The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

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MAY ER & SO., Patentees, 40 and 91, Fleet-street, E.C. 113 OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS. HOLBORN. Oscar Carre and his Fifty wonderful performing Horses, and the incomparable Scenes in theAr.ma, including A.Bradbury, Eng land's Champion Equestrian, A, Salamonsky, A. Carre, Mdlles. Montero, Schwartz, Sremser, and Salamonsky, in a series of unparalleled acts of horsemanship. Castelotti and the Brothers Girardes in their Thrilling Ladder and Trapeze evolutions. The Clowns Burgess and Loyal, the greatest grotesque of the day "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of tilos 3 exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."--Conrt Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. 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There is one thing very certain, which is, that when once the Prussians have made up their minds to an act of oppression or spoliation they do not think better of it, but adhere rigidly to their deter- mination. We thus see that the bills, relative to the confiscation of the private property of the King of A.NOVER and the Elector of HESSE-CASSEL, were agreed to by a large majority of the Upper House in the form in which they passed through the Lower House. Perhaps this was only what might have been expected ; but, at the same time, one cannot help a lingering feeling of disappointment that no sign of compunction was visible at the eleventh hour, and no shadow of regret was visible. The ever -ready Count BISMARCK made a speech on each bill as it came before the House. No statesman of the present day possesses half the vitality of the Berlin counsellor. No matter how grave are his maladies, no matter how doubtful his physicians, only let him have a chance of confiscation or a prospect of war and he is on the alert at once. So we find him busy and active again, despite the solemn statement which appeared some time back to the effect that his health was too precarious to per mit of his Pursuing his ordi nar y course o f d u ties. In comme n ti ng upon the Hanoverian affair, the Count said that the Treaty of 1867 on this subject was no private contract, but a State document, and proceeded to utter the magniloquent sentence that in the interests of peace, they set an example of magnanimity such as has never before been wit nessed." Could anything be mote absurd than this, especially when it is remembered that the campaign of which Sadowa was the crowning point, was un dertaken ostensibly in a friendly spirit, or at all events in no supposed desire of vengeance. What is to be expected from an assembly which can, like the Upper House in Berlin, listen unmoved to such de clarations. Why not say at once, We have the power, and mean to exercise it, instead of beating about the bush after this fashion? Another extraordinary statement follows upon this explanation, namely, that they did not believe in the theory of the rights of an enemy who had not concluded peace w ith them. Strange interpretation of the mystery, that it was not Kin g WILLIAM, at the head of his army, who . injured and despoiled the King of HANovEn, but it was the exiled and broken-down Monarch himself who was the ag gressor, and whose cruel conduct Count BISMARCK feels himself called upon to reprove. Prussia is not so mighty that she does not quake at the thoughts of the armed legions of Hanoverian exiles, and the needle gun is impotent to repel their attacks. The only thing is to stop the supplies, and thus resort to an old expedient, but a very effective one. We would have given BISMARCK credit for more sense than to express himself in such terms as these when he learns that his language is addressed not only to sympa thising Pruss'ans, but to the other nations and peoples, not under the spell of such infatua tion. "We are now compelled to preserve the Fatherland from any possible danger that may arise from this violation of trust." Perhaps we shall get at the truth of the matter more readily if we go back a little way, and take another text of the Count's for interpretation. His MAJESTY has deceived us when we confided in the fulfilment of the implied condi tions and assumptions of the treaty. This is the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, IE6O secret of the whole affair. The King of HANOVER was to have his own again, not as a right, not as a favour, but as a bribe. What an ingenious device of buying off a troublesome customer, and gaining a good name before the nations of Europe. Infa tuated and misguided Monarch, not to have compre hended the situation with more perspicacity, but he must take the consequences. There is the doctrine of chances for all, and no doubt some compensating agency is at work even for this exiled son of Royalty, who might, bad fortune taken a different turn, been seated on the most powerful throne in the world, in stead of ending his days in poverty and misfortune, the scorn of the oppressor, and the tool of the designing. Well, then, King GEORGE may remember, with the French King of old, that if honour and good faith are banished from the rest of the world, they ought to be enshrined in the hearts of Princes, and thank HEAVEN that the loss of his worldly goods leaves him in the possession of better things than the world can give or take away with its gains and forfeitures. He is independent at any rate, and cannot have it said of him that he has been bought up to keep silence when those who re spect his misfortunes sympathise with his wrongs. Of all the lowest depths of degradation none is more bitter than the state of him who is obliged to keep on terms of amity with his oppressor, and pre tend to recognise virtues when he is all the time burning with a sense of his cruel wrongs. In recol lection of what it has suited the court of Berlin to forget, the close connection and near relationship of King GEORGE to the throne of this country, we re joice that he has not the fortune which was to have been bought at such a price. We feel convinced that the House of Commons would far rather vote an adequate sum for his maintenance than let the nation bear the stigma of such an affront as this. Prussia in the arrogance of her conquering