The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-02 00:00:00

BPIRIT - OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS., There is a. time for all things, says the Time:, and the final deliberation on a great measure is emphatically a time for a calm review of its principles and tendencies. Such a review was undertaken by Mr. Disraeli on Mon day, and yet no one can read .his speech without feeling that it lacks the first requisite of statesmanlike judgment —the power of realising the true nature of the crisis. In ransacking his imagination for discreditable and far fetched explanations of the introduction of the Irish Church Bill, Mr. Disraeli overlooked the obvious, honourable, and true explanation—that it was demanded by the mature conviction, in the minds of Liberals throuebout the United Kingdom, that without disestablishment and disendowment there could be no peace for Ireland. In commenting bitterly on the failure of so many amendments, he refused to see in it a signal proof of the confidence reposed by the Liberal party in the conduct of Mr. Gladstone. Never, it is true, were the clauses of a bill so complicated passed through committee with so little modification by majorities so overwhelming ; but then never was a scheme more elaborately or conscientiously framed, and never was a greater mastery of detail as well as principle exhibited by a parliamentary leader. The bill has been accepted by the House of Commons, not because each Liberal member had been pledged to each of its provisions, but rather because it approved itself to members and constituents alike as a statesman like and consistent solution of an Imperial question. It now awaits the verdict of the House of Lords, and we feel a strong assurance that Mr. Gladstone's closing words will find an echo in that Assembly. We do not claim, with Mr. Disraeli, the gift of prophecy, and, if experience proves anything, it proves that no political vision can pierce much beyond the near distance of prac tical action. It is enough that we should be able to " predict the present," and, unless we misread the hone• scope of Ireland, it does not portend a new outburst of religious animosity, but a new reignof politicaltranquillity, founded on equality and justice. The Daily Yeses declares that Mr. Disraeli on Monday night improvised a new theory of Irish character and history. Earlier statesmen failed to recognise the real origin of the calamities of Ireland. They tried various remedies —parliamentary reform, municipal reform, jury reform, great schemes of national education, and great schemes of national police. These failed, because the diagnosis of the diseaze was wrong. The statesmen who were the authors of these measures, of which Mr. Disraeli affects for the moment to think lightly—in another part of his speech he implied a different estimate of them—failed, he says, to recognise that the cause of Itish discontent and disturbance was physical. Mr. Disraeli's philosophy of the last is not more remark. able than his estimate of the present and his forecast of the future. Ile contends that Mr. Gladstone has miz taken the aims and desires of the Irish people, whom he wishes to conciliate. If they were discontented with the Irish Church Establishment surely, Mr. Disraeli says, they would assassinate the Irish Protestant clergy. .He apparently thinks that shooting a man is the mode in which the Irish peasant expreses his abstract disapproval of an institution. As to the future, it is lamentable to think what the nation has lost in Mr. Disraeli. If his advice had been followed, Ireland wouid in twenty years have been as loyal, contented, and prosperous as Scotland now is. He was provided with a pill for tile earthquake, like the mountebank in Addison's essay, to whom Mr. Bright once compared him. Now we may expect to see " another battle of the Boyne, another siege of Derry, and another treaty of Limerick. These things are not only possible, but probable. You are commencing a policy which will inevitably lead to those results." From the possible to the probable, and fr em the probable to the inevitable, are transitions very easily and rapidly made in Mr. Disraeli's speeches. Happily they are not so easy or rapid in history. The Standard is convinced that therejection of the Irish Church Bill on the second reading by the House of Lords would be altogether disastrous both to the Church and to the Constitution. If, indeed, Archdeacon Denison believes that a new election would reverse the verdict of 1868 he is right in advising the Lords to engage in a new struggle. But if, as we feel assured, no such result can yet be expected ; if the effect of a collision between the two Houses on the principle of the bill would be to check the reaction which is in progress, to rally the multitude sound the Liberal colours, and to make Mr. Gladstone more powerful than ever, then we cannot conceive what principle of duty or policy should induce the Peers to precipitate a conflict in which defeat is inevitable. It is impracticable for the Upper House to resist a Ministry backed by the Commons and the majority of the nation. The consequence must be either the political extinction of the Peers or a collision between the Sovereign and a popular Ministry, from which the worst consequences might be apprehended. A new election would send back a House of Commons more Radical, more resolute, and more angry than the present. A new Church Bill, worse than this, would be at once sent up to the Lords. Could they again reject it ? We have counselled that the Lords should exact all they can in the way of compromise ; but we cannot recommend them to engage in a struggle with the ultimate arbiters of national policy upon a question which does not admit of compromise. We cannot advise the Peers to measure their strength against that of a decisive electoral majority, simply because in such a conflict they must be beaten, and because they can be beaten only by means which would destroy the Consti tution. We are not called upon to say whether it is worth while to risk the Constitution for the sake of the Church, for the fact is—as all moderate men, nay, as most extreme men who retain their temper and judgment, can see — that the Lords, by engaging in open conflict with the new House of Commons, may shipwreck the Constitution, hut cannot possibly save the Church. The Post says that the confidence it has expressed in Mr. Motley's fitness for the position he fills is encouraged by the two speeches he made last Monday in answer to addresses presented to him upon his arrival at Liverpool by the Liverpool and the American Chambers of Com merce. The tone of these speeches shews that Mr. Motley is aware of the extent of his powers, and is not likely to exceed them ; while their brevity is an indication that lie does not intend to indulge in that mischievous garrulity which distinguished his predecessor. These features make the speeches themselves all the more important and worthy of attention, and encourage us to rely fully upon them, and to infer that Mr. Motley really comes here with a sincere purpose to bring to an end the differences between us. Mr. Sumner's speech was in effect an admission, and Mr. Motley must know that the real cause of the rejection of English offers has been precisely a want of friendly feeling, or rather tl:c existence of an active feeling of enmity towards this country for old grievances. 'We trust, how ever, that we may infer from Mr. Motley's words that this enmity is now so far cooling down as to allow of the formation of a good understanding upon secure founda tions, for it is useless to hope for it so long as one side approaches the other with distrustful feelings and revenge ful purposes. From the whole tone of his speeches we may hope that he will be able so to exercise them as again to bring the countries where, as he once sa id they y should ever be, " side by side in full friendehip," The Star is glad to say that the question of the Hudson's Bay Company is soon likely to be removed fromtheg nisance of tile British Legislature. A barg ain h as been struck between the Imperial Government an d the Hu d son's Bay Company ; and Mr. Mons e l was a b le on Tues day to assure the House of Commons that thisb ,o ar i gai would be ratified by the Dominion of Canada. i Granville belongs the credit of having solved what alm ost 'or appeared to be au insoluble problem ; an d never did he exercise his characteristic tact with greater judgment or more advantage to the public interest. He offered an ultimatum which has proved irresistible to both of the contending parties. A vitally important point was raised by Mr. B. N. Fowler, who urged that it was the duty of the Imperial Government to make stipulations