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

it 0 YAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. The ANNUAL GENERAL UEETING ef this Institution will be held at the LONDozi T.47,a21,._8i5h0-fi v ate-street, on TUESDAY next, the 9th March, et Two o'clock - precisely. Ills Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair. .„. RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, Adelphi, March '2 . THE INVIGORATIVE NEWVINE ESSENCE.—The most poworful nutritive cordial ever introduced; restores to their normal condition all the secretions, on the integrity of which perfect health depends. It is a specific for debility of all kinds, and from its containing among other ingredients, pepsine and phosphate of soda, will p ove highly beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Vide Dr. Hassall's re port. Price Bs. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 225. BAI73IGARTEN & Co., 520, Oxford-street, W.C., London. Car riage free on receipt of remittance. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, OTHELLO: Mr. Phelps, Mr. Dillon, Mr. H. Sinclair, &c.; Miss Heath and Miss Fanny Huddart. To conclude with a Grand Ballet cf Action entitled B DA. rHEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARICET Solo Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, dm. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, Astley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish. Burke, Rill, &c. Concluding with RUE L FELICITY: Messrs. Buckstone, Kendal, Rogers, Clarke, "Weathersby, White, &c. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Gwynn, Wright, &c. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven, THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YGITR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. itelmore. Mrs. L. Murray. St 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Delmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Vise Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama, in four acts, entitled MARIE AN TOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen, Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. Ooors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. 'ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE VID(?W HUNT. !Jl►rke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bill in and 3lsitlaml. After which, THE FIELD Ot".l'L. L CLOTH OF GOLD, Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robsou Mesdames 31. Long. more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. ROYAL .A.MPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN The world-renowned ONRA, whose extraordinary feats on the FLYING TRAP N ZE perfectly electrified the Metrrpolis last Autumn, will appear THIS EVENING. Onra challenges the world. Herr OSCAR CA RRE will introducehi Six splendid Trick Horses—Topaze, Saladin, edjid, Tancredi, Freischutz, and Abdallah—pronounced by the entire Press to be matchless for symmetry, breeding, and intelligence In a dition, tho incomparable Scenes in the Aram, including Engand's Champion Equestrian, Mr. A. Bradbury, Mr. A. Carr°, NI r. A, Salamonsky, Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero. A malia, Schwartz, and Krembser, "The trick horses ate naagn blunt a.nimg Is, every lover of horses should make it a special duty to witness the stud."—Standard "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at El WS-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. _ At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David Fisher. Andrews, Hurlston, and T. Clarke: Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henrade, Ee rend, Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GEOR GE 'S HALL, Regent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. 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Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, Re, GLOBE THEATBE-TIOTAT,. Tills Ir.rnNrW(4, at 7. A ITAPPv 'FAMILY. 7.!10, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 0.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner. David Fisher, Andrews, I furlstone. J. Clarke: Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar told, and Stephens ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanhorough. THIs EVENTN4. at 7.36, TEE , W HUNT. NTessrs, Tel ford, Clarke: Miss Beft,:n. T TIE FIELD OF THE C, OTH OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne. James. Fenton: esclames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, I ydia Maitland, Claire, and ling,hes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Mans,^,er, Mr. W. 11. Liston Turs EVENTNG, A RACE FOR A s INNER. A fter which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole. L. Brono i 11, Irving. s Finery. Miss Hodson, &c. Wi t h THE BIRTHPLACE 01.; PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE:LOYAL, ITOLBOIni, - .... TH rs E'V F NINO, AITNT CHARLOTTE'S MAI , . ITr. E. Peee, "Mesdames Larkin, WeatherAy. After which, FETTER: , D: Messrs. Cowper. eville, Parselle, Prcw, Brunton, NV. A- thur, Bartlernan, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlhro, Hodson. and Fanny Josephs To conclure with LU CRETIA BORGIA, MD.: tLss Fat.ny Josephs, Cleorgo Honey. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, noLnoRN. IV's EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud t HurseE; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, TH EATRE-POYA OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan, H.Ne ille, E. Atkins. H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, sod Smithson: Mesdames Furtado, Schavey. N. Harris, and rt. Henry. After which. THI.I YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville, H. Neville. Askins.Taylor, 7:::mghan, G. Vincent, iite.; Miss Fur ado and Mrs Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Rutter the Management, of Miss M. Oliver. Tim EVENING, at 7.20, A LOVIN CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALE'S'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Ni iss Marie Wilton 'Pins EvExiNa, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Baneroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss 1• arie 'Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET, THIS EYENING. at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. Tatnes's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and taturdays, at I and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALTTAIEBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET.;, Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at S. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfa-pativ, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on 3lrndays, Ga.; Children under twelve, io 7 "P .11.3 1,71' 4 :Yr" - _ 44-31, LONDON, [VED' ESDAY, MARCH 3, 1869, --4. Twenty years ago the announcement of the death of ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE would have created a profound sensation throughout Christendom. It is significant of the extent to which he had outlived his at one time immense popularity, that the news of his demise, coming to us simultaneously with the news of the demise of M. TROPLONG, the latter circum stance was at once accorded precedence—M. TROP LONG being nothing more than a conspicuous medio crity, M. DE LAMARTINE nothing less than a man of resplendent genius, Poet, Orator, Historian, Novelist, Hero ! Although the popularity of the latter had long since vanished, his reputation will not so readily pass away, or, for that matter, be even diminished. His name is inscribed is imperishable characters in the history of his country. His individual and per sonal heroism is among the most glorious recollec tions of France. His triumph as an Orator upon one memorable day in the midst of her third and we would willingly believe, if we could, her last Revolu tion was as brilliant and dazzling as any ever won in the lists at the point of a lance, or on the battlefield at the edge of the sword. Unarmed save with the magical weapon of speech, he gave to view upon that wonderful occasion the extraordinary spectacle of one man subduing the passions, in rapid sequence, of five infuriated multitudes. The incident is, hap pily, one that can never be disproved. Other renowned incidents related in history, both ancient and modern, and long believed to have been per- Messrs 'ectly well authenticat , d, have been swept away as utterly apocryphal. We are told, in regard to two of the most spirit-stirring, once related and long credited as having illustrated, in a remarkable manner, the heroism, here of the French, there of the English, on the field of Waterloo we are told that, neither in the one nor in the other was there any vestige whatever of truth —that WELLINGTON, before the final charge, did not cry out, " Up Guards and at 'em !"