The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

SPIBIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times is anxious that no time should be lost in the settlement of the Irish Church question, since the two years it has already occupied have done much to aggra vate the land question and delay its solution. The Church has always suffered by being the Church of the landlords, and the landlords have equally suffered by the possession of a Church which was an emblem of oppression. The landlord is generally of English extraction, a heretic in the eyes of his tenants, seldom much among them, and often disposed to take a political side against them. The law by which he lets, and they hold, his land should be well-defined and strong, yet considerate, and without needless harshness. Parlia ment will have to address itself to this task as soon as it has put its present work well out of hand. The task will not be the easier for the delay, or for the semblance of victory given to the native Irish cause; but this must not be laid to the account of those who are now doing an act of justice, but rather to tfwse who have so long hindered and delayed it. The Times asks whether it would not he possible for Government to take up Lord Clanricarde's bill of last session without further delay. Let there be no mere " understandings," which are fruitful in misunder standings, but an actual agreement between landlord and tenant. Last year's bill aimed at simplifying, facilitating, and cheapening the legal forms necessary for a contract, which for the future was to be express, and to be in com• pliance with some plain rules. With short printed forms, signed in duplicate or triplicate, duly registered, and charged with very moderate fees, it is at least reasonable to hope that dispute may be avoided for the future where there has been no intention to do wrong. It is too true that there often is an intention to overreach, or to cling to some old notion more agreeable than anything in black and white. It is also too true in Ireland, as in every other country, that the legal profession does not uniformly assist the Legislature, or anybody else, in avoiding disputes and cheapening business ; but such a measure as we have described would throw the burden of the quarrel on those who refuse to be bound by their owu signature when it stands in their way. Is it impossible to make an attempt in this direction this year, with three months yet unbroken? Certainly there will be more time for it next year, but who can say what even this year may not bring forth? The Standard says: Throughout the history of the United Church of England and Ireland there is no parallel for an assemblage like the Conference which has just closed its session at Dublin. Throughout the two meetings, and in all the speeches, there was no one to say one word in palliation of the bill—no one to whisper even the idea of compromise. Unyielding resistance to a measure of un paralleled wrong seemed to be the temper of all present in an assemblage composed of the flower of the Irish clergy and laity, and of traditional moderators like the bishops. The same spirit animated the lay demonstration at which Lord Crofton presided on Thursday. The Irish Pro testants read too truly the purpose of the bill to allow themselves to cherish any false hopes. Their Church is to be degraded and robbed, not because of its abuses, not because such a policy is just and lawful in itself, but in order to gratify a powerful and malevolent rival. This, the guiding motive of the bill, is impressed on its every clause, in the distinction as to the mode in which the compensation money is allotted, and in the ingenious provision for the gradual extinction of the Church. They see clearly enough that the scheme of ." impartial disendowment" is so contrived as to become one of endowment in the case of Rome. It is "levelling down," as regards the Protestant Church, it is "levelling up as regards the Roman Catholic Church. The one is to be degraded and plundered in order that the other may be aggrandised and enriched. Is it a thing to marvel at that, plainly discerning the ultimate purpose and result of the measure, they should prefer to offer a passive re sistance rather than he deluded into any acts of co-opera- tion by which they might eventually become accomplices in the conspiracy for establishing Roman Catholic ascen dancy. The Post believes that the result of the division on the first of Mr. Disraeli's amendments augurs ill for those which follow. The point raised on Friday night was essentially distinct from any of the issues which remain to be tried, but it was also one on which there certainly was more to be said in favour of the Opposition theory than on any of the rest. In this respect, therefore, the division of Saturday morning may be regarded as a crucial test. If the Conservative party not merely failed to secure the rejection of the clause abolishing the authority of the Crown in dealing with the Anglican Church in Ireland—for such a result must have been anticipated— but even failed to shake in any degree the strong phalanx of their opponents, or to diminish its numbers, then their cause must be regarded as hopeless indeed when they attempt to prevent the enactment of the disen clowment clauses. There was, perhaps, more to be said in support of the objectioh to the absolute severance between the Crown and the Irish Church than will be supplied in any subsequent stage in committee ; and no one can doubt that the defeat of Mr. Disraeli on Saturday morning was infinitely more damaging than lie expected. In converting the Established Church in Ireland into a voluntary institution there must and can be no half measures. If that Church possesses—and no one doubts it does possess—the elements of vitality, it will live and flourish independently of the supervision of the State. None but those who disbelieve in its tenets can possibly hold a different opinion. The Protestants of Ireland, on the contrary, so far from being discouraged by the de cision of the House of Commons, should rejoice in it, and they may derive fresh confidence in their own strength and their own resolution when they find themselves entirely untrammelled by any vestige of State inter ference. The Daily News calls attention to a e fact that while ;the war of politics has been raging with unusual violence in the House of Commons, the House of Lords has been :usefully occcupying its peaceful leisure in discussing some social difficulties, the solution of which is of the greatest importance to the country. Perhaps the most important of those discussions was that which took place on Friday night, on pauperism and its 'cure. Lord Houghton undertook to represent to their lordships the views of those persons who would have •Government endeavour to eradicate pauperism by sending Away our paupers. He found no very optimist view of .our national condition to prevail among his audience. The .old aristocratic notion that, because the poor are always with us, it is useless to attempt to alleviate poverty, finds no spokesman among the Peers. All who took part in the discussion agreed that the question is urgent, and must speedily be dealt with. Side by aide with our increasing wealth is an increasing poverty, and all congratulation at the one is dashed and mocked by contemplation of the other. Lord Overstone said he believed that we are, as a nation, saving £150,000,000 a year ; but what advantage is it that wealth accumulates if men decay? Our wealth does not seem to cure our poverty, and the great problem of the day, as reccgnised by the Peers on Friday night, is to find why it does not. It is a real step in ad vance t o h ave it universally reeolcr nised that pauperism is a disease, and that there is some where a remedy for it. The Herald thinks that the report addressed by Colonel Rich to the Board of Trade on the subject of the great railway accident at Abergele is entitled to a good deal more attention than is generally bestowed six months after the event to which they refer on ordinary documents of this kind. Accidents of the Abergele class are attribut able to the quantity and extent of the miscellaneous traffic with which prosperous railways in this country are flooded. lie points, it is true, to various regulations which are habitually disregarded, greatly to the augmentation of risk in travelling, and brings deliberately a terrible charge against railway companies in general, when he says that good rules are printed and issued to the railway servants for the sake of being produced in event of an accident, while they are systematically disregarded in practice. This charge, however, works round to the conclusion we point out. Why should the companies permit their servants to violate good rules, except that by this violation a greater quantity of business can be carried on than would be possible otherwise? But even if all the best regula tions possible in reference to signalling trains and