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This ErENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and tiaturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Idcndays, 6d.; Children utider twelve, 6d. „ w4 J . 21 ,yl4' LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1869. Between the March of 1868 and the March of 1869 the Irish Church Question has been continu- ously and more or less directly under the considera tion of the country and of the Legislature. Mr. MAGUIRE'S notice of motion on the sth of Decem ber, 1867, was the igniting of the first spark in what has since spread so much light and warmth around it from that central point for all political discussion, the Commons House of Parliament. That notice of motion by the hon. mem ber for Cork may have appeared to many at the first blush but a " trivial thing" intrinsically. It has had " mighty contexts," however, as we all know. It has led to the downfall of one Government and to the installation cf another. It has nearly doubled the previously large clear majority of the Liberal Party. It has made the member for Birmingham a Privy Counsellor. It has raised Mr. GLADSTONE to the Premiership. It has brought about one or two of the auguries of a political mille nium—brin ging together into harmonious corn' anion ship not simply the lion and the lamb—but, yet more wonderful to tell—placing Mr.BraGHT and Mr. LOWE cheek-by-jowl in the same Cabinet ! To Mr. MAGUIRE'S modest notice of motion, of the date just now mentioned, all this, and a great deal more, may be confidently pronounced to be directly traceable- That notice, it may yet be remembered, ran simply to the effect that after the recess he, the member 'or CDrk, would move "That this House resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, with the view of taking the condition and circumstances of Ireland into immediate consideration." Not a sylla ble, there, about the Irish Church—observe ! But it was latent, it was lurking. Originally the motion was fixed for the 25th of February, 1868, but by that day Lord DERBY'S resignation had been announced. Mr. MAGI IRE was for the moment baulked. lle had his innings, however, on the 10th of the ensuing March. We all of us remember it. A twelvemonth has since elapsed, but the de bate of four days', meaning four nights', duration which followed immediately upon it, is but as an event of yesterday. Some time previously the Irish Church had, according to the familiar geological phrase, " cropped up." It was no longer lying perdu. It had come to the fore. Petitions had dropped in from various parts of the United Kingdom for and against its disendowment. Other petitions had poured in— not quite so abundantly, but still in sufficient num bers to be noticeable—in favour of the project of a Catholic university. Those signs of the times had been visible—more and more legibly, and more and more numerously,for three months together—namely, from the December of 1867 to the March of 1868. So that,when the postponed motion of the member for Cork came forward at last, the pear was ripe for the gathering. So ripe that the gentlest breeze from any point of the political compass must inevi tably have shaken it down. But the breezes were not by any means gentle, and came from different points of the political compass. Wherefore—as a thing of necessity—down it dropped. The now Viceroy of India was then Chief Se cretary for Ireland. And, addressing the House of Commons in chat latter capacity, Lord .I.llavo, in the course of a long and laboured speech, during the dis cussion upon Mr. MAGUIRE'S motion, while laying bare the project of Alr. DisriAELr's Government for the founding in Ireland of a Roman Catholic University, spoke of the Itegium Donum as contemptible and insufficient—repudiated the notion of levelling down —vaunting to the skies on the other hand the diametrically opposite notion of levelling up. The Ministerial programme so propounded, elicited from the right hon. gentleman the Leader of the then Liberal Opposition that positive and startling declaration, in regard to the Irish Church, which every one in the House of Commons who heard him utter the words recognised upon the instant—which the whole country understood perfectly well the day afterwards — was a death-blow to the Irish Church as a State In stitution. Its day'had at last arrived. It had been long anticipated as inevitable—but it had come at length visibly and appreciably. Mr. MAGUIRE'S motion having secured its purpose, was with drawn. The matter then passed into the hands of Mr. GLADSTONE. He had significantly enough intimated that, everything considered, "it would be the duty of those who differed from the Government to make a proposal, and to ask the opi nion of the House upon the question of the Irish Church. Consequent upon which declaration there came his me morable motion before March had run out, viz., on the 30th of that month in 1868, to the effect That the Acts relating to the Established Church (Ireland) be read, and that this House immediately resolve itself into a committee upon the said Acts, in order subse quently to move, in committee, the following reso lutions : "1. That it is necessary that the Established Church of Ireland should cease to act as an Establishment, due regard being had to all personal interests and to all individual rights of property. "2. That, subject to the foregoing considerations, it is expedient to prevent the creation of new personal interests by the exercise of any public patronage, and to confine the operations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland to objects of immediate necessity, or such as involve indivi dual tights, pending the final decision of Parliament. "3. TLat an address be presented to her Majesty, humbly praying that, with a view to the purposes aforesaid, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to place at the dis posal of Parliament her int erest in the temporalities of the archbishoprics, bishoprics, and the ecclesiastical dignities and benefices of Ireland, and in the custody thereof." Thereupon, it was, that Lord STANLEY brought for ward his carefully-considered amendment " to leave out from the word House' to the end of the question, in order to add the words: While admitting that considerable modifications in the temporalities of the United Church in Ireland may, after the pending in quiry, appear to be expedient (this House) is of opinion that any proposition tending to the dis-estab lishmentor dis-endowment of that Church ought to be reserved for the decision of a new Parliament.' " Another Four Nights' Debate ensued upon the Re solutions of Mr. GLADSTONE, or rather upon Lord STANLEY'S Amendment—the result being the rejec tion of that amendment by a clear majority, in air immense House, of exactly Sixty 1 That majority THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, h 69. was increased to Sixty-six upon a subsequent divi sion. The Resolutions were adopted. A Bill was in troduced, was pasp.ed through its various stages in the House of Commons, and a little