—that CAM BRONNE did not exclaim, " The old Guard dies but never surrenders !" But, at any rate, in regard to the incident of February, 1848, when I AMARTINE saved France from the imminent hazard, from the other wise all but dead certainty of a RAgn of Terror, by disdainfully rejecting the Red Flag as the symbol of Terrorism, while holding aloft the Tricolour as the banner of Civilization—in regard to that incident, at any rate, there is happily no room for any doubt whatever. It is an incident as to the reality of which there were a hundred thousand witnesses. Ile was weak as a statesman afterwards. He was a dreamer in the place of an adminis:.rat or. He was a Part suddenly invested for three months with a Poli tical Dictators?iip. Granted all this. But on that day—the day by which his 7 roil .Bois were inaugu rated—he won and deserved the whole civilized world's admiration. Is the agonies of a Revolu tion he saved France from Terrorism. And he did so without causing the loss of one single life, without shedding one drop of human blood. Twice since then France has been saved from the risk of Anarchy—but Order upon each of those occa sions has been restored at the mouth of the cannon and at the point of the bayonet. Upon the three days of June in that same year, 1848, the Red Republicans were shot down by wholesale far and wide throughout the barricaded streets of Paris by the soldie rs of CAVAIGNAC. Upon the occasion of the coup d'etat a comparatively very small number indeed were shot down by the soldiers of Louis NAPOLEON. The cause of Order was maintained, quite as signally, was vindicated yet more strikingly in the February of 1848 by LA3IARTINE. Alone in themidst of the mob, alone in the midst of five suc cessive mobs—without a sword being d ra wn, without a shot being fired. The spectacle presented to view there had seemingly nothing whatever heroic about it. It had nothing whatever of the " pride, pomp, and circumstance" of glorious war. Outside the Hotel de Vile there was a tumultuous assembly, and in the midst of it, standing upon a chair, a civilian el id in the unpicturesque costume of nowadays. Seen through the lurid glare of the revolutionary crisis in which he was placed thus conspicuously, that simple and seemingly unheroic figure assumed to itself a dignity of the most chivalrous proportions. Never knight in armour achieved more glory in the shock of battle, than that one man standing upon a chair in the Paris street and addressing mob after mob of the Red Republicans. LAMARTINE won fame for himself, as a Hero, on that memor able day, and the record of it will not very easily be erased from the annals of his country. As a Poet his fame is equally secure, by right of his Meditations Poetiques, and by right, also, of his exquisite idyll of Jocelyn. As a Historian, his reputation is assured by a single masterpiece, that Histoire des Girondins, which led to the downfall of the ORLEANS Dynasty. His charm, his fascination as a Rotnancist, any one may find attested among other enthralling works of imagination by his love-story of Raphael. journalist, statesman, legislator, diplomatist, lyrist, a debater in the tribune, a laborioua man of letters—for one brief interval virtually the Presiding Genius of the French Government—M. DE LA3IARTINE has left behind him the reputation of a man of unsullied honour, the fame of a brilliant orator, of a true poet, of an elo quent historian, of a brave, loyal, noble-hearted gentleman of Franco,. SIMPLICITY and thoroughness are the most promi nent characteristics of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Irish Church measure. All the rumours which had been so industriously circulated as to postponethent and incompleteness prove to have been the very idlest tales. Whatever may be thought of the PnEmiEn's policy, however bitterly and: sincerely his opponents may denounce what they deem a policy of spoliation and confiscation, they cannot charge him with having evaded any portion of the difficulties which that policy has brought upon him. There is no putting off till to-morrow what s h ou ld b e d one t o -d a y, no waiting to see how events turn up. The measure may be reckless, may be wicl,ed, but it is complete and final. Briefly summarised, this is what the measure pro- , poses to accomplish. The Irish Church is to be dis- endowed so soon as the bill is passed, say next August ; at the same time the present Ecclesia§tica). Commission will be wound up, and the property of the Irish Church will be vested -in- --a new commission appointed for ten years. Ms-, establishment is fixed, though not unalterably, for January 1, 1871. At that date the union between the Churches of England and Ireland will be dissolved, all ecclesiastical corporations will be abolished, and the ecclesiastical laws will be no longer binding as laws except in so far as they become part of a voluntary contract between the clergy and the laity. In the interval between the passing of the Act and the date of disestablishment, and during the reorganisation of the Church, appointments will be made to spiritual offices and to livings, but they will not confer any vested interests. The Act which prevents the Church from assem bling a convention will be repealed, and the QUEEN will recognise any governing body on which the clergy and the laity might agree, provided it represented both. That body will be incorporated. Vested interests Mr. GLADSTONE always promised should be respected. They will be respected. The new commissioners will ascertain the amount of each incumbent's net income, and so long as he discharges his duties the income will be paid him ; or, if he prefer, he may have the income commuted into an annuity for life. Curates who have been employed in the same parish for the two years ending Jan. 1, 1871, or who have left the parish not through their own free will or misconduct, will be entitled to compensation. Private endowments since the year 1660 will not be touched, but these do not include churches and glebe houses. As to churches, wherever the new governing body declares that it means to maintain them for public worship, or to remove them to a more convenient place, they will be handed over to that body; but St. Patrick's Cathedral and a few other historic buildings will be maintained out of a special fund allocated by the commissioners, Glebe houses will be handed over to the governing body on its paying the building charges, and it will be allowed to purchase a certain amount of glebe lands round the houses at a fair valuation. The burial grounds adjacent to churches will go with the churches ; all others will be transferred to the poor-law guardians. The reci pients of the Regium Donum and the Maynooth Grant will be compensated on the same principle as incumbents of churches. The tithe-rent charge is to be extinguished in 45 years, landlords being allowed to purchase it at 22 years purchase, but the right of pre-emption both as to the tithe-rent charge and as to the lands sold by the commissioners, will be con ferred upon the tenants. The total value of the Church property is £16,000,000. The arrangements already mentioned will absorb rather more than a half of this amount. In round figures there remains £7,000,000 to be distri buted. In dealing with this large sum Mr. GLAD STONE exercised the orator's art by naming one after another the objects to which the money might be devoted, and naming them only to dismiss them. At last, when he had excited curiosity to the utter most by this exhaustive eliminatory process, he pro claimed his scheme, which, in a word, consisted of the application of the money to the support of institutions for the relief of unavoidable calamity. There is no denying the fact that the House was at first both surprised and displeased by this revela tion. There went through the assembly a sort of half-suppressed groan, a half-audible murmur of dis content. But soon the accomplished orator unfolded his reasons, and as he went on