The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

INSTITUTION. of the Institution, in the Chair. RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, Adelphi, March 2. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken. dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal. ton, ettc. Commence at Seven, THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOITR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore. Mrs. L. Murray. Lt 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Nfiss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining T FI IS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama. in four acts, entitled MARIE AN TOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen, Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. Co conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. Ooors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 4_ I) Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs 1 .:3 /ate. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Milan and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TL CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude /nth HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPIIITHEArRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN The world-renowned ONRA, whose extraordinary feats on the FLYING TRAP PZE perfectly electrified the Metrcpolis last Autumn, will appear THIS EVENING. Onra challenges the world. Herr OSCAR CA RRE will introducehi Six splendid Trick Horses--Topaze, Saladin, edjid, Tancredi, Freischutz, and Abdanah—pronounced by the entire Press to be matchless for symmetry, breeding, and intelligence In a dition, the incomparable Scenes in the Ar .)na, including Engand's Champion Equestrian, Mr. A. Bradbury, Mr. A. Carre, NI r. A, Salamonsky, Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero, malia, Schwartz, and Krembser, "The trick horses are magnificent animals, every lover of horses should make it a special duty to witness the stud."—Standard "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Ealf-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-It oyAL. Sole Proprietor an 4 Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. _ At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.10, CA RIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0, BROWN ND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David Risher, Andrews, Ilarlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnold, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GE OR GE 'S HALL, Regent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company made such a decided nit. Every song was encored on the first night of performance. ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY MINSTRELS (Proprietors, Messrs WILSOM and MONTAGUE) The Only Company of Christy's who have ,had the honour to appear, by special command. before THE QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVENING at EIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE and EIGHT. Special Grand Performance for the People every Satur lay night at eight. Admission, One Shilling. Private boxes and places may be secured at Mr. Mit ashell's Royal Library, at the musicsellers, and at the hall. 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SMITH'S "Camden Stores," 73, Park-street, Camden THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. giole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, GIRLS OF THE PERIOD. Followed by OTHELLO. Concluding with BEDA. THE ATRE-ROYA L. HA YMARKET. THIS EVENING, RAI ING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, jun., Miss Laws, &c. Afier which. HOME: Sothern, Chippendale, &c.: Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY. Commence , at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tars EvENINti. at 7, to commenee with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE As. TOINETIE : Mr W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore, Mr. Dominick Murray: Mille. Beatrice. Conclud ing with A CUP OF T s.A : dl'e. Beatrice. OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of this Institution will be held at the LONDON TAYERN, Bishopsgaie-street, on TUESDAY next, the Oth March, at Two o'clock precisely. Ills Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERL %ND, P.C., President THE INVIGORATIVE NERVINE ESSENCE.—The most powerful nutritive cordial ever introduced; restores to their normal condition all the secretions, on the integrity of which perfect health depends. It is a specific for debility of all kinds, and from its containing. among other ingredients, pepsine and phosphate of soda, will p• ove highly beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Vide Dr. Hassall's re port. Price Bs. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 225. BAUMGABTEN & Co., 520, Oxford-street, W.C., London. Car riage free on receipt of remittance. THEATRE ROYAL, I)RURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattArton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 14) till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, OTHELLO: Mr. Phelps, Mr. Dillon, Mr . B. Sinclair, &c.; Miss Heath and Miss Fanny Huddart. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled 137' DA. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale, Comp ton, Astley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, Ac. Concluding with RITE L FELICITY: Messrs. Buckstone, Kendal, Rogers, Clarke, Weathersby, White, &c. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Gwynn, Wright, &c. Box-office open daily. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADEL PHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SF.St) YOUR WIFE TO oAm B xRw 14;LL. Mr. G. Delmore. Mrs. L. Murray. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster. A. Stirling, G. Benner°, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &e. GL OBE THEA TBE - ROYAL. TBD4 FVENTNI4, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, cynrus SUCCEQS. 9.40, BLOWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone. J. Clarke; Mesdames Heurade, C. Thome, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs.Stwanboroua.b. THIS EVENING. at 7.30, THE WID, tW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. THE FIELD Ole THE Ci OTH OF a oLD: Messrs. Thome, James. Fenton; r es4lanies Maria Longmore, B. Goodall. I.yd!allaitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-A Manager. ' , Tr. W. H. Liston TIM EVENING, A RACE A PINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole. 1.. Breugh, Jr. Irving. s. Fmery. Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLD ORN. Mrs EViNING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S it I Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. After which, FETTER P:D: Messrs. Cowper. - eville, Parselle. flrow, Branton, W. A, thur, Bartleman. and George Honey: Mesdames Lydia Foote, T urner, Marlbro, Hodson. and Fanny Jrsephs. To conclude with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Mss Fanny Josephs. George Honey. ROYAL AMTIIITHEATR F. AND CIRCUS, lIOLBORN. This EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud f5O Horses; also Ortra, Alfred. Bradbury, A. Carre, town. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. TEIs EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan , H. Ne ille, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson: l'itesdamen Furtado, Schavey. N. Harris. and St. Henry. After which, THE YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville, H. Neville. A tkins. Taylor, Toughan, G. Vincent, &c.; Miss Fur ado and Mrs Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Tinder the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tnis EvmxiNo, at 7.20, A LOVINi: crP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAI7DE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALT' S'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss arie Wilton. Afterwhieb, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tars ECENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ROYAL AL II AMB R A PALACE. THREE BALLET 2 , Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-paik, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, 18.; on M'ndays, 6d.; Children under twelve. 