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PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. TIM It:VEXING, at 7, THE ITOU-E oN THE BRIDGE: Madame Celeste. Concludino• with PRESIIIII•TIVK EVI DE •CE t Madame Celeste, Louisa Moore, cto.; Messrs. Rignola Shore, Dominick Mousy, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. • liB EN - EMEG, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY : Mr Geo. Bel mo-e and Mrs Leigh Murray. A t 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr Benjamin Webster. Mr A. Stirling, Mt Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mr G. Bolmore, Mrs Alfred Mellon, &o. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swa.nborough. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. JOAN OF Alit': Messrs. Thorne esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitl an d , B utton. To ' cjoanmeelusdFe e w u t t t o h n : HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEA TRE -ROTAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, 1 AVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At R. 30, the new burlesque T H fq• CORSICAN HOT ERS. And BREAC II OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Iturlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne THEATP.E-T:OYAL, HOLBORN. Tnis EVE , ING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After whTeh MONEY: Pr. Burt y Sullivan, Mrs. Het mural Vezin, Mr. U. Honey, .Y rs. C. liersinan, &e. 1101 - Almr. TiIEATI:E. ['nibs :be Mvnagement of Miss m Oliver. rim F.Nixa it %.' 0 .I• FOR A LID •Y. Followed by A ROVING C'o7ll 13!10N. And THE TAYLOR. To eorebble with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day. Mr. Dewar, Mr. Eativerr,. Mies M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PnINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. under Ow 'Nfalywurctsnt of Miss Marie Wilton TEN EVENING, SC ITOOL : Messrs. Hare, IL J. Montane, A Glover. /Ind Bancroft: MrP.lluckingham White. Miss C. Additain, and Miss Jlarie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EvEsrsc. at S. THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S Ethlop!en Entertainment. ImmenSe Success of BARBE CLUE. The Only locz.! lITSTY T NST TIELS. St. James's Every Night, at S Wee.nesdays and ..:aturclays, at 3ndS all the year round. ROYAL AL lIAMB it A PALACI4:. THR EE BALLET. 4 P romen ade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at S. le. Box-offlct open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Rght's-Isair, OPEN daily (ex cept Suutlat). Admission, 1.5.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1869. ,;....., 43 ..4 ..,..,...„ 1 „.„4 • . i, or, 1,2 Ilx, to restore the old Otte of things, when our chief sport was sport, ail not death to the few, and very serious work to all ? THE first, and by far tie most important, phase of I the electoral contest in France terminated at six o'clock on Monday evenieg, and, so far as Paris is concerned, the returns an sufficiently complete to de cisively indicate the result. The struggle has been very remarkable. Whilst the aristocracy, the beau monde and the denn . -monle, were hastening away to witness the "French Derby" at Chantilly—for the French are imitating our "national sport," but choose .Sunday for thdr favourite racing-day— the middle and working.classes of the country were hastening to the poll with a zeal never before known under the Empire. The voting has passed off with ir reproachable order, though the number of votes given has been much greater tian on any previous occa sion. In Paris, indeed, the figures shew that almost the entire strength of the constituencies has been polled . In Paris the result has been an almost unanimous and uncompromising protest against the Empire. The number of votes given is greater, the deputies chosen hold more extreme opinions, and the official candidates are more hopelessly in the minority than even in 1863, when not a single supporter of the Government was successful. The test election in .the capital was in the second circumscription, where M. BANCEL, a deputy in the Chamber of 1849, and rn enemy outramce of the EMPEROR, has been opjosed to M. EMILE OLLIVIEB, the advocate of " Liberty under the Empire." The one would accept NAPOLEON'S dynasty if he would grant a free Govern ment ; the other will net cease to strive for the EMPEROR'S overthrow, let him make what concesssions he may. M. BANCEL has defeated M. Om:lx:rpm by a, m a jority of nearly two to one. In other cases where there has been a choice the extreme representatives of the Opposition have been successful against the more moderate opponents of Imperialism. M. GAMBETTA, ft rising lawyer of singular eloquence, and an extreme Republican, has defeated M. CAnNOT, the moderate Liberal who sat for Paris in the last Parliament. M. RASPAIL, another of the Reds, has the advantage over M. GARNIER-PAGES, another Moderate. In . some cases the combat has not had a final issue. It is necessary that the successful candidate should gain at least one more than one-half the whole number of votes polled, and in three or four circumscriptions no com petitor has succeeded in doing this. But the second ballot which will thus be required cannot alter the re sult in favour of the Government. The doubl e voting has . in every instance been rendered necessary by contests between three or four candidates of the same politics. The less-favoured aspirants will now retire, and Paris will then return to the Corps Legislatif nine deputies who for the most part are pledged to no policy less moderate than the complete overthrow of the EMPEROR'S dynasty. This result is of great importance. Paris does indeed command but nine seats out of the 283 in the Chamber, and the incomplete returns from the departments shew that the rural districts, as usual, are choosing very few Liberal deputies. But the numbers in this case by no means represent the relative strength of the two parties. The intellect of France is centred in the capital, much more so than in England or in any other country of Europe. In all great contests in our own country the capital has exercised an influence proportionate to