shunting the slow ones in time to let the expresses pass are punctually carried out, it remains obvious that the more traffic there is on a line the more danger there is of collision. The more railway companies try to push slow goods trains along a line while a fast passenger train Is hurrying up towards them on the same rails, trusting that the slow train will crawl off on to a siding before it is caught, the greater does the danger become. It is obviously true that while the present system prevails, closer atten tion to the existing- rules would make it less hazardous than it must remain as long as the rules are—as Colonel Rich says they are—constantly violated in practice. The Telegraph moralises over the recent death of an unknown woman, aged 75, in the Westminster Work house, from opium eating, and fears that the vice is on the increase amongst us. The likelihood would seem to he, that for everyone who dies of delirium tremens from spirit-drinking, or from the breaking-up which finally kills the opium-eater— whatever the learned name for the disease may be—there are a hundred who are . indebted to opium or gin for shattered serves, dazed brains, and wild thoughts. They live at fever-heat for an hour or two of Vie day or ri,bt and at half-stroke for the remainder, bara,ssed, depressed. unfit to do man or w om an's work in the world. Kindly Nature steps in, and the victims die of some disease which, though painful and sad enov . ph 's not so awful as the delirium ' produced by spirit d r i n king, or as the possibly - more ago nising despair of the opium -eater. In England, however, the use of the drug is as yet a secret vice ; and to compare like with like, - we mast take the opium den of the East with the drinking slum of the West. It seems a pity that we should unite the vices of both hemispheres. IVe have our brewers and distillers—why call in the druggist? To :thew how people can live who do not poison themselves with gin or opium, we should add that the deaths of thirteen persons were recorded last week who had reached 00 years of age and upwards. 'Th ose persons must have been poor dull p eo pl e withot a notion of fast life ; for it is not everyone who takes to laudanum and hope to reach the years of the 'gin that can Imm o .of St Um. THE NORWICH MURDER, Up to Saturday no reprieve had been received ror The convict Sheward, now lying under sentence of death at Norwich for the murder of his first wife, Martha Sheward. There has been an impression in some quarters that this reprieve might possibly be granted in consequence of the state of the convict's health.. He is not looking so well as when he was fi , :st brought down to Norwich after his first confession oarly in January, and he is also suffering from rheumatism in the ankles, which renders walking a matter of diffi culty to him. Tho prison surgeon (Mr. Day) has nor deemed it necessary, it is understood, to make any special official report upon the case. Since his conviction Sheward has been attentive to the religious instruction which he has received from the chaplain (the Rev. R. Wade), and his general conduct in the prison has been quiet and docile. In his amplified confesssion he states that he and his wife had a violent quarrel on Sunday, the 15th June, 1851, and that the quarrel ended by his cutting her throat, so that the act was unpremeditated, and the culprit sought to lead the public to suppose that he had not committed a wilful, deliberate murder, although he had been hurried en by passion to a frightful crime. The house in which the convict and his first wife lived in June 1851 is rather a large one, and it has only a dead wall opposite, so that it would not be much observed. Further, the con vict and his wife kept no servant, and had no child, while Sunday was probably a day of the week on which the neighbours would be many of them away from home, either at church or on some pleasure excursion. Sheward states that he kept the body of his murdered wife until it began to become offensive, and then he cut it up and distributed it about the suburbs of Norwich. To avoid identification of the features of his wife, he cut off the " golden hair'' (of which so much has been said durir g the progress of the case) and burnt it. He also boiled the head, smashed it up into small pieces, and distributed it about the town. The convict further states that he burnt the clothes of the murdered woman, and so destroyed all traces of her. The execution will be carried out to-morrow according to present arrange. ments. LAW AND POLICE. 4 --- A THEATRICAL DisruTE.—ln the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, an action was brought by Mr. Dominick Murray, the comedian, against Mr. Webster, of the Adelphi Theatre, for a breach of contract during the time that Mr. Webster was lessee of the Olympic. Mr. Murray agreed to play " first low comedy" and Irish characters, and was to have a clear half benefit during the season. Towards the end of the season Mr. Murray was called upon to play the part of Bees in " The Two Puddifoots " but lie declined, on the ground that the character did not being to "first low comedy" but, to " old mail." Mr. Murray complained that Mr. Webster did not allow him the clear half benefit, and had refused to pay him his last week's salary. Mr. Webster relied on the rules of the theatre, which provided that anyone refusing to perform any part at the appointment of the manager shall forfeit six nights' salary. The case was tried in the Bail Court, when a verdict for £7 upon the money counts, and £5O damages for the loss of the benefit was given. A new rule was obtained on the ground that the verdict in the first count was against evidence, and also that the defendant had made the plaintiff an offer of a benefit. After the case had been argued on both sides the Lord Chief Justice said he thought the best thing would be for the plaintiff to give up the .£5O on the defen dants paying the costs of this rule, the plaintiff keeping his verdict for the £7. The plaintiff's counsel accepted those terms, but the defendant's counsel asked for time to consult his client. THE OPERATIVE BRICKMAKERS.—III the Court of Queen's Bench'an action was heard concerning a deposit-note for £B7 ls. 11d, given by the Barnsley Banking Company to the Barnsley Society of Operative Brickmakers at a time when there were three or four more members than those who were joined as plaintiffs. Those persons had given notice to the hank not to pay the note without their assent. The case was tried at Leeds, when the plaintiffs were nonsuited. Mr. Seymour, Q.C., now moved for a new trial, but the Lord Chief Justice said all the parties to the contract must be joined as plaintiffs. He thought there would be no difficulty in the bank paying over the money. Rule refused. GREAT SAYINGS BANK ROBBERY IN PHILADELPHIA. Accounts have been received of a great robbery v, 'rich took place at Philadelphia between six o'clock in the morning and four in the afternoon of the 4th inst. The building occupied by the Beneficial Saving Fund Society of Philadelphia, situated at the south-west corner of Twelfth and Chesnut streets, was entered by robbers, and completely stripped of everything valuable in the shape of money, bonds, &e., that the institution had on Land. A rough es:iraate places the veluo of money, bonds, &c., carried off by the burglars at 1,300,000 dollars, of which abut 400,000 dollars were in Cie coupon bonds, which are not registered, and which cllll, of course, be easily cold for cash by the burglars. About e,OOO dollars in breenbacks were carried off, and the balance was in untransferable bonds, &c., which will be of no use to the robbers. The rob bers effected an entrance through a window, encased with sheet iron, and on the discovery being made everything about the room was in a state of confusion. A large vault fire proof safe was broken open, and its entire contents, con sisting of all the bonds, money, &c., in charge of the society, were abstracted. These valuables were containea in numerous tin boxes, which were taken out one by one, and broken open, and their contents secured. A small safe stationed within the large one, having four locks, and which contained papers of the greatest value, was lifted out into the floor, the lock picked, and every paper taken from it. The carpet of the room was torn up in diffe rent places, and torn envelopes that contained valuable bonds, Ac., were strewed around in all direotions. The robbers had evidently been at work for several hours, for it was found that a large piece of timber, evidently prepared for the purpose, had been fastened in an upright position on the floor, near the safe door, by means of iron hinges screwed to the floor, and behind this was a prop, securely planted against this upright post. This contrivance was used to afford a sort of support to the drill used to drill a hole into the safe door, by which the burglars (who evidently knew their business thoroughly, and were professional