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To conclude pith HUE AND DYE ( 1 LOPE THEATRE-ROYAL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. U. J. i'yron's new and original Drama. 'MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss 13 dia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; llessrs David Fisher, 'Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. At 9, A BRFACH OF PR O.MI :F. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS; Messrs Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews. ITurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. TIRENC 11 GALLERY. 120, Pall-mall.—The SIXTEENTH ANNUA L EXHIBITION of P (CT E ES. the contributions of artists of file French and Fl.-mish Schools, IS NOW OPEN Admission, Is. Catalogue, Gd. THE DERBY. CALLAGHAN'S RACE -11 will he found the best and cheapest.) 23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. UNITED UNIVERSITY CLUB. The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of this Club will be held on THURSDAY, May 47th. The Chair will be taken at Three o'clock. 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Yesterday at the close of the discussion upon the consideration of the Irish Church Bill as amended, it was—amidst some very comprehensible cheering at the virtual completion of so important a stage in its pro gress towards transformation into an enactment—or dered to he reprinted. The Premier had previously an nounced his intention to take the order for its recom mitment for Friday, May the 28th —neni dy, the Fri day inamediattly after the Wnitsuntile recess or vacation : Cie third reading Still standing fix si for the last day of this present month. So far as the House of Commons is coocerned the Irish Church Bill may bealready regarded, therefore, as passed and, - what is more, passe 1 triumphantly. The question now lies exclusively, we may assert, with the Lords. It is generally understood, moreover, that, directly after AV Ifftsuuti le,theConserva•ive members of the Tlous- of Lords, or,inother words, a majority of thathouse quite as formidable in truth an I as overwhelming as the Liberal majority in the other branch of the Legisla ture now backing up the policy of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Government, will Meet for the purpose of considering seriously and without any further delay the ceuree they ought to pursue, under the extraordinary circum stances of the case, in regard to this particular mea sure for the simultaneous disestablishment and dis endowment of the Protestant Church in Ireland. The triumphant manner in which the Bill is known to have been carried through its every stage in the House of Commons cannot fail of course to be taken, among other things, unler their lordships' most seri ous consideration. The overwhelming preponderance of members on the side of the Government, as mani fested upun each division that has been taken both in and out of Committee—divisions always showing a clear majority on the side of the Government ex pressed in three numerals—will necessarily have weight with the Peers, in their deliberation as to the rssolve they may arrive at in dealing with the Bill when brought up for their consideration. Uncom promising opposition to a measure so victoriously passed through the popular branch of the Legislature, would bring the house of Lords at once into direct 1 collision with the House of Commons. There is the consciousness, moreover, all this while that the vast majority secured to the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, represents a still vaster majority of earnest and resolute supporters of the policy of the present Government in the country at 1 among the mass of the electors portioned out into the different constituencies. The majority in the Commons, the majority in the Country, are at the back of the GLADSTONE Government. . That the Lords know perfectly well. And they know equally well this, that supposing, for the sake of argument, the Irish Church Bill, having been triumphantly I asset through the House of Commons, were to be peremp torily rejected, nevertheless, notwithstanding, by the }louse of Lords, and that the Prime Minister were then, in the exercise of his Constitutional privilege, to dissolve the present Parliament, and appeal once more to the electors of the three kingdoms, his already enormous majority would, by the very in iignation excited by so direct and perverse an evidence of antagonism on the part of the Lords, be, as a matter of dead certainty, very considerably and very appreciably enhanced. A General Election, occulting under more advantageous circumstances, for a Ministry already strongly in power, c•,uld not very readily be imagined. The last one carried , Ministers into office on the shoulders of the people even before the new Pailiament had a sembled. Under the peculiar conjuncture of circumstances we are just now imagining, simply for the sake of argu ment, they would be borne back again, to confront the newly-elected Legislature, not upon the shoulders, merely, but upon the very heads and uplifted hands of the enfranchised population. The Lords are wiser, we may be sure, than to hring about the hazard of any such (for them) aisastrous anti-climax. The House ,f Peers and the House of Commons, we may be quite certain of thus much, in regard to this particu lar matter of the Irish Church Bill, are not abou t to be brought into coflisbu. Of that, we are per- TH E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1869. fectly satisfied, even before the gnat Conservative party in the Lords have met, in solemn conclave, to deliberate as to the course they shall pursue in the existing emergency. IT is satisfactory to find that the opponents of the Permissive Bill have been so far educated as to con skier that measure worthy of serious discussion. Even Colonel JEnvls has learnt this much, and when such a very unpromising pupil has thus shewn him self amenable to teaching there is good hope that the large number of M.P.'s who are really docile will speedily have got by heart the lesson that a matter in which the ratepayers of this country are intensely interested shall be decided as the ratepayers wish. There is more