The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL 2ARLI A MENT HOUSE OF LORDS.— LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. INDIAN FINANCE. The Duke of ARGYLL gave notice that he should make a statement relative to the finances of India on the 19th instant. GAS BILLS. The Imperial Gas Bill and the South Metropolitan Gas Bill were read a third time and passed. THE WESLEYANS IN IRELAND. The Duke of ABERCORN called the attention of the house to an outrage which had taken place in Ireland on Sunday last, when a Wesleyan Methodist congregation assembled in a gentleman's park were separated by a Roman Catholic mob in a most violent manner. He con sidered such a proceeding suggestive of what might be expected from a free Protestant Church in Ireland. It was not a case of Protestant ascendancy, or of titles or endowments; but here was a meeting of one of the poorest, most modest, and least aggressive religious body most unjustifiably interfered with. He wished to know whether her Majesty's Government had received any information on the subject, and, if so, whether he could give it to their lordships. Earl SPENCER said all the information in the posses sion of the Government was that an open air meeting of Wesleyans was interrupted by the Roman Catholics. Several of the offenders had been identified, and proceed ings would, of course, be taken against them. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. Their lordships went into committee on this bill. On clause 68 being moved, Lord CAIRNS moved an amendment with a view of altering the body by which the surplus fund was to be appropriated. The bill set out that the Poor Law Commissioners were to distribute the funds to the local commissioners, and he thought that such a provision was entirely at variance with the proper functions of the Poor law Commissioners to call upon them to deal with six or eight millions of money, and that entirely without the slightest precaution being taken that they were compe tent to administer such a large fund properly. He thought the mode proposed by the bill as it stood of dealing with the surplus was very objectionable, and he therefore moved the insertion of words to reserve the question of the ap propriation of the surplus be reserved for the future con sideration of Parliament. Earl GRANVILLE would not willingly accept the pro posal of the noble lord. The house had already largely trenched upon the surplus, but the Commissioners would by the exercise of their borrowing powers realizing a consider able portion within 18 months. He considered it would be most unfortunate to hold the fund up as a bone of con tention to the whole of the United Kingdom for any length of time. It would result in anything but peace and quiet ness to keep open a subject that had, after much discussion, closed by the bill, and that that disturbed state of things would not alone affect the Protestants, but the Roman Catholics would feel the inconvenience of such a proviso with equal inconvenience. The Earl of IVIALMESBURY thought as the surplus was at present somewhat of a myth, it was not too much to ask that some further consideration should be had before any determination was come to with regard to it. He did not believe that any noble lord present would adopt such a course of proceeding in their own private concerns, and therefore he did not see why it should be carried out in an Act of Parliament. All writers and travellers in Ireland concurred in one thing, and thht was that if the Roman Catholic prests were better provided for Increased tranquility would be the result. (Hear.) I Ender such circumstances if delay was granted it would give time to consider whether concurrent endowment ought or ought not to be made. (Hear, hear.) If the proposal of his noble friend was accepted, he believed that the result of thb delay would be concurrent endowment, because he did not see how the surplus could be more equitably dis posed after what had taken place during the debates that had arisen:on the bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE thought it a great mistake to tie up the hands of Parliament and the Go vernment with respect to the surplus just at this particu lar moment. ("Hear, hear," from the Opposition.) As the question of the surplus was involved in such obscu rity, he thought it would be wise to adopt the amendment of the noble lord opposite. Lord TAUNTON had felt a good deal of difficulty in :palling up his mind on this important point. On the one hand, he had felt •the danger of keeping this question dangling before the people for several years; but, on the other hand, he feared that, in adopting the distribution proposed by the Government, Parliament would be taking a very unfortunate course. (Hear, hear.) He had given a very cordial vote for the motion of the noble marquis (Salisbury) to apply part of the surplus to the improvement of the glebes of the Anglican clergy, and he had given a still heartier support to the motion of his noble friend (the Duke of Cleveland) to provide the Roman Catholic clergy —the clergy of the great body of the Irish people—with glebes and decent houses. (Cheers.) The situation in which the question was now place fiilled him with alarm, for he felt that their lordships were sending the bill back to the House of Commons altered in respect Of giving greater advantages to the clergy of the Esta blished Church, with whom personally they naturally sympathised, but stripped of a proposal which would have given glebes to the Roman Catt6lic priests. (Hear, hear.) Now, he was strongly of opinion that if Parliament wished to obtain the affections and secure the tranquillity of the great body of the Irish people, it should lose no fitting opportunity of improving the position of their clergy, and of thus showing respect for that religion to which they were so firmly attached. (Cheers.) Nor was that class of men unworthy of consideration. His personal ac quaintance with Ireland was confined to a single year, but that year was a very remarkable one, for it was the period of the famine. As Secretary for Ireland he was in Dublin during the whole of that year, and never did a day pass without his room being crowded with Roman Catholic priests, who described to him the dreadful state of their parishes and asked his advice and assistance. Very often—a sight he was very glad to witness—they came had in hand with the Protestant clergymen of the same parishes, and he was able to supply them with means of relief out of the funds placed at his disposal by the - profuse but insufficient liberality of the British people. He had never omitted the opportunity of expressing his hope that they would do their part in calming the minds of their flocks ; and in assuring them of the heart-felt sympathy of the Government ; and he was bound to say that the conduct of the Roman Catholic priesthood during that crisis was most exemplary. (Hear, hear.) Knowing the heroic sacrifices they then made in every part of Ireland, and how they threw away theirown lives in standing by their flocks in the hour of trial, he was not surprised at their bold on the affections of the Irish peeple. Now, the people of Ireland would not go into nice calculations, and it was necessary to speak in loud and distinct tones if Parliament wished them to believe in a real change of policy, and to see that it was desirous of doing them justice. Nothing would speak so strongly and effectually to them as a manifestation of sympathy and respect for their priest hood, by providing them with decent houses side by side with those of the Protestant clergymen. (Cheers.) He deeply regretted, therefore, the defeat of a proposal which would have given to the Roman Catholic and also the Presbyterian clergy improved sustenance and support by means of glebes and houses. (Cheers.) He was not as sanguine as some noble lords that if they post poned the consideration of this question they might not incur dangers and difficulties—and to his mind they were no slight ones—from throwing this subject loose upon the country, and be was not so sanguine that at the end their lordships would find themselves any better off. (Hear, hear.) He regretted it, but he must do the best he could. If it were in ordinary cases to follow the maxim "Et mihi res, non me rebus, submittere conor," in matters connected with religion it was especially neces sary. Under these circumstances, placed in a difficulty, as he felt himself to be, he should vote against the amend ment of the noble and learned lord. (Hear, hear.) He was most anxious that this controversy with the other house should be closed. Their