The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-17 00:00:00

8P13%1T OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 01 course the debate on the Royal Supremacy is the topic which engages the attention of the daily papers. The Times, rebuking Mr. Disraeli for his confusion, explains what the Royal Supremacy really is, that the Crown—the Queen acting by the advice of her Ministers—is the administrative head of the Church. The Queen has the patronage of ecclesiastical offices, just as she has the legal and temporal patronage. But ;it would be manifestly wrong to take away the 3s; oney from the Church, and then to leave her trammelled with the Royal Supremacy. If the Church chooses, in hes voluntary assembly, to lay herself under the royal hand, to ask the Crown to appoint the bishops, there can be no reason for,restricting her liberty even in that direction. But the State must give freedom to the Church to do this. Nor does the Times think that the disendowed and disestablished Churchmen will do it. The proba. bility is that they will adopt some middle course, rotaining the doctrines and worship of the English Church unchanged, but availing themselves of their freedom to aclOeve greater elasticity of administration; but whatever they do must be done by them of their own free will. This i s what is allowed them by the second clause. The Standard, on the other hand, contends that the clause is most unnecessary. Mr. Disraeli believes—and the Conservative journal thinks him right—that only the maintenance of the Royal Supremacy over the Church will secure the Church a temperate and equitable govern ment, and protect it against innovations in doctrine and discipline. What he proposes is, in fact, that the Church of Ireland, although deprived of its privileges as an Established Church, shall continue under the disabilities of an Established Church. If the Irish Church objects to Omit position, its objection ought, perhaps, to prevail, but the members of that Church desire, on the contrary, to retain the connection with the Church of England which would place them under the restraints imposed upon the former after they had ceased to possess the advantages it would still enjoy. Under these circumstances, our con temporary cannot see what valid objection there is to be offered to Mr. Disraeli's proposal. The Daily News does not think that Irish Churchmen would desire to have their privileges curtailed. If the Church still wishes to be governed by Parliament, it seeks An inferior rather than a superior position. But the restraint impliei the dignity of a special connection with the head of the State, and our contemporary by no means admits that this ought to be granted. Because a disestablished Church ask s f o r it, it does not follow that Parliament is to under take the trouble of governing. That great engine is not lightly to be called on to do the work of this or that reli gious denomination. But the Daily News doubts whether Dr. Ball has warrant for his demands. His colleague in the representation of the University of Dublin tells us that in advocating the liberal endow. meat of the Roman Catholic clergy he does not speal the mind of his constituents or of the Protestants of Ire land. In proposing to restrict the future of the Church, to tie it down to exact conformity for all time in disci pline, doctrine, worship, and government with the Church of England, he may as little speak their mind. The Church left to itself, he says, may alter its own terms of communion, and some of its present incumbents may be driven from it. Parliament, also, may alter the terms of communion, as it has done before, with precisely the same result. The Telegraph—supported almost unanimously by the Liberal papers—protests against the debate altogether, and warns Mr. Disraeli that by continually dividing the House, he is only shewing the weakness of his own party, and so proving a foe to the Church. On the question debated, our contemporary ar,gu es that the supremacy of the Crown means nothing more than the supremacy of the law. This will still exist in Ireland. It is absurd to envelope the subject in a transcendental mist. Over the Baptiste, as well as the Church, the Queen is to-day supreme. The effect of Mr. Disraeli's motion was to restrict the liberty of the Church. It is most wonderful that the complaint should be made from the side which is supposed to repre sent the Church, that the Government mean to give the body liberty of action. The Herald, taking the other view of the subject, asks why, when a demand such as this is made, the Govern ment refuse to accede to it ? Our contemporary thinks union much more to be desired than the freedom the Government would give. The Irish Churchmen ask to be allowed to remain members and form a part of the English Church. The Roman Catholics form one whole ; why should this privilege be denied to the Protestant Episcopalians? The Star does not think the Protestants do or will demand to have their freedom of action taken from them; but in any case the connection between the Crown, as such, and the Church must cease. And it is inconceivable that the Queen should personally be called upon to be the patron of the Church. That she should act so would be uncon- ititutional. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday _Review thinks that the object of Mr. Disraeli's amendments is to put the Conservative partyiil the best possible position for fighting Mr. Gladstone's bill in detail, These amendments do not in fact lead the way to a compromise. They are so drafted that the Govern ment must oppose them totally and directly. Now, if the real object of Mr. Disraeli was to get slightly better terms for the Irish Church from the Commons, he would have taken a course little likely to be successful. But evi dently this is not his object. He wants, in the first place, to stand well with his party, to give them confidence in him, to make even furious Irishmen feel that they are not being betrayed, and that even when he goes into com mittee and accepts under protest disestablishmcnt and disendowment, he knows how to work these odious propo sals so as to benefit the Church. His amendments appear to be very well adapted to this end, 'and will rather tend to cheer and encourage and confirm the Conserva tives in their opposition than to divide and dishearten them. In the next place, Mr. Disraeli may reasonably calculate that the real battle will be fought in the Lords. In all probability the Lords will pass the second reading. and then the Conservatives will propose and carry their amendments. The use of proposing ineffectual amend ments in the Commons is to ascertain what amendments may be effectually proposed in the Lords. For this pur pose, it may not have been imprudent to put forward in the Commons amendments of an extreme character, sure to provoke discussion and to catch the attention of the country. If Mr. Disraeli had only proposed such amend ments as he had some hope of carrying in the Commons, he would have been precluded from asking for more from the Lords. But by starting with outrageous and auda cious demands in the Commons which he knows cannot be conceded, he may enable the Conservative peers to seem comparatively moderate when they come to make their amendments. As the leader of his party he has made a party move in devising the amendments he now submits to the House of Commons, and it is unreasonable to judge of a party move by any other test than whether it is likely to benefit his party, and him as the leader of that party ; and if they are judged by this test, it is as yet much too soon to say that these amendments are impolitic or ill devised. The Spectator, in considering the progress of the Iris': Church measure, declares the great critics of our national drama tell us that there is always a "retarding element" introduced into the plot, generally towards the middle of the third act, the object of which is to arrest and interfere with the general current of the play's action, and to pro mote a certain suspense and impatience in the mind of the reader or the audience, which adds to the vividness of interest in the final denouement. Such a "retarding ele ment" was the function of Thursday night's debate, with its interpolation of that little whirlpool of Conservative excitement round the Pontifical Throne which Mr. New (legate, unappeased by Mr. Disraeli's theatrical affectation of fear on the same head, thought it due to his own great career as a renowned hunter of English foxes and Italian Jesuits to interpose, before he allowed the House to buckle to the great business of discussing how much money the martyred Protestant Church of Ireland is to be permitted to carry away with it into a wilderness where it professes to expect so much suffering and danger. We do not wonder that the House should be impatient at such