The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-31 00:00:00

SPE= OF THE PUBLIC JUU.RIitiLS. 4-- The Times a3ksi, "What will the Lords do?' It may be admitted, in the first place, that a majority of the Peers heartily dislike the bill, and that if they acted on the impulse of their feelings, unswayed by any sense of further responsibility, they would reject it when pre:iented to them. We cannot quarrel with, though we may lament, this temper and judgment of the Lords. But everyone is conscious that a statement of the inclinations of the majority of the Upper House does not exhaust the case. The Peers exercise an effective control over the legislation of Parliament in checking the impetuosity of the popular House, but they also acknowledge an unwritten law prescribing the limits of this action. When the opinions of the Peers are ib direct conflict withthe clearly-expressed will of the nation upon any question fairly put before the people it becomes the duty of the Upperlionse to acquiesce in the national judgment. They do not, as, indeed, they cannot, abandon their opinions because of such a conflict, lint they abstain from enforcing their opinions on the nation. The constitutional course of the Lords is clear. They may, and perhaps must, protest against the bill ; but the responsibility of passing it rests not on them, but on the nation, and, throwing it on the nation, they must allow the bill to pass. Their dignity and their honour require a frank recognition of the situation. The Times is persuaded that the leaders of the Opposition in the House of Lords will choose the best course for themselves, their party, and the country if, after doing what they can so well do, deliver ing themselves in eloquent language upon the great issue before them, theyretire from further contest, and suffer the Ministerial measure to become law almost exactly in the shape in which it reaches them. The Telegraph believes that the real statesmen of the Conservative party in the Peers will be very slow to com mit the Lords to a policy which places that body in direct antagonism to the Lower House. Moreover, the Com mons have in this matter the support of the country, expressed with unusual emphasis and directness at the last general election. The conflict would therefore be, not so much between the two branches of the Legislature, as between the noble order —or, rather, a section of the noble order—and the unennobled. That there should be a divi sion on the second reading would be in no degree surprising, but the Telegraph has no doubt that the House must contain a sufficient number of statesmen who would correctly estimate the unfortunate effect of a summary objection on the second reading. The stake involved would, out of all measure, exceed that of the Irish Church. Never within the period of this generation have the Peers had a more splendid opportunity of proving the advantages of a second Legislative Chamber. They may anger the country by rejecting the Irish Church Bill ; they may insult the country by making destructive amendments ; or, lastly, they may win the admiration and gratitude of every class in the land by perfecting and finishing the great work now solemnly committed to their charge. The Standard says that the Protestants of Ireland, finding the House of Commons deaf to all remonstrances, and stolidly bent upon ignoring every consideration of justice and fairness, have carried their appeal to the House of Lords. It would be difficult to find a parallel for the gathering assembled to meet a body of the Peers at the Duke of Abercorn's last Saturday. It is impossible to deny that the feeling against the bill out of doors has found no adequate expression in the House of Commons. Argument has been drowned by clamour, and the blind subservience of Mr. Gladstone's majority has resisted all appeals to its sense of honesty and justice. Whateier may be the decision of the House of Lords, it is desirable that it should be arrived at with a full perception of the wide-spread and earnest character of the opposition which it has aroused out of doors. It has found no echo in the House of Com mons, but the Standard trusts that no opportunity will be lost of forcing it upon the consideration of the Peers. They may deem it necessary, in the exercise of their discretion, to disappoint it to some extent, but the more frequently and imposingly its reality and intensity are asserted before them by demonstrations such as that of Saturday, the more reason is there to hope that it will stimulate and encourage them in the discharge of their duty. The Daily News declares that, whatever Irish deputa tions may say, the Lords have but one course open to them, and that is to accept Mr. Gladstone's bill. The more quietly and promptly they do so, the better will they consult their own dignity and the peace of the country. The Marquis of Lothian, in a sensible and patriotic letter, which adds to the regret naturally felt at the physical incapacity which keeps him in the prime of life and maturity of his judgment from his place in Parliament, has correctly described the position and duties of the 'Upper House in such a juncture as the present. "It is not now," he remarks, " a question between Commons and Lords ; it is a queStion between Parliament and the nation ;" and, the nation having no constitutional power of bringing its will to bear upon the House of Lords, "it is all the more necessary that the House of Lords should bring that will to bear upon itself." Lord Lothian looks with some distrust on the Irish Church Bill, though he candidly admits that twenty years hence he may make the discovery that his apprehen sions were ill-founded. That term is about the distance at which the Lords lag behind the general intelligence of the country. What they are raying now about the dis establishment of the Irish Church they said in 1829 about Catholic Emancipation, in 1332 about the Reform Bill, in 1846 about the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and in the spring of 1867 about Household Suffrage. On all these occasions they made wry faces, swallowed the medicine, and found themselves much the better for it. The idea that Mr. Gladstone would dissolve Parliament, or resign on account of a hostile vote in the Lords, springs from a strange misreading of the theory of the Constitution, and a want of acquaintance with its practice. The confidence of the Lords is not essential to the existence of a Government; and it would be folly in a Minister to punish a House of Commons for having confidence in him, and to appeal to the country against his own majority. The Lords have to choose between passing the Irish Church Bill in July or in November. The Star, in discussing the language used by the Pro. testant deputation on Saturday, observes that one speaker threatened the Conservative peers that if they considered the interests of party before those of the Church, the Irish Protestants would throw them overboard. Whether this be the language of cajolery or of menace, it will be equally intolerable to all high-spirited and right-minded men. Another speaker was loud in his denunciation of " the tyrant majority" of the House of Commons. In all free countries majorities rule; and he might as well have launched his harmless thunder against " the tyrant majority" of the United Kingdom. Sir Edward Grogan, it is true, expressed his conviction that a great change had taken place in public opinion. This is a statement easy to make, but impossible to prove. All the facts go absolutely to refute it. There is no evidence whatever in either of the three kingdoms of any change of public opinion. Another general election might turn a few seats one way or the other ; but the Liberal majority would be substantially unaffected by the issue of such an appeal. Yet the depu tation have so little faith in the stability of the public judgment that they want the Lords to throw out the bill, in the insane hope that Mr. Gladstone would again take the sense of the country, and that the Tory party would be returned to power pledged to maintain the Irish Church. The Dean of Limerick talked about the House of Lords rejecting the bill " finally "—whatever that may mean. The worthy Dean must be dreaming of the times of the Tudors. If the House of Lords were so unwise as to reject the bill, it would be returned to them again ; and while delay would inflame party animosity and stir up passions which it were better to tranquillise, it is not the cause of religions freedom that would suffer from the evil deed. The Herald remarks that Mr. Goschen's statistics as to the past and present expenditure under the poor law would be disheartening if taken per se; but they admit of many explanations materially tending to diminish the unfavourable impression which, on first sight, they are but too well calculated to make. The sum expended on pauperism in London, which in thirty years, commencing with 1834, amounted to £1,500,000, has reached within the last three