those who listened were persuaded, even those who did not wish to be convinced, admitted, as their organ says, that " we do not know a more innocent and prudent mode of getting rid of the plunder could have been devised by those who felt its possession only as an encum brance and a danger." The morning's reflection justifies the night's conviction. Let us try the scheme by the double test of comparison with others, and by its inherent worth. It would have been possible to appropriate this large fund to the co-ordi nate endowment of the three chief religious com munions in Ireland. That scheme has its attractions for several eminent statesmen, but its one fatal defect is that the nation is resolutely set against it ; that the nation would rather have no connection at all between the Church and the State than that the State should in consequence of that connection teach what the majority of the nation believes to be falsehood. Moreover, Mr. GLADSTONE had pledged himself again and again that no portion of this fund should be given to religious teaching. e T d h u e c a s chm e f t io efor n a epossessed appropriatingseveral the mon money to e c lr attractions, and a not the least that it was apparently the nearest aa originallypproac approach to the purpose for w hi c h th e money devoted. But, unfortunately, secular education in Ireland is as much a battle ground of contending religionists as the Established Churchitself. Thepresent scheme seems likely to break down, tchae Catholic e, o implacable Government nm priesthoodpelai l c t a h bl eis t ad against s he en te.d to c hostility ea of apply r Clearly, therefore, the th e surplus u Church fund to this purpose, it must have been pre tpilaer v e r s us pre red settlement t o seculareal w e i d t h toi ef the tt iet hne, proem b a l Ci).dhu rt o ce f h d h eadnvi offie m e uh i denominational entangling it with the educational difficulty. There is a further objection to this proposal ; the Irish would suspect the Government, especially an econo mical Government like the present, of making use of this fund in order to diminish the charges upon the exchequer for education—in order that Ireland might get so much less in the way of grants from the Education Department. A similar objec tion offered when considering the propriety of applying the fund to the relief of the poor. That would have been merely relieving the landlords, who now virtually, if not nominally, pay the poor rates. Public works and the purchase of railways would have offered attractions to a Government anxious to obtain popularity, and willing to spend a good deal of public money in gaining it. But public works mean public jobs, mean public scrambles for grants. They are further open to two fatal objections, the one that a public fund is spent for the benefit of only a few localities ; the other, that this scheme does not possess the element of finality, since, if the fund were properly spent, it would be re productive, andthus Government would be frequently burdened with the responsibility of distributing this money instead of distributing it once for all. Rail ways are open to nearly the same objections, and both offer this additional impediment, they bear no relation to the object for which the money was originally granted—the cy pres principle is altogether set aside. No such objections attend the plan which Mr. GLADSTONE proposes. By giving the fund to the maintenance of lunatic asylums, of idiot asylums, of training schools for the deaf, dumb, and blind, of reformatories, county infirmaries, and the training of nurses, several objects are attained simultaneously. The very poor are relieved from a tax—the countycess —which is borne at present even by the occupant of the hovel; there is no room for jobbery, and the cy pros principle is religiously observed. To the last point we attach especial importance. We could not have viewed without regret and dislike, and even reprobation the diversion of funds intended for religious purposes to purely secular purposes like the making of roads land the (Training of bogs. But the most scrupulous respecter of pious intentions cannot object to tile em ployment of religious funds in such a thoroughly re ligious object as the care of the sick, the infirm, and theyoung. The Founder of Christianity spent a large portion of his ministry in such works as these. We have not the gift of miraculous healing, but at least we are better acquainted with the laws of natural healing than the men of 2,000 years ago were. The most deeply religious among us need not shrink from fol lowing the example of llim who opened the eyes of the blind, who made the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, the halt to walk—of Him who was " the Saviour of the body." 9 I THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood is changing_its character. Formerly it used to give - maga; now it gives mu/tum. The articles used to be light and - sparkling ; now they are substantial, and, it The Irish Church Bill, issued yesterday, is backed Ly must be confessed, occasionally heavy. Of what is con- the names of Mr. Dodson, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. John by such usly ca as lled " p ing,' but of old, , or by Matth when suppliee w d Bright, Mr. Chichester F or t escue, and Mr. Attorney men - Professor Wilson Arnold of to-day, is often the ve r y c h o i ces t o f wr iti ng , General for Ireland. It occup i es twenty-eight pages of there is little or none in this month's issue. The foolscap, and contains sixty-three clauses. The article on New Zealand is for length (twenty-five preamble says in effect that whereas it is exie pages) and for solidity fitter f or a quar t er l y t h an dient to disestablish and disendow the Irish Church a monthly. It contains much information about this colony which will be new, 1 think, t o mos t rea d ers . I , at and to use the moneys of that Church in the relief all events, was not prepared to find that in the three years of unavoidable calamity and suffering, and whereas the 1865-7, nearly 5i millions sterling o f go ld was exported Crown interposes no obstacle in the way, the three from the west coast of the colony. The writer is deservedly estates herein take measures for the accomplishment of severe upon the colonists for having neg l ec t e d t o t eac h t h e Maories English. As to Maori atrocities, they are no these ends. The second clause enacts that on worse than those of the Highlanders under Montrose. The and after the Ist of January, 1871, the union Macdonalds and the Campbells, may not like to have their created by Act of Parliament between the forefathers compared with men who, within the period of this generation, were cannibals. Y e t th e comparison is Churches of England and Ir e l an d s h a ll h e ' dissolved, and useful when we are told that there is no alternative for the Church of Ireland shall cease to be established by law the Maori but our extermination or his. It is fortunate The third clause appoints a royal commission, holding for the Macdonalds and the CampbThellse Arts that t in the H ry use- Majesty's theo did office during her pleas ure , t o b e styled "Thei not prevails two centuries ago. " House- Commissioners of Church Tempor a liti es i n I reland, " and hold," is the title of an article upon a subj ec t on w hi c h Mr. Eastlake has lately written a book, but the author of the forming a body corporate, with a common seal and a article does not seem to be acquaint e d w ith it, There are power to hold lands for the purposes of 'he Act. some excellent rules laid down for furnishing a house, By subsequent clauses this commission ha.s excellent that is for a man with 22,000 or £3,000 to spend power to decide in furnishing, and with a chateau to furnish. As forthose all questions whether of law or fact "which they may of us who are condemned to live in ordinary streets and deem it necessary or expedient to decide for the purposes terraces and crescents, with square-headed holes for doors of this Act ; and they shall not be subject to or restrained and windows, we are likely to_profit little by these hints n the execution of their powers und er thi s Act so kindly offered. "The North inen , H ea th en, an d i Christian" deals chiefly with the religion and legends of by the order of any court." Further powers are the Northean Europeans. The tenth o f the Historical