deplorable waste of time, nor do we take very much comfort from Mr. Gladstone's remark that the meditative Conservative soliloquies of Thursday night at least served to chew the profound differences of opinion which divide them. We knew all that before. Still, we suppose all great questions have a private closet with a peculiar skeleton of their own in it. And the Pope ; though, as flaunted by Mr. Newdegatc and his friends, he does a little too much resemble the tawdry Guy Fawk - eses of the sth of November, is still, perhaps, more endurable, being, at all event, a little more showy, than the compound householder who haunted our last great controversy. It is, however, to our minds a real matter of astonishment that men as competent as Lord Sandon and Alr. Itaikes should not be able to see that this spectre of the Protestant imagination derives his political power whol'y in England, and mostly in Ireland, from the we give his adherents for asserting - that they It with on the sarOe 1 a$ ti adherents of lous tc that txcause the I'ltrawontanes wish t) see this measure carried, therefore it rnu6t be for the Papal interest. As Mr. Gladstone pointed out, it must also follow, if that be true, that because the Presbyterians of Scotland, the Calvinists of Wales, and the Dissenters of England eagerly wish to sae it carried, it must be for the interest of the warmest anti-Catholic religions. Of course, what really follows from the wish alike of Dr. Manning and Dr. Binney to :.:cc the measure carried is this—that each of them in all prubability believes it will be favouralile Co his own creed Mid WI it. WeikciaVOUrablO to both, it rLl4iilii to deter, Sifts bl fd6f6 general considerations which of the two is tight. The Examiner and London Review says that in the annals of party important changes of policy have fre quently been designated by the name of the mansion at which the new plan of campaign was resolved upon. A good deal, in its time, turned upon the " Cabal of Wal lingford House ;" thirty years ago the fate of Ins and Outs was said to depend on the durability of the Lichfield House compact; and now we have a-new point of Tory departure in what is called the Lonsdale House Compro mise. Why the epicurean dwelling of the Lowthers hap pened to have been chosen as the new holy place where the Irish Church was to be born again, and sent into the world, "not half made up," like the crooked king, but " With rings on its fingers, and rings on its toes, And the promise of money wherever it goes," we, who pretend not to inspiration, cannot say. Perhaps it was thought of good augury that, as this latest fruit of apostolic succession will have to make its way in the world without parliamentary privilege, its start in life should be made with the blessing of a very rich godfather. Certain it is that the guardians of Anglicanism in Ireland mean to set it up in business on its own account, with an un commonly handsome capital, if they can manage to get hold of it. The injunction to go forth without scrip or staff is clearly considered obsolete by Primate Bcresford and his parliamentary friends. Perhaps they may plead that Consols were not meant by the Greek word rendered Scrip, and sooner than argue about trifles like £6,000,000 sterling, we shall waive the criticism. 'What we should like to understand, however, is, what the Conservative noblemen and gentlemen who met at Carlton-terrace last Monday have really made up their minds to go for, not only as regards their own, but as regards other Churches in Ireland. We ask, whither does this policy tend? is it not plainly and palpably towards re-endowment of the Church of England in Ireland, and the further endow ment of the Church of Scotland and the Church of Rome in that country ? In words, we admit, there is no mention made of the latter ; but can anyone seriously affect to be ignorant of what is in contemplation? Already the Pres byterians are beginning to complain that the fourteen years' purchase offered them by the Government bill is no sectarian equivalent for the pecuniary concessions made thereby to their Anglican rivals. Lord Derby, when in office, encouraged them to hope that their position would be materially improved; and we now hear it said that, to secure better terms for their own Church, the bishops would not object to England and Scotland being taxed for double the amount of Regium Donum. That done, the cry for Catholic endowment would become irrepressible, and its logic irresistible. Is this, then, the meaning of the Lonedale House Compromise? The John Bull considers that the Conference of the whole Irish Church, held this week in Dublin, has proved itself worthy of the occasion and purpose for which it was summoned. Never before in the history of the Reformed Church in Ireland had such an assembly been convened. Extraordinary circumstances call forth extraordinary efforts, and when the Archbishops of the Irish branch of the United Church found that their eighth application to Government for the revival of the Irish Convocation was again most unjustly refused, thny determined 'forthwith to assemble a body, such as, though unknown in the his tory of the Church, should yet effectually represent all classes of clergy and laity within her pale. One result stands out prominent from the many which will flow from the Conference. The Irish Church has proved beyond all power of contradiction that whether or not her connection with the State continues to exist, she possesses within herself elements of self-government and powers of self-control which promise well for her future welfare and extension. Never in modern times has a Church been more sorely tried, and never before has a majority of the English nation refused to stand forth in defence of the weak and oppressed. True it is the modern history of Ireland has been mainly a record of rebellion and confiscation. "But this," said the eloquent Dean of Clonfert, " was the first time in her annals that rebellion had been followed by the confiscation of the property of the loyal." Certain it is that the destruction of the Irish Church Establishment will leave the main grievance of Ireland untouched. It will alienate the Protestants, it will conciliate no single hostile Roman Catholic, and it will inaugurate an era of fresh religious and political agi tation in Ireland of which neither we nor our children will in all probability see the end. PRINCE ARTHUR IN TIPPERARY. The visit of Prince Arthur to Tipperary —a county which has hitherto been unpenetrated by the most adven turous royalty—has, according to all accounts, filled the peasantry with genuine pleasure. He has made a triumphal progress, and the reception accorded to him will probably lead his Royal Highness to entertain a very different impression of the character of the people from that presented in the records of crime. The Prince has, no doubt, seen the bright side of the picture, but it is gratifying, and may be new to many, to find that it has so bright a side. From the account of the journey which is supplied it appears that his Royal Highness has had a triumphal progress through the south. At various stations along the railway line crowds assembled to witness the arrival of the young Prince' and greet him with a cheer. At Dundrum, where he was to alight, the station was handsomely decorate , ' and the road spanned by an archwith tbeword "Welcome" in scribed upon it. A detachment of the Tipperary Militia and their band were in attendance at the platform, where a crowd had collected, and when the train arrived at five o'clock with his Royal Highness the National Anthem was played and the people greeted him with en thusiasm. The Count de Jarnac was in waiting to receive the illustrious visitor, and the Prince having entered an open carriage drawn by four horses, preceded by outriders and followed by a brilliant escort, drove, amid the accla mations of the peasantry, to the prosperous and pic turesque village of Dundrum, situate on the estate of Lord Hawarden. The villagers were in a state of joyous excitement at the unprecedented honour bestowed upon the secluded little spot, and decked it profusely with emblems of rejoicing. Arches were constructed in the street in honour of the event, and a platform was put up in the centre of the village to enable the Prince to receive a loyal address. On the arches were inscribed the words, " Welcome to Dundrum" and " Welcome, Prince Patrick," a name more acceptable to Tipperary, and suggesting a happy link between nationality and loyality. When the procession arrived at the platform the Prince, having been informed of the desires of the people, cheer fully complied with their wishes, and took the place prepared for him to receive the address. It was presented by Lord Hawarden's agent, Mr. Bayly, and was in the following terms :—" May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the