years the startling figure of £1,400,000 ; but, happily, within those atter years there has been a general decrease of expendi ture in all other localities, the what may be designated as essentially rural districts exhibiting a large diminution in the rates when compared with the counties constituting and adjoining the metropolis. The Herald is happy to find that Mr. Goschen, in his proposed legislation, strikes boldly at the source of all the evils which embarrass the action of the department over which he presides. All local acts under which recalcitrant guardians can shelter their misconduct or justify their opposition must be repealed ; and the board, entrusted with tho care of the poor and the interests of those compelled to contribute to their relief, most he armed with such means of enforcing their views as will leave them justly responsible to Par liament for the proper discharge of the important duties they have been appointed . to discharge. A late bishop • being desirous of enlarging his palace, caused an architect to preßare plans of the proposed alterations; but when he came Ao know the eztimated cost of the works, he declined to proCced. " What cheque shall I draw fur your fees, sir?'' said the bishop to the architect, who told him that, as the plans were aban doned, his charge would be a hundred guineas. "A hundred guineas ! Why, sir, mapy.of my curates do not get so wild' in theconiset a . 3-ai." . ''` .l. lsbieitilY i " said the other; "but your f lordship i iust remember that I am a hieheß Among. architect s."—Charcli Reeicic. THE SUN, LONDO_N, MOINDAY EVENING, MAY 31, Uni39. LAW - AND POLICE. MISCELLAIVEOUS NEWS. - -lii. 1 - THE "COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER."—OR Saturday, i LOYAL DOINGS AND SAYINGS. in the Court of Queen's Bench, the case of the Dement- The amusing, but not always discreet, London water estates was heard. Amelia Ratcliffe, the lady correspondent of the Elgin, Courant writes some r.:laiming to be the desce n d an t o f th e un f or t u n a te Ratcliffe, am using gossip respecting the Prince of Wales. Referring to the recent appearance of his Royal Earl cf Derwentwatcr, who was executed in the reign Highness among the geographers, the correspondent )f George 11. for participating in the Scotch rebellion, says that the very neat speech made on this occa appealed against conviction for trespass. Miss Ratcliffe, sign, as well as other royal speeches previously, by way of asserting her right to his estates, which had ' puziled those who are best acuainted - with the been confiscated by tho Crown and granted to Greenwich Prince's capacity for originating and giving utte- Hospital, had taken possession of Dilston Castle, an old . ranee to ideas. While some persons were discussing castle forming part of the estates, and being expelled the phenomenon, Dr. Howard Russell interposed from it, she raised a wooden hut on the side of the road. rather gruffly, and jerked out, between the puffs of For this the magistrates convicted her for trespass, and his cigar, I wrote out the speeches, and doosid hard she appealed. The court affirmed the conviction, work I had to keep them short enough for the A VELOCIPEDE IN TROUBLE.—At Lambeth, a young Prince to trouble about getting them off by heart." T man residing at Brixton was charged with driving a The same correspondent intimates that the grant to the Prince from the Privy purse, together with a velocipede on the footway. The magistrate said that it was an offence against the Act, and the defendant must "little round sum to pay for some of his outstanding obligations " was " extracted, as one would say, at pay a penalty of 10s. and costs. , the point of the bayonet." FORTUNE-ThLLING AT BIRMINGHAM. - Margaret Park s It is stated that the Viceroy of p E tisto be was; charged, at the Birmingham Police-court, with received on this occasion in a manner ' worthy of his obtaining money by fortune-telling. The case having rank. After the magnificent reception just given by been proved against her, she was sent to gaol for one firm to the Prince and the Princess of Wales, it was month, with hard labour. simply impossible to send him to an hotel ; and as PLATE GLASS INSURANCE COMpANIES.—At the South- the royal hosts could hardly ask the Earl of Dudley wark Police-court, on Saturday, a young man named to take their place again, Buckingham Palace, which Williams alias Webb, was charged with conspiracy to is empty 360 days of the year, is to be placed at the defraud, by pretending to be the agent to the " General disposal of his Highness. Plate Glass Insurance Company," and the "National THE LORDS AND THE BILL. Plate Glass Insurance Company," which were The John Bull says "it is impossible that Mr. never in existence. The court was crowded Gladstone's spoliation bill can become law during by licensed victuallers and others who had been the current session." It will either be so altered in defrauded by the gang to which the prisoner belonged. A committee that Mr. Gladstone will repudiate it, or it great deal of evidence was given identifying the prisoner will be unconditionally rejected. Either event would , with the mock company, and his solicitor reserved his give time for reaction and agitation, and " agitation" defence, only saying that he was the dupe of more guilty in season and out of season, is one great requisite. parties. He was committed for trial at the next sessions The same paper asserts that the country has not of the Central Criminal Court, bail being accepted. yet expressed any opinion upon the Irish Church ; all that it decided was, as to whether Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Disraeli should be Premier (why it decided in favour of the former our contemporary does not say). The John Bull further asserts that, while Lord Russell will vote for the second reading, Lord Cairns is surprised at the feeling which has been evoked in favour of decisive action on the part of the Lords. Our ccntemporary csks only for another year, and pro plies:es that if that space for repentance is given, everyone will be astonished at the result. According to the London correspondent of the Scotsman, the recent semi-authoritative announce ments respecting the intention of the Lords to throw out the bill were put out as feelers ; and the result has been to skew the entire want of sympathy between the Orange party and the great bulk of the nation. The Government do not chew the least anxiety as to what the Lords will do. The Spectator infers from a recent article in the Standard that the Lords have thrown up the game. The amendments which the Conservative organ insists upon are very few, and, with one exception, of small importance. If, therefore, these are all the changes which will be asked for by way of preserving their lordships' dignity, it is not likely that any serious difficulty will arise. The Saturday Review likens the position of the Irish Churchmen to that of an offending servant to whom the stern head of the household has given warning. The Lords are to say something in their behalf. " Missis is to speak for them." But the Review does not think anything - will come of it. The Lords will not alter the irrevocable fiat of the Commons. There is Lord Carnarvon, for instance, who last year voted for the Suspensory Bill ; Lord Salisbury, who deprecated the opposition of the Peers to the clearly-expressed will of the people; and Lord Cairns, who cannot but remember that both Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Disraeli's Chancellor have small chance of returning to office until this matter is settled. The Church Review criticises very severely tho conduct of Irish Churchmen. Their threat to dissolve the union if the Church is disestablished shows how little their loyalty is worth : " Never was a cause snore hopelessly mismanaged. These Protestants are themselves sealing the worst fate •tliat can befal the Irish Establishment. They are basing on the ascendancy principle, light of faction and rebel lion. An y one not judicially atlniedetah'elsneitnhveeystdife)gfenjilesioni-einlyciple of ascendancy in a lurid blind can see that nothing is to be got out of Parliament, upon this ground. The principle of ascendancy is for ever gone as a rule of policy in this country. how can we help these people? It is almost difficult to syropa thire even with the cause that has the irrecoverable un happiness of their advocacy." A COMMONER AND TWO PEERS ON THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. THE MURDER AT WATERFORD. The alleged murder in Waterford is now confirmed. It took place nearly a week ago, in the parish of Rath gormack, county of Waterford. The murdered man was a respectable, peaceful farmer, named Patrick Power, who held a farm of fifty acres at Craiga-villa, in the parish of Rathgormack, which he came into possession of at his father's death. There is nothing in the crime which can in any way connect it with the long list of agrarian out rages. .Power was on