reason to hope for the near approach of that time because the arguments used against the bill were so exceedingly weak. Major JERVIS and Mr. CAWLEY, for instance, thought that they had got hold of an unanswerable objection when they said that if the measure were put in force in any parish the minority who wished to get drunk would go into the next parish. These two worthy M.P.'s seemed to think it a very great hardship that each parish should not do its own drunkenness. Clearly the lion. gentlemen sympathise with that philanthropist who, going to hear a charity sermon in a neighbouring town, would not contribute to the collection because he belonged to a different parish. Do they really suppose that men become drunkards of malice prepense ? Do they really believe that a man sets out in the' evening with the deliberate intention of getting fuddled, and that if he cannot do so within five minutes' walk of his own house, he will trudge on for an hour until he can make a beast of himself ? Are they so absolutely ignorant of the question with which they have identified themselves as not to know that the real cause of drunkenneekt in the ever ready temptation, is the fact that while the savings bank and the provident club are out of sight, the drink-shop stands at every street corner offering a seduction, which some of the heartiest supporters of the Permissive Bill find irresistible ? Who is it that will be wronged under the proposed system ? The drunkard, or the adjacent parish. If the latter, then it is perfectly competent for it to do as its neighbour has done. If this does not suit the members for Harwich and Salford perhaps they will have the goodness to tell us what is the orthodox proportion of drunkards for each parish. The two members of the Government who opposed the bill are more worthy of our consideration than Colonel JERVIS and Mr. Caw LEY. But even the first were curiously illogical. They admitted the principle of the popular veto, but they objected to the particular application ofit proposed by the Alliance. Mr. Bn UCE was prepared to allow that the public-houses should be regulated by population. Mr. FORSTER went so far as to say that the ratepayers ought to have a voic 3 in deciding if the number of existing public-houses should be diminished. In granting this, the two Ministers grant the whole of the principle contended for. And it should be remembered that the Alliance do not ask to let a bare majority decide. They see well that unless public opinion is in their favour, it will be of no avail to pass a prohibitory measure. They have such faith in the good sense of the rate payers as to believe that they will appreciate at once, or quickly learn from the example of others, the benefit of prohibition. Mr. Bituon thinks that the minority ought to be pro tected, because otherwise they will be deprived of their places of amusement. The HOME SECRETARY clearly has not mastered this question. No one proposes to close public-houses ; all that is proposed is to prevent. intoxicating drinks from being sold there. There is net the smallest reason, if this bill should become law, why the working man should not have his game of skittles, or his talk about politics, or his personal gossip at the public-house as much as he does now. In fact, he will be able to do so far better, for neither beer nor gin is conducive to accuracy of aim or coherency of talk. Then we come to the vested interests argument. To this there is a very short reply. It is estimated that there are about 150,000 drink-shops in this country. Each of those drink-shops. is frequented by, at an absurdly low computation, four drunkards, so that there are 600.000 habitual drunkards. Of these 10 per cent. die every year either through disease or accidents caused by drink. We say nothing of tl.e pauperism and the crime caused thereby. We sly nothing of the fact that every shilling spent at the public-house costs the working man a shilling's worth of work, and that thus two shillings are diverted from profitable and beneficial industry. We simply place before our legislators this one appalling fact—that 60,000 persons perish yearly through the drink traffic, and ask them what " rights " such a traffic can have. ANOTHER civil war has broken out in the United States. The formation of a powerful Free Trade Society, having the great commercial town of Boston for its centre, and the opening of a vigorous Free Trade agitation, mark the beginning of a struggle with the pernicious system of American Protection which will not cease until the victory be won. The Freetraders of the United States have a task of exceptional severity before them. The obstacles to be overcome' are unusually difficult. But all experience justifies the confidence that when once thetrue theory of commerce has got a hold, it is not to be beaten back. Various circumstances have combined to render the protec tive system of the United States the most rigid and uncompromising the world has yet seen. In the first place, Protection is emphatically the doctrine of young States. The colonies founded in different parts of the world by the Anglo- Saxon race have adopted the most advanced political institutions of Europe without previous trial ; but in everything relating to commerce they appear unable to learn except by experience. They have deliberately set up a protective system, in de fiance and contempt of the knowledge gained in England by the costly trade experiments of the present century. The United States is, therefore, only following the general rule. Then, as the Time. remarks, the war with England in 1812 compelled the establishment of many manufactures which were pre viously not needed, and which would have had no chance of competing with theproductions of England. But when the war ended in 1813 this compe tition had to be faced, and the result.was that the manufactures, which prospered .well enough whilst commerce with England was suspended, were altogether overpowered by the importation of English goods which followed the treaty of peace. They had to be propped up, and a protective system of a mild character and limited extent was the consequence. Previously to the civil war, the interests of the South were in favour