The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-18 00:00:00

EPTETT OF THE 117BLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks that for: th,, second time within a few weeks Mr. Briers colleagues have bad to disclaim responsibility for his publicly expresaed opinions. Let us hope that it is for the last time, for it is very plain. that a Government cannot afford the repetition of such scenes as that of Thursday. It may be that Mr. Bright is not quite sensible of the humiliation he has inflicted on his colleagues ; but after their' second appearance in the character of apologists they may be excused if they give him to understand that no man, however valuable his support, can he allowed to unite the functions of .Cabinet Minister and of agitator—to share in the counsels of the Crown, and at the same time to issue political broadsides. Mr. Bright's attack on the Lords was meant for publication, and for publication at an important crisis. He could -not himself attend a meeting, but he penned the bitterest taunts that occurred to him, and sent them to be read on the platform. But what makes Mr. Bright's letter a breach of :decorum and a serious afence towards his own colleagues is the jubilant ill will with which he retlll3 to antiCpate ;:tteli a vote of the Lords as will dairrtge atn;Ft.l.:es. 1..1.:1t1 it Cect ti-at he can only knell his reputa• tiou 14,r judi:nitnt by rot rcccguisirg the diffetenee between Lis present and his fointr f ti:itier. We do not expect him to abandon his cpinions. secret that he is adverse to the institution of the peerage. He has said in former c'ays that it wes urfitted to a free country, and could not be permanent. He has a perfect right to hold that opinion. We may go so far as to say that he would be justified in stating it theoretically if called upon to give his views on the subject. But to give It is no the impulse to an agitation in this sense without consulta tion with his colleagues is a breach of political duty as well as of good faith and good breeding. The Post says in plain English it comes to this—that Mr. Bright, being too strong a card to be rejected from the Government pack, is to be indulged in a double per sonality. In the House of Commons, sitting upon the Treasury Bench, he is the Right Honourable Head of the Board of Trade, who answers all questions relating to Lis department in a suitable and decorous manner, and even condescends to carry the responsibility of a Minister into the moderation which characterises his orations upon great questions of the day. But at Birmingham, whether on his legs on the platform, or in the spirit with his pen, he is still the John Bright of old, flinging his new dignities to the wind to revert to the impassioned utter ances of violent and intolerant invective. Mr. Bright's past career has been in many respects a good one, and in all an honest one ; and we confess that when he undertook the responsibilities of office we were among those who en tertained confident hopes that, like many other men less striking. perhaps, in the power of their intellect, but more wise in their generation, he would be apt to divest himself of his former intolerance—to work with men, instead of against them, and become a useful and sensible member of the Cabinet which he joined. But the case is, it appears, an incurable one, and we can only endorse most cordially the wish which is now uppermost in the hearts of so many— that kr. Bright would at once resign a position which he is no longer competent to fill either with credit to himself or satisfaction to his colleagues. The barometer of the House of Lords on Thursday night indicated a storm, and the sooner this political Jonah has been got rid of the more likelihood there is that the Irish Church Bill will be steered safely to the much-desired haven of final settle ment and repose. The. Dail!, News says that by the jocose parallel which he instituted between his own practice and fortunes as a letter-writer and Mr. Bright's ; by the intimation that the President of the Board of Trade, like h m e'f, bad depre cated the holding of meetings pending the decision of the Zipper Chamber, with the view of avoiding the semblance of dictatorial interference with the freedom of the Lords ; and .by the assurance that, _ though individual members of tha Government might agree in the abstract with the opinions expressed in the Birming ham letter, yet that the Government as a whole had nothing to do with it, and desired to treat the House of Lords with proper respect—Mr. Gladstone managed, kindly and dexterouily, to release his col league from a false position without compromising the Administration as a whole. Perhaps it would have been well if Lord Granville had contented himself with eying this answer as from Mr. Bright, without entering into that psychological disquisition on Mr. Bright's intellectual and moral character with which he amused the House. Lord Grey, who is irritated, perhaps, by recognising in Mr. Bright's letter a rude echo of his own speech, could not refrain from a burst of petulant censure. Mr. Bright has, howeyer, merely "blown through brass" the not es Lrrd Grey has breathed through silver." In the meantime, the President of the Board of Trade must feel that ex planations and apologies of which he is the subject do not strengthen his own personal position or that of the Govern ment ; and he will do well to avoid giving future occasion for them. The Irish verdict of "Not guilty," aceem panied with the caution not to do the thing again, meets the necessities of the case. The Star, in referring to the discussion on Mr. Bright's; letter in the I. 7 pper Ireure, thinks it was more than un kind in Lord Cairns to read the whole of the fatal letter itself. It was bard even for an onlooker, with deft ctive sympathies in respect of the Lords, rot to feel for elle unhappy p"ght of the majority, as Lord Cairrs's excel lent voice reproduced the sufEciently trenchant sentences. But though a little painful, the discipline was whole some. It was a tolerably satisfactory instalment of justice. Mr. Bright haS bad many Litter things said of him by the Conservative lords. It was pleasant to think that Lord Cairns's legal sense of the necessity cf producing the evidence of the crime of the accused was the means of dealing his followers an effective retalia tory blow for the - many hard words which they have so long been in the habit of using. Otherwise thewhole per formance, indeed, was neither more nor less than a piece of solemn moonshine. Lord Cairns in one House, and Colonel North in the other, both of them knew perfectly well beforehand exactly the kind of answer which they were sure to get. The design, no doubt, as we pointed out on Wed nesday, was to raise a little political wind. Not a capful could be got, and the bulk of the obstructive party in the Upper House has still nothing else for it, but to make up its mind on which horn of the political dilemma to impale itself. The Herald, in discussing the two grcat speeches of Thursday evening, says that Lord Derby will have none of the measure. Lord Salisbury thinks it light to meet the House of Commons half way.• He presumes that the opinion of the nation has been pronounced explicitly in favour of the bill. The Herald . is by no means sure of this. The judgment of the elections was given rather upon the side issue as to whether Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Disraeli should be at the bead of affairs; and the public demonstrations of the last few days seem to indicate that the masses of the nation are not all in favour of this destruction of the Church in Ireland. Assuming Lord Salisbury's premises, his argument is worthy of attentive consideration. In accepting the expression of the national will, the House of Lords would not be acting in subordination to the House of Commons. It would be better that it should cease to ex;st than that it should do that. The object of the second House of Par liament e as to supply the omissions and remedy the de :'erts of the other. But wheneeer; Tiird Salisbury argued, the House of Commons and the 'country Lad agreed upon a principle, the House of Lords had no right to resist the carrying out of that principle in legislation. The responsi bility of doing this, if it were wrong, devolved upon t h e nation. In consequence. Lord Salisbury and those who agree with him, vote for the second reading. But Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury, the archbishops and bishops, will be ranged in ere compact phalanx in their opposition to those measures of spoliation and high-handed injustice which Mr. Gladstone has declared to be essential to the principle of the bill. The House of Lords may accept or reject the bill. The result after all will be very much the same. There will be a declared antagonism between the House of Lords and the majority in the Commons, which, unless Mr. Gladstone consents to the complete remodelling of his measure, will necessitate