before midsummer went up to the Lords. There, after a remarkable de bate of three nights' duration, it was entirely swept aside by Earl GREY'S amendment. Parliament, in due course, was dissolved. There was an appeal to the country. The rest we know— the rest is visible enough in the fact of the exist ence of the present Government. And—in justification of its existence as a Government—Mr. GLADSTONE, as head of it, as First Lord of the Trea sury, and leader of the immense Liberal majority in the House of Commons, has this very evening to explain the manner in which he and his colleagues propose to deal with the Irish Church with regard tolits,dis-establishment, and with regard to its dis-en dowment. THE verdict of the jury in the SAITRIN case has taken a good many persons by surprise ; and we imagine no one more so than the distinguished judge who tried the case. his masterly summing up was what is commonly called " dead" against the plaintiff throughout, and while very complimentary to her eloquent counsel, was not a little severe upon him for the way in which he had " played fast and loose with the evidence." It is generally more diffi cult for outsiders than for the jury to judge of the merits of a case. Nevertheless it may sometimes happen that eloquence will overpower reason. We are by no means confident that this did not happen in the present instance. Sir Jous COLERIDGE is the most eloquent advocate living, and he has had few equals since the time when the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE forsook the bar for the bench. Such a counsel, with such a client—a poor, weak, defence less girl, ex hypothesi the victim of a most malignant persecution—was sure to produce a deep impression upon those who heard him, and all the more because he had a right tothe last word. But when we pass from his pathetic appeals to the judicial strictures of Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN we get into an entirely different atmosphere. The CHIEF JUSTICE paid his tribute to the eloquence of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, but his lordship was not moved by it. He pointed out that in almost every instance of alleged persecu tion counter evidence had been offered which entirely, or at least materially, explained the charge away. For instance, the statement made by Miss SAURIN that she had to stand for two hours in a state of semi-nudity in her cell, with the door open for all the nuns to see her, resolved itself in the evidence for the defence into the fact that her dress required mending, and that the work took half-an-hour ; the statement that she had to eat mouldy bread was true, but she was no worse off than the others, for all had to eat it in consequence of a defect in the baking, and the incident occurred only once ; the statement that she had to do menial work was true, but so had all the other Sisters, in accordance with the rule of the Order ; the statement that she had to wear a dirty duster on her head as a penance was true, but such penances were not uncommon. Of the other charges nearly the whole were untrue or grossly exaggerated, if the evidence for the defence is to be believed. In fact the case resolved itself, for the most part, into a conflict of evidence : on the one side is that of Miss SAURIN ; on the other, that of the many Sisters and other persons called for the defendants. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that he never heard witnesses give their evidence in a manner more calculated to claim the respect of the judge than the Sisters who had been called in this case. He put it to the jury whether it was more likely that the plaintiff, whose letter to her brother had proved her given to exaggeration, had exaggerated throughout, or that the defendants' witnesses, who had devoted their lives to visiting the sick, instructing the poor, and other acts of piety, were guilty of perjury. The jury accepted the latter alternative, and so did the crowd in Westminster Hall, who cheered the verdict which the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE received without expressing the concurrence usual when judge and jury are agreed. There is another consideration which might have been expected to lead to a different verdict. Even presuming that - .NESS SAURIN'S evidence was more trustworthy than that of the numerous other con curring witnesses, the prosecution was bound to prove that the alleged persecutions were intended to drive her out of the convent. The discipline of a convent is severe, its laws are more minute even than the regulations of a regiment. Offences against those laws are judged, not according to their inherent heinousness, but according to the degree in which they infringe the conventual regime. An offence trivial in itself may become serious if it is especially forbidden. The prohibition may seem to us trivial, vexatious; but Miss SAUBIN knew of its existence when she entered the convent and voluntarily promised obedience to it. Miss SAURIN need not have gone there, need not have put herself under the dominion of laws that were irksome to her. She did so to please herself, and she was bound to accept the consequences. But it is contended that the laws were enforced upon her with unusual severity, in order to compel her to leave the convent. The first part of the statement is pro bably true, for the defendants evidently thought that Miss SAURIN especially needed their enforce ment. Even if they were wrong in that supposition, even if they suspected her unjustly, punished her unduly, that is no proof of conspiracy. It ought to have been shewn that there was a deliberate intention on the part of the defendants to wrest their regulations with the object of getting rid of their obnoxious associate. It was not enough to shew that they were mistaken, it was incumbent to shew that they were malignant. The jury thought that this was shewn, the judge clearly thought that it was not, and we should find it hard to agree with the first. There are some sources of satisfaction in this tedious trial, even though we do not think the verdict one of them. In the first place, it is !satis factory to find that a case of this kind can be tried in a British court of law with a minimum amount of religious prejudice. We are not sure that this would have been possible twenty years ago ; but the nation has grown more tolerant, and, therefore, more just. In the next place, it will be satisfactory to all but bigoted anti-Papists to find that an institu tion of the kind, whose affairs have been so minutely investigated, will bear that investigation without the smallest scandal. Of course much that is unflat tering will be said with regard to convents, and it will be assumed from this one case that all nunneries are the scenes of petty bickerings and tyrannies. It will be forgotten that we have had courts-martial revealing bickerings and tyrannies quite as petty among men as these among women. The ROBERTSON and JERVIS courts-martial, with their details of backboards and pickles, may fairlybe s e t aga i nst t h e Hull convent