lordships had already made very important alterations in the bill. He had no doubt that the other house would view those alterations fairly and dispassionately, and would endeavour to see whether they could not be taken in accordance with those principles which underlay the whole bill; but he could not conceal from himself, from indications he had seen of the temper of the House of Commons, that the probability was that they would not pass. (Hear, hear.) He thanked their lordships for the attention with which they had heard him. He had been anxious to state the grounds on which he should vote, but he confessed that he had not arrived at the conclusion to which he had come without some hesita tion. (Hear, hear.) The committee divided, and the numbers were:: For the amendment Against it 9O Majority against —7o The amendment was therefore carried, and the clause, AS amended, agreed to. On clause 69, The Bishop of OXFORD proposed to add a proviso retaining to the ordained clergy of the Irish Church the same status and privileges as the clergy of the Episcopal Church of Scotland. On the suggestion of Lord CAIRNS, this question was postponed until the report. The other clauses, which relate to the interpretation of terms and other technical matters, were then agreed to. The postponed clauses were then taken. On clause 19, Lord CAIRNS proposed to add a power to the Esta blished Church to meet in convocation or general assem bly representing the clergy and laity of the several dio ceses, for the purpose of re-organising the Church before the time for disestabEshment arrived. After some discussion the amendment, with a slight verbal alteration, was adopted, and the clause agreed to. On clause 20, The Archbishop of DUBLIN moved an amendment that no alteration in the doctrines or formularies of the disestablished Church should be binding on any ordained minister who had expressed his dissent within six months. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the amend ment would be an invitation to schism and dissent, and hoped that in the interests of the Church itself it would not be pressed. The amendment was agreed to after some discussion, and the clause as amended added to the bill. Clauses 21 and 22 were agreed to, with some verbal amendments at the suggestion of Lord Cairns, who, how ever, reserved an important one for the report. On the preamble, Lord Cairns moved an amendment to bring it into harmony with his alteration of the 68th clause, reserving the surplus for the future appropriation of Parliament. The preamble was then agreed to, and the bill passed through committee, and was ordered to be reported en Friday. The other business having been disposed of, the house adjourned. IIOUSE OF CONIdIONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock. The house then went into committee on the Contagions Diseases Prevention Act, which occupied the whole of the morning sitting. The house resumed at 9 o'clock. In reply to Mr. AKROYD, Mr. AYRTON stated that the correspondence on the subject of proposals for a reduction of the wine duties, in connection with negotiations for treaties of commerce with Spain and Portugal, was not complete; but when it had arrived at such a stage that it could be presented he would be happy to do so. Mr. H. RICHARD called attention to recent proceed ings of certain landlords in Wales towards tenants on ac count of the free exercise of the franchise at the last elec tion. He moved, " That, in the opinion of this house, the recent proceedings of certain landlords in Wales towards tenants, on account of the free exercise of the franchise at the last election, are oppressive and unconstitutional, and an infringement of the rights conferred by Parliament on the people of this country." Mr. O. MORGAN seconded the motion. After some observations from Mr. T. LLOYD and Mr. WHALLEY, Mr. BRUCE said the course taken by the hon. member for Merthyr was, under the circumstances, a very proper one, but as he bad not given notico of his resolution he hoped it would not be pressed. The motion was then withdrawn. The other business was disposed of, and the house adjourned. AMERICAN FREEDOM OF DISCUSSION. We publish the letter of a Dresden authoress to a New York journal, forwarded to us by an Ameri can gentleman, we presume because it contains severe strictures on Americans abroad. These are answered by the correspondent at whose request the letter finds a place in our columns, who is almost as well known in Germany as in his own country. Although lengthy for pages that can hardly con tain the weekly summary of American news, we the more readily respond to this wish of a highly valued friend, as it illustrates a trait in the American cha racter on which Miss BOETE has not touched. It is often said, more especially by themselves, that of all nations the English most systematically dis parage themselves, accepting abuse with unruffled composure ; and complacently, even joyously, repro ducing the animadversions of others. The words DIC KENS puts into the mouth of one of his American cha racters, ' We ai'reanation that must be cracked up," are accepted throughout Europe as characteristic of a people believed to be extremely sensitive ; boast ing in extravagant language, resenting unfavour able comments, and persistently viewing their own bright side only, while through the German lady's let ter may be seen some such notion. Arrogance, an of fensive affectation of superiority, a vulgar liberty which loosens the restraints indispensable to good training and good society, shown most in the rear ing of children ; these are the characteristics of Ame ricans, according to Miss BOETE. We do not intend to controvert her position, as our correspondent has already travelled over that ground, nor do we wish to disguise the fact that American children have so availed themselves of the liberties their fathers won in battle, as to run, if not into license, at least into irreverence. While recognising that what checks this is beneficial, our object is to show that whatever be the shortcomings of Americans, no other people ought to know their failings better, for no others so widely circulate the opinions of foreigners detri mental to themselves. They do this as if they only desired to extract the truth however uncomplimen tary, and when people not only bear with unplea sant remarks, but gratuitously circulate them throughout their country, leaving the inhabitants to extract the genuine from the malicious for their reflection and improvement, they cannot be in a very bad way. It is a fact which ought to be known in England that every question arising between the countries is debated as well from the English point of view as from the American, the English side re ceiving full attention. That this is so in the United States to a far greater degree than in the United Kingdom is sufficiently shown by the Alabama con troversy. It is said that the English had no notion of the feeling prevailing in America on this subject till their eyes were opened by Mr. SUMNER, and the action of the Senate on the Clarendon-Johnson Treaty. When England responded in a fury ; when her press breathed a spirit of defiance and war ; when America was lampooned by the comic papers, satirized by the satirical, denounced by the in dignant, and reasoned with by the argumentative ; when statesmen made speeches and lawyers piled up cases of practice and precedent, the position was as follows :—Senator SU3INER'S speech had not been read by one Englishman in a thousand who censured it in unmeasured terms—it had not been published in a single British paper; the arguments by which Ame ricans supported their grievances were little known, indeed the attitude assumed was never explained, and could not be understood. Thespeeches made in Ame rica and the articles published by the American press, were alike ignored in England, even while the atten tion of the nation was almost exclusively given to the Alabama question. But the case widely differed in America, where everything of material importance, every article of the Times, letters coming from per sons in a position to throw light on the subject, were all copied into the American papers ; nor that only. Americans assembled to hear Englishmen lecture on the question in their own country, every word of which was spread throughout the land ; not an argument was delivered from a platform, spoken in a legislature, or embodied in a pamphlet which did not receive pointed attention ; even the lampoons of the English comic papers being reproduced. Thus the Americans had the benefit of hearing both sides, and If they are altogether wrong