shortly another appeal to the country. The Standard alludes to Lord Derby's declaration that convinced as he was that the measure would be most per nicious in its consequences, be bad urged the peers at the recent meeting at Chesterfield .11cusc to reject it rather than give their sanction to its principle by allowing it to be read a second time. But ho had spoken simply in his _character as an individual member of the House, and without the smallest assumption of a right to offer authori tative counsel ; and since that occasion he had not used th e slightest influence to sway the judgment of his brother peers. He spoke, he said, for himself alone. But, quoting the fervid protest of the Bishop of Peterborough, h, declared that, having regard to the account which he must give to his Maker, he dared not, could not, and must not, record his vote for the bin, and that if the vote which he intended to give in fatour cf its rejection were the last act of his political life, he should be thankful that it had been permitted to him to record his Pretest against it. In addressing himself to the policy of those who urged that the bill should be allowed to pass its second reading inthe hope that it may be amended in comnAtere, Lord "Derby reminded the House that, as has been already pointed out, every speaker who has recom mended that entree has been conspicuous for the energy witl; which he has denounced the bill. For himself, he declared that, objecting wholly to the principle of the measure, find finding no assurance that the Government would accept substantial amendments, he considered that he had no alternative but to vote for the amendment of Lord Harrowby. That the speech produced a grave effect upon the House is Leyond question. The Eubscriptions ia SundniaLd and the neigh tow boor! on beliAli of 24r. Jaw piakisy aziolizttg grqxtli of APO ! . ME2ROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Thursday. I did not think when I wrote my'raeletter that the great topic of to-day would be, not the Irish Church, but Mr. Bright. The right hon. gentleman's letter has done the Government such serious harm that it is not sur prising there should be to-day a current rumour of his resignation. That he has offered his resignation, I should think must be a matter of course, after the condemnation passed upon him by every journal except his own particulat organ. That Mr. Gladstone will accept it remains to be seen, and will probably - be known before this letter meets the eyes of those for whDm it is written. If the Irish Church Bill should be rejected in the Upper House, the event will be due in no small'measure to the President of the Board of Trade. Perhaps he is not altogether free from the wish that it might be rejected, and perhaps that wish had some part in the production of the letter. That the Lords will throw out the bill, is the constant and fervent prayer of the advanced Radicals. These see that such a step would - seriously damage the Upper House, and having, like Mr. Bright, a deep-rooted aversion to it, they would welcome a blow dealt at it, and all the more if dealt by that assembly itself. Will the Peers grant the Radicals their request? That question I ani not able to answer. No one will venture to do so. Reasoning a priori, putting myself in their pace, I should say that they would most certainly nut do so. The perils which would beset such a course, the strong remonstrances of several mem bers of the late Government, the conciliatory attitude assumed by Lord Granville (unfortunately more than neutralised by Mr. Bright's unlucky letter), the course adopted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, a pre late whose judgment commands the respect of all parties, 411 point to a policy of prudence. There is a still stronger reason why they should adopt that policy. No one can fail to see that a rejection of the bill would, from the purely party point of view, suit Mr. Gladstone's purpose far better than its acceptance. Reject it, and the country (which cares comparatively little about the Irish Church) would be at once aroused by the fact that the Lords had taken upon themselves to overrule the decision of the nation. Accept it, and then the various sections of the now divided Conservative party would reunite in order to enforce large amendments which Mr. Gladstone could not advise the House of Commons to reject without incurring a prolonged agitation, from which he may well be sup posed to shrink. If the bill passes a second reading, the difficulties of the Government will only then begin. The Lords will, in all probability, insist upon the amendments which were rejected in the Commons, will demand, for instance, that the clergy shall be allowed to retain their parsonages and glebes ; that the date for the retention of private grants shall be put back from 1660 to 1560 ; and that some arrangement shall be made for the capitalisa tion of the revenues for the Protestant clergy, so that an Irish clergyman shall be enabled to receive his life interest in a lump sum. It is by no means certain that the moderate Liberals would care to run the risk of a serious breach with the LOrds, nor incur the labour of fighting the battle of the Irish Church Bill over again next session by refusing their assent td these amend ments. Mr. Gladstone would then have to decide between these moderate Liberals on the one hand, and the advanced Radicals on the other—a choice involving much perplexity, and perchance the entire disruption of his party. But while all the arguments seem to me in favour of passing the bill, it is by no means certain that they will prevail. Each party is resorting to the trick of pretending that the other is sure to win, the object of each being to deter waverers from voting on the 'other aide, and to induce waverers to vote on its own side. It is said that fifteen bishops will vote for Lord Harrowby's motion, and that five will vote against it. The latest converts against the bill are the Bishop of Manchester and Lord Shaftesbury. The first will possibly not vote at all, being induced to refrain from supporting the bill by the strong representations of the Manchester merchants. The second and his organ, the Record, have been won over to the Opposition policy by the threat of a few High Church Conservatives who oppose the hill, and notably the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, that, if it is carried, they will go in for a concurrent endowment of the Roman Catholic Church. The Bishop of Oxford has been working very hard in behalf of the Govern went, having been induced to do so, it is rumoured among his friends, by a pledge on the part of Mr. Gladstone that the Government will repeal the law of mortmain, so as to enable the English Church to become possessed of land in the same way as a school or a hospital is, and thus enable it to meet the shock of disestablishment and disenclowment, which every one believes to be msrely a question of time. There are those who say that Lord Derby is riding not to win ; how far this is a true assertion his speech will reveal to-night. There is undoubtedly a large number of Conservative peers who would gladly let the bill go into committee without a division. It is this circumstance— the absolute undertainty as to what course will be, taken by some twenty or thirty peers—which renders it impos sible for anyone to tell with certainty how the division will go. • Meanwhile another vigorous " whip " is being male to-day on both sides. Whatever difference of cpinion there may be as to the result of the division there is none at all as to the character of the debate. It is pronounced on all hands to be one of the finest examples of Parliamentary oratory ever heard. This is the more remarkable because the subject had been so thoroughly discussed that people were weary of the very sound of the Irish Church. A great deal of the effect is due, no doubt, to the infusion of the Constitutional question—the relation of the Lords to the nation. The scene of excitement during the Bishop of Peter borough's speech was almost unprecedented in that usually sedate assembly. It must have teen a splendid triumph for the bishop, all the more striking if he hap pened to remember that it is but twenty years ago since he was a curate at Bath, in the receipt of £BO a year. Just as he had concluded his speech two incidents happened. One peer exclaimed, excitedly, " Why, 'tis tenfold better than the Bishop of Oxford's!" and just at that moment Bishop 'Wil berforce passed, and no doubt heard the comparison which will tend to put him upon his mettle to-night. The Other incident was exceedingly comic. A peer, dressed in a blue coat and brass buttons and white choker of the antique style, and who had been dining, not wisely, but too well, came up to Bishop Magee, and attempted to thank him in words that went tumbling over each other in a very incon sequential manner. The Bishop gave his admirer a good snubbing. This same ancient peer is an object of great curiosity. No one can tell who he is, but he is supposed to he an importation from Ireland, where, I am inclined to think, he was not acquainted with the late Father Mathew. Lord Stanley of Alderley has gone at last, after linger ing on for many weeks. He was not a great man, though the Times attempts to make him out one. His successor, if not great, is at least eccentric. The common rumour is that he is so fascinated with Mahometanism that he has always avowed his intention to build a mosque upon his estate as soon as he came into possession of it. One of the late Lord Stanley's daughters was married to the hope of the Russells, Viscount Amberley. 