I given to call witnesses, &c., similar to that whi c h Sketches of the Reign of George 11. i s d evo t e d t o the is exercised by the C our t of Chancery in Ireland. novelists of that time, Fielding, Ri c h ar d son , an d S terne, the fathers of British prose fiction. They may hear applications by persons considering them- Most persons, I fancy, will read the last article in M a c- se l ves aggr i eve d . One commissioner has the power of millan first. The subject," John Keble ;" the writer, deciding, with appeal to a court of two. The time for the "A. P. l e y .att one irresistibly. Two months ago Dean Stan wrote a sketch of a man with whom he most duration of the commission is fixed at ten years, and no closely sympathised—Dean Milman ; this month he Commissioner during that time will be able to sit in speaks of one from whom he in m any thi ngs w id e l y differs, Parliament. The tenth Clause lays down that, " Save as but whom he loves, and in whom, High Churchman though he was always, Narrow Churchm an th oug h h e was herein mentio ne d, no person shall after the passing sometimes, as when he broke an old friendship with Arnold of this Act be appointed by her Majesty or any other per because of theol og ical differences, Dean Stanley can yet son or corporation to any archbishopric, bishopric, bene draw a lesson of toleration and charity which our bitter fice, or cathedral preferment in or connected with the bigots of the two chief schools would do well to learn. Professor Seeley, in his paper on Milton, first read, I said Church." The 11th Clause- vests all the property believe, at the Casual Club, is honest enough to say hitherto held by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the that which many . persons are not honest enough to Commissioners under the Act. The 12th clause transfers say, that Milton is reater than his poetry, that the all property "real and personal belonging or in any wise "Paradise Lost "is atom parati ve failure. It is a great em no doubt, but does not come up to the writer's standard, appertaining to or appropriated to the use of arch just because be chose for his subject one which gave no bishopric, bishopric, benefice, or cathedral preferment to opportunity for expressing the great passion of his life— the Irish Church Temporality ' Commissioners—said pro the passion for political liberty. His original intention was to depict the Christian hero. He missed that mark, and perty, so transferred, being subject to rents or other his most prominent figure is embodied evil. He summoned charge, and to the life interest of the archbishop, bishop, ideal virtue to appear, and the summons was answered by or person." The 13th Clause sets forth that "on the said the Prince of Darkness. The "Paradise Regained" was more in accordance with his intentions, therefore he thought first day of January, 1870, every ecclesiastical corporation it the better poem. Mr. Se e l e y cons id ers th a t Mil ton ' s f i nest i n I re l an d , whether sole or aggregate, and every cathe. piece is the " Samson Agonistes." Mr. Gallon, who is about dral corporation" as defined by this Act, shall be to short arti publis le on the subjecth a book on "H, which is ereditary Ge inge nius nious, but supp lidoes dissolved, and on and aft er th at d ay no arc hbi s h op or not, I confess, much impress me. The fact that so many bishop shall be summoned to, or qualified to sib in the judges and chancellors have had relations on the bench or House of Lords." The 14th Clause provides that an the woolsack may be due t o h ere dit ar y gen i us, b u t it may annuity equal to the amount of yearly income at present be due also to political interest and nepotism. Political exigencies also have something to do with the matter. received by any ecclesiastical person other than a curate, The readers of Good Words have this month a doubl e shall be paid to the said person by the commissioners under allowance of material for study and amusement. The the Act. To permanent curatesthe same amount is granted March number is accompanied by a supplementary part of nearly equal size, and by the intimation that, in the so long as he h o ld hi s o ffi ce. Th e comm i ss i oners are to interest of both subscribers and contributors, the pub- decide as to the amount to be paid to any curate other than lishers have resolved on issuing occasional supplements at permanent for the loss of his office. The bill then goes intervals. The contents of the supplement just issued is on to provid e f or compensa ti on t o di ocesan sc h oo l master-,s very similar in style and character to the usual contents l erks, and s ex t ons , t o w h om th e sa l ar y i s t o b e pa id of Good Words; not, ho wever , q uite equal in int eres t t o c the March number proper, which boasts of essays from during the time they exercise their duties which they had the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Oxford. ' received before the disestablishment of the Church. To Independently of any adventitious dignity, the recognised is to be granted organists and vergers also, compensation ability of Dr. Wilberforce would attract any reader to his the amount t o b e d e t erm i ne d by th e comm i ss i oners , an d pages; and in the thi r d i nsta l men t of hi s " Heroes of Hebrew History," the Bishop draws the character of the not to exceed one year's salary. Compensation is also to fearless and unflinchi ng prop h e t Micaiah with graphic be given to lay patrons, acccording to the decision of the power and vigorous eloquence. The new Archbishop commissioners. Some four clauses are given to the chooses for his subject one of the most impressive pages in ancienthistorY,and findsevidenceof the truth of Christianity Powers of the Church after the passing of the Act. The in the striking analogy of the incidents attending the fall of law is to be repealed as regards synods ; the existing Jerusalem with the very words of the prophecy uttered ecclesiastical law is to hold good by contract • th thirty-seven year s b e f ore, w h en th e T em pl e s t oo d i n a l l its -' e glory, and th e c it y i tself was f u ll o f lif e and pride. pr esen t ecc l es i ast i ca l courts are to be abolished. The editor continue s hi s records of his Indian The Church is to choose a representative assembly, repre. impressions, Bombay and Poona being his subjects senting fully bishops, clergy, and laity, and this assembly this month. The "Good Wards Commission too, takes us on a journey nearer home, and is to be incorporated by her Majesty, and to have powers spews us the interior life of the Staffordshire potteries. to hold lands, &c., cn behalf of the Church. Provision The author of " Friends in Council " contributes another is made for the redemption of the annuities, and for the series of his "short essays" on various heads, chiefly maintenance of churches as national monuments. Those connected with public and official life. In the supplementary part I fi n d a p a p e r on "Cartes de Vi s it e " which are ruinous, and are yet interesting, are to be (if the by Andrew Wynter, which gives some amusing examples commissioners think fit) vested in the Board of Public of the vagaries of the sun and his sitters. On one occasion, Works ; those which are still used for public worship are Dr. Wynter tells us, two ladies entered the sitting-room to ,ue vested in the re dfh Ch h presentative bo yo t e urc ; of a studio and pl ace d t h emselves b e f ore a m i rror. After some time they wished to know if the portraits were not and those which still being used are yet national monuments finished, believing the looking glass to be the operating are to be maintained by moneys vested in the Church agent. One young lady expressed a wish that her hair by the commissioners. Then follow enactments with should be mace a littl e l onger, w hil e ano th er as k e d that her " jewellery should be omitted in her portrait, not thinking respect to burial grounds, ecclesiastical residences, private it at all necessary to remove it herself. The sun himself and mixed endowments. The 32nd Clause gives power to is nearly as fantastic, turning yellow into black, and oth er th e comm i ss i oners to sell the tithe rent charge colours into white, regardless of the effect of the change to the owners of the land for twenty-two and upon the toilette of the victim. The peculiarities of