inhabitants of Dundrum, county Tipperary, and its vicinity, beg leave respectfully to welcome your Royal Highness, and express the pleasure and gratification we feel at this, the first visit of any of your Royal Family to this county, and we trust the loyal and hearty welcome you will receive among us will make such a favourable impression on your mind as may induce you to honour us with many future visits. We hope your Royal Highness will convey to your august mother, our gracious sovereign, our expressions of devoted attachment to her throne and person, and our earnest hope that she may before long visit our shores and gladden the hearts of her faithful Irish subjects by her presence among them." The Prince delivered the following reply :—" I sincerely thank you for the very hearty welcome you have given me, and I heartily join in the wish you have expressed that my visit to this country may be often repeated. I will take the first opportunity of reporting to the Queen, my dear mother, your expressions of devoted attachment to her throne en.l person." His Royal High ness and the Count then resumed their journey to Thomas town Castle. The route lay through a country full of scenic beauty and historic interest. About half way from Dundrum to the Castle they passed the Eck of Cashel, around which cluster so many incidents in the story of Ireland. All along the route the inhabitants had their windows bedecked with evergreens, and dis played some token of respectful joy. At Thomastown Castle, which stands on an elevation in the middle of a fair demesne, preparations had been made on a befitting scale to give the Prince a hospitable re ception. From all sides the people had flocked in to see his Royal Highness, and when the carriages ar rived they cheer with genuine warmth. In front of the building were two flags with the word " Welcome" marked on each, and devices wrought in evergreens, which had a pretty effect. The Prince and his host came out on the terraces to view the scenery around, which was then beautifully illuminated in coloured lights by the rays of the setting sun. Among the entertainments provided for the Prince was a private dramatic performance. The piece selected was an original comedy by the Count, under the suggestive name of "Aunt Hercules." The chief characters were represented by Mr. F. Trench, Cap tain Cole, Miss Warburton, and Miss Henrietta War burton. A prologue was written for the occasion by the former lady, and effectively recited. IA new " Church Reform Society" has been established under the presidency of Load Ebury, and it has been arranged that the first public meeting shall be held on the 13th of May. The following are the prin- cipal objects it seeks to attain :-1. The amendment of the Book of Common Prayer, under proper authority, by omissions and alterations, especially in the Rubrics and occasional services. 2. The reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts. 3. The reform of abuses connected with patron- ag e. 4. The modification of the Acts of Uniformity, and the complete revision of the Book of Canons, together with the correction of such evils as hinder the exteigiou I,he usefulnet of the Church of ENV- Rif WI •••• ••• THE SUN, LONDON, SA tURDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. from starvation, and there seems to be 1080iUteiy notnrng to support life with. Large numbers of the peasantry arrive almost daily at St. Petersburg in search of work. The Daily News correspondent says that in addition to a very bad harvest, the high rents demanded by proprietors have done much to bring about this distress. This evil, at least, ought to soon right itself. The proprietors will soon learn to be content with lower rents rather than none at all. NOISY LEGISLATORS. "It is ill work interposing between a.hungry man and his dinner" no doubt, and therefore there is some little excuse for the uproarious scene which took place in the House on Thursday evening. But when this excuse is taken into account, when, even, it is further borne in mind that the arguments which were ad vanced against the Irish Church Bill had all been heard before, and all been answered to the satisfaction at least of the Liberal party, it is still to be regretted that legislators should have indulged in conduct sug gestive of schoolboys barring out. The scene was undoubtedly comic, notwithstanding. The House listened with tolerable patience to the ninety minutes' funereal oration of Mr. Newdegate ; but when Mr. Aytoun got up there were loud manifesta tions of displeasure, because the Ministerialists thought that he had been effectually disposed of by the Speaker at the outset of the debate. Matters were not mended when Sir Percy Burrell and Captain Archdall interposed in his behalf, and took the Speaker to task for not keeping order. They themselves received an effectual snub bing for having ventured to teach their president his duties. Long before this it was dinner-time, and hon. members who had expected that a division would be taken before dinner, and did not like to sit down to their meal with the prospect of being sum moned from it by the division bell, had got very hungry and very angry. The silent monitor in the region of the stomach made them very noisy, so noisy, that at last the Speaker was compelled to resort to the unusual expedient of telling the Serjeant-at-Arms to keep silence at the bar. The result of this interperiition was that Mr. Holt, who had been unable to obtain the hearing which is always given to a new member, was allowed to make his speech, and as .it was clearly going to be a long one, honourable members felt that they might s ifely go and dine. The small men then said their little say. One member after another rose, but always, with the exception of Mr. Whalley and Mr. Dease, from the Opposition side of the House ; and Con servative members at last began to get angry because their opponents refused to take any notice of them or their arguments. There were two or three notable events in the debate. Mr. Whalley informed the. House, amid shouts of laughter, that he was nego tiating with a dozen or twenty Murphys to make a tour of the country after the Irish Church Bill was settled. Mr. Lefroy, one of the Conservative members for Dublin Univer sity, repudiated, in the name of his constituents, the levelling-up policy recommended by Dr. Ball, the other Conservative member. Mr. Mikes excited great merriment by admitting, at the end of his speech, that the sentiments which he had been utter ing were neither his nor those of any other man. Mr. Charley was Mr. Charley, and when he began to talk about policemen, the connection between his name and his subject was an irresistible provocative of mirth. Mr. Gladstone was humorous in a degree unusual with him. Mr. Disraeli clearly regretted the determination of Mr. Newdegate to go to a division, repudiated all connection with him, and expressed consciousness of a defeat even more severe than that which took place in Holy Week. His surmise proved well-founded, for there was an increased majority of 8 against him, the Conserva tives numbering 21, while the Liberals numbered only 13 fewer than on the morning of March 24. The most illustrious of the absentees from the Noes were Lord Stanley and Sir R. Palmer. On the other hand, the Ayes were joined by Sir IL Peel and Mr. Butler-Johnstone, who were the only members who did not either vote or pair on the former occasion. "GREAT PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION." With much display the Conservative papers con tinue to call attention to great Protestant demon strations in Ireland. The Church Conference in Dublin cheered their hearts somewhat ; and now much stress is laid on a public meeting in the Dublin Music Hall. We are informed that 2,soopeople condenined enthusiastically and unanimously the " Church Spoliation Bill," and that under the guidance of Lord Crofton, and by the advice of Lord Oranmore and Browne, a series of resolutions was adopted, affirming that it is not within the moral competence of Parliament to overthrow the Irish Church, and denouncing the proposal as an injustice to Irish Pro testants, a gross breach of national faith, and an unwarrantable attempt to confiscate private endow ments dedicated to the service of God. All this is, doubtless, very fine ; but seeing that the House of Commons has already affirmed the principle of the bill, is hardly to the point. SOMETHING NEW ON AN OLD SUBJECT. One of the Roman Emperors used to reward the man who invented a new pleasure. Politicians ought to reward the man who says anything new on the Irish Church. The Archdeacon of Lindis farne should be the first to be so honoured. In his charge, just delivered, he said that the Irish Church felt just as Daniel felt when he was going down into the lion's den. how he felt the Archdeacon did