terms of friendship, and even intimacy, with all his neighbours, and has neither been evicted out of a holding nor taken the land of others. He Las held the one farm always, and has never dabbled in any way with those of others. The particulars of the outrage are these :—On the morning of Tuesday last the deceased went into the town of Carrick-on-Suir, about seven miles from his own house, to dispose of three firkins of butter, which he sold, and left the town about eight o'clock in the evening, with some flour and oatmeal, in the cart he had brOught with him. He was then observed to have taken a little drink. At ten o'clock the same night he called at the public-house of a Mrs. Kennedy, at Rattgormack, in company with a young man whom the Kennedys do not know. They got some drink, and took snore away with them in a porter bottle. The girl noticed deceased had taken drink, and diluted the whisky she gave him with water. The other man was sober. After leaving this house nothing more was heard of him till the following morning, when about seven o'clock he was found by his son and daughter, who had gone out to look for him, lying stone dead iu a ditch on his back, with his head literally smashed to pieces, having fourteen frightful wounds on it, so that the features were fearfully mutilated. The place where the body was found was only about fifty yards from some inhabited cabins, and about 300 yards round a turn in the road from Kennedy's house, and about a mile from his own dwelling. A large pool of blood was under him, and the stones lying near all besmeared with blood also. His horse was found straying by his son on Wednesday morning, which led to their going in search of him. Information was at once given to the police. Detachments scoured the country all day in search of the perpetrators of this deed. An inquest was held on the remains at deceased's house, by Mr. W. H. Gore, coroner, and a respect- Able jury, when a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned. On Thursday morning a party of constabulary succeeded in arresting the man who was last seen in company with deceased. His name is Wall, and he admits having been with deceased, and tells a confused story of some recollection of lying down with the deceased to sleep on the roadside. His , clothing was saturated with blood, and he was in bed in his own home when arrested. He has been committed to the county gaol on the suspicion of being connected with the murder. It is surmised that the renewal of some old faction feud gave rise to the commission of tho deed. The deceased's father, it is said, was the leader of oae of the factions in this part of the country called the " Polleens" and the " Gows," but the deceased himself was never mixed up with the faction feuds, but always led a peaceable, quiet life. It is further reported that the man arrested belonged to an opposite faction. This, of course, is only rumour. All the money deceased had with him when leaving Carrick was found on his person when dead. Mr. Loch, county inspector, and Mr. M'Carthy, sub-inspector, are prosecuting the search for further idol.- ' 'nation with great activity. The lion. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., has for some time been treasurer of the Irish Church Missions. The Hon. A. Kinnaird voted for the disestablish ment of the Irish Church. The supporters of the Irish Church Missions think that he cannot conscientiously fulfil their office if he believes the Church ought not to be retailed as a State Church. They therefore request the hon. gentleman's resignation. Mr. Kinnaird has consented. In doing so he declares, in a letter to the Rec:nyl, that he is as much opposed to the Roman Catholic religion as ever ; " but," he says, " I share with many brethren abroad and at home in the feeling that the Irish Church Establishment gives an advantage to that system by the semblance of being persecuted : and I therefore in Parliament supported the measure for disestablishment." To Mr. Colquhoun, the chairman of the society, he writes, " I have for fourteen years had much pleasure in acting as treasurer to the Irish Church Missions, and accord ing to my judgment the course I have pursued in Parliament will really most effectually advance the cause of the true Church of Christ in lreland."- Earl Grey does not by any means agree with Mr. Kinnaird, but he, notwithstanding, does not seem to care about ousting the Irish Church Bill. He received a deputation on Friday from the Dublin Church conference, which urged him to move the rejection•of the measure in the Lords. But he was very cautious indeed. He would promise nothing. He sympathised with Irish Churchmen on account of their position, was obliged to• the deputation for bringing the matter under his notice, &c. But the strongest terms he used with regard to the action of the Lords on the bill was, " Should the House decide a p t re l s e e as , t s o h f ap t e w e o ‘ u i l l d s p l r il o te b l a y bl t y o upon entertaining th e d e t a il s o f th e measure , somo e b fl e o g w ua f r r d o e n d l against." That ; ray does not look like fighting. Earl Grey ‘ L ‘\ surrender"oan opponent willT The e o ofi o n i r n gl i i n ie th e Lothian,crl of the bill as far as its abstract principle is concerned, is much more decided than Earl Grey. The latter is in doubt evidently, the former boldly counsels the Peers to pass the bill. He writes, he says , under great bodily suffering ; he has long been withdrawn from the world, and he fears that not mixing with it may have cramped his views ; but as he cannot give his viva voce advice to the Lords, he asks the Times to be allowed to give it through its columns. He points out that last year the dispute was between the Lords and the Commons, now it is between the first and the nation, the Lower House undoubtedly represent ing the country in this matter. He still dislikes the • bill, he says ; but he remembers that free trade turned out a blessing, and this • measure (though he can hardly conceive it) may do likewise. If the bill is thrown out, it will revive agitation and ill-feeling, and cause blood to be shed in Ireland, and the newspapers to teem with horrors. There can be only one reason for rejecting the bill—that the country has changed its •• mind. Those who think so are Justified in attempting to send the question back to the constituencies.- But is it so ? If not, the rejection would be a great mistake. SHOCKING MURDER AT GLASGOW.—A mother WAS murdered by her daughter in Glasgow on Friday night. The daughter, who is 37 years of age, had been drinking for several weeks, and appear to have drank her self into delirium tremens. In this state she heard voices in the clouds ordering her to murder her mother, and she obeyed them. She half•choked the old woman, and then beat her on the head with a smoothing-inn. Thereafter the murderess went to her brother's and told what she had done. A STRANGE EPISODE.—The Moniteur de l'Armee gives a strange episode in the destruction of the General Abbatucci. '['here were some officers and their wives on board, and when it became evident there was no hope, the poor ladies and gentlemen took off all their jewels and placed them, with their money, watches, chains, and rings, on the deck. "We must not appear before .God with things like these." It would seem as if they believed their physical presence would be carried beyond the grave. TIIE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND CIIIIRCH PRO PERTY.—At a meeting of the committee of the Archidia conal Conference the Bishop of Lichfield suggested that the rudidecanal conferences should at an early period discuss the desirability of appointing a Board of Trustees for the entire Church in order that all new church property should be vested in them. He stated that he was every day more averse to placing Church property in the hands of the State, because by a single clause in an Act of Parliament both old and new may be swept away. The suggestion was received without any comment whatever. —Shrewsbury Free Press. PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS' SALARIES. —The Pres byterians of Ulster, or some of them, seem to starve their ministers. At a meeting in Tyrone the other day, Mr. Green, the Crown Solicitor for Antrim, gave some statistics of ministerial stipends. There were, be sal!, 270 congrega tions in connection with the General Assembly paying less than £5O a year each to their ministers. In the Dun gannon Presbytery, for instance, there are six ministers who receive annually the following amounts in excess of the Regium Donum:—£22 9s. 5d., £35, £23 Os. 11d., £37 3s. 7d., £34 18s., and £2 Vs. 10d ! In the Donegal Presbytery there are several ministers who receive about . £22 each, and other Presbyters appear to be nearly as bad. Yet the Ulster Presbyterians include many rich people, and are generally the most thriving class in Irel and. NOVEL APPLICATION FOR DAMAGES. Not a hundred miles from Llandyssil, Cardlganshire, a young man, disappointed in a love affair, sent a bill containing the following items to his " deceitful love" after she had been wedded to another Nov., 4, 1868.