soldiers may be insupportable, but Prussia in the insolence of her bargaining Ministers is really intolerable, and we consider it an escape that the direct descendant of a crowned king of these realms did not submit to the indignity proposed to him. It is the last thing that a high-minded conqueror would say of his fallen foe, that the fortunes of war put his wealth at his disposal. When BYRON sought to crush NAPOLEON with the sting of his satire he could not conceal the real grandeur of him whom he assailed, and there was a covert homage in the very form of his censure : Whose game was empire, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones." At all events there is nothing small in suLth a venture, for to gain a like cause is magnificent, and to fail is to sink like SAMSON with the ruins of all around him. But not so Count BISMARCK, his aims are mean and his views most narrow ; he has been long the chosen confidant of royalty, but he pays the rulers of the earth a poor compliment when he deems that gold and silver can compensate for the loss of power and posi- tion, or be made the means of arbitration when cha racter is at stake. After all it may be for the best as it is, for these trivial sums to common eyes are, in the opinion of the Berlin Government, of most weighty import. The fortune of the Elector of Hesse Cassel was buying up the French press, and causing the people " sensitive on points of honour," to look askance at the people across the Rhine who cannot at auy rate have that sin laid to their charge. We make bold to say that the gain is not all to the possessor nor the loss to the despoiled. He that is unjust let him be unjust still, is one of the most effective descriptions of the fate of the lost spirits, and thus it may be said let Prussia keep and multiply a hundred fold, this money that seems more precious in the sight of her Senate, her coun sellors, and her statesmen, than honour, good faith, or national respect—let the exiled princes rejoice that they are the vanquished and not the victors in such a contest, let the lookers-on the other kingdoms of Europe . take warning by the spectacle, and let England be proud of him, who, though German by ancestry, has imbibed enough of the English spirit, to refuse the fortune of his inheritance if offered to him in the form of, hush money. It appears to be of great moment to those who have laid rio'cut hankL on it, but to him as a man of honour, whether private individual, or king past or present, as the case may be, it could have been of no more account than dross or tinsel. Count BISMARCK seems to be proud of his bargain, but could he pierce the veil of the future he might even now be glad to be quit of it ; it may yet prove as the burden in the fable that could not be moved notwithstanding all the arts that were essayed, and judged by the standard of lasting worth the despoiled princes will not be the poorest when the historian shall reckon up accounts. WHEN a doctor finds his remedies useless he gets rid of a troublesome patient by advising him to try fresh air. When a family is burdened with a ne'er do-well, it recommends that he should leave his country, if not for his country's good, for his possibly, for theirs certainly. Exactly the same course is being pursued by the State doctor with regard to a patient who has long baffled his skill—by that great family whose home is England, with regard to a member who is a burden to himself and to his friends. To him both statesmen and community are saying " Emigrate ; you will do no good here ; there is good air and plenty of room for you beyond the seas, and there you are sure to prosper." The eagerness of our desire to get rid of a troublesome burden blinds us to the illogical character of the assumption that failure here is the best preparation for success elsewhere. Selfish ness makes us take for granted that the man who has shewn neither skill, industry, nor providence enough to lift himself out of the low level of pau perism, will be sure to do well under circumstances which need a special manifestation of all those quali ties. No doubt the colonies offer a noble field to the energetic and the prudent man, a nobler field than he will find in this crowded country ; but it stands to reason, if we will only reasonably consider the matter, that they are the worst of all countries for a man who wants either the brains or the heart to work. The family of which we Britons form a partoontains some ten hundred thousand recognised and regularly relieved paupers ; and we have ten times that number of persons in our midst, who are paupers in reality if not in name. This latter class of paupers is not composed of the people who find begging at once more profitable and pleasant than work. It has nothing in common with the prowling thief or the miserable sneak, who meanly creeps into the casual ward for the sake of being enabled to expend upon gin the money he would otherwise have to disburse for a bed and breakfast. Nor is it to be confounded with the man who, for the sake of saving his wife and children from the pauper taint, seeks the poor compensation and the degrading labour of the " test-yards "of workhouses. The paupers of whom we speak are strong and willing men and women. They understand the nature of the various industries of the country, and obtain regular work and receive regular wages for doing it. They are known by various names, and exist in every part of the country. The greater number of them have been described as a " bold peasantry, their country's pride ;" in towns they are I called labourers. Whether in town or country they are simply paupers. They are so because the " fair wage " they are paid for a " fair day's work " is not sufficient to supply them with the necessaries of life. The means derivable from their labours have to be supplemented by the money, the coals, the milk, the soup, and the clothes of the charitable ; and hence they become pauperised in feeling and in conduct, The transition to the state of a ' pauper whose condition is marked by the name is an easy and a constantly-occurring one. When it is remembered that recognised pauperism costs the country £6,000,000 sterling per annum, and that the cost of the unrecognised pauperism is simply incalculable, there need be little won