it is not from want of knowledge, but from an incapacity to ap preciate the adversary's case. In such matters, we maintain, that Americans are eminently just, and liberal to a degree never before reached by any other people. It is said that the New York Tribune represents a section of the Republic which would, if it could, shut out everything English ; hating the country so strongly as to desire, if possible, to change the language in which it is printed. Yet no paper could have done more complete justice to the English side, while persistently maintaining its own view. If that view be unjust, while admitting it to be ex treme, we fail to see it ; and even the most bitter enemies of the gribune must allow the e truth exceededof our io remark that its fairnes s could not publishing in its columns the argumentsofththeehoostthieler side. This habit of freely rep roducin g criticism of foreigners is good; for telling against real faults it tends towards their correction, though raising bnt a smile of contempt when manifestly untrue. Besides, it has an excellent effect in letting men know what is said of them behind their backs, which, perhaps, is beneficial in proportion to the pain it gives ; for it neutralises what is objection able in vanity, and wearing out sensitive feelings thickens the skin so as to enable individuals to bear with calm unconcern bitter remarks against their country when they know them to be unfair. No- thing more impresses others than the dignity with which unjust aspersions are received and the mode ration with which they are answered, for the un moved manner is indicative of strength and of the knowledge of a secure position, which has done most to uphold and perpetuate the British aristocracy; the quiet assurance, so imposing on the crowd. Yet another good point in the freedom with which the American press discusses not only all questions, but all sides of those questions, is that it takes away the power of an agitator to raise commotion. The people are neither to be startled into surprise or panic, nor roused into fury, by anything the press can do. The most apt illustration of the latitude allowed THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1.869 ' the press in the Northern States is the publication in New York of the Imperialist. The reception the organ of monarchy has met with shows the breadth of the American view untainted by fear; no discussion is suppressed ; and the curious are able and willing to read and consider' any subject presented honestly, and with propriety. Yet a more astounding re volution than it advocates could scarcely be con ceived—no lesithan the subversion of the Republic bya Monarchy, which Americans freely recognize to be a renunciation of all faith in human progress, or in human nature. Contrast this with the state of the South prior to the war, where the holders of any other than the set of opinions authorized by the ma jority were "ridden on a rail," or treated as Salem in olden days treated witches. If men will not dis cuss and modify institutions in accordance with the necessities of the age, in the end they will be re duced to the necessity of fighting to preserve what are certain to become abuses, and the expefience of the Southern States is not such as to provoke imita tion. There never were two sections of a nation in more glaring contrast on this point than the North ern and Southern States ; not that the Southerners were illiberal, but demoralized and blinded by one pervading institution, which with them entered into every relation of life, and tended to create this peculiarity. Doubtless it has had an influence as well on the Northern mind, for if the Southerners attacked, though on the defensive, rifle in hand, the fact may have produced an indomitable and unswerving re solution in the opposing party, and imparted to many leaders of Northern opinion that uncompromising tone. With the necessity for such firmness will die out that harsh judgment, that demand of all or nothing —the pound of flesh—the letter of the law as inter preted by the plaintiff—but nothing will more con duce tc this most desirable result than the remark able liberality with which the American press ac cords publicity to the views of its opponents, and which is in striking dissimilarity with the course of such English journals as the Times. One effect of what we have noticed may be observed as charac teristic of American travellers—the tact with which they themselves avoid subjects disagreeable to the strangers into whose society they may be thrown, and the imperturbable good humour with which they receive the injudicious and ill-timed remarks often directed at them in return. Their surprising tact is, however, due to their training in their own coun try, where, living much in public, and dining at the tables d'hote, they meet men of all nationalities, of all creeds and opinions, from the Red Republican to the Imperialist, from the Southern Cavalier to the Yankee Puritan, from the Irish Fenian to the English Tory, Free-trader and Protectionist, Cop perhead and Radical War-horse. It is to this that Americans owe their nice perception of men and manners, teaching them to tell the " stripe" of their railway companion by signs as invisible to others as is a " trail " to all but an Indian eye.--Anglo- American limes. The following is the correspondence above alluded to : HOMBOURG LEs BAINS, June 24, 1869. Sin,—l enclose you an article from the New York Evening Post which I will thank you to publish. The writer of this letter, so severe upon Americans, is Miss Anna Boete, who imagines herself " a well-known authoress," but who is hardly known in our country, and but little beyond the precincts of Dresden, where she lives. She displays a re markable ignorance of our country people in this letter which is really laughable. She imagines American ladies who come here do so for the pur pose of general education ! whereas they come only to instruct their daughters in music and German. And then as to the economy of American families. This is something new, only heard of by Miss Boete. Having lived in Germany some years, I know that wherever Americans go they always by their liberality and profuseness make living very dear. That our people are hospitable no one but Miss Boete doubts. Had she travelled outside the limits of Dresden she would have easily ascertained how greatly she was mistaken. As to Americans acquir ing the. German language from German newspapers in America, that is too rich to be answered. If she had asked us to learn the language in dance houses, beer gardens, &c., where nearly all Germans congre gate during nearly all the leisure time they have, leav ing their families at home, or at the Caffee Greschel chapts, :she would have been nearer the truth. As to the very intellectual class of Germans in America there are a few, and I wish there were many. That they are amiable, honest, and kind, I very well know. Miss Boete says the Germans never send their sons to France or England to learn the lan guages there. How mistaken she is on this point so far as South Germany is concerned ! The daugh ters are educated by French and English gover nesses, but the boys are very often sent abroad to learn the languages. After all, the pronunciation of French by these home educated Germans is not the very best. The hit about our American women leaving their husbands in America is good, and deserved. Then as to the unpopularity of Ameri cans in Germany, Miss Boete, if she had ever travelled in her own country, would have known better. It is a pity she is so vain and conceited as to publish such a letter as the one in the Evening Post.—Yours, &c. L. W. (From a German Lady.) " AMERICANS IN DRESDEN.