hauds),were enabled to pick the lock. The combination lock of the safe was knocked off, and a hole drilled through the chilled steel forming the panels of the safe door, about three inches to tho right of the pace where the combination lock was. This hole was drilled to the depth of about throe inches. A paper containing powder, and different sized "bits," a large brace, and a bottle of alcohol, were found in the room, which had been left behind by the daring robbers. The only bond loft behind by the robbers was a 51,000 one, which was found on the floor. The mortgages that the saving fund had on hand were not carried off by the robbers, and a number of certifi cates of shares of stock were left behind. In a box in the safe was a large quantity of silver ware, consisting of knives, forks, spoons, &c., and which belonged to different de positors. Tho scoundrels left this behind, it being too bulky for them to carry off in addition to the large bundle of bonds, ew e taken. Nothing of value was left in the safe except a few pennies. Among the losers is ex-Judge Campbell, who had a box on deposit that contained over 4,000 dollars. A lady named It`Caully had a box in the safe which contained diamonds valued at from 15,000 dollars to 20,000 dollars, ono solitaire having alone cost 5,000 dollars. Other depositors had silver and gold coin and silver plate on deposit, and until the books of the institution are examined it will be difficult to aggre gate the value of the property carried away. It is almost incredible how the robbery could have been committed. It was done in broad daylight on the great thoroughfare of the City, and on a clear day, when hundreds of persons were passing to and fro. In emerging from the building l the robbers must have had a large bundle of papers, and how they could have bee n engaged for hours at their nefarious work and then escaped w i t h so lunch pl un d er un observed, is difficult to understate]. The institution was used to a great extent by servant girls, &c., to deposit their scanty means, and many hundreds have lost all they pos sessed by the robbery. The immediate effect of the robbery was to cause the bank to suspend payment. A painful case of elopement has Leen reported to the Liverpool Courier from Manchester. A magistrate and lady, the wife of a brother magistrate, have fled to the Con tinent together. The lady is said to be the mother of four young children. Her husband and his brother have left England in pursuit of the fugitives. REPULEVE OF TILE CONVICT WILTSHIRE.--01 1 Saturday morning Major Cartwright, Governor of Gloucester Gaol, received a communication from the Home Secretary, directing a reprive of the convict Charles Wiltshire, who was sentenced to death a fort night ago for the:murder of Harriet Nurse, at St. George's, Bristol. This decision, it is presumed, has been arrived at solely in consequence of the medical evidence given at the trial, and apart altogethe r from the prisoner's attempt on the life of the warder. AN AMERICAN GRACE DARLINC.—The happily named Grace Darling, in England, made herself immortal by her heroism in rescuing the wrecked. Rhode Island has a similar heroine in Miss Ida Lewis, daughter of the keeper of the Lime Rock Lighthouse. By day or night, in storm or breeze, she springs alone into her boat to save life. She is said to have saved the lives of a dozen persons—twc of whom, soldiers, she rescued a few days ago. All honour to her. As we cannot give her an obelisk or a statue, we give ler paraeaphi—_-FewY:ork XiMCI.4I:III. THE SUN, LONDOS, MONDAY IVENING, APRIL 19, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE LATEST CANARD. ''The Weekly _Register says:— "That some remarkable change in the political horizon may shortly be expected seems to be pretty certain. There is no doubt but that Ministers—at least many of them—are most anxious to get the Irish Church Bill passed and done with, and yet to do so without a com promise appea r s t o be impossible. In what people call the best informed circles' it has been rumoured during the past week that the Lords will agree to disesta blishment, but not to disendowment, and that the Anglican Church in Ireland will be left with allits present worldly goods, although no longer a State establish. ment. This, it is said, has disgusted the more liberal members of the Cabinet, and that a break up, followed by a remodelling of the Ministry, is likely to take place. Itumour even goes further, and says that Lord Stanley is not unlikely to take office under Mr. Gladstone, and that the new Ministry will be formed of the more con t.erva',ive Liberals and the more liberal Conservatives." There is not the smallest sign of any such confede racy as our contemporary supposes. The increasing majorities of the Ministry are certainly not a sign of a Ministerial rupture. They are far more likely to indicate the determination of the Lords not to resist a measure which becomes more numerously sup ported every week. And yet we are told the rumour was very current in the lobby of the Ifouse on Friday night. DR. LIVINGSTON• What has become of Dr. Ivingstone? The rumour of his murder everybodythought had been sufficiently cleared up in the tutumn 2 and Sir Roderick Murchison was expectig him in England to eat his Christmas dinner. 3ut Christmas has passed, and we have gone though winter into spring ; but there is no Dr. Livigstone. His con tinued absence is beginning to case great interest, if not anxiety. His scientic friends, how ever—and they may be apposed to know most about him—feel quit( hopeful as to his safety. His ambition tc explore as much as possible, his absolute determiation and indomi table perseverance will lead him they say, to go on until he shall have a tale to tellworth the hearing. It is now hoped that Sir Salmi ( Baker, in his Nile expedition, will meet him. Livia stone has evidently taken another route than throng). Zanzibar, and it is conjectured that he is followii the course of the mighty river of Egypt. copy as the standard predicting that America will re quire a century to grow to it, for although she has the wealth and luxury, she has not as yet had the time. Congressmen might employ the interval till the 6th December (the next session) in practising the epigrammatic style in society, and as Americans do things in a month which would require a decade with other nations, they may come out full-blown " aristocrats" with the New Year, now that they know the distinguishing mark. The Pall-Mall traces some of the habits which prevail in the Republic to the early necessities of a young country. American hospitality and the self-devotion to the guest, are derived from the times when the stranger was guided through the imperviims forest and his host considered his duty towards him only ended after he had placed him in safety, either at his destination, or in a neighbour's charge. The gran-1- son of the man who so acted conducts his guest through the labyrinth of his city, showing him everything, and permitting no expense to fall on him. The habit of " treating," comes from the time when the backwoodsman shared his last ration with his mate ; and from something similar is derived that self-denial in trifles, mutual consideration in stead of the" devil•take-the-bindmost" system, ten derness for the weak, above all, chivalry towards women, merely as women, which distinguishes American society. The American correspondent contrasts the American snob abroad with the Bri tish snob abroad, and his argument is simply un answerable. In no country in the world are there so many nouveaux riches as in the United States, and it is their habit when they acquire the means to take a European tour ; consequently, not only are there more of them, but that more is more seen by foreigners ; hence, it is to their good sense in the main, as well as to the institutions of the country, the nation owes the fact that they have not made the American name a by-word of vul garity. It is surprising, under the circumstances, that there should be so little under-bred ostenta tion and display, not that so much is to be seen. In the Republic the difference between the poor and the rich is not marked as in England; that Americans are not separated by such an almost impassable gulf is shown by the numbers who cross it; and as wealth does not create such social distinctions it is less valuable, wnns, wll e s -n lac/ are p." Hence when a man does scramble across, be is not con scious of having accomplished any marvellous feat ; to him it is the mere reward of sobriety, industry, and good judgment. It can readily be believed that such a case will contrast favourably with the purse-proud arrogance of the Englishman who has achieved the wonderful task of crossing the gulf. Ile has one of two objects, both equally offensive ; either to obliterate every trace of his ever having been on the other side, or to take all to the brink that he may indulge in self-glorification ; the first is a pretender and his