der that, following the example of the family, the nation should be desirous of "getting rid" of its inconvenient and unpleasant adjunct. To the ordinary ratepayer or the zealous poor-law guardian the matter is purely a commercial one, and the aid of figures is called in for the purpose of deciding between the relative cheapness of starving a man at home or sending him abroad. The most obtuse of guardians possesses penetration and sagacity sufficient to understand that the cost of the keep of a pauper for twelve months would more than pay his passage to another country, in which he might be lost sight of for ever. Hence emigration is the pet panacea for pauperism just now. Unfortunately for the political economist, the large employer of cheap labour, and the selfish of every class, there is a principle involved in the matter above and beyond the mere cost of the keep of a pauper, or the inconvenience he may cause by remaining at home. First of all, the mere fact of a man being destitute and without the means of living here, is not necessarily conclusive evidence of his fitness for emigration, or for assisting in the pro cess of colonisation. A man may possess many of the ordinary excellencies, and all the faults of an unsuccessful man, without having one single element calculated to fit him for the regions of a Canadian winter, the quiet toils of a Queensland sheepwalk, the hazards of a Brazilian forest, or even to aid satisfactorily in promoting the prosperity and partaking of the comfort of a Victorian settlement. However lightly a sense of the " fitness of things" may hang upon individuals, communities can scarcely afford to overlook the probabilities of success that may attend a change made, presumably, for the benefit of the whole body politic. Then, again, the circumstances of the country to which these unhappy ones are deported should be considered. It may fairly be taken for granted that no colony is worth emigrating to that would willingly receive la* acces sions of a pauper population to its people. • Twenty years ago the squatters of Australia would gladly have had sent to them any number of men and" women that would have tended to reduce to £lO the £2O sterling per annum they paid to their shepherds and hut-keepers. When there is nothing to steal a thief may be trusted, and when nobody can hear what he says a lion may indulge in his weakness without much mischief happening to anyone but himself. Accepting, then, Z-,he proposition that paupers proper are not necessarily fitted for emigrants, and that colonists are indisposed to receiv masses of men into their midst who are unfitted for the work of colonising, it remains for Englishmen to discover some other plan of meeting the require ments of the mother country and her offshoots at the same time. There is plenty of room abroad for a greater number of persons than those who are "crowded out here." The one inevitable necessity is that only those who are fitted for the peculiar work of new countries should be sent, or rather induced to go, abroad. There are thousands of well to-do men in England who could do a hundred times better in Australia than at home, whose absence from England would at once forward the interests of the colonies and relieve the labour market here far more effectually than the forced emigration of ten times their number of pauper labourers. Two things have to be borne in mind—the relief that emigration is to afford to pauperism must be effected without the colonies being injured or annoyed, and the home labour market must not be unduly acted upon. ships in respect of rating, which appear to be cap able of remedy. You will also be invited to direct your attention to bills for the extension and improvement of edu cation in Scotland ; and for rendering the con siderable revenues of the Endowed Schools of Eng land more widely effectual for the purposes of in struction. A Measure will be introduced for applying the principle of representation to the control of the County Rate, by the establishment of Financial Boards for Counties. It will be proposed to you to recur to the subject of Bankruptcy, with a view to the more effective distribution of Assets and to the Abolition of Im prisonment for Debt. The Ecclesiastical arrangements of Ireland will be brought under your consideration at a very early date, and the legislation which will be necessary in order to their final adjustment will make the largest demands upon the wisdom of Parliament. I am persuaded that, in the prosecution of the work, you will bear a careful regard to every legiti mate interest which it may involve, and that you will be governed by the c3nst ant aim to promote the wel fare of religion through the principles of equal jus tice, to secure the actionof the undivided faelingand opinion of Ireland on the side of loyalty and law, to efface the memory of former contentions, and to cherish the sympathies of an affectionate people. In every matter of public interest, especially in one so weighty, I pray that the Almighty may never cease to guide your deliberations, and may bring them to a happy issue. The Commons then withdrew, the Royal Com missioners replace their cocked hats, and, withou further observation, retire to the robing-room. The sitting is suspended until five o'clock, shortly after which hour their Lordships assemble to vote an address to her Majesty on the occasion. In the House of Commons the proceedings were entir?ly confined to the interest attaching to the reception various leading members meet with on taking their seats. On the return of the Speaker from the House of Peers he informs the house where he has been to, and then the sitting is adjourned until four o'clock. There was a very large number of persons assem bled in Whitehall and Parliament-street, in the hope of seeing her Majesty open Parliament, and it was not until after two o'clock that they began to resign the places they had taken. I xr ,t ' -- HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 15. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, went out in the grounds this morning. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Last night Mr. Palgrave Simpson's new drama, entitled "Marie Antoinette," was prOduced with the utmost success at this theatre. The drama, as many of our readers are aware, has been written for Mdlle. Beatrice. It has been acted with great effect at many of the largest theatres in the coun try, and last night the approval of the metropoli tan public had to be added to that of the provinces. Mr. Simpson, in the programme, modestly states that his drama is simply an historical panorama of action, formed of many events in her (Marie Antoinette's) life, connecting the Ist of October, 1789, with the 16th of October, 1793 ; bound together with no more fiction than is neces sary to give the coherence and continuity essential to a dramatic form, and certainly- the skill that has been displayed in linking those events together is worthy of the highest praise. The curtain rises on a banquet of the Boiy Gnarl in a Hall of the Palace at Versailles, at which the Queen, in the prime of youth and beauty, regally attired, holding the little Dauphin by the hand, appeals to the loyalty of the guard, who tear off the national cockade, and, drawing their swords, swear fealty to the Queen and Dauphin. Then there is an interview in the salon between the King and Malsherbes, which exhibits the weakness of the Monarch and the strength of the Minister, followed up by the interruption of a wild, armed mob, who break into the palace and carry off the Royal family captives to Paris. The flight to Varennes fol lows; the whole of the incidents are most graphically told and illustrated. Finer grouping and scmery than that in scene 6 —the Gate of Varennes, where the Royal family arc detected and stopped, the soldiers going over to the side of the people—have seldom been presented on any stage. The humilia tion inflicted upon the Queen, her children, and the King in the Temple, the agonising parting of Louis with his family when condemned, and finally the trial of the Queen herself, her condemnation, her last toilette—the cutting off of her long hair, white with accumulated sorrows in so brief a time—her arms pinioned, and her arrival in the tumbrel at the Place de la Revolution, were all most stirringly represented. Of Mdlle. Beatrice's perfor mance of the part of " the Austrian woman," Marie Antoinette, we can say nothing but praise ; it was dignified in the earlier scenes, pathetic in the latter, and, taken altogether, was one of the finest pieces of dramatic art seen for a considerable period. Mr. George Vining, as Louis XVI., acted with rare ability ; his conception of the part was perfect, his costume and general appearance was as perfect as if he had stepped out of a picture frame in the Louvre. Little Lydia Howard played the Dauphin, and had it been pos sible for the ladies to have added caresses to ap plause, the tiny actress would have doubtless been almost killed with kisses for the heroic manner in which she, as the Dauphin, slapped the face of the brutal Simon for blowing his tobacco in the face of the fallen Queen during the time she was a prisoner in the Temple. The other parts were all excellently filled. Count de Fersen was sustained by Mr. William Reynold, Turgy by Mr. D. Murray, San terre, the brewer, by Mr. Leeson, and Sergeant L 3 Beau by Mr. J. G. Shore, the latter gentleman showing how much can be made of a small part by a careful and judicious actor. The piece has been put upon the s t age i n the most a d m i ra ble manner, and the spi r it an d e ff ec t i n f us ed into the various stirrin g i nc id en t s o f which the drama is composed, are worthy the highest commendation. The act drop had to be raised on each of the four tableaux, and at the termination Mdlle. Beatrice, Miss Lydia Howard, and Mr. George Vining had to appear and bow their acknowledgments of the applause their acting had elicited. The piece is another hit for the fortunate lessee and manager of the Princess's Theatre. POLICE INTELLIGENCE7-This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Cornelius Collins, a boy, was charged before Mr. Tyr whitt with unlawfully breaking a pane of glass, the pro perty of Mr. William Peel, a milkman, living in Broad street, Golden-square. • The prisoner was ordered to pay 6s. for the damage and I.os. fine, or 14 days. THAMES. John Hugent, an Irish labourer, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged with stealing tWO sets of foreign bills of exchange of £lOO each set. The prisoner, h defence, said that be picked up the bills in the street. Mr. Benson said the conduct of the prisoner was very suspicious. He should remand the prisoner for a week. GORED TO DEATIL —A blind capenter, named Laurence Vodden, aged 50, was attacked by a bull at Bea ford, Devon, on Thursday, and received such injuries that he died on the following day. LADVERTISEMENT.I-110110Mly'S Ointment and Pills.— Lives Saved.—How happy would those sufferers be whose whole system is in danger of breaking down through the daily drain of discharges from ulcerations and skin diseases if they only knew that a day rarely passes without new cases of cure being brought to the knowledge of the discoverer of these peerless remedies. For ulcers, sores, burns, bad legs, skin diseases, and similar maladies, the inusfliciency of ordinary applications is admitted by all, but none thus afflicted have been disappointed in their expectations when a fair trial has been given to Hollo way's ointment and pills. The pain and swelling attend ing this class of ailments will diminish dailyunde; this cooling and soothing ungtient. OPENING PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. The interior of the House of Peers to-day, on the occasion of the formal opening of the Parlia mentary Session of 1669, presented the usual ap pearance when the ceremony is performed "by Royal Commission." A small assemblage of ladies in morning dresses occupy the back benches, and a few Pccrs tAke their accustomed seats, and then enters the Lord Chancellor and four members of their lordships' house habited in the scarlet robes. The Royal Commissioners take their seats on a form placed in front of the Throne, and the Usher of the Black Rod is at once despatched to the House of Commons to request the a tt en d ance o f t h e Speaker at the bar of the House of Peers to bear her Majesty's Speech read. In a few minutes the Speaker, attended by Nlr. Gladstone, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Bright, Mr. Foster, Mr. Layard, and the other members of the Government, by Mr. Disraeli, Sir S. Northcote, Mr. Hardy, and a great many other members appears at the bar, and then the Lord Chancellor having informed the faithful Commons that her Majesty baying thought fit to open Parlia ment by commission the Royal Speech on the occa sion would be:read to them. The Lord Chancellor then read THE QUE 'S SPEECH. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I recur to your advice at the earliest period per mittml by the arrangements consequent upon the retirement of the late Administration. And it is with special interest that I commend to you the resumption of your labours at a time when the popular branch of the Legislature has been chosen with the advantage of a greatly enlarged enfranchisement of my faithful an d l oyal people. I am able to inform you that my relations with all Foreign Powers continue to b e most f r i end l y ; and I have the satisfaction to believe that they cor dially share in the desire by which I am animated for the maintenance of peace. 1 shall at all times be anxious to use my best exertions fo r the promo tion of this most important object. In concurrence with my Allies I h ave en de avoure d, by friendly interposition, to effect a settlement of the differences which have arisen between Turkey and Greece ; and I rejoice that our joint efforts have aided in preventing any serious interruption of tranquillity in the Levant. I have been engaged in negotiations with the United States of North America for the settlement of questions which affect the interests and interna tional relations of the two countries ; and it is my earnest hope that th e resu lt of these negotiations may be to place on a firm and durable basis the friendship which should ever exist between Eng land and America. _ 1 have learnt with grief that disturbances have occurred in New Zealand, and that at one spot they have been attended with circumstances of atrocity. I am confident that the Colonial Government and people will not he wanting either in energy to re press the outbreaks, or in the prudence and mode ration which I trust may prevent their recurrence. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, The Estimates for the expenditure of the coming financial year will be submitted to you. They have been framed with a careful regard to the efficiency of the Services, and they will exhibit a diminished charge upon the country. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, The ever-growing wants and diversified interests of the Empire will necessarily bring many ques tions of public policy under your review. The condition of Ireland permits me to believe that you will be spared the painful necessity which was felt by the late Parliament for narrowing the securities of personal liberty in that country, by the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. I recommend that you should inquire into the pre sent modes of conducting Parliamentary and Muni cipal Elections, and should consider whether it may be possible to provide any further guarantees for their tranquillity, purity, and freedom. A measure will be brought under your notice for the relief of some classes of occupiers from hp.rd- ETIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, - • - The after surveying the long list of perplexing questions which await the solution of Parliament, observes that it is plain the amount of work to be submitted tc the Legislature will be enough to satisfy the most ardent devotee of parliamentary life. The central question of the day—that upon which the present Ministry entered into office—must involve so many branches in detail that it will require a firm but delicate hand to repress intermi• nable discussion. Some may hope that a general weariness of the subject will in due time supervene and serve to expe• dite its despatch, but this anticipation rests on no solid ground. The majority of members may indeed grow sick of the subsidiary details of the question, as they have of many other questions, but a comparatively small number is sufficient to maintain a continuity of discussion in com mittee. The watchwords of the Ministry must be, and we doubt not will be, certainty and resolution. To have certain plans at the outset is the first necessity of their situation ; to adhere without wavering to them when once enunciated is the second. If these conditions be observed, a mass of work even greater than that before Parliament may be transacted; if they be neglected, the smallest programme is sure to prove too extensive. The character of the Ministers will not allow us to doubt that they know the secret of parliamentary action, and will act upon their knowledge. The Standard, in considering the condition of the Government, says that we are not sanguine enough to think that the Royal Speech will do much to elucidate the policy of the Government on the Irish Church question. Taking into consideration the signs of vacillation and bewilderment afforded us in recent utterances of members of the Cabinet, it is not to be supposed that they will be prepared to commit themselves to a distinct programme at the outset. Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues have found it easy enough to ring the changes on disestablish. went and disendowment ; but it is a more complicated task to define what they mean by those terms and the measures by which they propose to give effect to them in practical legislation. They are now confronted with the diffi culties which the Premier built up with such elaborate care last session, and the device by which they expelled Mr. Disraeli from power has now become a cause of hindrance and embarrassment to themselves. It is not too much to say that up to the moment when Mr. Gladstone invented the Irish Church questiou•this time last year, and thrust it upon the House of Commons as the most urgent problem of .the day, five•sixths of his present colleagues either re garded it with absolute indifference, orconsidered it to be as "remote" as Mr. Gladstone said he thought it was in 1865. Neither the Liberal party nor Liberal Governments ever recognised the disruption of the Establishment as an ele ment in the question as to the best means of appeasing Irish discontent. It was the reunion of the shattered Liberal