not say, though, as we had always thought Daniel had full confidence that he would come out again no worse than he went in, the analogy does not quite answer its purpose. We ven ture to suggest an emendation, viz., as Jonah felt when he was going into the whale's belly. THE PRESBYTERIANS OF "[JESTER. The Presbyterians of Ulster are becoming dissatis , fled with the Irish Church Bill. Though at first they seemed well pleased enough with it, they are now complaining that they are not being fairly dealt with. The Irish Church is to get glebes, manses, and funds ; but they are to be given merely fourteen years' pur chase of the Regium Donum. The London corre spondent of the Manchester Guardian states that the Moderator of the Synod of Ulster, together with several other prominent members of the body, are trying to advance their views with politicians. They ask for more money, so that they may be put more on an equality with their Anglican competitors. With the Conservatives, says our informant, they are likely to have litre difficulty ; for every concession in the nature of endowment of any creed upon any excuse harmonises with Conservative policy. A plan, not wholly irrecon c il ea bl e w i th this idea, has indeed been long under the consideration of Government, one for setting apart a considerable portion of the resumed property of the Church, to be used as a species of capital to be lent out to parsons, priests, and Presbyterian ministers, in turn, at mode rate interest, for the purpose of enabling them to build manses and purchase glebes. Several mem bers of the Cabinet are said to be in favour of the project on a tolerably extensive scale; and if brought forwardon the Liberal side, it would obviously stand a great chance of being carried; but it wears an aspect of conciliation and concession that would make it attractive in the eyes of many men of both parties. Its merit in the eyes of the Conservatives would be that it contains the germ of further endow ments in common, while in the eyes of some of the strongest opponents of Church and State it is free from the objectionable elements of political and parochial ascendancy. MAYNOOTH ENDOWMENT. The Archdeacon of Kilmore writes to the Rock on the subject of Maynooth, and considers how far the pledges have been fulfilled which were made respect ing this college. He states that Mr. Glad stone has estimated the life-interests of Church incumbents at eleven years' purchase, but that three commissioners, who may be Roman Catholics, can declare the compensation which seems sufficient to them; while, under the bill , fourteen times the annuity of £26,360 will be paid at once to the trustees of Maynooth as compensation for all persons now interested. The Archdeacon declares that the bill gives to Maynooth £240,380 more than the compensation it is entitled to, and hence the Church of Rome in Ireland will virtually receive a perpetual endowment of £lO,OOO a year. Other acts of injustice towards the clergy of the Churchare contem plated bithe bill, such as the loss of their incomes if incapacitated by ill-health, and the deduction of the salaries of curates from their incomes. Again, the commissioners may pay nothing for glebe-houses built by incumbents out of their private moneys, and yet may claim for them, when dilapidated, large sums from the disendowed Church. Injus tice will also be done to incumbents and curates' assistants as compared with the Protestant Dissenting ministers now receiving annuities from the Regium Donum and their assistant successors. The object of this letter is to notice the violation of pledges in the details of the bill and the injustice and favouritism exhibited therein in behalf of May nooth College as compared with the bishops and clergy of the Church in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone has already answered the objection by stating that he has taken the mean between the two extreme terms which have been selected as the basis of compensation for the Protestant Clergy. THE CUMICTI OP TICE LATE LORD PAL3IERSTON. Some sad news comes from Romsey. The church which Lord Palmerston used to attend is in a sad state. A correspondent describes a state of affairs which ought to exist in no church in the kingdom. At a vestry meeting last week, RS the incidentals of the church were nearly £l4O in anrear, both churchwardens resigned their - office, and declined to be re-elected. The " clock winder," whose account was unpaid, refused to continue his duties; and sufficient cash was not forthcoming to retain the services of the Wiring-us. Even the gas was threatened. Sunday morning appears ; the clock has stopped at 12.5, no bells arc heard, and the .2.7.--- , nan assures his small flock tha,i service will be held in the evening as usual as Le had engaged to pay for the gas him entil some arrangement cotes be come to. This is really a disgrace to the bial Churchmen, and !IPscilY creditable to the friends of the "jolly Plata-ma." THE GOVERNMENT BANXRUPTCY BILL. It is said that in deference to the wishes of com mercial men, as represented by the Associated Chambers of Commerce, the Attorney-General has consented to modify his Bankruptcy Bill in some important 'points. A. deputation, waiting upon the member for Plymouth on Thursday, handed to the hon. gentleman a number of amendments, which he promised to consider. One clause was especially pointed out as unsound. It gives the Bankruptcy Court the power to annul bankruptcy in all cases in which the assets do not realise 250. It was argued that the effect would be to induce a fraudulent bank rupt to commit all the offences mentioned in the penal clauses, so as to exhaust his assets and bring them below the sum of 250. The Attorney-General pro fessed himself convinced of the impolicy of the enact - ment, and promised to strike it out. He also pro mised to take into consideration the abolition of imprisonment for debt which was strongly objected to by some members of the deputation. THE PLEASURES OF PATRONAGE. The Lord Chancellor is a patron. He has in his gift some twenty offices whenever these fall vacant. Undoubtedly it is very pleasant to have the power of bestowing. But there is the other side of the question. Lord Hatherley has been in office some five months. During that period he has not had more than one or two pieces of pat ronage , an d th ese in the shape of ecclesiastical preferment. Yet, according to the Law Journal, he has received applications for appointments from hundreds, it may be said thousands, of persons of all sorts and degrees. It would hardly be an exaggeration to declare that nine-tenths of the people with whom he has, d ur i ng his career, come into friendly contact, have put in claims in some form or other. The White House at Washington has not been more closely besieged than the office in Quality Court. THE STRIKES. In Preston the strike of the co tt on opera ti ves seems as hopelessly near its end as ever. Emigration is being organised for some of the men, and others are preparing to depart for Belfast. B u t a t Ch or l ey the strike of the self-acting mule spinners has termi nated. The President of the Trade Association for the four counties met the men on Wednesday, and advised them to accept the masters' proposals—a reduction of from 2i to 5 per cent. This they have concluded. to do. But for a makeweight we have a difficulty at Barnsley, where the masters insist on a reduction in the list. The men_ declare that they could not live if the masters' terms were carried out, as they Would reduce their wages more than 15 per eery: ( .;0 here, also, if a rood spirit be not shewn on bqi i k • ides, a strike is likely to result. CLOSING OF TIM DOCKYARDS. In t , -isidering how they ulight be.h closing workruen of Deption have had i)efo:::: tnent. s scheme which is word: con sidcration. It ip proposed that they should form themselves; into a partnership of industry and —instead of letting another firm step in—themselves hire the yard from the Government, entering into a contract that when the yard is again wanted for State purposes they shall be retained to do the work. The men would thus in times of peace be the tenants, and during war the workmen, of the State. The plan would require a considerable amount of energy in carrying out, and a question of funds stands on the threshold, but we should much like to see it suc cessful. THE OPEN'iNG OF MUSEUMS ON SUNDAY& The objections to the "dull tiresome Sunday" urged by those who from inclination or otherwise do not care to spend the day in religious exercises, seems at length to have struck those who do so spend the first day of the week. The question "Are we justified in marking our approval of church-going, by closing every other place of public resort ?" is being much agitated, and it is only just to say that those who go most among the working classes are inclining