the carte-de-visite buyers are quite equal to the eccentricities a half times its amount. The commissioners are of the sitters. The laws which govern the supply and also to be able under certain limitations to demand of these useful b u t no t always attractive commo- convert their property into money. Compensation is also &ties are very perplexing to the uninitiated. provided in respect of the Regium Donum salaries, pro- VISCOUNT GOUGH, G.C.B. f ess ars, and college buildings in Belfast,the AI D ynooth Grant, gallant &c. In the case of the R eg i um D onum th e Mi n i s t er i s t o The death of an old and soldier is announced— that of Hugh, Viscount Gough, 'whose name is well-re- receive for Lis life the amount he has been accus tomed to receive from the Government, and certain oth e r membered i n connect i on with the famous Indian cam paigns of tw en ty y ears ago. His lordship, whos e titl e s in annual payments are to be c o mmu t e d. Th e regu l at i ons the rolls of the B r iti s h peerage were Vi scount Goug h , of as to the appeal provid e th a t w h ere any person Goojerat in th e P un j au b, an d o f th e c ity o f Li mer i c k , feels aggrieved by th e va l ue set b y the commie- Baron Gough, of Chi n k e a n f o o, in China, and of Maliaraj- sioners in any life i n t eres t, a d vowsons, or right pore and the Sutlej in the East Indies, was a son of Mr. of presentation, in respect, of which is awarded connpen- George Gough, of Woodstown , county Limerick, and was nation, he may refer s u c h ques ti on t o ar bi trat i on, and in respect of any private endowment t o th e C ourt of Appeal born Nov. 3rd, 1779. Having entered the army in 1704, . in Chancery in Ir e land. B e y on d th e prov i sion for vested he was present at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope and of the Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay in the following interests, her Majesty in Council, upon the report of the year. He afterwards went to the West Indies, and took part commissioners, to direct that, subj ec t t o a ll su b sisting in the attack on Porto Rico, did good service in the charges upon the ecclesiastical prop er ty th en vested in commissioners, whether such charges m a y ex i st previously brigand war in St. Lucia, and distinguished hims e lf at the capture of Surinam. Whilst engaged in the West to the passing of this Act, or may be created under any of Indian campaign he obtained his majority in the 87th, the provisions of this Act, s uc h property shall be then famous as the Prince of Wales's Irish Regiment. applied, under the management and control of the Poor- On returning to Europe, after a brief breathing time of law Commissioners for Ireland, to the following pur peace, he proceeded to the Peninsula in 1809, and fought poses, or any of them ; that is to say-1. The support under Wsilin,gton in many of his most brilliant engage- of infirmaries, hospitals, and lunatic asylums, in went .. Id he armies of Napoleon. He commanded the exoneration of the grand jury cess, or other assessment in 87th at the battles of Talavera, B arossa, Vittoria, and lieu thereof. 2. The support of reformatory and indus trial schools under the R e f orma t ory and Industrial Schools Nivelle ; and for his meritorious service s a t th ese p l aces he received a Cross. At Barossa his men captured the (Ireland) Acts, in aid of other grants for that purpose. eagle of the Bth French Regiment, an d at Vi ttor i a they ' 3. Th e sa l ar i es o f t ra i ne d or skilled nurses for poor persons bad the honour of securing the baton of Marshal Jourdan, in sickness or in labour. 4. The suitable education and At Nivelle h e was severe ly wounded. He was at the head maintenance of the blind, and of the deaf and dumb poor of his men a t t h e s i eges o f Cadiz and Tariffa, and for his in separate asylums. 5. The suitable care, training, and gallant con d uc t, part i cu larly at the latter place, where he maintenance, in separate asylums, of poor persons of weak was wo un d e d i n t h e h e ad, the War Office granted an intellect not requiring to be kept under restraint. honourable augmentation to his arms. This consisted of a chief containing a representation of the breach. After the treaty of 1815 there was a long spell of peace, and the prospect of attaining any eminence in the list of our military chieftains seemed anything but promising. It was not until 1830 that Gough becam e a major-general, and seven years afterwards he went to India in command of a division of the army He had not been long in the East before he was ordered to China, where there was then on hand one of those little wars which, at one period of our history, appeared to arise Periodically and to inter rupt the relations of Great Britain with the Celestial Empire. Having been placed at the head of our land forces, Gough soon distinguished himself by an attack upon Canton, which speedily brought the Chinese to their Senses. He remained in command during the whole of the subsequent operations, and for his services in this ex pedition he received the Grand Gross of the Order of the Bath and a baronetcy, from Sir Robert Peel, in 1842. A treaty of peace was concluded with China, but Sir Hugh did not remain long in a state of inaction. Troubles had once more broken out amongst some of the native popu lations in the East Indies,. and, towards the close of 1843, Gough assumed the command of the British forces which had been despatched against the Mahrattas. On December 29th, in that year, at the head of the army of Gwalior, he defeated the enemy at Maharajpore, and captured fifty-six guns, In 1845 and 1846 he was commander in -chief of the forces in India, and, supported by Lord Hardinge, then Governor-General, in person, he defeated the Sikhs at Moodkee,Terozeshah, and Sobraon. For these services he was, in April, 1846, raised to the peerage. The Sikhs, however, although conquered, were not crushed. Two years had hardly elapsed before they again tested the valour and determination of the British forces. This time, however, Gough, who was then in the seventieth year of his age, resolved to shew them no mercy. In his last desperate struggle with these gigan tic savages, he succeeded, although at a great expenditure of human life, in utterly subduing them at the battles of Mooltan and Goojerat. For these eminent services, the Government of Lord John Russell advanced him to the rank of Viscount, the East India Company granted him a pension of £2,000 a year, and Par. liament gave hi m an annuity of similar amount for himself and his two successors in the viscounty. Thrice he enjoyed the high honour of receiving the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, namely, on the conclusion of his Chinese expedition in 1842, ou his defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, and on his final triumph in 1849. The deceased veteran was a ti e id.marslial in the army, colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, co lonel-in-chief of the 60th Royal Rifles, colonel of the London Irish Volunteer Rifles, Knight of the Star of India, Knight of St. Patrick, Knight of St. Charles of Spain, and a Privy Councillor. In 1807 he was married to Frances Maria, daughter of .General Edward Stephens, R, A., and by her (who died March 15th, 1863) had issue an only son, George Stephens, who succeeds to the title. One of his daughters was married to a son of the late Sir W. Arbuthnot, Bart. ; a: other to Colonel G. Haines, of the Indian Army; and the youngest to Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.B. The present peer is a d e puty - lieutenant of Tipperary, F.L.S., F.G.S. He was born January 18th, 1816, and in October, 1810, was married to Sarah, third daughter of Colonel Palliser, of Comragh, county Wexford. This lady died in the August following, and in June, 1846, his lordship was married to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr. George Arbuthnot, of Elderelie, Surrey, by whom he has a numerous family. I THE RATEPAYING CLAUSES OF THE REFORM BILL. —Mr. Goschen's bill for amending the laws with respect to rates assessed upon occupiers for short terms, has been printed. It is to enable occupiers of tenements, whose rents are payable at shorter periods than quarterly, to pay rates and deduct the same from their rents : but overseers are not to be prevented from entering into an agreement to