'While Mr. Bright's letter is calling down universal condemnation upon that indiscreet Minister, another member of the Government is adopting in private the same offensive policy. Mr. Lowe's mode of receiving a deputation is now become a stand ing joke. If he can tread upon anybody's corns he never fails to do so. His time is so much occupied that while he receives a deputation he continues to read his correspondence, and as he is so intensely short-sighted that the paper which he is reading must be held quite close to his eye, the effect is not encouraging. A few days since a deputation, consisting of the managers and clerks of savings banks, were pointing out to him that if he did so-and-so these institutions must cease to exist. Mr. Lowe coolly replied, " Why should they exist ?" The question might have been pertinent in the House of Commons, but to officers whose living depended upon their continuance it certainly was not a conciliatory mode of treating the subject. If a deputation asks a question, the purport of the reply usually is, " I don't know ;'' " I shouldn't tell you if I did ;'' and " I t is very wro ng of you to ask the question." The subject of a halfpenny postage fur a packet of printed matter is now fairly under discusaion, and the result of its consideration can scarcely fail to bathe adop. tion of the principle. 9u such a point we cannot afford to remain far behind France, America, and our own colonies. As to the conveyance of newspapers bypost, I believe that a far more efficient and economical system will be adopted than anywhich prevails at present. It is proposed to carry newspapers by the hundredweight without requiring a stamp. The newspaper proprietors would be allowed to deliver sorted packets of newspapers to the railway station just upon the departure of the mail train, and pay for the gross weight. The Post Office would thus be relieved from the trouble of sorting and obliterat ing the. stamps, and the proprietors of newspapers would hare the advantage of delivering their papers at the last moment. '.Chia arrangement would save cost and trouble to all parties, and enable later news to be given to the public. The outcry against Mr. Hammond increases from week to week. Scarcely a day passes, in fact, but what some letters are published, mainly in the Pall Mall Gazette, against the conduct of the Foreign Office towards the members of the foreign service. Of course, Mr. Ham mond, though not named, is the person pointed at; for he is virtually an autocrat. Would it not be possible to give him some appointment in India or the colonies, and so get rid of hirg as ALL Childcrs has Fist got rid of Atr. losiaise 7 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1869 M. Emile 011ivier, the rejected of Paris, has justleen elected a member of the Cobden Club. This club was formed in 1868, in order to spread the economical doc trines of Cobden, and it now numbers 288 members, of whom 135 are M.P.'s. Mr. Potter, M.P. for Rochdale, is the president, and among its members are Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, Mr. Quincy Adams, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Sum ner, M. Arles Dufour, M. Rouher, M. de Forcade, Gari baldi, and other eminent foreigners. The weather is really something dreadful. We are shivering with cold. We walk through the streets with steaming breath, and great-coated cabmen smite their hands together to keep them warm. To-day it has been raining hard in spite of a high barometer, and the Henley Regatta has been spoilt. Yesterday there was something like fine weather ; that is, after a gale of great violen9e, which lasted till ten o'clock, the sun began to shine in a wan sort of manner, but sufficiently to draw together an extraordinarily brilliant company at the Botanical Gardens in Regent's Park. There might have been seen Mr. Disraeli and Viscountess Beaconsfield, Prince Teck and the Princess Mary, (looking particularly well), quite a bevy of bishops, a large proportion of the peerage, and any number of elaborate toilets worn by the martyrs of fashion, who felt bound to dress as though we were enjoying midsummer weather instead of a temperature lower than that which we haa early in February. Although the crowd was so well dressed and well born, it mobbed royalty with as much fervour as if the lords and ladies had been street gaining or ragged-school children. When will the upper-class Londoners acquire manners equal to those of the Paris ouvrier A very interesting exhibition is open just now at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, just opposite the Royal Academy. It consists of about 3450 photographs of views in the Holy Land, of models, and of antiquities and other curiosities brought from that country. Among the last are specimens of the Dead Sea apples which Mr. Carlyle has immortalised, of tares whose similarity to oats gives additional force to our Lord's parable of the tares ; of,hylacteries, sandals, and other articles of Eastern dress. There is also a shepherd's sling, so small and so rude of construction that the English schoolboy would despise it, and yet David made good use of just such a one when he went forth to do battle with Goliath. A large glass case contains articles which Mr. MacGregor took with him in the Rob Roy canoe. But perhaps the most interesting thing exhibited is the model of the Holy Sepulchre. It is a perfect wildnerness of buildings, each the church of some different sect, and the whole a sad satire upon that spirit which has converted what should have been the cement. ing influence of Christianity into the cause of endless separations. There are various literary sayings and doings just now. Mr. Tennyson is gone to Switzerland with Mr. Frederick Locker. Dean Stanley means to be present at the (Ecumenical Council at Rome next December. Mr. Burnell Payne, author of the very able article on Art in this month's Macmillan, and one of the principal writers in the Pall Mall Gazette, is, I am sorry to say, compelled by ill-health to go abroad. Mr. Isaac Taylor, author of " Words and Places," and son of the still better known author of the " Natural History of Enthusiasm," has been translated from Bethnal-green, where he has long laboured as a parish priest, to the pleasant living of Twickenham, vacated by the promotion of Mr. Knollys to one of the numerous preferments that fell to the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury thrcugh the death of that enor mous pluralist, Archdeacon Croft. M. Renan is just bringing out his " St. Paul," a volume forming one of a series with his " Vie de Rsus" and "Les Aix:Ares." Sir Charles Lyell is preparing a new and.condensed edition of his great work. Mr. Ffoulkes has written another letter, this time on the Irish Church, entitled "Disendow all or none." Mr. Spender will have an article on Norway in the forthcoming number of the London Quarterly _review, and one on the same subject, entitled " Fjeld, Fjord, and Foss," in the Churchman's Shilling Maguzine, also an article on Sornersetshire in Meliora. Your readers will have seen that that most scurrilous of prints, the Queen's Messenger, has come to grief by means of an action for libel. The writers who conducted it announce that they are going to start another periodi cal, which, judging by its name, The Plain Speaker, seems to be of the same kind. Another publication, Once a Week, was put up to auction on-Tues day, and was knocked down at 2160, but was understood to have been bought in by the proprietors. It is strange that this magazine should not have been more successful. Started originally by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans when they quarrelled with Mr.