—Since f had the pleasure of making your acquaintance, dear Miss—the number of your compatriots who have (lmen Dresden for their temporary abode has increased greatly, and my intercourse with them has been such as to call forth reflections which, if you will allow me, I wish to submit to your judgment, hoping that you will ref uto them where you find them erroneous. Dresden has been, as you may know, since the war with Napoleon I. the resort of foreigners, who found themselves attracted by the beauty of the country, the cheapness of living, and, above all, by the exquisite picture gallery, and an opera, which, once upon a time, was the finest in Eu rope. In particular, English families have resorted to this place in order to give to their children the benefit of a first rate education, which Ltheir restricted means did not al low them to do at home. They have taught the inha bitants to furnish rooms, to open boarding-houses, and to establish schools that suited their demands. These English residents have had some influence on the inhabi tants. They have made them acquainted with comforts never before known, and have given to the ladies an ex ample of independence foreign to the German customs, the consequence of which has been that single ladies, as well as widows and spinsters, have flocked to this town and procured for it the name of the ' Jerusalem of Women.' Another thing these English residents have done for us has been to give us an example of conjugal domestic life far above the aspirations of our fair damsels. The middle claseof England, you may know, are far famed for their attachment to home and hearth ; and wherever they go they adhere to this predilection. They have introduced here open fireplaces, before which their tea table is spread at eight o'clock in the evening, when a dropper-iu is wel come. Husband and wife are, as it were, inseparable and share what life brings in the shape of pleasure and of woe." AMERICAN MOTRE:I3.—" When, after your war, the Americans, prompted by a desire to economise, did Dres den the honour to make it their temporary residence, the inhabitants, hearing the English language, knowing your English descent, felt quite familiar with foreigners who were no longer strangers to them ; but soon they became aware of their mistake. The new arrivals, although pro fessing the same purposes—to economise, and to educate their children—did not take the same means to these ends. They wanted to live cheaply, but desired all the luxuries of their home, and grumbled at not being able to get them for nothing, showing a discontent very little to their cre dit. Moreover, they looked down with a sort of contempt on this country, where the people live on so little and live so cheaply, because they can do without those costly luxuries which the strangers coveted as indispensable to their happiness. Very soon they began to understand that we have to pay for luxuries here almost as much as you do in America, and that to live cheaply they must come down to our simplicity. The discontent of the mothers imparted itself to the children; and fathers there were none—or at least few. If there had been fathers .I. do not know but they would have said : ' My children, you are here in order to get what stands highest in civilised na tions—culture of mind : we are a young country, and a man has first to build his house before he can hang up his ctthings h is as stawtue do here.' But, as es ; but by-and-by I have said, the fathers were wantin g . To our utter pictures, shallres place live for his t he piano same astonishment the American ladies had left their husbands and behind. The German mothers could not comprehend how marriage ties could hang so loosely on them as to be thrown off without a peremptory necessity. If these Ame rican husbands could do without their wives and daugh ters after having tasted the sweetness of domestic life, they could not have felt happy in the possession of such a partner in sadness and in joy, else they would not have consented to the separation. The German ladies looked contemptuously upon these travelling mothers. America had been called amongst us the paradise of women ; but our German women no longer envied them this paradise, in which Adam could do without Eve. In consequence, these roaming ladies, who preferred pleasure to duty, were looked down upon with a sort of contempt that has fallen as a shadow on a great nation. Now and then a voice rises in their defence, to state that a sort of necessity brought them here, since their means did not allow them to give to their fair daughters the advantage of masters in modern languages and in music. But we could not take take this as an excuse; tor, although we value talents, still no Ger man mother would leave her husband and her home, and break the most sacred of ties, for the sake of such accom plishments, which have nothing to do with character or with happiness. "EDUCATION.—As to the learning of modern languages, it is a very erroneous idea that you can acquire them without much painstaking in the country where they are spoken ; for a language to be learned under any circum stances, you must give your mind to it ; you must study the grammar ; you must, as it were, commit every word to memory, and this is an affair of time and painstaking. We are entitled to ask the question, why American chil dren do not learn French and German at home when they are young, just as our children acquire these languages ? We never send our sons and daughters to France and England to learn French and English. A third of the United States, moreover, is peopled by Germans, and almost every large town has a German newspaper, a proof of the presence of an intellectual class. Why, then, is it so diffi cult to learn German in America ? We cannot help smiling when we hear that they have crossed the ocean for such a purpose—especially when wo see the means American mothers take, after such a sacrifice, to make their hopeful progeny acquire the German idiom. Accord ing to all apparanco their greatest care is to dress their children handsomely, and to provide amusements to keep their darlings in good humour. A steady adhe rence to any instruction is out of the question with them. The mothers themselves cannot bear a quiet life, and set that example to their children. They waste their time in calling upon their compatriots, and fixing a day for receiving visits, as if they had crossed the Atlantic on no other purpose than to make new acquaintances of Americans abroad. They have balls and parties and masquerades ; they go to court and make themselves con spicuous, and, when spring comes, they must fly away to some watering place, to Italy, to Switzerland, anywhere for a change. Such a restless, unsettled disposition is not calculated to exercise a beneficent influence on the young generation. Culture of mind is the growth of steady ap plication. Music, above all, wants years and years of painful study to obtain that finish which makes it the charm of our domestic life. Boys and girls, with us, have to put their tiny fingers on the piano as soon as they can read and write and cipher. We do not know what to say when these young strangers come with the idea that they will take by storm, in their go-ahead system,' what we have to spend half a life to accomplish. Of course they learn little, and the more so as these juvenile pupils from the New World are the worst disciples over seen by Ger man masters, or in a German school ; for it seems to us as if you had left out in the catalogue of your principles of education the small word ' duty,' and placed in its stead a phrase, I do not feel like it.' Let me stop here for a mo ment, dear Miss —, for it is really painful to me to seo a great nation on a path that must lead down hill ; since the children of to-day are to be the men and women to build up the great future of your wonderful country. But can a great nation grow out of minds biased by so cowardly a saying as Ido not feel like it ?' Whatever the creed may be, we, all of us, value those ethics of the Christian doctrine that preach self-control. Let a savage, let a Hottentot say that he does not feel like it, when a duty is to be performed ; but the children of your soil,who hold in their hands the destiny of a great country, ought to feel much too proud to use a language which may have done for a Sybarite, but could never have been found on the lips of a Roman while Rome was a Republic and Cato taught his children to read. Why you have given up teaching to the young obedience? It is a great mistake, for it is the first lesson we ought to learn as our intellect enables us to understand the meauing of words, and our dependency on others. Whosoever is born is destined to die ; and in vain you may cry out, ' I do not feel like it,' for without pity life is snatched away from you ; you must sub mit, you must obey. Let the young, then, revere a Power which, in its awful grandeur, is mute to your inquiries ; let them revere the moral law that rules the universe and the destiny of men; let them revere reason, which demands obedience to superiority, which is placed before us in visible form in our parents, who ought to be our leaders through the darkness in which wo wander, until our eye has acquired light to find the way for ourselves. There is no sight more ugly than a child that has a will of its own in contradiction with that of its mother; no sight more ugly than a son and daughter who have no other re ply to a reasonable demand of their instructors than, do not feel like