—Mrs. late Miss —, to Mr. To 53 glasses of wine at dif ferent fairs and markets, 13s. 3d. ; to 1 pair of shoes, and heeling another pair that I wore out in going and coming from 4s. Gd. ; for l)r.'s bill for curing a cough, caught by waiting under your window on a wet night, V.) its, 941.; to postage, &c., is. lid.; to deceiving me and throwing me out of a partner for life, £lOO ; to enticing me to come to 99 times, at 2s. Gd. each time, £l2 ; to 12 days lost in your company, £4 Vs. 6d.—£128145. 9d. --Shrewsbury Free Prem. A Bunoran. DROWNED.--Dr. Lankester, the i coroner, has received information of the shocking death of a man. It appears that about half-past two on Saturday Imorning Police-constable Joseph Love saw a man getting out of the first floor back window of the house No. 6, Mocas cottages, Camden-street, St. Pancras. Before the constable could get to the house the man dropped from the balcony into the street, and, seeing the con stable following him, he ran down the street, climbed I I over a garden wall and got on the towing path of the Regent's Canal. The constable followed, and the deceased hid himself under the College-street Bridge, but seeing the constable still following he ran along the The constable got up to the deceased, and s t a ow id in li g e path. i ld have to go to the police-station, but as he was going to catch bold of him deceased suddenly stepped hack and jumped into the canal. The constable endeavoured to reach him, but before he could do so the deceased bad got into the middle of the canal. In a m• .ute or so be called out, " I ape going down ; save me ! save me !" but before the constable could render him any assistance he sank. Drags were immediately sent for; but when the deceased was lniought to the towing-path life was found to be extinct., I few days, if they do so ; a warning taxe, or olame yourscu - . We want to hurt no man who do not 'deserve it. You'r getting fair play and time to consider, and then blame yourself. If . . . or . . . force ye, we will have revenge on them. " THE IRISH BOYS AND SONS OF FREEDOM. " God save Ireland." FOREIGN NOTES. ENGL,i/tD AND AMERICA. The memorial has since been forwarded, notwith standing the notice, but it has not, it is said, been so numerously signed as it would otherwise have been. The " Yankee " correspondent of the Spectator says that the comments of the English press on Mr. Sumner's speech are pitched in a surprising tone; but they are not likely to give offence. The writer believes the assumption that the Americans are animated by a dangerous feeling of ill. vill to England to be a mistake. There is no such feeling. " For eight years there has not been here so placid a tone of mind towards England as there is at present—one so disposed towards hearty and permanent relations of friendship." The Spectator, in an " editorial," adds its belief that American sentiment towards Britain has greatly changed —that the disposition is to throw over Mr. Sumner's speech. But this is simply the result of the change of feeling in England. REDUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. No fewer than twelve ironclads—all of which did good service in the civil war—have been advertised for sale by the War Department of the United States. This fine collection of war material is in good condition, and, accord ing to the .A . ClO Yen: Times, is sold solely to carry out the policy of economy and reduction. This advertisement has, certainly, the reverse of a warlike appearance. Only a few days ago an American official gave his opinion that the United States navy was not in a condition for war, and that it was more than questionable whether it could keep the seas against the British fleet. The sale of twelve ironclads is, then, a decisive peace manifesto. LOSS OF TWO ABERDEEN SHIPS AND THEIR CREWS. Two deplorable shipwrecks have occurred in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A telegram from Quebec announces the wreck of the ships Zetur (Captain Taylor) and Margaret, both of Aberdeen, off Anticosti Island. Al' hands were lost except the mate of the Margaret. THE ATROCITIES ON BOARD THE JAMES FOSTER. The horrible story of the voyage made by the emigrant ship James Poster, from England to New York, will not yet have faded from the recollection of newspaper readers. The Emigration Commissioners at New York have for some time past been inquiring into this affair, and their report was ready a few days ago. They find fault with the arrangements of the British Emigration authorities, whom they severely censure. The report says the principal security against the recurrence of such evils is to be found, perhaps, in the rapid discontinuance of sailing ships in the carrying of emigrants to New York, and the employment of steam vessels in their stead. Mean while, shipowners are besought to exercise greater care and caution in the selection of their office's. WHO REPORTED IT ? Mr. Roebuck writes that he has been misunderstood. He did not say the Irish Church Bill was confiscation and robbery. Ile still thinks the principle of State endowments to be unsound. What he said was—as at Sheffield—that the proposal of the measure was impolitic and dishonest—impolitic because it would not satisfy that class of the Irish people it sought to conciliate, dishonest because it was put forth under false pretences. A SUGGESTED ALTERATION OF THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. The guardians of Gort, Ireland, are not satisfied with the provisions of the Irish Church Bill, and they seem suddenly to have discovered . wherein it could be made more according to their likings. They immediately—notwithstanding that the provisions of the bill have been settled by the Commons—post off to Mr. Glad s t one a sugges ti on that the Moneys of the Irish Chur c h s h ou ld b e use d f or wo rkhouselospita ls and infirm ar i es as we ll as f or coun t y ditt o . The Premier instructs Mr. A. W es t, hi s secre t a ry, to point out to his critics that the institutions they propose to endow are a direct ch arge u p on th e poor's rate, and . the expressly declares that the moneys shall not be applied for lessening that rate. The county in firmaries, moreover, when properly managed, will relieve the parochial ones , an d th us i n di rec tl y th e aim of the guardians will be accomplished. MR. CRICIIF.STER PORTESCUE. The latest rumour respecting the Chief Secretary for Ireland is that he is to receive a peerage, but to retain his present position, and that an Under-Secre tary will be appointed to represent his chief in the House of - Commons. Another report, however, states that he will positively give up his post as soon as the Irish Church Bill is safe. ANOTHER THREATENING NOTICE. Some Irish tenants around Clonmel proposed to send .a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant to assist the authorities in the p7evention of crime, and offering their services as special constables. &CM after this intent was made known the following notice waS posted " Any tenant of the lands of . . . who swears to be a catch pole, we are already sworn, and our oath we will keep. that we will make them tenants-at-will in a THE SPANISH CROWN. The Spanish Cortes have passed the entire draft of the new constitution, the most important article of which is that Spain shall henceforth, as hitherto, be ruled as a monarchy. But who is to be the monarch? It is most probable that a Regency will be established whilst the country waits for a sovereign to turn up ; and the Telegraph has reason to believe that the Regency will last until the ex-Queen's son, the Prince of Asturias, grows up to manhood. Then he will become King. The immortal correspondent of the Telegraph perceives signs which are all in favour of this semi-restoration. "I can inform you that the Spanish Royal Family so confidently anticipate changes in their favour that all improvements, building, and pur chases in this city have been for the time suspended. Personages high among the exiled family have said that the elevation of the Prince to the vacant throne is a cer tainty. The Grand Chamberlain of Isabella 11. has started for Madrid." The difficulty is that the members of the Spanish Ministry, and especially Prim, have affirmed again and again that " all restoration" is absolutely impossible. Capacity for leek-eating is by no means an unusual quality of states. men, but even this valuable property may be abused. Whoever may get the crown, the Regency, we are informed from several influential quarters, is finally determined upon. QUEEN ISABELLA. A council has been held at the residence of the ex- Queen of Spain in Paris ; Isabella herself, some of her old Ministers, and the most important personages of the late Government being present. The ex-Queen formally declared that she was resolved not to abdicate in favour of the