its wealth and population, but its unaided strength has never proved equal to great changes. Neither of the great revolutions of the 'seventeenth century would have been effected without aid from the country. On the other hand, most of the great changes which France has undergone, and especially the terrible revolutions of the last hundred years, have been decided by the voice of Paris alone. London is but a fraction of Britain ; but Paris is, in a certain sense, the whole of France. All experience chews that the French ruler who has not the capita on his side will meet with disaster in the end. In the case of most Governments such a protest as that given in Paris on Sunday and Monday would have been immediately decisive. The Second NAPOLEON is far E.;lronger than any of his immediate predecessors; he will be able to keep revolution down by force of arms, and his country deputies will vote clown constitutional opposition the Chamber. For his lifetime the EMPEROR is probably safe; but the prospect after him—and men of 61 must look to the future—is, to say the least, uncertain. Paris has been offered moderate Liberalism in the shape of an able politician who .has been very successful in obtaining liberal concessions. Tie has been rejected. The EMPEROR might possibly have conciliated the capital in his favour by a relaxation of personal rule. He has not thought it wise to make the attempt, and Paris has accordingly -given a " Red " vote. With the country on his side, and the strongest instruments of force in his hands, the EMPEROR, we repeat, is safe; but the temper of Paris must greatly change before the slightest hope can be entertained of a Napoleonic dynasty. --"' LATEST INTELL MEWL' (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, MaY 26. _ In yesterday's sitting the Constituent Cortes resumed the discussion on the remaining clauses of the Constitution. Senor Castelar threw considerable blame upon the Colonial clause, and said, alluding to Cuba : " If Spain had followed the example given by Eng land in her dealings with Canada, the liberties which the colonies claim for themselves would have successfully prevented the outbreak of an in surrection." Marshal Serrano replied that general Dulce bad granted the liberties required by that party—pas sions bad blinded the inhabitants to the intentions of Government. The insurrection, as regards its physical strength, was &most suppressed, and 600 filibusters had lately been defeated, nevertheless the moral disorder was likely to disappear more . slowly. As soon as the normal state of things should be re-established the Government would, in conjunction with the Cuban deputies, suppress slavery by a well-considered measure, and proceed with inexorable severity against all persons en gaged in the slave trade. It is confidently expected that the discussion on the Constitution will close to-morro w. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 25. According to Mr. Adam .loffatt's report the. re ceipts of cotton at New York for the past four days have been 8,000 bales, against 10,500 last week. Shipments to England 7,000, against 11,000 bales ; to France 7,000 against 3,000 balls; and to the Continent 2,000, against 5,000 bales. Middling Upland, 104 ; market dull. INDIA. AND CHINN MAILS. AiESSINA, May 26. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta, passed through the Straits of Messina en route fir Marseilles at 7.30 tbi3 day. F AT ,mouTll, May 2G. The London, Belgium, Brazil, and River Plate loyal Mail Steam Company':.4 steamer City of BluFsels has arrived here with 83 passengers. Her dates are Buy nos Ayres, April 17th ; Monte Video, 20th ; Rio, 29th ; Bahia, May Oth ; and St. Vin cent, 15th. According to advices received at Rio Count D'Eu had arrived at the Allied camp, and was re ceived with enthusiasm. Lopez was avoiditig the troops. TILE BEQUESI I TO RESIIO2 GOSS. The widow of Mr. Moreton, the solicitor of Liverpool who gave all his money to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, has tried to get all her late husband's property, and seems likely to get little or none. Dr. Goss, it is said, male up his mind to offer the widow what would appear to be an ample provision ; but his resolution came too late. The Crown has now come upon the scene, and Dr. Goss and Mrs. Moreton are not unlikely to see the property for which theyare contending handed over to her Majesty's represen tatives. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster now contests the will, and claims the entire freehold estate for her Majesty in default of an heir-at-law. The case therefore stands thus : should the will be set aside, as it seems not at all improbable that it will be, the Crown will be entitled to take the whole of the free hold and one-half of the personal estate, and to have the other half of the personal estate applied, as far as it will go, to the payment of the mortgages on the freehold, which amount to double the personalty. LONDOW, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1569. The Opposition to Personal Government manifested in the large towns of France proves already, as the Elections go on, to be, in one word, nothing less than —portentous. The departments are, as a matter of course, returning in large numbers the official candi- But the tlectors of Paris and of the principal cities of the Empire are manifesting, with astounding unanimity, their sympathy with the advocates of a more popular form of Government. "Liberty and the 14.:31PEtrott" are still the double watchword on their lips 1 hey aspire after no dynastic change whatever. They avow their antagonism to anything like a revolutionary movement. What they look for is the substitution of Responsible for simply Per sonal, or, in other words, Autocratic Government. Ministers responsible to the Legislature they would see installed in office, under allegiance to the EM PEROR. What they aim at, in point of fact, is what M. ROITIIER has long opposed, what M. OLLIVIER has so often advocated. And with their aspirations, Paris and the great cities of France most heartily sympathise. The peasantry, it is hardly surprising to observe, in