life a lie, the second is an egotist and an unmitigated bore. The nouveau rich Ame rican has then the great advantage of not being to the same degree in a false position, and therefore carries his wealth with more grace and ease. Sup pose these things were reversed, and that a vast crowd of Englishmen, suddenly enriched from the mills of Lancashire, from the furnaces of the Black Country, from the meadows of Leicestershire and the mines of Northumberland, as well as from the workshops of London, Birmingham, and Manche& er, were without any previous training to inundate Europe and America, where would the horses be driven which carried these beggars? As what here is termed the lower class, is in America brought up socially and the upper class brought down, where members of the one get into the other, they are akin, and assimilate the more readily, that socially but little difference has ever been acknowledged, and politically none. In another column of the same number of the Pall Mall Gazette. which contains the article to which we have referred, is a good illustra tion of the manners and customs of Americans. In an " Occasional Note," that is, among the para graphs coming from the hand of one of its writers, a story is told as having occurred at Lebanon, In diana, intended to illustrate the necessity for civilising the States in the Union before the Re public endeavours to add to its territory. A file of persons there passed through a church, each in turn touching a corpse laid on the communion table, the object being to discover at whose touch the corpse would bleed. When this is the sort of information supplied to the upper classes of England about America, who can be surprised at the ignorance with which they go there? and it is vain to say it war merely copied from an American paper—for there are no men who more amuse themselves by invention, who make more wonderful discoveries in their sanctums, and describe with more elaboration of detail the marvellous remains of extinct animals, cities, curious antiquities, and subterranean works, with an occasional three-headed birth, an eagle that flew away with a team of oxen, or the detection of . a murderer, by the corpse announcing who did it. But we must add, in justice to the z-wz th.t. if quick to pick up JONaTHAN'S shortcomings , i t does not spare JOHN BM. " A Bloated Aristo crat," from the House of Commons, writes to that journal in strong terms of censure of a member whom he must have bad before him at the time. He had settled himself in the reading-room of the House to enjoy his book, and as a preliminary had taken off his shoes! Nor does it less censure im morality, i\iue,t es ti a a s es t . he I It is accountto be i t ho g p a e v d e o t f ha t t he w ‘ o ' m L e a n die o s ; rank in London will take the hint, and if they can not suppress such action on the part of y oun g men at least drive them out of the soc i e t y of virtuous women. TRAINING REPORTS. Epsom, Thursday.—Nightingall sent Sarcolite, Elector, Glen Stuart, Arcanum, Agate, colt by Vedette, colt by Caractacus, colt by Amsterdam, and Leveret twice about a mile and a quarter, while Forster's King Richard, Nannie, Chivalry, and colt by Blair Athol were going good half speed for a mile, and S. W. Reaves was doing good work with Sir Oliver, Cheddington, Honor, Nanny Thor manby, Conservative, Fiona, and several others. Marsh did plenty of long steady work with Powderham. Hughes sent Redcap, Lopez (both engaged in the Chester Cup), Standard Bearer, colt by M. Phillippo (4 years), Candidate, Bonnie Lass , and Music a nice steady gallop for a mile and a half, all going in good style. Glengarnock and Shamrock, in Stinton's stable, were in physic. Sherwood sent Vanbrugh, Sea Serpent, Master Dick, Temple, and Claribel a good gallop for a mile, and Bonnie Katie was striding along in excellent style. Searle, Potter, Tomlinson, and W. Reeves were merely giving their lots healthy exercise, while Bentley's Laird, Slowman, Aeronaut, and Dido were sent twice a little over a mile. Friday—Despite the bleak and showery state of the weather, Tomlinson had out twenty of his string. After the preliminary canters, Rampart, Mercury, David, and Tett did a good steady gallop for a mile and three-quarters, while Polis sone, Aurifera, La Marquise, Birdie, Tim Hogan, Ron forth, Mathesis, First Duke, and several others went twice little over a mile. W. Reeves sent Catalogue and Seagull a good gallop about a mile and a quarter; and Sherwood, with Vanbrugh, Bonnie' Katie, Sea Ser pent, Master Dick, Temple, Claribel, and Mrs. Jones did the mile thrice, all moving in fine style. Hughes did some rattling work from a mile to a mile and three-quarters with Redcap, Lopez, Standard Bearer, Can didate, colt by Ar. Philippe (4 yrs), Bonnie Lass, Music, Seringapatam, colt by Wild Dayrell (2 yrs), and colt by M. Philippe (2 yrs). Nightingall sent Sarcolite, Glen Stuart, Elector, and Little Go a good half-speed spin for a mile and a half, while Arcanum, colt by Amsterdam, colt by Vedette, colt by Ceracticus, and a few others were doing a nice gallop of a little over a mile, and Forster's King Richard and Chivalry had a good gallop of nearly a mile and a quarter. Reeves, Martin, Carter, and Potter did some good work from a mile to a mile and a half, while Stinton and Bentley's strings only walked. HEDNEsrottn. —The following of Cliff's have been doing good work:— Dunce, Lady, Do Trafford colt, Royal Lad, Messenger, Ettrick, Troubadour, Albion, Venico, Kidder minster, Master Willie, Vermicelli, Pyrenees, Uncas, Melody, Orion, and Barnabo. Hunter, in Palmer's stables, is doing good mile and a half work, and Fan is doing long gallops. Pantaloon is fit, but William and Alicia are not doing much work. Saunders's President Lincoln, Abbots ford, Catamaran,. and Ocean Wave are doing mile work and Merry Horn and Knight of Kars horse are doing well. Mr. R. Millar's colours are—Buff body, blue cap and sleeves. The filly by Newminster out of Mrs. O'Rourke (3 yrs) has been named Miss Edie. Mout Blanc (2 yrs), after winning a selling race at New market on Friday, was claimed by Mr. Clay. Spider, after winning the Subscription Plate at New market on Thursday, was claimed by Mr. York. The colt by Thunderbolt out of Khadidjah (2 yrs) has been ;land langerio. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, April 3.) The tightness in the money market shows few signs of abatement as yet. In fact the stringency is greater and more troublesome than it was a week ago, and it is causing borrowers much inconvenience. At Boston the bank rate is still 7 to 8 per cent. for liberai depositors, but outside the very best double-name paper is cashed for nothing short of 9 per cent., while for good notes, having three or four months to run, as high as 10 to 12 per cent. is de manded and paid. Probably easier times will come before long. Although the Ist April has lost its terrors as a bank quarter day, it remains a settling time in the interior of New York and many other States, and currency is there fore drawn away from the large cities. Besides, the banks are still in a state of uncertainty as to the date when their returns will be c a ll e d f or , and aro keeping under close sail until time shall have passed. It was expected that the change of the requirements commencing bank statements from regular ones quarterly to irregular ones five times a year, would alleviate or prevent the usual stringency at this time of the year, bu: the expectation has not been realized. The uncertainty of the present ar rangement seems to operate disadvantageously to the money market, at least. The question of the redistri bution of currency is attracting a good deal of attention, and it is very probable that a new deal will bo made, whereby the eastern banks will lose thirty or forty mil lions, and the South and West gain as much. Some of the Boston banks, fearful that their profits will be dimi nished, have declared for an expansion of the currency to meet the Southern demand, as if we had not already enough paper afloat. Mr. Geo. Walker of this city, iu a sound and sensible letter,reminds them that as the national bank bills are current almost all over the country, they will find their way wherever exchanges carry them; and he shows that the proposed redistribution, instead of cur tailing the banking facilities of this State, would in reality increase them. The Boston banks seem to be more alarmed about the matter than they have any occasion to be. The plan of Mr. Amasa Walker for bring ing the country gradually back to specie payments has been commented upon very generally in approval or dis approval by financiers. The old Journal of Commerce frowns upon it, and the New York stockholder calls it a plan to make people pay interest on their own money, and thinks that the proposed funding of the legal tenders into compound interest notes, and the notes into forty year bonds would impose a burdensome and unnecessary tax upon the people. The stockholder's