it.' It is a phrase of fearful import, for out of it grows that selfishness which defies every duty requir ing self-control and self-sacrifice. Our teachers, the mas ters and mistresses of our schools, can have no influence on children whose parents have allowed them to obey their own inclination as civil law; they cannot inculcate the self-restraint and obedience to duty which make a re sponsible being, if the parents allow them to slight laws merely because they are irksome to them; they cannot expect to be looked upon with respect by the offspring of parents who do not demand respect. Who does not re spect a God in heaven nor his image on earth, how can he love virtue and goodness? How difficult for the young to go the right way, if they have not reverence for age and experience to guide them. What is to lead children, if superiority of intellect has no influence upon them, and if they dare slight every regard for others by that stupid saying, am an American !' Let them understand that the name is nothing except they prove its value by deeds. I spoke one day on this subject to au American gentleman, whose literary acquirements and cultivation of mind placed him above the average of men ; I wanted to know why he exercised no control over his children ? Why he allowed his daughters to lie in bed until ten o'clock, to live on sweets, to run wildly about and learn nothing ? He had no answer to give, but they did not feel like doing otherwise. While I consider English children the best educated in the world, as regards their moral and physical training, I think the young Americans the worst brought up in these respects; yes, as it were, not educated at all. The parents say they will not crush the spirits of their children. But there is a vast difference between crushing and training• What you make the boy to be, the man will be. Savages leave the spirits uncrushed, it is true, but their children remain savages. It will not crush the spirits of your daughters if they practise self-denial ; if they feel grateful for kindness received, and try to be kind in return ; if they reason with themselves about their duties and try to do as they wish to be done by. In Eng land a child is a child ; it lives on wholesome food, and keeps early hours, and leads a life suited to its age. In America it is not so. Your boys are little men, your little girls are women. It is a hideous sight—these little girls with their flowing hair and trimmed dresses, walking through the streets with a raw American boy, and flirt ing. Flirting ! Tho German language has no word for flirting, for we have not the thing ; we leave such an oc cupation to the demi-monde of Paris. " BAD MANNERS.—The Americans abroad are very un popular, and do nothing to be liked by the inhabitants, but everything to the contrary. The wise saying, Do in Rome as Romans do,' is not to their liking; for as they are American, they need not show any amiable qualities, nor try to please. The Germans are naturally kind-hearted,and where they come in contact with them, they show them any civility in their power. Your people respond to this by say ing how glad the Germans must be to entertain Americans. They repay our hospitality with no hospitality of their own, for it is showing us enough favor to accept ours, and when they go away they send their card with P. P. C. as their last farewell favour. This immense selfishness throws cold water on all good feeling. The English proverb says The best manners come from the heart,' but the Ame rican manners flow from an unjustifiable self-esteem. The natives say, after some experience of this kind, we will not associate with American ladies who, after all, come here to get an education, and people not yet educated are no society for 'us. Why should we bother ourselves with them when they show how little they value our kindness ? Thus American mothers do not find great opportunity for acquiring the German idiom by social intercourse, and the fault lies entirely with themselves. They do not like' reciprocating kindness. They say, as Fredrick the Great said of Voltaire, ' I squeeze the orange and throw away the rind' but Voltaire never' forgave having been squeezed, notwithstanding a king had done him the honour, and the Germans do not like to be squeezed, though Americans do them the honour .. . A. B." MARKE7 S-2 /LIS DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. July 7.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. The market steady. [Anvaraiskm - ENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Constipation, Debility, Consumption, and all nervons, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accele rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such as —cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, hcemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphthe ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheu matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irrita bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinkin g fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, 1866—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandon ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plate ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, Of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l—Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia No. 49,832 —"Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Caution.— Beware of tlie many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most suds, ciously attached. In tins, at Is 14d; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 48 6d 5 lbs lls, 12 lbs 22s ; 2; lbs 40s. - Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABISA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 'is, for e • cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order. RARhY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; and all Grocers and Chemists. RAILWAY COLLISION ON THE NORTH EASTERN. -The first collision of any importance on the Scarborough Railway since its opening twenty-five years ago, occurred on Tuesday morning near Malton. A pick-up goods train was on its way from York to Malton, and had called at Castle Howard station. Part of the train was left on the main line, while the engine fetched some trucks out of a siding. Just at this time a Doncaster excursion train, consisting of thirty-six well-filled carriages, came round the sharp curve from Kirkham, and ran into the goods train, causing the wildest confusion among the great mass of the excursionists, many of whom were looking out, and at once spread the news of the danger. The stoker jumped off the engine, and some of the passengers jumped out of the train. Many of the passengers seem to have got upon their feet, and thus to have received more serious cuts and bruises about the head than would otherwise have been the case. The cause of accident re mains for official inquiry. The three worst cases—those of the stoker and a gentleman and lady from Doncaster— were sent back to York ; the remainder were forwarded to Malton, where the station-master, Mr. W. H. Nicholson, had Dr. Young, Dr. Deeley, and Mr. Luker in waiting, and the waiting-rooms and refreshment-rooms were quickly converted into hospitals. Some twenty persons had their wounds dressed at Mahon station, of whom all but four were sent away by the noon trains, the others not being removable. Several persons who had received minor injuries went forward to Scar borough. There is no loss of life, and, singularly, no broken bones, and only two cases of serious injury to the extremities. All the injured passengers have been sent home. The accident was on the incline, and no blame is attached to the company's servants. Three breaks were used, but could not stop the train. The passengers hurt did not ke6n their seats. AN IRISH LIBEL CASE. An interesting and important action for libel has just been concluded in the Court of Exchequer of Dublin, before Mr. Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury. The case arose out of the murder of Mr. Anketell, the station master, of Mullingar. The plaintiff was the Rev. Michael Gogerty, a Roman Catholic clergyman of Mullingar, and the defendant Mr. John Robinson, proprietor of the Daily Express. The plaintiff claimed £l,OOO damages for a libel on him contained in two letters in the Dublin Express. The alleged libel consisted of two letters published on the Bth and 10th of March last. In the first letter, which was written by the Rev. C. P. Reichel, vicar of the parish, it was stated that 'Mr. Anketell had for some time known be was " a marked man ;" that on the 16thof December last he took the writer aside on the platform of the station, and, to quote the words of the letter, told him that "his dismissing a railway official had been referred to from the altar of a Roman Catholic chapel in such terms as induced two most respectable Roman Catholics, both personally known to me, to go to him and disavow all sympathy with what had been said." The second letter, signed "A Looker-on," referred to Mr. Reichel's, and asked why a priest should not be amenable to the law, and remarked that it would be too much to expect that Cardinal Cullen would suspend him. The defendant pleaded that the words were a fair and bond fide comment on the con duct of the plaintiff, and were published without malice. The facts were that Lawrence Moran, a railway police man, who had been a great many years in the employment of the railway company, had been dismissed, and that a great many persons who thought him a very estimable servant addressed a memorial to the directors to have him reinstated, and also raised a subscription for him. The subscribers to this testimonial stated that they thought him hardly treated. The Rev. Mr. Gogerty was s':ed to recommend the matter to his congregation, and he did so in the chapel on the 6th of December last. He said nothing hostile to Mr. Anketell, and did not even mention his name, but he said that Moran had been hardly treated on account of his religion. It seemed that this was not so ; Moran was dismissed because he disobeyed Mr. Anketell's orders, but there was a strong feeling against the station-master in the neigh bourhood. The case for the plaintiff was that the letters alleged that he was the instigator of the murder. But several Roman Catholics gave it as their opinion that the plaintiff committed an indiscretion, and that they had told him so. The juiy did not think the letters_ said much more. They found a verdict for the defendant, at the same time exonerating the plaintiff from any intention to injure Mr. Anketell, and stating their belief that his object was charitable. LAW AND POLICE. THE WICKLOW PEERAGE.—Mrs. Ellen Howard, the widow of William George Howard, has petitioned the House of Lords to appoint counsel on her behalf to defend the claims of her infant son to the Wicklow Peerage. Their lordships have accordingly appointed a barrister and a parliamentary agent to act on her behalf, and appointed the 12th for hearing the claim. THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND.—In Judges' Chambers, on I uesday, two summonses in the case of " Beyfus v. the Earl of Westmorel rn 1" were heard before Master Templer. The first was in reference to the property claimed at Apethorpe by the Dowager Countess, and applied for a month's time to deliver the interpleader issue. The Master gave a week's time. The second application on the part of the defendant asked that the property might be sold by private contract, not by public auction, at Apethorpe. The Master thought it was likely to realise more by private contract. After some discussion, the matter was allowed to stand over for a few days. AN INSURANCE COMPANY.—On Tuesday, Vice-Chan cellor Malins gave judgment in the case of " Mackie v. the European Insurance Company." The bill sought to make the capital of the company liable for £2,800, in respect of property alleged to have been insured in the office nearly three years since, the fire business having since been assigned to another office. It seems that the plaintiff, a manufacturer near Glasgow, was insured in the Commercial Union Insurance Office, of which a Mr. Waddell was the agent. Having made some alteration in his premises, he wished to renew his insurance, and applied to Mr. Waddell, who gave him a printed form, which Mr. Mackie subsequently discovered was for the European Company, not for the Commercial. Be wrote to Mr. Waddell, saying that he did not wish for any change in the office, and asking for an answer, which was not sent. Two days after his mill was burnt down, the damages being more than £3,000. After some delay and correspondence, the European Company refused to acknowledge the claim, declaring the defendant's letter to be a repudiation of the policy. The Vice- Chancellor strongly censured the conduct of the defen dants, declaring that the defence ought never to have been set up. There must be a decree. A PICTURE DEALER.—In the Second Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday, the case of " Mordaunt v. Palmer" was concluded. The plaintiff is a picture dealer in Sheffield, and the defendant follows the same business in St. James's-place, London. The question was whether certain pictures sold to the plaintiff were genuine. Evidence was given to prove a custom among picture-dealers of affixing the names of eminent artists to paintings not painted by them, by way of description, not as warranting them genuine. The judge, in summing up, condemned this custom, and . the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £72. ELECTION SERVICES.—In the Second Court of Common Pleas, the case of " Stevens v. Hoare" was tried on Tuesday, by a special jury. The plaintiff, a surveyor, residing at Hammersmith, brought an action for £42, the value of services rendered to Si. Henry Hoare, M.P., for Chelsea, at the last election. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. A PAINFUL CASE.—A young man in the employ of an undertaker was charged with being drunk while carrying a coffin. As he only gave a confused account of himself, he was taken to the station, and the coffin sent to the workhouse. The father of the deceased child was much distressed, and stated that the deceased was his daughter, who bad died in the German Hospital. The undertaker sent one man instead of two, and the defendant was overpowered by the weight of the coffin. Mr. Vaughan thought that the police had not exercised a proper discretion in the case. The defen dant was, no doubt, much exhausted, and bad taken too much to drink, but the police ought to have sought out the undertaker and the father of the child, instead of locking up the defendant and sending the coffin to the workhouse. His Worship discharged the defendant, and desired that the coffin should be restored to the father, HONOUR FOR A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOL—His Majesty the Sultan has appointed Mr. Thomas Chenery, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford, to be a Member of the Second Class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidid. A RESPECTABLE FARMER IN THE HANDS OF THE Law.—A telegram from Cork says :—" At Mallow Sessions a respectable farmer named Callaghan was com mitted for trial for assaulting and attempting to disarm a sergeant of the 39th Regiment in a train between Cork and Mallow, and for using seditious language." THE ORDER OF THE BATH.--Her Majesty held a private investiture of the Order of the Bath on Tuesday at Windsor Castle. The new Knights Grand Cross are the Earl of Lucan, General Sir J. Yorke-Searlett, General Sir G. Buller, and Admiral Sir A. L. Kuper. At the same time the Queen held an investiture of the Order of the Star of India, when Lord Monck, Earl Grey, and Earl Russell were honoured with the riband and badge of the first class. Several knights commanders of each order were also introduced and invested. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. MINISTERIAL DIVISIONS. A newly-started Conservative paper, the Western Mail, states that there has been a quarrel in the Cabinet, in consequence of Lord Granville's conduct of the Irish Church Bill in the Upper House. The usual Cabinet Council was held at Bruton-street, in consequence of Lord Granville's indisposition, and " regret was expressed that Ministers had opposed the Duke of Cleveland's amendment after the decision on Lord Salisbury's, the main object of Ministers being the passing of the bill and the conferring of advantages on the Roman Catholics. On another point Ministers are exceedingly wroth. Mr. Glad stone and Mr. Bright declare that the concession of Earl Granville to allow the Irish bishops to retain their seats in the House of Lords for their lives is opposed to the principle of disestablishment." No journal, except our Cardiff contemporary, seems to be in the secrets of the Cabinet. MR. BRIGHT AND THE REFORM CLUB. There is no probability of peace being restored between Mr. Bright and the club which has so long been almost his home. As the facts of the case become known, the surprise increases that Mr. Bright should have proposed his nominee, who, it appears, has been for three years a resident in London, and certainly was not entitled