The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALF:, THE GREAT CONVENT WE. The Saturday Review, in discussing the present On Friday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, the convent aspect of the Irish Land Question, remarks that case, "Saurin v. Starr," was again brought before the it is impossible to say whether the aimless and cold- judges. The Lord Chief Justice (Sir A. Cockburn) took blooded assassinations which now make Tipperary his seat once again on the bench. Mr. Mellish was called worst than Calabria or Mexico, are due in any upon to go on with the case. The judges on the bench degree to the declarations of the present Government besides the Lord Chief Justice were Mr. Justices Lush, about the land. It is easy for Opposition speakers to take Hannen, and Hayes. The counsel present were Mr. -one side, and for Government speakers to take the other, Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr. C. Russell but the simple fact is that the very best-informed Irish- for the defendants. men are wholly at a loss to account for the recent burst of Mr. Mellish said in the case of "Saurin v. Starr," for agrarian outrage. Anyhow, Mr. Gladstone and his col- which there was a verdict for the plaintiff, damages leagues are responsible for the general expectation, with £5OO, which was to be reduced to £2OO if there was a all its attendant excitement, that the present Government restitution of something from Bagot-street, Miss Saurin intend to do something as regards, not only the Irish now seeks in the Court of Chancery to have it declared Church, but Irish land and Irish education, such as no that the property of Boot-street may be valued, and the Government has wished or dared to do before. They have property be distributed amongst the members. He appre. assigned themselves the task of entirely remoulding the headed that the damages must be reduced to the £200; policy of England towards Irelabd. Whether this task is and that she must not he entitled to anything in respect of beyond their strength, and whether what they may here- a division of any property. He should move on the third after propose will be wise and acceptable to the country, and fourth count for a new trial. time alone can shew. It is sufficient for the present that Th e Lord Chief Justice :My attention was not called the measure with which they have begun is bold, states- to it. manlike, and successful. That they could have -dealt Mr. Mellish said be was sorry that he had not done it. with more than one great Irish question in a session He was also instructed to move for a new trial for a verdict ,is quite impossible, and no one except a peer full against the evidence. One of the grounds for moving is of the bitterness of Tories in opposition, or of that in the suit in Chancery it is treated that this suit is the deeper bitterness of neglected Whigs, can dot. finally disposed of ; and if he did not move it would that they were right in dealing first with the Church. be taken for granted the defendants acquiesced. According to the principles of the Liberal party, the The Lord Chief Justice said there was matter for con existence of the Irish Church in its present form is alto tradiction and explanation, and it was left for the jury to gether wrong. It is a thing quite indefensible, and decide on it, and they decided against it by impression. He opposed to all the doctrines that the Liberal party spend found that he must remove the impression of the Solicitor their lives in asserting, to maintain by the exercise of Im- General's speech. The effect of the verdict gave £2OO perial power a Church symbolical of hatred for the religion damages to the plaintiff for being compelled to leave the of a conquered people. Until this wrong is remedied, religious establishment, and £3OO for what she had paid other questions between Ireland and England cannot, from into that establishment. He thought Mr. Mellish would the Liberal point of view, be approached with an easy would have to urge his objections in Chancery. conscience. We know that we are wrongdoers in one Mr. Mellish said he should move for a new trial on the material point, and we cannot discuss other points freely. ground of verdict against evidence on the third count of Some day, perhaps, the discussions between Ireland and the declaration, in which the plaintiff was alleged England may reach a stage when Ireland will ask what to have been deprived of benefits of establishment. England cannot grant, what her honour or her care for her That was a matter of fact. The first question own safety will forbid her to conceive. Irishmen must to consider was whether Miss Souris, had kept then be made to understand clearly that they are not going the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to get what they ask. Firmness, and, if necessary, the which were exacted of every nun. There was to be extreme of firmness, must be shewn. To yield out of lazy absolute obedience to the mother superior as though good humour, or under the influence of a dreamy senti- it was the voice of God. Besides the plea of not mentalism, everything that cliques of noisy, ignorant, guilty, the plaintiff was not a member lawfully entitled to fanatical Irishmen choose to ask, would be equally de- the advantages and privileges—that is, being fed and grading and disastrous to England. But how should we clothed. This is a conventual establishment for the mesa , have the heart to be firm, how could we feel comfortable bers to remain there for their natural lives. in putting forth the strength of England, if we knew that Mr. Justice Lush : Until they like to go away. at the time we were doing a wrong to the Irish people ? Mr. Mellish : This is a contract the law of England will The great use of settling the Irish Church question at not enforce as against the nun, who entirely subjects herself the outset is that the Liberal party will then have to the will of the superior. But this is a contract between qualified itself to discuss, without fear or self-reproach, two persons, the plaintiff agreeing that she would stay all other Irish questions, or to consult the interests of the there for the term of her natural life. Empire rather than to earn the fleeting gratitude of haw Mr. Justice Lush : Could Mrs. Starr (supposing Miss tiable Irishmen. Saurin left the convent) sue her for breach of contract? The Spectator says there is one Idea running through ' Mr. Mellish : I contend that she could maintain an Mr. Newdegate's mind, and that of a great many worthy action for breach of contract. In the course of his further people in England, for which we could never account, argument Mr. Mellish referred to the statute of George and that is, that an English Catholic must necessarily 111., which repealed the penal laws against Catholics. be at heart hostile to the dynasty. He would not, he On the passing of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act said, trust Dr. Manning with any secret affecting the these disabilities were removed ; but there were certain Royal Family. Why not? That an Irish Catholic restrictions against the founding of ecclesiastical should be disloyal out of some hope of founding a separate establishments, and especially against the taking Irish State is conceivable, though, as a matter of fact, of vows, which was considered a demeanour. Irish Catholic bishops no more wish for an Irish Republic But this was not to affect females who than Mr. Newdegate does; but what conceivable or were excluded by this prohibitory clause; and if the inconceivable motive should induce an English gentleman law did not exercise any restrictions at present, the law of Catholic opinions to prefer a Republican regime to that still remained in force, but he apprehended it of Queen Victoria? Because, Mr. Newdegate will reply, would never now be enforced. The progress of that is the interest of Rome ; but why is it the interest legislation bad been continued to remove all of Rome ? It is the interest of the Papacy, no doubt, those - disabilities ; and were it not that the law would that England should he converted, and that it should never be enforced against them, a fresh statute would cease to be friendly to Italy, and that it should be dis- have been introduced ere now to repeal those which at posed to support the Temporal Power; but which of nresent may be said to have no existence. these objects would be promoted by killing or terrorising The Lord Chief Justice :Do you say that the present the Royal Princes ? The alternatives in this country are law will not touch a monastic establishment if