collect the rates from the owner whenever such agreement may now lawfully be made. No occup!er is to be compelled to pay a greater amount of the rate than would be due for one quarter of the year, nor more than twice the amount of the rent payable according to the period for which the same is reserved. In ascertaining the rateable value an allowance of 25 per cent. from the gross estimated rental is to be made in respect to the liability'imposed upon the owner by the Act. There are also provisions—viz., for appeal against valuation list and rate, and for enabling overseers to make the poor rate payable by instalments. The Act provides for the rating of successive occupiers, so that each shall pay such proportion of the rate as may be due upon the time he occupies the tenement. GASTRONOMY IN CAMBRIDGE. —At the instance of a prominent member of Trinity, an ass has been slaugh tered, dressed, and prepared for cooking. It is an animal about nine years of age, and was for some time subjected to light work, but of late has been "living in clover" on the farm of Mr. Langton, at Thrtunpington, in the vicinity of Cambridge. It was dully fattened up, then butchered and dressed by Mr. Holden, a butcher, of Fitzroy-street, Cambridge. The flesh after that pre sented the appearance of beef. The dead weight of the animal was about 15 stone, and the carcase excited much curiosity. On Tuesday it was removed to the larder of Sydney College, where it will be cut up, and joints die• tributed thence to various college kitchens. These joints will ultimately find their way to the head tables of some of the chief colleges. Xenophon, in his " Anabasis," describes the wild ass as swifter of foot than the horse, and its flesh as like that of the red deer, but more tender. Paris experts say that that of its humbler and more patient brother is more delicate than, and far superior to, veal. The verdict of the Cambridge sarans will probably be made public in clue course. SHOCKING MURDER AT WEDNESEURY. -- A murder, attended with circumstances of the most shocking dc seri p Lion , has been perpetrated near Wednesbury. Bowen, a woman aged 50 years, was found murdered on Monday morning, on the spare ground near the town named, under circumstances utterly revolting. Pieces of ',rick and iron cinder were found thrust into her, and the oily of the woman, when murdered, was dragged across a ditch and thrown over the brow of a cinder mound. In a ditch in the lane, near where the body lay, there were traces of a desperate struggle having taken place. The body itself chewed that the deceased had been engaged in a fearful fight for life. Two circumstances would seem to account for the fact that na aid arrived to rescue her from her cruel assailants ; first, tin t the nearest house is some 11,0 yards away, and next tort die met her dreadful fate while a thunderstorm raged over the district. That such was the case is inferred from the 'act that at about half-past ono o'c;oc•k. a short time before storm commensed, a resid , ..!:L 'n Hall lane, beard everal men in altercation, near her 1:,,t1.;e, with a woman, whom they were endeavouring to induce to accompany them, and whom they were abasing in the grossest 0,0 vilest language. PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHES. f THE CHAMBER OF .AGRICULTURE , M HOUSE OF COMMONS , MONDAY ame -0- - - ' A day already c e l e b ra t e d i n the annals of English Yesterday, at th e S a li s b ury Hotel, SalisburarlW' P r ovincia l history has now 'beco me memora b le. The long-looked for Fleet-street, the deputed members from the Pr °. measure for the pacification of Ireland h as b een unfolded, Chambers of Agriculture held a meeting. Other members and, without doubt, th e d oom of the Established Church of the council were present, and also some of the me mbers of that country ha s b een sea l e d . In consequence of the of the Legislature. Mr. Reed, M.P., of Norfolk, °fon. on . fine spring weather w hi c h preva il ed, a large number of pied the chair, and Mr. Acland, M.P., Lord Rober t hnt spectators had assembled i n th e prec i ncts of Westminster tagu, M.P. Sir Herbert C ro ft, M.P ., H on . A r thur I. llles, ; 50 Hall, and by half-p as t th ree t h e usual string of people M.P., Mr. R. Bright, M.P., Mr. Pell, MX., &e.. were also was to he seen opposite the members' entrance. Inside the present. House everything betok ene d a " great n i ght: " the floor was The first resolution which was taken into cons ideration of crowded with members ; mos tl y Lib erals, and the Peers', was as to a deputation to the President of the Board Speaker's, and Stranger s ' G a ll er i es were overflowing by Trade on the subject of a separate Government dePa four o'clock. The Duke of Argyll took an early seat ment for agriculture. moved above the clock, wh ere h e was j o i ned by the Archbishop Mr. JASPER MooRE, late M.P. for Shropshire, lb of Canterbury, alth oug h a vacant place was kept for the this resolutio n , an d stated it was essentially necessallq; Duke of Camb r id ge , w h o entered the House about half- ' every department of trade should be represe nted. l oot past four. The L or d Ch ance ll or and Dean Stanley sat must all remember the cattle plague, and he thought immediately behi n d, an d c l ose b y were Mr. Reverdy under such ci rcums t ances i t was important t h a t e pee ti Johnson, E ar l G ranv ill e, t h e Earl of Harrowby, and Sir should have an Under-Secretary in the 'rouse. " John Taylo r C o l er id ge. Th e Speaker took his seat at ten believed that having this department they would haveo minutes to four, by which time both sides of the House security. were crowded w ith mem b ers, who, immediately prayers Sir HERBERT CRO FT secon d e d t h e resolut i on, and stetedva were over, rushed to the lobbies, there to discuss the that it was very necessary that the matter should be h i ke ; probable character of the bill to be brought forward. discussed, as some distinctive course ought to be t a The first three-quarters of an hour is generally tedious, with rega r d to th e agricultural interests of the o untrv. but it appeared to be more than ever tiresome to-night, and Sir GEORGE JENKINSON said that he wished to drip.t visible signs of impatience were manifested as the longstring wheth er it wa s t o bear entlem an who should attend t ° fe e of questions were being gone through. It was generally department alone, or whether he was to be a 1"-9 1 1 1 He tiled known that Mr. Gladstone (who met with an enthusiastic having a seat in the House of Commons. reception in New Palace-yard) would rise about a quarter that it would b e bette r to have a permanent ofEeb` l ' a do to five, and by that time there was scarcely . a vacant seat Mr. GURNEY (Cornwall) said that supposeeney asked Mr to be see n . Th e rush of members was so great that Government that a department should be set asid e i scores of them c ou ld not b e accommodated in their usual agriculture, w ou ld th e G overnment not inquire intc' "h - e be e places, and they i mmed i ately betook themselves to the matter? His suggestion was that there should p i ; galleries, the one f acing the Ministerial bench department in the Board of Trade soon becoming overfi ow i ige Th e Solicitor-General • manent ,presided over by oer secretary, who should b e a bl e t o g i ve tefornlatt° was unable to find a sea t on the Government to the Minister who presided over the department. I „ benches, and rather th an go over to the Opposition The CHAIRMAN said they wanted a Government (as many Liberals were under the necessity of doing), : secretary, who would furnish those statistics whieh,tab ,bet he took UP a position in the gallery, where, however, he would be forced ultimately to supply. He thole gh" --- , le l was soon under the influence of Morpheus, waking up in n one of the departments of the. Board of Trade might time to hear the Prime Minister finish his long and ani- ' devoted to agriculture without having any seP3r mated statement. Mr. Disraeli took his seat at 4.25, 111inister. where he was soon joined by M r. Gathorne Hardy, Lord : After some furth er di scuss i on, d ur i ng which sereill Stanley, Sir Stafford Northcote, and L or d John Manners. amendments were proposed, the following resolution Was On the front Ministerial bench were Mr. Bruce, Mr. carried :—" That this chamber considers it desirable ° l° Bright, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Childers, Mr. Gosehen, the there should be a separate department of agriculture , pr e. Marquis of Harlington, and Mr. Layarcl. sided over by a permanent officer." Exactly as the clo c k p o i n t e It o a quarter to five ,11Ir. i On the former resolution being carried, it was 011 t - ee Gladstone rose, amid l ou d c h 2ers f rom the Ministerialsid.e quently pr o p ose d th at t h e period as to when the dePt lo . e a of the Hous e . Th e r i g h t h on. gentleman, who looked should wait upon the Board of Trade should be diseussif excessively pale, and svhe a: peered to feel the Herculean at the next meeting, and this proposition was unanireens' task which had devolved neon him, moved that the Acts carried. s relating to the Established Church, I re l an d, th e A cts Mr. DUCKHAM "°th e said that th e secon d reso l ut i on was , vst relating to Maynooth, and the fi rs t reso l ut i on of the effect that the chamber considered that a consolidated A House of Commons in the session of 1808, relating to the applicable to the United Kingdom for the sanitary reg; Establi s h e d Ch urc h , Ireland, be read. This was immedi- Wiens of the hom e t ra d e and traffic in animals, an d ately done by th e c l er k at t h e ta b le, and the Speaker the establishment of safeguards against the introdatiol3 having left th e c h a i r, Mr. Gladstone again arose, amid of foreign diseases, is indispensable for preventing 'illor. loud ch eers . Hi s vo i ce was exceedingly clear and well mous losses of live stock by contagious and infect i°l7l modulated, but his tone was for some minutes rather diseases. The second portion of the resolution prol )° %,, mournful, and it w as no t un til h e rece i ve d some encouraging that there should be full traffic regulations for the walie applause from his p ar ty th a t h e appeare d to feel at ease. ing and relief of cattle. He stated that it was well known For th e first half-hour the cheers were loud a n d f requent, what an infliction such a thing as the contagious elisess, ~ but wh en th e speaker began to d 0 Clive into the intricacies o f was. The milk of the cow communicated disease to th e the questi on , s till ness re i gned supreme. Once there was a calf. It had been tried upon pigs, and affected them' slight titter and some l aug h ter, w h en h e spoke of the life Even kittens had died from its effects, and mothers had interests o f graveyards ; and at another ' time, when he given it to their children innocently without knowing h° w announced that the expenditure upon glebe houses had noxious it was. amounted to £1,200 , 000 , an d t h at t h e i r entire value was Mr. RIGBY (North Cheshire) seconded this ra°von, but £18,600 a year, considerable sensation was caused by and said that in Cheshire they had suffered very relieh members b e l ow t h e gangway, which appeared quite from the rinderpest, and they knew its terrible effects' expected by th e snea k er, w h o confessed that lie himself Under these circumstances he had great pleasure in had murmured when he became aware of the fact. About seconding the resolution, seven o'clock th e a tt ent i on of the House appeared Mr. PELL, M.P., w i s h e d to call the attention o•; the to flag a littl e, b ut as Mr. Gladstone gradually unfolded chamber to the fact that in Lord Robert Montag°,o his sch eme , and shen-ed the that the te nan t f armers wou l d gain bill; which was to come before the House, by the c h anges h e proposed to introduce, both sides regulations were confined to E ngland, Scotland, 13 • 1 : a applauded his s t a t emen t s, an d the greatest attention was Wales, and did not include Ireland. He thought th at 4 ' , again directed to the speaker. When he took it for wout be advantageous to make the legislation general , . granted that it " was wr i tten in letters of iron " that the it was stated that foreign cattle got mixed with Irish surplus - should b e app li ed to Irish purposes, a general stock on lands there, and subsequently came to England' murmur of a ssen t was g i ven; and then he passe4 There being no objection to the resolution in detail the in review the many proposals suggested for the arst portion of it was carried unanimously. with disposal of the surplus. It would not (he continued) Sir GEORGE JENKINSON wouel wish to add, - 4 be applied for ecclesiastical purposes, not for any Church, regard to the second resolution, that no animal sb° - not for any clergy, not for any teaching of religion. This be allowed to travel by rail, road, or water when s e a ff o gi ; declarati on ra i se d all present to the very tiptoe of expec- ing from disease the words " nor within a certain Pe' tation. " What will he do with it?" was the silent expres- from their having the disease." sion everywh ere prevalent, which was only diverted for a , After a few verbal alterations the second portion an d '- moment by the Opposition cheering ironically when he the rest of the resolution was also agreed to. announced that they must not make this great _________ contr oversy — as yet itself no t per f ect l y solved-the rt doorway t o another set of conflicts and disputes. N Le ord says that Hooa Pacba is named Grand But the emp h at i c declaration of the right hon. gentleman Admiral of the Tu r ki s h fl eet . DC that, alth oug h not perfectly solved, it was very near its • The Earl of Glasgow, whose condition has perfect soluti on, was hailed with ringing cheers by his despaired of, has rallied somewhat. An eminent Edinburgh supporters, whi c h prevented Mr. Gladstone from proceed- physician, who is in close atteneance on his lordship, is a ing with his speech for several seconds. As soon as this opinion that he tray yet recover. little diversion was over, members once more strained their In the course of some remarks on Free Trade, t , ears for the coming announcement. But it seemed as if the the Oldham right hon. ,gentlenian waa determined to keep his audieneein the Literary . - Institution, • ''' el a te , system of Protection prevailing in the United x-' the longest possible suspense. lle declared that if theyapplied - t° was not entirely a loss to us, for it left the neutral ma r° the funds to public works it would give rise to jobbery ; e i grave for Engl an d t o d ea l w i th as she thought proper. He thea s _ that it would be imp oss ibl e t o i nvest i t i n Irish Railways; app that the for e i gn p l an of having a Societe Industrielle for each c and that it would b e a mistake to ly it in relief large centre of industry was a very gcod one. of the poor rates. At l as t h e rea d t h e pream bl e of the proposed bill, and then th e secre t was out w h en he cameA Parli amen t ary paper has been published to the conclusion th a t "it i s f urt h er expe di ent that Which shows that the Commissioners fat th e the said property or p rocee d s th ereo f s h ou ld b e a,ppro. Red uc ti on of the National Debt have received, f) n , priated mainly to th e re li e f o f unavo id a bl e cal - twit ! ' account of the banks of savings, and friendly sue; and suffering, yet so as n o t t o cance l or i m p a i r th e ti es, a gross amount of £101,390,163 11s. 7d. The gr e . , obligation now attached to property under the Act for the amount of all sums raid to trustees, including interest 5 / relief of the poor." It must be confessed that the re was a £62 ,387,979 19s. ld. The grcss amount of interest paid an d general feeling of disappointment when it was known what credited to savings tanks and friendly societies by the C °l : s was to be done with the funds. A feeling of blank dismay snissioners up to and due on November, 20th, 1 868 1 W appeared to take hold of the Liberal members, whilst on £ 4 5,000,557 13s. 10d. the Opposition side the statement created some little Father Porter, whose name was prominently laughter, Mr. Cross, who defeated Mr. Gladstone, being brought forward in the Convent case condemns P the v_eardidiee; especially amused at the proposal. Whereupon In an address which ho has delivered at Liverpool, -e , fo the speaker, in a tone full of bitter sarcasm Porter says that the result of the trial is a proof that ' and lofty feeling, retorted that he felt " sorry that time is member for South-West Lancashire thinks th a t a matter purely C a th o li c matters, Catholics must not be sun: • prised if the v do not receive