no way realise the force of all these politico-philosophic considerations weighing so profoundly with the electors, say, of . the metro polis. The rural population, in fact, have literally no cognisance of it. As yet it is " undreamt of in" their " philosophy." M. HENRI ROCHEFORT, going about hero and there like another DIOGENES with his Lanterne, has been able to throw no glim mering of light into those remote quarters peopled by the more unsophisticated cultivators of the soil. And so it is coming to pass, now, very much as it has come to pass heretofore, that numerically the suppor ters of the Government returned to the Imperial Legislature are out of all proportion to the aggregate number of the members of the Opposition. The in tellectual strength of the Opposition, however, is still, for all that, as conspicuously as ever, perhaps more conspicuously than ever, apparent. Besides which the Opposition has at its back the sup port of the most intelligent and, powerful of the constituencies. Paris and her sister cities, north, south, east and west—the wealthiest, the most energetic, the most highly civilized communities within the boundaries of France—are earnestly, devotedly, enthusiastically the upholders of the can didates of the Opposition. Meanwhile, NAPOLEON lll.—even his enemies adinit it—is, at preciably by all Europe during these last twenty y ears, one of the most sagacious men, individually, anywhere to be found in the length and breadth of all France. Ile more vividly perhaps than any one else appreciates the force and the significance of the continually reiterated fact, a fact upon each occasion reiterated with a greater and greater e:nphasis, that Pais, that all the great cities of France, without exception, are resolutely opposed to the continuance of the system of Personal Govern ment. Upon the complete crowning of the political edifies mainly depends the lightening of the prospect, widening outward, extending onward, into the future for the Napoleonic dynasty. As the years of his life and of his reign are numbering up, the EM PEROR is assuredly acquiring a keener and a yet keener sense of all this. Ile is not the man to content himself with the epigram of Apres moi le deluge. The possibility of a Regency under the Empress EUGENIE,he has long ago contemplated. And whether the PRINCE IMPERIAL is to succeed to his title as NAPOLEON IV. during his minority, or somelittle time afterwards, the restorer of the dynasty to power, the author of the Second Empire, the heir o . the fortunes of NAPJLEON LE GRAND, the Sove reign now reigeieg over 40,000,000 Frenchmen, is not precisely the man to contemplate with in difference the imminent risk there would be at this moment of his son's inheriting, together with his crown, a chaotic jumble of .political difficulties. Problems still urgently requiring solution, NAPO LEON 111. more effectively than his successor could possibly have the chance of doing, remain yet to be solved—must eventually be solved—might any day that he lists, be solved at once by hint. The very relations in wlaicla the EMPEROR has long been known to stand in regard to such a man as M. EMILE OLLIVIER lends encour agement to the hope of those who still cling to the notion that NAPOLEON 111. regards the political edifice as yet to a considerable extent uncrowned. How ever or whenever crowned, in accordance with the aspirations of the more intellectual constituencies of France, the Empire has still this broad and solid foundation beneath it, that it is based upon Demo cracy. dates. TO-DAY Englishmen proclaim their Saxon descent by performing their great annual act of horse worship. The race on the Epsom Downs is to the 19th century what the white effigy on the downs of Wiltshire and Berkshirewasto the sth. Then - HENGIST and HonsA fought for the white horse which they bore on their standards ; to-day their descendants bet upon the favourite. It was serious work in that old time when the two Saxon chiefs came to the aid of VORTIGERN against the Picts; it is a serious play in our time when men win or lose a fortune upon the event of a few seconds. There were vanquishers and vanquished then ; there are vanquishers and vanquished now. The owners of great names bit the dust in that great conflict of races ; the owners of great names sometimes bite the dust now, in a metaphorical manner. But then we have improved upon the former times. Then men used to lose life, now they lose merely honour. There was gallant fighting in the fifth century; there is underhand plotting in the nineteenth. Our ancestors used to charge at each other openly ; their descen dants get at each other's horses secretly. Civilisation substitutes cunning for brute force. It is not the strongest who wins, but the wisest. The race is not to the swift, but to the most knowing. In all gravity, it is a serious reflection that our great national holiday is every year becoming less and less of one, is becoming the most toilsome and harrassing day in the whole year. It was pleasant enough in the good old days, somewhat later than HENGIST and HORSA, to travel down by road and enjoy the fun on the way, and to watch the race with scarcely a perceptible quickening of the pulse, and to see the winning number announced and refreshment slnn en t without th e s li g ht es t s h a d ow of anxiety. It was a pretty sight, and provided the weather was fine t e l i compan y ari g d e recreation.n ia l , the holiday But the was numberareal o d ay of f persons who can enjoy it is becoming fewer every year. Every year the attendance of spectators is larger ; every year the number of holiday-takers is smaller. The Derby is now a serious business ; it has given work for :G4 days, and this, the 36th, is the most laborious day of all. Its result will make all the difference between luxury and poverty for the coming twelvemonths. , The annual income depends upon an event that is wholly beyond the earner's influence. Ile thinks that by rising up early and by late taking rest, by studying the prophets and reading the stable notes, he will be able to secure himself against loss. But he soon leanis that he is dealing with