it has for not, as they once were, a Protestant dynasty or a Catholic its objects religious education ? King; but a Protestant dynasty or a sovereign House of Mr. Mellish : Yes, my lord. Having passed in re- Commons, which, if we know anything of our country- view the other Acts on this subject, the learned counsel men, would reflect Protestant suspiciousness quite as contended that the evidence at the trial was against the strongly as the present rule, and would be far more ener- verdict. In reference to the alleged libel, the defendant's getic in its dislike for Papal pretensions, and far more counsel objected it was not proved in the properway. There disposed to sympathise with the sentiment which Catholics was an imperfect deposition, and the Lord Chief Justice denounce as " Garibaldism," and which would, by its not having allowed us to amend, the question is whether mere existence, give a tremendous impetus to the " Red" we are not entitled to a new trial on that. spirit of the Continent, the spirit which Rome dreads with There was scarcely a single important statement in the A dread that turns her boasted wisdom into folly, induces deposition of the uncle which was not contradictory. The her to throw away her last chance of supremacy in the learned counsel then pointed out those matters which he world—an alliance with th e Eur o p ean democracy. Does considered contradictory. It was perfectly untrue that the Mr. Newdegate think that the author of the Syllabus plaintiff wasremoved from thepaltryallegationsagainsther. really wants republics ;orif he does, why does he dread Now take the case that she is dissatisfied with her veil, a Power which, on that theory of its objects, must be at clothes, and boots. This was met by Mrs. Starr, who once imbecile and inconsistent? Th e I r i s h Catholic s are, stated that she wilfully tore her veil and asked for a new by the accidents of their position, Liberals—though the one; and she was always asking for more clothes than the Irish character is inherently and strongly Conservative, rest of the Sisterhood. over-prone to reverence and to loyalty—but the English Th e Lo r d Chief Justice : All the depositions were sent Catholics are, except on Church questions, born Tories of by the defendant to the bishop. the least manageable kind, loyal to authority, reverential M r . Mellish said Father Matthews charged Mrs. Starr of tradition, proud to contentiousness of pedigree and with sending depositions to the bishop maliciously position. Why, on e ar th, should they, of all mankind, The Lord Chief Justice : The Solicitor-General asked wish to overset Queen Victoria in favour of Jr.a Bright? for copies of depositions of what tock place before the The Examiner and London Review says that now that court of inquiry, and at my suggestion the defendants the horse has been stolen, the directors of the Great very fairly gave them up. Central Gas Consumers' Company have issued an official Mr. Mellish : There were depositions of Father report upon the method of the robbery. A more helpless Matthews which were not contained in the count against picture of generalimbecility than is offered by this document the defendants, and I believe the jury assessed the it would be difficult to imagine. From beginning to end, damages partly on the ccunt and partly on the depo it points out the perfect infallibility of the system under sitions ; and I submit that that state of facts entitles me which the accounts of the company were regulated ; and to a new trial. yet the fact is not the less apparent that a clerk who The Lord Chief Justice : I think you may take your rejoiced in a salary of £145 a year was able to abstract, rule on the reduction of damages. during the long period of seven years, a sum of over Mr. Mellish :In case I should not succeed on that, I seventy thousand pounds, without incurring the least sus- should like to have a rule for a new trial. picion. Not only do the directors designate the company's The Lord Chief Justice : I should be very sorry method of book-keeping as " a perfect system of check," 'to have that cause tried before me again. The but the auditors "state that they are unable to suggest plaintiff had the benefit of these depositions, any improvement in the system of the company's as part of an alleged conspiracy, and therefore she no accounts." Of course, the one admission is the corollary doubt had the benefit of them in the damages awarded of of the other, for you cannot improve that which £5OO. I think the jury intended everything to be included is perfect ; and yet we are of opinion that the in that. company's system did not quite reach perfection, or Mr. Mellish : I should like a special rule, with power else the £70,000 would not have disappeared unobserved. to reduce the damages from £5OO to £2OO. Another suggestion, in the opinion of the Examiner, de- The Lord Chief Justice :I do not think that can make serves attention, It is, that Higgs was placed in great any difference in the Court of Chancery, where the temptation by the inadequacy of his salary to his respon- equities will be decided without regard to the finding of sibilities. A man of fixed moral principles and strongwill the jury. would, of course, allow no such considerations to interfere Rule granted accordingly. with his probity ; but Higgs was not one of those. Nay, to speak frankly, it would be very hazardous to say what proportion of men, finding themselves in Higgs's position, might not snccumb to the great temptation of it. Heaven forbid that we should say one word in excuse of Higgs's wanton and gratuitous thievery; but, on the other hand, we do not consider that the directors should have been so much surprised, as they appear to be, at his departure from the paths of rectitude. Above all, it is in hensible that th e y s h ould not have seen any indice?l7ren. that Higgs was li v i ng at more than £145 a year a'ioTheir confession, as we sa y, i s on the whole, a humiliating docu ment. It leads us to doubt those notions of the superhuman quickness and keenne ss o f C i ty men which are current. Dogberry'wished much that some one should write him down an ass; but the directors of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company have been content with publishing their report. ABOLITION OF THE HEAPED MEASURE.—In the Yorkshire towns it has always been the custom to sellfield and garden produce by quartern, peck, and bushel, the diversity of shape of these measures giving the dishonest salesman the power of defrauding the customer—usually the poor, who buy in small quantities—to the extent of 10 or 20 per cent. The practice was rendered illegal by the Act 5 and 6 William IV., c. 63, s. 7 ; but the Act has never been enforced. The glaring robbery practised on the public by the heaped measure system has become so patent that the inspectors of weights and measures are enforcing the Act. Time, however, is being given to pro- vide weights and scales. In the Malton market no measures will be allowed after Saturday next, notice to that effect having been issued by Superintendent Gregory. The John Bull declares that the debate in the Rouse of Lords on Tuesday was remarkable for the vigorous speech of the Earl of Derby, with whose conclusions as to life peerages we most thoroughly agree. The Liberal papers endeavour to make capital out of the fact that the bill was read a second time, and argue that practically it has become law. But this is far from being the case. The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Malmesbury, and Lord Cairns, distinctly reserved to themselves the right to vote against the bill on the third reading, if its provisions were not modified in Committee. The summary manner in which Earl Grey's bill was treated may serve to shew that their lordships will not allow their privileges to be trifled with ; and the Liberal papers may be satisfied that the bill of AN IN CAIITIOCrB TRAVELLER. —T IVO men, named Icard and Palanca, have been tried at Nice for attempted murder and highway 4obbery. The prosecutor, Pellegrini had crossed the frontier of Italy into Franc,. on the evening of the 27th January last, and having , •ed into conversation with the prisoners, who were t ling in the same direction as himself, impruden, that he wa s on hi s way to purchase cattle. them a fter. wards he was wa lki ng a few paces in advanc4. ,s com panions, when !card fired a pistol, wounding ,in the head, and the two accused followed up the . ack by striking him with the same arm and with a heavy -tone on the skull until they supposed him to be dead. 