-Dickens, and as a rival to his Household Words, which was - then renamed All the Year Round, Once a Week, has had a • melancholy career. It was edited at one time by the late Mr. Lucas, of the Times, who brought out the short-lived Shilling Magazine, and at tEe same time published an announcement so offensive that it could be pardoned only because the writer was then suffering from the incipient symptoms of a disease which afterwards proved his death. At present Mr. Dallas, author of "The Gay Science," and husband of Miss Glyn, the dramatic reader, is the editor. Yet this well-known litt"rateur has never been able to obtain a satisfactory position for the serial, although it has often contained some admirable writing. Begratia of this month col - It:this some verses by Sir Mitchell, for the signature of which, by the way, the editor, Mr. Cheitnam, and not the writer, is respon- Bible. Another set of verses written by Sir William have been set to music, very successfully, by Randegger, and are just now being sung with great success by Mr.' Cum mings. Words and music together form a very pretty love-song. The proposed Keble Memorial in Westminster Abbey is to consist of a tablet, designed by Mr. Gilbert Scott, and a medallion likeness by Mr. Woolner. It is to be placed near the monument of Keble's old friend, Words. worth. A large number of eminent men, including Mr. Gladstone, Lord Russell, Lord Stanhope, Mr. Browning, and Mr. Tennyson, are on the committee. Herr Formes's performance of Shylock appears to have turned out a failure. The Princess's is closed for two months. The attempted rival Opera at the Lyceum collapsed after a night or two, and that theatre has ever since been closed, and is now " to let." MISCELLANEI US NEWS. - - IS ULSTER PIIOTESTANT A great deal has been said of late about " Protes tant Ulster." But the idea that Ulster is entirely Protestant is most erroneous; that it is mainly so is denied ; that it is chiefly Episcopalian is the very opposite of truth. A. correspondent of the Daily News places the number of Roman Catholics at 967,000, the Episcopalians at 397,000, and the Dis senters (chiefly Presbyterian) at 550,000 ; 4o that the whole of! the religious bodies tal;en together barely eu.tblo it to be said that there is a ma.,ority of Protestant opinion in the Northern Province, • THE "DEFEAT OF THE OOVERNMENT.7 The Conservative papers have been announcing in the , largest letters on their show bills, "Defeat of the Government." This "defeat " was brought about in the following manner. Mr. Charles Reed, the new member for Ilac!iney, and a staunch Liberal, moved the second reading of a bill for exempting Sunday and ragged-schools from poor rates. Ile was supported by Mr. Graves, the Conservative M.P. for Liverpool. Mr. Goschen opposed the bill, and was backed in his opposition - by Mr. Percy Wyndham, the Conservative M.P. for West Cumberland. A. large number of the. Liberal party went with Mr. Reed, and the second reading of the bill was carried through their agency by 226 to 71 votes, unamnneys has made his ernmee' between tne deanery of Lichfield and the living of St. Pancras, and has chosen the first. The second falls vacant this week. Meanwhile it remains for the Court of Common Pleas to decide if he can hold the living of Tatenhill in connection with the deanery. If the decision goes against him, he will have made a very poor exchange from the pecuniary point of view. Bishop Colenso has appointed the Rev. Robert Gray Dean of Maritzburg. When the Colenso con troversy was at its height Mr. Gray left St. Helena and voluntarily attached himself to the Bishop. The Bishop is now rewarding him, and at the same time is dealing a blow. at Dean Green. It is not a little singular that " Robert Gray " should be the name of Bishop Colenso's warmest friend, as well as of his fiercest opponent, the Bishop of Capetown. Bishop Hills, of Columbia, has arrived in Englana, and so has Bishop Venables, of Nassau. The latter prelate brings a very poor account of the state of the Church in his diocese. The Bahamas are bankrupt, and the Church has just been disestablished. The Bishop- looks forward to the future with the gloomiest anticipations. IMPERIAL PARLIA. ',TENT HOUSE OF OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The groat interest in the debate was again manifested, and the house presented the same crowded state it has exhibited during the two former evenings. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. MR. BRIGHT'S LETTER. Lord CAIRNS then rose, and after alluding to the im portance of some explanation being given on the sub ject of a letter, signed " John B►ight," said it was most singula,r, to say the least of it, that the letter should not have made its appearance until two days after the motion with respect to the Irish Church Bill had been given by his noble friend (the Earl of Ilarrowby). The noble and learned lord then read the letter in ques- tion, and dwelt in particularly strong terms upon the allusion in it to the childish tinkering with the constitu tion their lordships were indulging in in endeavouring to perfect the Life Peerages Bill. (Loud laughter.) The letter also upheld that their lordships were acting in direct opposition to the will of the nation in obstruct ing the progress of the Irish Church Bill and other imputations of the most unjustifiable nature were used, which rendered the publication of its production in fact as a; menace to the house. He thought the writing such a letter was alogether unprecedented by a minister of the Crown - (hear, hear) - and calculated to produce the utmost danger to the free discussion of the question by their lordships. He thought it highly objection able that there should be one member of the Go vernment continually doing all that was smooth and bland within the house, whilst another member of it was doing all that was quite contrary out of it. (Hear hear.) He thought it would be idle to call the letter a pri vate communication, because it was to all intents and pur poses a party manifesto, and so it was looked upon through out the country. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the noble earl opposite would, in answer to his question, repudiate the sentiments contained in the letter which he had brought under the attention Of the house. Earl GRANVILLE said the letter was written by Mr. Bright, but he could not accept the paraphrase the noble and learned lord bad been pleased to give of it to their lordships. (Hear, hear.) He was certain that the greatest desire of the right hon. gentleman was in no way to cver awe the deliberation of their lordship with respect to the Irish Church Bill, and he was quite sure that none of the oolleagues of the right hoe. gentleman were acquainted with the contents of the letter in question previous to its being sent, and the first time they had the opportunity of perusing its contents was when it appeared in the public newspapers. It was admitted that there was a great deal of John Bullism about Mr. Bright, and he supposed it was in that rash combative feeling schich was given to John Bullism that Mr. Bright thought he might express his opinion of a- house which had made such free comments upon his con duct as a public man—(hear, hear.)—recalling more especially the proceeedings that took place at a certain meeting of the Conservative Peers in St. James's-square. Mr. Bright had no intention of acting disrespectfully to the House of Lords, and ho entirely repudiated such an intention. Mr. Bright had assured him that what he intended was merely to express his own personal feel ings, and if be had given pain to any of their lord ships, he bad begged him (Earl Grenville) to assure their lordships that such was not his intention. With respect to the words "tinkering and unwise," he (Earl Gran ville) should rather prefer them than the words that had been applied to his side of the house by a noble lord who bad not hesitated to denounce him as dishonest. Earl GREY expressed a strong opinion that the letter of Mr. Bright was most indecorous. The subject then dropped, and the adjourned debate on the Irish Church Bill was resumed by The Earlof DERBY, who strongly objected to the prin ciple of the bill, on the ground that it despoiled the Church of its property, and that it was contrary to the Act of Union. He attributed much of the agitation which had been got up for the disestablishment of the Irish Church to the action of the Liberation Society, and to th , ...jr combination with other parties for the sole purpose of breaking down the union between Church and State, not only in Ireland but in England. He added that he did not object merely to the special details of the bill but to its entire principle. He pointed out that Lord Granville, in moving the second reading of the bill, had confined himself to its details without venturing upon the tender ground of its principle: and it was certainly curious' to see that men like the Archbishop of Canterbury, who intended to vote for the second reading, were alto gether opposed to the details of the measure. The bill was not even consistent with its preamble. The appl ca tion of a large sum, to be obtained out of the surplus pro ceeds to be derived from the estates of the Irish Church, to the endowment of Maynooth was a flagrant breach of the en gagement that no part of those proceeds was to be applied to religious purposes. Lord Granville promisod,on movingthe second reading of the bill, that any amendments submitted by the House of Lords should b 3 carefully cons dered ; but having regard to tho way in which amendments had been treated on other occasions, he altogether distrusted any such pledge, and on his own part ho should continue to offer an uncompromising opposition to the bill. ITe denied, however, that be had any title to be viewed as the leader of the Conservative• party, and said in the course he was about to take he was merely following his own con victions. lie looked upon the bill as being both impolitic and immoral, and he should certainly vote against'the• second reading. The Ear: of KI3IBERLEY defended the bill at some length, both in regard to its principle and d tails. The Bishop of RIPON strongly opposed the second reading of the bill. . The Duke of CLEVELAND did not object to the prin . - ciple of the bill, and should therefore vote for the mon 1 reading. I . Lord REDESDALE opposed the bill, especially that part of it which would deprive the Irish bishops of the power of sitting in the Houge of Lords. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE said he should vote for the bill because he regarded it as a wise and beneficent measure, and because he believed it would remove a groat cause of discontent in Ireland. The Marquis of SALISBURY said that ho intended to vote for the second reading of the bill, but ho wished to guard himself against being committed to all of its details, from many of which he entirely dissented. Lord COLCHESTER opposed the bill. Earl STANHOPE admitted that abuses had been allowed to creep into the Irish Church, and could not re sist the proposal for disestablishment. Ho would there fore vote for the second reading of the bill, believing that its most objectionable features might be amended in com mittee, and that the House of Commons would not refuse to accept or consider any amendment that might be intro duced. The Bishop of WADI strongly opposed the bill. After a few words from Earl NELSON, On the motion of the Bishop of LICHFIELD the de bate was adjourned. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. MEXICO. Mr. OTWAY, in reply to Mr. B. Qeymour, said the diplomatic relations between this country and Mexico re mained precisely the same as they were when the noble lord opposite was Foreign Minbter. The Government were quite open to renew relations, but it was fell, under all circumstances, the first stop towards the matter could not be made by this country. (Hear, hear.) OBITUARY. -• The day's obituary contains, in addition to that of Lord Stanley of Alderley, the names of the Dean of Guernsey and Sir John Pringle. Dr. Guille, Dean of Guernsey and Rector of Peter Port, was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, took a first class in classics, was ordained in 1817, was Rector of St. Andrew's, Guernsey, from. 1837 to 1857, and then and until his death of Peter Port. This living is worth 1~360 a year, and is in the gift of the Lieutenant -Governor. Ile was 77 years old at his death. We presume that some member of his numerous family, of whom there are three in the Channel Islands and one in Devonshire, will be appointed to the vacant deanery. Sir John Pringle was a Scotch baronet, was Vice- Lieutenant of Roxburghshire, and was formerly captain of the 12th Light Dragoons. He was twice married, and his second wife was the daughter of the first Marquis of Breadalbane. He was the fifth baronet, an d was 85 years old at his death. His only son, wh o was formerly lieutenant in the 81st foot, and was born in 1810, died before his father. CHURCH ITEMS. The Guardian says that the Bishop of • London has issued a commission to inquire into the charges against the Rev. Charles Voysey. The commissioners are Sir Travers Twiss J Archdeacons Hal e an d Sin clair, a n d t h e Revs. .E. Moorhouse and Kemp, who will meet at London house on the 24th. It would seem, therefore, that it is not, after all, upon the Archbishop of York that the labour and the cost of prosecuting his erratic cleric will devolve, but upon a bishop who is not that cleric's diocesan. In fact, the Bishop of London must make 111) his raind to be the prosecutor-gener a l of heretics, became nearly all boois are published in London. The Bishop of Lichfield finds his diocese, by no means the largest in England, too much .for him. While the Government is still considering thOpossi hility of appointing suffragan bishops, Dr. Selwyn solves the difficulty for himself by appointing Bishop Hobhouse (formerly of Nelson, I\ env Zealand) his assistant. Bishop Hobhonse will be fre t; from all ~tochial care, ao that he will be able to g ive up THE BALLOT IN AUSTRALIA. The way- balloting is carried on in Australia awl elsewhere is of the last importance at a time when every election makes converts to secret voting. Colonel Torrens, a clay or two ago, described before the EleCtions Committee the way the polling was carried on in South Australia. But he appears to have made a mistake. He said that the voter hirnse:f dropped his voting paper into the ballot-box. It is not so. The Electoral Act commands him to " fold the Paper, and immediately deliver it so folded to the returning officer or to his deputy, who shall fortwith publicly, and without opening the same. deposit it in a box to be provided for that purpose.'' The point is a small one perhaps, but is worthy of attention just now. THE LATEST CASE OF ABDUCTION. The Marquis Townshend has an open car for any complaints, and he gets plenty of grievances told to him. It is not surprising that he often finds himself on the wrong side, as his remedy for all wrongs is to tell them to the nearest police magi strate as soon as possible, even before investigation has been made. He got hold of an alarming story a day or two back. A young girl had been forcibly taken away from Protestant mother by a Roman Catholic priest, and when demand was made for the child it was refused. The priest even declined to say where it was. The mother fled to the Marquis, the Marquis went with her to the Marylebone Police-court, and there unfolded the sad talc. But the magistrate wanted to hear the other side. On Wednesday the priest and others attended, and it was discovered that the mother was an abandoned woman, that she was trying to teach her child to steal, but, falling ill, was visited by a Roman Catholic priest, to whom she .was known. He—thinking her to be dying— administered the sacraments to her, and by her request took charge of the child. The mother recovered, at first thanked th e pr i es t , b u t a ft e rwards wa n t e d her child again, having returned to her old mode of life. The child w as re f use d h er . Hence the proceed ings before the magistrate. The Marquis himself declared that he thought the priest did right. THE TONIC SOL-FA METHOD OF TEACHING SINGING. Of all the va r i ous me th o d s of teaching singing in public schools none has become more popular than the Tonic Sol-f a . Wh atever may b e sa id a b ou t its smell ?the accuracy, it has undoubtedly . recommended itself to t eac h ers, an d i n t h e l arges t proportion of British s c h oo l s , w h ere an y a tt e mpt to teach children t o rea d mus i c i s ma d e , th e s y s t em is its members of the progress. Especial) ydo the used. N a t ura ll y enoug h , th ose w h o promo t e it are anxi ous that every f ac ilit y s h ou ld b e a ll owe d for Tonic Sol -Fa College wish the committee of the Council on Education to recognise their system. Under the 54th article of the Revised Educational Code teachers are allowed a considerable addition to their incomes for teaching to read music from notes. But " notes " here are taken to mean according to the established notations. A deputation has waited on Mr. Forster urging that this should be altered, that the Toni c S o l-F a s y s t em b e i ng f oun d t o answer admirably in schools should be recognised by the Council. Mr. Forster, though not musical himself, said he had ava il e d hi mse lf o f oppor t un iti es o f test ing th e result of teac hi ng on t h e Ton i c Sol-Fa system, and . he considered that the results were grand, and shelved that the system was eminently adapted fo r th e teac hi ng o f mus i c . H e prom i se d to bring the vi ews o f th e d epu t a ti on un d er the nothe of Earl do Grey, and to recommend strongly that the desired change should be made in the Revised Code. CROWDING UPON ROYALTY. Civilisation has not taught the English people one piece of manners yet. They are still addicted to the mobbing of royally. Royal Highnesses in this country, one would almost think, were made to be stared at. A flower- show was held at the Metropo litan Botanic Gardens on Wednesday, at which the Prince of Teck and the Princess Mary attended. The vis:tors were most fashionable, and yet tVeir chief amusement was to crowd around the royal couple, to follow them wherever they went, to pass com ments within the bearing of the Prince en his dress, beating, eyebrows, to gum about his temper as (I.;s -played in his features, an d to mal , .e the visit to the Gardens as uncomfortabl e as poss ibl e , so f ar as the chief visitors were concerned. STEALING. P:CT MIES. Frith is