Knaves. kt the last moment his favourite horse is scratched; or, if it runs, it runs not to win. He can do nothing to counteract or provide against this. No diligence, no cleverness will pre vent him from becoming embarrassed for life. In ,1 any other trade integrity and industry have their reward; but not in this. Would it not be wise THE TICHBOR2'E BARONETCY CASE, Another feature in this remarkable case carne before Lord Penzance in the Probate Court on Tuesday. Dr. Deane, Q.C., on behalf of a creditor, moved to appoint an administrator pendente lite. The learned counsel said that Lady Tichborne died on the 20th March, 1868, and the question which bad arisen in another cause was whether the son should administer the estate. The Court of Chancery had appointed a receiver, but he was not authorised to disburse sums of money, and on account of this creditors could not obtain their money. He, therefore, asked that Mr. Humphreys, who had been appointed receiver by Chancery, should be appointed administrator by this court. The learned counsel sub mitted that this course being adopted, the estate would not be prejudiced, as the debts would have to be paid some time. Dr. Swabey, counsel for the plaintiff in the other cause referred to, said he did not object to an administrator being appointed ; but it was usual to refer such matters to the registrar, who appointed a third person not objected . appointed at the instance of the defendant ; so, of course. he (Dr. Swabey) objected to him. The Solicitor-General, Q.C., opposed the motion. The receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery had specific instructions how he was to act. Another point was that the Court of Chancery bad ordered payment of the funeral expenses of Lady Tichborne out of the estate. That could not be termed a personal debt, so that a fortiori they would be able to order the payment of really personal liabilities. The learned gentleman also referred to the actions which were pending, and pointed out that the costs in Chancery took precedence of the costs in a cause in the Probate Court. The Judge Ordinary said that the material question was whether this court should arm a man with double powers. He fully saw the difficulty of appointing two receivers, one from this court and one from Chancery, as people would not know who to pay the money to. Dr. Deane thought that funeral expenses were different to ordinary debts. Lord Penzance said that on the face of it it seemed unjust that a creditor, say of £lOO, should be unable to obtain his money when there was a large estate ; but the great question in his mind was whether the court had ever granted administration at the instance of anyone not a party directly interested in the will. He was of opinion that the power sought far should be obtained from the Court of Chancery, who had given authority for the estate to be collected. Under these circumstances, at present he should refuse the appointment of Dr. Deane, but if the Court of Chancery said they desired that he should appoint an administrator, he should be most happy to do so. The Western Daily Press says :—" The name of an illustrious personage will be mentioned in association with the co-respondents in the divorce case of Sir Charles Mordaunt, but there is good reason to believe that the lady's self-accusings wore the result of mental excitement, and have no other foundation." Another strike, this time of non-union men, has occurred at the Denaby Main colliery. The non-unionists, who bad been'engaged by the proprietors, have ceased to Work in consequence of an attempt to make a change in the system of payment, which the men regarded as equivalent to a reduction of wages. The men on strike are endeavouring to obtain admission to the Union, and to obtain help from the association while they are unemployed. THE KNIFE IN BELFAST. —On Saturday even ing two boys disputed on the lawn of the Botanic Gazdens, when one of them stabbed the other in the arm with a knife. The police were called upon, and they took the wounded boy to the General Hospital. The boy who used the knife has not yet been arrested. The affray caused considerable commotion, and it was tmno,,, , d that the boy was killed. The wound is not dangerous. This is the only casualty mentioned in connection with the great Protestant demonstration ; whether this was a party quarrel is not yet ascertained. THE REPRES ENTA TION OF NEWCASTLE. —The Shields Daily News gives the following :—" The hon. mem ber for Newcastle, Mr. Joseph Cowen, M.P., is likely to retire soon in favour of his son, Mr. John Anthony Cowan, or Mr. Hugh Taylor, of Chipchase. Mr. Cowen is getting old, and, although enjoyipg pretty fair health, is anxious to lead a more quiet life. His son, Mr. Joseph CoWen, jun., is now laid up, and enjoys bad health, so that his becond son or Mr. Taylor are likely to come forward. Mr. Hammond will again come forward, although the Conser vative party will have a man ready of their own choice." ANOTHER FENIAN ARRESTED.—A young man named Patrick Joyce, a national school teacher, aged about 24 years, and residing at a place called Cushalagart, within about three miles of Westport, has been arrested in that town under the following circumstances was the fair day of that town, and it appears the prisoner was considerably under the influence of drink in the even ing, and was standing with his back up to a confec tioner's window. His unsteady attitude in this rather delicate situation attracted the attention of the police, when one of them desired him to " move on," which he several times refused to do, when Constable Macgetigan, of the Westport Quay, considered it his duty to arrest him, and had him brought to the Westport Barracks, where he was searched, when some suspicious documents were found in his possession, purporting to be the Fenian oath (in writing). Joyce was brought before a magistrate for examination, and was lodged in Castlebar Gaol. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN ENGLISH'CAPTAIN. —On April 21 the French ship Bretagne from Buenos Ayres to Bordeaux was run into off the coast of Brazil by the English iron ship Explorer, bound for Melbourne, and as the English vessel was going at a speed of nine knots an hour, and the French at six, the shock was terrible, and the latter foundered in a few minutes. Meantime, the captain, who had his wife on board, launched the long boat, which was found incapable of containing the number of persons who crowded in it, and was almost immediately capsized. The crew, therefore, were left to struggle in the open sea with nothing but a few beams and planks to grasp, and after an agony of nearly an hour the captain, who had exhausted himself in suipnneoorteisigngehinisg her wife to in the the carewa o ter f , resigned som eof himself n to w h h i o s fate were seen clinging to the keel of the capsized boat. All this time the English ship had continued her course with out paying any attention to the cries for assistance, but having also received s ome damage, was obliged to lie-to to repair. The shipwrecked mariners perceiving this deten. tion managed to reach the vessel, and were reccivedby the captain, but with a bad grace. He then sailed for Bahia, but on arriving in sight of that. port, fearing that corn. plaints of his conduct would be made and that he might be detained, made the persons whom he had picked up g e t into a boat and abandoned them, proceeding on his voyage. They reached the land at six o'clock, having left the Ex. plorer at two, and immediately waited upon the French consul and made their report. MAY MEETING'S. —After an interval, the May meetings seem suddenly to have arisen again. Th ree were held on Tuesday. The tenth anniversary of the London City Missions was held. It appeared from the report that the number of missionaries labouring within the City boundaries during the past year has been fourteen, and towards the support of that reduced number of the society's agents the auxiliary mis sionary. has The National Temp erance L eague r eceived £845 175., being a little over 60 abe ld a convolazione. About 1,000 attended. Large lections of works of art were exhibited, and somephoetool-. graphs of the East were lent by Dean Stanley.—Th e annual m h l ae e lsl t t. i i n t e g at, o oh f ec hl the lrtgi s re u e l e a v e ma r supporters e w r shaoslo,cfi holden crowded. lo f . dn u e g td e h. s e forsoa same the et Y h e .deh—epoylml 'ahieten.. including the f lle oi s m etaenr t d here was a choir of 600 children, sailor boys in their uniforms from the training ship Chichester. The report stated that since the commence. meat of the work in 1843 th ere h ad been nothing but ec ro progress and success. Th e R e f uge work was 4family o boys oy nows a u tt p d under 112nn de thergirls. the care largest of its kind in Lo n d on , upwards ofsoonow the committee i e tt a e ov e f be t f h y g o e r e and girls ep o bt. consists t e h om eir mi s t t t lp s i i n e g T ts h ofdependenteo weekly number in th e R e f uge d ur i ng 1868 was 147. Of the 369 admitted in 1868, 216 had been sent to the training ship Chichester, which con ti nue d to b e an inviluableotsp; let for a large number of the boys sent to the Refuge , 22 boys emigrated duri ng th e y ear, o f whom 18 were sent. to Canada. The accounts received by the committee as to the conduct of former emigrants were very encourassing,: I PIZ.OT.ESTA NT MEETINGS. AIIMAC IT. True to their promises, the Orangemen of Ireland and the Conservatives of England are holding monster gather ings to protest against the Irish Church Bill. The Belfast meeting was an undoubted success. The meeting of Pres byterians favourable to the principle of Protestant endow ment, which was held at Armagh, was a comparatively small affair, following in the wake of the Orange demon stration. It is calculated that about 1,200 persons were present, and they are represented to have exhibited great enthusiasm. Mr. T. Cumming, M.D., occupied the chair. He declared himself, as a Presbyterian, strenuously and consistently opposed to the " unjust and revolu tionary" bill. The Rev. John Bell moved the first resolution, which was to the effect that the country ad hered to the principle hitherto maintained by the Presby terian Church—namely, that it was the duty of the State to support the Gospel. Ile regarded the Presbyterian Church of Ireland as the model of an endowed Church, and that their rulers, instead of being disposed to get rid of the endowment, ought to look to it as a pattern of na tional policy which should be sustained and increased. He predicted very melancholy results if the " Revolu tionary Spoliation Bill" passed. He observed that if they had sent cartloads of petitions into the House of Commons they would not have the weight of a feather, but with the Lords they must have due weight and respect. Mr. William Boyd, who seconded the resolu tion, contradicted the statement that the Presbyterians were in favour of the bill. The Rev. James Fleck defended the principle of endowments by reference to the terms of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and maintained that the Church had done no evil to deserve the treatment intended for it, but had fulfilled its mission. Mr. M. Bell proposed a resolution condemning the bill, and entered into calculations to shew that it would be prejudicial to the Presbyterian Church. He stated that in the Presbytery of Armagh, which included 22 con gregations, £1,042 7s. ld. had been subscribed towards the maintenance of the clergy, and £7B 6s. 6d. towards the sustentation fund. That was about £5O for each member. According to the new policy they were to have £2OO a year, which was small enough ; but in order to give them the Presbyterians would have to quadruple their subscriptions, and raise £3,000 more eV el y Tear. There were 600 ministers and 552,668 members in the Presbyterian Churches, and if each minister received £2OO a year they would require £120,000 for the support of the ministry alone. He was afraid that so large a sum could not be raised in Ireland. Mr. J. Maxwell moved the next resolution, in which the meeting " repudiated the opinions of a small section of Presbyterians who had assumed that they represented a great majority." The Rev. E. D. Eliot, Portadown, went