on behalf of the Indian population, and to secure to them ample reserves. Mr. Monsell's answer was one of sympathy with the natives, but also one of confidence in Canada. The Government of the Dominion has pledged itself to do justice to the natives ; but it is not the less expedient that Great Britain should exhibit a just sense of re sponsibility towards a class of her subjects who have irresistible claims upon her consideration. Lord Bury would give them no reserves at all. This advice was dictated by no feeling of inhumanity, and yet if acted upon is would inevitably lead to a succession of Indian wars, and to the ultimate extinction of the race. Why should the Hudson's Bay Company have ample reserves of land, while the Indians, who are the original owners of the soil, are left to starve? The fact that such a sugges tion should be offered is a justification, if any were wanted, for Mr. Fowler's speech ; and we cannot doubt 'that the Government of the Dominion will take a large and just view of its obligations in this matter. The Tclegraph, says that the matter is now so near tne final stage, that the Hudson's Bay Company is to sell its rights for g. 300,000, and that the Imperial Government pro. poses to annex the territory to Canada, if the colony will pay the stipulated- sum. Heretofore, Canada has not closed with the bargain, and, indeed, she is grumbling at the demand for so large an amount; but there can be little doubt that she will accept the offer, and the Prime Minister evidently holds the matter to be virtually settled. A few months hence, we may confidently anticipate, the great unre,•la , ;nml territory will be added to the possessions of the Nor: h A merican f 'onfAera,tion, The fact remains that so lung !,clong3 to a trading corporation, it znust conti ° nta < deseft - . 2.:0w that the North American colonics have ben (r - fanied into a Confederf - Itfon, the time has come fur transferring a magnificent territory from rulers who are guided by the principles of the counting hov-i ie alone, to rrikr; who are guided by the dictates of an imperial poliey. But in the act of tra nsfer we must L o t for::, 7 et to guard " vested interests." We do not refer to thos?, of the co:apany, which will take care of itself ; but to those of the aboriginal inhabitants, the Indian tribes. When e resi g ne,t our ancient control over Canada, and made the s '..b.ny self-governing, we requ'red the inhabitants to no.l. I take the rEsponsiodttieß as well fo; .hare the comto:ts of vianal independence. Among there responsibilities was rinqnest!onably the fulfilment of the bargain made with the Indians ; but the colony has neglected that duty. It would be satisfactory to learn that the Imperial Government has urged the Canadians to perform it; and at least, now that we are to place Indians of the Hudson's Bay Territcry under tile rule' of the ' Canadian Goverammt, We must take; precautions -Na:nstanY oilVadc9 to tliellA _ MISCE LLAN EO US VEIT'S.- CLERICAL TROUBLES IN AUSTRIA. A priest of Brejenz, in the Tyrol, was recently prose cuted on a charge of "exciting to hatred and contempt" of the Government in the pulpit. Being acquitted, he openly threatened to take his revenge upon those who had borne witness against him. He kept his word. At the very next sermon which be delivered he designated the witnesses as liars and perjurers, and invited his congrega tion to say a pater on specia.l. _behalf of these miserable sinners. It appears that his denunciation did not prevent others from appearing against him, for he was sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment. PEACE POLICY OF TILE AMERICAN GOVEDNMENT. The evidence that Mr. Motley has arrived in England to carry out a policy of peace accumulate/ rapidly. The new Ambassador's speeches are quite as reassuring as Mr. Reverdy Johnson's, thongh undoubtedly far more temperate. All intelligence from the other side of the Atlantic skews that the American Government is equally anxious to avoid war, and that state of doubt 'and anxiety which is scarcely less disastrous than war. On the 18th of May a telegram from Washington, inspired by the State department, was published at Phila- Elphia. It announced that "no one in executive and diplomatic circles apprehends serious difficulties with England." The New York Times says that the " President has spoken his mind pretty freely about the manner in which foreign affairs are con sidered by the Senate, and in a way not at all com plimentary to that body." It is added that the English Embassy had, up to the day of rejecting the Alabama treaty, positive assurances that it would be postponed until December. With these facts before them, it is claimed that the rejection of the treaty was the effect of temporary excitement, and not the exhibition of cool, dispassionate statesmanship. The Times Philadelphia correspondent says that the instructions carried away by Mr. Motley were very voluminous, and represented the moderate views of the Secretary of State, and not the - extra vagant demands of Senator Sumner. The question of England's moral responsibility for the results of her neutrality proclamation of May 1861 is still in sisted on, however, as a proper subject for reference to arbitration, and if it is decided against England, the United States will present for payment by England the damages decided to result therefrom. THE METROPOLITAN OF CANADA. The Bishopric of Montreal, which confers the Metropolitanship of Canada, has been offered to the Bev. Ashton Oxenden, rector of Pluckley, Kent. Mr. Oxenden is one of the most moderate and respected members of the Low Church party. He is the author of the Cottage Library, Cottage Sermons, a book of Family Prayers, and other devotional works. Ile was educated at University College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1831, but without honours. He was appointed to his pre sent living, which is worth £684 and a house, by Archbishop Sumner. He is an hon. canon of Can terbury, and a member of Convocation. He is, we believe, about 60 years of age. coNscrExer, MONEY. Mr. Lowe lamented, in making his financial statement, that the legacy duty had fallen so short during the past year because of the obstinate vitality of millionaires. Ile has, however, his compensation. A Thornton does not die every year, but nearly every day now the Board of Inland Revenue has the pleasure of announcing the receipt of £lOO as " con science money," on account of income tax. As every £lOO represents :Q4,000, it is clear that a good many persons have been over-modest about their incomes. It is curious to notice how contagious the present frankness appears to be. TUE BANK OF ENGLAND, The Times again comes to the rescue of the old lady of Threadneedle-street against her insulter, Mr. Robert Lowe. The City editor, referring to the Chancellor's threat of borrowing and lending money under plans not yet matured, infers an antagonism on the part of the Government towards the Bank of England. But, says Mr. Samson, it is altogether a mistake to suppose that the Bank enjoys great privileges and derives special advantages from Government favour. So far is this from being the case that the dividend of the Bank is only about 8 per cent., while other Banks divide from 15 to 30 per cent., since this smaller sum is accompanied by greater security. But the Government gets " All the benefit allowed in consideration for the dignity and steadiness of the agency thus conferred. Neither party could break up the system without damage, and it is not to be supposed there is any thought of such a step. To compensate the Bank for the services it performs, the Government must maintain there a good average balance, just as would te required in their degree from ordinary cus tomers. If the Government find themselves able to do more than this it is open to them to invite competition on the part of borrowers, although it is very doubtful if they would not do better by still negotiating through the Bank. Anything beyond wool•! probably result only in speculative bids from a number of inferior institutions who would ultimately find themselves unable to allow as much as for the sake of a continuous account as the Bank is willing to concede." Finally, the Times would have it remembered that the Bank of England is merely a private bank which has the keeping of the Government account ; and that its management has for the last twenty years been characterised by a degree of uprightness that has brought honour upon the country. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY. Vice-Chancellor Stuart startled not a few people iabt week. He issued an injunction to prevent the directors of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company from pursuing a bill in Parlia ment. His order would, in fact, compel the company to allow Chancery to settle its a ff a i rs . N ow, exp l a i n this away as the lawyers will, ma k e conven i en t fictions as they like, they cannot get over the fact that this decision made Cha ncer y grea t er than Parliament, and set up as a rule that a Vice-Chancellor had higher jurisdic tion and was more likely to get at the truth of matters than the highest of all courts, the Houses of Lords and Commons. The legal papers raised dissent immediately. Though they saw a reason for the decision which the Vice-Chancellor hardly re ferred to, they were obliged to consider him to be in error. They pointed out that the directors were alleged not to represent the company. The special meetings of shareholders had had before them a measuve which gave power to two arbitrators—Lords Salisbury and Cairns—only to be exercised at the will of the parties to the dispute. Thebill has been changed by the House of Commons to a compulsory one, and the directors are still pursuing it. But surely Parliament can decide these questions quite as well as Sir John . Stuart, and can even now make the bill revert to its original form if it be necessary. The directors ap pealed, and the Lords Justices immediately cancelled the order of the Vice-Chancellor. This decision must give general satisfaction. THE. SPEAKER UPON nonsr.s. Mr. J. Evelyn Denison is concerned about the English breed of horses. Not about the useless racehorse, which has caused so much discussion of late, but about the real old English horse, the farmer's riding horse, which has declined so much since rail ways have been the fashion. The half-bred stock for road and hunting fisid threatens to become altogether extinct. Before the invention of railways, every farmer kept a horse to carry him to markets and fairs. Now, thousands of farmers have laid aside their riding horses, and trust mainly to railways for means of locomotion. Can anything be done (Mr. Denison as'. s) to stimulate this reviving interest ? The means, to be successful, must, he says, be simple. He would have no f:eith in joint stock companies or any epensive operations. The effort should be a combined effort of proprietors and occupiers. The Speaker, therefore, suggests that gentlemen interested in the subject should meet t t ogether an d f orm an association, and agree t y f o gnr would ot l c n ah t S ba go laidel t 00 1 f l u e i a r i s e bu s ep t apti effected,yeso. o place t wo or three good mares in the h e fa f t e i li d T e o ea tr 'nt s c a l a a t o i useful valuable horses." THE " P.N.A." ON MS DEFENCE. Sir Francis Grant writes to the Times, in reply to Lord Ribblealale's letter, saying that the rejection of his lordship's picture could not be due from any " want of graciousness " on the part of the Hanging Committee, since the names of th e ar ti sts are not known, and pictures are rejected upon their own demerits. Sir Francis says nothing to his lordship's other charge, that be—the president of the R oyal Academy—had eight huge pictures, the ina:dinum allowed to him, at a time when hundreds of other good pictures were rejected for want of room, THE WEATHEII. We have happily escaped from the severest May on record for many years. In London the closing days of the month were much colder than the opening days of February. In Scotland the thermometer fell to 30 deg. during Friday night. Early on Saturday the fields around Edinburgh were white with hoar-frost, and the potato crops have sulicrA severely in consequence. VE 0 C IPT.D OMAN IA . Velocipede riding schools are increasing rapidly, and everything seems to be going in favour of the new vehicle, save the police and the magistrates. These do not like the machine on the footpath, and they have ordered it off. Pedestrians will be thank ful. Perambulators were bad en-ijh, but a rattling bicycle running between one's legs, and producing a collision between rider and walker; is not pleasant to contemplate. HYMN The Free Church Assembly has been greatly ex ercised on thematter of psalmody. It does not approve of " human hymns." I\ ot that it prefers inhuman hymns ; but it thinks thit human compositions are 1„ .r,-;i/ a Irceim'h in_ Witra not THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1. 69 Wesley and Lyte, Toplady and lieble, Doddridgc. and Ken, mere sinful men ? So the Kirk must fal4 back upon David, who, as we all know, was sinless, especially just before he wrote the 51st Psalm. But the funny thing:is that the Assembly does not like to have the Psalms in the prose version, that is, the version nearest the original, for that would lead to the prelatical and Popish habit of chanting, which is alto gether abominable, though it is true David and Asaph wrote their Psalms especially for chanting —yes, even for that worst of abominations, antiphonal chanting. So the Psalms have to go through the excruciating process of versifying. The result is a doggrel, com pared with which Sternhold and Hopkins, Brady and Tate, were charming. Besides these there are a certain number of "paraphrases," which the Scotsman divides into three classes, " ranting, namby-pamby, and milk-and-watery." We scarcely know to what class the following verse belongs, though it was considered particularly good by the " demonstration" at which a number of these non human hymns were sung : " 0 tongue to fraud inclin'd, What portion shalt thou find— , What shall be done to thee? Sharp arrows of the great, With coals of burning heat, Of juniper that be." Mark the rhyme, " great," " heat." Funny people the Free-Kirk ers. t . Frunb the Anglo •Anturican NEW or u May 15. The Arizona, bound for Aspinwall with a very large number of passengers and the mails for Cali fortiii, broke her shaft on the voyage, and had to get back as best she could, transferring al to the Rising Star, which left on Saturday. The steamer tng Joe Baker exploded its boiler, and blew all its offi cers overboard, some of them severely injured. The account of the loss of the Pacific Co.'s steamship Hermann, from Yokohama ou the 13th February, has reached Washington and been published. She had, a crew of 80 men and 350 passengers, Japa nese soldiers. The right was dark, an I Captain Newell could but barely make out the land along which he was coasting. He was giving a promon tory a wide berth, as the native pilot informed him there was a shoal off it unmarked on the charts, w lien he discovered breakers ahead, but before the vessel could be brought round she was caught by a tremendous roller and thrown bodily on the rocks, where she was quickly reduced to a wreck. The boats which were not swept away were used by the crew in their endeavours to reach the land, but were successively swamped in the breakers. Most being lifeboats they floated, though swamped, and those who clung to them were saved. The funnel fell during the night and smashed up the hurricane deck, c 'using great loss of life. In the morning the weather moderated, and those who remained oil the wreck were taken off by the Japanese on shore. The Japanese soldiers behaved extremely well, obeying their officers with the greatest coolness to the last, while the danger may be judged, as by far the larger portion of them perished. Mr. Norvell of the Times has given bail for $25,000 to answer the charge of libel brought against him by Jas. Fisk, jun., and the report is that the case will soon be tried. It was said that Gen. Butler had been engaged by Mr. Young of the Tribune in his case agLinst Mr. I),na of the Sun, but this is denied, though it is as serted that half the editors here and in Philadelphia will be summoned as witnessss. Warren and Costello are now starring it, holding receptions of their friends at Sweeny's Hotel in Chatham-street, and a grand public reception is to be immediately given them. Mr. Pomeroy will bring out his paper next week as large as the Tribune and at the same price, backed by Tammany and other Democratic influ against the e T n v c o e r s ue b , being, some e so p n a ie rt l y lin d t o , upheld purposely like to b e wholly in the hands of one great daily organ. rho name of Pomeroy brings to my mind a suit for divorce in which another Pomeroy was concerned. Mrs. Kinnier brought her case before the Su p reme Court under the following circumstances. She had married Mr. Pomeroy, and while residing in Massachusetts by mutual consent she obtained a divorce from him through the Illinois Divorce Laws, when she mar ried her present husband. Ste now seeks a divorce from him on the ground that the first divorce was illegal, which, if good, leares her the lawful wife of Mr. Pomeroy. The Court held that the Illinois divorce was valid, as both had consented; therefore, this dove, is sent back to the anus