Prince of the Asturias. The consultation lasted an hour. It seems, then, that if the Revolutionary Government elect the Prince, as the Telegraph antici pates, it will be against the consent of his mother. Another consultation of this kind—perhaps the same— has been previously announced ; but, however this may be, the determination of the Queen to stick to her pretensions seems to be unquestionable. GERMANY. The convention between Baden and North Germany, by which the recruits of one nation may serve their time in the army of the other, has been finally signed. The Paris papers are of opinion that this treaty means the union of the independent German States with the Corgederation ; and it looks like a step in that direc ion. D16'711E63 IN POLAND. The poiicy of tile Russian Government in Poland has produced the most lamentable zesults in the province of Lithuania. Tile New Time of St. Petersburg draws a dismal picture of the condition of this district, which, it affirms, is solely owing to the extraordinary con tributions imposed by the Government on all land owners of Polish nationality, and the large increase of the local taxes. " Many of the large landowners," it says, " are now so utterly ruined that they live in dilapidated houses with leaky roofs, and paper stuffed into the broken window-panes. Their valuable pictures and plate, and even their carriages, have been sold to foreign traders, and their forests have passed into the hands of Jewish speculators, who cut down the trees and send the wood abroad. Many families live on potatoes, and travel from place to place in common carts, such as are used for agri cultural purposes." llalf-naked starving beggars are to be met everywhere, bearing contagious diseases from place to place. ARSENIC EATING. The effect of eating arsenic in small doses like opium promises to become an important medical question. The young ladies of divers countries, in particular Austria and the United States—we have not heard that the fashion has spread to England—have taken to eating arsenic. The outward effect of this poison in small doses is to produce a clear complexion of unnatural brightness and delicacy, much prized in these days of " rage" for auburn tints and the blonde order of beauty. The prac tice is becoming a mania. But the more serious question is, What must be the effect upon the constitution? In one instance a young lady was poisoned by taking too large a dose. (Frcm the Anglo-American 7 inzes.) There is something remarkaVe in the circum stances now ruling in Washington with reference to the Alabama claims and to Cuba. The Spanish Minister urges on the Secretary of State the neces sity for a Proclamation of neutrality which in the interest of the islanders Mr. Fish has hitherto re sisted. It was for the benefit of the established Government of the United States that Mr. W. E. Forster urged her Majesty's Government to proclaim neutrality in the conflict with the Confederates, and the very same reasons which induced the friends of the North in England to hurry on her Majesty's Governnient that proclamation, now press on the Spanish Minister in the interests of Spain. Yet it is for precipitancy in issuing the proclamation thus urged on the Gover nment by America's English friends that Mr. Sumner mainly grounds his rea sons for an apology and damages. The munitions of war sold by order of the President are open for purcha-e alike to both ; but hostile expeditions will not be permitted to leave American ports. Same remarks from a distinguished officer who served in the United States Army, addressed to us from Madrid, show that the feeling is not unfavourable to Ame ricans among the Spaniards at home, who are aware that on the whole they have been treated fairly by the Republic Movements are, it is thought, being made for the eventual annexation of St. Domingo. Mr. Fabens, the Press Despatch says, had an inter view with Secretary a Fish as agent of that strongly over Govern meet, and the annexation of the island is t advocated both by its inhabitants and by the people in Washington, who assert that professor Gabb has di s covered 200 square miles of gold-bearing terri tory surpassing anything yet known. His name, whatever may be the professor's attainments, sounds " wild-cat ;" but the fact that tha coal depot has been trangferred from St. Thomas's to the Bay of S.imana, together with the knowledge that annex.i ation is now being discussed in the Cabinet and powerfully defended, lead to the belief tatannex ation may be the result. The Economist has taken up new ground against the Western route to China. It maintains that human nature could scarcely endure the fatigue of the seven days' railway travelling across the Con tinent, leaving its English readers under the im pression that the passengers in the American cars sit as they do in an English carriage, where one position only is possible.. Any person who has spent twe!vecoi;secutive in a train would ture with horror seven days thus passed, and the hopelessness of evei i•taffiling erect again. The picture of the Economist, of cours. , , found its way into many Englili papers, some of which, with strange inconsistency, had given an account of the carriages building for the Pacific "through" trafhc. Therein they had told their readers that the trains became moveable hotels, with restaurant, smoking room, and sleeping berths ; that men could un dress and go to bed, wash, and get up again while the train was in motion ; dine, smoke their cigars, and read their books. Men and women, even in the present imperfect working state of the road, have crossed in seven days. Three Englishmen, from London to Hongkong, were among the pas sengers over the line when first opened. The cor respondent of the Daily News has resuscitated an old story of men dining on dough on their way to White Pine, as occurting on the • Pacific road ; a strange mistake. An invoice of t ilet slap has been sent direct from Philadelphia, and tea from San Francisco, in considerable quantities, has already reached the large cities of what once were the Western Statece The world's highway, now completed, has already produced no small effects, and accounts for some figures lately published in the City Articles of the Times witho'it explanation. In comparing the import of the pre cious metals into New York from San Francisco for the last with the preceding year a considerable diminution has been the result. But why ? Be cause an immense export of silver had been shipped direct to China, which otherwise would have found its way to that destination, but through Europe. John Bull is not to be " choked off" his faith in a feed. Granted he wasted much good " wittals" on Mr. Reverdy Johnson, yet scarcely had the Ame rican Minister taken a solitary farewell of England's landscapes shrouded in mist, with tears falling in the shape of rain, ere the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce assembled to get ready an address of welcome to the new American Minister, and hint at a grand banquet. Mr. Clark, the chairman, looked for a speedy and happy solution of the difficulties between the nations, and consi dered Mr. Motley's advent a godd omen. Although the claims of late had been much exaggerated, he would be the last to deprecate the just and reason able demands of America. The depredations of the cruisers had always been censured in that Cham ber ; all regretted the inability of English laws to detain such vessels, and English merchants were satisfied that a very evil prece lent would be set if the career of the Alabama stood as an example to other nations. It is expected that the invitation to the banquet will accompany the presentation of the address to Mr. Motley. There is no State of the Union more rapidly ris ing than Virginia. The Old Dominion was the chief battle-field for the contending armies, and bore the brunt of the war from the first battle to the last battle, from threatening theFederalcapital to the abandon men tof the Confederate seat of Government. Virginia has moderated its political asperities ; it will soon be a reconstructed State within the Union; it receives a large share of settlers from Europe and the Northern Sates; the wheat crop will probably he 00 larg ,, t and finest ever known, and the to , aim crop looks more the promisieg. So kAti:et i • are :he people now on politics, that not many at a dis tance from the registration offices are likely to c )me up to vote on the questions of a constitution about :o be submitted. Many rumours have lately been circulated by the American press regarding the acts and intentions of England. The European coalition against the States scarcely found a believer even for a moment ; for England's pacific inclinations were too well known. Her intentions regarding the erection of a Confederation of West India Islands to prevent Oh abEorption of Cuba by the Republic W 0.3 also dis - ; but the latest " sensation" comes from Montreal, where information has been receivel that the British