very perceptibly towards the expediency of opening the national museums on the day of rest. Thus Mr. liodwell, a very high Ritualist, the rector of St. Ethelburga, I3ishopgate-street, writes strongly in favour of the proposed change, declaring that his opinion is based upon many years' experience among the working classes. He forwards to the Telegraph a letter from Mr. W.H. Gregory on the subject,in which the hon. memberfor Galway county puts his view of the matter in connection with religion. He declares that he would do nothing to lower the reverential feeling of his countrymen. But those for whom he would legislate are the thousands and tens of thousands in London who cannot be brought within our churches. These he would. teach something better than sleep or tippling. " The best chance for religion is to try and elevate somehow the minds of these people. The very fact of their having some innocent and instructive resort to which they may betake themselves with their wives and childrt n on a Sunday will wean many- an honest fellow from the public-house, to which he now drifts for want of something better." Air. Gregory very much regrets tho opposition which has been raised to his measure by the religious world, but points out how the rich have the very same facilities which are denied to the poor. "What can a poor fellow feel save indigation when he sees the Zoological Gardens crowded with well dressed, fashionable people on a Sunday, the clubs full of loungers, the club dining-tables thronged, and smart folks driving down to Hampton Court to visit picture galleries which are kept open by the State for the rich, while to open similar pictures galleries to the poor in London is stigmatised as a national sin ? Let us make the Sunday attractive by rational and profitable enjoyments, and I am con vinced that it will far more than now be hallo Wed and beloved by the working classes." MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. To the gentlemen who want to marry their sisters in-law money is no object. Th ey h ave occup i e d one-half of a page of th e D a il y News with, an advertisement setting forth various facts and opinions which make for their vie w o f th e que stion. Mr. Thomas Chambers is the hero of this reform, has not b roug h t the matter for but of late years he ward. In 1851, 1 0 peers voted f or th e bill legalising these marriages • in 1856, 19 ; i n 1858 , 29 ; an d i n 185 9, 39, so that the ' learned member can boast of some progress, whereas the opponents of the measure remain stationary, having numbered 50 in the first year, and 49 in the last. The bishops are credited with the rejection of the bill, but there is hope even of them, for whereas only 1 voted for the bill in 1851, 4 voted for it in 1859. Eight bishops (3 of whom are now dead) hav e spo k en f or th e bill— Archbishops Tait, Whately, and Musgrave; Bishops Thirlwall, Bickersteth 1 Villiers, Knox, and Lord Auckland. The advocates also cite Lord Palmerston, the late Lord Denman, Robert Southey, Cardinals Bellarm ine and Wiseman, the Chief Rabbi of the Jews, Lord Herbert, Dr. Lush ington, Deans nook and Champneys, Archdeacon Hare, Canons Dale and Miller, Mr. Binney, Dr. Bunting, Dr. Adam Clarke, Sir D. Brewster, Dr. Tre gellis, and the States of Prussia, R uss i a , Saxony, and Saxe-Coburg as witnesses in their favour. They point, moreover, to the fact that, under the Legacy Act, the sister-in-law (or, as they prefer to call her, the wife's sister) pays ten per cent. duty " becauseshe is a stranger in blood." By the way, how comes it to pass that these reformers never seek to legalise the marriage of a widow with a deceased husband's brother ? What is sauce for the gander should also be sauce for the goose. FOREIGN NOTES. SUCCESS OP THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. The . I(foniteur has received a despatch from Madrid con• firming the bad news from Cuba. The assistance furnished by the United States is turning the scale. General Dulce has announced that all sailors found guilty of violating the neutrality laws will be treated as pirates. If this edict be strictly carried out, the Spanish Government will soon get into trouble. The brig Mary Lowell, captured by a Spanish war-ship, has been condemned as a prize, notwithstanding the protests of the British Consul. THE szLau.N RAILWAY "rmADLocx.,, It is now certain that the French and Belgian Govern ments have not been able to come to terms respecting the railway affair. W e are i n a position to state the precise nature of this difference. The Belgian Government has made a formal proposition to the-effect that a simple ser vice convention be made between the East of France and the two Belgian Companies. Questions of tariff, transit, and material shall be regulated on mutually advantageous terms. But the three companies are to remain separate, and the treaties for leasing the Belgian lines to the French company must fall through. The Etendard acknowledges that this is the Belgian proposition, but adds that itcannot be accepted by France. Its terms must undergo " pro found modifications." A counter proposal will be put forth by which the French Government will dencand that the leasing of the Belgian lines to the East of France Company be permitted. The Emperor will, it seems, persist in dictating to King Leopold on a question of domestic Policy, and Europe may probably witness another disgraceful oppression of the weak by the strong. THE STRIKE IN BELGIUM. The International Society of Workmen is accused of being the cause of the strikes in Belgium, as well as those in Switzerland. The Minister of the Interior, in a vague speech delivered before the Brussels Legislature, has charged the society with promoting the disturbances at Seraing. But no proof of the society's agency has yet been pro duced. The ironworkers put forth too much work and too little pay as their ostensible pleas, and the colliers appear to have complained of similar grievances. Accord ing to the Indtpendance Beige, most of the men engaged in the original strike have resumed work. No concession whatever has been gained. The attempt has been a com plete failure. The fresh strike, announced by telegraph as accompanied by a fatal riot, is a separate affair. THE FAMINE IN EASTERN RUSSIA. The terrible scarcity in Livonia and Ebthouia is still . . . _ EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. The tendency of Canadian emigrants to seek a final home in the United States has often been noticed. This movement is particularly marked at the present time. Large numbers of the native population of Quebec pro vince, as well as fresh arrivals, are crossing the frontier. During March this migration went on at the rate of 500 a week. Quebec is the "French " province of Canada, and the Daily News thinks the want of enterprise amongst its inhabitants accounts for these removals. The French Canadians do not seek improvements,but are satis fied with "doing as their fathers did ;" their rude and unthrifty agriculture soon exhausts the soil, and a break up becomes neceezary. This theory may account for the emigration of the old inhabitants, but new corners shew the same preference for the United States. A large proportion of emigrants who arrive in Canada make their way across the frontier. Of course there is no controlling this movement. The settler will go to the land where he expects to .be most prosperous. But there is some reason to believe that when the Fertile Belt is opened out, its attractions will prove at least as great as those of the Republic. • The North German Correspondent says that the repeated tales of horrors endured by German emigrants on the voyage to America have induced Count Bismarck to take decided steps in the matter, and the Government of the United States has willingly consented to co-operate with that of Germany. A draft treaty dealing with this subject has been drawn up. English emigrants occa sionally suffer severely—as witness the horrible story to which we recently drew attention. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the English Ministry will also endeavour to make AL arrangement with the American Government. STATE OF JAMAICA. An official publicat►on on the state of the British West India Islands gives a favourable account of the prospects of Jamaica. Perfect tranquillity wai maintained in the colony throughout the year 1866, and has been continued ever since. In August 1866 there were eight military outposts in different parts of the island, but five of them were withdrawn during 1867, the three retained being no more than the extent of the colony demands. In no case have these troops been called out for internal service. The sugar crop of 1866 was rather above the average, and so was that of 1867. Moreover, the old prejudice against everything but sugar cultivation is fast dying out, and attention is, being given to several industries for which nature has prepared the island. Railway and telegraphic communication have been extended. Altogether Governor Sir J. P. Grant, is of opinion that "security and tranquillity are beginning to have their natural effect in turning the attention of capitalists to a colony whose natural resourees_are unbounded." (From the Anglo-American Times? _ _ ._ The charge of bribery so persisted in by the New York Evening Post against ex-Governor Fen ton has not been without its effect at Washington, where it created some stir. The Post asserts that Senator Fenton's influence with General Grant was nearly destroyed by the exposure. His friends re commended him to take no notice of the malicious attempt to damage his the sreputat E io v n en ; in a g curious Post makes to meet charges which while calling on the Senator to commence legal proceedings for his vindication either against it, or against Mr. Murphy, who declares he saw the cheques for $20,000 presented to Governor Fen ton's agent for the signing of the Erie Bill within three hours. There is, however, a difficulty in the way, as statements made before a Legislative Committee are privileged, as is, the report of such statements ; hence the law shields both Mr. Murphy and the Evening Post. But Governor Fenton ought ,not to look for their punishment so much, as to clear himself from the imputation, and the investi gation of a legal tribunal might be the best means to accomplish this object. Mr. Butler has reported a bill from the Recon struction Committee for the removal of disabilities from loyal citizens. The bill provides for a general system for the removal of political disabilities, by petition to the United States Courts, in States or Territories where the persons applying resided dur ing the war, admitting that the applicant believes the Confederate General and State Government to have been rebellious and treasonable, and truly repeats of all acts done by him in maintenance thereof, &c. The Session has been prolonged by the debates on the Tenure-of Office Act, an Act which has given rise to more talk in both Houses than any subject since Impeachment. When the Vice-President laid before the Senate the house Concurrent resolution to ad journ till the 6th April, Mr. Sumner opposed it, and some little sparring took place between him and Senator Anthony, who thought there was no good reason why Congress should not then ad journ. " What does the Senator propose to do with Georgia ?" asked Sumner. "Leave it to take care of itself," was the reply. " But what does my excellent friend say to Virginia ?" was the next question. His excellent friend considered it unnecessary to do to anything to Virginia this Session. "Or with Texas?" continued Sumner. Mr. Anthony sup posed Texas would stand pretty nearly where it had stood for the last few years, which the Senator from Massachusetts considered to be an abandon ment of those States, while the other thought it to be no more an abandonment than of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the rest. Mr. Sumner pointed out the difference, showing how the former needed Congressional protection; and thus the precious hours slipped away while the Senators haggled over the time they would give. The House seems to have closed its business last Saturday, but the Senate was sitting during this week, as on Tuesday they rejected the Alabama Claims Treaty, with only one vote in its favour. On Fri day of last week Congress received a message from the President, transmitting copies of the correspon dence. The adjournment, the telegram states, is to the 7th December, which will be a Tuesday but as, according to the Constitution, Congress must meet—in the absence of a special law —on the first Motlday in December, the 6th of that month must be the day meant. Reuter's telegram also says that the Senate was specially to meet last Monday for the ratification of treaties, and it is perhaps out of " pure cussedness" that, instead of ratifying the most important, they tore it into pieces, with but one man to gather up the fragments. On Thurs day they rejected the Darien Canal Treaty, though on that day they ratified the Naturalization Treaty with Great Britain. The President's appointments this week, all which we may presume the Senate has confirmed, were Mr. J. Lathrop Motley, of Massachusetts, to succeed Mr. Reverdy Johnson as Minister to St. James's ; Mr. John Jay,'of New York, to succeed the Minister at the Court of Vienna; Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, in succession to Gen. Cassius Clay at St. Petersburg. His Excellency S. Sanford, now United States Minister Resident at Brussels, to be Minister at Madrid, vice Gen. John P. Hale. Mr. Horace Rublee to Berne, Switzerland, in succession to Mr. George W. Warrington ; Mr. Thomas Nel son to Mexico ; Mr. William Thompson to be Con sul at Southampton, probably the gentleman who eight years ago held the post whom Mr. Brittan succeeded ; Mr. Meredith Reade to be Consul-Ge neral at Paris, vice the lion. John G. Nicolay ; the Hon. Freeman 11. Morse to be Consul-General in London. These two latter appointments have just been created by Congress, and Mr. Morse is pro moted by the new Administration from the post he has long held as Consul, and on this point there appears to be an error in the telegram, for holding the office of Consul he cannot be nominated to it, though it would require a new exequalur for the in cumbent of the new post. In consequence of the recent hardships and ill treatment of emigrants on the voyage to America, the Government at Berlin, in co-operation with that of \Vashington, has consented to the sketch of of a treaty, drawn up by Consul-General Rosing, in New York, from the North German Confede ration, and it is hoped that it will soon be per fected. The following is the bill reported by Senator Sumner from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to facilitate telegraphic communication between Europe and the United States : " The bill provides that whenever telegraphic commu nication shall hereafter be established between the United States and any foreign country by means of lines or cables in ay part thereof Withia tto juriadiotiou of tho Uoitod States, the same shall be subject to the following condi tions, to wit :—The United States Government shall have the same privileges and control over them as any foreign Government ; the United States shall have priority in the use of the lines by an operator of its own selection; the rates for the transmission of the Government messages shall be fixed by the Postmaster-General unless othei wise stipulated; the lines shall be kept open to the public for the transmission for daily publication of market reports and commercial intelligence ; and messages shall be for warded in the order of their receipt. It shall at all times be within the power of Congress to determine the tariff of charges on messages sent over such lines, and to estab lish rules and regulations in regard thereto. Before ex tending such lines within the jurisdiction of the United States, a written acceptance of the above terms must be filed with the Secretary of state, subject to the foregoing conditions, to the terms of grants heretofore made by Con gress, and to the rights of property and State jurisdic tion. The consent of Congress is hereby given to the laying and maintaining of telegraphic cables and lines be tween the United States and such foreign countries as confer similar privileges on companies incorporated in this country." According to a despatch from General Custar, telegraphed from St. Louis on the 24 inst., he had discovered Indian signs on the 13th March. His command of 1,500 men, commenced marching more than twice the distance made by the Indians, the tents and all surf Ins clothing being burned. On the 15th a recently abandoned camping ground was reached, with a herd of ponies in charge of two Indians, and while capturing them a body of In dians were discovered, from whom it was ascer tained that 260 Cheyenne Lodges were near. " Medicine Arrow," a Chief of the Cheyennes and other noted Chiefs then rode up, and Custar learned that the bloodthirsty " Dog Soldiers" tribe were among them. Postponing his intention to attack them, as the Cheyennes held as captives Mrs Morgan and Miss White, till he could secure these white women, be accompanied " Medicine Arrow" to his village, where he found all preparing for flight. He ordered the arrest of " Big Head" and " Dull Knife," but it was only when the rope and tree were ready to hang the chiefs that the Indians de livered up the captives. The General did not lose a man, and as be has secured several Cheyenne Chiefs, these Lodges will be compelled to come in, when the war may be considered at an end. The following telegram was received at New York from San Francisco, April 1 :--New and rich developments in the White Pine silver regions are reported, and people are flocking thither in great numbers. There are from 10,000 to 15,000 per sons already located there. The weather continues stormy and the roads are almost impassable for the whole distance between Elks and Hamilton. The way is lined with " stalled" teams and waggons loaded with merchandise and nearly buried in the mud. Pneumonia prevails to an alarming extent, and several cases of small-pox are reported at Hamilton. The Indians in the neighbourhood are becoming hostile, and it is suggested that the mili tary authorities should establish a post in Snake or White River Val'ey to protect the miners. A band of Indians recently attacked a party of prospectors and killed and scalped two of them in the Snake Mountains. Silver mines have been discovered near Sonomo, about 70 miles from San Francisco, and people are rushing there and staking off claims. They have already held a meeting and established mining laws. From the statement made to the Spanish Cortes it appears that affairs are not progressing so satis factorily in Cuba as the home country was, till lately, led to believe. General Cespedes, the rebel leader, has replied to General Dulce's declaration of war to the knife by a decree that all persons taken hereafter, except regular Spanish soldiers, are to be put to death. A steamer plying between Havana and Cardenas has been seized by the rebels, and it is said the so-called Peruvian monitors are really in the service of the same party. Expedi tions continue to be fitted out; but the accounts from Cuba are contradictory, and copfused in the New York papers. The Philadelphia Public Ledger thus summarizes the progress of the insurrection : " The Cuban Revolution commenced at Yara on October 10th, 1868, by the pronunciamento of Car los Manuel de Cespedes, with 127 followers. It is as serted that at the present time the revolution has ex tended over a circuit of 20,000 miles, two-thirds of the area of Cuba. Within these limits there are 147 cities and towns, half of which, it is reported, are held by the insurgents. The following esti mates have been made of the strength of the revo lutionists or patriotic party :—Out of the 150,000 men able to behr arms on the island of Cuba, 45,000 are in the ranks of the patriot!, 30,000 of them being stationed in the Eastern, and 15,000 in the Central Department. The total population of the district in rebellion is 548,738, of which there are in the Eastern Department 126,368 whites, 86,374 negroes free before the revolution, and 51,778 slaves just emancipated by the patriot leaders. In the Central Department the numbers are 172,567 whites, 42,444 negroes formerly free, and 69,207 slaves newly freed. The estimated wealth of the real estate in the territory held by the patriots was, in 1862, $550,000,000, and its indus try and commerce were reckoned as representing a capital of $ 77 4,000,000. the annual productions were—Sugar, $62,000,000 ; tobacco, $15,000,000; other produce, $52,C00,000. It was reported on Thursday at the Clubs that Mr. Reverdy Johnson had received a telegram from the President, ordering him not to attend the banquet at Fishmongers' Hall. We have reason to believe that this a mere " sensational" rumour. A near relative of Mrs. Johnson's, Mr. Bowie, was killed in Kansas City, by a most unfortunata fall, little more than a fortnight ago, and most probably this was the intelligence received "by telegram" which prevented Mr. Johnson from attending the dinner. We give some of the names of those sent by the President to the Senate on the 2d April for execu tive appointments, and it was a day of fierce ex citement at Washington. At ip.m. General Por ter pushed through the dense crowds, and deposited in the Senate Chamber the sealed packages contain ing the nominations. He then went to the Secre tary's office, where he posted a list for the informa tion of the public, around which gathered a surging mass. The men nominated were the only people absent, therefore the faces fixed on the list were a study. The exclamations and the imprecations were loud and deep ; and there was a general skedadling of Congressmen, with their office-seekers after them, who were anxious to know the reason why they had been left out in the cold. Extra cars were added to the evening trains to take back the de jected multitude, and never did a more disconsolate party reach the Empire City. The Senate took days to decide on confirming Longstreet's nomination. Scarcely any party knew how to vote ; the Radicals opposed him as a pro minent Southern.Geueral ; the Democrats. felt in clined to oppose him in consequence of his late Re publican tendencies. Senators Cameron awl Scott led in opposition to the confirmation, asserting cruel and heartless conduct while marching his army corps through Pennsylvania "when Gettysburg was fought. It is nbt a little amusing to find the Pennsylvanian Senators referring to Blackwood's Magazine to know what occurred under their own noses in Pennsylvania. A British officer serving with General Lee asserted in the Magazine that Longstreet would have devastated the country,as that General said, but for fear of demoralising his troops. But the writer, it is alleged misunderstood the remarks, as Longstreet was censured by Lee for not going further, and he gave as his reason that he might under the rules of modern warfare, but he desired to preserve the morale of his troops. Seve- ral leading Republicans signified their intention of voting for Longstreet, as did some Southern Sena- tors, and it was calculated that he would have a majority of six. Governor Warmouth and Lieut.- Governor Dunn oppased him, the latter strongly, being at the time in Washington. At a meeting of the California Academy iof Sciences, held on the Ist March, specimens of meat that recently fell from the sky were presented by Dr. Kellogg, who said that this meat had been found over 20 acres of ground. Mr. Houck was ,nformed that muscle, bone, and nerves bad been gathered, some imbedded in the soil, belonging either to small animals or fish. This meat was al- eged to have fallen about three o'clock p.m., when ,he sky was clear, and to have struck the heads and shouldersof individuals. Report6wereread fronalper- sons at San Jose, in which it was stated that 00 ' brains, blood, and bones covered an area of 20 al' The samples of the flesh introduced had a fishy The President h a d no d ou b t t h at t h ere had bf.ej showers of frogs ere now. Mr. Beardsly remao'r e such a shower had occurred in Tennessee 00111_ years ago. He also asserted that rats were oil found with their skins t urne d wrong s id e o ut, 1 6 all the flesh gone ; so a l so were rabbits, 09.611110 and gophers. It is clear that none of the scieow; men assembled k new muc h a b out the phenonlen° IMPERIAL PARLIAIONT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The LORD GRANCELT.OR a took his seat on the WOO at five o'clock. DISEASE AMONGST PIGS. Earl COWPER asked if any information had bee ni ; ceived as to wh e th er a di sease h a d b ro k en out in AOII amongst pigs. ea Earl DE GREY sa id th a t i n f ormat i on b ad been receir'' to the effect that a di sease k nown as t h e " hog c h o l e ri'li l i broken out at Buffalo amongst a dr ove o f pi gs on theirr °J r , to New York. Ile was not in possession of any i vl i ° l9 nation which stated that the disease prevailed gdo ell in America. EMIGRATION. 0 A 4 Lord HOUGHTON th en p rocee d e d to ca ll t h e atteui l of the house to the question of emigration. Sal l After some remarks f rom L or d O VERSTONE and GREY, the subject dropped. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMAIONS.—LAsr EVENT° . The SPEAKER, took the chair at 4 o'clock. SMOKING IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES. On the further consideration of the Metropolitan ° way Bill, Mr. SHERIDAN moved the insertion of the follol clause:—" Notwithstanding any provision in the Reg Ode tion of Railways Act, 1868 , th e company shall prel:l smoking carriages for eac h c l ass o f passenger t ra cw" ,;n by the said railway." A discussion arose, in which it was said that of all . ways the Metropolitan was the one on which sma . , ought to be a ll owe d. Th e sulphureous effluvia elien: terod at the Gower-street and Baker -street station/II most offensive, and th e smo ki ng would greatly coun t the choking and stifling a t mosp h ere that was 10 1 1, complained of. R a il wa y di rec t ors a l ways o bj e cted 6 1 smoking, and they cared little about the general c° o ll o venience although they always paraded their endeal c o to consult it. The accommodation for smoking d it offered by all other railway s b u t th e Metropolitan, OA, was the opinion of a g re a t man y mem b ers that suc h f li " - lilies should be given by thodirectors of that railway' The house divided, when there appeared—. For the clause Against it Majority in favour of the clause THE NEW LAW COURTS. po Sir R. PALMER gave notice that he should moil amendment to the motion of the hon. member for (°' to the effect that it was desirable that the new law co the should be proceeded with as quickly as possible upo n ' , he it site set out i n th e bill (C arey -street) authorising "" erection. OBSTRUCTION IN THE THAMES. Mr. BRIGHT, in reply to Mr. G. Gregory, said pilings in the ri ver near Ch aring -cross and Westuv°ol bridges were a p or ti on o f t h e works of the White h a ll Waterloo railway, which had received an extensiono, time for the execution of its works until the year t he l No person, th ere f ore, h a d power to interfere with:44 obstructions until the July of next year, when dela'', j some action would b e t a k en e i t he r b y tLe Boar d o f_V cr Conservators of the river. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to Dr. Brewer, said the tional Gallery w ou ld b e re - opened to the public on l lOll day week. INCLOSURES. U la Mr. BRUCE said he was unable to ;lay upon the' the terms which the Commissioners of Woods and V re t , l a exact from the commoners in all enclosures wh ey , e d Crown is lord of manor s because the terms varied ' considerably according to the particulars of each caSe. POOR RATES, Sir G. JENKINSON asked the Frst Lord of the 5 1; sury whether he would undertake to legislate at W e the subject of local taxation so that a remedy migb ti provided for the unequal mode of levying poor rates. lo t Mr. GLADSTONE s a id it was not then in his P°'A to legislate at once on the subject referred to by the' member. Mr. NEWDEGATE said he begged to remind tt o Prime Minister that there were other things beside , %bl Irish Church question that th e p eo pl e o f E ng l an d tio' i l l o required consideration. He believed that althoug h it honourable members sitting on the Ministerial 1:0°0 had a majority in the house they on his (31r. NewdeP te y side represented the majority of the people of Eug 1613 0 4 (oh, oh, and l aug hter)—and that they h a d a r i g ht to hi, other matters of import ance b es 'd es the Irish Chure b cussed iu that house, and, according. to his opinion, tb° I submitted by the hon. baronet was ono that called for 1 ; 1 0 mediate attention just as much as the motion which v g , Prime Minister seemed bent upon hurrying tlaroug li ..." , Mu - neut. (Hear, hear.) PORTPA TRICK HARBOUR. i t Mr. W. JOHNSON th en p rocee d e d t o move f or a s e l , f committee to inquire into th e con diti on o f Portpatrich t, bour. When the house had gone into committee on the Church Bill, and agre e d t o the first clause, Mr. D is h proposed th e om i ss i on o f t h e second cr disestabliv clause of the bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL argued that the dd establishment and disendowment of the Irish Church 1131 ' the clause absolutely necessary. Sir R. PALMER supported the view of the Attor l° General. The amendment was supported by Mr. Graves, . I " . gf , Cross, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. S. Hill, Mr. A. Egerton, an d Greene, and opposed by Mr. Candlish, Mr. Pim, and \V honey. Mr. GLADSTONE warmly defended the clause, an d diculed the objections raised as utterly fallacious. pi' Mr. DISRAELI, in an effective reply, w'aich was the termed to by a crowded and attentiv e h ouse , condemned measure as the most pernicious which h a d b een introd ° in his time. Ihe Committee di v id e d, a n d th e c l ause was a gree d by 311 to 221. 1 11 The announcement of the numb ers was rece ivea A ' 4 i l o loud cheers, and prog ress h av i ng b een a t once repo rted house resumed. fpt A new wilt was issued, on the motion of Mr. NO 1A the borough of Brecknock. The house then adjourned. - OV [ADVERTISEMENT.] —ifolloWay'S Ointment and r 0 1A Instant Relief. Indisputable remedies for bad legs' 1 0 0 1 wounds, sores, a n d u l cers, if used according to directs oref given with the m. Th ere is no wound, bad leg, ulcerous or bad breast, h owever obstinate or longstanding, but sc' ill 0, to their healin g an d curative properties. Numbers of Pe t AO who have been patients in several of the large hospita ls, tr ,a , under the care of eminent surgeons, without deriving, slightest benefit, ha ve been thoroughly cured by Ifoll ° 0 ,0 4 ointment and pills. For all glandular swellings,, te ° 00 4 , scurvy, and diseases of the skin, there is no medicin e o , o o' can be used w ith so good an effect ; in fact, in the t j, forms of disease dependent upon the condition of the blood medicines are irresistibl e . m ,04 0 ,4 (ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always agbioti r chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-I'ooo4i Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the 0 „„ 0 merit of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other 0 '10;1 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerVes , 4l lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fu li d , d regularity, ail'' , energy to the most disordered or enfeeble 01, extract a few out of 68,000 cures ; " The Pope's health re t s j by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21+ —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especia ll l_o4 abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself e_ . '; o ol to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he 0 , 1 '; pe l ce l a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprising tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise ter G 4? lent lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 2 1'.,10,0 No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven YO'f4 o ii complaint, ' , misting away, debility, nervousness, with s e ci palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepless rl, lAA the most intolerable nervous agitati on .." C ure N o. 1, 77 V ye 0 Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of W a t er f or d , of maw ) , fed, dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' i n d e scribable ag ° ,1 1 , 1 11,10 dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, co ug h, const i pat i on , spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." e!! 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of oy„ t, diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangenlenlo: o l partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of thu w itlr e j, unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, to clio, authority, Baron 'Liebig's name i s most audaciously fl ' t WO' In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb. 2 s. t d .; 2 lbs. 45. 6d ; 5 lbs.ll-0 bll O 0 225. ; '44 lbs, 40s, Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA AF 2 Pie for LATE POWDER is packed i n ti n canisters; for 12 cups at 11 6 clg cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cup s a t 6 5., for 288 cups at 305., fel 560.,,iti0d at 55s.—being about on o p enny per cup. The 30s. and are sent free of car r i age i n England on receipt of rct Order. - BARRY DO BA RRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stre et ' don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. tV ANSTED - On the 16th i ns t ., at 33, Brunswick -square, f wife of Professor Ansted, of a daughter. if° ° GARRARD— On the 13th inst. at Eastbourne, the W Major F. T. Garrard, of a sou. Marriages. liir.llo 0 ti GARRAD — VARVILL —On the 14th i ns t., at Yor k , ,.. . a. 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Offices, 73, Ches.] lan e m' Bankes—Me ; and TfEALTII REsTonE DIJ 13A.RTZY' and Infants' saves fift THE I y times its perfect digestion si refreshing sleep, f u tnost disordered effectually indigest sumption, habitual rangements, nervousness, Elliot catarrhs, colds, ix rheumatism, gout , ralgia,irritability i heartburn, hoada c niusea and sickneE fits, bronchitis, scr the pit of the FltOt the m os t di ge stible for in va lid s an d ini IMPORTANT CAU' and more than sic g rity, B aron Li eln _ ' llenc,eforth none Du Barry's health and Infants' Food, has already receh been deemed hopel near the Pone, 'MI( by it after thirty IWo quote from ti 1841.gi Rome, Holy F ather is ex( other remedies, he Iltrry's Revalenta plateful at every no Innoficial effect or Praise this nacelles Cure No. 58,216 pears'liver oomph di n°9B,tion ir ritability NF ges, constant nervous agitation. Cure N 0.78, of d gtuart de Decies, ford :—"I havo dcr cr food,-.STnAIrr DE Waterford." Oure No. 49 83' of LYnn, Norfolk. from dYspepein ne; aatulency, spas'ms, Our° No. 4,121.. nervousness, infike VDUs fancies. Cure No, 56,814.- years diarrh cer. The Food is sold 4e. 6d. ; anisters, carriage f irry s Revalenta ti, canisters: For 1 cups at 65., for 283 ckbout cna penny pe free of carriag'e in bit/till' DU BARE also at ortnum a Oro echut oh-street L icrth-rte, L