plan would be to have the Secretary of the Treasury hold on to his gold; instead of buying up and cancelling bonds with it. Then, starting with a hundred millions in coin free from pro sent demands for interest on the public debt, it would have the treasury offer to redeem all legal tender ' , tea which might be presented and thus make a paper dollar perforce equal to a gold dollar. This might b) very well so long as the gold lasted, but what then? The stockholder anticipates this objection by adding, "N o t a hundred millions, not fifty millions of legal tender notes could be returned into the Treasury without creating a scarcity which would render the remainder as valuable as gold for all purposes, and for the special purpose of sus taining the banks, more valuable." And so much accom plished, the demand for coin in place of paper would cease. This plan, it will be observed, does not diminish the volume of currency beyond fifty millions (supposing that it operates as predicted), and the special merit claimed for it is that it does not, the stockholder asserting that there is no more money afloat than the business of the country demands, while it is not difficult to demonstrate that the contraryis true. The scheme proposed is not,likeMrWal ker's, a new one, but neither, we apprehend, is likely to be adopted by the administration, at least for some time to come. The New York stock market has been dull and heavy during most of the week, as might be expected along with the present scarcity of money. There was a curious exception to the rule on Wednesday, when, not withstanding money was as tight as ever, New York Cen tral and most of the other stocks became suddenly buoyant. The cliques have obtained possession of most of the lead ing stocks, in the expectation that there will be a specula tive furore and higher prices as soon as money is easier, when, of course, they will be ready to "unload." Govern ment bonds have been weighed down heavily by the strin gency of the money market, and are a little lower than they were a week ago. Many weak holders of stocks have been obliged to sell bonds, but few shrewd investors, however, are doing so, except upon compulsion, as it is very evident that money will shortly be easier and bonds higher. It is estimated that foreign houses are now holding $20,000,000 in bonds, at New York, waiting for the time when they can get better rates on their bills. The foreign exchange market has been badly demoralized, and is somewhat lower.—Gold is scarce and firm, but without any marked advance in price. It has been reported that $4,000,000 in specie is to be shipped at once from London to New York, but the rumour is probably untrue, as such an importation could not be made, at the present rates of exchange without positive loss. It may be true, as reported, that $1,000,000 in small coin has been shipped from London for a New York house, in payment for bonds, owing to the difficulty of settling bills against the bonds, but this transaction must bo regarded as exceptional. The receipts of specie at New York, last week, amounted to $1,1 1 99,945, but $809,060 of this amount arrived from Hamburg one day and was shipped for Havana the next. The exports from the same port for. the week were $3,085,395 against $2,440,120 for the week previous. The dry goods market has been much unsettled, some styles of goods being scarce with an upward ten dency, while others have shown. a marked inclination the other way. But wholesalers are hopeful of a steadier and better condition of the market very soon, as the spring trade has fairly begun. Unbleached shootings and shirtings are half a cent lower with a chance for still lower figures ; bleached are generally firmer, although the less marketable styles are weak. The recent decline of a cent a yard in prints has made buyers plenty and trade lively, but the market has not been buoyant enough to war rant higher prices, and quotations are more likely to go down than up. Desirable styles of ginghams are in fair de mand at steady prices. In otner uonrestie vuttoa fabrics there is little noteworthy change. The importations . of foreign goods in March wore very heavy, and the auction rooms are crowded with them. The market, however, is overloaded, and prices are inevitably going down. The wool market is dull again, in sympathy with the goods market, and while holders are very firm, manufacturers are buying cautiously and only in such lots as their im mediate business demands. The cattle market is also dull. Indeed dull is the word in all the markets this week except the money market. The decline at Brighton and Cambridge this week has been about half a cent a pound, and trade was very backward, drovers selling their stack with difficulty even at the concession. Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report that on April 2, the latest sales in Pennsylvania Railroad Shares were 581 58} ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99} 99f ; 2d Mortage, 944 941. (From the Wall-street Journal.) Friday Evening, April 2d, 1869. Money continues very stringent, and borrowers on call are compelled to pay seven per cent. in gold, with a com mission of 3-16ths to f per cent. on railroad and miscel celaneous collaterals, and seven per cent. in currency with 1-16th commission on Government bonds. We regret to announce the failure of the old and ,well known firm of L. and B. Curtis, importers of British and Continental goods. This was one of the oldest and most respected houses in the trade, and it is to be hoped that their em barrassments may prove but temporary. It is understood that their liabilities are chiefly in France. Discounts aro generally dull, with some sales of first-class acceptances at 10 to 12 per cent. The gold market opened to-day at 132, and after some fluctuations closed at 131+. Foreign exchange is dull and prime bills to-day are freely offering, even below our quotations. __ Sixty Days. Three Days. Londcn Bankers 1.61. e. n, Prime Commercial lO6l-107 Paris, Bankers 5 2Bf —5.221 5.23}-5.21} Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 34f —3sf Frankfort, 0.3 f 39-40i Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.30 —5.25 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss Quotations for specie:— Amer. silver... 95 to 95/ I Eng. sous .....,486 to 489 Mox. dollars...lo3f „ 104 20 francs ........ 38 t „ 386 Eng. silver 480 ~ 485 Thalers ......... 71i „ 72 Five francs 951 „ 96f f _ . Express Stocks are dull, but steady Adams ... 571 to 58 American Merchants' Union 40i to 40 Do. Old Stock ... 15 to 15 - - - United States ... Wells, Fargo, and 56 to 56- Co. ... ... ... .. 304 to 30, In Miscellaneous Stocks a good business is doing in Canton, Mariposa, Pacific Mail, and Union Telegraph:— N. Y. Centra1.......,.... 1 9} F or t W ayne Erie Hudson .................. 1381 Atlantic Mail — Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 951 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B6l Ohio and Mississippi... 321 North-West North-West Preferred 931 Cumberland Canton 59 Bankers and Brokers... 108 Rock Island 1271 M & St. Paul Cleveland and Toledo 1,p61 IM & St. Paul Preferred 791 _ .. . Government Bonds are lower on tho entire list, some of .the weaker holders, in consequence of the severe strin gency, having been forced to realize ; the market, how ever, shows great firmness : Sixes, 1861, registered ll5 to 115} Sixes, 1881, coupon 3151 to 1151 Sixes, 1868, coupon . U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO4 to 104{ Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, new Fi ve -twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll2k to 112 k Ten-forties, coupon .. lO5 to 105 k Seven-thirties, 2d series to ... Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to 11411 road fiteoka, considering the 'state 0 the Money Market, are generally strong, Mortgages closed as follows : N. Y.,Central 6; 1883 91 N. Y. Central 6; 1887 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 871 N.Y. Central 6; Sub'n 871 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 — Erie Ist Mort, Ex Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 — Erie 7a, 3d Mort, 1883 — Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 B6 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 — Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 B7 Ilia R. 78, Ist M, '69_1001 Hud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 100 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 102 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 - Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 117 Mich. So., 7p. c. 2d M 94 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 99 111. Cen. 7 p. e, '7O llB Alton & T. H. let Alton &T.IL 2d pfd 81 Alton & T. H. 2d M.lnc. 791 Han.