641. ;-lor A"N` 4 aly ft WJ LONDON, EVEDNE,SDAY, MARCH 3, 1869. Twenty years ago the announcement of the death of ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE would have created a profound sensation throughout Christendom. It is significant cf the extent to which he had outlived his at one time immense popularity, that the news of his demise, coming to us t,imultaneously with the news of the demise of M. THOPLONG, the latter circum stance was at once accorded precedence—M. TrtoP LONG being nothing more than a conspicuous medio crity, N. DE LAMARTINE nothing less than a man of resplendent genius, Poet, Orator, Historian, Novelist, Hero! Although the popularity of the latter had long since vanished, his reputation will not so readily pass away, or, for that matter, be even diminished. His name is inscribed in imperishable characters in the history of his country. his individual and per sonal heroism is among the most glorious recollec tions of France. His triumph as an Orator upon one memorable day in the midst of her third and we would willingly believe, if we could, her last Revolu tion was as brilliant and dazzling as any ever won in the lists at the point of a lance, or on the battlefield at the edge of the sword. Unarmed save with the magical weapon of speech, he gave to view upon that wonderful occasion the extraordinary spectacle of one man subduing the passions, in rapid sequence, of five infuriated multitudes. The incident is, hap pily, one that can never be disproved. Other renowned incidents related in history, both ancient and modern, and long believed to have been per fectly wall authenticat. d, have been swept away as utterly apocryphal. We are told, in regard to two of the most spirit-stirring, once related and long credited as having illustrated, in a remarkable manner, the heroism, here of the French, there of the English, on the field of Waterloo we are told that, neither in the one nor in the other was there any vestige whatever of truth —that WELLINGTON, before the final charge, did not cry out, "Up Guards and at 'em !"—that CAM BRONNE did not exclaim, " The old Guard dies but never surrenders !" But, at any rate, in regard to the incident of February, 1848, when LAMARTINE saved France from the imminent hazard, from the other wise all but dead certainty of a Reign of Terror, by disdainfully rejecting the Red Flag as the symbol of Terrorism, while holding aloft the Tricolour as the banner of Civilization—in regard to that incident, at any rate, there is happily no room for any doubt whatever. It is an incident as to the reality of which there were a hundred thousand witnesses. He was weak as a state - limn afterwards. He was a dreamer in the place of an adininis:rator. Ile was a Pact suddenly invested for three months with a Poli tical Dictatorship. Granted all this. But on that day—the day by which his grois Alois were inaugu rated—he won and deserved the whole civilized world's admiration. In the agonies of a Revulu- tion he saved France from Terrorism. A❑d he did so without causing the loss of one single life, without shedding one drop of human blood. Twice since then France has been saved from the risk of Anarchy —but Order upon each of those occa- bious has been restored at the mouth of the cannon and at the point of the bayonet. Upon the three days of June in that same year, 1848, the Red Rep u bli cans were s h ot d own b y w holesale far and wide throughout the barricaded streets of Paris by the soldi ers o f C AVAIGNAC. Upon the occasion of the coup d'etat a comparatively very small number indeed were shot down by the soldiers of Louis NAPOLEON. The cause of Order was maintained, quite as signally, was vindicated yet more strikingly in the February of 1848 by LAMARTINE. Alone in the midst of the mob, alone in the midst of five suc cessive mobs—without a sword being drawn, without a shot being fired. The spectacle presented to view there had seemingly nothing whatever heroic about it. It had nothing whatever of the ,‘ pride, pomp, and circumstance" of glorious war. Outside the Hotel de Ville there was a tumultuous assembly, and in the midst of it, standing upon a chair, a civilian ehd in the unpicturesque costume of nowadays. Seen through the lurid glare of the revolutionary crisis in which he was placed thus conspicuously, that simple and seemingly unheroic figure assumed to itself a dignity of the most chivalrous proportions. Never knight in armour achieved more glory in the shock of battle, than that one man standing upon a chair in the Paris street and addressing mob after mob of the Red Republicans. LAMARTINE won fame for himself, as a Hero, on that memor able day, and the record of it will not very easily be erased from the annals of his country. As a Poet his fame is equally secure, by right of his Meditations PoCtiques, and by right, also, of his exquisite idyll of Jocelyn. As a Historian, his reputation is assured by a single masterpiece, that Histoire des Girondins, which led to the downfall of the ORLEANS Dynasty. His charm, his fascination as a Romancist, any one may find attested among other enthralling works of imagination by his love-story of Raphael. Journalist, statesman, legislator, diplomatist, lyrist, a debater in ,be tribune, a laborious man of letters —for one brief nterval virtually the Presiding Genius of the French Government—M. DE LA3IARTINE has left behind him he reputation of a man of unsullied honour, the fame of a brilliant orator, of a true poet, of an elo quent historian, of a brave, loyal, noble-hearted gentleman of France. SIMPLICITY and thoroughness are the most promi nent characteristics of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Irish Church All the rumours which had been so measure. industriously circulated as to postponement and incompleteness prove to have been the very idlest tales. Whatever may be thought of the PREMIER'S policy, however bitterly and; sincerely his opponents may denounce what they deem a policy of spoliation and confiscation, they cannot charge him with having evaded any portion of the difficulties which that policy has brought upon him. There is no putting off till to-morrow what should be done tolday, no waiting to see how events turn up. The measure may be reckless, may ba wicl.,ed, but it is complete and final. Briefly summarised, this is what the measure pro- "Doses to accomplish. The Irish Church is to be dis- THE SUN, LONDON, W! DNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1869. endowed so soon as the bill is passed, say next August; at the same time the - present Ecclesiaitical Commission will be wound up, and the property of the Irish Church will be vested in a new commission appointed for ten years. Dis establishment is fixed, though not unalterably, for January 1, IS7I. At that date the union between the Churches of England and Ireland will be dissolved, all ecclesiastical corporations will be abolished, and the ecclesiastical laws will be no longer binding as laws except in so far as they become part of a voluntary contract between the clergy and the laity. In the interval between the passing of the Act and the date of disestablishment, and during the reorganisation of the Church, appointments will be made to spiritual offices and to livings, but they will not confer any vested interests. The Act which prevents the Church from assem bling a convention will be repealed, and the QUEEN will recognise any governing body on which the clergy and *he laity might agree, provided it represented both. That body will be incorporated. Vested interests Mr. GLADSTONE always promised should be respected. They will be respected. The new commissioners will ascertain the amount of each incumbent's net income, and so long as he discharges his duties the income will be paid him ; or, if he prefer, he may have the income commuted into an annuity for life. Curates who have been employed in the same parish for the two years ending Jan. 1, 1871, or who have left the parish not through their own free will or misconduct, will be entitled to compensation. Private endowments since the year 1660 will not be touched, but these do not include churches and glebe houses. As to churches, wherever the new governing body declares that it means to maintain them for public worship, or to remove them to a more convenient place, they will be handed over to that body ; but St. Patrick's Cathedral and a few other historic buildings will be maintained out of a special fund allocated by the commissioners. Glebe houses will be handed over to the governing body on its paying the building charges, and it will be allowed to purchase a certain amount of glebe lands round the houses at a fair valuation. The burial