'They the' commenced rifling his pockets, but were interrup-ed by a labouring man named Albert, who had witnessed the struggle, and hastened to render assistance. They then, took to flight, but were shortly afterwards arrested, when hiding in a stable. Icard, who had already und ergone several previous condemnations for acts of violence, was now sentenced to death, and Palanca to twenty years hard labour. Earl Russell, as it stands, has no chance of becoming law. Modified, so as to extend the principle of a bill suggested by Lord Derby himself more than ten years ago, it prob ably will become law ; but we take the opportunity of urging on our hereditary legislators that an active dis charge of their duties, more frequent interpelletionsof the Ministers, longer sittings, and more constant participation it legislation, are the surest ways to increase that strong. A. SPIRITUAL CRITIC. —A gentleman who called at our office on Th urs d ay l as t h as ma d e known to us his experiences of spirit power. He states that he is nerei under the nece ss ity o f ca lli ng i n t h e serv i ces of a medical man, for whenev er h e h as th e m i s f ortune to be: ill the spirits give him advice, upon which he acts, and he it cured forthwith. A friend of his, who was given over by the doctors, was cured by the prescription of s spirit, made known to him by a child medium. He once had an interview with a clergyman who was loth to believe. The Mowing Sunday he went to the church where the rev. gentlemar officiated, and sat near the pulpit. While the sermon 1 . 41 e Weekly I:egister un derstands that Mr. Welds was in progress, the spirit raps were heard witl the newly appointed Governor I,r West Australia, is to be g,Tat distinctness and frequency. Sometimes they ex be kuigLte(l. pressed approval, sometimes disapproval. The next day CABINET COUNCIL. —At the Cabinet Council held the clergyman asked what the raps signified. "The spirits at Downing-street on Friday, the Ministers present approved when you spoke of the loving-kindness of the were the Right H on . W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan- Deity," was the reply ; " but when you spoke of hell-firc cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, and such matters the raps became loud and - anzry, the Right Hon. H. A. B ru c e , the Earl of Clarendon, Earl intimating extreme displeasure." If it would not hr i Granville, the Ri g ht li on. E. C ar d we ll, th e D u k e of presumptuous on our part ti offer a suggesti on t o s Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. sprit, we should respectfully urge that in future-it wouk Hugh Childers, the Eight Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hcn. be bettor, when a cler7,ymanpreached a bad sermon G. J. Gosehen, the IKarquis of liar#ustua, said ALJWIS to' raj?, n 0 pulpit , taki ignu!l4l,---2'44 Avcrt xfiasaiduat x • hold on the affections of the people which the Howe of Lordsalready possesses, as affording the surest guarantee for tempered freedom, and the best bulwark against rash changes. Let us hope that the Colonial Secretary will prove alike his own consistency and the inherent wisdom of the House he leads, by repeating, on a suitable occa. sion, his assertion, in a former debate on life peerages, so well recalled by Lord Derby, that "it would he considered both in this House and the country a serious blow if the nntnher of the lores spiritual were to be diminished even by the removal of a slog,le. prelate." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1869. 31 ISCE LLA EO US IVE if/ S. lie preaches his farewell sermon on. aunctay at Nt. Lawrence, Jewry, and sails on that day week. Dr. Turner, who is the son of the late Lord Justice Turner, succeeded Dr. Sawyer, who,was accidentally drowned in crossing a river. It should be said to the credit of the Bishop of Sierra Leone, whose return to England we lately announced, that he has remained out in his unhealthy diocese for a much longer time than any of his pre decessors remained. He has filled the see, in fact, since 1860, a lengthened period for such a climate as the West Coast of Africa. Among the subscribers to the defence fund of the Rev. Charles Voysey aro Professor Jowett and the Dean of Westminster ; so that Lord Amberley finds himself in good company. According to the Record, the Bishop of Oxford has proposed in the Ritual Commission that no change should be made in any rubric without consent of Convocation ; but the right reverend prelate was left without any supporter. The Bishop of Norwich has recently appointed the Rev. H. Groome Archdeacon of Suffolk, in the place of Bishop Ryan, who has resigned in order to take charge of the practically bishopless diocese of Win chester. Archdeacon Groome has caused some excitement in the diocese by refusing to hold his visitation in the church of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, because of the " pronounced " ritual of the services there. It is stated that a judge, when on the assizes lately, refused to enter the church again for the same reason. when they saw that ne was taking predautiOns whicn would immediately prevent them from touching the wrecked property. But they would have their revenge. The receiver had to re ascend the gully—a task difficult enough to experts and still more difficult to a novice, especially with a badly-wounded hand. They determined that he should never ascend at all. They got three granite boulders, and running these down the gully, hoped to strike down the man who had prevented their taking the spoil. Happily he avoided them, and is able to give information which, it is to be hoped, will lead to the apprehension of the men. It would seem that the highlanders of the northern coast have im proved very little since Scott wrote "The Pirate." Secretary Boutwell has; Oven notice that the in terest-coupons, payable on the Ist July next, will be paid on presentation to the proper offices, upon a rebate of interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. The last offer lately made by the Treasury to anticipate the payment of interest was largely taken advantage of by the mercantile community, and tended to give a little ease to a very tight money market, though only by anticipating funds not due, which but tends to help the inflation and furnishing ready means of living beyond income. New York has ratified the Fifteenth Constitu tional Amendment, which makes 21 States up to the departure of the mail ; the others being Maine, Mas- THE RATEPAYERS AND THE PERMISSIVE BILL. sachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, West Vir- The Beehive, the organ of the trades unions, has an ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, article on the Permissive Bill, which is especially Tennessee, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, interesting from the fact that it appears in a journal Minnesota, lowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, devoted to the interests of the working classes. The Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kansas. It is considered article is also of great interest in itself. It begins by pointing out that " the broad princi- now to be almost beyond the possibility of defeat. ple of this bill is that "the ratepayers of a parish It will not be news to our readers to learn that are fully entitled by themselves or their representa- a junction is announced as having been formed of tivcs to be its licensers." It then goes on to say that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at in this matter the upper classes are as much ante- Promontory Point, Utah, and it was expected that rested as the working classes, for "when gentlemen in Parliament talk of education as a preventive of the through line would be completed by to-day. intemperance, they only exhibit their own unhappy . Whether the grand demonstrations so long talked or wilful ignorance of society." The article next of will come off on the happy event of opening the chews that whereas the increased number of tailors' roa d we canno t t e ll, but we do not-suppose that the shops in a locality would not lead to an improper late acrimonious contention in the Courts of New expenditure upon clothes, an increased number of , York, and the struggle in the Capitol at Washing public-houses does lead to an improper expendi ture upon drink; and even from a moderate drinker's ton, has encouraged the directors in their hospit standpoint,all such superfluous expenditure is waste; able intent. in other words, " the licensed increase of temptations The Atlantic and Great Western Railway shows is extravagance." Unfortunately