into an analysis of the votes at the last election to prove that the Presby terians were opposed to the policy of the bill. He said that in Dublin only 23 Presbyterians voted for the Liberal candidate, in Newry 25, in Derry 177, in Belfast 1,000. The entire number of Presbyterians who voted in the north for Liberal candidates was 6,125, while the Presby terian population amounted to 523,000. The Rev. A. M'Cullagh exhorted them to stand together, and let their motto be "No surrender." A petition against the bill was then adopted. OMAGIT. A crowded meeting of Presbyterians was held on Tues. clay in the largest of their churches in Omagh. About 1,500 attended. It was addressed by the chairman, Mr. Greer (Crown solicitor), the Rev. Messrs. Hanna, Mitchell, Donnell, Dill, Smith, Lyle, Gilmore, and others. Resolutions were passed expressing unqualified disapprobation of the bill, repudiating the statement that Presbyterians were favourable to it, and calling on the Lords to reject or amend it. BIRMINGHAM. A crowded and enthusiastic meeting was held in Dir. mingliam, on Tuesday, in the Town Hall, Lord Harrowby presiding, in opposition to Mr. Gladstone's bill for the dis establishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. Lord Harrowby said Mr. Gladstane's measures would be a breach of national faith with the Irish Protestants, who were sent into an enemy's country with a pledge that they should have the comfort of a national Protestant Church; and in the name of liberty and equality it would give predo minance to a Church which anathematises both liLerty au equality. He deprecated the system of coaxing llomanism in Ireland ; a system which was extending to this country, so that we could not speak of Romanism above our breath, or else a hostile mob was threatened, and the Home Secretary searched out an obsolete statute to stifle discussion. Mr. Sampson S. Lloyd, the Conservative candidate for Birmingham at the late election, moved the first resolu tion, which was as follows :—" That the bill to put an end to the establishment of the Church in Ireland involves a violation of the Act of Union, an attack upon the security of property, and a renunciation of the principle that the Government of the United Kingdom is Protestant; and that the .House of Lords will consult the best interests of the country by rejecting it." He said that IZomanism was already too strong fur good government here and in Ireland, and he called upon the English people to make a stand in time. The Church question lay at the root of liberty, enlightenment, and progress. Mr. Newdegate, M.P., who seconded the motion, said if the property of minorities was to be confiscated, let the Eomanists in England look out, for England did not love monasteries and convents; and if llomanists in their pride supposed they could rob a Protestant minority in Ireland let them not look for security for their monastic property in England. The motion was supported by the Rev. Brewin Grant, M.A., and carried unanimously. Dr. Sebastian Evans moved : " That a petition be at once drawn up praying th e i r l or d s hi ps to reject the bi ll. " IMr. W. T. Charley, M.P., seconded this, and it was supported by Mr. J. C. S. Fremantle and the Rev. C Marson, M.A., and agreed to. WAKEFIELD. A meeting of the opponents of the Irish Church Bill, the second of the series now being organised in the West Biding under the auspices of the Yorksh:re Church Insti tution, has also been held at Wakefield. Mr. Sanderson, the Conservative candidate for the borough at the late election, presided, and speeches were delivered by Pro fessor Foley, from Ireland ; Alderman Shaw—who had previously been a strong Liberal, but whn, on this question, differs from his party--two working men, and others. The following resolutions were passed, amid great enthusiasm : That this meeting regards the Government bill now before Parliament for the disestablishing and plundering the Church in Ireland as wrong in principle and in policy, arid as an attack against the basis upon which the rights of property are established." " That petitions be promoted to the HOuse of Lords to reject the bill, and so thereby to protect the religion of the country and the rights of property, and defend the Queen from being asked to violate her Coronation Oath." The rejoicings at Carnarvon in honour of young Mr. Asheton Smith's majority have been marred by two fatal accidents. During the illuminations at Vetenol, a pair of horses attached to a gentleman's carriage while passing through the town became restive and one of them fell on tLe postilion, causing his instant death. Again at Gaerwen some workmen, anxious to show a good feeling towards their young master, were engaged in firing off a gun, as an attempt at a feu de joie, when it exploded, killing a man. Other accidents are also stated to have taken place in the past week. Two NEW MEMBERS OF -TUB REFORM CLUB.— After the arduous struggle for Reform had terminated in the great victory of 1832 (the Daily News remarks), it was felt that the increase of social intercourse among Reformers would tend to strengthen and sustain the principles of true Liberalism. With a view to bring about this result the Reform Club was founded. It has become the rule for active members of the Liberal party to seek enrol ment in its ranks. For some years, however, the leader of the Reformers has not been a member of the Reform Club. This anomaly is now a thing of the past. In a way most flattering to Mr. Gladstone and honourable to the Club, he has been elected under a rule specially passed to provide for cases in which unusual personal merit or valuable party services might be fitly recognised and rewarded. Two members only can be admitted annually in accordance with this nee. The second person selected for the honour is Earl Granville, a Minister to whom the compliment is deservedly paid. Py the Liberal party throughout the country the action of the Reform Club in this matter will assuredly be noted with unalloyed ph astu e. • AN " ENOCH ARDEN" CASE AT. GLASCOW.