of the free import of articles manufactured in the North, and thus the tariff was kept clown. After the war the South was utterly disregarded. It was found necessary to raise an immense revenue to pay the interest on an immense debt, and heavy duties were imposed for the double purpose of protecting manufacturers and filling the public coffers. There is yet a third and very cogent argument, which has had weight in keeping up this unparalleled . tariff. England is the great, the only, competitor of the United States, and a reduction of duties would undoubtedly be followed by great exports of Erlt:sli produce. In deed, it might fairly be expected that the rush of English goods would cause a fall in prices, which for a time would prove embarrassing. It is this thought of benefiting their political and commercial rival which is before all things distasteful to the Americans. The hope of fostering a manufacturing system which should rival that of Britain was one of the most powerful inlueaces which determined the adoption of the high tariff, and in the future it will probably be the one most powerful argument brought forward to retain it. It is on these considerations that the Americans have sowed the seed of which they are now reaping the abundant fruit, rut the fiult has proved so bitter that New England, cnce thehead quarters of Protection-, and the fans et origo of the high tariff, has been the first to raise the outcry against it. The excesaivo duties ensure not one of the objects for which they are levied. They do not benefit the revenue, for the public receipts would, there is no doubt, be greater if the tariff were lower. They do not protect the manufacturers ; at least, notwithstanding- the many absurd laws passed in its favour, the manufacturing interest is ever raising the cry for more. Nume rous Protection bills stare Congress in the face whenever it assembles. And worse than all this, the perfidious Britisher—agonising thought—still keeps his supremacy. He would profit by a lower tariff, but the injury inflicted upon him is by no means in proportion to the cost it involves. Mr. W. LLOYD GARRISON, the well-known anti-slavery agitator, J. QCINCEY ADAMS, R. W. EMERSON, and many other men of note, have arrived at the conclu sion, not only that the protective system is bad, but that the hour is come for striking a blow against it. They have held a great meeting, have condemned the tariff utterly, adopted a Free Trade declaration, and constituted a " Reform Leigue " which fairly begins the contest which has so long been preparing. At the Boston meeting the chairman, Mr. ATKINSON, pointed out that the tariff was fruitful of evils to the general community. For the benefit of Pennsylvania the New Englanders cannot have cheap steel, coal, or iron; they cannot have English wool because Ohio manufactures woollen goods; they are cut off from cheap copper materials because a miserably insig nificant body in Michigan have taken to working unprofitable copper mines. In revenge, the New Englanders deprive all the rest of the States of cheap tools, clothing,and shoes. Were it not that Free Trade is permitted within the Union, amongst the States themselves, the commercial system of the country would eollapse altogether. The protective doctrine has been carried, to-the last extreme. It has been used - as a plea - for the most shame less attempts to pass measures, not for the benefit of any one manufacture, but to serve the interests of some one town, and even to keep above water the head of a single manufacturer. Mr. ATKINSON and his colleagues challenge their oppo - nents with every advantage in their favour. They have borne the protective system for many years ; it has had the full benefit of a long trial; nothing can be urged on the plea of further experiment. It is impos sible to carry the theory further in practice. It is clear that the rotten system cumbereth the ground, and it is, therefore, to be cut down. LMLEST INTELL MEN CE (REU""ER'S TELEGRAMS•) DENMARK. COPEN:IAGEN, May 11. At a putlie banquet held here y,•kterday Genend Raaslaeff, Minister of War, confidently expressed a Loi..e that the sale of the island of St. Thomas to the United States would be ratifitd by the Senate as soon as the history of the negotiations should be made sufficiently clear. The delay hitherto experienced was to be attri - - bitted to the differences between ex-President Johns-A-1 and Congress. Mr. Sumner was in favour of ratification. BELGI UM. BRUSSELS, May 14. The ilion:teur Be/ye, of this morning, contains the nominations to the mixed commiision on the Belgian Railway question. The Belgian mem' ers are M. M. Fassiaue, M. Vandersweep, and M. Bel faire; and the French members are M. Curaudet, M. Fvanquevide, z,n.l M. Combes. PERSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, May 14. Advices received from Tauris to the 13th inst. announce that .Alirga-Ilussein-Khan has left Teheran for Con,tantinople as Persian envoy ex traordinary, with orders for the Shah to treat on the frontier question. Cholera I as appeared at Ekum. SPAIN. AIADND, May 13 (AfLinoon.) the Convituent Cortes In 0-day's sitting of Senor °reuse supported an amendment, proposing a Confederate Republic as the future form of Government. Ills speech cccupied tbree hours in delivery. It is not supposed that this amendment will be carried. ITALY. FLORENCE, May 13, Evening. The King has left for Turin. Count Brassier de Saint S:mon, the newly ap pointed Prussian Minister to this Court, arrived here to day. Signor Minghetti was summoned by the King to the Palace at midnight yesterday. The IVazione states that in consequence of this interview Signor Minghetti consented to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce, and that the Ministry is now definitively constituted as follows : Signor Menabrea, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Signor Fenraris, Mi nister of the Interior ; Signor A. Mordani, Minister of Public Works ; Signor B ,rgoni, Minister of Public Instruction ; Signor Minghetti, Minister of Commerce and Agriculture. The Ministries of Finance, War, and Marine remain unaltered. CHINA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, May 14. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon arrived at 7, and the mails leave for Lon don at 10 this morning. WEST AFRICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, May 14. The West Coast of Africa mail steamer Roqu9lle arrived here this morning with the above mails. ller dates are—Old Cal4bar, April 8; Fernando Po, 9 , Bonny 18 ; Benin, 14 ; Lagos, 17 ; Accra, 19 ; Cape Coast Castle, 20 ; Cape Palmas, 22 ; Sierra Leone, 27 ; Teneriffe, May 5 ; Madeira, 7. The town of Bonny was destroyed by fire on April 8. The shipping was uninjured. The health of the coast was good. UORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tifunsney, May 13. Whatever may be the issue of the electoral contest about to be decided, I am able to affirm that it will be the most severe the Government has ever experienced. On this point everybody is agreed. The earnestness shewn by the Opposition and the Independents is un mistakeable. Their unanimity on certain points is quite unprecedented. In remarkable contrast to the contests of former years, the election addresses agree in demanding the abolition of personal Government, the maintenance of peace, and the development of liberty. Even the Dibats, most decorous and cautious of Opposi tion journals, has no hesitation in affirming that a great change has come over the country. Nothing was more easy and pleasant, says this journal, than the election of an official candidate in 1863 or in 1857, but itis hard work now. In 1863 certain of the would-be deputies coolly and quietly visited Switzerland and Italy in the midst of the electioneering, while the prefects managed matters for them, and sent them up to Paris full-blown representatives without any effort on their part. This sort of thing will not do in 1839. The candidates, official or not, must all fight, and fight hard too. The leading journal of Paris relates one very noteworthy incident. A candidate favoured in 1859, as in 1863, with official support, went down the other day to his circum scription, in the Puy-de-Dome, accompanied by the Under-Prefect. The Municipal Council, convoked from the previous evening, was assembled; the func tionary presented the would-be member, and explained graphically why M. Andrieu ought to be preferred to the Socialiast, M. Geniller, and the Liberal-Unionist, M. de Barante, whom he described as an enemy of the Govern ment. In former days, the councillors, considering them selves highly honoured by the visit of the candidate and the representative of authority, would have responded with unanimous cries of " Vive le Candidat Officiel ! " " Viva le Sous Prefet !" How times are changed! Instead of the enthusiastic manifestations, formerly inevit able, one of them rose and drew a paper from his pocket. This was a letter, drawn up in accordance with the views of a majority of the council, declaring they would not agAin aupport tho late member because he had voted for the expedition to Mexico, the military law, the augmentation of the taxes, &c. The amazed candidate attempted to justify himself, but his explanation produced no effect whatever. He then said the Emperor supported him ; but the refractory councillors paid no heed to this once unanswerable argument. A judge who was present said that the councillors spoke like Re publicans; but the councillors, to the astonishment of the officials, evidently took this as a compliment, and finally the meeting broke up, the chief men of the commune going away, more opposed to the official candidate than ever. The Debats thinks that such incidents are by no means uncommon. The public meetings of Paris were never so numerous, nor so enthusiastic as they are this year. Eight or nine are held every evening ; they are always crowded, and the manifestations of opinion are such as to constantly drive the commissary of police to his wits' end. Three meetings were dissolved the night before last. Great preparations are being made in Corsica for the visit of the Imperial Family, and the celebration of the centenary of Napoleon I. What will be the precise nature of the festivals which will be arranged for this great occa sion is not yet announced, The application of the Countess de Turenne for a divorce from her husband was heard again two clays ago. The further investigation of this strange story revealed some romantic details. The Countess do Turenne, as I before mentioned, was a Jewess with a large fortune. The Count, who is younger than she, married her for her money, and she married him for his title. The bargain proved mutually unsatisfactory. The Count indulged in illicit extravagances of every descrip tion ; the Countess, proud of her fortune, dis played a harshness of disposition very little calculated to win the erring young man from the ways of evil. The wife was jealous, with excellent cause, as it appears, but she was infatuated enough to bring a very beautiful young lady from a convent, and receive her in the family as a governess. The new corner, an orphan, was as accomplished and intellectual as she was lovely. The Count wished to learn German, and the governess had no means of refusing to become his teacher. The result of this little drama was one which is not, there is reason to fear, very common in this city. The governess defended herself so energetically, and repulsed the Count so completely, that he gave up the attack. Letters were read from him, in which he bewails the cruelty of the orphan he wished to ruin, threatens to retain to- Rome as a Pontifical Zouave, to commit suicide, to murder his wife, &c. It was all in vain. Finally, shame asserted itself, and he sent a last letter, stating that he respected the determination of the girl, and that no honourable man—not that the Count has much claim to honour—would press further. The story was told amid the irrepressible applause of the by no means elevated audience which crowds to hear these cases. The Countess's plea, that the Count had broken the law in his connection with the governess, has therefore breken down, but unfortu nately the Count did not always meet with women of this stamp. His offences were undoubtedly numerous; but his counsel urged that a reconciliation was effected, and that everything was condoned posterior to the last