Privy Council is considering the advi sability of re►inquishing all the British colonies ex cept India. Mr. Colfax spoke at Chicago daring the celebra tion there of the completion of the Pacific Railroad, but the only part of the Vice-President's speech we have seen refers to Canada and the Alabama claims, but not to that event. The Vice-President assures the citizens that they may cease to long for Canada, for it is coming over the border by the force of gravitation. In gravitation he be lieves, as in natural history, but not in daring civilized nations to war with the Republic for their possessions. The Vice• President informed his hearers that those with whom the Union had a controversy would be required to deliver up the rights justly demanded to the last jot and tittle, other proffers being spurned. Mr. Colfax does no', however, say whO is to be the judge of these rights, or how claims which are said by other nations to be prepos terous are to be adjusted, but he announces that " there must be a plain understanding by which justice shall be done, or if not, iu the language of the ipaugural of your President, we may choose our time when we shall here after follow the precedent which, in their hostility, they have given us as an example." Another charge 113 s been nude against the New York Tribune, this time by the Evening Post, grounded on what was stated by Mr. Charles Marshall, the treasurer of the Free Trade League. The Tribune has persistently asserted that the Free Trade League was supported bs British gold, and has again and again cnallonge.l it tc publish the names of the contributors, offering to print the list free of charge. Tho League was in a fix, not for the reason that its coffers were filled with foreign gold, but because they were empty, as it had scarcely any contri butors at all. Mr. Marshall was in this dilemma. He had either to expose tho weakness of the garrison to the enemy, or to remain under the imputation of agi tating with foreign gold in the interests of foreigners. The moment circumstances changed, and the League be came strong, he sent the required list to the Tribune for publication, but instead of noticing the communication the Tribune continued to repeat the challenge, and the Evening Post took up the =Attar, healing its remarks, "Unfair Journalism." The Tribune coolly takes out a piece of this article and answers it, although it has nothing to do with the point. The fact is that but one contribu tion was received from England, probably from some man at a loss whether to send his £5 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as conscience money, or to the League, show ing conclusively to the Tribune that he'had no conscience at all; and had it not been for the 837 it realised there would not have been a British cent in the coffers of the Free Trade League of America. THE MAJESTY OF 7HE LAW. Our readers may remember a recent incident *which occurred at Jarrettsville, Maryland. It was there, on the 10th of April, that MARTHA CAIRNS shot NICOLAS M'CoIAs, murdering him with the coolest deliberation for seducing her under a pro mise of marriage he had failed to keep, the case being aggravated by the fact that she had given birth to a child. A breach of promise suit was commenced by Miss CAIRNS against M'Comis, but she did not await the dilatory proceedings of the law. Announcing to M'Comas her intention, she rode after him to that Maryland village, took off her riding habit and hat, and walking through a bar room crowded with men she marked out her victim, and relentlessly emptied her revolver into his body. Then putting on her habit and hat she remounted the horse, previously tied up at the door,. and quietly rode back to BeHair, where on the mor row she surrendered to the Sheriff.• When telling the story we added, " Considering she will only excite public compassion,have a subscription raised for her, and be made the heroine of the day, she ran little danger in an act which, as her hate was cold-blooded and her nerve strong, was easy of ac complishment." The young lady (Miss CAIRNS is about 30 years of age, and moves in a good social circle) has realized all and more than we predicted. The jury in five minutes acquitted her; the She riff, with obsequious politeness, handed her to and from the dock, and it was on his own arm she leant when proceeding between the Court House and her hotel. At its door, with hat raised, he left a flagrant murderess while the trial was proceeding, as he well knew that restraint on his prisoner was unneces sary, for had she run away it would have been from a reward, not from a punishment. The greatest excitement prevailed, crowds assembled to catch a glance of the gentlewoman, and through the dense throngs which respectfully opened a way she passed as an object of interest and compassion. She held levcies during the day, and was sere naded at night. What she did and said, what she wore and how she looked, were minutely re ported, and she was the sensation of the period till her admirers carried her back in triumph a free woman, absolved in the eye of the law from all crime. The facts of the case, are too clear to he mistaken or to leave any room for a maudlin z - s'n:i• mentality, and it is their startling reality which give-s so much importance to the action of the pubic. A woman, verging ou thirty, is a participator in a sin alike against the religion and laws of her 'coun try. If there is anything a woman of her age ought to know, and . which a cool, deliberate person, as she is, must have known, it is that the promisee made id sin are not those observed with faith. As a matter of policy, putting aside altogether the impiopriety, no woman of sense would be a party to such a com pact, though very young people who mean w ell might be betrayed by passion and opportunity into the indiscretion. But no such excuse can be offered for Miss CAIRNS, who was thoroughly well ac• quainted with the fact that her course was not only a bad introduction into marriage, but very seldom preceded it. Those who intend to behave honour ably will not commence by behaving dishonourably, nor will the first step of a man towards a solemn ceremony be an outrage on a Divine command. If his share of the crime was coupled with falsehood , her's was equelly marked with folly, and thus stood he case when she determined to slay her seducer. That story has already been told, and we subniit it to our readers if there is anything in these crimes to call forth respect, admiration, and sympathy from the public. The most noticeable feature in the case is, that the course the people would pesos could be calculated on with certainty by Miss CAIII before she perpetrated the murder, as well as by us on bearing the story. It is this sympathy and immunity from punishment which lead to the perpetration of such crimes, meaning nothing more nor less than a swift march on the road to anarchy "The majesty of the law" is not a mere phrase ; it is the foundation stone on which society is laid; it L I the key of the arch, and it bodes ill to a people when their sympathy is often with those, who, in defiance of the remedy it offers, erect themselves into the judge and executioner for their own wrongs' There are cases, such for instance as that of CIIALONER, who, at Quebec, killed an officer of the British Army, which might make the enforce' talent of extreme legal penalties appear harsh and unjustifiable, yet to a stern and unrelenting judge - should be entrusted the measure of the punishraeo and the vindication of the law, for it is not mcrelf that Ensign WII ITAKER and Mr. M'CoMAs been killed for crimes, but that society is injured. Supposing a full justification in each case, if M r ' CIIALONER can walk out with a loaded pistol t° shoot another, and MARTHA J. CAIRNS can safell empty her revolver into the body of her seduce r ' what is to prevent REAL going forth from prig° to murder the policeman to whom he owes a grudg e, or any scoundrel blowing out the brains exerted 11. an honest man in counteracting his villanies. It° vain for men to argue that the former cases are jusliva:6 able, the latter, unjustifiable ; the very princiF f we conteed for being that no man is a fair judge ° his own case. Ile may be right, while it is equall), probable he may be wrong ; in one instance ther e may be this justification,ln another,with the same Pe r ' son, there may not, while he holds none the less firat i f to the justification of the latter case, however strouglif opposed his conviction is to that of society. REAL believed that he had been grossly injured and suited by the polio •man, why should he not be Pe r ' nutted to shoot S3IED ICIC as we ll as Mi ss CAIRNS Pero shoot .11.14.303fAs ; and is it a sufficient reply tb 3t the sentiment of society is against. him. That sent) went hai no more right to rule than has the wrong individual to decide ; but if it must rule it oug to lay down a code specifying the offences for wli tch the summary execution of the injurer by the inja rea will be condoned, and tilos., for which the criaria°o will be rigorously given up to the law. What ' I I ifee lintain is that that law should not be degr 3 e into a farce when it happens to be opposed to ° i, mau sentiment of the moment. Once the tude is given, the flood-gates are opened ag' coi the community, and all manner of noxious th . ": o come in with the inundation. In the South, are often shot with impunity for expressing pions in opposition to those of the majority. In Noah a man may, and a women certainly can,„" tie those who have offended against their honour. .i - te habit then grows of carrying pistols, and c o result i 4, that, in a fit of momentary irritation, 113 , inflict death on each other. Society in loose the restraints of law becomes the sufferer, fa, more latitude given—the tendency being to gr ° ` y o f the more are honest, upright men at the ma lty unscrupulous ruffi ans, and this carried to an 0 bounded excess creates a Mexico. The argion el3 , o BuLwErt puts into the m-) u th o f an E UGENE A ll ". 