the artist of a very fine piece of figure painting—" The Derby Day." The painting may he seen in the picture gallery of the South .Kensington Museum. But a . correspondent, who dates his letters from Vienna, states that the painting Frith created a furore in that ith expresses his surprise. never left South Kensington, no T h c i a ht s ye b p e iAc e n ttu r te e h x is a i b s t r e r c . l copy of it has been authorised, and if any has been made it his been without his leave. From the investigations which have been made it appears that some speculators, with more sharpness than honesty, are shelving as originals certain British paintings which have either been directly copied or imitated. •In this case, it would seem the imitation was successful, and so was the speculation. But neither of these facts is much calculated to reassure pirated. lEnt worth to be artists who have ofpaintings sucie TELE CRISIS. tome of the Ministerial journals are full of confi dence as to the result of the division. The Telegraph says that the result will be " favourable to Mr. Gladstone's measure of justice and mercy to Ireland, and will assuredly strengthen the belief that the moderation and discretion of the Peers y, in, t a in s ne a d b co o n d in tricate question,. will vindicate their title to the con doefatlhileg with a vexed and nation." The Star says that " The convictions produced by suc h argumen t s as Bishop Thirlwall's may possibly affect even the divi sion list, and will certainly establish in the judgment of posterity the intrinsic Justice and prudence of the Liberal policy now being carried, in spite of enormous difficulties, to a successful issue." The Times is less confident 'than a few days ago, but believes that "after years will approve the wisdom and the justice of this (the Lords') reply, and of the conse quent acceptance of the Irish Church Bill." The Daily News believes that Lord Cairns's object in drawing attention to Mr. Bright's letter is to destroy the effect of Lord Granville's able speech. The Morning Post is the most emphatic, and says :—" Of the result of the coming division there is not now the slightest doubt, and the country will obtain from the Lords by a sufficient, although not a large, majority an assent to the bill which the Commons have passed and sent up as representing generally the national convictions. On the other hand, the Dublin Mail, organ of the Orange party, declares that Lord Derby and Lord Cairns are riding not to win, and that Mr. Disraeli purposely moved amend ments in the Lower House which could not possibly. be carried. The Conservative organs ascribe the confidence of the Liberals to the belief (a mistaken one as the first affirm) that the Bishops will, as a rule, abstain from voting. "tlch Dien" is • given large type by the Times to explain his idea of 'the function of the House of Lords, and the nature of a second reading. As to the first point "Ich Dien" thinks that the House of Lords represents the people in a different form, but to the same extent, as the House of Commons. The House of Commons represents the pressing exigencies of the nation. The function of the House of Lords is to 'consider those pressing exigencies as they bear on the nation permanently, and apply the result of long experience and almost scholastic reflection to adapt contemporaneous wishes to the interests of posterity. As to the nature of a second reading, "Ich Men ' thinks a misapprehension pre vails amongst the peers. According to him, the second reading of the bill is a stage necessary for the progress, not of the measure, but of a measure relating to the Irish Church. The passing, of the second reading, therefore, by the Lords in no respect pledges their concurrence to the principle of the bill. It merely affirms that the Lords admit that the country requires some mea sure, and. they pass it through this stage, without which they cannot discuss or alter the details. Of course, if this idea b e the correct one, s 30111 g that every body admits that something must be done, to reject the bill would be a most ill-advised proceeding. PRICE OF GOLD. the quota ion of gold at Paris is about at par, and t e short exchange on London is 2.M. 25e. per £1 sterling On comparing these rates with the English tllut price of luid. per ounce for standar , ' t rold, it appe<.'•s that gold at the above price is of hi,ghtr value in London than is Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London to? bills at 60 da3 a' sight was on the 11th In: r. abont 091 per cent. At this rate them U 0 pot 0; t;0 izpoltat4Qg Cf $Ol4 1194 Um Visited Witte!!! MR. BRIGHT'S LETTER. Colonel NORTH asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether the letter read at a public meeting at Binning ham, on Monday, the 14th, signed "John Bright." and which has appeared in the public journals, was written by the President of the Board of Trade, and, if so, whether the Government concur in the opinions expressed therein ? Mr. GLADSTONE said he had to state that the letter alluded to was the production of his right honourable friend—(hear, hear, and laughter)— and he might further state that it was written without consultation with his colleagues. The letter to which allusion had been made was published in the same news paper as a letter he (Mr. Gladstone) had written to a gen tleman at Bradford, but his communication had not been dignified with the same large type as that of his right hon. friend—(hear, hear, and laughter)—and therefore it had not succeeded in getting the same amount of conside ration—(hear, hear) —a circumstance which, he might say, afforded him some mortification. (Laughter.) With respect to the letter of his right hon. friend, the Government had not and did not intend to consider whether they ought to approve of it or not, because there were motives which, although they might approve of individually, as a Go vernment they could not deal with. There were matters upon which both houses were extremely jealous, but he might say that nothing with respect to the control of the free action of the other house of the Legislature could be further from the desire of his right bon. frier d than to in terfere in any way with the exercise of that free action which they undoubtedly possessed. Tho holso then procoode4 to resume the adjourned debate, on the subject of issuing a new writ for Dublin, and leave was given to bring in the bill, which was read a first time. On the motion for going into committee of supply on the army estimates, Mr. M. CIIAMBERS called attention to the anomalous position of the clerks of the works and clerks of the Royal Engineer Department, and the denial of pensions to their widows, and moved that, in the opinion of the house, they were entitled to, or should be granted, the same rights and privileges, according to their relative rank, as were ex tended to other non-combatants in the military service. Ctiptain VIVIAN, iu reply, said that the subject had been under the consideration of four successive Secretaries of State, and it was the general opinion that the ease on behalf of the clerks had not been made out. After a brief discussion the motion was withdrawn. Several bills were formally advauced a stage, and the 4011ge. adjourned. THE AMERICAN PRESS. The correspondent of the Boston Post writes : " For some time past a great political pressure has been brought to bear upon the head of one of the Treasury Bureaus to procure the removal of a clerk who has been over twenty years in the office, and who has become very valuable to the Government by reason of his long experience. The officer was very reluctant to part with the clerk, and in his dilemma be called on the President and laid the matter before him. The President replied that when a clerk bad served the Government faithfully for many years, and was still competent and necessary to the service, he should be regarded as having lost all political identity. Such men had spent the best years of their lives in the Government service, and should be entitled to as much consideration as an old and faithful army or navy officer. The Presi-. dent added that he hoped all the heads of Depart ments and Bureaus, in making up their lists for removal, would omit searching the records of past years for the political antecedents of old and valu able clerks." The Canada Scotsman writes of annexation and independence in a strain far from complimentary to the United States, where it asserts the people have gone back to the Middle Ages and China for their commercial policy, and to King Saul and Augustus for their system of government. The Imperialist movement it considers a sign of wide-spread dis content and apprehension, and it would not sur prise our Montreal contemporary to see Royalty eventually established with its neighbours, but only after a few more revolutions and rebellions, of which the last secession attempt was, it fears, only the forerunner. The Scotsman compares the an nexationists of the Dominion with the Imperial