of her present spouse. Judge Benedict of United States Circuit Court delivered his charge to the grand jury on Monday. He spoke in very severe terms about the frauds on the Government both in the Custom Iloese anal Internal Revenue Department. Under the late Administration affairs in the Custom House were in a fearful state. In the drawback frauds alone the Government was swindled out of $700,000. To recover the draw back (taxes paid on goods not used in the country but re-exported), four certificates, anaffidavit, and a bond have to be produced, and these were all forged by the Custom House men themselves, and passed without difficulty. They described goods, swore affidavits, and brought up bondsmen, all fictitious, and got the drawbacks from the Washington Treasury. Though the certificates were forged, they bore the genuine seal of an Internal Revenue officer. In the warehouse department goods subject to duty were withdrawn without any hieing paid, till the Government loss in a single warehouse equalled $lOO,OOO. The judge urged the inquest to do all in their power to bring the offenders to justice. Some of the stolen Syra cuse Savings Bank Bonds have turned up iu the possession of a Philadelphia broker, who attempted to negotiate them, and he has been committ e d f or trial. The Cuban Junta are so annoyed with the city newsp per report ers , w h o use d th e i n f orma ti on they gave for sensational paragraphs, that they re fuse to give them any more news, an d henceforward they will be silent. The Spanish Consul had an in terview with General Barlow about the steamship Quaker City. lie said he was instructed by the Spanish Minister to call his attention to the ves,zel ' as it was said to be fitting ou t i n th e i ntelest of the filibusters.. The United States Marshal re plie 1 lie haul received strict injunctions to pre vent any infraction of the neutrality laws, b u t h e was satisfied that the report was a Mere fiction of th e se nsation-mongers. The Anti-Slavery Society met on Tuesday at Steinway Hall, but the room was only half full, which the whites did not regret as half the audience were coloured. Wendell Phillips presided, and resolutions were passed, favouring the Fifteenth Amendment, the suppression of Southern anarchy, the condemnation of coloured people's ex clusisn from public places, and censuring the churches for their adherence to caste. Wendell Phillips expected to see the day when the Board of Brokers would open their doors to the coloured re presentative of a sovereign State, and said the time will arrive when no difference will he recognized be tween black and white; then, with a black Senate and a black Secretary of State, Mr. Motley will be sent with very different instructions from those now provided. What these are, and what they then would be, I know not. Miss Stone invoked the day when the Mask man and black woman would stand at the ballot-box together. She would like to aid them to put their black hands into the Treasury. Mr. Frederick Douglass spoke well, as usual, and so did Mr. Sims. Indeed, they seldom follow the extravagant lead of some of their white friends, and, in abstaining, appear to the better advantage. The Stock Exchange and the Open Board were con solidated in the name of the New York Stock Ex change, having a th o usa n d m embers and $BOO,OOO in its Treasury. The management will rest in the hands of 40, of whom the following 12 have been taken from the members of the Open Board :—J. L. Brownell, Rufus Hatch, S. V. White, C. P. Currie, S. B. Hard, I). A. Boody, A. V. B. Van Dyck, T. B. S tout, 11. Kennedyßobert Waller L. Marx, L. J. V on Boskirek. The following are , the offie . • ers of th e C onso li dated Board of Brokers —P - re,,l2nt 11. Neilson ; First Vi ce P r e- . sident, M. A. Why c l oc i c ; Second Vic--Presi I. nt B. 0. White; T reasurer, D . C. (lays Secretary, G. 11. Brodhead; A ss i s t ant - Secretary , John W. , Munro ; Roll-keeper, W. Weeber. Th ey h ave sent a committee to IVashington to have the recent de, cision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue respecting the tax on broker re-opened, and they ask for au extension of time ieyond the tee days in each month, wherein they are required to re port, but the department, although inclined to in crease, the time, are not dial osed to reconsider the decLiou. A terrible tragedy occurred at No. 1, Montague-terrace, Broklya-heights, on Thursday . . morpiug. Mr. - Beniamin Flint, - a retired mer chant, bad been intimate many year:: ago with a Mr. Titlirot, a wealthy Boston merchant, and when about twelve months ago, his son, Mr. Samuel D. Talbot, came to this city, Mr. Flint not only showed him great hospitality, but set apart a bed-room for him in his house. Last winter Miss Lizzie Scribner, a sister of Mr. Flint, arrived on a visit, and of course was frequently thrown into the company of Mr. Talbot, who at last, when about to commenc' business, proposed marriage. Miss Scribner re fused, and her decision did not apparently at the time cause him any uneasiness; but early this month he requerrteel her one evening to ac company him to the theatre, and on her politely declining he appeared greatly disappointed. About one o'clock on Thursday morning Miss Scribner was awoke by a person pressing a towel violently on her face, saturated with chloroform and mor phine. She dashed it asi le, an I recognized Talbot by the light friAn the street lamp, who still con tiLued to press the towel to Ler face, but she sprang from her bed, reached the kcal of the stairs, and, calling for assistance, was told by her sister to go to her room. She did so, faint from excitement, and threw herself on her sister's bed ; but in a few minutes Talbot entered the room, whereon Miss Scribner jumped from the bed and crouched at the opposite side of the room, when he levelled a pist at her and fired. The ball struck her cheek, neat the angle of the eye, inflicting a flesh wound. She threw up her hands to her head, and as she did so he again fired, the ball striking her hand, passing through her third finger and midlle of the hand into the forearm, and passing out the opposite side to which it had entered. Talbot then rushed up stairs and locked himself within his own room. The third report of the revolver was heard by the police in the neighbourhood, and a heavy fall on the bed-room floor by the inmates. Upon the police entering Talbot's room a six ounce bottle was found with about half an ounce of chlo roform left in it, a towel folded in many folds and strongly impregnated with chloroform, and a bottle containing one-sixteenth of an ounce of morphine. On the floor was the suicide, presenting a gory and gbistly spectacle. After receiving surgical treat ment Miss Scribner was removed to her bed nod pronounced out of danger. During the day an in quest was held, and Coroner Jones charged the jury ou the evidence adduced, when the verdict was returned that —" The said Sam. D. Talbot came to his death by sho o ti ng hi mse lf i n th e head with a pistol, on the 13th o f M arc h , 1869 , at No. 1. Montague terrace, Brookly n ." M r . F l i n t telegraphed to the stepmother of the deceased at Boston, his parents being dead, and the reply was received in the after noon requesting that the remains should be for warded to Boston. They were accordingly sent with a burial permit by Coroner Jones, the same day. The Tribune, I regret to say, will commence a series of articles on Political Economy by its Editor on the Ist proximo. Oh dear ! Oh dear ! ! I wonder how many subscribers this announcement will attract or the other thing. Bishop M'llvaine has preferred ch arges aga i ns t th e R ev . Colin Tait of Co lumbus, Ohio, whom he accuses of violating the doctrines and wors hi p o f th e Episcopal Church in making the singing of processional hymns by choirs in surplices a'regular part of the worship. The American Church Union upholds Mr. Tait, and will supply the funds for his defence. WASHINGTON, May 14. I wish that our delegations would give themselves shorter names. Yesterday one called on the Pre sident and was announced as " the National Exe cutive Committee of the Coloured Men of the United States" to return thanks for a newspaper report they took as trustworthy that it was the in tention of the Executive to appoint coloured men in the Northern States to important posts. Their fitness for office had been proved by their manhood, and therefore taken out of the arena of debate. Such appointments in the North would destroy the objections in the South, where it would show the untruth that the North wished to force one policy on the Southerners accepting another for itself. The action of Rhode Island would solve the question in Georgia. It would also have another