party, rather than the pacification of Ireland, which was the chief consideration with the author of the new specific. The Daily News declares that the Parliament which has just come together for the first time for the despatch of business meets in circumstances which, in the nature of of things, are out of the common way. We must go back to the year 1833 to find a precedent for the circumstances in which the present House of Commons comes together. The general election in that year gave the Government of Lord Grey a majority so enormous as to be unwieldy, and comprising in it sections of opinion so various as to mar its unity of action and purpose. The great question of the time was the condition of Ireland, especially the ecclesiastical settlement of the country. Unscrupulous appeals had been made by the Conservative party to religious fanaticism, but they had proved abortive. The Opposition leaders reckoned upon Whig mismanage ment, and it proved their best ally. They predicted splits in the Cabinet, and their predictions were verified. The opponents of the present Government tell us that Mr. Gladstone's majority is too large to be effectively handled; that it is too divided in opinion to act with singleness of purpose and aim; that Mr. Gladstone, Lord Clarendon, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Bright must sooner or later, and pro bably soon rather than late, develope their inherent incom patibilities of opinion and sentiment; and that, harassed and assailed by a tactician so skilful as Mr. Disraeli, the Government will speedily be thrown into confusion. We question the assumption on which these hopes rest. The Liberal majority, though inferior to that chosen at the first election under the Act of 1832, is so ample that the Con servatives profess to place their hope not its deficiency but in its excess. It has been chosen mainly to decide a single issue clearly placed before it, and in protest against the divisions of the last Parliament, which made superior strength of little _avail. Mr. Disraeli is a dexterous opponent, but his own forces are divided. But if the case was other than it is, the precedent of the protracted retention of power by the Liberal party under the Act of 1832 might damp the expectations of the san guine politicians who are dreaming again of a Conserva tive revival. The Telegraph, in referring to the critical state el affairs, declares that "Great Expectations" might be fairly enough selected as the title of the political drama on which the curtain has just risen. There have been sessions in which the Ministers of the day promised as much. There have been political occasions when some single question not less important than the Irish Church has filled men's minds with hopes and fears. But we do not recall any year in which the public demand for reform was so varied, so resolute, so searching, and so minute. On the Irish question Mr. Gladstone leads and the nation follows ; on several other subjects national opinion has aroused itself, and Ministers must follow its impulse. The fact is probably due to the influence of the Reform Act, and the recollection of the mode in which it was carried. Mere Conservatism, mere obsti nate attachment to institutions because they are old, is now out of the question ; the most venerable customs must bow to the new spirit, and a reason must be given for every faith. We may also be prepared for a session notable through the absence of the usual party fights. 'There cannot possibly be any contest for place ; and, since the Conservatives must surrender all hope of storming the Treasury Bench, they can do no more than develope to excess a vigilant and acute criticism. The old game of playing off one section of the Liberal party against another will have to be given up in face of the stern pledges of discipline exacted at the hustings. The mea sures of the Ministry will, therefore, be subjected to the severe judgment of those who, having no imme diate hope of power, will doubtless delight in the consequent responsibility. We may safely antici pate that Mr. Disraeli will make up for his lack of votes by his abundance of analytical attack ; while, in the House of Lords, Lord Cairns, the new leader, will have plentiful opportunity to exercise his unquestionably high powers of debate. Nor will the country be slow to re-echo Tory objections, if there be anything in them. The nation was formerly reluctant to accept what Mr. Disraeli said, because they saw in him a possible usurper of the Treasury Bench; but when he assumes, for this session at least, the l es s pretentious part of a Parli amentary critic, his words will have more weight. The Star takes a very hopeful view of the prospects of Government, and says that Ministers make known to the nation and to Parliament, through the accustomed medium of the Queen's Speech, the general outline of the policy by which they intend to be guided during a session likely to be as eventful as any in the recent history of this country. It it not difficult to forecast with substantial accuracy the principal features that are likely to present themselves in the Speech which Lord Hatherley will read, on behalf of Her Majesty, to the members of both Houses. The occa- sion is an imposing one, and pregnant with the gravest issues of political strife ; for we may feel assured that any indication of backsliding on the part of Mr. Gladstone's Government would be the signal for a general dissolution of party bonds ands revolution in the political organisation of England. That no such indication is apprehended, that it is indeed hardly within the range of possibility, may be accepted as satisfactory proof of the confidence with which the present leader of the Liberal party has inspired the nation. The Times, after recapitulating the chief points of Mr. Edwards's official explanation of his dealings with the Corner House, asks whether a more astounding, not to say a more discreditable story, was ever told. At the time when the house of Overend, Gurney, and Co. was regarded in the City as nearly as safe as the Bank of England, they had placed themselves at the absolute mercy of an official assignee in the Court of Bankruptcy, and one of their part ners is alleged to have been in debt to the same man in a sum of £11,809. Within