sect in the United States : " We consider the annexation cry in Nova Scotia to be a mere ebullition of anger, really directed against Confede don, and which finds a vent in that direction, as a matter of course; but the feeling can have no strong roots in the hearts of a people so long and devotedly attached to the British Empire as the Nova Scotians have been. In this more western portion of the Dominion the annexation sen timent is chiefly confined to a small band of traders, who are few in number, and almost wholly without political influence or power, as proved in 1849, when the move ment assumed a far more threatening aspect, though less in reality than appearance. Take the city of Montreal as an instance of the actual state of the case, Montreal being regarded as the annexation head-quarters. Why, of the there wards the merchants can control only ono, the centre ward, and oven there the annexationists are a small minority, while throughout the country the city traders generally are viewed with jealousy and dislike, as a class who are always ready to prefer their own interests to those of the community. We do not say that they de serve to be so considered, but it is true nevertheless that they are. Politically they have no hold on public confi dence or sympathy, and are practically of little more weight than the Caughnawaga ludiaus." It disputes tho benefit to be derived; as the United States produce all that Canada can produce, as good, and in greater profusion, except perhaps lumber and fish ; therefore what is offered is a sending of coals to Newcastle. " A war with the United States would be a truly serious matter to the North American Provinces ; but, notwithstand ing present appearances, and the blatant outpour ings of Mr. Senator Sumner, our faith is strong that there is less danger of hostilities between Eng land and the United States than between any two countries in the world." After discussing the re sults of a war between two such countries, it adds— " Another consideration bearing on this point is that the Americans will never be guilty of the egre gious folly of forcing British North into the Union by violence, and against- the evident wishes of its inhabitants, a point upon which there can be no doubt as respects an overwhelming majority of all the provinces." Having thus shown that there is nothing to gain and nothing to fear, it proceed 3 to indicate what there is to lose " And now let us see what price we would have to pay for annexation. We only give some of the items in the account. In the first place, evs-ry farm and building in the country would be mortgaged for the payment of 2,500 millions of dollars and interest, constituting the national debt of the United States. Secondly, we world have to pay double or treble the present prices in the Dominion fur every article of English and foreign manufacture or growth required to clothe or, feed us, or for any other pur pose. . Thirdly, we would have to submit to direct taxa tion, the extent of which we may guess, from the fact that the taxation of the State of New York. amounts to $l9 head, including men, women, and children. One-tiftlt the amount, or ten dollars per lead, 'would, in a very shoat irtio; ruin the mass of our rural. population, in the Pro vince of Quebec. especially ; and change-the exodus, so much spoken of, into a hegira or general flight. Fourthly we should be forced to sacrifice free trade, and adopt the most stringent tystetn of protection, or rather monopoly, known to any age, thereby restricting our comm-rcial in tercourso with all 'other countries, England inAuded. Fifthly, it would stop emigration from the. British Isles and.Euro,oe, as the class of emigrants who settle here would bi pauperized at the very outset by the heaVy tixa tion and cost. of living. Sixthly, in the evert of a war betwer.n the United States and - England, We would have to tight, kill, and plunder our English, Irish, and Scotch brethren. We could add largely.to this list of annexation blessings, did time and space permit." Finally, it considers independence unnecessary, a mere subterfuge, simply annexation. in - disguise. We would like the Canada Scotsman to answer these simple questions ; facts worth reams of argu ment—How is it that emigrants, with both cow-- tries open, avoid the blessings conferred by Canada and select the evils of the United States ?—ls it out of pure " cussedness" that 80 per cent. of those who do taste of the Canadian blessing; cross the frontier into the Republic? and will our contemporary ex plain why, if these people find it for their interest to saddle themselves with the huge National Debt, that the case should be reversed with the Canadians themselves ? The only way by which the obvious contradiction can be reconciled is on the supposition that Canada has inferior natural advantages ; but we know this is not the case, as many parts of Canada are equal to any in the States. WHAT NEXT ?—Monsieur Chevalier, whose feats at Paris in 1864, in his balloon Le Geant, will be remem - bared, proposes, about the middle of next month, to cross the Atlantic from New York to Paris. The balloon for this undertaking, called L'Esperance, is nearly completed, and U. Chevalier is confident that it will be able to carry him for a month, should circumstances require it. Tw . ; difficulties for so long a voyage hid to be overcome—first, to maintain the buoyancy of the balloon ; next, to keep a direct course. The first M. Chevalier hopes to meet by a contrivance of his own. In an ordinary balloon every rise beyond the usual altitude causes a loss of gas and ballast, If every_ time L'Esperance rose 3,000 feet it were to lose one-tenth of its contents, equal to 961bs. sustaining power, the balloon would sink into the sea in two days. To obviate this danger the Professor has in troduced his own invention, the " compensator" balloon, which is attached to the lower part of the great balloon. but is not inflated ou the earth, and is therefore ready to .receive the gas resulting from expansion at a high eleva tion. Across the hoop to which is fastened the netting that covers the balloon he has extended a windlass, made of a hollow cylinder; a rope of great strength and length is attached to and wound upon the windlass. At the end of this rope are fastened a number of waterproof bags, whose mouths are kept open by small rings. Between these bags are several conical floats, intended to support the rope when it reaches the, sea by the depression of the balloon. As the balloon descends the lower portion of the rope will be gradually deposited on the surface of the sea, relieving the balloon of its weight until a sufficient quantity has been thus disposed of to stop its further fall. in heavy showers not less than from 200 to 3001bs would be added to the weight by the saturation of the ropes, &e., and if no sun dried up the moisture the balloon must descend to the sea. As sod]; however, as therrope begins to trail on the water the balloon ceases to fall, and continues an un varying altitude, till when the moisture is dried up it again ascends. The rope also checks a too groat and rapid ascent and consequent loss of gas. The water bags on the rope have filled as they trailed along, and the in creased weight keeps the balloon from too groat a flight. Thus, by the arrangement of the rope, the ballast is dimi nished and increased at will ; in fact, adjusts the differ ences without reference to the aeronaut. The next es sential point was to keep a direct course. It appears that during M. Chevalier's repeated ascents he has observed that at an altitude between 3,000 and 10,000 feet the wind is invariably from west, or rather from north-west, no matter from what quarter it may be nearer the earth. This circumstance he claims as a discovery of his own, and it is principally to establish its truth t hat he .. Laud under takes this voyage. The start will take p lace from . mann's Park, Now York, and already hundreds of appitca tions have been made to accompany him. A lei from the car of the balloon to be ready if required. n . e b s e n sd raftpe been presented to L'Esperance, w hich will balloon is 95 feet high, 65 in diameter, with a a buoyancy . sufficient to sustain eight tons —Anglo-Anz e • es. L UXUR IANT AND BEAUTIFUL H i‘ inz AIR. Ins. S. A. to tR: youthful f u never colo f t a ir ils an to d gilivrseFßtnagadtSpoeTpc°l;il icsa l or : It stops the Hair from beautiful 3 gloss and do q A ul iz e tri ly 's r W esto on , L e n G 'S r ll ey m o i r t lig trea b u ti t ai y, a fra nd gran with ee th is e o ro te n a g l : ux rt removes growthovo all t it alling es afr. th i e t ti pr ai ev r en to ts gr ba o l vr dne thi s C k . itanprdomst dandruff. It contains Sold tg her m oll os no t r cuai clye. ,2t lf ul la a rg r e e ß r o lura ttle e s rs - Price Six Shillings . D e pt 260, iligh,_llolhonk ..i. -. L.C,..,.' CORNELL UNIVERSITY. Among the names of the trustees and faculty 01 this institution are the Hon. Ezra Cornell, Governe