effect, for if the North showed a liberal disposition to the Ne groes where they were numerically weak, in the South where they were numerically strong they would be less unwilling to share their politi cal immunities with the whites. What would a Southern planter of the old school ten years ago have thought of such a delegation in the White House thus addressing the President? They con cluded by expressing their sense of gratitude for the rebuke General Grant had given to the preju dice against them by the numerous negro appoint ments he had made, contrasting the fact that the action of the late lamented President was under the nec?ssities of war for defence, while his was the sense of right during the calm influence of peace. The President received them cordially, assuring the delegates that important points were raised which should have his serious attention. I may here state that the Fifteenth Amendment having been ratified by Connecticut makes in all 22 States. The difficulties in Indiana when the ques tion was brought before the Legislature were re peated, the Democrats leaving, so that the Legisti ture should be without a quorum. Under these circumstances the objectionable course is likely to be taken, which must eventually much injure the Governmeetof this country, that is, legalizing illegal acts required by the immediate necessities of a party. The Democrats strain the law to defeat a measure approved by the sense of our people, yet they act within the law; the Republicans unable to thwart the Opposition have ratified the amend ment, at least in the Senate, in spite of the quorum not being present, and if necessary, Congress will legalize their course. General Lee, who arrived at Lexington last Saturday, expresses much gratifi cation with the result of his visit to Baltimore and . Washington. Mr. Howard has had an interview with the Presi lent .previous to his departure as Minister to China,• as had also Colonel Markbreit, before leaving for Bolivia. Mr. Whitely, the new Chief of the Treasury Secret Service Division, arrived on IVednesday and took charge of his office. '-Chi Government despatched an agent to Cuba to gather information independently of its Consul- General, and his information is not encouraging to the insurgents. The Consul cannot tell what their force is ; merchants estimate it at from 15,000 to 20,000 men; while others, equally reliable, place it at 1,400, but the Consul does not believe either to be correct. This, however, he asserts, that there is not a Cuban man, woman, or child on the island who does not sympathize with the revolt - , and he adds his own opinion that if the insurgents can hold out for six months more Spain will be compelled to abandon her effort to subdue them. The cruel action of the Spanish Government aids the insur rection, and has creatdd such a feeling of intense hatred that Spain will never recover a strong foot ing in Cuba. Nor is this its only ill effect, fur it has generated a disgust of Spanish rule far and wide in our country. I regret, however, to learn that Admiral Hoff, as well as Consul-General Plumb, and other good authorities, consider that there is no chance for the present of over throwing Spanish rule, and the Cuban agents here are evidently discouraged. Mr. Allison is to meet the Committee of Ways and Means at New York to begin their investigation. Senator Fenton is expected to make a stay of a few days. r 1 he way our people bring themselves prominently before the public as an adver t is emen t for their goods is quite as ingenious as anything gotten up in Europe. . To makers of hats, boots, cigars, and sticks, the Pre sident is mainly u3eful for bringing forward their wares. One sends him a cigar that would require two men to hold it for six weeks while he smokes; thin flaunti a sign, " Maker to the President." What they wourt like is to get U. S. Grant tick eted with their goods, but as they cannot succeed in this they do all they can. Mr. Joseph M'Cord, of Boston, has presented to the President a rose wood baton mounted with silver, inscribed " Joseph M'Cord, inventor. Let us have Peace. Pre sented to to U. S. Grant, President of the United States, April 17, 1869." The invention consisted in a whistle and rattle combined, and I hope Mr. M'Cord has received his reward, in numerous orders for ditto ditto. The Comptroller's abstract, ehowin the condition of the Southern banks on the 17th April, in acconlatTce with the recent order, -- ha - s been published. In North Carolina the aggregate of resources and liabilities of its six banks is $2,675,913 ; in South Carolina, of its three banks, $2,629,383 ; in Alabama, of its two, $1,239,205 ; in Louisiana, of its two, $1,189,809. It is said that smuggling is active and increasing on the Canadian frontier. The regulations on what is termed the hand-luggage of passengers passing into the States by the Great Western Railway have been altered, as they are found, while onerous to the company, to be inefficient. The inspectors accompanying the trains between Suspension Bridge and Detroit are to be discontinued from the 25th inst., and instead the Customs' officers will affix to the hand baggage of the through passengers, from point to point in the United States over Canadian territory, a stamp, which will enable the officer on the other side to pass the pack age without examination. The railway people are asked to assign to the through pass Tigers a car to themselves •by way of facilitating the examina tion. We have settled down in Wa , hington into a state of utter stagnation, from which the New I'ork Tribitite's sensational telegram gave us a momentary relief. A few Congressmen, like stray swallows or the last roses of summer, hang about, biking after minor appointments. The post vacated by Judge Edmunds, when promoted Postmaster of the City from being Postmaster of the Senate, excites a slight contest between Dr. Taft and Major Nares. Mrs. Scott Siddons is acting the character of Beatrice, and every one in Washington goes to see her, Mrs. Grant among the number. By the way, I bear that an action has been brought against Miss Kellogg's agent for V,OOO for failing to sing at some concert, for which, it is alleged, she had been engaged. A correspondent from Madrid, describing his trip over Spain, says :—" We have met very few Ame ricans or English; most have been unnecessarily kept out of Spain from fear of political troubles, of which we were not a little npprehensive. We have found no trouble anywhere from this source, but travelling is not yet so pleasant in the Penin sula as on most parts of the Continent. Hon. S. S. Cox, late a distinguished Democratic member of Congress, from Ohio, now of New York, was here last week from a long trip through Algeria ; also Gen. Darling, late chief military engineer of New York. We spent several days with our Minis'er to Spain, John P. Hale, then at Seville, with his family, but who are now on a short tour in the South of Spain. Mr. Hale's health has b.ien bad for a year, but is much improved of late. Spain, I hope, is on the road to im provement, but the work must be slow. The people are too ignorant and too indolent, too poor and too proud to get or. fast in the way of political, moral, and social progress. But free discussion and a free press are making much visible good, and I hope such seed is being sown as has not been sown in Spin for long ages, and as will bear good fruit, and place the country among those enjoying civil liberty and a good government. Ido not be lieve a Republic is now the best government for Spain. The people must be better educated to be pre pared for it—a constitutional monarchy is preferable, with a new Monarch, free from all Bourbon or other old alliances and associations. A man of the pre sent, with a responsible Ministry and free elections, a free press, toleration and protection of all re ligions, and a government promptly settled upon, would, I think, be best for Spain. Of one thing I think you may he assured, viz., that the step for ward in the way of toleration will never be retraced. On this point I believe there can be no mistake, and that is much for Spain and mankind. The Cortes is a fine-looking body of men, though they are pro ceeding rather slowly. The course of our Govern ment towards Cuba seems to meet with general ap proval so far, and the impression is that the Go vernment is acting in good faith, while it does not seem to be expected that sympathies will not be ex pressed by indivi luals. I find in fact the name of a citizen of the United States well received every where in the South of Spain. THE UNITED STATES CONSUL-GENERAL AND MR. SMALLEY.