&St.J. Lan dGrantslo2 Han. & St. J. Con ..... ll2 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 111 Chi. & N. West, S. F 95 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 9l ('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B — The following notification has been published in Nor York :—Erie Railway Company, Lessees—Notice is here by given, that the Coupons of the Pennsylvania and Ohio First Mortgage Bonds of the Atlantic and Great Virester a Railway Company, due on the Ist of April, 1869, will be paid in cash on presentation at the office of the Erie Bail way Company in the city of New York. For the over due Coupons of First and Second Mortgage Bonds, Firs t Mortgage Bonds of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie,Railwal Company, carrying seven per cent. interest, guaranteed bY the Elie Railway Company, in sums of $l,OOO each, Will be issued, and Scrip Certificates for sums of lesser amount -JAY GOULD, President Erie Railway Company, Ne w York, Mar•;h 80, 1869. - _ and are not forced for aftle Chi. & N. W. Ist M...... 91 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Es. 91 , Gt. Western 2d M '88... 7 8 1 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. Gal. & Chic. Est .......... 90 Gal. & Chic. 2d M......... Chi. & R. 1. Ist M......... Chi. IL I. & Pacific 7'5... 93 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... ---, N. J. Central Ist M...... 99Z N. J. Central 2d M...... 89 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist 31. Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M. Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d M. 91 ,., Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 90 Chic. & Alton, S. E. lst3l.loli Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... 89 Mil. & St.. Paul 2d M... Marietta & Ist M... " Morris & Essex Ist M... 1 00 Morris & Essex 2d M 90 Joliet & Chic. Ist 31... "", Chi. & G t. East'n lstM... N. Y. & N. 11. Gs ..... ••• Dubuque &S. Ci tv,lst M. 90 Peninsula Ist•M ......... Ohio & Miss. Ist Ohio & Miss. C0n......... Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D... Atlantic & G. W. Ist 31. We extract the following from Messrs. Satterthwa itg and Co.'s Circular, of April 14, London :—ln United States Government Bonds there has been an average amount of business during the past week, and quotations have slightly advanced on the lower rate of gold exchange re' ported from New York. 5-20's of 1862 and 1865 have jai proved about per cent., while 10-40's and the 1867 issue of 5-20's have not maintained the highest point totaled during the week. The latter Bonds are now quoted on the Official List of the Stock Exchange. Illinois Sharo n remain steady at 94 to 97, but Eries are flat at 231 to 24 ' There was a marked decline in Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds during the week, but on the announce ment to-day that the Erie Company are paying the coupon s of the first Mortgage Bonds maturing on April 1, there has been an improved feeling, and they close 31 to 32. Th e Divisional Bonds are entirely neglected. There has been rather less doing in Sterling Railroad Bonds generally, but Camden and Amboy Bonds have been inquired for, an d the market is cleared of all offering under 87. By the Sibe►'i . our New York advices are to the 30th March. Govern" ment Bonds were steady, but the increased demand Lo t money restricted the demand. State Bonds from the Wa g cause were generally quoted lower, while Railroad Sher ° were firm, and in some instances showed a slight improv e ' ment. New York Central, Chicago and North Wester ° ' and Rock Island being the most active. BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—.Mr. Theodore Tilton has returned to New 7c ork, after a succesful lec turing tour.—The leading offices of the Freedmen's Buret° have memorialized General Howard to withdraw his re signation, and to continue at the head of the Freedmen, g Bureau till the department is abolished.—General Adel bert Ames has been appointed Assistant Freedirol Bureau Commissioner f or Mi ss i ss i pp i , an d G enera l . 1 . • Reynolds Assistant Commissioner for Texas.—Marshall 0. Roberts has presented to the Central Park Conn' t. sioners Miss Stebbins' celebrated colossal statue of (s°- lumbus.—Delmonico pays Moses H. Grinnell $27,5 00 6 year rent for his Fifth-avenue mansion in New York.' Neal Dow is recommended by the Maine Congressmen f r a foreign mission.—G enera l R o b ert E . L ee h as !at" , visited New England, and has returned to the South.'" Tho late James Guthrie of Kentucky left an estate $1,000,000. Ex-President Pierce has recovered sufficien tl y to visit Boston. Benjamin Miller a n d Cl ay M a t t h ew s l'ref committed for extradition at St. Catharine's, Can a ' March 27, on the charge of highway robbery in John ° .: town, New York.—Thomas S. Woods, editor of the OM" Patriot, and a prominent local politician, died at Sale lii j r Ohio, on Friday, March 26.—Th e d ea th o f C ap t a in A. Wise, of Virginia, at the Hotel de Rome, NaP le ; is announced. He was related to Governor W f ';', of Virginia.—Mr. Longfellow and family have b ee t stopping at the Hotel Tramontana, Sorrento, b " are expected back in Naples immediately.—Adolp he f Rodewald, many years a member of the firm ° Rodewald and Winterhoff, died March 27, at his hell New Brighten, Staten Island.—Plymouth church is s to to bo raising a fund to enable Henry Ward Beeche r , take a foreign tour.—A lady in Waterville, Maine, has r ' „ , covered $1,611 from a physician, i n l aw su it , f or mAlPrate tice in reducing a disloc a ted li m b.—G enera l Robert an; derson contemplates a for e i gn t our .—Th e surplus precee „e of the Inauguration B a ll are t o b e d evoted to the pue ehel , of Clark Mill's st a t ue o f Li nco l n. — M a j or W. M'F a rlen, Corps Engineers, has been assigned to the charge of the l" ° hour improvement of Lake Erie west of Cleveland, 011i e ' i , Mr. George Dougla ss di e d su dd en l y , M arc h 29 , a t his .11111 dente, 35, West Sixteenth-street, New York, in the year of his age. A. and E. Amos, leather dealers of ge' r trial, Canada, have failed f or a l argo amoun t. Mr. D e l o lingame's Chinese E m b a s s y, it i s sa id, w ill make grand tour to Berlin, St. Petersbur g h, St oc kh o l m , Spain, And Italy. Judge S. W. Brockway, a prominent lawyer e politician of California, died at San Mateo, March 2° ' The Rev. Ambrose O'Neil died at Albany, March 28 ' ) f The Hon. Thomas C. Acton, President of the Board Police Commissioners, has returned from the Snu tbto New York.—The President h a s n om i na t e d Emil .`', il ffit chester to be Consular Agent at Bremen.—The Presidia, has nominated George Earle First Assistant Postmas t h e te General, vice Gen. Skinner.—J. Townsend Connolly , b oo son of the Comptroller, of New York, is announce the engaged list, and is to be married early to a Miss Oxnard of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. , n5 l Fire Marshal Baker announces that the total '", O fires in New York, for the month of March, 1 ! 0% $427,850, an increase of $154,000 over the losses clor l o i the month of February.—The Hon. Benjamin F. Wn d i e d g Ohio has written very warmly in reply to an ad ur- el from the National Executive. Committee of Colo nl ie Men. He says nothing has given him so much P r r i se , and satisfaction as their appreciation of his ee u D i 9 —Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins has resigned, be office as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. He wi ll assigned to other duty.—David Clark, of Hartford , it y, necticut, after a personal inspection of Howard Unive rs has given $25,000 towards its endowment.—Riche r d id d Wood, ono of the oldest merchants in Philadelphia , r, on the Ist inst. Ho was 70 years of age.—Harris ea l ti , Turner, aged 51 years, a commission merchant of 13e pi0 more, committed suicide on the Ist inst, by cutting s, / throat with a razor. Tho cause was business misfortun e t e e The Memphis Common Council has appointed a Comi el , or e of Arrangements for the reception of ex-President Joh n ' iv e —Governor Morton, on account of illness, has been h e able to be present in the Senate for two days. pig Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is seriously ill at 00 4 home in Danville, Kent u cky. General Th e e a recently had a purse of $lOO,OOO tendered him and ret no e 1,4 it. —The Buffalo man who made the $2OO pair of ev ;io for the President now swings a sign, " Bootmaker t 0 e t, Excellency r. S. Grant."—By di rec ti on o f the Presf"tee Brevet Major-G e n era l G eorge St oneman, C olone l e' 21st United States Infantry, is relieved from the temp ' a er command of the First Military District, and will se c : f ie pany his regiment to the Military Division of the pas„ i e , —J. Tobens has arrived at Washington from St. Don ll , - s ./ with power to annex that Republic to the United Stal: tee John W. Johnson, Esq., recently appointed Judge e` Abingdon District, is not a brother of General JO5-I,je E. Johnston. He is a nephew of the general. Dig' Raymond is at Washington working up Tracy fel; A le trict Attorney.