the short space of three years they had so bound themselves hand and foot that they were obliged to concede to this man everything he asked ; and in the end they could not get rid of him without writing letters at his dictation in opposition to their own convictions, and paying him any sum of money he chose to demand. What may be the end of all these confessions we confess ourselves at a loss to imagine, but the history of the last ten years of Overend and Gurney will certainly be the most extraor dinary disclosure the commercial world has ever seen. SUICIDE BY A NEWMARKET TRAINER. —We have to record another sudden death in connection with the turf, of which there have been not a few of late. It appears that Mr. Richard Cotton, well known as a trainer of racehorses at _Newmarket, on Sunday afternoon lef' London by the down train, due at Cambridge at five o'clock. Near Stanstead he got out of the window of the carriage, and threw himself down. The great wonder i , that he was not killed dead on the spot. He was found shortly after, and lived only about an hoar. The wife of the deceased is an inmate of Fulbourne Hospital, and hi has within the last few dayi urged as an excuse for im bibing rather freely of drink, that he had heavy trouble to bear. Deceased used to train for *r. C, Aleytudkr . , and Messrs. Swindells and §tepher&:aejalg3lei 11.1_* ISM iigI4EVAL. EDWARDS AND THE OVEREND AYE GURNEY CASE. Yesterday Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards, whose extra. ordinary evidence in the Overend, Gurney, and Co. 'case caused such excitement, attended in Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's court to make his explanation. Mr. Edwards in the beginning said there were man , circumstances—especially a severe illness which affected his fiemory—to pi.event him giving such answers at the recent inquiry as he otherwise would have done. In alluding to the evidence, he said the gift of the steam' yacht from Mr. Xenos must have been a matter of publi c notoriety, and he trusted he should receive due protection from the Lord Chancellor, his Honour, and a just apprecia. Lion of what he had done at the hands of the public. As regarded his attending at board meetings, he submitted such work had not in any way interfered with his court duties. When he joined the company the days for board meetings were altered to Wednesday, a n d o n that day his duties were light at the court. The same answer applied to his connection with Overend. Gurney, and Co. (Limited). He could prove that he attended at Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited) after office hours at this court. As regards the sum of 210,000 in reference to commission upon the Millwali Iron Works, or even £5,000, he begged to say be had received no such money. Unfair questions were put to him ul Oll this point, and hence the misunderstanding that had a risen in the public mind. With regard to his public duties and his work in the office of Overend, Gurney, and Co-, he could explain that just before the Act of 1861 came int o operation, he wished to state that his emoluments fall' ing off, he was anxious to increase his receipts. 118 had a conversation with a member of the firm, in which it was clearly understood that he was to a dvise the house in its large discount business, and to be paid for this ; but at the same time he was, to be at perfect liberty to receive payment for any work he might perform for other houses with whom Overend, Gurney, and Co. might be doing business. One of these houses was Ar t. ' Xenos's, and for that he was to be paid 2500 per annual' Another of the houses was Mr. Scott Russell, and upon some advances made to him Mr. Edwards considered he was also entitled to commission. He reiterated that the partners of Overend, Gurney, and Co. were fully aware of these matters, and at the time they paid him £5,000 1 0 allusion was made to him by any member of the firm respect. ing these transactions. In Pearson's matter all the fade were perfectly well known to the firm, and it must be clear, then, that there was nothing irregular in his taking COl' missions from other houses, nor was there anything calling for public comment. An agreement was made for five years, at a salary of £5,000 per annum, to commence from 18 62 . Soon after Mr. Birkbeck complained that all the losses suffered by the firm couldbetraced to him (Mr. Edwards)' Of this Mr. Edwards complained very strongly, but no new matters were put into his hands. In 1864 another convey. sation took place, in reference to the severance of his r° ll. nection with the firm. He received a memorandum from Overend, Gurney, and Co., a n d d eman d e d th a t he should he put right before the public, and receive com p e nsatio n for the loss of his position. His d e m an ds were adynittea by the house as fair subjects for discussion and arbitratio n. Ire contended that he had acted in all things openly, fairly, and honestly, and for twenty years he had filled his public position without complaint or neglect at all. He urg e l that there was no groun d f or th e suggestion that he u se his position as official assignee t o ass i s t M essrs . Overen d, Gurney, and Co. in their business. He had received no work from that house which had the slightest conne d ion with that firm, and he had never i n an y wa y n eglect nis official duties in the court, nor used his position f lar .ny purpose. He courted the fullest inquiry, and v; o u. prove that he had not been properly understood i n this matter. What more he had to answer he should lik e to know. In answer to the suggestion that his connection. with Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co. was the result e l an underhand negotiation, he entirely denied it. had, it was true, lent Mr. Chapman £5,000, but 3 - 1 ' Chapman was an old friend of twenty years' standing' and he (Mr. Edwards) looked upon him as a mon bef of one of the oldest, best-known, and richest firms in E ns : l land. His money received from Overend, Gurney, An uu Co. was earned by hard work and g i v i ng u p of '— annual holiday. His Honour said the matter would be referred to tne Jord Chancellor, and must now abide his decision. The Dundee Advertiser says an Education Bill O r 2 cotland is now being prepared, and w ill probably &ought