case to shew thatif there is ss nott e rpeenrfoetcitnthe harmonymess -room. .t refectory, so likewise is IT is hardly necessary to express any approval of the Bill for the Repression of Crime which the Earl of KIMBERLEY brought before the House of Lords on Friday. The measure deals with a very pressing evil, and it embodies all the principal changes of the law which the voice of public opinion has already sanctioned. It met with strong sup port in the Upper House, and there was an all but unanimous feeling that whether the Govern ment proposals be adequate or not, the reform is one which ought not to suffer any longer delay. Neither party appeared disposed to tolerate that favourite instrument of procrastination, a Select Committee. The question is to receive the immediate attention of Parliament, and considering that the general principles of the measure are approved of by the Conservative leader, there can be little doubt that it will soon become law. Its stipulations will doubtless be regarded with wholesome discomfort by the class which it immc diately affects, but to the community at large they can hardly fail to prove of unquali fied benefit. The surveillance over profes sional criminals is provided fur in the manner we have recommended. All criminals who have suffered two convictions for felony, and have been imprisoned, though not sentenced to penal servitude, are to remain under the eye of the police for seven years after the expiration of their sentence. Such a criminal shall at all times during this period be liable to give an account of his way of life before a magistrate. If it be clear that he is not obtaining his liveli hood by honest means, a sentence of imprisonment not exceeding twelve months may be inflicted. The criminal under surveillance will render himself liable to a similar penalty if found under suspicious circumstances in a dwelling-house, or in any place under circumstances which justify the presumption that crime is intended. These provisions, enforced with clue care against too much power being left in the hands of the police, will at once abolish the present immunity of professional dishonesty. The large class which lives by plundering the public, and which regards a prison merely as a necessary alterna tive to a life of idleness and vice, must for the future exist only on the most precarious conditions. Throwing the burden of proof upon the criminal, laying down the rule that he who has twice incurred the punishment of the law must give assurance that there is no probability of his committing a third offence, is the great principle of the new mea sure. It is alone sufficient to accomplish much of the reform that is so greatly needed. But the bill goes farther. On a third conviction for felony within five years, the judge must inflict a sentence of not less than seven years' penal servitude. The criminal who has been convicted a third time will remain under sur veillance for life. Ticket-of-leave men may be required to furnish proof of following a honest calling, and, failing to do so, be sent to serve the full term of their former sentence. Receivers of stolen goods must in certain cases prove that they had no knowledge of the real nature of the transac tion. Vagrants will be more summarily dealt with, and assaults upon the police more severely punished. These details will aid in carrying out the wider stipu lations of the bill, which, as a whole, cannot fail to bring about a salutary change. Henceforth the principle of our criminal law is to be changed. Instead of affording the criminal every facility, under the cover of delusive ideas regarding the liberty of the subject, the law will regard the professional thief as its permanent enemy, and will not cease its control until his evil courses are "abandoned. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE IRISH CHURCH. (From " The Gladstone Government, by a Templar.") Recollecting what have been the principal phases of his political character, remembering that be has been succes sively a Conservative, a Liberal Conservative, a Liberal, and eventually, what he is now, an Advanced Liberal, it has been objected to Mr. Gladstone that be has, by reason of those very changes, been flagrantly inconsistent. The accusation, however, is in itself nothing less than an ab surdity. At any rate, thinking as we do ourselves, it is to us nothing less than an absurdity ; for, in point of fact, from our way of looking at it, at least, the phases named are not so much changes as they are developments. As well quarrel with a full-grown man for being no longer a stripling, or a school-boy, or, still more, for not being yet an infant, as impute to Mr. Gladstone the hein ous guilt of having advanced from being the young Tory Member for the Duke of Newcastle's pocket borough of Newark to be the Liberal Member for the constituency of Greenwich, and head of a Cabinet having within it, among other colleagues, a thorough-going reformer, such as the Member for Birmingham. He has advanced, indeed, by regular and appreciable gradations. And the regularity of his progression —odd though, at the first blush, it may seem for any one to say so—can hardly be more strikingly illustrated than by reference, here, more particularly, to the development of his views in regard to the Irish Church Establishment. The maintenance of that Church, be began by advocat ing. He is now about to undertake immediately the sweeping of it aside altogether as an institution of the State, first of all by disestablishment and afterwards by disendowment. Between those two positions there is an apparent, and in ono sense, of course, a very real dis crepancy. But, it is easy enough to understand how it is, now, that these seemingly irreconcilable opposites have come to be linked harmoniously together. And, in order to de monstrate this very clearly, it is only necessary to string together in, as it seems to us, somewhat more cogent sequence, a few facts and dates culled from no more re condite source than Mr. Gladstone's own Chapter of Autobiography. According to Lord Macaulay's masterly summary of the whole theory set forth in Mr. Gladstone's book ou Church and State, it rested—these being the very words of the great reviewer—' on this great fundamental p r op o siti on , that the propagation of religious truth is one of the prin cipal ends of government, as government!' Macaulay himself ; adding that, if Mr. Gladstone has not proved that proposition—again we are employing the very words of the reviewer—"his system vanishes a t once." Now, within these last few months, as before intimated, Mr. Gladstone has himself, through his Chapter of Auto biography, told us all very plainly that no sooner was his book out than ho saw clearly, within his own recognition, that it was an anachronism. That, scarcely was the work published, when lie pe rceived th a t the position he had assumed in it was untenable. Two years before tha., namely, on the Ist of Jane, 1836, Wh en speak i ng i n the House of Commons on the appropriation clause, he had stated in so many words his