—Wo believe that Mr. Smalley, the London correspondent of tke New York Tribune, is now aware that he was misled in his statements regarding Consul-General Morse, and will take au early opportunity of expl4cing this in his journal; and correcting whatever was , :eirorie ous. The charge of being a "Johnson"• loan 'we thought, one of tho lust that could have been brought against Mr. Morso, for, although it is not his habit. to pro claim his opinions from the housetops of London, his views on the quarrel between Congress and the late Pee s:dent were pretty well known, and we could, had we chosen, have given the most unqualified contradiction from our own knowledge. But we refrained from preju dicing oue statement by showing another to be_ a mis take. It has, however, since reached us that the post held by the Hon. Freeman Morse is in a pecuniary point of view ono of the worst in Europa, and that he cer tainly has not made a fortune either by it or through its means, nor does he, as the correspondent affirms, own a single ton of shipping under any foreign flag. Mr Morse has given his whole time to the duties of his office, and as they involved difficult and intricate inquiries he has been fully employed. Mr. Sumner, in his celebrated speech, quoted largely from one of the Consul-General's Reports, which has furnished matter for the discussion of Congress and of the American press, and ha; occupied space in our columns. Ms qualifications for this office could not be called in question as regards ability. The Fraser and Trenholm settlement we do not profess to understand; but the Government, we believe, are satisfied, arid we have heard one who did understand the question assert that the appraisement made by Mr. Morse was fair and prep.:3r. . . Mr. Ashley had an interview with the Secretary of State previous to his departure for Montana, and Mr. Fish addressed him in a very complimentary way. The new Governor intends to forward the colonization of the territory by Germans, so as soon to bring it into the Union as a State from which he hopes• tc be returned as Senator. If he can push up the value of the lots he may safely b 3 left to do so, for he is known to have taken a genuine inte rest in real estate in territories, before he was appointed Governor of one of them. He has name(] Mr. Benno Speyer, of New York, Commissioner of Emigration, and he will establish an agency in the Empire City. A deputation of bankers have had a conference, at Ottawa, Canada, with Hon. John Rose, Finance Minis ter, in regard to the Government currency question. A series of resolutions wore read, the purport of which was that the circulation ought to bo preserved on its pre sent basis, and that the bank charters ought to be re newed with certain amendments calculated to give greater security to note-holders and depositors. Those amendments had been agreed to by nearly all the bankers of the Dominion. Mr. Rose said he was not able to enter into a statement of his intentions, but would be prepared after the budget was disposed of to discuss the matter. The bankers replied that they bad uo doubt they would be able to meet the views of the lioverament, provided they were still permitted the privilege of issuing notes as at present. The Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, made a sensible speech in that State on his return from Europe. It was their duty, he said, to accept the failure of theirat tempt to establish a separate Government by force of arms. That defeat decided that the people of the 'United States were to bo one, now, and for over. They had elected the trial, and mti•Et abide the result ; struggling with a hearty go u d will to restore the waste places it had made. Mr. Frederick Werner, one of the oldest mem bers of tho Turner Society of Cincinnati, is having made i a n r t at his own cost a monume nt in memor y of t he 18 former members of that Society w h o were kill ed in the Union army during the late was. T he names of the fallen are: —F. Borg, F.-Biery , A. B e y land, Wm. Belser, W. Drev e , H. Elsner, Fueller, F. Hildebra ndt,G. lle G. Kiefuss, F. Ludwig , F. Mueller, 11. Reintanz, P. Set tler, H. Tafel, G. Vonan, F. Von, J. Weiss. The monu ment is to be the work of C. L.Fettwois, a sculptor Cin cinnati, and will be placed in ono of the large rooms of Turner Hall there. The only collegiate institution founded and owned by coloured men in North America is Wilberforce Uni versity, at Xenia., Ohio, founded in 18G3. Although bay ing a coloured man (bishop D. A. Payne) at its head, and two coloured professors, it Las two white professors, and admits blacks and whites to its daises with equal free dom. The college bailding, erected with great sacrifices, was burned to the ground, April 14, 1865, by an inemdittry. The trustees are labouring to rebuild it at a cost of about 535,000, which they look to the friends of negroes to give them. [ADVERTIsEMENT.]— Holloway's Pills. —The slightest indispositiun, to prevent its rapidly running from ba,i to worse, demands immediate attention fro.a the afflicted of all classes. A few doses of these thoroughly purifying and strengthening pills will always be beneficial when the least disorder reigns, or when nervous fears oppress. Two or three pills at bedtime have the happiest effect in .pro moting perfect digestion, whereby the muscles are ren dered more vigorous, the spirits more buoyant, and the ,retire frame more hardy. Holloway's medicine increases the quantity of nutriment derivable from a given quantity of food, whereby the quality of the blood is Unproved, the tone of ever, fibre throughout the body is heightened, and the ll4 dispoit/Oli t 9 till into disease is reduced to a Milli -121. THE ENGLISH PRESS. (From the Anglo-American Times) The attitude of the Anglo-Saxon race, as repre sented by the English and American press, is worthy the attention of foreign nations. If two nationalities, speaking the same language, nearly related, and in intimate connection, cannot understand each other, how can communities widely differing in language, institutions, tastes, and habits? The London Times argues plausibly, with seeming impartiality, but, in truth, as an advocate skilfully disguising his true character of a hired pleader. The papers favouring Northern sentiment, among the most able in Eng land, arc angry with their American friends for putting forward such extravagant demands, based ou reasons they consider unfair and even untruth ful. Thus the Star and the News among the dailies, and the Spectator leading the weeklies, assume one attitude of wronged friendship, with another which ought not to be overlooked. These papers are equal in literary ability to any of their opr orients. With consistency, through good and evil report, often against the feeling of the majority of their readers, they adhered to their principles, and not the less resolutely when threatened with and even suffering severe pecuniary loss. But it is not to such organs of opinion that the Americans turn► ; for they with avidity seize on the journals of the party they call the oligarchy, attaching an importance to what they say which amazes their allies in England. The Daily News, in disgust, asks, are tuft-hunting pro clivities most developed in Republicans ? Indeed the question is pertinent, for, setting aside the ably expressed opinions of organs representing the Eng lish people, they snatch at thoSe uttered by the papers of the Upper Ten Thousand, and justify an ill-feeling against the English people, not for what is said or done by the English people, but by the class they affect to denounce and despise. In the American papers of the 12th inst. will be found a summary of an article in the Standard of the pre ceding day on the Alabama qae.itioa. Now the idea of sending out at so much per word an article of the Standard as an expression of English feeling is almost laughable, and the best of the joke is that its own correspondent, writing on the 12th, alludes to that article as setting forth as by official authority the ultimatum of Great Britain on the Alabama imbroglio! So that even Granny's own correspondent forgets, that she is in opposition to the Government, expressing the very reverse of official opinion. In astonishment, Englishmen see such importance attached to what this respectable old lady says, and find the Pall Mall Gazette most quoted, not because of its undoubted ability, but be cause America recognizes, in it most directly the organ of the oligarchy. On the 10th the most bel licose of the Gazette's leaders was published in the New York Tribune with a long commentary from its London correspondent, and it furnished the text for the letter writers of other papers, as well as of leading articles. The newspapers most quoted in the United States are those most hostile to Ame rica, and which most directly and avowedly repre sent the