grounds adjacent to churches will go with the churches; all others will be transferred to the poor-law guardians. The reci pients of the Regium Donum and the Maynooth Grant will be compensated on the same principle as incumbents of churches. The tithe-rent charge is to be extinguished in 45 years, landlords being allowed to purchase it at 221 years purchase, but the right of pre-emption both as to the tithe-rent charge and as to the lands sold by the commissioners, will be con ferred upon the tenants. The total value of the Church property is £16,000,000. The arrangements already mentioned will absorb rather more than a half of this amount. In round figures there remains £7,000,000 to be distri buted. In dealing with this large sum Mr. GIAD STONE exercised the orator's art by naming one after another the objects to which the money might be devoted, and naming them only to dismiss them. At last, when he had excited curiosity to the utter most by this exhaustive eliminatory process, he pro claimed his scheme, which, in a word, consisted of the application of the money to the support of institutions for the relief of unavoidable calamity. There is no denying the fact that the House was at first both surprised and displeased by this revela tion. There went through the assembly a sort of half-suppressed groan, a half-audible murmur of dis content. But soon the accomplished orator unfolded his reasons, and as he went on those who listened were persuaded, even those who did not wish to be convinced, admitted, as their organ says, that " we do not know a more innocent and prudent mode of getting rid of the plunder could have been devised by those who felt its possession only as an encum brance and a danger." The morning's reflection justifies the night's conviction. Let us try the scheme by the double test of comparison with others, and by its inherent worth. It would have been possible to appropriate this large fund to the co-ordi nate endowment of the three chief religious com munions in Ireland. That scheme has its attractions for several eminent statesmen, but its one fatal defect is that the nation is resolutely set against it ; that the nation would rather have no connection at all between the Church and the State than that the State should in consequence of that connection teach what the majority of the nation believes to be falsehood. Moreover, Mr. GLADSTONE had pledged himself again and again that no portion of this fund should be given to religious teaching. The scheme for appropriating the money to secular education possessed several attractions, and not the least that it was apparently the nearest approach to the purpose for which the money was originally devoted. But, unfortunately, secular education in Ireland is as much a battle ground of contending religionists as the Established Churchitself. The present scheme seems likely to break down, theG Government Catholic,o i e rpn m rime p se l t a ni cab ltoohc l ia e is dagc the oainnssetnitte h .d os t t co i l l e it aa y prlp of the yl,ytthhe Roman eresfloirrpeiuisf Church fund to this purpose, it must have been pre pared to deal with the problem of denominational t ersus set s t e l z e u m l secular education, of ne Church and tohaven difficulty y der b e y d the • entangling it with the educational difficulty. There is a further objection to this proposal ; the Irish would suspect the Government, especially an econo mical Government like the present, of making use of this fund in order to diminish the charges upon the exchequer for education--in order that Ireland might get so much less in the way of grants from the Education Department. A similar objec tion offered when considering the propriety of applying the fund to the relief of the poor. That would have been merely relieving the landlords, who now virtually, if not nominally, pay the poor rates. Public works and the purchase of railways would have offered attractions to a Government anxious to obtain popularity, and willing to spend a good deal of public money in gaining it. But public works mean public jobs, mean public scrambles for grants. They are further open to two fatal objections, the one that a public fund is spent for the benefit of only a few localities; the other, that this scheme does not possess the element of finality, since, if the fund were properly spent, it would be re productive, andthus Government would be frequently burdened with the responsibility of distributing this money instead of distributing it once for all. Rail ways are open to nearly the same objections, and both offer this additional impediment, they bear no relation to the object for which the money was originally granted—the cy pres principle is altogether set aside. No such objections attend the plan which Mr. GLADSTONE proposes. By giving the fund to the maintenance of lunatic asylums, of idiot asylums, of training schools for the deaf, dumb, and blind, of reformatories, county infirmaries, and the training of nurses, several objects are attained simultaneously. The very poor are relieved from a tax—the county cess —which is borne at present even by the occupant of the hovel; there is no room for jobbery, and the cy p6s principle is religiously observed. To the last point we attach especial importance. We could not have viewed without regret and dislike, and even reprobation the diversion of funds intended for religious purposes to purely ' secular purposes like the making of roads land the draining of b ogs . B u t th e most scrupulous respecter of pious intentions cannot object to the em ployment of religious funds in such a thoroughly re ligious object as the care of the sick, the infirm, and theyoung. The Founder of Christianity spent a large portion of his ministry in such works as these. We have not the gift of miraculous healing, but at least we are batter acquainted with the laws of natural healing than the men of 2,000 years ago were. The most deeply religious among us need not shrink from fol lowing the example of him who opened the eyes of the blind, who the denf t , ) bear, the dumb to speak, the halt to walk—of Him who was " the Saviour of the body." The deceased veteran was a field-manilial in the army, colonel of the Royal Horse Guardq, colonel-in-chief of the 60th Royal Rifles, colonel of the London Irish Volunteer Rifles, Knight of the Star of India, Knight of St. Patrice, Knight of St. Charles of Spain, and a Privy Councillor. In 1807 he was married to Frances Maria, daughter of General Edward Stephens, R.A., and by her (who died March 15th, 1863) had issue an only son, George Stephens, who succeeds to the title. One of his daughters was married to a son of the late Sir W. Arbuthnot, Bart. ; a! other to Colonel G. Haines, of the Indian Army; and the youngest to Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.B. The present peer is a d eputy -lieutenant of Tipperary, F.L.S., F.G.S. He was born January 18th, 1816, and in October, 1310, was married to Sarah, third daughter of Colonel Palliser, of Comragh, county Wexford. This lady died in the August following, a n d in June, 1846, his lordship was married to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr. George Arbuthnot, of Elderslie, Surrey, by whom he has a uumerous family. T -II E MAGAZINES. Blackwood is changing its character. Formerly it used - to give mutta, n o w it gives sazdtum. The articles us e d to - as be light and sparkling ; now they are substantial, and, it The Irish Church Bill, issued yesterday, is backed by must be confessed, occasionally heavy. Of what is co n - the names o f M r. Dodson, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. John Bright, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, and Mr. Attorney called " padding, but which, when supplied by such men as Prof e ssor 'Wil son o f o ld , or b y M atthew Arnold of to-day, is often the very c h o i ces t o f wr iti ng, General for Ir e l an d. I t occupies twenty-eight pages of there is little or none in this month's issue. The foolscap, and contains sixty-three clauses. The article on New Zealand is for length (twenty-five prearsble says in effect that whereas it is ex me• pages) and for solidity fitte r f or a quarter l y t h an dient to disestabli s h an d di sendow the Irish Church a monthly. It contains much information about this colony which will be new, 1 think, to most readers. I, at and to use the moneys of that Church in the relief all events, was not prepared to find that in the three years of