conviction that a Church Establishment maintained for the sake of its members was "not in equity tenable for a moment" Realising immediately after the publication of his book that his grand polito-ethical hypothesis as to the propaga tion of religious truth being one among the principal ends of government, was nothing better in itself than an Uto pian or Arcadian day-dream, a project altogether imprac ticable, a visionary scheme as intangible and impalpable as he thereup on, as a rational man, a " Chateau en Espagne," availing himself of every possible opportunity enabling him in any way to mark his withdrawal from that fantas tic and isolated position in which he had placed bimself by the sheer force of his own arguments. We have recalled to mind his already startling retirement in 1845, because of the Maynooth question, from the Govern ment of Sir Robert Peel. Immediately after his resigna tion, ho declared publicly in the House of Commons, on 4th of February, that he was not prepared to draw a distinction between the Roman Catholics and other denomi nations of Christians with reference to the religious opinions held by each of them respectively. Since that date he declares now, in his autobiographic pamphlet, that he has never uttered one word in public or in private that could pledge him in principle to the maintenanee of the Irish Church. These "ea post facto" assertions of his own, however, as his more cynical opponents may be disposed to desig nate them, have incidentally been accompanied, it should be said, by two or three rather curious corroborations. Sir John Coleridge, the pres3nt Solicitor-General, for ex ample, when addressing his constituents at Exeter in August, 1868, took occasion to say that, when he himself was leaving Oxford in 1847 he had the great honour of being secretary to Mr. Gladstone's first election committee for the University, and that ha very well remembered how solicitous many of the constituents were to elicit from Mr. Gladstone some declaration pledging him to stand by the maintenance of the Irish Church as an Establishment. Sir John Coleridge adding to this, from his own vivid re collection of those facts in 1847, " lie (Mr. Gladstone) distinctly refused to pledge himself to anything of the kind." Another witness, also addressing himself to his consti tuency in August, 1868, namely, Sir Roundel' Palmer, in the course of a speech delivered by him to the electors of Richmond, related to his audience, out of his own distinct remembrance of what occurred in 1863, that then, when no one was bringing forward this question about the Irish Church, or appeared likely to do so —" Mr. Glad stone had told him privately that he had made up his mind on the subject, and that he should not be able to keep himself from giving public expression to his feelings." Between these two retrospective testimonies, however, testimonies as to facts so entirely independent of each other—Sir John Coleridge's evidence in regard to 1847, in his speech at Exeter, and Sir Roundel' Palmer's evi dence in regard to 1863 in his speech at Richmond—there are adduceable, from the pages of "Hansard," declarations made by Mr. Gladstone himself, clearly enough indicating ho r completely he had retreated, years ego, from the un tenabldposition assumed by him as the author of the book on Church and State. In 1851, during the discussion on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, he solemnly warned the house not to attempt to chan3e ‘• the profound and resistless tendencies of the age towards religious liberty ;" adding emphatically, " every effort you may make in that direction will recoil upon you in disaster and disgrace." He felt then, he now tells us, that the application of a true religious equality to Ireland was —what ?—" biding its time." In 186 E, when speaking upon Mr. Dillwyn's motion in regard to the Irish Church, although he remarked that the time was not arrived in which the subject matter of that motion could be energetically dealt with, be declared it to be, in his opinion —what ?—“the question of the future." So clearly _was it eaaligested by hint, even thee, that he had thereby virtually announced the pulling down of the Irish Church as an action nearly inevitable in the future, that the Irish Chief Justice (then Mr.) Whiteside hesitated not to rise from his place on the front bench of the Opposition and to denounce the speech which had just then been delivered by Mr. Gladstone, saying, among other things in regard to it, " But I do complain of a Minister who, himself the author of a book in defence of Church and State, when one branch of the Christian Church is attacked and in danger, delivers a speech, every word of which is hostile to its existence when the right time comes for attacking it." Inconsistency on Mr. Gladstone's part, after all this, would be his advocacy not of the destruction but of the maintenance intact of the Irish Church as an institution supported and guaranteed by the Queen's Government. Precisely as it would be the most flagrant inconsistency on his part if he were to favour now the cause of Toryism and that of Protection. As he says himself autobiogra phically in regard to his actual position as a leader of the people, "I who may have helped to mislead them by an over-hasty generalisation (he is referring to his Church and State treatise), would now submit what seems to me calculated to reassure the mind"—that is by vindicating in a very signal manner those prin ciples of religious liberty to the furtherance of which the generous heart of England has, through all tin legislation of recent years, been perseveringly devoted, save only in one deplorable instance, the powerless record of which the nation has of laie shown itself not unpre pared to have, sooner or latJr, erased from the statute book. In the memory of his own mistaken treatise, Afr. Glad stone's proposed measure is ; therefore, nothing less than an act of expiation : while, in recollection of the whole coursa he himself has pursued in this matter since that youthful work was first published, and in remembrance of the whole drift of our modern legislation, here in Eng land, upon matters connected with religion, it is a vindi cation, we would insist, at one and the same time, of the nation's and of his own consistency. z , iff ,„ ..0.7111Y HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 28. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Leopold took a short drive this morning. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen of their suite, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT. RACE. It is generally considered that Wednesday, March 17, will be appointed for the race, The original challenge from Cambridge was for a race on the usual Saturday, March 20, but owing to the unusually awkward time of the tide on that occasion, it was found, on consideration, to be practically impossible. On the 17th the tide will be high flood near five o'clock in the afternoon, and the start from Putney, so as to get the cream of the current, must take place about four p.m. The Oxonians are expected at Putney on Thursday next, and they will probably row over the course soon after their arrival. The Cantabs will be a day or so later, as term arrangements do not seem to suit the rowing men so well as at Oxford. Both crews will get into their light boats this week, the Oxonians to-day, when their ship, which does not seem suit them exactly, will undergo another trial. THE COMING DEBATE ON THE IRISH CHU.RCII, "Much curiosity and some anxious interest (says the Star) have been felt as to the course the great debate in the House of Commons is likely to take. The con clusions at which we feel able to arrive at on the subject are these. We entertain a strong conviction that there will be no disposition on the part of the Opposition to delay the introduction of the bill. Mr. Gladstone's motion will simply be for the intz oduction of a bill—made, we presume, in the usual technical form, instructing the Chairman of the Com mittee to bring in the bill. In moving this, Mr. Glad stone is expected to make a very long and entirely exhaustive speech. The whole scheme of the Government will, if our anticipations are verified, be before the country in the parliamentary columns of Tuesday morning's newspapers, Supposing that no immediate opposition is offered, the second reading is likely, we surmise, to be fixed very early, probably not later than Thursday, the 18th of March, so as to leave a clear week for a debate on the second reading of the bill, should the Opposition challenge its progress at that stage. Our own belief, however, is that the bill will be contested chiefly in com mittee." THE MANUFACTURE OF CAST-STEEL. The Siemens-Martin process for the manufacture of cast-steel, tried experimentally at Birmingham, has recently been put in operation on a manufacturing scale at the North Yorkshire Steel and Iron Works, near Stockton-on-Tees, by Mr. Samuelson, M.P. The object of the invention is to produce cast-steel of a superior quality on the open hearth of a reverhatory furnace more certainly and more econo mically than by the Bessemer process. By the latter the conversion of cast-iron into steel is effected by the injec tion of air ; but the violence and rapidity of the process sometimes produces hard and brittle steel instead of the soft and ductile quality aimed at. By the Siemens-Martin process the temperature and composition of the flame in the furnace are entirely under the control of the operator. In the modification of Heath's process by Emile Martin, which consists in dissolving in a bath of liquid cast-iron successive doses of wrought-iron until the bath is saturated, and a fluid metal similar to liquid wrought-iron has been formed, when cast-iron ix again added till steel of the required hardness is obtained. Some difficulty was found in working the iron of the Cleveland district, but this has been overcome. The steel melting works of Mr. Samuelson's company were put in operation on the 18th ultimo, and the first rail was rolled for the North-Eastern Railway with perfect success on the following day. The rail was subjected to the impact of a ball weighing 22 cwt., and falling from a height of 30 feet, without chewing the slightest flaw, and each subsequent day's product has borne the same extraordinary test. Mr. Siemens himself is erecting similar works in North Wales, and the manu facture will no doubt be rapidly developed. GENERAL GRAAT'S LONGEST SPEECH. On the 13th February General Grant was officially informed of his election as President of the United States. In reply he said: " I can promise the committee that it will be my endeavour to call around me as assistants such men only A s I thi n k w ill carr y out the principles which you have said the country desires to see successful —economy, retrenchment, faithful col lection of the revenue, and payment of the public debt. If I should fail in my first choice, I shall not at any time hesitate to make a second, or even a third trial, with the concurrence of the Senate, who have the confirming power, and should jest as soon remove one of my own appointees as the appointee of my predecessor. It would make no difference. There is one matter that I might properly speak of here, and that is the selection of a Cabi ne t. I h ave a l ways f e l t th a t it wo uld be rather indelicate to announce or even to consult with the gentle men whom I thought of inviting to positions in my Cabinet before the official declaration of the result of the election was made, although I presumed that there was no doubt about what that declaration would be. But, after consideration, I have come to the conclusion that there is not a man in the country who could be invited to a place in the Cabinet without friends of some other gentleman making an effort to secure the position ; not that there would be any objection to the part] named, but that there would be others whom they had set their hearts upon having in the place. I can tell that from the great number of requests which come to me, in writing and otherwise, for this particular person or that one, from different sets and delegations. If announced in advance efforts would be made to change my determina- tion, and, therefore, I have come to the conclusion not to announce who I am going to invite to seats in the Cabinet until I send in their names to the Senate for con- firmation. If I say anything to them about it, it will certainly not be more than two or three days previous to sending in their names. I think it well to make a public declaration of this to the Committee, so that my inten- tions may be known." A " bill to facilitate business in Parliament" has been introduced by the Marquis of Salisbury. It provides that where a bill has passed one House of Parliament, and has been stopped in the house from want of time for its duo consideration in the session, the proceedings on such bill may be resumed and carried in the next session, not withstanding the prorogation of Parliament, on thefollowing steps being taken in that session : Ist. On the consent of the Crown to the resumption of proceedings being duly sig nified; 2d. On the House in wh;ch proceedings on the bill were suspended passing a resolution to the effect that it is expedient that proceedings on the bill should be resumed. The bill does not apply to the resumption of proceedings on a bill DI tQk tli 9i4 on of Pariament. - - - CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS• (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, February 28. M. Rouher has found it necessary to lighten the shi Baron Haussmann has been thrown overboard. Ido not mean to say that the Prefect of the Seine has resigned, though it is rumoured all over Paris that he has done so, but he has unquestionably received treatment whicl would warrant his resignation any day. The Government has lost the battle over the City of Paris Loan. The natural consequence; has followed the revelations made, during this memorable debate. The defence of the Impe• rial position has been found impossible, and the Govern• ment has been driven either to admit itself