—III the year 1864 a painter Lelong:ng to Fcrt-Glasgow left that town and j the American army: From time to time, for twelve months thereafter, word was regularly received from him, the last wed being that he was pits moted to be a sergeant in the Union army. About two months after that letter was received another came to his wife in Port-Glasgow stating :hat her husband, the ser geant, was no more, having been shot in one of the battles in which General Lee was the opposing commander. His widow, his father, mother, brothers, and sisters mourned for him as dead, and donned the usual habili ments for twelve months. After that his supposed widow was married, and with her second husband lived happy till Friday night, when her former husband arrived at -.Port-Glasgow, all alive, and in excellent health. The wife refuses to leave her second spouse, while the first threatens to take legal proceedings to compel her to share his bed and board. Ilowlhe matter may end it is prema ture to conjecture. Meanwhile, the gossips o f Port Glasgow are busy discussing the matter. The first pus band was in Greenock on Monday, consulting a legal gentleman m to the course he cught to pursue, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times says that an illusion is steadily kept up about "the great national holiday." Why disturb this glorious Utopia by introducing into it the stiff commonplace of everyday etiquette? Let it have a congenial code, o r no code, of its own. Let there be a reign cf misrule, every body doing what seemeth to him right in his own eyes► providing only thatit be done for the sake of joviality and fun . ; and if these limits are occasionally overstepped, let the sin be forgiven in consideration of the great fact thatit was committed on the Derby Day. But, unluckily, the innocent freedom thus claimed for the Derby Day is but another creation of imaginative minds. Practically, it degenerates into the assumption of an unlimited right to get drunk—almost the only notion which many English' men have of unrestrained fun. To tell them that they may do what they like in the way of jollity is virtually to tell them that they may drink what they like, without being held responsible for all that they do afterwards, and an average Englishman's notion of fun when he has drunk too much is apt to take any but agreeable or amiable forms. The reign of misrule which thcoreticallY offers such a chi rming abandonment for once of stale conventionalities and stiff etiquette, and which gives even the most solemnly decorous of Englishmen a chance of thoroughlyenjoying himself, becomes practicallyan e xcuse for those exhibitions of unmannerly and brutal buffoonery that so frequently disgrace " the great national holiday,' and furnish some ground for the opinion which foreigners are already too prone to form of us. The remedy, of course, lies in an appeal to public opinion. Decent English' men do not get drunk in the streets or in the dining-1 . 0 01 now that such conduct is considered disgraceful. They would be equally careful to observe this rule even on the great annual day of misrule if its violation were generallY considered to involve the same disgrace. Nor can we see that such abstinence would at all spoil the national holiday" If so, it must spoil all the dinners and balls at whic h people are now-a-days content to drink enough for health and geniality, but not enough to make them oblivious or reckless of the ordinary decencies of society. Even the Derby Day thus observed would not necessarily lose any of its really characteristic fun and chaff, whil e it would greatly improve by losing what we still bops we may consider its uncharacteristic coarseness and brutality. The Herald says that the great Turf festival has V e en watched for in the remotest corners of the kingdom for weeks beforehand. If the influence of the race is übiclui . tons, permeating through each one of our social layers , not less true is it that the race itself and all its a ccour panying phenomena are such as you could find nowher e else, intensely English, thoroughly national. Long may the race live as an English holiday; and happy will it be for all concerned when that holiday ceases to be purchase d by the frustration of so many ambitions, the shipwreo of such high hopes, the loss, partial or entire, 0f princely revenues so lavishly znis-epent, the tarnished Prestige and dimmed lustre of names which, as they ar e a national possesion, should be a national pride. Yet, a ° we have just said, be certain of its accessories what thel may, the Derby is, as it will remain, pre-eminently a national holiday. Dr. Johnson was in the habit of saying, that no one could p re tend "to have received a liber o education who had not seen Rome." Assuredly n o one can flatter himself that he has perfected his Engli 3ll training until he has seen the Derby. National character to be studied should be studied en masse. But the c onduc t of the crowd is unimpeachably decorous. Good humou r reigns everywhere, and even those continental criti c° who impeach us on the ground of our phlegenatism ar e frank enough to admit that you may search Europe through and through before you come across such N'a' t concourses as you see in England, persistently preserving such a high measure of good nature. The Standard does not anticipate the rejection of a l : Irish Church Bill in the House of Lords. It says tit' the majority of the Peers are fully convinced that it iniquitous and dangerous; that it threatens alike th e religion and the peace of Ireland ; that it violates alike th e Constitution of the realm and the rights of propertl; Their consciences as legislators, their interests as laud e proprietors, their feelings as Englishmen and P ro testant" i are all against it. Yet it does not think that they will deem it wise to reject a measure which has not only received the sanction of an overwhelming majority o f the Lower House, but the antecedent approval of the cota try. There is a reaction of feeling, provoked by t h a e manifest injustice of certain clauses and the high-hande violence of the Liberal Government, which will in du t e time hear fruit ; but nothing could so effectually c h i its progress, and reanimate the zeal and passion 