unavoidable calamity and suffering, and whereas the 1865-7, nearly millions sterling of writ was exported Crown interposes no obstacle in the way, the three estates herein take measures for the accomplishment of from the west coast of the colony. The ris deservedly severe upon the colonists for having neglected to teach the Maories English. As to Maori atrocities, they are no these ends. The second clause enacts that on worse than those of the Highlanders under Montrose. The and after the Ist of January, 1871, the union Macdonalds and the Campbell s , may not lik e t o h ave their created by Act o f P ar li ament between the forefathers compared with men who, within the period of this generation, were cannibals. et the comparison is Churches of England and I re l an d shall be dissolved, and useful when we are told that there is no alternative for the Church of Ireland shall cease to be established by law the Maori but our extermination or his. It is fortunate The third clause appoints a royal commission, holding for the Macdonalds and the Cainpbells that this theory did office during her Majesty's pleasure, to be styled "The not prevails two centuries ago. " The Arts in the House- Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland," and hold," is the title of an article upon a subject on which Mr. Eastlake has lately written a book, but the author of the forming a body corporate, with a common seal and a article does not seem to be acquainted with it. There are power to hold lands for the purposes of `he Act some excellent rules laid dow n f or f urn i s hi ng a h ouse, excellent that is for a man with £2,000 or £3,000 t o spen d By subsequent clauses thi s comm i ss i on h as power to decid e in furnishing, and with a chateau to furnish. As forthose all questions whether of law or fact "which they may of us who are condemned to live in ordinary streets and deem it necessary or expedient to decide for the purposes terraces and crescents, with square-headed holes for doors of this Act ; and they shall not be subject to or restrained and windows, we are likely to profit little by these hints . so kindly offered. "The Northmen, Heathen, and in the execution of their powers under this Act Christian" deals chiefly with the religion and legends of by the order of any court." Further powers are the Northean Europeans. The tenth of the Historical given to call witnesses, &c,, similar to that which Sketches of the Reign of Geo rge 11. i s d evote d to the • novelists of that time, Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne, is exercised by th e Court of Chancery in Ireland. the fathers of British prose fiction. They may hear applications by persons considering them- Most persons, I fancy, will read the last article in Mac- selves aggri eve d. O ne commissioner has the power of millan first. The subject, " John Keble ;" the writer, deciding, with appeal to a court of two. The time for the "A. P. 5.," attract one irresistibly. Two months ago Dean Stanley wrote a sketch of a man with whom he most duration of the commission is fixed at ten years, and no closely sympathised—Dean Milinan ; this month he Commissioner during that time will be able to sit in speaks of one from whom he in many things widely differs, Parliament. The tenth Clause lays down that, " Save as but whom he loves, and in whom, High Churchman though he was always, Narrow Ch urc h man th oug h h e was herein mentioned, no person s h a ll after the passing sometimes, as when he broke an old friendship with Arnold of this Act be appointed by her Majesty or any other per because of th eo l og ical differences, Dean Stanley can yet son or corporation to any archbishopric, bishopric, bene draw a lesson of toleration and charity which our bitter flee, or cathedral p re f erment i n or connected with the bigots of the two chief schools w ou ld d o we ll to l earn. ' Professor Seeley, in his paper on Milton, first read, I said Church." The 11th Clause vests all the property believe, at the Casual Club, is honest enough to say ' hitherto held by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the that which many persons are not honest enough to I Commissioners under the Act. The 12th clause transfers say, that Milton is greater than his poetry, that the ' all property " real and personal belonging or in any wise "Paradise Lost" is a comparative failure. It is a great poem, no doubt, but does not come up to the writer's standard, appertaining to or appropriated to the use of arch just because he chose for his subject one which gave no bishopric, bishopric, benefice, or cathedral preferment to the pass for political for expressi liberty. His the great or p i a ginal intentionwssion of his life—as the Irish Ch urc h T empora li ty Commissioners—said pro to depict the Christian hero. He missed that mark, and perty, so transferred, being subject to rents or other his most prominent figure is embodied evil. He summoned charge, and to the life interest of the archbishop, bishop, ideal virtue to appear, and the summons was answered by or person." The 13th Clause sets forth that "on the said the Prince of Darkness. The "Paradise Regained " was more in accordance with hi s i n t en ti ons , th ere f ore h e t h ought first day of Ja nuar y, 1870 , every eccles i ast i cal corporation it the better poem. Mr. Seeley considers that Milton's finest in Ireland, whether sole or aggregate, and every cathe piece is the "Samson Agonistes." Mr. Galton, who is about dral corporation" as defined by this Act, shall be to short pu article on the blish a boo subject, on " Here which is ditary Genius ingenious, bu t," suppl do ies a dissolved, and on and a ft er t h at d ay no arc hbi s h op or es , bishop shall b e summone d to, or qualified to sit- in the not, I confess, much i m p ress me . Th e f ac t th a t so many judges and chancellors have had relations on the bench or House of Lords." The 14th Clause provides that an the woolsack may be d ue t o h ere dit ary gen i us , but it may annuity equal to the amount of yearly income at present be due also to political interest and nepotism. Political exigencies also have s ome thi ng t o do with th e matter. received by a n y ecc l es i as ti ca l person ot h er tha n a curate, The readers of Good Words have this month a double shall be paid to the said person by the commissioners under allowance of material for study and amusement. The the Act. To permanent curatesthe same amount is granted March number is accompanied by a supplementary part so long as of nearly equal size, an d b y th e intimati on th a t , i n t h e lie hold his office. The commissioners are t o interest of both subscribers and contributors, the pub- decide as to the amount to be paid to any curate other than listless have resolved on issuing occasional supplements at permanent for the loss of his office. The bill then goes intervals. The contents of the supplement just issued is on to provide for compensation to diocesan schoolmasters, very similar in style and character to the usual contents • • • clerks and sextons, to whom the salary is to be paid of Good Words; not, however, quite equal in interest to ' the March number proper, which boasts of essays from during the time they exercise their duties which they had the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Oxford. received before the disestablishment of the Church. To Independently of any adventitious dignity, the recognised ability of Dr. Wilberforce would attract any reader to his organists and vergers also, compensation is to he granted the amount to be determined by the commissioners, an d pages; and in th e thi r d i nsta l men t o f hi s " H eroes of Hebrew History," time Bishop draws the character of the not to exceed one year's salary. Compensation is also to fearless and unflinching prop h e t Micaiali with graphic be given to lay patrons, acccording to the decision of the power and vigorous eloquence. The new Archbishop chooses for his subj ec t one o f th e m o st imp ress i ve pages in commissioners. Some four clauses are given t o th e ancient history, and finds evidence of the truth of Christianity powers of the Church after the passing of the Act. The in the striking analogy of the incidents attending the fall of law is to be repealed as regards synods ; the existing Jerusalem with the very words of the prophecy uttered ecclesiastical law is to hold good by contract ; th e thirty-seven years bef ore , w h en the Temple sto o d i n a ll i ts