extravagance is by the violent fluctuations in its stock its connec only a small part of the evil. Undue consumption of drink leads to pauperism and crime, and thus the tion with the Erie Railway. The Erie has a re whole community becomes injuriously affected by . markable habit of jumping up and down, which our licensing. But, as the Beehive points out : surprises people as a " Punch and J u dy" s h owman " The industrial, manufacturing, and mercantile classes sur prises a child by his dancing a fi gure w hil e t h e have, however, a more urgent quarrel with the present strings he pulls are concealed. These securities in system. If 60 to 70 million pounds be annually expended on intoxicating drinks, and if even the moderate the London market appear to be danced much in users of them say that 20 to 30 millions would be the same way by operators in New York working rather extravagant, we have 40 millions squandered, from any proper point of view, and 6 0 millions through the wires which lie under the ocean. The holders of the property ought n o t t o b e li eve any gone from the correct view. This expenditure employs certain number of the people in the manufacture and cir- ti culation of these commodities ; hut if a family expend five rumour, or to no ice any fluct ua ti on ; b ut i f Messrs. shillings weekly i n thi s wa y, and other five shilings in Fisk and Gould's operations disturb their minds. clothes, books, furniture, metal goods, or any comforts or they should avail themselves of an opportunity to necessaries of existence, they will pay amongst the first five shillings one only for labour, among the second five sell out. four for labour, including profit with wages." Assuming that two-thirds of the alcoholic drinks Senator Ross, of Kansas, h as quarre ll e d w i th the President over an appointment. He called on the now consumed are uselessly drunk, there is a waste of 40millions sterling, which is sufficient togivehonest President to give him a slice of his mind, but Gene support to 2,500,000 persons. Another matter is the ral Grant persisted in sending•in his own selection horrible waste of food which goes on in the conver- for the Postmastership at Lawrence. Mr. Ross sion of grain into alcohol. Finally, the Beehive repaid him by getting it r e j ecte d i n the Senate declares that it does not greatly care what form legi s - • in 7 lation then asumes present , prov holders t of ided he l it, espec ice nsingial power ly the Inland be taken and executive session he asserted th a t th e se l ect i on from of a postmaster for a S:nator's own tow n b e l onge d Revenue Board, and put into the hands of the rate- by usage and courtesy to the Senator, a view the payers. Trade unions are, therefore, exhorted to use Chamber sustained, only 8 votes being cast in the their influence with members of Parliament, in order negative. A. J. Ricks also was rejected as P ens i on to convince them of the importance which their Agent at Knoxville, Tennessee, th roug h t h e inter working-class constituents attach to this question. This is one of the most sensible things ever done by vention of Senator Brownlow, who stat e d th a t h e was the trade unions. . personally objectionable to him. This shows the drift THE SUTHERLAND GOLD DIGGINGS. I of Senatorial usurpation, and the reasons why they s A correspondent of the Times gives an animated so tenaciously hold to the Tenure-of-Offi ce A ct. account of the Sutherlandshire gold diggings. Indeed, some openly claim that of right the patron- Kildonan Strath is, at present, one of the most age of the Federal appointments in each State interesting and curious scenes in the country. Th ree belong to its two Senators, which would really bear hundred people are employed as diggers, with a out the proud boast of Senator Sumner, "We are following of bakers, butchers, and store- +he Government," which may yet become as cele dealers. The Duke, on his recent visit, orated a saying as Louis the Fourteenth' s exclama met with a most cordial reception, and had lengthened interviews with Mr. Gilchrist, the tion, E'Etat, c'est Moi. Australian miner, to whose sagacity and remem- Murders are the order of the day in Ireland.— brance of his native strath the present discovery is riots and seditious speeches. If the counter-irri due. All admit that good wages can be made by tent principle be true, that country ought to be of skilful hands who are able and willing to work hard, immense value to England, being calculated to though opinions are still vague as to the future. But as the Duke is understood to be very willing draw off all bad humours. A few atrocious mur to encourage the gold industry, experiments ders have been committed of late ; the Meyor of will probably be made in every direction. The only Cork made a speech at an entertainment to Warren subject of complaint is the manner in which the and Costello which, if truly reported, has a strong Government levies its royalty. Each miner has to make a declaration of his earnings onc e a month, smack of sedition; and Prince Arthur was the and to pay 10 per cent. as royalty dues. This plan centre of a free fight in Derry, as the apprentice naturally encourages false returns, and is regarded as boys availed themselves of his presence to make a grievance in every way. The royalty, it is thought, Protestant demonstrations, which excited the wrath should be levied as a percentage on the license. The of their Roman Catholic fellow-townsmen. A col number of licenses taken out this month exceeds 230, and it is satisfactory to find that the men are lision occurred, revolvers and carbines were used, remarkably sober, well-behaved, and peaceable. Two and some men killed. towns have sprung up in the strath, and business of Last Thursday, in the House of Commons, Mr. all kinds is prospering in the locality. Dilke asked the Under-Secretary of State for THE EDMUNDS' SCANDAL. I Foreign Affairs whether his attention had been The cause celehre connected with the office of called to a telegram dated Shanghai, March 31, Commissioner of Patents, which has so often been and published in the London newspapers, in which announced as concluded as far as the public is con- . it was stated that in a despatch from Sir Rather cerned, seems to be still hanging unsettled, ford Alcock to the British Consul at Shanghai the Arrangements are no sooner made than broken, arbitrations no sooner agreed upon than rejected. former says, that " the Government at Pekin shows The latest announcement is that, nothwithstanding no wish for progress according to Western ideas all agreements, references, and settlements, the libel and desires, but, on the contrary, will not yield to case of an " ope Edmuncourt of l ds V. Greenwood" will be tried t h e i ntro d uction of any such pro j ects, exce pt un before n aw. der pressure and coercion ;" and whether such a de- THE FRAUDS OF HIGGS. spatch from her Majesty's Minister in China to a The sins of Mr. Benjamin Higgs seem likely to consul had been published by the authority of the be visited upon the directors of the Central Gas Company. The shareholders are very bitte Foreign-office ? Mr. Otway said the telegram had against them ; men of busines s are not satis r not been authoris e d by her Majesty's Government, fied with their report • the select committee and he doubted whether it was founded on fac t . of the House of Commons has reported Papers relating to China would be laid upon the against their system of accounts ; and a prosecution table shortly. against them is talked of. Perhaps this will end in talk; but the indictment against them from a moral A letter from Mr. Reverdy Johnson to Lord Clarendon has lately b ee n published, not only on point of view is rather formidable. Their system of accounts is imperfect ; they allowed arrears his own behalf, advocating cheaper oceanic postage to run on to the extent of some £65,000 ; they have between the United States and the United King borrowed money without the sanction of the share- . dom, hut enclosing a letter from Mr. Seward, when holders; they have published no balance sheet of late ; Secretary of State, dated 21st January, wherein he and it is before them. In short, they said seem they to have have had none slept away most of their asserts that this was urged on England by his Go time, to have spasmodically awak ene d and tried to vernment when the present, Convention was being set things r i g ht. Their officials also seem to have negotiated, but that her Britannic Majesty's Minis.. been in a chronic state of coma. The only man who ters then declined to entertain it. Mr. Sumner