0 or of a PAUL CLIFF O R D w OU 'd carry t h e convie'l4 to the minds of many criminals that their acts ‘c fer justifiable ; nor is it easy, if the law be set a sp/ee * ordinary men to draw the li ne w h ere cr ime b e g i f ba May the father of a starving family steal the 1°, 3 0 ,'0 has no opportunity of earning, to save his chilu r v. lives ? If sentiment is to decide, Yes ; if law , ' o r A thief is a thief in the eye of the law, and a Di the derer a murderer. Let the Judge consider.tail degree of the crime ; but society will destroX if the theft of the father leads to ample relle:`tterl . stead of to punishment, and the murder coll:11'0 by the woman not only condones her sin from ,` l to that highest of crimes sprang, but erects her heroine. —Anglo-American Times. ed Senator Chandler, if he bas not already re Bc , b ti o Europe, soon will, with his f am ily, w h ere ho inteea:ol spend the summer. We hope that he will visit V l ' 2 t if and ventilate his opi n i ons , an d we ven t ure to eel ' l3 ; 0 he announced a lecture, he w o u ld fill th e biggest 11— e of, London, for the Cockneys are curious t o know Wbf : should be so hated by Mr. Chandl er an d the seedy Americans be represents. : At Washington letters from Loudon say W it 0 George Peabody's he a lth i s no t goo d, an d he de si reo Ten return home to end his days. Mr. Peabody has W„ral to to Georgetown, Massachusetts, stating his inteel''o l supply the funds required for the public library b° o r the town, and also pres-nting $4,000 towards the P e neut fund. Mr. E. B. Washburne is the guest of g r ',:,,0 4 li'game, who, with all the Embassy from Chi° 3 ' Paris for Berlin on the 21st June, when the ' / ' 133 , 11 - 00• 46 Minister will take the house now occupied by the u , sie Embassy. Mr. Washburne presented his crede nti f oe the Emperor last Sunday, when General Dix be d* well audience. 01* • ulf LADvEnnsEmENT. _I Holloway's Ointment Ina atwelAt A certain remedy for diseases of the skin. IZtnv scurvy, scrofula, or king's evil, sor e h ea d s, a nd tb iy 5 11 , 8 . inveterate skin diseases to which th e h uman 11 0 ,4 f ' 4O ject, cannot be treated with a more safe an d sit a rtj medy than Holloway's Oi ntment and Pills, Whic- U1 ° peculiarly on the con s tit ut i on, and so pur if y tt e An d re that these diseases are eradicated from the sYst e Ti l e C l/ 0 9 lasting cute is obtained. They are efficacious i ll u lce r° ,.<o of tumours, burns, scalds, glandular swellings, TlT e a wounds, rheumatism, contracted and stiff join ts . eff ec t to medicines operate mildly and surely. Thu Cu r ', o ol' by them is not temporary or apparent only, bu t - U ls and permanent. 0 11. ' 1 ;0 lit-DVERTISE3IENT.]—Eleneeforth no oue will doubt th e Ar°oo properties of Du Barry's health-restoring BevalenThiel Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands o f oa„pei it has already received from Invalids whose positio t be J o u . deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holine.sf,yet(l l ! whose health has been perfectly restored by it after tht , Voetijoll unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the o {o o -4 0 ; Midi," July 25th ;—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The healtnotior Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all Rel * ol dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Bar* . e cett th 4 Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful 51 . s yea i f are csoKtio`, It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on 1 -"'„0•46.`; his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too 1 1 , 1 ,. extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures: the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' lisoimmin wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nerrord i e t0..n,4 I' o all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, au„u„,.d St"'„ c po ; ,„ tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: (lYt i vo" ; , Decics, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many Yf No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony I d ol , ° 0: d el nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, tist„ti,,,. 46. r d 111 0 4 0 sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure J , ' ;'„ e ase k$ James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' ",,,000,, tlrp spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial . v, l 0 0 , 1 ;0 portent Caution—Beware of the many unsavour3 „; sloppy imitations to which, without authority , "-"" no NB name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is lid I lb 2s 9d; 211os 4s 6d 5Ms 24 lbs 40s. -Also Do BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABI'; for s itt; o i POWDER is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cups a . t ag 0 1 ;as'; at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 308, 1.4 r is tinosrie"ol —being about one penny per cup. Th e 30s and 0 ri gice , 43 ; free of carriage in England on r e ceipt of Post' j oatl' BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No, 77, Regent-street , all Grocers and Chemists. 8n 0 0 . W ...: E-On the 29th i us t. , at 6, Onslow-sq uare ' the BIRTII.N. Rol t J =nett Browne, Esq., of a son. L 1 I TLEDGE -On the 29th inst., at Kg lane, the wif e of R o b er t Warne a 6 o rl ser ..de -111A1?RIAGES. ~, Go I °4 truninnoN-w AT3ON-On the 27th inst., 3farl,, p. Hutchinson, Esq., Bth Hussars, to Florence gn i ' ' C. 04 Watson,\ daughter of the late Commodore Wet` and Queen's A.D.O. ti , HAr.sE -WESTALL-On the 28th inst., at WI Is joll Church, by the Rev. A. J. J Cachemadls, 13--''' rlf ° oldest son of JoLn Halse Esq of Acton, fora l° f 00 St. James's Palace, to Fre'deric:, eldest dateitex,....°,teet' late Samuel Westail, Esq. of 108, Guildfora Russell-square, formerly of 'New-inn. DEATHS. - c r. or:'S e ' GnunxitoorE-On the 28th inst. at Arkosden Yi Essex, the Rev. T. G. Griffinhotife, a ged ld• ,Breoa' SMITH -On the 26th inst., Robert Edwin Smitb , c " street, Cheapside, sode:tor, aged -13. s o li WALSII-At South Lambeth, J. W. Walsh, F- 64 * , s agi.d '52 --------' - l is, ANP It : PJ , Lonlon: Printed and Published by WM 1--- a, ill, - i '.,- , of No. 112, btr3nd, Printer, at THE SUN Mc°, -:., d aieso• - in il:e Precinct of the Savvy, in the County of IIP Monday, May 31, 1869. THE PATENT LAW. The discussion on the Patent Laws Is religiously avoided by most of the newspapers. The present system is felt to be absurd ; everyone admits that. But most of our contemporaries seem to feel that an inventor ought in some way to be rewarded for his discovery ; and if not by a monopoly, how ? But when two such men as Sir Bounden Palmer and Lord Stanley agree, or nearly so, in counselling the aboli tion of the present system, it must be felt that the time is come for the consideration of the subject. The Times definitely declares that patents should be put out of existence. It lays down that no reform of the present system can be satisfactory, and there fore the question is between that system and nothing. In favour of nothing the leading journal constructs a very. plausible argument. An invention, it points out, is not the fruit of one brain. It is the result of patient investigation, toil, and experience by many. An inventor learns by the failure of another, the very failure itself containing the germ of the subsequent success. Many are pursuing the same line, and discover almost simultaneously the same instrument or what not. But the one who, having money, or who, being more expedite, gets his idea registered first, has the whole benefit of the many years' labour of others besides himself. And in cases where secondary patents are obtained—a small improvement in the course of an elaborate manufacture—the whole trade is blocked, and the result is most disastrous to all other manu facturers besides those who happen, by a lucky chance, to get the patent. HOBART PASHA. Captain Augustus Hobart, now "Hobart Pasha," nas