in the wrong, or throw the blame on Baron Hauss• ' mann. Of course the former alternative was out of the question, and therefore the unhappy Haussmann has been offered up to appease the victorious Opposition. It might appear strange to the unphilosophical outsides that a ':' -ornment, the responsibility of which centres only in L. inperor, should repeatedly throw the blame of its shortcomkgs upon isolated officials; that, in brief, irresponsible Ministers should be made responsible as soon as any trouble turns up. But then nothing is strange here. The Emperor is answerable for everything that goes r:glit ; his Ministers for everything that goes wrong. Such is about the equitable division of labour in French Government circles. Therefore poor Baron Hausmann, the faithful servant, the devoted demolisher of all that was unsightly in Paris, that ingenious adept in the art of raising money by strange procedures, has been made the scapegoat. On Friday M. Rouher stated that M. Haussmann's acts were illegal and uniustifiable. He ad mitted municipal mismanagement, and he confessed that Baron Haussmann had raised certain large sums without first obtaining the requisite legislative authority. The Prefect of the Seine had issued bonds and secretly raised loans, instead of openly appealing to the public, and bad wrong fully applied to the construction of public works the caution money deposited by the contractors. It was impossible, urged the Emperor's lieutenant, that his Majesty should be responsible for the city of Paris works, except in a general way. The details are Baron Hauss maim's, and he must be sacrificed. But M. Rouher was not content with sacrificing the Prefect of the Seine. He paid equally little regard to the senator and the Minister of the interior, who had laboriously defended the Baron—afterwards to enjoy the pleasure of seeing their work demolished. M. Rouher's confession was necessary, but no one can deny that it was humiliating. Baron Haussmann has but one creditable course left him— to resign at once. The official and semi-official papers can ill conceal their vexation at the news from Spain. Everything points to the conclusion that the Cortes will shortly be met by the dilemma of a republic—which the deputies have already declared against— or a king with a small party of one candidate to c'.oose from. This candidate is Montpensier. The Imperialists may well be annoyed at the probable choice of an Orlt anist sovereign. That such will be the issue is becoming more and more probable. Dom Fernando only might command a wider approval, but it does not appear that he will stand. The Patrie which has all along almost ignored the Montpensier candidature, now admits that it is making great progress, Prim as well as Serrano now supporting it. Here, then, is the pro bability of another reverse in foreign policy befalling Napoleon. The public speakers are spending their uncomfortable quarter of an hour. Two were tried on Friday for "exciting hatred amongst the citizens," and attacking the principle of property. One was fined £4 and sentenced to three months' impiisonment, the other suffered a penalty twice as severe. The Constitutionnel seems to be much better acquainted with English courts of justice than you or your contemporaries ; at least, in no English paper have I seen the extraordinary story which the semi official paper tells. A prisoner was recently, says the Paris paper, sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the London Guildhall by a magistrate who is notorious for his " passion for gambling." Upon receiving sentence the prisoner drew a coin from his pocket, placed it under his hand, and called out " Doubles or quits—heads or tails." In a moment of abstraction the alderman mechanically called " Tails." The culprit claimed that it was heads, and that therefore won. The magistrate, says the Constitutionnel, could not forbear laughing, and discharged the vagabond. The story, as the Paris paper remarks, is curious, but cer tain points need clearing up. Who was the alderman ? was pitch-and-toss his favourite form of gambling ? and how is it that nobody in England heard of the affair? It would be odd, indeed, if magistrates tossed with their prisoners as to whether they were to serve double term or go scot free. It may be as well to remind your readers that Count Jean Dzidynski, who has just been sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the High Court of Berlin, was accused of aiding iu the Polish insurrection. He was tried in 1864, and condemned to death by default, but lately surrendered voluntarily to take his trial. He was one of the largest proprietors in the Duchy of Posen. THE "FEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REEORTEI. Extreme Monday, March 1,• 8 a. In . D. 1 W W.N.W.' W. N. W, 1 18. W. b. 8.0. _ . Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields .. • • Scarborough Yarmouth Helder .. • • Cux haven Skudesnals Ardrossan Greencastle Holyhead • • Liverpool . • Valentia.. • • Cape Clear Roches rt Penzance Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth London • • • • C'peGrisNer Brest L'Orient . • Roche fort Biarritz I Conning... • • Brussels . • • • Paris Strasbourg Lyons Toulon ••• • , Heart's Cont- tent (9 5 - 01 .1 local time) .TION W.N.V. N.N.W. N. W. • . N.W. W. N. W. _ _ g.W: • W.N.W. N.W. N.R.W. 29'54r. 29'52r. 29'56r. 29'595. 29'53f. 29'49f. 29 65r. 29 72r. 29'74f. 29 67 22 93f. 29'85f. 29'88f. 29'83f. 29'70f. 29 61f. 29 56f. 29 97f. 29 95f. 30'00f. 30'27f. £9'97r. N.W. N.W. N.N.W. N.W. N. W. N. W. N. W. N. W. N. W. ___ N.W. W. W.N.W, W.N.W. W.N.W. ; W.N. W. N.V. ZIPLANA! Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, r i s i ng ; f. falling ; s, steady — indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f. - fog ; I.— lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull r.— rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Bain•fall, snow or hail melted) daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Yesterday morning a general decrease in pressure had occurred at all our stations, especially in the N.W.; but since last evening a recovery of about two-tenths has taken place in Scotland, whilst at our southern stations the fall has continued. The lowest reading is now at Yarmouth, and is o'slin. below that at Rochefort. Tempera ture had fallen generally on Sunday, but this morning it has risen again, especially in France. During Saturday night it blew hard from the N.W. on almost all our coasts, but had subsided semewhat In the N. and E., and in the Channel yesterday morning. To-day fresh to strong N.W. winds are general, attaining the force of a gale at Holy head and in France. Snow has been general except in the south, but not heavy ; thunder and lightning in the west. The sky is clear on the east coast. The sea is moderate. Weather is not yet settled. Warnings issued to the east coast. From this date Pembrok 3 H ill be substituted for Weymouth as a repor big s.atio ). .PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The first notice on the House of Commons paper for this