r Hoffman, Senator Morgan, Horace Greeley, the Hon. Erasmus Brooks, the Hon. William Kelly, th e Hon. John M. Parker, and others. The faculty contains the names of President Andrew D. white, Professors Wilson, Goldwin Smith, E. W. Eva u , sl W. C. Russell, E. W. Blake, G. C. Caldwell, 13. ' Wilder, J. 11. Whittlesey, L. 11. Mitchell, W. Fis ke ' W. C. Cleaveland, C. P. Hart, A. S. Wheeler, A' N. Prentiss, 11. B. Sprague, and J. L. Morris, h e. side a number of assistant professors. These incl ude , all the rtsideut faculty, while amon g non-resid e, ' professors and lecturers are Louis Agassiz, the ll° John S. Gould, Professor James Hall,:efames Ntl s " sell Lowell, George W. C ur ti s , an d Theodore li' Dwight. There ere eight professorships still an filled, including the chairs of Political Econer* American II story, Physical Geography, Architre ture, and the Science of Langua g e. There are. 3 8° students in the University, divided as follows:7'. In the Division of Science, Letters, and Arts 10 , Geeeral, 251; in the Division of Special Arts a° Sciences, Depar:ment of Apiculture, ace , 5 3f; Department of Mtchenic Arts, 30 ; Departme nt e Civil Engineering, 50 ; Department of Cheinis' r Y , &a., 24; Dep irttnent of Natural Hi s tory, 20; D c. partment of Military Science, &c., 2 ; total, 159 , i The first term of 1869-70 will begin Sept. 01 311 last 14 weeks ; the second term will begin Jan nar,p. 6, l 5, and continue 12 weeks ; the third term lasting the same time, and ending June 30, than making in all 38 weeks. The conditions of adulis" sion are that the candidate must be 15 years of age; possessed of good health and moral character, O' able to pass a satisfactory examination in Eto i e grammar, geography, arithmetic, algebra, six boy t of geometry, and the introductory parts of Latin and Greek. An acquaintance with some good e1e 1312 7 tary treatise on physiology is also reconsunee de and will probably be required as a condition of 3 d: mission after the present year. There are O re l general courses of study—the s c i en tifi c , elas3il' and combined, in which mod e r n l anguag es arc e `% ; stituted for Greek—extending through four Y ejr i n ; and two special courses are also allowed--en e voted to agriculture, natural history, chemistry' history, &c., and the other to analytic inen b3n iv - and the mechanic arts, and exte n ding throug h tee years. The degrees of Ba c hel or of Acts, r i te sophy, and Science will be conferred on gra- g3 ee . s in the three general courses, and appropriat eats. grees will be conferred in the special departe ) i f It is optional with students to select a speeiallytYto they so wish, and to devote themselves entir e - ag it. The arrangement of the courses of stu d / b or been made upon the basis of three recitationstbei lectures a day ; but enterprising students, if the find themselves able to do m o re work tha n d to throe exercises announced, will be allc isce , take any number that they can satisfae° tra prosecute, and thus accomplish, by way o f elt t he studies, more than is co n t a i ne d i n a ny one ° „, f d for four year courses, within the four years allff sv- dies the completion of the course . Th e co urse of stab,‘ will give due attention to modern languag es ' tory, political and social science, human soaro physiology, and hygienic, natural and 19tea l i e science, and commer c i a l knowledge. The 1 ; e : -- nr of North-Europe an l anguages also will g`' eoid structionto Voluntary classes in Icelandic a .se , Northern, Swedish, D an i s h, an d .Moes-Gothie, companied by lectures on the history, struct„ties, and relations of the Germanic group of WIWI; an i e The Departments of Agriculture, and the Ale ci tice t Arts are now organized, an d combine the ore .,de with practical instructi on . Military exercise is ;11 ol,ligatory upon all st u d en t s , but instruction d'e, military science is left option a l. It is expreselYciee. sired to have perfect liberty of choice in th e 5 iry tion of studies, and not to estimate too high l y the single course. Mr. Cornell expressed p l ai nly cud University theory when he said, ti I would u eo , an institution where any person can fin d insthroat tion in any study." The library has now 3u 2t.7000 volumes, including the Anthon, 130j0 and Goldwin Smith collections, and the i ent s e licationA of the Royal Coumaidstoners of ra c e in Great Britain. It is expected to ,io the Cornell Public Library with this , w `, 01 .. will make an addition of several thousand % 3, , nines. Several large and w e ll equ ipped la b° , f r h ,, tories are ready, besides a valuable in anaual expenses, including tuition, board, S= 3 " „, iu amount to less than pm). A number of pr ize ' money are offered to aid meritorious stu del : o t t s ; amounting altogether to $1,350. Over 60 s tu boa r have enrolled themselves in the volunta r y la yho carps, but, excepting in the case of those a r t already very skilled labourers, the system hl• ly stit proved successful. It is difficult to carry 03 dt he while undertaking one's own support, a. n at for amount that can be earned is hardly subsistence without the addition of other res be in , S ,me simple remunerative manufacture may d e o—, troduced, which will aid in supporting stu rc , • do n°` but at present the University authorities cutircif commend any young man to come relying ,ere f e et on unskilled manual labour for support. d i have that peculiar combination of mental as a p t entirely sical strength required thus to enti themselves ; the great majority have not. sofficteources, (From the Cornell Era.) "Since the original endowment of our i • tion ns titil , it has received no such munificenttha t giftfaistin which has just been bestowed upon it by guished citizen of Ithaca. John AlGravy, s.'l,: lar gelY l l )er to whom the University was already debted for many valuable services, and to a re e , n3 . o ,o' of whose family we owe ele melodious C ul e ;', which play so prominent a p trt in our &Of ° jot' cises, has given the sum of $50,000 for the ere ct , id hav e of a library building. No benefaction coo, uts, been more welcome either to professors ors here and the friends of higher education every" will rejoice with us that our valuable and r ` ll3l ol increasing collection of books is to be so 800 , 1 1 1 that so appropriately housed. It has been decideuiroi, the new structure shall stand between th e tw° I l an v b ersity buildings, and that one of its features 5 06 s,i e , a t lofty and massive tower to contaitl _. it forthwith. Graw Chimes. Work will be commenced ulltub; Board of Trustees. His invaluable gift Place! to name next to that of the Founder on the list Gloms Mr• il'Graw is a memb er °f b i 3 University's early and generouspromoters." Ge girl . Curtis and James Russell Lo well are to be W c c b t a course of lectures in a few weeks , and it is th e ,%,, that the announcement will draw visitors to Itu l 0 that they may share with the stud ents the plessa' of hearing them. --............. f oreign eacaet MAILS DUE. June .9 astral's. and Now Zealand, via BOuthamptoa..... ,A , +., . Ditto, via elrseilles ... ......... Jill' .July 4 •razil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte V i d eo ......... 97 Ditto, by /crew% packet , ;ape Yards. by Brazil packet . ........ ... ..... Jab' 0. ..:aapnel of Good LL,pe. Ascension. and St. Helena— • J un : v. and Singapore, via Bourhatuptoo—,Jwa„o i 9 ibri ft :lta enaug. r, via Southampton ........ • 4u " e 9 I adia. via Southampton .......... .. .. • • Jup- ...... ••• • —.4.... .... • • June 21 unto, via Marseil es s.l.2.ita, 4f. yp t , &a . .. ...... • ... •••• • • . • :-..... JOS 14 Ditto. Marseilles .. • .. .. .. • ........... ja 0 19 ..... :_:... ........:: ......„..-- BIRTHS. „„ vhaln+ G u r S SELL—On the 16 th lust , at The Priory', juj e.e of a Surrey, the wife of Henry P. Grissell, X•Eql daughter. the So daughter. Lunnocx . —On the 17th inst , at Goriugos, ICent, of Henry J. Lubbock, Esq., of a daughter. _ o rßn oot.}ll LaTrodN yl I 1 MARRIAGES. v i ral' o l GRAHAM —HARDY—On the 15th inst•, at St• s on ci the late 'Arm. Graham, Esq., of Tatnrawer, Stirliegsuop. henry John Lowndes, younges '-i;ire, G r i i Knightsbridge,s EaEtNh to Ruth Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the mgv Ronan Greene, R —sq., C.E., Park,. Middlesex, tobucPl youngest daughtt!r of the late Richard Boulton, Esq , 0 Bradley Green, Worcestershire. I C i f the 16th inst , at Stourbridge, ,11: DEATLIS. CATHERWOOD —On the 16th inst., rat 34, Arundel-F(lll're' Barnsbury, Edmund Catherwood, Esq, aged 67. of th e HOPE—On the 16th inst., Robert Hope, Esq., late firm of Swan and Edgar, aged 73. HOOPER - On the 1 5 th inst., at Sydenhara, John tro o p er, Esq., aged 61. -""" London; Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRE‘II' of No. 112, strand, Printer, at Tan Sus Office, N 0.112, Strasl4, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill 010 Vounly of Atiddle g4l--. _Friday, Juno 18, 1569.