glory, and the city itself was full of life and pride. Present ecclesiastical courts are to be abolished. The editor continues his records of his Indian The Church is to choose a representative assembly, repre impressionmons, Bo m b ay an d P oon a bei ng hi s subjects renting fully bishops, clergy, and laity, and this assembly this th. The " Good Words Commissioner," is too, takes us on a journey nearer home and to be incorporated I,y her Majesty, and to have powers spews us the interior life of the Staffordshire potteries. to hold lands, &c., on behalf of the Church. Provision Time author of " Friends in Council " contributes another is made for the redemption of the annuities, and for the series of his "short essays" on various heads, chiefly maintenance of churches as national monuments. Th ose connected with pu bli c an d official life. I n t h e supplementary p art I fi n d a pa p er on " C ar t es d e Vi s i te " , which are ruinous, and are yet interesting, are to be (if the by Andrew Wynter, which gives some amusing examples commissioners think fit) vested in the Board of Public of the vagaries of the sun and his sitters. On one occasion, Works ; those which are still used for public worship are Dr. Wynter tells us, two ladies entered the sitti-room of a studio and placed themselves before a mirror ng . After to be vested in the representative body of the Church ; some time they wished to know if the portraits were not and those which still being used are yet national monuments finished, believing the looking glass to be the operating are to be maintained by moneys vested in the Church agent. One y oung l a d y expresse d a wi s h th a t her hair by the commissioners. Then follow enactments with should be made a little longer, while another asked that her jewellery sh ou ld h e omitted in h er portra i t, not thinking respect to burial ground s , ece l es i as ti ca l r e sidences, p r i va t e it at all necessary to remove it herself. The sun himself and mixed endowments. The 32nd Clause gives power to is nearly as fantastic, turning yellow into black, and other the commissioners to sell the tithe rent charge colours into white, regardless of the effect of the chancre p, to the owners of th e l an d f or t wen ty-t wo an d upon the toilette of the victim. The peculiarities of the carte-de-vi s it e b uyers are quite equa l to the eccentricities a half times its am oun t. Th e commissioners are of the sitters. The laws which govern the supply and also to be able under certain limitations to demand of these useful but not always attractive commo- convert their property into money. Compensation is also dities are very perplexing to the uninitiated. provided in respect of the Regium Donum salaries, pro- VISCOUNT GOUGIT, G.C.D. fesssrs, and college buildings in Belfast,the MDynooth Grant, &c. In the case of the Re g i um D onum the Minister is to The death of an o ld an d ga ll ant so ldi er i s announced— receive for his life th e amoun t lie has been accus that of H ug h, Vi scount Gough, whose name is well-re- receive to receive from th e G overnment, an d certain other membered in conn ec ti on w ith th e f amous I n di an cam annual payments are t o b e commute d. T he regulations paigns of twenty y ears ag o. His lordship, whose titl es i n the rolls of th e B r itish peerage were Viscount Gough, of as to the appeal p rov id e th a t w h ere any person Goojerat in the Punjaub, and of the city of Limerick, feels aggriev e d by th e va l ue set b y the commis- Baron Goualm, of Chinkeanfoo, in China, and of Maliaraj- sioners in any life inter es t, a d vowsons, or right pore and the Suth.j in the East Indies, was a s o n o f Mr. of presentati o n, in res p ec t o f w hi c h i s awarded compen sation, he may refer such question t o ar bit rat i on, and in George Gough, of Woodstown, county Limerick, and was respect of any private endo wmen t t o th e C ourt of Appeal born Nov. 3rd, 1779. Having entered the army in 1794, in Chancery in Ir e l a nd. B e y on d th e prov i s i on for vested he was present at the capture of the Cape of Good H o pe interests, her Majesty in Council, u p on th e report of time and of the Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay in th e foll ow i ng commissioners, to direct that, subj ec t t o a l l subsisting year. He afterwards went to the West Indies, and took part in the attack on Porto nice, did good service in the charges upon the ecclesiastical property then vested in brigand war in St. Lucia, and distinguished himself commissioners, whether such charges may exist previously at the capture of Surinam. 'Whilst engaged i n th e W es t to the passing of this Act, o r may b e created under any of . time provisions of this A c t s suc h property shall be Indian campaign he obtained his maj or ity i n th e 87th , then famous as th e Prince of Wales's Irish Regiment. applied, under the management and control of the Poor- On returning to Europe, after a brief breathing time of law Commissioners for Ireland, to the following pur peace, he proceeded to the Peninsula in 1809, and fought poses, or any of them ; that is to say-1. The support under \ - Vonington in many of his mos t b r illi ant engage- of infirm ar i es , h osp i ta l s, and lunatic asylums, in ments . .. dile armies of Napoleon. He commanded the exoneration of the grand jury cess, or other assessment in 87th at the battles of Talavera, Barossa, Vittoria, and lieu thereof. 2. The support of reformatory and indus- Nivelle ; and for his meritorious services at these places trial schools under time Reformatory and Industrial Schools he received a Cross. At Barossa his men captured the (Ireland) Acts, in aid of other grants for that purpose, eagle of the Bth French Regiment, and at Vittoria they 3. The salaries of trained or skilled nurses for poor persons had the honour of securing the baton of Marshal Jourdan, in sickness or in labour, 4. The suitable education and At Nivelle h e was severely wounded. He was at the head maintenance of the blind, and of the deaf and dumb poor of his men at the sieges of Cadiz and Tariffa, and for his in separate asylums. 5. The suitable care, training, and gallant conduct, p a rticularly at the latter place, where he maintenance, in separate asylums, of poor persons of weak was wounded i n the head, the War Office granted an intellect not requiring to be kept under restraint. honourable augmentation to his arms. This consisted of 1 a chief containing a representation of the breach. After the treaty of 1815 there was a long spell of peace, and the prospect of attaining any eminence in the list of our military chieftains seemed anything but promising. It was not until 1830 that Gough became a major-general, and seven years afterwards he went to India in command of a division of the arms , - He had not been long in the East before he was ordered to China, where there was then on hand one of those little wars which, at one period of our history, appeared to arise periodically and to inter- rupt the relations of Great Britain with the Celestial laced at th e head of our land Empire. Having been P forces, Gough soon distinguished himself by an attack upon Canton, which speedily brought the Chinese to their senses. He remained in command during the whole of the subsequent operations, and for his services in this ex pedition he received the Grand Gross of the Order of the Bath and a baronetcy, from Sir Robert Peel, in 1842. A treaty of peace was concluded with China, but Sir Hugh state of ina c ti on . T rou bl es h a d did not rem a i n l ong in a once more broken out amongst some of the native popu lations in the East Indies, and, towards the close of 1843, Gough assumed the command of the British forces which had been despatched against the Mahrattas. On December 29th, in that year, at the head of the army of Gwalior, he defeated the enerny.at Maharajpore, and captured fifty-six guns. In 1845 and 1846 he was commander in-chief of the forces in India, and, supported by Lord Hardinge, then Governor-General, in person, he defeated the Sikhs at Moodkee, Ferozeshah, and Sobraon. For these services he was, in April, 1846, raised to the peerage. The Sikhs, however, although conquered, were not crushed. Two years had hardly elapsed before they again tested the valour and determination of the British forces. This time, however, Gough, who was then in the seventieth year of his acre, resolved to spew them no mercy. In his last desperate struggle with these gigan tic savages, lie succeeded, although at a great expenditure of human life, in utterly subduing them at the battles of Mooltan and Goojerat. For these eminent services, the Government of Lord John Russell advanced him to the rank of Viscount, the East India Company granted him a pension of £2,000 a year, and Par liament gave him an annuity of similar amount for himself and his two successors in the viscounty. Thrice he enjoyed the high honour of receiving the thanks of both 'Houses of Parliament, namely, on the conclusion of his Chines e expedition in 1842, on his defeat of the Sikhs in 1816, and on his final triumph in 1819. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. THE RATEPAYING CLAUSES OF THE REFORM BILL. —Mr. Goschen's bill for amending the laws with respect to rates assessed upon occupiers for short terms, has been printed. It is to enable occupiers of tenements, whose rents are payable at shorter periods than quarterly, to pay rates and deduct the same from their rents : but overseers are not to be prevented from entering into an agreement to collect the rates from the owner whenever such agreement may now lawfully be made - . No occupier is to be compelled to pay a greater amount of the rate than would be due for one quarter of the year, nor more than twice the amount of the rent payable according to the period for which the same is reserved. In ascertaining the rateable value an allowance of 25 per cent. from the gross estimated rental is to be made in respect to the liability imposed upon the owner by the Act. There are also provisions—viz., for appeal against valuation list and rate, and for enabling overseers to make the poor rate payable by instalments. The Act provides for the rating of successive occupiers, so that each shall pay such proportion of the rate as may be due upon the time he occupies the tenement. GASTRONOMY IN CAMBRIDGE.—At the instance of a prominent member of Trinity, an ass has been slaugh tered, dressed, and prepared for cooking. It is an animal about nine years of age, and was for some time subjected to light work, but of late has been "living in clover" on the farm of Mr. Langton, at Thrumpington, in the vicinity of Cambridge. It was dully fattened up, then butchered and dressed by Mr. Holden, a butcher, of Fitzroy-street, Cambridge. The flesh after that pre sented the appearance of beef. The dead weight of the animal was about 15 stone, and the carcase excited much curiosity. On Tuesday it was removed to the larder of Sydney College, where it will be cut up, and joints clis• tributed thence to various college kitchens. These joints will ultimately find their way to the head tables of some of the chief colleges. Xenophon, in his "Anabasis," describes the wild ass as swifter of foot than the horse, and its flesh as like that of the red deer, but more tender. Paris experts say that that of its humbler and more patient brother is more delicate than, and far superior to, veal. The verdict of the Cambridge sevens will probably be made public in due course. SHOCKING :MURDER AT WEDNESEURY. A murder, attended with circumstances of the most shocking dr scription, has been perpetrated near Wednesbury. Eliza Bowen, a woman aged 50 years, was found murdered on Monday morning, on the spare ground near the town named, under circumstances utterly revolting. Pieces of brick and iron cinder were found thrust into her, and the body of the woman, when murdered, was dragged across a ditch and thrown over the brow of a cinder mound. In a ditch in the lane, near where the body lay, there were traces of a desperate struggle having taken place. The body itself showed that the deceased had been engaged in a fearful fight for life. Two circumstances would seem to account for the fact that na aid arrived to rescue her from her cruel assailants ; first, tln.t the nearest house is some 11,0 yards away, and next the t she met her dreadful fate while a thunderstorm raged over the district. That such was the case is inferred from the act that at about half-past one o'clock, a short time before he storm commenced, a resident Hall-lane, heard ver,l men in altercation, gear her 1 ,, u e. ‘vith a woman, ~ I,"ku they were ende.,rouring to i;:. uc,.! to accompany them, and whom they were abusing iu the grossest a 0 I vilest language. THE CHAMBER OF AGRICULTU.Rt PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHES. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY NIGHT. , I - - A day already celebrated in the annals of English i Yesterday, at the Salisbury Hotel, SalisburO ci . u rel history has now become memorable. The long-looked for 1 Fleet-street, the deputed members from the rr °v/il e rs measure for the pacification of Ireland has been unfolded, Chambers of Agriculture held a meeting. Other meant and, without doubt, the doom of the Established Church 'of the council were present, and also some of the ta e93 0 . 0 . of that country has been sealed. In consequence of the of the Legislature. Mr. Reed, M.P. of Norfolk, ogee fine spring weather which prevailed, a large number of pied the chair, and Mr. Acland, M.P. Lord Robert Ploy, spectators had assembled in the precincts of Westminster tagu, M.P. Sir Herbert Croft, M.P. lion. Arthurlno, Hall, and by half-past three the usual string of people M.P., Mr. R. Bright, M.P., Mr. Pell, m. P., &c.. w ere was to les seen opposite the members entrance. Inside the present. House everything betok ene d a " great night: " the floor was The first resolution w hi c h was ta k en i nto consie A e r a ti o t c° d crowded with members ; mos tl y Lib erals, and the Peers', was as to a deputation to the President of the -B oar a l , Speaker's, and Strangers' Galleries were overflowing by Trade on the subject of a separate Government d P four o'clock. The Duke of Argyll took an early seat ment for agriculture. et a above the clock, w h ere h e was j o i ned by the Archbishop Mr. JASPER MoonE, late M.P. for Shropshire, nltbe of Canterbury, although a vacant place was kept for the this resolution, and stated it was essentially necessary e' Duke of Cambridge, who entered the House about half- every department of trade should be represented. o past four. The L or d Ch ance ll or and Dean Stanley sat ' must all remember the cattle plague, and be thought tel immediately behind, and close by were Mr. Reverdy ' under such circumstances it was important that o e Johnson, E ar l G ranv ill e, t h e E arl of llarrowby, and Sir ! should h ave an Under-Secretary in the -Mu se : ye s John Tayl or C o l er id ge. Th e Speaker took his seat at ten believed that having this department they would n 3 minutes to four, by which time both sides of the House security. were crowded with mem b ers , w h o, immediately prayers . Sir HERDERT CROFT seconded the resolution, and et t i ."lll were over, rush e d t o th e l o bbi es, there to discuss the that it was very necessary that the matter. h ou ld be l' probable c h arac t er o f the b ill to be brought forward, discussed, as some distinctive course ought:to be take, The first th ree - quarters of an hour is generally tedious, with regard to the agricultural interests of the count'rc. 4 but it appeared to be more than ever tiresome to-night, and Sir GEORGE JENKINsoN said that he wished t ° no visible signs of impatience were manifested as the longstring whethe r it was to be a gentleman who should attend t° of questions were being gone through. It was generally department alone, or whether he was to be a ° L AI known that Mr. Gladstone (who met with an enthusiastic having a seat in th e H ouse o f C ommons. H e tilos° reception in New P a l ace - yard) would rise about a quarter that it would be better to have a permanent oiUc 3 l l ' date to five, and by that time there was scarcely a vacant seat Mr. 0 unNEy (Cornwall) said that supposesneY a:t i e 8 for to be seen. The rush of members was so great that Government that a department should be set asi ", s - tlit scores of them could not be accommodated in their usual agriculture, would the Government not inquire i n ' s i o t places, and they immediately betook themselves to the matter? His suggestion was that there should ,• galleries, the one facing the Minist er i a l bench department in the Board of Trade, presided over by a r:,, al soon becoming overflowing. The Solicitor-General manent secretary, who should be able to give ierorins' was unable to find a s ea t on the Government to the Minister who presided over the departreent - 0 benches, and rather