into Parliament early in the session. An Admiralty order received at Chatham Dock' yard directs the discontinuance of a number of intrica te and useless returns. The result will be that a vast aran li f t of unprofitable labour on the part of the clerks wil l we entirely got rid of. Colonel Churchill, the author of various O r ld on Syria, the Lebanon, the Druses, &c., died at I3eYrt on the Ist of February. He arrived from J erusa l e m by t'" Austrian steamer, feeling very unwell, and d r opped de' v(ll 4 dead on reaching his house. It is supposed his death v i ; caused by ruptu re o f th e i n t est i nes. He married an Arai Princess some years since, and consequently his fun er t was numerously a tt en d e d b y A ra b s, w h o h a d a gre a respect for Churchill Beg. .1 COUNTY FINANCIAL B OARDS . —F our boards of e guardians in C ornwa ll unan i mously adopted the folloWi n : resolutions d ur i ng t h e past week :—" 1. That the entil/ta and constabulary expenses having been so largely increase of late years, th e guar di ans o f t hi s un i on cons id er tbat th ° time is come when an elective financi 1 board should i : appointed for th e p ur p ose o f represen ti ng th e ratepaY s e - t in all matters connected with county expenditure. 2 . this union do petiti on th e H ouse o f C ommon s urging ;$ expediency of the appointment of county financial bo ard' to consist of magi s t ra t es an d mem b ers d e p u t e d frorn the V arious boards of guardians, it being contrary t° ; g t brinciple of th e C ons tit u ti on th a t t axa ti on s h o uld e :c- t without representation." Proper notice has been giv en $ several other boards to consider the resolutions. 0 ,1 PROPOSED REDUCTION OF WAGES IN THE ay. TRADE.—On Saturday morni ng la s t c i rcu l a rs were issued by the solicitors to the Blackburn Masters' Association to each of the manufacturers within the district, desirin be info r med by re t urn o f p os t w h e th er h e i s i n favour, desiring} of reduction of wages, and to what extent. A meeting 8.9 delegates was held at Accrin g t o n on S a t ur day, wh ie % - e re adjourned until the following day at Blackburn , 1 ", a numerously attended and enthusiastic meeting swa sDeo i. when it was resolved to issue circulars to each 1133- 0 facturer within the district, embracing a circuit of le, miles, to be presented by deputations of worhIle °1) 00 desiring them to answer the queries contained in, o f circular in such a manner as to convince the I% ll ' s° d Association that they were opposed to any reduction wages at the present time. HIGHTIDE IN THE THAMES. On ci,Ti th e morning, between four and five o'clock, the tide ill Thames rose to an extraordinary height, inundating h° Lig and lands, and causing great destruction o f property. Aleut four o'clock it was noticed that the tide had risen at T it s a couple of feet above the usual hi g h- wa t er mark, 1111 ' effect was soon apparent in all the low-lying distric%• Lambeth, Vauxhall, Ni ne Elms, Battersea, - Wan ere worth, &c.—for the s t ree t s l ea di ng to the river W o' 6 the course of a short time converted into running stre9cat 11- the water bursti ng i n w ith suc h f orce as spee dily to ° ' o the roadways and footpaths, and ultimately, when tide had risen still hi g h er , fi n di ng its way into a ll l y tge houses and shops which are not built on high groun d • tide appeared to attain its greatest height about 1 131 "7 00 four o'clock, when the most damage was done. 'frau, neighbourhood of Windsor, Datchet, and Eton is itg overflowed. W hiny AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. —A story, we are somewhat unnecessarily told must be receittle ve " with caution," comes from Carmarthenshire. girl, named Sarah Jacob, the daughter of .31r. -'f o Jacob, a small farmer at Llethr-Neuadd, in the P arish 0 Llanfihanget-Gelarath, Carmarthenshire, is said 0 ' o f have partaken of food since the ' 10th anY va October, 1867. The following are the eire,rt-h; stances, as related, of this extraordinary ease poor - child, who is near 12 years of age , taken suddenly ill while at school, and vomited a o.M l ' l3 ;i i y of blood. She was taken home and put to bed , and : s .e, - there without moving, seemingly asleep, for thirty "ae She revived a little, but could not be prevailed on to Pa r bu t of any sustenance. She is now perfectly conscious, will not eat ; she spends much of her time in re ading , L ' ll y ° is so weak that her mother has to aid her in turning veof the leaves of a book. She has received a great num ber visitors, who have been attracted by curiosity. KILLED BY AN ELEPHANT. —A wild elephant ri been doing sad havoc lately on the mountainous Partceta°r the western coast. During the past week the woo reports that four men who bad been working m i hills to the north of Teravuttar, near PalpanabbaPnli:ol were descending to the plains, when the elephan t, .er s od' appears - to have been shot at on several occasions, old denly rushed upon them from the thick jungle' t he men all took to their heels, and three of them rn a ' e ro e best of their way to their homes at Nagercoil (5:134 twenty miles distant) and reported their a dventur e s o the fact that one of their number was missing. ' be t io and other relatives of the missing man then set ' 9 , 13- i l ed search, and found his dead body where the elephsn" seized and killed him. A report is current that the ivee phant has since been destroyed by two adventurous 03t who ventured into his " hunting-grounds " for that P o e pose. The unfortunate victim of the elephant's f ilr ! 7 : hsS a mason by trade, and belonged to Nagercoil, where ''` e re . left a widow and young family. The elephan t bad ! viously killed nine persons, making a total of ten Per who have fallen victims to his rage withi' '.short rgt Timm &Ail& - iinrt Bus. the ca in Col Blight old cir Cot count, New ' land than, The 5-20 251 to to 981 Deben gage I The day fo The in spec Coast The Week th e So The Ranki and Rolls i The on the toune l log to The on the 1865, Daniel AlessrE The arid G 26th in A t , Rough have a the rat reserve The and 13 / Paragi Alli es , Januai Asuci deserte fled wi exehau able m The Mornin liquids buildir appeal directii the p claims. With. On. 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