'De Liberals, at present lukewarm and disgusted, than t h e peremptory rejection of the bill on the second readingl" the Upper House. By such a step the Lords would see ° to negative the decision of the constituencies upon the question submitted to them at the elections; and tilere can he no doubt that this would provoke the cag y tuencies to reassert a decision of which they arc half' inclined to repent. It thinks, therefore, as it has thoug lit ever since the second' reading made it plain that the Liberal majority were determined, that the bill must P 3°s , But though it neither expects nor desi re s that the Lao' should reject the bill, it looks with hope and interest tIl their action upon it. A Most important part of the dut.rie f the Legislature still remains to be performed, and can n i l be fulfilled by the Peers. The decision upon the principl e : a the bill was given at the hustings. It was there (laid a that the Irish Church should cease to be established, Olds should be deprived of such part of its revenues as it 11° , 1 11 / in virtue of its establishment. The shaping of the ".01 was the office of the Cabinet. Every vote on the Lihe r side was assured before the amendments were made kr oll ' and the bill reaches the House of Lords with no rn ert a l authority, no more sanction of its details, than i t 11 . 1 11 , received when it was read a second time. It is the 1 - n o f not of the country, not of the House of Commons, nu t I . the Liberal party, but of her Majesty's Government, nci; more accurately speaking, of Mr. Bright and Mr. stone. stone. The duty of criticising, correcting, and mod if Y w it in detail rests with the House of Lcrds. e at The Daily IVeles says that the promoters of the gr- Prot. stant meeting at Belfast succeeded in brineing or" great number of people together—ninety thousand a ce to ins to one computation, thirty thousand according itg another. The former estimate is probably rhetorical• o f authors, if we may parody and reverse what Pepe Salu da himself, deal in numbers, even when the num b e rs 0 , not come. The more moderate estimate is more conseleva Coils, critical, and rrohable. But whether ninety thous the persons or thirty thousand attended or hung about 'l4, outskirts of the meeting is a matter of very small hie d ance. Great masses have an attractive power, $.OO individual atoms gravitate to them. Thousand 1 : fi g, doubtless summoned by curiosity to the Botanic G arae :eg They went less to uphold Protestantism than to see t 7 lO show, just as hundreds will go to Epsom, not to se e eir , race, but to see the crowds assembled to see the race. Johnston, who was the hero of the occasion, has declared, la the House of Commons, that Protestantism in Tre ig :e will not receive any serious injury from the Irish Ch tl i ;d Bill; and that though he dislikes Mr. Gladstone's P c ", - he much prefers it ro Mr. Disraeli's. The real i ss Ae - j which Parliament and the country have d eei "e l e is, Shall we level up or level down? and of Belfast meeting could have been /Jelled, t e - ,e can be little doubt that it would have endorsed the 1 '; ip of its chairman. The orators at Belfast put their trto ceo the House of Lords. Those who put their trust in Pr ii , j o e are not more foolish. The House of Lords does not 0011, Mr. John Thomsou's contempt for " Gladstone a to e jority." It is not strong enough to keep the Irish ell l ab afloat; though the Irish Church might be strong en°4o, to keep the House of Lords under water. Kno wing ito that august assembly is little likely to venture out ° te l depth. English and foreign politics have alwaYs i and reacted upon each other ; and the storm warn which are signalled to us from France are good WO ° not beginning the policy of resistance at home. It is said that Mr. Justice Mellish has sirm a is recommended that no further proceedings should /3 9 to have the Saurin case re-heard. ?S r IRISH NATIONALISTS AND THE FEN LA.- . 0 0 BONERS. —At a special general meeting of the c0n3133010, of the Amnesty Association , recently held in their °roil at the Dublin Mechanics' Institute, a statement W 3,1 o p by the secretary, and on the motion of Mr. J. IC. °tech seconded by Mr. E. Carey, was unanimously . (I°P op le , and ordered to be issued as an address to the Irish Pe,oets It entered at some length into a history of the e' which had been made to procure the release of the fe-of tical prisoners, and expressed regret that the 1 41° I v the Fenian convicts La I not be ► liberated• of committee, however, do not abandon all b °l3e do oh seeing the captives in the enjoyment of f ree inv and thus conclude their add res s :—" The contin ued oB prisonment of the high-mi n d e d men who are sti ll PI ti. in English convict p r i sons i s an ac t o f persecution forcilt:ta tical opinions which cannot be warranted either by D e policy or justice. Pers e v eran ce in it can only embittert"he future relations of the two countries, and leave t hat minds of Irishmen the rankling consciousnesa i 0 ea l• they are still treated as the conquered race. It _ me et culated to bring discredit upon the English Govecr"vopii and country. It is the high-handed refusal to u ubje ct with the universal prayer of the Irish nation upon 3 S , el i e c which most mainly concerns themselves. We do nutf o _ o to that we would yet be justified in giving hnpress those reasons upon the English (gover n e b icb and people ; and even under the discouragements.7e the at moment surround us, we confidently invit_efest co-operate,... of Irishmen of all classes in our P v lr o v ol ' io , against the adole 4 nn of a course of- unrelenting' ; tiveness towards men -ho are admitted by thos 'jog up the efrir most strongly condemn their actions to have bee_ ati ,d ituenced by a deep and . dieinterested_ • land." Di 6 - I.7MT COMMERCI Consols are fin ditto, for Ac:ou Reduced, 921 e ; ditto 2} per Cent —; ditto £lOO, England Stock, 4 India Stock, I ditto 5 per Cent., Ceut., Oct., 1888, per Cent., 92. In the Fore;gl Italian Five per 661; Tut kish Fiv 1 3olids k, to 12'I Cents. are 1-16 be The Honduras coupon. 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