than g o over to the Opposition i The CHAIRMAN said they wanted a Goseerl o i (as many Liber a l s were under the necessity of doing), . secretary, who w ou ld f urn i s h t h ose statistics winei,h, tsst yet (as took up a position i n th e gallery, where, however, ho would be forced ultimately to supply. He thong was was soon under the influence of Morph eus , wa ki ng up i n one of the departments of the Board of Trade mig ht time to hear the Prime Mi n i ster finish his long and ani- 1 devoted to agriculture without having any seP3 mated statement. Mr. Disraeli took his seat at 4.25, , Minister. vels l where he was soon joined b y Mr. G a th orne H ardy, Lord I After some furth er di scuss i on, d ur i ng wh i c h se 0 ' Stanley, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Lord John Manners. On the front Ministerial bench w ere Mr. Bruce, M 4 amendments wer e p ro p ose d , t h e following resolut i o n DTP. carried :-" That this ch am b er cons id ers i t desirable tL7.,, Bright, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Childers, Mr. Goschen, the there should be a separate department of agricultur e,r Marquis of Hartington, and Mr. Laya,rd, sided over by a permanent officer." Exactly as th e c l oc k po i nte d to a quarter to five Mr. ! On the former resolution being carried, it was sale' Gladstone rose, amid loud c h eers f rom t h e Mi nisterialside quently proposed that the period as to when the dePsuts. of the Ho use . Th e r i g h t h on. gentleman, who looked should wait upon the Board of Trade should he disc us e j tis is excessively pal e , an d w h o a: peare d to feel the Herculean at the next meeting, and this proposition was unaniln° task which had devolved neon him, moved that the Acts carried. relatin g t o t h e E sta b l i shed Church, Ireland, the Acts Mr. DUCKHAM said that the second resolution wag t 0 the Act relating to May/100th, an d th e fi rs t reso l ut i on of the effect that the chamber considered that a cons olidatea7A, House of Commons in the session of 1868, relating to the applicable to the United Kingdom for the sanitary r e for Established Ch urc h , I re l an d , b e read. This was irnmedi- lations of th e h ome t ra d e and traffic in animals, a n d t o ately don e by th e c l er k at t h e ta b le, and the Speaker the establishment of safeguards against the introdner having l e ft th e c h a i r, M r. G la d stone again arose, amid of foreign diseases, is indispensable for preventing e loud ch eers . Hi s vo i ce was exceedingly clear and well mous losses of live stock by contagious and infeeti no o 00 1 modulated, b u t hi s tone was for some minutes rather diseases. The second portion of the resolution Pr°P mournful, and it was no t un til h e rece i ve d some encouraging that there should be full traffic regulations for the Nab,we applause from hi s p ar ty th a t h e appeare d to feel at ease, ing and relief of cattle. He stated that it was well lceooe For the fi rs t h a lf-h our the cheers were loud and frequent, wh a t an i n fli ct i on such a thing as the contagious d i g` but when th e spea k er b egan to di ve i nto the intricacies of was. The milk of the cow communicated disease t°, ss e to the question, still ness re i gne d supreme. O nce there was a calf. It had been tried upon pigs, and affected th e slight titter and s ome l aug ht er , w h en h e spo k e of the life Even kittens had died from its effects, and mo thers ,q interests of graveyar d s ; and at another time, when he given it to their children innocently without knowing 13 announced that the expenditure upon glebe houses had noxious it was. amounted to £1,200,000, an d th at t h e i r ent i re value was Mr. RIGBY (North Cheshire) seconded this Inv soh but £18,600 a year, considerable sensation was caused by and said that in Cheshire they had suffered very eo , members belo w th e gangway, which appeared quite from the rinderpest, and they knew its terrible ere e l 5 expected by th e s p ea k er , w h o confessed that. he himself U n d er th ese c i rcumstances he had great pleasur e had murmured when he became aware of the fact. About seconding the resolution. seven o'clock th e a tt en ti on o f the House appeared Mr. PELL, M.P., wished to call the attention °f the f to flag a littl e, b ut as Mr. Gladstone gradually unfolded chamber to the fact that in Lord Robert gelit%bo his scheme, and shelved that the tenant farmers would gain bill, which was to come before the Hou se ,' 0 3 by the c h anges h e proposed to introduce, both sides regulations were confined to E ngland, ScotlannL ) t it applauded his statements, and the greatest attention was Wales, and did not include Ireland. He thought tin; 0 again directed to th e s p ea k er. Wh en h e took it for would be be advantag eous t o ma k e t h e legislation generil granted that it " was wr i tten i n letters of iron " that the it was stated that foreign cattle got mixed with Iris surplus should be applied to Irish purposes, a general stock on lands there, and subsequently came to Engl: be of as sen t was g i ven ; and then he passed There bei ng no o bj ect i on to the resolution in d e tail' in review the many proposals suggested for the arst portion of it was carried unanimously, wit h disposal o f th e surplus. It would not (he continued) Sir GEORGE JENKINSON would wish to add, 00 be appli e d f or ecclesiastical purposes, not for any Church, regard to the second resolution, that no animal should not for any c l ergy, not for any teaching of religion. This be allowed to travel by rail, road, or water when e 01 declarati on ra i sed all present to the very tiptoe of expec- ing from disease the words " nor within a certain Penrod tation. " What will he do with it?" was the silent expres- from their having the disease." goa sion everywhere prevalent, which was only diverted for a After a few verbal alterations the second port i°ll moment by the Opposition cheering ironically when he ' the rest of the resolution was also agreed to. announced that they must not make this great fia . _O 3 controversy-a s yet itself not perfectly solved- the Le Nord says that Hooalt Pacha is named bi doorway to another set of conflicts and disputes. But th e emp h at i c declaration of the right lion. gentleman Admiral of the Tu r ki s h fl eet . Pe o that, alth oug h not perfectly solved, it was very near its ' The Earl of Glasgow, whose condition 11- ng mogb perfect solution, was h a il e d w i th ringing cheers by his despaired of, has rallied somewhat. An eminent Edit)".o of supporters, which prevented Mr. Gladstone from proceed. , physician, who is in close attenc'anco on his lordshiP) ing with his speech for several seconds. As soon as this opinion that he may yet recover. ,/, At little diversion was over, members once more strained their In the course of some remarks on Free .Tra de ' t ears for the coming announcement. But it seemed as if the d ti le the Oldham Literary Institutioy, Mr. Platt, iti.Pe card thee right hon. gentleman was determined to keep his audience in the system of Protection prevailing in the United_ .3100 the longestpossible suspense. If e declared that if theyapplied forwas not entirely a loss to us, for it left the neutral mar oft the funds to public works it would give rise to jobbery ; England to deal with as she thought proper. ll© _ t _ s es eb that it would be impossible to invest it in Irish Railways; that the foreign plan of having a Societe Industrielle ID' and that it would be a grave mistake to apply it in relief of the poor rat es . At l as t h e rea d t h e pream bl e of the large centre of i n d ustry was a very good one. ed proposed bill, and th en th e secre t was ou t w h en l ie came A Parliamentary paper has been Publisb the to the conclusion that "it i s further expedient that which shows that tho Commissioners f or , 01l the said property or proceeds thereof should be appro. Reduction of the National Debt have rece ive leir priated mainly to the relief of unavoidable calamite account of the banks of savings, and friendly ' grOo .and suffering, yet so as not to cancel or impair the ties, a gross amount of .£101,390,163 ifs. 7d. Th ° l esS interesta o cl obligation now attached to property under the Act for the amount of all EUMS raid to trust( e.s, including relief of the poor." It must be confessed that there was a £62,387,979 19s. ld. The gross amount of interest P i c o. general feeling of disappointment when it was known wh at credited to savings banks and friendly societies by th 00 was to be done with the funds. A feeling of blank dimes missioners up to and due on November, 20th, 15 63 ' appeared to take hold of the Liberal members, whilst on £45,000,557 13s. 10d. the Opposition side the statement created some little Father Porte r , win rdicP eptil laughter,DlP. Cross, who defeated Mr. whose name was pro Glad s t one, being br ught forward in the Convent case condemns ther e dor especially amused at the proposal. Whereupon the speaker, in a tone full of bitter sarca In ° an address which he has delivered at Liverpool h , a l' :tie --sill Porter says that the result of the trial is a proof t sta . retorted that he felt " sorry that the ' s be sot' member feeling, purely Catholic matters, Catholics must no e t .., so g o. member for South-West Lancashire thinks that a 'natter The sting was felt, and no more unseemly prised if they do not receive justice ;" inde • t o . _ t o o t • for a laugh." niggly unjust is the verdict, that "it has amazed r of er, interruptions occurred during the rest of his speech. But ing portion of the English people." Ho hopesf o n _ e o wn! if the Liberal party, who had hitherto been in raptures that the prosaic round of convent life will bee t n: c 0 10 with the proposals of their leader, for a few moments con- glorious now that, by the tearing sway of the veil, b ° sidered that a fatal mistake had been made, they soon altered their opinion when Mr. Gl a d stone dilated with can be watch e d th roug h t h e i r shortened lives. 0 ,000 0 great warmth and eloquence upon th e c l a i ms which lunatics, ! EXTENSION OF STATE AID TO N I GHT ov n od the deaf and dumb, the blind, idi o t s, and the training ' -On Tuesday a very influential deputation waited uP t ° t , of of nurses had upon the p eop l e of a civilised Lord President and Vice- President of the Connin cis e h ipe country, and when he earnestly a p pea l ed to the whole Council, to present memorials praying that their I ° l- .. . n ot House to give the proposal their most serious considera- would take steps to extend to n i g ht sc h oo l s that si' cor Lion, there were sympathising cheers in response. As connected with day schools, but that fulfil every of "Big Ben" struck the hour of e i g h t, and after Mr. Glad- elitism of th e R ev i se d Code, with the exceP tl lo dsi stone had been speaking for three hours and a quay ter, being under the superintendence of the managers of ' lO lo la the right hon. gentleman commenced his peroration. His schools, the same aid as is now given to night sal° 0 00 voice, which throughout his long and interesting in connection with the day schools. The d e P e t an ci speech, d had never failed hi m for a moment, 'as C(1711• 0,,d o f a b ove twenty members of Parliai ne t i ios ie appeare to get stronger and more mellow as other ge s lemon. Earl do Grey and Ripon said be ised to "port was sighted." For ten minutes the conventional tated to adopt any change for the present, but Pr °l° 4 0 1 pin could have been heard in every part of the large and give the subject his consideration, with a view to goo brilliant assembly ; everybody, from the prince of the , legislation. h i ll° blood royal to the peers, prelates, and the people, strained i THE LAW OF LIBEL—The text of a bill --a s . 10 1, their ears in order not to miss a single word of the con- 0 1 11 ' been published for the amendment of the law h 10 eluding sentences. The members in the galleries, It provides that no proprietor of a newsp: . P . , er fu s i r 4 e pol , wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement, ' liab to an action or prosecution for a faithful ~° re fire rose en masse, and every eye was directed to the table, where the orator, in statesmanlike form, with arms of the proceedings of a public meeting, unless .e . ' l of. to publish a fair reply to the libel complained tio g r . outstretched, and turning first to the right and then to ' speaker of defamatory matter not aru . °_ 00 ,3, : the left- now facing his great opponent and anon turnip.. round in front of his party-with his eye flashing fire, and slander shall be liable in certain cases to _D g i _ fen da . o l ; ! If the same were . printed or published. of (1 _: 1 0 7 _ his whole appearance contrasting strangely with the may pay money into court in discharge t a r 5 thel4 passive forms of those he addressed-declared that his mahoi ue'elea for libel, and when the damages do not exceed ''' measure was a work of peace and justice, that his words ' less shallget nocosts than damages, unless AS plaintiff . more . . 0 would be echoed from every shore where the name of , udge certify that the libel was wilful and Ireland and the name of Great Britain had been heard, be e prosecutions, a privateprosecutor will only before approving that the answer to them would come back in the :o bee l .. to send up an indictment for libel after he has with approving verdict of civilised mankind. oe eed si a justice and entered into recognisance to Pr e i t nsees It would be almost impossible to describe the scene in the case and pay costs of the defendant as well as ` har ge. the House when Mr. Gladstone sat down. The Liberals in the event of his being unable to substantiate hie ' ply tO screamed with delight, the Opposition appeared to be These two latter provisions, however, are not to aP r sions struck dumb by the effect produced, and everybody indictments for libel published with the view to ex t f e al so looked excited and delighted. For three hours and twenty. This measure also provides that the defendant, in t h e e ea , five minutes the orator had kept the Houseinrapt attention, of an indictment or imformation for libel, may - Th e and when h e h a d finished the long pent-up feeling could no amined, as well as th e d e f en d ant ' s w if e or husband' and 0, longer b e restrained. Clapping of hands could b e heard bill is endor se d b y M r. B a i nes, Mr. C an dli s h, 3 from the extreme end of the Strangers' Gallery, and it was Morley. 01 111 only the strict forms of the House that kept the members , lf he 113 s vbe themselves from demonstrating their pleasure in this IHE ENGLISHMAN IN AMERICA.— r o, fashion. After a pause of a few minutes Mr. Disraeli rose of so must' ell provided himself with some good introduction s, k i o g• certain of the kindest reception-indeed, his mind w ith ave amid a cheer from his own side of the House, but although ness as to embarrass him in speakin s , it was hearty, yet, after the outburst of popular feeling just travel lers t h era the freedom desirable. I know that some taken " li t ho displayed, it appeared to be cold and unmeaning. The leader of the Opposition did not take up the time of the coin- another code of morality. A man mayiiay ..r e .cos 00 0 . into his house, and treated them as old ..t friends °u mit:ee but a few minutes, and Mr. Gladstone having given faith of a slight introduction ; but no weak-nu . ` _ i .,,,ti ° a graceful reply, 01.3 first scene in the great drama of override the impeos,ol, of gratitude must be allowed to lit guest t be, "Justice to Ireland" was over. No Sooner had the demands of truth. Duty will not permit the a a ic e wa y . ad Premier resumed his seat for the second time than the the important fact that his host-kindly s'i 3' whole House was empty in a few minutes, and Cie other with 3 declare nevertheless uses a l spittoon,. tt business being hastily got through, the House ruse about half an's' spea ks aril nasal tssange.s,ore I nasal twang. facts, Ant past eight. But long after that time scores of people were assembled in the lobbies, discussing the effect of the speech he e delicate ' flavour of kindly h C o. prominently than good tangible t tl as y si v l ill o G o onre in the narrati v f e :i e iv; and its probable results, It was admitted by friends and opponents alike that Mr. Gladstone had never skean him- pervading . every . action of . the enterttine . r . , w is bi p e er. ll: stitutes genuine hospitality. Indeed, " „,to *7 self in better form, and that it was one of the greatest of he rd t o the many great speeches he had ever delivered in the natural that the more . abnormal developments of '.., upe rl character should impress themselves most stoop hara t British House of Commons, the traveller's recollection. Quiet family-life I .he ole o there- f°1 :1 describe ; bowie-knives and revolvers will ma i ke; American pages bristle into some kind of vivacity. 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