rendered distinguished service to the Ottoman Government as an admiral of the Turkish fleet. His conduct during the difficulty with Greece met with general approbation. Under his care the slovenly Turkish sailors have become as smart as an English crew. Ile enjoys a nice salary of £2,000 a year, not to speak of pickings. But, unfortunately for his peace of mind, he took service under the Turkish Government without asking permission of the Admiralty, and in consequence his name was removed from the British " Navy List" a short time ago. He applies to the Admiralty to be reinstated. Ile admits the grave breach of dis cipline he commits in taking foreign service without leave ; but he hopes that the offence is. not unpardonable, and that thirty-four years of faithful service will condone it. The Admiralty however, have refused his request. EMtGBATION. The Poor-law Board have called in the• opinion of the Poor-law Guardians of the metropolis as to education. The guardians of St. John's and St. Margaret's, Westminster, reply that the large num ber of unemployed and partially employed poor who, although not .at present chargeable to the poor rates, are liable at any time to become so, appear to constitute the class most desirable to emi grate, and it is this class the guardians are unable and precluded from assisting ; and that while any action on the part of boards of guardiansmust neces sarily be limited and partial in its 'operation, so, in order to produce any appreciable relief either to the ratepayers, or to the artizans, or to the labouring class, they consider that the whole question of the emigration of the unemployed should be taken up by her N ajesty's Government in a broad, liberal and comprehensive spirit. Dili. LOWE AND THE MONEY MARKET. The Economist points out that Mr. Lowe's con temptuous indifference of the money market is exceedingly unjust. He said, "If the merchants choose - to erect a 'presiding • deity of discount, they must maintain it themselves, and not ask the Government." But it was the Government, not the merchants, w hi c h set up the Bank of England. That institution was created for the benefit of the Government. " The Government gave the Bank the monopoly of metropolitan issue, of a limited liability in England, and of the public balances; and these gave it its peculiar position, and made it, for bate' or worse, the depository of our main banking reserve. It i s • the pivot of Lombard-street, and the State made it the pivot, and must therefore treat it as such." MR. PEABODY. The Daily News, commenting on the departure of Mr. Peabody for America, says that he has not gone across the Atlantic altogether on account of his health. "He is ever the almoner of his own bounty, and having taken measures for the expenditure of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds in dwellings for the industrial poor of - London, he carries out to America his added gift, to enlarge the beneficent operations of the Freedmen's Children's Education Trust." THE RECENT DECANAL MEETING. Archdeacon Denison has one merit which no one can deny. He is not afraid to expose the faults of the Church to which he belongs, or those of its members. Referring to the recent meeting of cleans, he writes a very characteristic letter in the John Bull He says : "The Government, it appears, are not prepared with any measure for the increase of the Episcopate ; not sc much as with a measure allowing, of such increase. But they will be glad to hear ' what the deans have to say. The bishops, having nothing to say, fall back upon the deans. The deans have nothing to say, except that they are excellent Church officers, and fully employed already. This episcopal and decanal 'hide and seek' may be very good sport to those who play at it ; and it makes the world laugh. I can't help laughing myself, but I ought to be crying." INCREASE OF TILE EPISCOPATE. A correspondent of a Church paper points out - thal the two Archbishops and the three senior Bishop, (London, Durham, and Winchester) receive together £51,000 a year, and that fifteen bishops receive £72,000 a year. He proposes to reduce the first sum to £40,000, and the second to £60,000, and he would thus get £23,000 a year for the foundation of new sees ; which, we may add, as the new bishops would not have to incur the expense of London houses now involved by sitting in 'the House ot Lords, would be sufficient for at least seven bishoprics. In connection with this matter we may mention that Mr. Gladstone will receive on Thursday the deputation in favour of the extension of the Episcopate. SILL ItOUNDELL PALMER ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY. There has lately been reprinted, by permission of the writer, a letter which Sir Roundell Palmer, then M.P. for Plymouth, addressed to one of the news papers in that town on December 30, 1850. The subject is the Royal Supremacy, and to the views then put forward this eminent statesman still adheres. He says that the Sovereign, as head of the State, has supremacy of temporal government, according to the law of the land, over all persons and estates of men, and in all judicial causes. In this respect there is no exception ; " all are alike, laity and clergy, the Churches of England and Scotland, the dissenting bodies, Roman Catholics, Jews, and heathens. Such a supremacy is, in truth, an inalienable incident of every really independent temporal government, whatever be its form, whether monarchical, republican, or any other; and it excludes the acknowledgment of any foreign jurisdiction by which its independence can be con trolled." Sir Roundell considers that— "The only general distinction between the authority of the State, thus represented by the Sovereign, over the Established Church and that which it exercises over voluntary Churches or religious communities consists in this :—That the laws and institutions of the Established Church, concerning both spiritual and temporal matters, are adopted into and enforced by the public law of the land ; while those of voluntary Churches or religious communities stand merely upon the footing of private , agreements. It would be contrary to - sound prin ciples of civil government that anything should be made part of the public law of the land, or that the executive power of the State should be called into action by the decree of any court, except under the authority of the Sovereign. The Church, therefore, by accepting the benefits of a legal establishment, and looking to the State for executive sanctions, necessarily brings all the sub sequent acts of her own ecclesiastical legislation and judi cature within the scope of the general temporal supremacy of the Crown ; and the mode of exercising that su p remacy, and the restraints under which it is to be exercised in these as well as in all other matters, are ascertained and regulated by the temporal law." Sir Roundell contends that the Church is entitled to have all properly spiritual questions referred to her own ecclesiastical legislature whenever any new enactments may be 'necessary. But this legislature cannot meet without the sanction of the Crown, and its acts must have th e concurrence of Parliament. Similarly the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts is subject to the revision of the temporal courts. It is in these relations between Church and State that the eccle siastical supremacy of the Crown consists. The result is not, as some persons suppose, a temporal supremacy in temporal things ; and a spiritual supremacy in spiritual things. "It is one undivided temporal supremacy, extending to all persons, causes, and things, w hether ecclesiastical or civil, of which the law of the land takes cognizance, and upon which that law has operation. It does not, and cannot extend to the province of religious belief, or to moral and spiritual obli ga ti ons recogn ised by the conscience as springing from a source higher than the law of the land. The notion of a proper spiritual supremacy of the Crown • involves the alternative either of a State Papacy, or of a merely political Church. No such anti-Christian preten sion has been made by any English sovereign since the time of Henry VIII. It is clearly inconsistent with the spirit, and even with the letter, of the 37th Article of the Church of England ; and, if it may seem to have been implied in some parts of the legislation of the Tudor Princes, those arbitrary enactments have, happily, long since been repealed." - • A R AIIAN'S . This celebrated OLD I Driz6 Medal. Pure, Mild, Mellow, In Bottles, 3s. Bd.. he Agents in the principal 8, GREAT WINDN Observe the Red Seal. Pi p an s LL 'Whisky. T. EATING'S A. relieves the diffici -K EATING'S Imnertant remedy ii,-"T.—Sold in Boxes, is Its each. REA I TLI G, E.C. Chem , IUTUAL LOA 114, RTTSS (T E n L co A T r , po -F l T r n P a s t . E .° o 4 7 l : ADVANCES MONEY upc 1, 04 or Loftseholrl Proper monthly, or 'nts free on receipt of s OYAI. 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