class Americans persist in considering the rulers of Great Britain--the Pall Mall Gazette, the Standard, and the Saturday Review. In this we recognize some of that. feeling described in the parable of the lost sheep, which induced the shep herd to leave his ninety and nine, and run after the one that. was lost. The Standard last Monday thus accounted for the importance at tached to its opinions : The educated classes are, in truth, the nation ; it is the organ of the educated classes, therefore it represents the nation ; and it might be supposed that Americans arrived at the same conclusion from the same reasoning. The tone of this portion of the English press reflects the Upper Ten Thousand only, on the Alabama ques tion, but it is therefore entitled to a considerable, though not to an undue, attention. Its design ap pears to be to cloak England's sin, while bringing into the strongest light America's extravagance, with the abject of inducing the nation to occupy this position—nothing we can do, will induce Ame ricans to be oar friends ; they hate England with a deadly animosity, root and branch, lord and pea sant; we must resist and prepare for the inevitable conflict, and as America is a rapidly growing coun try, but now weakened by the strain of a terrible war, the sooner that conflict comes the better for us. It is on this text that their leading articles are written, and whatsoannoy3 and distresses the English friends of the Republic led by such men as BRIGHT and Fortsmn, is, that Americans play into the hands of this section. Nothing can save privilege but a war between England and America ; nothing is so hateful to Americans as privilege—legal and social distinctions born with the individual.—yet they do their best to place the nation behind that class, to maintain for another age the institution against which they have warred from their Declaration of Independence. Take the Standard's article of Mon day, and see bow this tone pervades it, as well as that on Tuesday and others. In the first, such men as Mr. FORSTER are denounced as the un-English worshippers of the Republic, who reverse the Ma hommedan rule, and pray with their faces to the West. It is not our object to show the Standard's ridiculous mistake in this; but we may observe, en passant, that Mecca is to the West of the vast mass of Mahotnmedans who pray, therefore, look ing to the West, as d o t h e Republic ' s adorers. The assertion is, that America is insolent in direct proportion to the meekness and adoration of her British worshippers who have brought about the present complications by generating the false notion that England would meekly endure insult and humbly submit to chastisement at her hands. It appears then that the nations owe the difficulty to BRIGHT, Foltsue, and their followers, and not tOLAIRD,WHARNCLIFFE, ROEBUCK, and their's. It maintains that the sympathy of the nation was with the Confederates, and this it will never have the meanness as well as the folly to deny, and it tells Mr. FORSTER to get out of the way, and not attempt to screen the upper classei from American anger behind the manufacturing mobs assembled to cheer Northern zmlot , . In its Tuesday's article it goes further, taking up much the same ground as the Pall Mall Gazette. A cool reception is to be ac corded to Mr. MOTLEY, and the charges preferred by Mr. SUMNER are to be brought to his notice at once for settlement. It may or may not suit America to delay, but it will not suit England. The former may have ulterior objects to serve as a burglar who pays a visit to a family with his eye on the plate, and Granny wants to tackle the burglar at once. Were it not that Americans attach such importance to the organs of the oligarchy we would not devote this space to the Standard, and the sooner they can learn to treat these opinions with the indifference or the amusement they create among the masses in England the better. On the other side Americans so allow sentiment to inter mingle with their wrong that it is difficult to get at it, diluted as it has become. A journal that heads its article " Canada or War," and fires off in that line, " Your money or your life," does all it can to damage the ease. Nor is it wise in men who ap peal to the equity and common sense of mankind, at the same time that they make claims for an infrac tion of international law, to announce their intention hereafter of setting aside the whole international code, and to do that, to a far greater extent, which they condemn in others as against themselves. The precedent created by the Alabama is the real matter to deal with ; shall it or shall it not henceforth be a rule of the sea that a belligerent can build, equip, man, and commission a ship-of-war in the port of a neutral; is that ship to be regarded as a vessel of the navy of a Power at war, which has never been in a port beloaging to that Power ? If se, so be it ; America's claim against England falls to the ground, and as sure as her M AJESTY sits on the throne of Eng land has England established that law which will drag her from her eminence. From such insignificant per sons as the Messrs. LAIRD, and such a place as their shipbuilding yard, will date the decline of what was once the greatest emiire on earth. The premature concession of belligerent rights, the deadly hostility of a large and earnest section of English society are in truth little more than matters of sentiment, but the other is a hard, dry, horrible fact, looking uglier and uglier from every aspect. In vain does the Tines attempt to qualify it by the action of a few fillibusters ou the Canadian frontier, or by the tone of feeling during the Crimean war and the Indian mutiny, for neither by act . nor through f ee li ng was anythingdm by Ammo that can approximato to the injuries and insults arising from the action of a certain section of the English throughouka war that rent the Republic asunder, that was no struggle la a far-off land, but the enemy in your house, at your throat. No, no; let the Times and these journals honestly admit the measure of the wrong, and Nr° will not have leading orators and journalists in th e United States balancing such arguments with as plausible exaggerations in the other direction, whereby both nations are led further and further astray—further and further from the real matter 1 0 dispute, and further and further into the region °f mystification and sentiment. IMPERIAL PAR 14 I A ] , l EN r HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack :a five o'clock. In reply to the flirt of LONGFORD, E GRANVILLE sail there was no desire to pass by any military officer :11 tIW eppoiutmtnt of the permanent Under Scerelar . ) ship for Irc!nnd, the only reason wifY military man il:►d nut been appointed was because it wa g . difficult to find the necessary civil qu►lifications in mai tary 11100. TdE IRISH CHURCH BILL. This bill was brought in by Earl GRANVILLE, read a first time, and the second reading was fixed for the 1.4.1, in.qaut. Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EvENTNo. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PARK-LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL. On this bill being further considered, The Marquis of HAMILTON moved the insertion °I the following cause, "That the Park-lane Improverne° Bill be recommitted to the former committee, in order that a clause might be inserted declaring that the lessees an d occupiers of property in Hamilton-place were within t b° provisions of the 68th section of the Lands Claw s Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to land injurieuiti affected." Mr. BOUVEHIE, as Chairman of the Committee e ll Private Bills, opposed the motion. The clause bad been rejected by the committee on the ground that the cropri e : tors and owners of houses in Hamilton-place should 1101 be treated differently to other owners of property. Mr. STANSFELD said it appeared to the GeVe rn : meat that a distincti, n should be drawn between t he Crown as a landlord and others, but the Government 1) 5 " r, come to the conclusion to leave the matter to be dealt With by the house. Mr. TITE said it was thought by the Metropoli lle , Board that to introduce into a private bill exceptiolliu legislation would be highly dangerous. Mr. BALL supported the insertion of the clause. Mr. LOCKE did not think the aristocratic residents iII Hamilton-place. had the right to ask for exceptional legit lation in their favour, when such a proposal by the 1 11011 common people would ba looked upon as a p iece of presumption. The ratepayers had already b ees burdened enough, and it was too much to ask that th e y should be further pressed for the benefit of the Cre l/il a and the fashionable residents in Hamilton-place. If h te clause was not withdrawn he should give his l e against it. Mr. HENLEY thought it would be wise to withal.