evening is Mr. Gladstone's relating to the Irish Church, which runs as follows I—" Established Church (Ireland)—That the Acts relating to the Established Church (Ireland), the Acts relating to Maynooth, and the first resolution of the House of Commons in the session of 1868, relating to the Established Church (Ireland), be read. That this House will immediately resolve itself into a committee to consider the said Acts and resolution. In committee to move, that the chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a bill to put an end to the establish ment of the Church in Ireland, and to make provision in respect of the temporalities thereof, and in respect of the Royal College of Maynooth." Major O'Reilly intends to bring in a bill for further regulating the sale of liquors on Sunday in Ireland, and Mr. Glyn and Mr. Noel will move for new writs for the boroughs of Bradford and Bewdley. On Tuesday Mr. Acland will move for a select corn• mittee to inquire into the action with reference to agricul ture of various public authorities, with a view to consider the expediency of recommending that some one depart ment be made responsible for dealing with adminstra tive and legislative questions affecting agriculture. Sir George Jenkinson has made up his mind to call the attention of the House to the subject of local tax ation,with a view to a retnecry of the injustice of the present system of legislation ; whilst Mr. Hadfield will ask leave to bring in a bill to amend the law which regulates the burial of persons in England not belonging to the EstaMishee Church. The principal business set down for Wednesday is the second reading of Mr. Thomas Hughes's Sunday Trading Bill, and the intention of Mr. Cave to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to life insurance companies. Two bills are appointed to be read a second time on Thursday, viz., the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill (Repeal) and the Assess eg Rates Bill; and on Friday the Attorney aualgaal, 8 I 8 10 10 10 MR. GOSCHEN AND LOCAL SELF- GOVERNMENT. On Saturday afternoon a deputation of ratepayers of t'• Pancras, representing the St. Pancras Rates Reduct ion Association, waited upon Mr. Goschen, the President of the [Poor-law Board, for the purpose of presenting memorial signed by over 1,800 ratepayers, and wak ing representations in respect to the alleged extravagan t ex. penditure of the guardians under the new Poor Act for the Metropolis. The deputation was introduced by I‘ lt ; Charles Reed, M.P., and com p r i se d severa l members of the vestry. The memorial prayed the board to exercise its powers to institute immediate inquiry into t he facts connected with the erection of the infirmary an" schools, and the necessity for the same. Mr. Goscb ell having listened very attentively to the statements of the several speakers for nearly an hour, said it apPear ed . to him, from what he could understand, that the guardians of St. Pancras had carried out their work, both as regsr ucd „ out-door and in-door relief, under the new Act, sc ee ;, ingly well, although possibly there were some g rail(' for grievance. Of course he could only regard the stli te• ments which had been made to him by the deputation as etil parte, and could not be expected to commit himself nn he had heard the other side, but he would honestly all' fairly state to them that the St. Pancras guardians st ow ; very high in the estimation of the Poor-law Board. T he ' (the Poor-law Board) stood in this position : when did interfered then the ratepayers said their local mat te° ought to be let alone, and when they did not interfere then it was said they ought to do so. The memorialists inthisn ase asked the Poor-law Board for an inquiry into what they described as the "present incapable and almost irreePt sible system of local government." If we i n terfere , tw . ratepayers do not like it, and say we ought to leave t he :: alone with their local self-government. This Was first occasion a deputation had waited upon the preen Poor-law Board toask them so to interfere. On the eth er hand, they had had many memorials to maintain til t ° present system of local self-government, and Wit ' c' c i disturb it on any account. Although the subject n e already engaged much attention, he had no objection t og° once more into the matter. The Poor-law Board We re already in communication, through its inspectors, wit ll ,, tll : t guardians, and every info r mati on wou ld b e o btained t' t was desirable. He had ca ll e d f or re t urns f or the el c3c amount of accommodation for the sick poor, &c., in O u t " ,, workhouses of London, with a. view of ascertaining wh etP t e t such accommodation is absolutely suffici e nt. He thong there could be no difficulty in ascertaining this, and upon that information the board could act. lie had mad e note of the statements about the objections to the of election and plurality of voting, as well as the election of assessed tax collectors as guardians. Although the/. might be points for another inquiry, they had nothing t o a do with the question before them.—Mr. B r yant observe. that there was also another most unj u st and. o bjection principle, which was allowing the whole of the wag trates to become ex-officio guardians.—M r . Goschen sal that was a principle which did no t t ouc h the pres ent question, although it might fairly be argued that they were representatives of the owners of property, anci h owners were as much entitled to votes a s oc cu piers. 11° der ever, the whole question which had been brought un his notice should have due consideration. ELECTION PETITIONS. The following is (according to the Time 3) a correct lis t :: the election petitions appointed for hearing up to t present time. There were 70 petiti ons p res ented tin'', the Parliamentary Elections A c t, 1868. Of that num b: ` seven are in abeyance, virtually aba n d one d, securitP i ° costs not having been given, under the 6th section 0 f th ! statute. There were eleven petitions withdraw n . 1 ,1 pursuance of judge's orders, and two tu rn ed into 81 361 cases : tVe Boroughs, &c. Petitigners. Respondents. , Days Dai- Wigan BrAy h h e a r y and an-1 WcoaostrandLan-5 March y 6 Williams and an- ro J March • Z l6- 40 ant Taunton other ox . I C • t lice Blafr. sr for Beverley { Hind; and others Sir H. Edwards J March 8, l ip the Hereford .. Thomas and others,Cynlldieli an e d n o n h a . rd t ron MaL r isr his King's Lynn Armes and another Bourke .. i lViarch ga:rti li led• Oldham .. Cobbett and others Hibbert Platt{ Ma . r e 1• 3/2,ck"0.) Dover.. .. Helliott .. Dickson ( March 200 t I M t a ' rc e b ßr abu or ° sat Pembroke .. Hughes .. ..,Meyrick • • • • April 1. Brecknock .. Lucas and another Gwyn .. • • .