derelic tion of duty. The case is still proceeding. The affair of the Princess Isabeau has terminated. Princess Beauvan Craon, the mother of this lady, sued for power to take control of her daughter's property on the plea that she was of unsound mind, and unable to take care of such an immense fortune. The court has decided that the mother has no claim to the control of the property, but that the Princess Isabeau, though not of unsound mind, was subject to dangerous eccentricities which ought to be provided against. The fortune has therefore been placed under the supervision of a judicial council. A curious collection has just been sold by auction at Paris. This is the property abandoned in the various railway stations and carriages. The assortment was strangely miscellaneous, comprising firearms, pipes, shoes, chignons, perfumes, jewellery, hardware, hats, bonnets, caps, shawls, mantles, &c. An immense number of travelling-bags had been left behind, and the books forgotten would form a large library ; but what is less easy to account for is the enormous quantity of wines, liquors, and divers kinds of merchandise. It is difficult to imagine how regular traders with proper accounts cauld have forgotten large quantities of goods. The Ancient Order of Foresters has forwarded to the National Lifeboat Institution an aoditional contribu tion of £llO, on account of their second lifeboat which is to be launched at Sunderland in the beginning of August next, in the presence of some thousands of Foresters, who aro to assemble on the occasion from all parts of the north of England. A despatch from Key West, Florida, states that the following important despatch has been received there by mail, from Bayamo, Cuba : Count Valmasoda, the Com mander of the Spanish forces in the Eastern Departmett, has issued a proclamation, whereof the following are the chief features : —lst. Every native male over 15 years of age, found away from his residence, without sufficient cause, will be executed. 2d. Every uninhabited dwelling, and inhabited dwelling where a white flag is undisplayed, will be reduced to ashes. 3d. All women away from their houses will come to Bayamo or Jiguani, or they will be brought by force. The proclamation is dated Bayamo, April 4. The Sunday question, says the Manchester Courier, is a very troublesome one to the Boston town council. In order to promote the duo observance of that day they resolved and ordered that the refreshment room in the public park should be closed, whereupon a town meeting was held, and the decision of the council protested against; and the occupier of the premises gave notice to quit, and in making another tender offered £lO a year less, in consequence of the Sundhy restriction. On Wednesday the corporation, evidently completely baffled, tried to bridge over their difficulty by omitting all reference to Sunday in the conditions, and it is expected that the place will be opened as usual, in accordance with the desire expressed at the public meeting. At a later period of the sitting the town council plunged afresh into the difficulty. It appears that they are the own ers o f a public house, and that they decline to agree to th e transfer of the licence until a stipulation not to sell li quors on Sundag to y is inserted in the conditions of the letting. this stipulation the occupier of th e house By agreeing will be offending against the terms of his licence. Last month Mr. Thomas lialliwell, proprietor and editor of the Leigh Chronicle, and late Postmaster of Leigh, was arprrlended on a charge of embezzling the sum of £:0, which had been paid to him by the *United Order of Oddfellows, Leigh, to be deposited in the Po•t-office Savings Bank, Mr. Ilalliwcll at that time being postmaster. lie was liberated on bail, but absconded, rumour being rife that he had made for America. Sewn,' other frauds have just come to light, one of a much more serious nature than that for which he was in the first Instance apprehended. It appears that a society of Druids holding their meetings at Leigh had deposited the sum of £143 in the Post office Savings Bank. A few days ago the deposit book, which was given I y Mr. Iralliwell to the society when he received their money was sent to the Postmaster-General, and it was then discovered that no account stood in their name in the London books. Another robbery of a colection of £3O, left with Mr. Halliwell for the benefit of the widows and orphan/of the men killed in the Wadley colliery ex- , lm 440 Inn dipooTero4. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 13.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cont. ...... 102 Bank Shares 2950 End of mouth_ ItaF.ail Fiveg 67 15 3 per Cent End of mouth 7l 8•4 Mexican Loan 25 Credit Mobilier 955 Do. Bonds End of month... 255 Spanish Threes 29 23 Credit Foncier —.102 60 Home Debt — End of mouth... Deferred ...... RAILWAYS. cash . Orleans ... • 4 (ilBl Northern Lyons and Medit erranea n ......... .............. l a t Southern.... CI3I Western ....................................... 572 1 Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman.. s:)} 7274- 4721 5 4 ,••• The troops by the Shannon were brought from Spitheai yesterday tuorning, and landed at Ports mouth dockyard, and the ship proceeded to London to discharge her cargo. The time-expired men— two non-commissioned officers Royal Artillery— were sent to Woolwich ; the remainder-190 in valids—were devatched by "special train to the Royal Victoria llcspital, Netley. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, in commenting on Thursday's debate in the House of Lords, says that the answer of the Ministry to Lord Russell was that no sacrifice of other measures could have enabled the Irish Land and the Irish Church ques tions to be settled in the same session ; but, as we have before remarked, we cannot admit the' sufficiency of this reasoning. Allowing it, however, to the full, the Govern ment would still be open to censure, because they have not been content with the simple declaration that they could not carry a Laud Bill this year. They have gone on to declare that they will submit proposals for legislation to Parliament next session, and they have refused to look at Lord Clanricarde's bill, on the ground that it is insufficient to effect the great end in view. It need not be said that an announcement by the Prime Minister that a Land Bill will be brought in next session implies a definite scheme adopted by the chiefs of the Cabinet, and thus, without reference to Mr. Bright's unfortunate speech, great expectations have been excited in Ireland. The natural effect of a promise that the bill will be forth coming in a few months, treating the subject from a point of view altogether different from that of Lord Clanricarde, has been to excite wild hopes which should have been re pressed rather than encouraged. Mr. Bright's imprudence only brought the evil of this policy of promises into clearer relief. The simple truth is, the question of Irish Land Tenure is one of the most difficult that can task English statesmanship. It is beset with difficulties, almost with dangers. Every ill-considered word spoken on the subject adds to the embarrassment, and yet men of all kinds, from Ministers to Parliamentary candidates, say whatever they think may be pleasant, however ill-considered. The one thing which is certain is the discontented peasant. It is not everywhere, nor at all times, that he asserts his dissatisfaction, but at irregular periods, and then it takes the form of agrarian murder. If the Government spoke with a due regard to the exigencies of their position, they would say, in the first place, that private assassination is a form of political agitation they cannot, and will not, endure ; next, that they will diligently inquire into the grievances of the tenantry, to ascertain their reality and meaning ; and, then, that any injustice proved to exist shall be remedied. Unfortunately, this plain language is discarded for pretty phrases which mean nothing, but are Interpreted by Irish psasants as moaning ov.rythinz, and promises which, though they may cover the absence of any definite policy, serve to increase the demands which perplex the statesman. The Standard thinks it is incredible, indeed, that the Ministry should affect to be ignorant of the real point on which an explanation is demanded from them, and pre tend to believe that all they have to do is to declare that Mr. Bright's scheme is not theirs. We want something more than this in justification of the Government and for the peace of Ireland. To repeat Lord Russell's challenge, Why, since Mr. Bright had spoken for himself, did not the others speak for themselves? Why do they give only a negative disclaimer to Mr. Bright's ideas? Had nothing at all been said by any Minister on the subject, then the Government might have been justified in refusing to answer any queries as to the nature of a measure which they were not ready to introduce. But when one Minister, known to be of influence among his colleagues, openly declares that he has a plan by which the Irish land ques tion may be settled—when that declaration has led to con sequences most damaging to the peace and the security of Ireland, then it is clearly the duty of the Government to ell us precisely wherein they disagree from their too effusive colleague, and how much of his principles they reject—to state in general terms the nature of the scheme which they prefer, and to announce, at least, whether it warrants any of the exaggerated hopes which are now held of the plan which has been propounded in the name of the Government by the President of the Board of Trade. The Daily News declares that, by way of illustrating the lines of Dr. Watts about the mischief which a certain potentate is always ready to find for idle hands to do, the Peers are toying and tampering with the grave question of the land of Ireland. Lord Russell, as if the work had not been sufficiently done before, renewed the attack made the other day by Lord Salisbury on Mr. Bright and the Government. What Lord Russell and Lord Derby unite in requiring from the Government is not that they should state, as they have stated over and over again, that Ministers are not pledged to Mr. Bright's scheme, but that they should pledge themselves against it. Any recommends,- tion more absurd in itself, or more impracticable, if, as Lord Derby insists, Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright are the Government, was never heard. The Duke of Abercorn contended that the agrarian outrages of Ireland were evidently due to the wild hopes raised by the electioneer-. ing promises of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Bruce. The statement is easy ; the proof is impossible. Any period of political excitement is only too likely to be marked by outbreaks which are to be deplored. If great acts of justice were to be unperformed because of the trouble which attends the doing of them, progress would be impossible. Had Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues preserved an obstinate silence on what is admitted to be the question of all others interesting to the Irish, it is quite possible that the sullen anger of the people would have shewn itself more formidable than their vague hopes. If Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues said more than they meant, they are to be blamed for exciting expectations which they will not satisfy. It will be for them to prove next session that they deliberately meant what they said, and that their meaning is capable of being embodied in a measure of large and sober statesmanship. The Herald says that the answer, or explanation, which Lord Salisbury failed to extract from Ministers, on the affairs of Ireland, last week, Lord Russell also failed to elicit on Thursday evening. In both instances the ques tions were most distinctly put, and covered a wide ground. Lord Russell, however, went even beyond the Marquis of Salisbury in the explicitness of his interrogations. He asked what, considering the avowals of Ministers, and the facts of the day, were the securities of life or property and the prospects of politics in Ireland ? We know what is taking place. The ex- Whig Premier, of course, gives credit to Mr. Glad stone and his colleagues for a desire to counteract the mischief working ; but he tells them fairly that they have excited Irish feeling ; that they have raised false