be was wide awake was Mr. Benjamin Higgs. He worked while other men slept , Neves that much good would accrue to both natione, and a great increase of correspondence ensue, if the LONGEVITY. , rates were materially lowered. In proportion as sanitary science becomes better ' The nomination of Eli S. Parker as Commis understood human life lengthens. The saving of sioner of Indian Affairs has been confirmed. Gene human life effected every year by such works as the great sewers in London must be larger than the loss led Grant wants to let the Quakers try their band of life inflicted .in any two of the great European at this - mission of peace, and Parker, who is an battles since Waterloo. Thus every day octogenae Indian Chief and was a colonel on his Staff, is rianism becomes a more common thing; thus it selected to aid in this good work. Delegations is that we see the spectacle of men filling from Philadelphia have had interviews with the posts in Church and State at the age that Moses was when he headed that marvellous emigration of President on the subject, but Grant is well aware some 3,200 years ago. The most remarkable instance that the honest expenditure of the money voted by of veteran vigour that we remember to have met Congress for the Indians is what is most needed. with is mentioned in a foieign paper. Count de Eighty per cent. is said to he retained by the Indian Waldeck, of Paris, has sent a picture to the Fine ~ -: Arts Exhibition in that city, which opens to-day. ring," the " odd " twenty only reaching the The picture represents 255 persons. The Indians in whisky and articles to them useless, artist is 103 years old. He is married to an adulterated in the highest degree. Between the English lady of 40, and has a son 18 years old, who promises contained in the treaties and the per was, therefore, born to him when he was 85. We formances there is a remarkable discrepancy, which see no reason why men of this sort should die at all. At all events doctors are very sanguine that in the is not the fault of Congress, but of the Indian course of a generation or two hygiene will be. agents, a fertile cause of discontent which has had so well understood that they will be able to prolong 'no small share in the constant outbreaks. A cem life almost indefinitely. Only what will be said by mission of eleven, distinguished for philanthropy the heirs of those of us who have anything to leave ? andintelligence, will be appointed by the President Post-obits will ;surely deteriorate in value if cente narianism is to be th e ru le. On the other hand, life as the Act provides to consult on these affairs insurance offices will wax so rich that they rill p•+ with the Secretary of the Interior. persons to insure. I One of those charming appointments which did THE DENIZENS Or CAPE 'WRATH. I so much to bring Andrew Johnson into favour h as In the current num b er o f Good Words the author 1 latelyproduced fruit, r r. nit,_erry Fuller, w h o b a d b een annow being gathe re d i n a Wash of " Debenham' s V ow " d escr ibes how her hero dis- ; ingtonm Court. persed some villagers of Italy who were anxious to 1 Indian agent, was made Collector of the port of steal from a w rec k. If Mi ss Edwards had merely New Orleans. The present suit i s b roug h t b y 1 : wanted to introd uce sa l vage -plunderers, she need not General Thomas Ewing, jun., fo r a s h are w i thheld have gone to a foreign country. Scotland would : of the profits on various jobs. A letter from Fuller have supplied the needful material. This we learn to Ewing was read in Court, dated from New from an• announcement that the Board of Trade have determined to present Mr. Cox, the collector of . Orleans 25th Jan. last. Fuller therein says that a'l would he fixed up right when the aperOpriations Customs at Wi c k w ith a bi n ocular field-glass. The for tne cunt.acts in which they were interested description of th e serv i ces of Mr. Cox makes us almost doubt wheth e r it refers to Scotland and to 1 were made. He then proposed t o proceed to Wash the nineteenth century. The reward is to be given for the protectio n o f th e goods of a ship wrecked six i ington, and to close on the 'base, but in the mean miles south w e st o f C a p e Wrath. Mr. Cox promptly time he puts Ewing up to a " big" thi ng, i n wh i ch replied to a teleg ram t e lli n g him of the wreck, and purposes to place him an d H unt i nerlon. All . he required was to get a bill end orse d by Congress went through many diffi cu lties to reach the place. . He had ther e t o go d own a roc k 400 feet, havingonly to a water- w o rn gu ll y to d esc e n d by. In his pay the interest on State Bond s f or l evee purposes. descent he slipped, and caught hold of the Ewing is then informed that be let a good thin , ' slip granite rock, a piece of which ripped up in not appearing in the wine cases as Fuller advised his hand dividing the tendon of the thumb. him. Ile desires to get Colonel Casey appointed , When he got to th e b o tt o m o f the gully he found wreckers in char ge o f th e pro p er ty, all more or l ess in his place, when be would r ema i n at New Orleans drunk. Ile c o ll ec t e d t h e cas k s o f spirits__, and found and have a hark for a fine bu s i ness, and he would that they were m i xed with salt water. He therefore place in EA ing's hands all the Custom House destroyed the whole quantity. This made the Claims andsutts, ready money transactions. Casey Wr *" 6 — ;- 111riQ114- more i was among the `fast appointme n t s made b y General i THE num CHURCH AND THE GLEBE LANDC" For the first time during the progress in com mittee of the Irish Church Bill, several Liberals refused to follow their leader on Thursday night in his refusal to concede ita parsonages and other ecclesiastical residences to the Protestant Episcopal Church of Ireland. Those who voted with the Opposi tion were Mr. Butler-Johnstone, Sir R. Clifton, Mr. Foljambe, Mr. .G. H. Moore (Mayo), Mr ; Octavius Morgan, Sir Roundell Palmer, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Saunderson. No Conservatives supported the Government. Mr. Bagwell, who appealed to Mr. Gladstone to give way on the question, did not vote, but Mr. Martin, the member for Rochester, who was the first to throw out symptoms of disloyalty to his leader, voted with the majority. Sir Roundell Palmer recorded his vote against the Government in every division. Sir Robert Peel went with the Conservatives in the two first divisions, but absented himself in the third. WHAT CAN THE LORDS DO The Rock is about to publish a series of articles in reply to the question, IN hat can the Lords do ? That these articles will be both interesting and instructive is guaranteed by the Rock's statement at the outset, that it does not know what their lordships will do. All it can pretend to say is what can the Lords do, which, we had supposed, was known to everybody. As usual, there are three courses—to throw out the bill, to pass the bill, to alter the bill. Our contemporary relates at considerable length the history of the last great occasion on which the Lords and the nation were at issue; and infers that there is no such hostility now. Has not Nottingham returned two Tory candi dates ? have not Westminster and Middlesex each returned one ? has not a Tory ventured to stand in Finsbury and in Lambeth, and have not those two valiant men been beaten by the narrow majorities of 6,866 and 7,510 ? " The comparison, therefore, of 1831-2 with 1869 wholly fails ; or rather it shews that what the House of Lords could do in 1831 it may repeat in 1869, with far greater safety, and more evident propriety. We may be reminded of the ebullitions of popular feeling in 1831-2, and may be asked, whether we wish to run the risk of new riots in Bristol and Nottingham, and of many broken windows in London ? We reply that the risk in the present case is far smaller than it was then." Whatever the risk, our contemporary, at all events, is prepared to incur it—is prepared to bare its rocky front to the popular storm. SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS. The Record finds somethin g " amusing" in the entente cordiale between Lord Westbury and the bishops. The ex-Chancellor, who has been an nounced as the forthcoming champion in behalf of Church and State, " may now be seen occasionally sitting on the front row of the Episcopal Bench between two of the prelates, and evidently a much favoured guest." And this is the man of whom it was said, with more wit than reverence, after the 6 ' Essays and Reviews " trial, that he had "dismissed hell with costs." Lord Westbury has clearly been studying the recently-published lives of two eminent Chancellors by the late Lord Campbell. Ire is resolved that if the Liberals think they can do with out him, they shall find themselves mistaken. If he is not to be their colleague, he will assume the part of " candid friend ;" so that they shall be forced to say, " Nee tecum, nee sine te, vivere possum." With reference to this matter, the London corres pondent of the Lublin Ereniny Mail, who, we believe, derives his information from Jr. Ball, says :—" I have reason to believe that Lord Westbury is quite serious in his opposition to the Irish Church Bill. He will certainly propose amendments of a very important character, and justify a practical defeat of the measure by the argument he used on Monday night, viz., that the country and Parliament ought to know the entire policy of the Govern ment before they can be properly called upon to adopt a portion of it which is in itself subversive of the rights of property and the Constitution. The importance of Lord Westbury's opposition may be estimated by the anger it has excited among his former allies. No epithets are too bad for him." In other words, Lord Westbury is going to attempt the same tactics as Mr. Lowe adopted in 1866. The Government measure before Parliament is to be opposed because the whole of the Government policy is not announced. Whatever ground there might have been for this course with respect to the Reform Bill, with regard to which there was at least some show of reason for saying that the redistribution and the franchise arrangements ought to be produced simul taneously, there is absolutely no ground for such a course with regard to the Irish Church Bill and the Irish Land Bill. They have nothing in common. Even Mr. Disraeli, who, having filled the office of Prime Minister, knows what it is to pass one great measure at a time, has never ventured to declare that two such measures ought to be proposed at once. THE STATE OF IDELAND. The Opposition journals, pointing to the present state of Ireland, siy that " a policy of spoliation is producing its legitimate fruits." The lhadin Mad says " We report a murder near Athlone—treasonable speeches, under an official sanction, in Cork—riots and loss of life in Derry ! This record of twenty-four hours forms an eloquent chapter in the history of the new Pacification of Ireland. Mr. Gladstone found Ireland in peace, and what is now its condition ? His policy has recalled Fenianism to life—it has acted as a stimulus to Agrarianism —it has evoked again that fanaticism which employs violence to pre vent Ulster loyalists from manifesting their opinions. The failure of the `pacification' of Mr. Gladstone is complete, signal, and retributive. It has been demonstrated sooner than vas expected, and with a much bolder emphasis. The `message of peace' is a mistake so visible and enormous that, sooner or later, the empire must recognise it." The Freeman, on the other band, is indignant with the 'prentice boys of Derry for raising the " Surrender" cry. That c ry, it says, must always end in riot and bloodshed. And we suppose there is no help for it. While the line between the two partit s is so hard and fast ; while the one section of the community is taught to hate the other ; while Christianity is identified in the minds of the populace with sectarianism ;. and love, charity, and peace are regarded as applicable only to the respective parties amongst themselves, there must always exist the fear of disturbance. The duty of the State meanwhile is clear. It must shew no favour to either party, and must do what it can to prevent the ebullition of party feeling. It cannot control the passions of the mob after a demon stration of " No Surrender," or religious equality. It must do what it can to prevent these demonstrations. The affair of the Mayor of Cork is another very ticklish matter to deal with. In the city itself it has produced the greatest alarm amongst the loyalists. There can be little doubt that Mr. O'Sullivan coun selled the assassination of Prince Arthur. The magistrates are aghast, and have called a meeting to take the subject into consideration. The Cabinet is also moved on the subject. It is stated that the law officers of the Crown, Irish and English, have been requested to consider the speech delivered on Tues day night by the Mayor of Cork. An authentic copy of the short-hand writer's notes was telegraphed for on Thursday, immediately after the conclusion of the Cabinet Council. The anti-English party is also impressed with the importance of the speech. One thousand copies were sent off to America by the According to the Dublin Daily Express, the Government have information of further intended operations on the part of the Fenian consp i rators. Lord John Manners elicited the information that the Government were putting into operation all the powers they possess to put down the crimes of violence which are now becoming so lamentably frequent in Tipperary and Westmeath. it is not improbable that the Mayor of Cork will be called to account for his recent treasonable speech about Prince Arthur. THE BEWDLEY ELECTION PETITION. The result of the second Bewdley election petition is to seat one of the bitterest opponents of Mr. Glad stone in the last Parliament. But although Major Anson was at that time a strong Adullamite, he is now one of the staunchest members of the Liberal party on the Irish Church question. The gallant major has not found an entrance into the Reformed House of Commons quite so easily as many of the members of the present Parliament, for he has had to go through no fewer than four contests before he succeeded in attaining his object. In the first place he w as b ea t en b y Colonel' Dyott, at Lichfield, last November. He petitioned against his opponent's return, but in vain. He next went to Bewdley . , and got defeated by Mr. Cunliffe by the narrow majority of 15. Ile again petitioned, and has succeeded in striking off a sufficient number of v m o a t sj e oi s nrie f t i e r Mr. C un liff e 's poll to put himself in a acanc t i h e e s in g part-22 —wer e 22 —wer e th rough the . e h e r e a o e I l i e s c e t i o n o f t here these, htaLe major four were caused by death, ohf Boroughs) by the resigutahtii.oolll operation thoneesi ttct o nh f ge petitions, nl em Radnorber and one (West Sussex) t ds h e b e y i elevation idoenc decease e the f his father. t M he r r .. f Wyndhamthe2t9o vacancies a t e. e s r 1 4 - on occurred the the Liu.:rai side of the House, and 15 sition. Since the l as t e l ection the Liberals }l've; gained four seats—London, Taunton, Brecon, and. Bewdley ; and have lost two—Wareham and Dum friesshire—thereby leaving a net gain of two, or counting four votes on a division. The seats at present vacant are—Liberals : Cashel, Bridgwater (2), and Youghal ; Conservatives : Norwich, Sligo, and Beverley (2). CHURCH ITEMS. The new Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, who was consecrated on St. Matthias's Day, is showing laudable promptitude by setting out from his diocese 411zres gaativs. - froaLtiluLtirauf Jairksomstontim, Grant, but it is asserted that his name was thus used by Fuller without authority, and to convey a false impression. General Banks is the chairman of the Sub Com mittee now investigating the Paraguayan affairs, which Messrs. Washburne, Bliss, Masterman, and President Lopez were mixed up as well as the United States naval officers. Admiral Davis had not arrived, hut Secretary Fisk had submitted a communication received from the Chargé d'Affaires at Rio relating to these events. It contained docu ments concerning the fate and inhuman treatment by Lopez of 720 prisoners, of whom many were foreigners, giving details of the manner in which the sentences of death were executed, the dates, and number on each day, making a total of 521 lanced, shot, and tortured. The Allies are said to be in the neighbourhood of Lopez's stronghold in the mountains; and if Count D'Eu, the newly-ap pointed Commander-in-Chief, captures Lopez, we hope he will send him before General B mks, who will take means to extract his evidence, and the opportunityof delivering to him a high-toned lecture on liberty and morality. The grand jury of the United States Circuit Court, in session at St. Louis., found an indictment against General Burbridge, of Kentucky, for bribery as a Revenue officer, summoning him from Washington to appear before the Court. This bri bery is a long whispered story, and appears to have been in circulation when several United States Se nator recommended General Bumbridgefor the im portant post of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Next year the census of the United States will be taken, and preparations have been and are being made to render it as complete as possible. The House Sub-Committee, consisting of five se lected members, will make a summer tour, taking ' New York, Pennsylvania, Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago, and wherever else the spirit moves them to go, at Uncle Sam's expense. There they will invite information, take evidenee, and gather every useful fact bearing on their subject, which includes the resources as well as the growth of the country. They will thus come into communication with the different statistical societies, nor will they confine their researches wholly to the States. A commis sion is to be sent, but not at Uncle Sam's expense, to the National Statistical Congress which meets this summer a - the Hague; but though the two or three gentlemen selected will have to pay their own ex penses, they will be recommended by the Committee, appointed by the President, and represent the United States. Postmaster Creswell will have enough to do before he gets his department into order. During February the New York Observer received infor mation of 24 different letters being posted to its address containing money, amounting in the aggre gate to $127, but not one reached the office. The Boston Congregationalist took up this statement, asserting that it knew of 66 letters which ought to have reached it during the same month, containing in all $239, but of that number not one had been re ceived. From so large a list the Congregationalist Nv as enabled to trace and indicate the most unsafe mail routes which it openly did. The impression is becom ing general that the mostinsecure means of transmis sioa in the United States is by post. Robbery so wholesale as the instances recorded must compel the attention of the Department, and a close in vestigation into the circumstances. Philip P. Hag gerty, for the past 15 years a clerk in the Post office at Lowell, Massachusetts, has been arrested on the charge of robbing the mails, and other ar rests will doubtless soon be made. Some time ago a person describing herself as Han nah Tyler, clerk in the Treasury Department, wrote to the Independent, making serious charges against her associates. The letter attracted attention, and on investigation it was found that there was no such person, and that her statements in the main were untrue. When the subject came to be looked into it was discovered that nearly all were the widows, the daughters, or the near relations of officers and others killed while serving in the Union Army. Many of these ladies had themselves during that period performed good service. On Miss Wright's information Sheridan fought the battle of Win chester, and she wears at her desk the cavalry trin kets presented to her by the General in acknow ledgment for her services. Another was captured with the Gettysburg hospital, where she was an efficient nurse, just before the great battle. Gen. Spinner speaks in the highest terms not only of the character of these employees, but of their work. They are the most rapid counters of money and most expert in detecting counterfeits, and hardly a day passes that they do not discover forgeries which have escaped the keen scrutiny of the most accom plished of the bank officers. It is curious that opi nions should differ so widely as to the number of fe male clerks employed. In one account they are put down at 600 in the Treasury out of 6,000 clerks ; in a second 1,500, and in a third 2,000. As a rule they are underpaid and overworked ; women of irre proachable character, who have secured their ap pointments by means rather creditable to them than the reverse, and we believe the more closely this was investigated the more clearly did it appear. The Cambria is ready for her race, all the alte rations having been completed, though some nau tical men consider that Mr. Asbbury therein has made a mistake at least in filling up the hollow of her bows under water by which the owner hopes she will gain buoyancy and speed in a heavy sea way. Her masts and bowsprit have been bored— a difficult and delicate operation—which will re duce them almost three-quarters of a ton. Her masts have been lengthened by " tongueing" them at foot. Her rudder is being altered upon a new and improved principle, which will add much to her quickness in stays. Her windlass has been re moved, and a neat capstan substituted for it. This gives her more deck room on the forecastle. lier cabins have also undergone extensive alterations, and are decorated with old paintings representing incidents in her matches during 1868. The chal lenge of Harvard University included Cambridge as well as Oxford, but if Harvard can beat the Ox ford men, they need not trouble themselves to row against Cambridge. The latter have, however, conditionally accepted the challenge. The President has set his mind on the speedy Re construction of Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi. He evidently intends to be Chief Magistrate of a real Union, with no lost stars on its banner. Gen. Reynolds, commanding at Texas, has been in structed immediately to begin the registration of voters, and to hurry it through that the Constitu lion may be quickly submitted to the people. Governor Welles, of Virginia, has been in consul tation with the President about that State, and Gen. Grant has been gathering information every where on Mississippi. It is said that'almost imme diately the day will be decided on for the election in each of these States. The poor imperialist does not find the soil of America congenial. People scarcely know what to make of it ; some thinking it a Democratic dodge to bring the President -into disrepute and to awaken prejudices against him; others that it is a joke, but there are those who believe it to be a serious rea lity. A report was circulated that it had died on learning the inexorable decision of the News Com panies not to circulate it. The proprietors, how ever, announced that the paper had already ob tained a circulation of 10,000, and that it intended vigorously to carry on the campaign of Monarchy against Republicanism in America. The indefatigable Bishop Gray of the Cape of Good Hope has sent an official to the Bishop of the Episcopal Church at New YorK announcing the consecration of Dr. Macrorie as the Bishop of Na tal. I❑ his letter he says :—" I cannot mike this announceinent without once more expressing my hearty thanks to the American Chui ch for the sym pathy and support which it gave to the Church iu South A frica when called to contend with great dif ficulties." What will be Colenso's end with three continents stirred up nigainat him ? Lieut.-Governor Dunn (coloured), of Louisiana, complained to Gen. Beauregard that he was not per mitted to sit in the ordinary railway cars when on his way from New Orleans to Washington. The General, who was president of the Railway Company, an swered that he had no powers to alter the old re gulations of the Corporation which excluded co loured men, but teat -he-ivoukl44ubmit-the-matter to the Board. Two hundred and fifty years ago, Sir John Hawkins, knighted by Queen Elizabeth, as a n American paper says, for piracy, slave -trading , and other. Bri , ish virtues, sailed up the James Rivet with a cargo of slaves, whose descendants are no! in the governing ranks. Two have been apPoin tea , to foreign missions, and several others have sec ured places in the late scramble, while the only Virginian Consul is Colonel Chenoweth, who instead o f trac: ing his pedigree to the Cavaliers goes back, through his mother's side, to Oliver Cromwell. IMPERIAL PAR:LIAM:ENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EvENIN G ' The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wooloB° • at five o'clock. ear l y Their lordships were occupied the whole of the ett part of the evening in consid e ring the motion of Ler Westbury for tLe second reading of the Fine Arts 04 1.. right Consolidation and Amendment Bill, which iv" re 'erred to a select committee. • Thsir lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENVIG• The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. AR. Mr. LAYARD, in answer t LANE) Mr. C. Denison, said, the rights of the Crown over Hamilton-garden were pre c i the same as over the adjoining portion of Hyde - P 31.1 ' . . n d very little portion of the gardens would be taken , --. under those circumstances no alteration would be made the present arrangement. I'HE PUBLIC OFFICES. • it Mr. LAYARD, in reply to Mr. W. H. Smith, s tld was intended to take further property in Great U° 9l°" street, Delahay-street, and Duke-street. It was nest deci sirablo that the owners of the premises required 5 13°111 . 1 be informed of the intentions of the Government as B°°- as pOssible. THE SURVEY. o o Mr.'CARDWELL, in reply t o M r . Andrew Je urj .: said that arrangements would be made to conduct th e vey.of deer forests in Scotland with the greatest COO' ration for the interests of the proprietors. CORRUPT PRACTICES. I bf The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was interiu e sl; the commissioners to commence their i n q u iries on the uviinn.. rupt practices in Norwick, Bridgwater, Beverley, Cashel, &c., as soon as possible. TITHE RENT CHARGE. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to a question from Charley, said there did not appear to be any necessity f " ; to and neither had the Government taken the matter .° consideration. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. GLADSTONE said with respect to the inc e°. nience the Irish members would encounter in their tendanco on committees by the house meeting on Tl lO l morning, he hoped as the matt e r would last but 811° , 4 time an effort would be made to get through the e e-- mittee business as speedily as possible. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE—THE MAYOR OF CORK. the Mr. GLADSTONE said h e h a d now to make to motion that the house w o uld mee t a t t wo o'clock " to Tuesday morning next. There was the greatest desir e •ele get through the provisions o f th e bill as ear ly as pOSt il and with that view he had t o a pp ea l t o h on . m emb er who had motions on the paper, which it was their tion of proceeding with on th e mo ti on . f or going e d committee of supply. Most of those motions 1 1 been postponed, and he did hop e th a t the hon, nae ln ,, bs opposite who proposed to call the attention of ouse to the cause of Lavelle versu s Proud iee ; tried at the last G a l wa y ass i zes . H e h a d t o sa y that e yet theAttorney-General had not completed his Wa l t talents. The Govern men t was i n commun i ca ti on with Lord Lieutenant, in , order to determine whether I" was desirable to pr o p ose an y measure to perils" ment to strengthen the repression and suppre ssion of outrage, as it would be i m p oss ibl e t o proce ed wi t ''' out complete information. With respect to the re port that had been published i n th e newspa pers oft h speech of-the chief magistrate of the second cit in Reig n y t viz., the Mayor of Cork, the Gov ernmen t a t once eri v steps to obtain correct information on th e point. eh had received certain statements th a t th e mee ti n g at vit' s the objectionable remarks w e r e u tt ere d was not O hs ., could be properly called a p u bli c meet i ng , as very f e ; persons were present. At p resen t h e was net i s position to say the words used were correc tly j reported ; but as yet they bad not recci re ds the requisite information. If it s h ou ld t urn cu t that vie r were correctly repOrted, ho need hardly say the Gm fel ; ment would be in a condition to take all those meal the it might be proper to adopt. As the i n f orm ation on '" subject was as yet very imperfect, h o h o p e d the ! e. member for Liverpool, after the statem en t h e had mad would not press forward his motion that evening call the attention of the house to recent ev en t s in Irelan Sir R. PEEL said the right hon. gentleman said til d meeting was only a small one, and that the remarks b a not been made in the capacity of Mayor of Cork—( o O , —but be that as it may, be should like to know whet 4 ', the Govermn?nt had received any telegram from the % 1 -$f A J a of Cork to the effect that the remarks that he bad were not intended to boar the inference that bad h oe" put upon them. Mr C. FOIiTESCUE said the Government wore at lb; present moment not better informed than other member, of the house, as the information they possessed 0 0 all derived from the newspapers. Ho had ti lic h e e the best course he thought he could adopt, VIZ., -- t e had written to the resident magistrates in Corg know if the words of the mayor were correctly repot 8e and to that inquiry he had not yet received a reply. st thought they would all agree th a t it was e te ,e desirable that that information sho u ld be in t e ; hands of Government before a di scuss i on o f the mitt was gone into. He had just had a t e l egram pl a ced in " t hands by an hon. friend, which was t o th e f o ll ow ing ef fe 2 that, pending the intentions of the G overnm ent oe fr; subject, the municipal council would t a ke no n otice of tij- s matter, but the feeling of the council was entirely ageie the mayor. The motion for the house meeting as proposed on Ttlee day was then agreed to, and kt Mr. GRAVES then proceeded to make his motion W I respect to the dangerous condition of certain parts of i re ; land. In the first place ho wished to know how &pert who had been removed from the commision of the P ee — o r had been appointed mayor o f C or k, an d wil et ,, h- 0 , he was the same person who h a d never allows;, 10 single bpporitinlty to pass of making treason s w 3 speeches with respect to England. He had hoar of stated in some quarters that the dreadful state . 0 matters in Ireland was Fenianism cropping up l e t another form, but he did not believe that. Ho tho n g 4 the land question was the matter that lead to much the bloodshed that bad taken place in Ireland, and in lt pe dition to that it became their duty to ascertain whet h n there was any defect in the administratio n o f the lio v ! r , Ireland, or whether the Lord Lieuten an t w a s wanting I f firmness. Altogether the state of things in some Far te ,, ( :t Ireland was alarming and dreadful, and he did hope t r.s Government would give the house some assurance t " - a they were doing all in their power to put down crime outrage. Mr. C. FORTESCIJE said he could assure the 11°71 ‘ gentleman that the Government were not wanting in sire to put down the crime that had now reached an alalr; ing height. H e must, h owever, rem i nd the hon. but these agrarian crimes were not of sudden gro wth, - they had began t o s h ow th emse l ves when the presen t ( - I°*. verument came into office last year. The ori llle r:i it seemed, were chiefly confined to Tipperary 6 e Westmeath, and he could assure the hon. gentleman Government would do all in their power to put d° W ,;, ) the disturbed state of thing s . i n th e s t ronges t ma nner t' law allowed. After some discussion, in which very few new questio n were raised, the topic was allowed to drop. A motion was made by Sir J. ELPHINSTONE to r e i fer the question of the Game Laws i n Scotl a nd to a BO ° Commission. Ultitna,tely it was withdrawn. A division was challenged and gone through on it , A 0 tiou for the issue of a new writ for You g b a l, but it '^ agreed to by 102 to 70 votes. Tho house then adjourned. ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Pills.—lferitßewil rcic of This famous family medicine h a s w ith s t oo d the testy time, and the most unrelenting opposit , on. These t he are a direct purifier of the blood and another fluids c' D o human body. During the winter and early sprit: ls ;a house or home should be w ith ou t t h e means o f a rrest' or cisease at its onset. Such m eans are safely and 611 ta, presented in these excellent Pill s w h en they are t°;"5.9 according to their accompanying directions. Hollowlo medicine removes dyspepsia, p romo t es di gest i on , and 11 1 y as a mild and effective aperient. These Pills are stroPthf recommended to those persons who are constituticlwr weak, and whose nervous syst ems h ave b een s h a ttere' illness. On such they will co n fer ind escr ib a bl e cold°. STAVELET—On the 29th ult., at G overnmen t House, DC' vonport, Lady Stavely, of a daughter. ntabi WALsit—On the 28th ult., a t B a th, th e lion. Mrs. Walsh, of a daughter, posthumous. MARRIAGE& „ PEGG—DixEY -On the 29th u lt., a t Fi nc hl e y, , .11fo Pegg, Esq., o f Bi rc h Grove, near Swansea, to ,„ 1 . Matilda, young es t daughter of Charles W. Dixey, of Park House, Finchley. TOLLEMACHE HOPE—On the 29th inst ,at St. Georges Hanover- squar e , Ly o n e l A. T o ll emac h e, E sq ., to L0t1,, 1 1 ,. Margaret, youngest daughter of Major-General Fro" Hope.. DEANA'S. COCKERELL—On the 28th inst., at 9, Adelaide-cres cent" Brighton, John Cockerel', aged 83. nJi° SMITH On the 28th ult., a t L anc i ng , Sussex, T° l-11 Smith, Esq , of Highgate, aged 53. 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