(April 7. lel, Ch r istchu rc h 'P o ph am an d ot h ers ' Burke : 'April 13. id. The first petition was heard on January 12, a nd the ' s" ! er- so, me appointed for the 13th o f Ap r il. Th er e are 1 0 fIIP ras petitions still to be heard, and it i s p ro b a ble, unles s be 3W 0 ther petitions are withdrawn, that the jud g es will " ild able to get through the list much before the Long Ira° o f s of ars tion. According to present appearance the expenses .0 general election of money to be voted by Parliamen t not fall much short of £lOO,OOO including the three 5° nt tional judges appointed under the new Act. 4 60 •ee I The special point raised by the Salford election Pe-4 r , •as as is a novel one. Th e respon d en t s are c h arge d w ith cel l ' ? - e a ing voters to the poll, and this after they had been / I ° nit by the other side that suc h conveyance woul d invalidsrt as the electi o n. M r . P ope, w h o i s conducting the pe titiee s i . e , s case, claims to hav e p rove d th a t t hi s was d one , but rel o / also on various other illegal acts done by or on the 1 331 ",,,,t Messrs. Cawley and Charley, the sitting members. 2 1 - 13l°/1 :r, these there are items of treating, most of them, lie lve ,;• not on a large scale. Small treats rather than open ments were, according to the petitioners, the rule. v ° ci e o s lea and non -voters were produced who had been suPPl is he I o the day of the poll with beer and beef. Drunken rongio 9prevented voters from polling, and o b s t ruc ted those ° to were on the way to the p o ll. The agency was souoto. 2 I be establi s h e d by th e respon d en t s ' own a d ver tisenl e e„ 4 In reply, th e res p on d en t s , re p resen t e d b y M r . H o lker,Q' t be 5 admit that a strong case has been made out, suPPe si _k ilg. of ' evidence to be true, but they m a i n t a i n th a t the 1 7 3 - 00 the petitioners' evidence is utt e rly u nt rus tw o rthY, t, 3 - rest very much exaggerated and c o l oure d. Mr. 11° ' ti e r s. = in his address to the j u dg e , r e f erre d to °i re t be gstances long anterior to the election, to she lg ast. - efforts which Messrs. Cawley and Ch ar l e y took ill (1- 1400 4 4 if by any possibility they could do s o , t o k e ep the e lec.". bi pure, and be returned, if they were returned, solely, o 0 3 the force and legitimate exercise of the f r anchi se of 5 - the part of th e i r su pp or t ers . A grea t toltil be people were employed, or employed themselvesiold 5 it was very hard up o n th e can did a t es th a t they s t es 4 - be responsible for their acts, though no on' e ver might be made responsible for acts which theY t he • — sanctioned. With rega r d to th e p u bli s hed List of o 0 6 - committee, he pointed out that very few of the P e re e ve named had ever acted, and a great many had I ' ou t iler that their names might be withdrawn. He a lto t the disputed the position taken up by the other side, he ; mere advertising of these names constituted agencY• we re !it sitting members were called, and declared that th e 0 1 ° 0 0 m only used for canvassers and messengers, and 55 1 a, t bel ' was no disturbance in the street. In this latter Pes°"totes _ i were corroborated by Mr. Trafford, the police Enag'i s d) I and others. 11 4 In his opening statement at the trial of the to petition, Mr. Heron gave the det a il s o f what aPP ei e stS a t have been a conspiracy am ong th e R oman Catholic Pri se d a against Mr. O'Flaherty. Mr. O'Flaherty had *Ol in l lt to submit his claim s as a can did a t e in the interest to the t es t o f a pr i va t e po lling, e' all lb ;I , consequence, he had what Mr. Heron term:4olo m the splendid o rgan i sa ti on o f th e R o man C tho le Church brought to bear against him during hits. to election. The priests were ordered to preach again st O. h, • and to denounc e hi m f rom th e a lt ar , and they " t he it One priest, the Rev. Mr. Cullen, whose appe al 11 :y s d. people from the altar was couched in general t er° e xed upbraided in the sacristy by his bishop, and was alrar t4iii st to return and direct his remarks more pointedly liioed Mr. O'Flaherty. This priest has since been r ep the from his position ; and he is now giving evidence 0" trial. of Mr. Heron, Q.C., in hi s a dd ress tt e elect Cashel, for which borou g h h e comes f o rward on iodrPi.o% dent principles, says ho regards the land question 89 rch , of the greatest i m p or t ance t o I re l an d and on the Ono., question will follow Mr. Gl a d s t one 's ' policy as far dared. lereu The judge of the Wisbech county court has 0111 ; 0 air.B. Youn g , th e unsuccess f u l Lib era l candidat e for t, C° bridgeshire, to pay ono P e a c ock the sum o f £lO i ll ponsation for broken windo w s and furniture. The ',40 held that the action o f Mr. Youn g during the °lee"' if might be interpreted by the mob as an approval the conduct. It is very probable that the v oo American - .1 t awaiting 3ac race will come off after all. The two ' ibo ss tilting settlement before a final decision are, flr st, 4 " it t prOpOSed . 13. v. to rolating to the proper mode of measurement, 13ngi's-o°l. American ; and second, a requirement, of course easilY g plied with, that the challenge should go fro m some 13 yacht club of which Mr. Ashbury is a member. . A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. The folloi vin lf3 ots vertisement is from a recent New York p a p er :—" ,bcif want a really pure, unsophisticated, familyPill' silent Dr. R— 's liver-encouraging, kidney - per suading n " perambulator—twenty-seven in a box. This Pi mild a 9 a pet lamb, and as searching as a 0 3113°oth comb. It don't go fooling about, but attends strict/1 to business, and is as certain as an alarm clock." ~, 1 1 01 3 CABINET COUNCIL. —A Cabinet Council war , t on Saturday in Downing-street. The Ministers Pr,e,.6e,,130. were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lor d "3- y, cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of 101'1)erIgeo,r1 the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of ClarenOn'im of Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the 1)11-- o n. Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the " 4 , g li ori• Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Iligh'izigG. J. yf Gose r li vr e t n eru. ,th: 11 , , _l _arguis Uon, C, i lii G COI Accor day, the Consc count, - Zievr TL India ditto 5 Cent., ( 1873 , 1( It! ,n tio ti n u Cents.: Cent. 1 Per c e Greek F - N eW Sp Five pe Loan, 8. I-nan, 8 In th without ris en. I Caledo❑ Brighto: North Great Caledor Eastern A, 105 1061; ) 18 sh, British, Eastern barn anc Unit( and hal 1885 i lower b. tter, z not quit Atlas at 34 3z remain. ' , hared a A sui from to Lett( to b e 1 will be interest to take 1873 . Vienna An ii Per ann %Icon, Advil Jot of Wall 455,00( An a( Joh n si faeturet rej ected viz. ; 58. -- -was a this out It ap th© trek Govern to th e 1 an inter at any States. Mile s 01 receive first 10 per cen ratifi ed the Etllr , ratifical finished othe rw i sloo,o€ The Great 1 in the " I h to the e served stood, The int Railwa, have b progran raadiati tier). ba Ace() stron g to be : rains 11; give a n Is estia in exce Th e Works Per d ia March , 48 0 an a satin h°lders, Vi ce M r• A r th e eit Th e Eztl v onva The Shares h o. N.J.. Do• 4 O. I e 44 1t ° 11, 1 It P.; N.W. W. N.W. o'lB 0'33, o'l2 l o'l6i 0'231 C. I s.rb' 0. I o. o. r. o: ...,;;„ L o 1) 4 : u lk) E QUO