iustice •." indeed, so ,, for a laugh." The sting was felt, and no more unseemly • - - ' 'roe Brit niggly unjust is the verdict, that "it has amazed the thi ver, interruptions occurred during the rest of his speech, .tug portion of the Eng:ish people." He how ° if the Liberal party, who had hitherto been in raptures - that the prosaic round of convent life will become .13 ,. r0 with the proposals of their leader, for a few moments con glorious now that, by the tearing away of the veil, rho Si l' sidered that a fatal mistake had been made, they soon altered their opinion when Mr. Glad s t one d i lated with can be wat c h e d th roug h their shortened lives. c 1.00 0 great warmth and eloquence upon the c l a i ms which lunatics, ! E o CI. EXTENSION OF STATE AID TO N IGHT the deaf and dumb, the blind, idiots, an d t h e training —On Tu es d a y a very i nfluential deputation waited uP°n the of nurses had upon the pe o pl e of a civilised Lord President and Vice-President of the Committee . o . country, and when he earnestly app ea l e d to the whole Council, to present memorials praying that their lords hi p House to give the proposal their most s er i ous considera. would take steps to extend to night schools that are not tion, there were sympathising chee rs i n response. As connected with day schools, but that fulfil every e°o , "Big Ben" struck the hour of eight, and a f ter Mr. Glad- dition of the Revised Code, with the exception 0!._., stone had been speaking for three hou rs an d a quaiter, being under the superintendence of the managers of the dad the right hon. gentleman commenced hi s peroration. Hie schools, the same aid as is now given to night schools 11.0 d ° 0 voice, which throughout his long an d interesting in connection with the day schools. The depl ane dspeech, had never failed him f or a moment el , ' 'as ca osixl of above twenty mem b ers of Par li ame nt an Appeared to get stronger and more mellow as other g - i !enien. E ar l d e G rey and Ripon said h e b:t to b ~ po r t was sighted." For ten m i nutes the conventional fated to a,lopt any change for the present, but promised pinrilliantd coul have been heard in every part of th e l arge and g i ve the subject his consideration, with a view to gene " assembly ; everybody, from the prince of the legislation. —The text of a bill has i st blood royal to the peers, prelates, and the people, strained 1 THE LAW OF LIBEL. Cl', e ntheir ears in order not to miss a single word of the con- Ub ' been published for the amendment of the law of e eluding. sentences. The members in the galleries, It p hall b ,.: *des action no proprietor of a newspaper s wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement, liable to an d. t n or prosecution for a faithful reP ° ' - • rose en masse, and every eye was directed .to the he r efits toof theprocee proceedings of a public meeting, unless he 0.. A , table, where the orator, in statesmanlike form, with arms publisha fair reply to the libel complained ._ to outstretched, and turning first to the right and then to ' Mealier of defamatory matter not amount:inegi, 0 the left- now facing his great opponent and anon turning '' slander shall be liable in certain cases to be de s_ e _ a doo a round in front of his party—With his eye flashing fire, and 1 the same were printed or published. A t It ° _, ioo his whole appearance contrasting strangely with the I may pay money into court in discharge of an a y" tho passive forms of those he addressed—declared that his For libel, and when the damages do not exceed ED . eo measure was a work of peace and justice, that his words would be echoed from every shore where time name of p . laintiff sh . all get no more . costs than damages, unless ta .. dge certify that the libel was wilful and malicious. .r_ . , Ireland and the name of Great Britain had been heard, 11 and that the answer to them would come back in the as prosecutions,. a . private prosecutor . will only be en::fo7. 'e to send up an indictment for libel after he has been approving verdict of civilised mankind. a justice and entered into recognisance to proceed vil e v lt It would be almost impossible to describe the scone in the case and pay costs of the defendant as well as .hires e, the House when Mr. Gladstone sat down, The Liberals in the event of his being unable to substantiate his charg e ' screamed with delight, the Opposition appeared to be These two latter provisions, however, are not to apply e . struck dumb by the effect produced, and everybody indictments for libel published with the view to extortion a We looked excited and delighted. For three hours andtwenty- This measure also provides that the defendant, in t -e be el" five minutes the orator had kept the House in rapt attention, of an indictment or imformation for libel, may , rl , O and when he had finished the long pent-up feeling could no amined, as well as the defendant's wife or husband. ; s i r. longer be restrained. Clapping of hands could be heard bill is endorsed by Mr. Baines, Mr. Candlish, and from the extreme end of the Strangers' Gallery, and it was Morley. only the strict forms of the House that kept the members themselves from demonstrating their pleasure in this THE ENGLISHMAN IN AMERICA.—If he has 011 0 11 fashion. After a pause of a few minutes Mr. Disraeli rose provided himself with some good introductions, In r in d. certain of the kindest reception—indeed, of muchsointwith a ll amid a cheer from his own side of the House, but although ness as to embarrass him in speaking his m os :l ae 1 _ hoe it was hearty, yet, after the outburst of popular feeling just the freedom desirable. I know that some travellers ta l k l e r u e oeo displayed, it appeared to be cold and unmeaning. The leader another code of morality. A man may of the Opposition did .not take up the time of the cons on t he a se nse mittee but a few minutes, and Mr. Gladstone having given into his house, and treated them as ol i d la . f u r i i i e n n d d e s faith of a slight introduction ; but no weak _ . , p _ ra tive a graceful reply, Ih3 first scene in the great drama of "Justice to Ireland" was over. No sooner had the of gratitude must be allowed to override the rue tosilv% demands of truth. Duty will not permit the guest be _ .. , Premier resumed his seat fur the second time than the . the important fact that his host-kindly speaks with a decide whole House was empty in a few minutes, and the other nevertheless uses a spitto . on, and ln spe, businessbeingbastily got through, the liouse rose allout half-- past eight. But long after that time scores of people were nasal twang. And as spiltltoconsre. in the t r i l i a e s n al ar t ra w t a i n ve g s n3 ::: assembled in the lobbies, discussing the effect of the speech good tangible facts, they will figure of kindly feeling prominently than the delicate of and its probable results, It was admitted by friends and l i v o lli p ch erh c aP: ll: opponents alike that Mr. Gladstone had never shown him- pervading every action stitutes genuine hospitality.strong v ;all l e; 1 0 a r : self in better form, and that it was one of the greatest of the many great speeches he had ever delivered in the the Indeed, entertainer, i natural that the more abnormal developments character should impress themselves most " a to British House of Commons. f hard ar the traveller's recollection. Quiet family-life i dulles t re f°re pages describe bristle ; b ;bowie-knives sv intoi e -le someni v es kindand o f v revolvers ivac i l t v 3 i , l . l make And hetht e .. it is, I imagine, that so few books of American 11 among the reflect faithfully, what I am su re must be aro° et the strongest feelings of their auth ors , pl e asant memo"' ° f extreme kindliness and simplicity o f family-life in ~ ef tm ..-From "Some Remarks on Travelling in America , " 'W I I ,!‘ Cornhill litaggNiTiG".l . 9l' lifarch. A melancholy accident occurred on Monday night at the Lime -street Railway Station, Liverpool. A woman, with a child a year old in her arms, tried to get into the London train while in motion and fell between the platform and the carriages, She was killed on the spot, but the child. sriiich, an threw forward in falling, ()seeped bakoP 3, 1869, THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. X ( and N o Chathart a nd Noz Th e 71 Eastern A, 104-1 1061 . 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