access to ant_ f ree perusal of the newspapers containing reports of the trial 1.,, m day to day . The Crown appealed against this order. Sir , d ij ai o Erin now delivered judgment, and said their lordships -,re of opinion that the appeal must be sustained, and . ' 4 ( n j order of the Supremo Court of the colony re verse A new trial in charges of felony cannot bad, on the principle that no man shall be twice put in P er : . The Supreme Court, howev e r, h a d no t the appellate / nil ; ad diction which it claimed i n ma ki ng this order. A nd t evidence that the jury actually re the newspape rs insufficient. Their lordships, however, considered bahl , 0 some irregularity had occurred, and a representation a t il Would doubtless bo made in the proper quarter. TRADE AND FINANCE. The Bank return of Thursday last was of such a nat ure . as to leave no alternative to the directors but t o rednc` the rate. The great difference between the official Milli' mum and the out-of-door quotation bad caused by fa r tile larger proportion of bills to be taken into Lombard-stree, and the discounts at the Bank of England accordingl shewed a falling off of no less than £1,714,250. Some c ell :, siderable decrease was expected to occur, as there is I I " doubt that a large amount of discounts was anticipated,' The accounts of the joint-stock banks, so far as they have been published, are fairly satisfactory, and it ra i 3 t - o be noticed that the Union has this half-year returned t the system of paying a bonus. We annex a stateinefuor 'hewing the different dividends already declared, n 8 the sake of comparison, we give the correspon ulte—ct dends in 1865, when banking property was greatly infle tent in value, for the purpose of chewing to what ol investors in this class of security have suffered j a g 186. July 1569. Al l i ance 15 City ............ Consolidated Imperial London and Westminster London Joint-Stock l2i ......... .•• n it Metropolitan Union of London 2O ........... not The falling off here is very large, but even this dr'eliai' represent the full extent of the depreciation, as i ll — OO cases large additions have been made to ca pital, s e p ro" the amount of interest yielded by the investment i 5 portionately diminished. For example, the Loudoil and a t o Westminster Bank has lately doubled its capital, h al f of return to the shareholders will, th ere fore, be on ly 1 tho' what it was formerly, as no addition has be en made t 0 dividend to be paid. ,„ their No doubt the banks are right in keep in g ow ) large an amount of reserve as possible , and this 011 4 ,,, at be certainly effected in baying the reser ve thorouVoligt. com mand in the shape of capital. But a reserve ° n o. he ing of capital is the most wasteful form in which it no m ay in held, as the interest obtainable upon it b y readily saleable Government stocks is in no WAY The parable to the return expected by the contributories•efore, London banks would have avoided such a Pia b il t , it tlie b r o ye,,r ) ;! '1 they had found it possible to do so ; . iStio I severe crisis through which they passed In d i e nsP doubt fully convinced the directors of the elP e t osiv 6 if not the necessity, of having a certain and „, ex „ tinl e reserve always under their immediate control. itel has favoured the operation of increasing th e lone well-established banks, and, although it has beetl e ave c. a considerable sacrifice, there is no doubt that th t the Cu this Pu l o u ti o 4 tors have taken a very wise step. interest s realised by has an instructiv financial e institutions note as to the er : w on e l th g .0 _ aro t' which they use, and, singling out the t hree followi rate institutions, arrives at the following Half- year's It t ,4eY • Capital, Reserve, Half and Deposits. net Profit. 1- xi 15 4 Union Bank £11,615,000 .i 102,000 1 ° Joint-Stock Bank National Di.count 8,862,000 60,90 0 tan • t e , The Joint-Stock Bank does not separate its r , r0, 000 1 from its deposits, and the above sum of 115,v taneo its ac eeP Ot 4 eludes the acceptances. Assuming that its pro are about the same as those of the Union Bank, ' tha n tigl en the actual money employed would be mole boas' appear, but still less than the Union Bank, in w account. result :--er cet 00 CO V The list of charges lodged in the .A.rchr - t op of I3ri hton —where, I ' 6°l : 0 0, against the Rev. Mr. Purcha s, of excessive ritual has led to h gsecution--illellicie- ° coog re°.) of " rubbing black powder on is naP:° tubers of th e tion." ; The Dean of Durham , Dr. Waddingtov - very dangerously ill, and in a most critical As tte, is 76 3 ears of age, and was made dean in 1840. 15 ill author of several works on Greece, al@t9rs 7 9t th9_o_l l K94 iroiA tUakiiint-Agegit and has publiell°" I L