hopes; that they have added one agitation to another, and that they are doing their utmost and their worst to exasperate disaffection. Either, he urged, they should have met the new Parliament with a complete Irish policy or not have talked o f more than they designed to pro pose. The truth con cern i ng Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy is as it was shown to be on Thursday night in the House of Lords : it has created delusions ; it has fostered wicked passions ; it has led the people astray ; it has poisoned and bewildered their minds. Renee the disastrous condition of things which Lord Russell deplores, and which Lord Granville cannot explain. The Secretary of State once more repudiated Mr. Bright's confiscation scheme ; but the Premier did not repudiate it when sketched from the Treasury bench. On the contrary, its responsibility was tacitly accepted, and would never have been disavowed had not Lord Salis bury and Lord Russell raised their voices, on different sides of the House, in solemn protest. But, in speaking to Lord Russell's question, Lord Granville never once approached the point at issue, and satisfied himself with smiling away a subject which, after all, may be of impor tance to the empire. The Star disapproves of the course adopted by Lord Russell on the Irish land question, and says that the noble earl does not understand the land question. He prObably never studied it, He knows little or nothing of it. It is not in his line. He would be wise to leave it in the hands of those who are responsible for the adjustment of the question in the immediate future. Eard Russell, though ignorant of th e I r i s h land question, is far from ignorant of offici a l ex i genc i es, and of the difficulties which lie in the way of those who have to press forward great changes. It is a poor sort of restlessness which impels him to add to their trials the regret which they must feel when they are flouted by old allies, even when the hostility displayed is as futile as it is fretful. Lord Russell's age and great services render it impossible to say more on such an occasion, but it would also be impossible to say less. There is something peculiarly sad in the reflection that Lord Russell has lived to be stimulated by the cheers of Lord Derby and the opponents of his whole political life in an attack on a Ministry to which in the Simeon period of his career he should have wished nothing but God speed. The Telegraph refers to the "May Meetings" of the Archbishops and the Deans, and does not think the noble ambition of Archbishop Tait to make his Church trulythe " National Church" a fantastic or forbidden aspir ation. By charter o f history, by origin, and by testimony, the Church of England stands as the Church of Free Con sciences. No man has yet put asunder the union by which Heaven joined the spirit of the Reformation and the spirit of Liberty in Europe. The recently-appointed spiritual chief of the Church has admirably caught her spirit. On a late occasion he publicly de• dared that he regarded the Establishment as essentially national in its obligations as .well as its rights ; and he proclaimed the principle that it was bound IA i to fence about its portals with nquisitorial tests, which might enforce exclusion , but to welcome witbsn . the fold all who might desire to enter and share its beingnan; influences. If the Church of England cannot now bec ome "national" ia a new and splendid sense, it will be either because her servants have betrayed her—which we cannot believe—or because tt the - e of scien ce upon which we are entering admits no Church at all—which we should sincerely deplore. It ever a superb object of enthusiasm, worthy the passionate labours of a Loyola or the saintly courage of a Savonarols, was offered to the eyes of Churchmen, surely it is th!e opportunity, presented to the Church of E ng l an d b y th e t leader that Christians have had for many a gene ration, of conciliating to itself the boldest impulses, the largest purposes of the period—and of going forth into the wonderful future which is approaching, where we already otte, side by side with intellectual freedom and catholic science, the dawn of an enlightened and comprehensive faith, L ir al ). Irtr as, -; I 1 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, May 13. Her Majesty, acoompa,nied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, with the ladies and gentle men in waiting, arrived at the Castle shortly after five o'clock last evening from Buckingham Palace. The Queen drove out in the grounds, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, this morning. NA j 1 L AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Ihconstant made a prelialinary trial of her steed at her light draught yester•!ay morning, under the supi.rint.mdence of the officials of 'he Steam Reserve and dockyard at Portmouth. She made two runs at the measured mile in Stokes Bay, which were considered very satisfactory, but as there was a strong breeze, and the ship was light, the further trials were postpontd, and she re turned to the harbour. It is expec'ed she will be completed for sea More her final trials are made. The Endyinion, screw frigate, Captain Wake, will be paid out of commission at Portsmouth on the 20;1) inst., all standing, and is expected to be immediately recommissioned. Another veteran of the " Great War" has de parted. Admiral Bateman Dashwood died sud denly at Geneva on the 9th inst., in the 80th year of his age. This gallant officer entered the service in 1799, and served uninterruptedly till the peace of 1815. He was a midshipman in the Defiance at the battle of Copenhagen, under Lord Nelson. In 1811 he was first liewenant of the Active, then commanded by the late Sir James Gordon, G.C.13., and when that officer fought and took the French frigate Pomone, after a desperate con test. When Sir James had his leg shattered by tt cannon shot, Lieut. DaShwood took the command of the Active until he himself lost his arm, and the French ship finally struck to the third lieutenant. Captain Dashwood afterwards, when in command of a brig, fought and captured two French priva teers. In 1816, before our exceditiou against Algiers, Capt. Dashwood was sent