—Ex-Congressman Tom. Stewart i s th e there pressing Inspector Dilks for the MarshalshiP,a ° Southern District.—Mr. Foster Blodgett, suspen",„ 0 the late Administration from the Postmastersu i r Augusta, Georgia, has been re-instated. f . I ' te e ' [ - ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills. —Con eeen Jache vice.—To all persons who suffer from bilious headl' e biliousness, or flatulency, these pills aro most strong t commended as the safest, best, and quickest mode ° ,. e o° taming ease without weakening or irritating the nr 4 ,lo°, system. Holloway's pills are especially useful in e' e ` r o°, o away any excess of bile, which usually produces for!, ) 4 less remedial measures be adopted without delay' 0 ,m 9 asthma, bronchitis, and congestion of the lungs thEv. f4, 4 o ° be relied upon for removing all danger, and by Pe r l e t r e i and regulating the circulation they effectually pra.f lapse. By rousing the liver to a fair secretion of !);Ae quickly carrying it off from the system, these piVoile off low spirits, listlessness, and those distressing ' e often called nervous. Clf ect' TIIE IRISH CHURCH DILL. The unanimity of the Liberal party on the Irish Church question was once more conclusively shewn on Friday night. The hope that as soon as the bill got into committee the party would break up into " a disorganised rabble," has not yet been fulfilled. Of the 344 members who supported the retention of the second clause—which may be aptly termed the clause of the bill-341 were Liberals, the Conserva tives voting against their party being Lord Bing ham, Mr. Orr-Ewing, and Colonel Vandeleur. It will be remembered that all three hon. m . embers ha ve gone i n favour of the bill n each division. The Liberals who voted against the clause were also three—Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Saunderson, and Sir R. Clifton. The two former gentlemen were not present on the second division. I Although Sir Roundell Palmer spoke against Mr. Disraeli's motion, he did not record his vote ; Lord Stanley, however, went into the lobby with the minority. Mr. Dalway, who on the two previous occasions went against his party, now supported the Government ; and Colonel Grant, the Conservative member for Elgin and Nairn, who voted for the bill going into committee, now went into the lobby with the Opposition. Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Butler- Johnstone formed part of the majority. The number VC menibor. in +lio II otlo o 31-no s'7n nr niTlPf Pen l ess than on the previ ous even i n g, an d fifty-three fewer than those present on the 24th of March. The absentees from the Conservative side again outnum bered those of their opponents. The regular W hips on both sides acted as tellers. THE SCOTCH PRESBYTERIANS AND MAYNOOTII. An attempt has been made in the Edinburgh Presbytery of the Scotch Free Church to condemn the Irish Church Bill in respect of its Maynooth pro visions. A warm discussion took place on the subject, and in the result the condemnatory resolu tion was rejected by more than two to one, and an amendment carried approving the arrangement sought to be carried out by the measure. When it it is remembered that this was done by the ministers of an extreme anti-Romanist Church, in the most Protestant country in the world, one can but feel how completely the " No Popery " cry has perished. MR. WIIALLEY AND THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION. Mr. Whalley recently denied very indignantly that he had been induced by pressure from his con stituents to vote for the disestablishment of the Irish Church. A member of his election committee, how ever, declares that the hon. member did have some gentle pressure put upon him by the electors of Peterborough ; and that this pressure caused him to deviate from the line which he seems to have marked out for himself. Mr. Whalley says that for a long time he had felt the Irish Church to be a but tress of Popery. But if we may believe a correspon dent of the Telegraph, it was not long ago that he thought that the disestablishment of the Irish Church would be prejudicial to the English Establishment. The account Of Mr. Whalley's conversion is a curious Insight into the psychological workings of the mind of a member of Parliament when in the right path. Mr. Whalley's committee, we are told, were afraid that their member was not " sound," and so they telegraphed to Mr. Whalley that they wanted to see him. He met them, and they set before him that he must—if he would continue member for Peter borough —vote for Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions. " I can't," Mr. Whalley is reported to have exclaimed, " What would my Orange friends think of me ? " " What they like," replied his committee; " but you must vote straight, or we shan't think you worthy of support at the Mr. Whalley, as the House of Commons knows too well, can talk long and fast, and he was about to enter into an argument to shew that with the Irish must go the English Church. But his committee would hear no argument. Would he vote for Gladstone or not ? He would abstain altogether. But with that even the committee were not satisfied. And the bon, member for Peterborough at last gave the re(pured promise. What df) Mr. Whalley's Orange friends think of him CIIUIICII ITEMS. The John Bull states of the private meeting of the Irish Church Conference, held this week, that the Primate presided, and there was the greatest unanimity as to the course to be pursued to insure the present and future welfare of the Irish Church. The Bishop of Derry made a long .p,h, which our contemporary publishes in full. One of the argu men t s which' lie used lit favour of maintaining the Establishment was that the Roman Catholic clergy got so much more money out of their people than the Protestant clergy got out of theirs. To most persons the argument would seem to tend in the contrary direction ; but Bishop Alexander is a very eloquent man. Among the other speakers were the Archbishop of Dublin, who declared that they might be vanquished, but they would not be accomplices in their own over throw ; and the Bishop of Cork, who said that he would fight so long as he had two legs left to stand upon, and when he had no legs he would fight upon his stumps. Bishop Gregg is fond of homely language. With reference to his previous and notorious speech, four reporters of different papers in Cork affirm solemnly and publicly that the Bishop said that " Bill Gladstone and his bill may go to the -." The most reverend prelate did not add the word " devil." He left that for his bearers to do. He knew that they were quite capable of doing it. - With reference to what Mr. Gladstone calls the " absence of responsible episcopal Government " the Church Review says : " The grievance and scandal of the abeyance of episcopacy in so many English dioceses at the present moment has been mentioned in Parliament, and Mr. Gladstone has intimated that the bishops are being consulted as to the best remedy for a liability to which, under the present system, we must always be exposed. This is a satisfactory announcement. Along with this question we hope that an increased normal episcopacy will be com bined, and that the Government will accept the opportunity of compensating in some way in England for the hard measure dealt to the sister Establishment in Ireland." THE REFORM OF ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. The objection chiefly urged against Lord Shaftes bury's bill for the reform of procedure in cases of complaints against " criminous clerks " has been that any irresponsible persons might, for the sake of harrassing a clergyman, institute frivolous suits against him. The slightest deviation from the letter of the law would bring down law costs, if nothing else, upon his head. Lord Shaftesbury, writing to the Times on the subject, points out that he has pro vided against that. He has inserted a clause making the petitioner liable for the whole or any part of the costs of the respo 'dent. In the case of unfounded charges this woul 1 be a severe fine —severe enough, Earl Shaftesbury thinks, to deter men from vexatious cases, Sift CULLING EAILDLF.Y. Some months ago Sir Culling Eardley was tried for bigamy, and, being found guilty, was sentenced to two years' imprisoment. Recently he has been set at liberty, ostensibly because his health was seriously affected. Since his release the bigamist has appeared particularly jolly. The Pell Mall Gazette, in calling attention to the circumstance, by innuendo, ascribes his liberation to the fact that Sir Culling is a near relative of Mr. Childers. It may interest our contemporary to know that the bigamist baronet's liberation was ordered by Mr. Hardy% ELECTION PETITIONS. The Daily News summarises th e resu lts o f th e election petitions. Since the judges oommeueed the hearings on 12th January 98 cases have been dill, posed of-54 against Lib era l s an d 44 against Con- , eervatives. The withd rawa l s have numbered 44, in the