° the clause ; he could not give his assent to it. The clause was negatived without a division. VISIT OF THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. Mr. OT WAY, in reply to Mr. Gourley, said the u v vernment had received intimation that it was the int el '; Lion of his Highness the Vicer o y o f E g ypt to visit O t i s country about the 22d of this month, and arrangem e % would be made to give his Highn e ss a suit a ble recep be upon his arrival in this country. (Hear, hear.) POLITICAL PENSIONS. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Mr. Fawcett, said that a person deserving a p ens i o n fr om I n dian or C et, nial revenues wou ld no t, as ma tt ers now stoodla bo' f prevented limn receiving a political pension ; but ill or ld that the whole subject might be fully considered, he w° 1 . 14 move the postponement of th e cons id era ti o n of the L e which stood for to-morrow, until Monday next. ("I' FARM. SERVANTS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply a to Viscount Galway, said it would mako no differeoc" whether a parson reside in the house or out of it, but if 11 : was purely a, farm servant he would be exempt from li tax, but if ho was engaged partly in farm work and po t ' t in other business then he would be taxed to the en“ )°° of 15s. Viscount GALWAY inquired whdhor he would be S °l he was employed as under gardener. i t/ The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rep lied the affirmative. THE ACCIDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT RAILWAY. re' Mr. a DUFF, in reply to Sir S. NORTHCOTE, Said port had been received, and that certain inquiries with 1 spect to it bad already been instituted. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. dst On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE it was agreedi, the house at its ri s ing wou ld a dj ourn unt il Thursa'% ° f to-morrow bAng the day set apart for the celebrat ion her Majesty's birthday. HUDSON'S BAY. Sir A. VERNEY called attention to the result of thei negotiation of the Government with the Hudson 's fog Company and the Government of Canada, and move au address for any papers on the union of Br it Columbia with the dominion of Canada. rd, After a few observations from Mr. Ayrton, Mr. 103'-- and Mr. Samuelson. Mr. MONSELL said he could assure the hon. g ol d ' man who had moved for tho papers that the greatest P - n ; caution would be observed with respect to the tract sa9 and the land occupied by the aborigines in Hudson's P- a territory. The Indians would be amply provided for, $ . O O, everything possible done for their safety and prote_L i° d, There would be no objection to give the papers clos'- The motion was agreed to without a division. ore' Mr. VANCE moved f or a re t urn o f th e petitions h sented on the subject of the Irish Church. f ous a Mr. GLADSTONE opp ose d th e mo ti on , o n the g— ent the information was already accessible. Upon a it reected y6O to 32. a The other division ness was busi was rapidly disposed of, 50 tba house adjourned. PLYCE OF GOLD. 0 34 The quotation of gold at Paris is about at Par' the the short exchange on London is 25f. 271 e. per Li st e i ri. On comparing these rates with the English Miut lis.loid. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.r 6 3 3 gold at the above price is of higher vs,lue in Loudon 1"- in Paris. bills at° The course of exchange at New York on London for bill - o to days' sight was on the 31st ult. about 1091 per cent. At th,!ited there is no profit on the importation of gold from the States. AB The United States District Cou r t o f Illin ois tAl‘t) recently decided that a colp or t eur i s not require d to out a pedler's license, sin ce th e re li g i ous works distil•bti ote -0 by him are partly giv en away and partly sold under Co price, and the occupation is not conducted as a me al° profit. LADVERTISEMENT.I—Avoid Medicines: they always ag„or:4 chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-re s ,rislr Iteralenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the 73 ° :dies , ment of the be s t meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rern,'oll and invariably resto res perfect d i gest i on, s t ron g n erves , lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, regularity, aue energy to the most disordered or enfeebl e extract a• few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Po's health rels66, by Du Barry' s F oo d . C ure N o. 68 , 413.—"R0me, July 21, s isee —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially 601, abandoning all other remedies, be has confined himself en ottle' to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, Food, of which he c °„ 1 Excel heoe a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisiug flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise tuts. , lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July fiff„ No. 58,216, of the M e Marchioness do Brehan, of seven Ye s 'rto A complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ll otll palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplesstl e i ; VP; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1 , 74 yeoil Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of fro" - dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' indescribable seliettcl o ' dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, PIZ; Is„, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly.”—" yo'4 46,270: Mr. James Roterts, of Fernley, Surrey, of s y l diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver deranger — tett pariial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of h e m unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, _;0. ; buthority, Baron Liebiefs name is most audacionslY„ u 4, s 2 1 , 5 $ In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2a 9,1; 2llis 4s 6d 5 lbs us; ,L 4 o o' o 24 lbstOs.—Also Du BIBBY'S REVALENTA ARABICA 24 Cor o POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at as, fe' itt s ' at 3s 6d, for , !.8 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, fur .576 cliP a , se!, —being about one penny per cup. The ;30r; and 336 timi, r der. free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office',;Sn d BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lou , '''' all Grocers and Chemists. BRTN. EHLERS —On the 31st u1t., 1 IL at Tulse-hill, S.W., 4.-r -g * 11°11 Ehlers, of a son. STAPLETON—On the 31 s t ult., th e w if e o f John 31. P., of a son, Starleton, MARRIAGES. . r,, r iaei 4 THOMAS -MATTOMS —On tho 29th ult. at ST' v -- $ l, S C ,t h . u j r , c tin h, e P s,s ic_ s c ci a i o i il r ly e: George E. 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C The Invosted Fi ?ire Revonue to £8 rrhe mod,mtto rates to nes for tho LifP oaluo as SPECIA reader them partii leave is granted on thirty days after ad Ji NATIONAL F ader Richmond, S tbe patronage 'whereby a hom e ha tee kingdom. The object of the C Lialt education, and 4114 laundry, to tlt th P4Re provided for w Bletable Ritnatione fo' The Committee e" 41t4013' Bnetained ice ` 121, Pall-ma M ackenzie-pa l'atron—ner A desFor the gratuit itute orphans f rind of all denom pro roes CircuMl Ott n e hund re d a atitntion ; ampl e ro a ista Increased 89PP.K endowe, and is 11 ce. Sub scribers an d tts Instiution, and ju nectliar Ths Becr e t a las ry t Report Offis, 73, ehea lanetankceers—Me"' ; and Messrs. IftALT FE ------- RESTOIII BARRIn and Infante 1 , 118 eaves fifty times it Perfe ct digestion E refreshing sleep, f rues ! disordered effeceffectually indigos tually habitue ttltegetrients, been -erve tlecess, bilio catarrhs, C91d€4,..i, raw , , ta c t i ticertbur n , beada 11a/I%a and sickne u te, bro nc hi t i s, ec th e th e pit of the sto od digestibt fur invalids and ir IkI'ORTANT Cet mono than si4 ritY, Baron Liebi€ h enceforth non hn ttarry's heap tend Infante' Foodllas already race; neon th %en doetned hop + Le o.3' Pope, it after thirtywl hots from 1 4° 2,113)e tome ,13' I— Father i s e ' other remedies, 1 ,ateful 4t lrY's Revalente ceneticialt every effect I prk t C ae thi s exuellc ure No. 58,211 Years' liv er corn] dice, i s g .Peation, constat ° ervous agitation tir e ° N 0.78, of M rt de Deckle, f .ua r,,, r4 „ ,- -"I have d Waterfor TDART D d. ifro m Cure No. 49,6 d yspepsia, C atul 13 ency, spasm ()f Lynn, Norfolk lIPIrVou Cure No. 47 ,12 %P ols fa,:icie soess, Judi i. C ure No. 56,81 Years diarrhcea. Tbc, Poo 1 is so I b4 4s. 6d ; 1211 htisters, ca. rriaz 1,4 s Rovlout saisters: Po 'I. n a b t 68., for 2E 4r aitotlt otta Penny h a ee of ca rriage it !I se - lm at y au BA' v ortnun 'l‘4laeaChrute'i-st-c II ir ticrth-r44 CH, AII: