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THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED After which, Dion Boncicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson ; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclercq. Concluclin.. with THE SECRET. N.B.—Monday, April 24. a New Drama, by Dion Boucicault. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. HOLBORN THEATRE.-BARRY SULLIVAN, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON S ATtrnrAY, IST OF• %TAY, with Lord Lytton's Great Play, in Five Acts, entitled MONEY. supported by the following celebrated Artistes. viz.: Parry Sul livan, J. C. Cowper, G eorge Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, E. Dyas, Lin Rayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur W. Ha -- land, A. Stuart, L Sargent, C. Valentine, F. Raines, J. Blythe, H. Blanscome, and ii. Nelson: Mrs. Hermann Vezin. Miss Jane Rig,nold. Miss Amy Faxvsitt. Miss Tios'ne Power, Miss Thorne, Miss Malborough, and Mrs. rharles Horsman. 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Admission, le.; on Mondays, Gd. Children under twelve. Gd. ' 1 ( 1 )7 4 Q 1,3 • • 1111 _ 4. 4 LONDU.S, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1869. The mere fact of the adjournment of the discussion yrovoked last evening by the proposition of the bon. member for Galway in regard to the Site of the New Law Courts is in itself satisfactory. For it implies, at any rate, to begin with, that the question as to the choice of site is, in truth, to be reopened for the deliberate reconsideration of the Legislature. More than that, it implies that her MAJESTY'S Government, the Government supported by the great dominant party and having at its back an overwhelming majority in the House of Corn mon, is perfectly prepared, without any more ado, to assume to itself the responsibility of revising the arrangements already entered into. Nay, as if that were not enough, it far more than simply im plies, it distinctly and emphatically indicates, that the Government has a predilection now in favour of the newly-proposed site, the site, that is, which has so very recently and certainly most alluringly been opened on the Thames Embankment. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer's speech last night was quite conclusive upon that point. It was delivered late in the discussion, and was for that reason thought to have been almost unfairly delayed. The Premier reminded the House, how ever, very cogently, at once, that there had really been no choice whatever left to his colleague in the matter, for inasmuch as the speech of Mr. GREGORY, by whom the debate had been commenced, and the sub sequent speech of Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, as the champion of the present or original site— familiarly spoken of as the Carey-street site—bad brought the time so very nearly on to the dinner hour that it would have been little less than an absurdity, it would certainly have been a mistake, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had risen then, between 7.30 and 8 p.m., to unfold before nearly empty Leaches the deliberate revised opinion (upon this matter of the Law Courts) arrived at by her MAJESTY'S Government. The reason thus given was instantly recognisable as sufficient. Mr. LOWE, with the cordial assent of his colleagues, purposely allowed the debate to run on until members having reassembled in sufficient numbers, after dinner, were there to hear what was at length the view arrived at upon__ this matter by the advisers of the Crown. Happily, Mr. LOWE comes to the consideration of the difficulty under discussion, in no way whatever committed to either side. He is, accord ing to his wont, cynically sarcastic upon the rival disputants. Sir Ro UNDELL PALMER he bows to, with no affected respect, as, re cognisably, at the very head of the front rank of his profession. But—acknowledging that much—Mr. LOWE cannot, !for the life of him, help chaffing (there is really no other word for it) his hon. and learned friend, for inasmuch as in the fervour of his own earnest worship of THEM'S, he could not show some little more tolerance tcwards others, more especially non-professionals, who dared as mere " dilletante persons" to dream of our ever beautifying the metropolis. " I wish," added the Chancellor of the Exchequer with charming mock gravity, "I wish I could have discovered one redeem ing virtue in the hon. and le.irned member's spnch, and have traced some slight regard for the British taxpayer. That happens," said Mr. Lowr with admirable frankness, "to be the point upon which lam principally concerned." And certainly, looking upon the matter in an economical point of view there is nothing so very tempting in the Carey-street site to induce any Chancellor of the Exchequer, not yet committed to it, to abide by it, in spite of the • alarming array of facts and figures opened up before him by the inexorable estimates. Remembering that the actual cost of the present site is £785,000, and 'l'llE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1869. that contiguous land must be bought at a further outlay of £66B,ooo—remembering that the cost of building and architect's commission involves an ad ditional disbursement of at least £1,650,000, and that the furniture and mere et ceteras or contingen cies of the undertaking will require about £150,000, Mr. LowE (being very precise) says £147,000 —we have, there, clearly, a prospect before us of, at the most moderate computation, over three millions sterling ! Particularly when, to the items already enumerated, there have to be added a nice little sum of £138,000 for taxed costs, disburse ments, and so on, including some £27,000 handed to the Messrs. Field and Co. in honourable payment. Altogether, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer al most serio-comically put it, he found himself in his official capacity, on his first looking into the state of things at the Treasury, confronted in this one direc tion with an expenditure of £3,350,000. Consider ably more, in other words, than double the amount originally said to be involved by the sebum of build ing up a Palace of Justice on this very Carey -street site. The sum first of all said to be required, there, for that purpose was, in point of fact, no more than £1,500,000 altogether. Double that and you have, according to COCKER, £3,000,000. But, here, as we have seen, is the inevitable squan dering of £3,3so,ooo—with no "guarantee whatever, even then, that that would be all. As was said last night in the House, we might consider ourselves for tunate, everything considered, if, under these cir cumstances, we got off with an outlay in the end of no more than £4,000,000. And all for a site, the very name of which, as lit seems to us, is expressive of its mean ness—the Carey -street site ! A Site bounded cer tainly on the north by Holborn, and on the south by the Strand (though many regard the latter even as but little of an advantage, remembering the enormous traffic already flooding through that main artery of the metropolis), but flanked at the same time both to the east and to the west by a dense and tangled mass of back slums and miserable rookeries. No—whatever else may come of it, at any rate last night's debate, or commencement of a debate, has ac complished already this good —it has doomed, or we are very much mistaken, the original plan for building the Palace of Justice to the north of the Strand. The Embankment site has distinctly, now, the preference, and to that preference the strong Government now installed in power has, as clearly as possible, avowed itself to have become a convert, so far, at least, as we can at all judge from the declarations made last evening by the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. What part of the Thames Embankment will eventually be selected, as the picked substitute, is another matter. Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN'S choice is one involving an outlay of something like £2,000,009. Mr. LowE has an eye to one necessitating—he tells us—no more I extravagant an expenditure altogether than £1,600,000, So little does he think of the Strand as an advantage. that he wants to shirk it entirely. Speaking as though he were describing an out-of-the-way corner of Pekin or Hong Kong, he says to the house of Commons—" There is a street called Eloward-street, midway between the roadway of the Embankment and the Strand, and which runs from Arundel street to Surrey-street. The frontage of the Strand is, of course, very valuable ; but I am in formed that between Howard-street and the Em bankment the property is not valuable, consisting, as it does, of premises which have been left derelict by the Embankment. I am told that a site there can be purchased for £600,000, and that on it build ings comprising all the Courts with their auxiliary offices and other offices besides can be erected for a sum of £1,000,000." This is the gist of his proposition. This is the revised plan submitted, in the name of the Government, tothe deliberate con sideration of the House of Commons, before another step is taken in the scheme for building up at last . in London a fitting Palace, withi❑ the walls of which and beeeath the roof of which the Laws of Enu,land shall henceforth with due decorum be administered. WE are glad to learn that the friends of the Bishop of EXETER have taken to heart the remon strances loud and numerous which the condition of his diocese has excited. It was, indeed, time that they did so. The patience of the Established Church has been long and sorely tried in the West of England. The " absence of responsible episcopal government " has forced those to speak who would far rather have kept silence. Respect for episcopal authority, veneration for old age, the natural dislike to inflict pain —all these considerations prompted to endu rance, and all had to he overcome before the strong sense of duty forced a public utterance of that which everyone way saying in private. In spite of obloquy and misrepresentation, in spite of the imputation of unworthy motives by persons incapable of understand ing worthy ones, the complainants persevered in ex posing the scandal under which the diocese was suffer ing. T heir courage and perseverance hav e been partially rewarded. The Bishop of EXETER has formally com missioned Bishop Tnowxn to act in his behalf, and to undertake generally the episcopal duties of the diocese. The announcement is somewhat vague. There is one thing, however, which it certainly does not imply—the resignation of the diocesan. This would have been the right course. This is the course for which there is good precedent in the cases of Bishops BLOMFIELD, MALTBY, and ILNDs. We regret that Bishop PIIILLPOTTS has not followed these excellent examples. He has, if the announcement which he has authorised means anything, done the next best thing by com missioning another bishop to act for him. To a certain extent Bishop Tnowxn has thus acted already. He has consecrated and confirmed and ordained. But he has not had any power to appoint to cures. The episcopal patronage has hitherto been tenaciously retained by the episcopal entourage, with what results is well-known. We assume that it will now be transferred to the Bishop Commissary, u ho will be respoasible to public opinion for his exercise of it. We assume that we have heard the last of young men four years in orders promoted because they are rela tives of the BISHOP, while men who have been in orders for ten times that period are left to starve on the wages of a domestic servant. if Bishop MOWER'S commission does not imply his right to present, it would be the merest mockery, it would be an adding of insult to the injury so long sustained by the diocese. We apologise for even supposing that such a hypothesis is possible. KING BELISARIUS, begging for an obolus, was scarcely a more touching spectacle than King HUDSON appealing to . the charity of the British public. Yes, it has come to this : the man who, less than a quarter of a century ago, was the confidant of dukes and the flattered of duchesses, whose house in Hyde Park was mobbed by all the haut ton of London, who seemed to have the golden key of the temple of PLUTUS, for whom constituencies quarrelled in their eagerness to secure him as a representative, who might have had a peerage for the asking, who was more sought after than any peer—this man is a beggar in a foreign land, and the papers aro appealing in his behalf to the people whom he did his best to ruin. What a sight for angels and for men and for Mr. CARLYLE. The Chelsea prophet lashed the subjects of the Rail way King inany years ago, for he saw how little there was of kingly in him, how much there was of abject baseness in them. He might, were he so disposed, lift up his voice again, and warn the world against its hero worship of men who are not heroes, but quite other wise. He will not, for the world is not to be taught. It will worship the beings who have control for the time over the money-bags. Convince it that the object of its worship is a charlatan and a swindler, and the conviction will make no difference. The worship will continue so long as the divinity's power continues. We all know that the reign will come suddenly to an end, that we shall before long bespurn ing with our feet the object whom we now beseech upon our knees. That is nothing to the purpose. He is de facto king because he can dispense wealth to whom he pleases ; when his power is gone our adoration ends, but not before. It is a simple bargain. So much wealth, so much homage ; so much scrip, so much flattery. When the wealth runs out, when the scrip becQmes as worthless as the paper of which it is made, then our relations are at an end; the JOHN LAW, or the GEORGE HUDSON, or the director of four years ago, may think himself fortunate if he is merely despised, and not execrated and prosecuted. We shall do the same thing again if the opportunity offers. Let the boy bred in the gutter rise to be a joint stock magnate, and we shall be ready to lick his boots so long as he pays us well for the operation. But if anything happens to him he will find himself left deserted " by those his former bounty fed," and very lucky if they have not tripped him up as they fled from him. It is well to know this. It is well not to deceive ourselves into the belief that we have learnt by experience. e have not learnt by experience. Given the hour, the man will arise again. Given the opportunity, another tinsel sovereign will appear, and be received royally by those who are now moralising over the rise and the fall—the rapid rise and the miserable fall of GEORGE HUDSON, the Railway King. THE injustice inflicted by Her MAJESTY'S Cus toms' Commissioners upon the Dagenham Dock Company still remains unredressed. In point of logic it can hardly be said that the Commissioners have suffered defeat, for their position is so bad that they have never ventured to give serious battle. Their four pleas, one of which was simply ridiculous, and all of which were unsound, were at once met by an overwhelming accumulation of evidence. Since then the Commissioners have con tented themselves with suspending a great com mercial undertaking, and setting aside the decision of Parliament by the simple exercise of their authority. Important works are stopped, capital is lying idle, workmen are out of employment, and an enterprise of public utility is frustrated, simply because the Commissioners, having taken up an unjustifiable position, decline to retreat from it. The circum stances of this extraordinary case may be very briefly recapitulated. A company was formed to purchase Dagenham Lake, situated on the banks of the Thames, a few miles east of London, and convert it into docks. Three Acts of Parliament were obtained without opposition, and at intervals extending over eleven years. On the faith of these Acts capital was raised, and the works commenced. £160,000 was spent, and by April last a pier, with warehouses, a railway, and every facility for loading and unloading, was completed. Thinking that this portion of the works might as well be in useful operation, the company applied for the necessary permission to land goods free of duty. But in spite of Acts of Parliament, expenditure of capital, and tes timony as to the public utility of the works, this permission has been persistently refused. The commissioners argue that the accommodation is not required, but the commercial firms of London testify to the contrary; that owners of other wharves would demand the same privilege, but the case is entirely different; and that the cost of supervision would be involved, whereas the company offers to pay the cost. The refutation of the commissioners' objections has been complete, but the permission is still with held. The case, which is entirely without parallel, is not one of merely local interest. The authority to land goods is vital to the success of the undertaking. The works are stopped, in fact, because it is useless to go on with them until the refusal of the department be withdrawn. It is clear, then, that in thus setting aside the decision of Parliament, and inflicting this great loss upon the company, the Customs' Commis missioners have exercisedan arbitrary authority which endangers the interests of the entire commercial world. Whence is this anthority derived ? It is laid down by an Act passed in . 1853, that "the Commis sioners of the Treasury may appoint proper places to be legal quays for lading and unlading goods," and, moreover, may forbid the landing of goods at a port which has been declared a " legal quay." The department has power to raise up and destroy, to give and take away, without reference to past, present, or future. No doubt, therefore, the re fusal of permission to the Dagenham D oc k s C ompany is within strictly legal limits. But was i t ever in which i mp l y the power ferecviseerYd to the f u ll ex t en t and in defiance of all consideration s a ff ecting the public good ? Very dock s h are h o ld er many powers, b es i des this of i t on e f n ct c oh l e ne d fii is t ie l n i a a gt t idno t g l i n t e t, s h e sehro f r :i o n l pd e e t br t i o ey n e s xo , kindred undertakings practice by usage and in nhe C ustoms' d e p ar t ment, u n in d e r t t a h k e i o n r g y s , an the Customs' C do o e m k m s is a s i i i o d n e rs k: publiccon y \ e , t eni l e im nc i e t . ed in fact, is to what the Board of Trade is with regard to railways. A railroad cannot be constructed without sanction from Parliament. It cannot be opened, when made, without a certificate from the Board of Trade, stating that it is fit for use. But this autho rity extends only to the consideration whether the line is a safe means of conveyance ; the department cannot forbid the opening of lines and reverse the decision of the Legislature at will. And the same rule applies to the Customs. On a fair case being made out, and security being g i ven that the interests of the revenue will not be affected, the Commissioners have clearly no ground in the equitable employment of their jurisdiction for with holding their sanction. In this instance, not only has the utility of the Dagenham docks and warehousing been attested by numerous mer chants, but the accommodation that the company can afford is a speciality. It has long been matter of complaint that the goods warehoused in London are not properly classified. "All sorts of material," says one authority, "are mixed together, the only object being to get the largest quan tity in the smallest space." When a fire occurs the consequences are needlessly disastrous. Now, the Dagenham Company have carried out their plans for the special purpose of providing warehous ing for imflammable, explosive, and dangerous goods. The secluded situation of the favourable to the storage of such commodities. But though recent accidents sinew how valuable ac commodation of this kind must be, this powerful argument has no effect upon the commissioners. They have the power and the will, and they are satis fied. Such a state of things is simply intolerable. The Scout, unarrnoured screw corvette, 21 guns, 1,462 tons, 400-h orse power, Captain John St. P. Price, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the Pacific, where she has been on a term of nearly four years' service. Soon after her arrival at Spit head she received orders to proceed round the Med way for dismantling and paying out of commission, and left Spithead again about sunset, conveying round to Sheer ness a number of supernumeraries from the fla g arid training ship in Portsmouth harbour. Lieutenants Harrison and Pascoe, with the crew of her Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk, paid out of commission at Vancouver's Island, came home as supernumeraries in the Scout, and were transferred to the flagship in Portsmouth harbour previous to the Scout leaving Spithead for the Nore. The Scout sailed from Vancouver's Island in August last for England, calling en route at Hono lulu, Tahiti, ()pare, Valparaiso, the Straits of Magellan, and lastly at the Falkland Islands, sailing over 21,000 miles between Vancover's and-Spit head. From the Falkland Islands she brought home a mail, and left all well there. During the last twelve months of the Scout's commission she has been 200 days at sea. The Scout was com missioned at Sheerness for service in the Pacific in May, 1865. The little ship Red, White, and Blue has re turned to America from Europe on the deck of a eteamer. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, April 20. The Corps Le , gislatif is thrusting the Budget through the House with amazing rapidity. Yesterday all the votes for commerce, agriculture, public works, fine arts, the Emperor's household, and several other matters, any one of which might have given rise to infinite discussion at any other time were passed. But there is now nobody to talk about the Budget. So many of the deputies have got leave of absence that it is difficult to form a House, and those who come are inclined to get rid of the business as speedily as possible. The one thing noticeable in yes terday's discussion was an amendment calling attention to the high tariff imposed by America on French brandies. Some of the worthy deputies would like high duties on foreign goods imported into France, but they find high duties imposed on French commodities imported into America extremely inconvenient and annoying. And well they may. The United States Customs taxes French brandy to the tune of 1,1111 francs for every hectolitre of pure alcohol. The consequence is, that whereas French producers sent 70,000 barrels of brandy to the United Sates before the protective tariff, they now send only one tenth that number. M. Planet was the chief speater yesterday. He thought it strange that the Ameri . cans, at the end of a wa r , s h ou ld have substituted a prohi bitive for a moderate scale of duties. The consequence was a great falling off in the commercial exchanges between France and the United States. The Government of that country ought to know from experience that high duties were not profitable to the Treasury. During the war of secession it had imposed a very heavy tax on whiskey, and, hoping to obtain 100 millions from that source, it bad only received from fifteen to twenty. Afterwards the impost was reduced and became much more productive. M. Planet thought that the proper course would be, not to make reprisals by adopting a heavy tariff on this side of the Atlantic, but to "address the American people in the name of the French nation." It is to be hoped that the Yankees will profit by the appeal. No exception can be taken to M. Planet's discourse, but it is clear that free trade is good for all alike. If French manufacturers suffer so much from high duties, there certainly ought to be no clamour against the treaty with England. In this case people com plain of a duty which of all others - may be fixed at a high rate with justice—the duty on spirits. It is positively affirmed that the Empress is _about to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. One of the papers says that her Majesty will proceed straight from Corsica to the Holy Laud. The story goes that this journey will be only the accomplishment of a vow which was made some months before the birth of the Prince Imperial. As soon as her Majesty knew her condition, she solemnly engaged herself to offer thanksgiving in the Garden of Olivet, should she safelygive birth to an heir to the French throne. This vow was to be fulfilled before the Prince had completed his fifteenth year. It is a wild story—but then the Empress is not wholly free either from fanaticism or superstition. The police have just made a very laudable descent on certain cafes in the Quartier Latin, which have for some time enjoyed the reputation of being complete " hells." At the time when the police made their appearance, no fewer than ninety-one persons were found congregated round tables at which baccarat and lansquenet were being played. A scene of indescribable uproar took place when the serpents de ville entered the room. Tables were upset, glasses smashed, and the gamblers dis persed to all parts of the house, some trying to get away by the roof, others by the windows. But the Parisian police generally do their work very neatly, and every avenue of escape had been guarded. The commis. sary took down the names, occupations, and addresses of all those present. These comprised not only students, but clerks, shopmen, artists, actors, petty tradesmen, waiters, servants, women of bad character, and profes sional card-sharpers. After this successful " bag," the serpents de title started for another cafe. Here seventy four persons were trapped ; and at a third, twenty-four. The crew of the ship Pietre-Anna have just been landed at Fecamp, after four days of suffering in an open boat at sea, without food. Their vessel was burnt on the way from Spain to Antwerp, and the flames spread with such remarkable rapidity that the men had barely time to save their lives. The menageries in Belgium have been the scene of two or three frightful accidents. A week or two ago a lion tamer was torn to pieces. Last week the folks of Roubaix witnessed a frightful struggle with a tiger. The tamer had failed, at first, to command obedience from the animal, but, after some difficulty, the tiger went through some of his exercises. The people then cried out to the man to be satisfied, and come out. But he was not s►.tisfied, and attempted to go through a further performance—an attempt which ended in the tiger lying down before the door of the cage. The tamer struck the animal, and a struggle ensued, the tiger lacerating the flesh of the man in all directions, and the latter furiously beating the animal with his loaded whip. At last the beast succumbed, and the keeper, braver than wise, came out covered with blood. THE DIVISION ON THE IRISH CHURCH ,BILL. Three divisions took place on 'Monday night in committee on the Irish Church Bill, the majorities in favour of the Government being 107, 111, and 98 respectively. The first trial of strength took place on Clause 12, Mr. Gathorne Hardy having moved to leave out the words " 1871 " and insert " 1872." This was lost by 301 to 194. Only one Conservative voted with the Government—ColonelJames Grant. Three Liberals went into the lobby with the Opposition—Sir R. Clifton, Mr. W. 11. Maxwell, and Sir Robert Peel. The next division was also on the same clause, the question being that it should stand as part of the bill. The motion was carried by 214 to 103. Mr. Orr-Ewing, who supported his party on the first division, now went with the Government. The Liberals who voted against the adoption of the clause were Sir R. Clifton, Mr. Dalway, Mr. Maxwell, and Mr. S aunderson. The third test was taken on an amendment Pr oposed by Mr. Gathorne Bardy on Clause 14, but the Con servatives were once more defeated by 330 to 232. Mr. Orr- Ewing again supported the Ministry, but six Liberals walked into the lobby with the minority, viz., Sir R. Clifton, Mr. Dalway, Mr. Maxwell, Sir Roundel' Palmer Mr. Saunderson, and Mr. Whalley. It will be seen from this that two Liberals who had hitherto either abstained from voting or had gone with their party went over to the Opposition—Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Whalley. Sir Robert Clifton and Mr. Maxwell were the only two Liberals who went into the lobby with the Opposition in all three divisions. Colonel Grant, who voted for the bill going into committee, supported the Government in the first division, abstained' from voting in the second, and went with his own party in the third. Lord Bingham, who had previously given his voice in favour of the Government on each occasion, voted with the minority in the first and third divisions, but was absent in the second. Mr. Saunderson, an Ulster Liberal, who is opposed to the principle of the bill, went into the lobby with the Ministry in the first division, but sup ported the Opposition in the second and third. Sir Robert Peel only voted once, when he went against his party. Mr. Whalley formed part of the majority in the first two divisions, but deserted his friends in the third. Sir Roundel' Palmer, who was present in the House during nearly the whole of the proceedings, only recorded his vote once, which was in the last division, when he voted with the Opposition. Mr. Butler-Johnstone went with the majority in each division. Mr. Dalway, who has voted against the bill on every occa sion, was not present when the committee divided on the first amendment ; he, however, went with the minority in the next two divisions. Lord Stanley and Mr. Disraeli were both absent. It is not known what kept the eldest son of Lord Derby away on such an occasion, but the leader of the Opposition could not put in an appearance owing to a severe attack of gout. Mr. Glyn and Mr. Adam acted as the Ministerial tellers in each case ; Mr. Noel and Mr. Hart Dyke did a similar duty for the Opposition in the first and third divisions ; and Mr. Charley and Mr. Wing. field Verner acted in that capacity for their party on the second occasion. "It never rains but it pours." The cotton mills of Lancashire seem to have been particularly amenable to fires on Sunday ; we have already reported two. The Man chester Courier now reports a third at a cotton mill at Breight met., near Bolton, belonging to Messrs. Itylands and Son, of Manchester. The building was a ihree-storey one, built of stone ; the upper room was used for mixing, the middle for -pinnirg, and the ground doer for blowing. Ihe fire com menced in the top storey, and rapidly gained such hold (the ;ooni being stored with cotton) that in a short time the place eas wholly destroyed. The loss is roughly estimated at .t:j1,000. rmleriel: lleygato Las given notice in com mittee on 1113 16::11 Church Dill, if Mr. Disraeli's amPndment on clans() 29, line 42, is rejected, to move the following `neecl to f o ll ow. (Providing for disposition of glebe lands): When any real property so becoming vested in the com missioners consists of globe lands, or other hereditaments which have been appropriatod or granted, by or in pursuance of any statute or Royal grant, or letters patent, since tne second year of Queen Elizabeth, for the endowment of any rectory,vicarage, or otherparochial benefice, the commissioners shall, on the application of the said representative body, made within six months after the Ist of January, 1871, by order vest such property in representative b9clY, select to MY MO illterealVAkalMiarti n, :! • SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOiRNALi: ..,The Times comments in strong terms upon the hesita tion and uncertainty of the Ministerial policy with regard to the Irish Land Question. Lord Clanricarde's Land Tenure Bill has again been read a second time in the House of Lords.., Will it be allowed to proceed further? So far as her Majesty's Government is concerned, the answer is "No."_ We catuaßt conceal our conviction that this attitude of the Government upon the Irish Land Question is likely to produce —nay, is producing—very grave mischief. It would seem, primet facie, that the energies of the Lords might have been usefully directed to the consideration of the Ministerial Land Bill. Allow, however, that the bill could not be introduced in the Lords, and it would still require proof that it could not be carried in the Commons. The Irish Church Bill will apparently pass from the Commons immediately after, if not before, Whitsuntide, and there will still remain two months of full parliamentary activity. But we have no desire to deal unreasonably with the Ministry. Let them have the full benefit of the assumption—unfoundecl as we think it— that it. would be impossible to pass an Irish Land Bill this session, and we shall still be con sti ained to repeat that their attitude with reference to this question is producing great and growing mischief. The Government must speak out. This is the least they can do. It is necessary to pronounce decisively and with precision upon the policy the Government are prepared to pursue. We see in Westmeath and Tipperary the natural fruits of the ambiguous language which has hitherto pre vailed, and of the hopes it has excited. We do not con ceal from ourselves the difficulties of the question, but it is the duty of a Government to meet and overcome diffi. culties, and it is the privilege of a strong Government to be able to accomplish this duty. It may be—and this is the most probable interpretation—that they simply desired to postpone a difficult discussion. But, whatever be their motive, they are adding to the difficulties of a question already overcharged with difficulties by their vague and elastic utterances, and it is incumbent upon them at once and decisively to prevent the aggravation of a dangerous state of things by a frank explanation of theirprineiples of policy. The Standard reminds us of Mr. Gladstone's word , ', "Behind the Church lies the question of the land." That was scarcely a prudent statement for anybody to make who was proposing, at the very moment ho made it, to abolish and impoverish the Protestant Church out of de ference to alleged Irish wishes. But the Times caps Mr. Gladstone's imprudence, and, with a yet further frank ness we can never too much admire, urges that, far from the land question lying behind the Church question, it is inextricably mixed up with it. It is certainly not the novelty of the assertion that surprises us. We have made it ourselves, and have been making it now forsome consider. able time. It is the ingenuous approximation of our not usually very ingenuous adversaries to our own opinions that has filled us with such a thrill of wonder. Now what does this all mean? We ask this the more plainly after the halting admissions of Lord Granville on Tuesday. It either means that Ireland is to be governed from behind hedges, by bludgeon strokes dealt in the dark, by sudden dis charges of slugs, by the firing of police-stations, by the rifling of gunmakers' shops, by the assassination of those who have by those who have not, or it means nothing. It is pretended that the Irish Church is being sacrificed to fear, though in reality it is being sacrificed to nothing of the kind, but only to party necessities. Are we now going in earnest to yield to intimidation, having encouraged it by a hypocritical make-believe that it has already instigated our policy? Every Liberal knows that not a shot has been fired, not an arm raised in Ireland, for a quarter of a century, out of mere direct hostility to the Church, but that lives upon lives have been sacrificed to the determination of the Irish peasantry to establish, if possible, perpetuity of tenure. Yet they have falsely affected to be influenced by alarm in their spoliation of the Church, and having indulged in that perilously disingenuous pretext, what will they do now that the promoters of so-called tenant right strive to advance their cause by employing the arguments they are assured have already proved so efficacious ? It would have been more damaging to the Liberal party to have avowed its real motive in attacking the Irish Church, but it would have been infinitely less mischievous to the nation. As it is, they have gratuitously sown the wind, and the Times at least seems preparing itself to reap the whirlwind. The Herald asks if we shall ever have a Liberal Home Secretary who knows when to hang people, and when not to hang? In the days of Sir George Grey it frequently appeared as if the man who was hanged ought to have been reprieved, while the man who was reprieved ought to have been hanged. Things became so bad at last that on one occasion seven hundred policemen were sent to keep guard round the foot of the gallows. Bow thankful Sir George Grey would have been for the Execution Within Prisons Act ! Mr. Bruce is favoured in this respect, but is quite as unlucky as Sir George in distinguishing the particular merits and demerits of capital offenders. The miscreant Wiltshire has his life spared, his brutal ferocity being held as a token of insanity ; while the conscience-stricken Sheward is left to die the death of shame. There is something pitiless in the doom of this man. Altogether, it is a strange and terrible tale. But we cannot think that the execution of Sheward was desirable. We even fear that it may throw discredit on the punishment of death, strengthening the cry for its abolition, and thereby tending to weaken one of the safeguards of human life. In the case of Sheward there was confession before detection. Such a confession implies repentance, and after a lapse of eighteen years—. period itself doubtless replete with mental agony—it might have been hoped that the bitterness of death was Paste• The Times declares itself in favour of a reconsideration of the proposed site for the new law courts. Mr. Lowe's remarkable speech gives, we believe, the deathblow to the Carey-street scheme. He startled the House, and he will certainly startle the public, by his statement of the enor mous expenditure into which this gigantic undertaking has been leading us. Four millions instead of a minion and a half are enough to compel a new examina titni of the whole subject. There are other considerations which may influence the decision. It is possible that in a f ew years this country will have its provincial courts sating in the great centres of industry and commerce, and that little more than the proceedings in appeal will be brought in London. Everything, indeed, portends that the congestion of legal business in the capital which now characterises our system will be greatly lessened. If so, the scheme of an enormous legal Babel in the middle of London will fall to the ground, and the moderate building which will then be necessary may be erected on some more eligible site, and at a cost less absolutely outrageous. The Daily News cannot but regard it as unfortunate that a debate on the site of the law courts should be drawn out to an adjournment in the very midst of the committee on the Irish Church Bill. To reopen the question at all i s to delay a most important public work—to reopen it now is to waste the time of Parliament. Perhaps the lawyers who spoke on Tuesday were a little too certain that nobody but a lawyer could understand the subject. The House never takes kindly to any argument which presupposes its own incapacity to understand. It always dislikes talking shop, but the lawyers were obligee. to talk shop on Tuesday night, as the question was that of building a great legal shop. It was, however, quite true that the advocates of the Embankment site entirely overlooked and ignored the uses of the building. They regarded it from the outside—the lawyers regarded it from within. They assumed that the building would be as useful in one place as in another, and argued the question from that of appearance. The Carey-street scheme was before the House in a mature shape; the other scheme was nowhere. Every man had his own suggestion towards a plan, and all spoke of Sir C. Tre velyan's suggestions as splendid dreams ; but there were no definite plans, and there was not much definite infor mation. Perhaps when the adjourned debate comes on we may learn more on the subject, but we can scarcely believe that the House will consent to Mr. Lowe's sug. gestion, to put an end to the royal commission and begin again, unless some very clear, definite, and certain plan is before it, and a whole volume of information which has not been discovered as yet. The Star is inclined to think that Lord Russell's pro posed literary peerages might improve the general esti mate of the profession. The value of having exalted titles placed within reach of the literary class might be to render the general opinion of the body socially higher. The fore most names in the profession do not require such an aid, and their owners would not, perhaps, care much for the additional reputation ; yet as figments they would be of considerable service to their less famous brethren. The author might or might not be vain of his bauble, but at any rate a feeling would grow abroad that making books was not so poor a trade when it led to a marked distinction equal to that for which judges and politicians were eligible. :erom the nature of the pursuit we are scarcely inclined to think that the life peerages would result in a superior set of authors. Many more might take to the craft, but no ambition to get into the aristocracy would prompt a man to write above his power: The establishment of a literal aristocracy of letters would be a coarse but effective way of impress. ing ordinary people with so distinct a notion of the value of the literary calling that in a short time the stupid sort of commiseration and narrow estimate of faculties would be likely to disappear. On the whole, however, we believe literature would be neither much better nor much worse uff than it is, headed by what the Spectator calls a new ..aste. The most we could expect would be a social deft)- , nee f um a class whose patronage is important enough ma:.:, or mar a book, but whose critical estimates .1 the vniter would not be either very desirable or im )remive. ----• ;& f t qe 61).iThthTL HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 20. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice/ drove in the'grounds yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, Prince Leo pold, and Princess Beatrice, left the Castle this afternoon at 3 o'clock for sOborne. LATEST INTELL IGEN GB (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GREECE. ATHENS, April 20, 1 p.m. The Prince and Princess of Wales have just arrived here. Their royal highnesses were received with great ceremony. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 21. The Presse of this morning states that the Prus sian Government has instructed its Ambassador in Paris to express its sympathy and satisfaction at the late speech of M. de Lavalette, as initiating a de fir.itive policy of peace. SPAIN. MADRID, April 21. Last night there was an important meeting of tho majority of the Senate, to discuss the motion of Senor Borquella declaring all [members of any branch of the Bourbon family ineligible to sit 0 11 the throne of Spain. The propos:tion being op posed, by Senor. Rios Rosas and others was ulti mately withdrawn. AMERICA. GItEENCASTLE, 'April 21. The Allan steamship Austrian, front Portland on the 11th inst. (morning), arrived in Lough Foyle at 10 a.m. to-day, with 10 cabin and 22 steerage passengers. The London mails were not landed. CROOKHAVEN, April 20, 3.45 p.m. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of London, from New York on the 10th inst., is now passing Browbead Signal Station en route for Queenstown. ITALY. BRINDISI, April 21. The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer Principe Carignano arrived here this morning, 70 hours from Alexandria. She brings 65 passengers, 25 of whom are English. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 20.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : q per Cent. ...... 102 Bank Shares 2910 End of month.,. ItaFan Fives 56 3 5 3 per Cent End of month 7l 20 Mexican Loan ... Credit Mobilier End of month... 253 75 Spanish Threes 321 Credit Fonder ...1520 Rome Debt End of month... Deferred -- RAILWAYS. Cash Prleans Northern ...... 10771 Lyons and Medite rranean Southern..... 615 Western 580 Eastern •• Sardinian 52+ Austrian 67B+ Lombard 478 f North of Spain 5B Saragossa Roman 521 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WORKED TILL THE LAST. —Mr. George Tooley, Walmer road, Notting-hill, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of causing a horse to be worked in an unfit state.. George Young, an officer of the Society, said that on Wednesday last a driver in the employ' of the defendant was brought to the court charged with working a horse in an unfit state, and fined 20s.—the horse suffering from disease called "grease," wounds on the back, and was broken kneed. The defendant admitted sending out the horse, but said that he did not think "grease" any reason why it should not work. Tke defendant said he always understood that a horse with that disease suffered no pain. The horse slipped down on the day in question. Mr. Tyrwhitt supposed that was because it could not go any further. The defendant called a witness who said he had never seen the horse go lame. __ _ Mr. Tyrwhiti said the defendant admitted he had had the horse slaughtered, and there was predominating evidence that it was at the time spoken of unfit for work. The defendant would have to pay 20s. and costs. WESTMINSTER. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Mr. John Edward Irving, a young man of very gentlemanly appearance and address, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a great num ber of tickets belonging to tho Metropolitan Railway Company. George Webb, clerk at the South Kensington station, said that prisoner walked into his office there last Satur day, and representing that lie was employed as clerk at West Brompton, said he was very ill, and asked him to procure him a cup of tea, which he immediately sent for. Prisoner was " hovering" about tho cash on the counter, and witness desired him to take a seat at the other end of the office. Shortly aftor prisoner wont away, and then 520 tickets belonging to the railway, worth five guineas when issued, near which prisoner had been seated, were missed. Henry Taylor, booking clerk at Sloane-square, said that prisoner walked into his office on Monday, and represent ing himself as booking clerk at West Brompton, produced the stolen tickets, and wanted him to buy them. He then approached the loose cash, and his hand travelled once or twice towards it, but witness removed it, and considering there was something wrong about him requested him to go, and then sent a message to the Brompton station. A porter proved finding the tickets on the line. Prisoner said he was drunk when he took the tickets. He went to restore them on Monday, and again got intoxi cated ; that ho went willingly last night to the station and offered to pay for the tickets. The Superintendent of the railway solicited a remand, stating there were two other charges against the prisoner for felony. Mr. Arnold said he should remand the prisoner for a week. Prisoner—Will you take bail ? Mr. Arnold—No; lam informed there aro other charges against you. T HADES. TEA ROBBERIES IN THE LONDON Doc s.--Two men named Henry Sparrow and George Enfield, were brought before Mr. Benson, charged with stealing tea in the Lon don Dock. The first prisoner was stopped by Alexander Wilson, a dock constable, as he was leaving the dock, with two ounces of tea in his neckerchief. The prisoner said be picked it up. Mr. Benson said that repeated warnings had been given • to the men employed in the docks where large quantities of tes were necessarily exposed on the quays, sheds, and warehouses. The numerous convictions seemed to have no effect, and men would risk their situations, their liberty and their characters by pilfering small quantities of tea, coffee, or sugar. Here was another case. The pri soner would not obtain more than 2d. for the tea he had stolen. Property in the docks must be protected, and however small the amount of property stolen, punishment in every case would follow. He sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. Enfield was then put into the felons' dock, and Inspec or Ellis, of the Dock police, said that he discovered six ounces of tea in the prisoner's neck-cloth. Mr. Benson—The same punishment must follow in this case. The prisoners will not be employed again in the dock. These wretched petty robberies, so frequent, pro duce an incalculable amount of mischief and misery. The prisoner is sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner —For six ounces of tea. Mr. Benson —Yes, fur ono ounce, if you had no more. MA RKE7 8-7111. E Y. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. April 21.—Sales probably 7,000 bales. The mar 1 o very dull. THE SUNDAY CLOSING MOVEMENT IN PARIS. —A meeting of the principal merchants of Paris was held three days bac's in the Salle Lemardelay, Rue Richelieu, to con sider the subject of closing their establishments on Sun days. A resolution to that effect was carried almost unani mously, and a committee appointed to receive adhesions. 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