proportion of 24 against 'Liberals, and 20 A gainst Conservatives. Thirty- five members have been declared duly elected-22 Liberals and 13 Couserva , tires. Nineteen have lost their coats-8 Liberals and U. Uonservatives. The proportion of Liberal members unseated to the number of petitions originally presented is 14 per cent., whil e th e pro portion of unseated Conservatives is 25 per cent. The petitions which have not yet been taken involve the fate of three Liberals and seven Conservatives, exclusive of Mr. Birley, whose return for Man chester is complained of on the ground that he was a Government contractor at the time of the election. The Boston petition has been withdrawn, the same course is about to be taken with regard to the South Durham case. Another petition is anticipated arising' ogof the Hereford election, - - BACKSTIEEg. A correspondent of the Mall Gazelle says that a friend of his, who acts Is secretary to one of the Government departmens, had to check the delivery of £200,000 worth t iron supplied by a Northern firm. Before he legan his task, he was " I suppose you will equire the usual com mission of i?; . per cent ?" IL other words, the firm proposed to bribe the sere it of the public with a gift of 1:25,000, in order to T ass goods which were no doubt worth, not only 175,00 less than the contract price, but a good many fi , e thousands. How long has this sort of thing been going on ? How many undiscovered Gambiers and Rumbolds are there VICARIOUS WNEROSITY. Among the Civil Servi:e Estimates there is an item of k:3,500 for gifts anc presents made by Prince Alfred while touring in Aistralia. The gifts were, no doubt, duly appreciatel, and the generosity of the giver highly extolled. Only one would like the givers to know that it 11 we, the British tax payers, not the Prince who have paid for the presents. In Irdia, of course, this sort of thing is unders;ooel. All the world knows that the magnificent presents which Lord Mayo has just made to the Ameer of Affghanistan do not come out of his lordship's pocket. But the other case is rather different. We give Prince Alfred a handsome allowance, we have given him the command of one of the smartest ships in the British navy, but we did not c on t e mplate having to pay all the " tips," which, in the fullness of his bounty, he chooses to make. Til MILITARY SERVICES. 1110 Browl Arrow says tiler. ix a .11011 T thiat the Government should increase the grant to the volunteers the addition will assume the form of a regulation great coat, the necessity of which was apparent at the Dover Review. The same paper states that the War Office Committee is still engaged in its labours, which daily tend to prove the advisability of simplifying the machinery in several of the depart ments. The probability is that the Commander-in- Chief will he made solely responsible for a conside rable amount of routine details which are now unnecessarily, and merely as a matter of form, referred to the War Office. The Army and Xavy Gazette says that Vice-Ad miral Sir G. Mundy will be succeeded in the West Indies by Rear-Admiral Wellesley. GOOD NEWS FOR THE OVF.REND AND GURNEY DIRECTORS• Dr. Thom, the prosecutor of the Overend and Gurney directors has, as we have already mentioned, given notice that he will himself conduct the prose cution. Dr. Thom is a very public-spirited man, and cannot be censur e d if h e d ec li n es to spend any more of his money in conducting a case which it is a scan dal to the country has not been undertaken by the Government. At the same time we cannot but feel dismay in learni ng hi s i n t en tion. It would be a grievous and alm os t na ti ona l calamity if the case should break down through want of skill on the part of the prosecution ; and as the defendants will have the most eminent counsel to represent them, it can hardly be expected that Dr. Thom, who is not a lawyer, will be capable of meeting them. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MANNERS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Some ten or twelve days ago the Daily News published a letter from its American correspondent —as usual, with him, an essay—the subject being English and American .Manners. The Pall Mall Gazette, taking a long time for reflection, pursued the theme in an article last Wednesday, and al though we must trust to the impression left by a hurried reading of the American correspondent, we will endeavour to give the gist of what both these writers say. The American correspondent notices two classes of Englishmen who visit the United States, both producing a disagreeable impression on the American mind. The one is the simple snob ; supercilious, condescending, and showing in every word and action his belief in the inferiority of all around when compared with his belongings. Such are snore or less common to every country, but per haps ai=surne the most disagreeable type in the British spechnen. But the impression they create is neither deep nor lasting; for offensive and dis agreeable persons can easily be dropped, while ex cuses are made for ignorance and narrow-minded ness ; the other, moreover, creates real annoy ance, and the more as he does so unconsciously. of ~,ithre and refinement find their way into American homes refined as theirs, and occupied by people as cultivated as those with whom they have been bred. Their astonish ment is the more freely expressed, as they think it implies a compliment, while Americans receive it with ill-disguised annoyance. If the English man does not say so, still he me ans th a t h e came t o America expecting to find civilization advanced but a few stages from life in the Back Woods. Instead of well-read, nurtured, and travelled ladies and gentlemen, with tastes cultivated as highly • as in any European society, be looked for good honest men and women, who understood how to buy and sell, crops and h er d s , woo d en houses, and labour - saving machines. That the man should be surprised, is not surprising, when in stead, he meets people who know Europe better than he does, whose pictures and statuary are of a higher order of art, whose library embraces a wider range,whose dwellings are superior, and where the cookery and wines are at least as good. Ameri cans say their visitor ought not to have been so igno rant of American society. Had it been of French, of Italian, or of German society he would have been ashamed to let such ignorance appear, and in openly announcing it in America he shows that it is com mon to his whole class. What right have those who profess to know the world to be thus complacently unacquainted with a community now exercising upon it the greatest influence of the age? The Pall Mall Gazette, limiting the discussion to the wealthy of both nations, takes this strange ground. What most distinguishes the aristocracy of Eng land is their epigrammatic mode of expression. The effort is to give the pith of stories, cu tti n g away heads and tails. Not to be concise is to be a bore, and instead of the full meaning the terse sentences are only intended to convey an outline of it or hint. With those in the lowerstation the reverse isthe case. They follow to the end the thought, argue out their assertion, and tell the whole story, while the hearer may vainly suggest that he has anticipated the point. Now Americans being our offshoot, says the Gazette, derive their origin from the middle not from the highest class, and the difference chiefly dis tinguishing all even the most wealthy and refined in America, who are precisely on the same level as to externals with the wealthy and refined in England from them, is the same, as between the aristocratic and the middle and lower classes here. Americans are long-winded in conversation, in speeches, and even in wit. The American correspondent allows that the English used to be considered in America the guide and model in manners, though this is be coming an exploded error. What Englishmen consi der essentials often taking them as tests are generally mere conventionalities to be found in no other coun try, a habit or per h a p s a n e c essity of Great Britain. Mixing a good deal on the Continent, Americans have discovered that other Europeans re gard the English as anything but refined, and when the only true test is applied to some of their con ventionalities it is found that these are not signs of good manners, have nothing to do with manners, or may be really bad manners. The true test is simple kindliness, and the manners which embody most consideration for others, are the best. Now, may not the Pall Mall's marked difference be a mere conventionality in imitation of the sparkling mode of conversation characteristic of Frenchmen fos tered by their epigrammatic language, but which comes out as a bad copy when tried by the English ? A. Frenchman conveys more in a shrug and a grimace than an Englisman can do in a long winded sentence, but the Pall Nall takes tbis servile Births. 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