in the Prometheus to parley with the Dey, and to place our Consul and his family in safety on board the ship. This could only be effected by stratagem, as the Dey reused to let them leave the town. The Consul's wife passed the gate disguisA as a sailor, but her child, which she carried in a basket, having cried as they passed the sentry, the party were pursued, and with diffi culty defended themselves until they rcache 1 the boat of the Prometheus. Captain Dash wood then joined Lord Exmouth's fleet, and was present at the bombardment of Algiers. The following appointments were made yester lay at the Admiralty :--Captan J. E. Cowin r_ll, V.C., to the Monarch, commissional; Ciptaiu E. Lacy, to the Endyniion, when that ship is recom rnis:,ioned ; Staff-Commander Win. S. Aldrich, to he Monarch ; Lieut. Ed. Pilkington, Lieut. Francis .J. J. Etiott, Lieut. Stuart 11. Rickman, and Lieut. llei.ry A. Aiundel, to the Monarch ; Sub - Lieut. F. A. B!ackett, Sub-Lieut Arthur J. Hamilton, Sub-Lieut. Edward P. Statham, and Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Papillon, to theMmiarch ; Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Robert Harwood, to the Monarch ; George F. Maynard, Wm. Wright, Charles R. Arbuthnot, and Henry D. Barry, mid shipmen, to the Monarch; Arthur T. Dew, Pascoe G. Fronde, Clarence G. H. Messum, and Edward L. Lang, naval cadets, to the Monarch ; Richard 11. Wellings and John W. Brown, navigating inidAipmen, to the Monarch ; James Roffey, chief engineer, to the Lord Warden ; Jertmiah J. Hatch, as ,, istant-surgeon, to the Hector ; Dr. Thcs. Jame son, assist .nt-surgeon, to the Duke of Wellington ; Joseph Martin, paymaster, to the Monarch ; Ar thur Hughes, assistant-paymaster, to the Monarch ; Alfred 11. L. Giles, clerk, to the Monarch ; and Ambrose Wall, assistant-clerk, to the Monarch. STATE OF IRADE. BLACKBURN, May 12.—N0 improvement can be reported to-day. Prices are again id. per lb. iu Favour of buyers, who, however, remain quite re luctant to operate, and the amount of business really done has been small. The of eratives bars quietly settled down at the five per cent reduction, ;Jut they are actively raising funds for emigration purposes, and are anticipating that the drain which will be efEeted in this way must speedily tell ill their favour. BRADFORD, May 13th.—The Wool Market, 011 the whole, has undergone no change since MondaP Spinners are holding off buying in consequence of a public sale of wool during the afternoon by Messrs. Townend, wool brokers. The purchases made are confined to a few choice sorts of wool. Prices are without change. The sale of Messrs. Townend cow' manded a good attendance of consumers ; the compel" tion was rather brisk, and the biddings, on th e whole, satisfactory. In worsted yarns there la rather more business doing in home sorts, but the foreign trade is in the same dragging condition a° hitherto. The export merchants are looking round and making inquiries, but more with a view to test prices than to place orders. Stocks of sing le yarns are in many hands accumulating. lu twe' fold yarns there are offers made, but at prices to ° , low to be entertained. A rather more cheerf ul feeling prevails in the piece trade, but in some de' partmcnts of this branch, as, for instance, for th e East and on home account, there is a very fair busi ness doing at firm rates. 711 E CRUISE OF THE ROYAL NA VA RESER VE. Yesterday the Royal Naval Reserve and Flying Squadron assembled in the Portland Roads, havi l l on board the various s hip s near l y 3,000 Nar''. Reserve and Coastguard men, under the Cool 'nand. of Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper g e t' C. 8., whose flag was hoisted on board the s l ' George, guardship at Portland, Captain Matthect S. Nolloth, but was shifted in the afternoon t° the Agincourt (flagship), ironclad, which arrived in the Roads the previous day from Sheerness. The Portland Roads now presents a magnificent. sight' with so large a squadron, composed of the following ironclads and block ships, who take up the followi ng order :—Agincourt (flagship), the Scylla, the Ca d : pins, Captain Wilson (flying squadron), the , George, the Boscawen, the Mersey, 36 guns ; th e Trafalgar, 60 guns, 2,900 tons, 500 horse powe r s ' the Hector, 20 guns, armour plated, Capt. J. C. Kennedy ; the Black Prince, 41 guns, Capt. A. : Gordon ; the Duncan, 81 guns, Capt. C. Fellowes: the Donegal, 81 guns ; Dauntless, 31 gn °9 i Royal George, 72 guns, will complete the list °, the block ships for the Royal Naval Reser let , and the Bristol, Liverpool, 35, Phoebe, wion, Liffey, Cadmus, and Scylla will f° r— r the Flying Squadron. On Wednesday, °I f, 250 Royal Naval Reser ve men we re C O :, veyed from Bristol and other ports to W eJ a mouth, by the Great Western Railway, l i r arrived at the latt er p or t a t h a lf- past t h ree o'cl° ° 3 l where they were met by the Weymouth 11° ! , Naval Reserv e men an d t h e b an d o f t he train' ing ship B oscawen, un d er t h e comman d o f L v ie h u o tenant Wilkinson, of the St. George. f loyal townsmen of Weymouth gave thou hearty welcome. The men were nearly all dun s ed alike in Guernseys, and wearing the A.8.' 6 ca l l ) ; with a ribbon bearing " R. N. R." in g old n a a quarter to f o u r th e men marc h e d t o the pier , A embarked on b oa rd th e C ommo dore ste' vue ic r ; Cal taiu M ace . A s th e st.amer left the bier the men were again he ar tily c h eere d by the I °9 o i lace, and the men, who seemed thoroil. pleased with the anticipated cruise, heartily tree aponded. The Commodore arrived along stile a d St.. George, and the men here must a rl re were told off under petty officers. The Co lnui°" ,r u be also conveyed 120 men on board the Mersel. st j e a squadron will sail from the Portland Ron'ltirhit, early to-morrow (Saturday) morning for the " .v suntide cruise, when the men will undergo g nnuev practice and other manoeuvres. The Donegal an Royal George have arrived. Inc ditto Cent Tti ii Co CO3nl New 104 i Ar 78 Bout 11lin( Eigb 3i, a Tt coup In Wes . Nori Grea inve: T 1 issue of O. kuff i the ciet , new amo \V s state ba r d to tl for 1 rem cess ; dire, ban] fall reps trey, in g Asst wee of t and last all the