to temporary admission as a stranger. Mr. Bright seems to think that he must submit to authority only when its exercise is agreeable to himself ; yet it is diffi cult to understand how a club, or any Government, could be carried on if individuals, instead of submit ting to the laws, or endeavouring to improve them, acted in defiance of authority. The Reform Club has called a meeting for the 22nd instant, with a view to revising its system of election; but it is to be feared that the course taken by Mr. Bright will not facili tate a settlement of the question. The right hon. gentleman has taken refuge in the Athenaeum, by the rules of which•club he obtains admission as a Cabinet Minister without election. A NEW CLUB. The Liberal party contemplate following the example of the Conservative, and forming a Junior Reform Club, which will bear the same relation to the Reform that the Junior Carlton does to the Carlton. It remains to be seen if the Liberals will vie with the Conservatives in the size and splendour of their new habitation. THE PROSECUTION OF THE DIRECTORS OF OVEREND. GURNEY, AND CO. After passing through many stages of difficulty, the prosecution of the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. is postponed for the present, and with the prospect of being properly conducted to its issue in November. First decried as needless and vexatious, the case was brought before the magistrates, and the defendants were committed for trial. Subsequently the cause was removed into the Court of Queen's Bench, and circumstances became so complicated that the action seemed destined to fall to the ground. It has, however, surmounted these difficulties in the Queen's Bench, and yesterday the Attorney-General applied for a postponement of the case, stating to the court that he " believed he was about to be instructed to prosecute." Sir John Coleridge, on the part of the defendants, though dwelling on the cruelty of a post ponement, did not press his opposition to it ; and the Lord Chief Justice granted the application. CONCURRENT ENDOWMENT. Another protest is made by a clergyman against concurrent endowment. The Rev. J. C. Ryle publishes a letter, in which he says :—" If we must either pay the Roman Catholic priests or be prepared for complete disendowment of the Protestant Church, I have not the slightest hesitation about my answer. I would rather see the whole United Church of England and Ireland disestablished and disendowed to-morrow than see Roman Catholic priests paid by the State." MORE HONOURS. There are rumours of the dispersion of more honours. The Premier is said to be contemplating the creation of another peer and a new knight. Mr. Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, member for South Northumberland, who has represented his present constituency since 1852, is the one who, it is stated, is to be raised to the Upper House, and Mr. Cowen, M.P. for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is to receive the honour of knighthood. At least so the Birmingham Post declares. THE TRADES UNIONS BILL. Mr. Harrison, a well-known member of the Trades Unions Commission, has written to the Star on the Trades Unions Bill. He maintains that the public are the most. interested in the bill, for it will give them guarantees for good conduct in unionism which they have never yet had. Most of the evils of the system have, he believes, arisen from its want of publicity and legal recognition. The effect of the bill will be to leave all crimes which arise from dis putes as to labour to be dealt with under the same laws as similar crimes arising from other disputes. As to the protection accorded to the funds of the unions, ample proof has just been given that such protection is needed by the case of the amalgamated carpenters. The Chief Justice has pronounced the most creditable society in the king dom to be incapable of prosecuting a thief. Mr. Harrison points out that there is a great difference between protecting the unions and allowing them to be incorporated. If they were incorporated their laws must be enforced, how ever unreasonable or harsh. Unions are clubs which desire to manage their own affairs, and which neither the State nor the courts can manage for them ; but this is no reason why they should be robbed, nor why they should not have facilities for holding property. FREEDOM OP SPEECH. A public meeting was held in St. James's Hall, on Monday, convened by the Protestant Electoral Union, in vindication of freedom of speech and the liberty of the subject. The object of the meeting was to take into consideration the illegal imprison ment of Mr. Murphy and other lecturers. Mr. Newdegate presided, and said that he had come there because he thought that grave constitutional prin ciples were at stake. The Mayor of Birmingham had violated the right of free speech and free dis cussion, in the arrest of Mr. Murphy, and he condemned his course as arbitrary, unjust, and without precedent. He intended to bring the matter under the notice of the House of Commons. Some resolutions were unanimously passed condemn ing the interference of the Home Secretary with the right of meeting, and disapproving of the conduct of certain local authorities who had interrupted persons about to attend a lawful meeting. Petitions to both Houses of Parliament were adopted and the proceed ings terminated. THE REPRESSION OF MENDICITY. That very hard problem, how to repress men dicity, is again under discussion. Another of the already numerous conferences has been held, under the presidency of Earl Grosvenor, to consider the subject; and it has been determined to form a repressive committee for London. The plan recom mended for adoption in all districts is already in operation at Blackheath, and less successfully at Marylebone. The inhabitants determine to give no relief themselves, but send an applicant with a ticket to a central office, where inquiries are made before money is given, and the amount bestowed is regu lated by the manifest need. POSTHUMOUS DISPOSITIONS. The question of the disposition of posthumous pro perty was discussed by the Society of Arts on Mon day, at a meeting under the presidency of Lord Stanley. A paper read to the meeting by Mr. Hob house, Q.C., contended that property did not belong to the dead ; and that the living should control it, not the will of the deceased. He advised that a public board should be formed to take under consider ation all gifts to public uses ; to decide whether they should take effect, and to control them afterwards. Lord Stanley rather demurred to the full extent of such an argument. He, however, admitted that there had been much abuse in the management of public charities, and deprecated a too scrupulous adherence to the terms of obsolete endowments. No one would contend (he said) that the State had not a right to interfere in the government of a charity which had been abused and where charities h a d f a il e d i n t h e i r objects the State ought to assert its power by appro priating them to other purposes. A NEW SUGGESTION ON THE ALABAMA DIFFICULTY. The controversy between England and France has been so thoro ug hl y exhausted that a new idea must be regarded as quite a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the New York World may fairly claim credit for suggesting, in connection with the Alabama difficulty, a mode of settlement which is both original and worthy of consideration. The World abandons the idea of claiming damages for England's recognition of the South as a bellige rent State. Such a claim is both illogical and im practicable. Every sovereign State must decide for itself when a rebellion has attained such proportions as to become a war, and the English Govern ment, in according belligerent rightsto the South, only exercised a common international right. Moreover, Russia and France also recognised the South, and a claim on this ground against England must be, accompanied by a similar demand upon other Euro pean States. The Americans themselves have been by no means backward in exercising the very privi lege of which they now complain. Rejecting this untenable theory of damages, the World confines its scheme to the actual depredations of the Alabama and other cruisers. With respect to the former, it thinks the breach of the neutrality law was so clear that there can be no need for arbitration. The American people can never be convinced that in, respect of the Alabama's escape: there was not wilful negligence on the part of the Customs authorities, and a languor of action on the part of the Crown law officers. for which liability ourtht ar Wee - to be' aliaidailoidgßG aarec — American holds that the British Government ought to acknow ledge, without reference to arbitration, its liability for the depredations of the Alabama. If this were done, accompanied by England's regret, the doings of the other Southern cruisers, which leave more room for doubt, may be referred, and the question thus settled. But that our liability in the case of the Alabama admits of no doubt is, according to the World, the fixed judgment of the Americans. The proposal is new, is much more moderate than any other we have had of late, and, most important of all, it is supposed to represent the views of Mr. Fish, the successor of Mr. Seward. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The genial weather is producing the genial farmer. Gloomy and rather crusty a little while back, when the rain threatened to destroy his hay and to spoil his wheat, he is now more hopeful, and his organs in the press tell us that the period of anxiety has not been so very damaging after all. The Chamber of Agriculture Journal, with regard to wheat, says that " the blooming time has been passed under favourable conditions," and though our contemporary is pre pared for great variations in quality and quantity, and does not speak very decidedly, it is confident that hot weather will pro duce an improved crop. The Mark Lane Express is hardly so sanguine. The wheat bloomed, the Express fears, at a most ungenial time, and now there are indications of rust on the ear. " The barley, too, is threatened, and looks bad ; and so do some species of oats." The South-West, however, seems to be: free from the causes of despondency which are noticed elsewhere. The report to the Mark Lane Express from Exeter: contains the passage, " Farmers say their wheats promise well, and so do beans, peas, and oats." THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society opens on Monday, at Manchester. The Exhibition ground is eighty acres in extent, and belongs to Sir Humphrey de Trafford. It is perfectly flat, so that the show yard will have none of the charms offered by the sloping ground at Plymouth,with its magnifi cent view of sea and moor. The Prince of Wales is the president of the society, and the following gentlemen are the stewards of departments :—Live Stock : Mr. Wells, M.P., Mr. Davies, and Mr. Jacob Wilson. Implements : Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., Major Wilson, and Mr. C. Wren Hoskyns, M.P. (steward elect). Finance and Show-yard Receipts : Major General Viscount Bridport, Colonel Kingscote, M.P., Mr. Bramston, Mr. Randell, and Mr. Torr. Forage : Mr. Davies. General Arrangement of Show : Mr. Brandreth Gibbs. ANOTHER LINE TO BRIGHTON. The engineers will have a third line to Brighton if they can; they-want only the means. Another line is now proposed. Mr. James Samuel, M.1.C.E., has issued his plans for a competitor to the present company. He advocates frequent light trains and improved carriages, and thus hopes to reduce the working expenses. He proposes to start from the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway at Penge station, and follow the course of the line for which an Act was obtained in 1866 by the Chatham and. Dover and South-Eastern Companies (but since aban doned) for a distance of about twelve miles to theend of the Tatsfield Tunnel. Thence he would proceed to Oxstead, crossing the mainline of the South-Eastern Railway a little beyond Godstone station. He would then cross the East Grinstead line about two miles to the west of East Grinstead, thence by West Heathley in a nearly direct line to the west corner of Chailey Common, crossing the Keymer Branch Railway near Chiltington, and the Lewes line near Falmer, running nearly parallel with the latter, and terminating close to the Grand Parade of the North Steyne at Brighton. The length from Penge to Brighton is 45f miles, from Ludgate-hill to Brighton 521 miles, and from Victoria Station to Brighton 52i miles. THE GRACE OF OLD AGE. Old age is now a requirement in a clergyman. Witness an advertisement in the Times :—" The trustees of a small country living are prepared to appoint a rector. He must not be under 75, with unexceptionable references. Grons income about 2300 a year; population, 150. Good house and garden. Church recently restored. Apply to Clericus, &c." For every wrong, say the lawyers, there is a remedy. Is there no wrong done to the parishioners to whom the gentleman over 70 is to administer the comforts of religion ? These scandals, much more than those to which the attention of the public is being directed by rival associations, are afflicting the Church. THE UNIVERSITIES AND WOMEN. The University of Cambridge has lately enlarged its sphere of influence and usefulness. The principle, first adopted some fifteen years ago l of examining candidates not members of a university, and in other places than a university town, has been extended from schoolboys to schoolgirls. The result in the first case was so satisfactory, was found to give so much precision to tuition, thereby affording both teachers and taught just the one thing they needed, that the women who have lately been claiming greater rights for their sex asked that the examination might be extended to girls. They saw well enough that before the " rights" can be granted there must be an increase of qualifications. If women obtain the franchise at all, it will not be until they have received a very different sort of education from that which the report of the Schools Inquiry Commission chews they have been receiving hitherto. Hence it is that at this present moment girls over 18 years of age are undergoing examination at Leeds and London by examiners from the University of Cambridge. A LAW THAT WANTS ALTERING. Mr. Shapland, of Southmolton, calls attention to a law which, as he rightly says, very much wants altering. Recently a lad was brought up before the magistrates charged with stealing leather scraps worth 2s. The magistrates said they had no alterna tive but to send the lad to prison. Mr. Shapland, as his attorney, called the attention of the Bench to the 108th section of the Larceny Act (24th and 25th Vic., c. 96) which provides that where any person shall be summarily convicted before a magistrate of any offence against the Act, the magistrate may dis charge him on making satisfaction to the party aggrieved for damages and costs. The magistrates said that the section did not apply to the Act under which they were acting, 18th and 19th Vic., c. 128. Consequently, although the lad received a good character from his master, and was recommended to mercy, he was made a gaol bird for life. One cannot help wondering why the master should have taken the extreme step of placing the boy in the dock, when a reprimand would probably have answered the purpose of preventing the repetition of what was expressly stated to be a first offence. But if masters are thus severe in enforcing the law that is the more reason why it should be made as merciful as possible. Mr. Shapland proposes that a short Act should be passed declaring that the section of the first-mentioned Act should apply to the second. lIUMAN HYMNS. An old grievance is proclaimed in a new place, and the protest against " human hymns " made in the Scotch Free Church General Assembly is re-echoed by the convicts of the Irish Prison of Spike Island. The prisoners wanted their worship to be as free from earthly associations as possible, and refused to sing any but "inspired " lines. In this case the creed would seem to be better than the men. MR. DINNEY. The retirement of Mr. Binney from his pastorate suggests the reflection that there has been a great and happy progress of late years in Christian charity. It is not so very long ago that Mr. Binney declared of the English Church that it had destroyed more souls than it had saved. There w 9.5 nothing of this fierce denunciation in his farewell sermon. True he lamented and con demned the " Catholic" movement, but at the same time he bore witness to the fact that the Church was, by congresses and convocations and special services, and the popularising of her cathe drals, doing something to convert the heathendom of our large towns. And in this matter Mr. Binney is merely a type of theologians generally. Their zeal has increased, their bigotry has decreased. A THREE-LEGGED SPARRO W.—A sparrow with three legs was captured by some boys in North Sheilds last week. The third leg had five claws. The bird died shortly after being caught.—Newcastle Journal. BIRTHS. ST. AUBYN— On the 6th inst., at 9, Sumner-place, S.W., Mrs. Edward St. Aubyn, of a daughter. TAYLOR—On the sth inst., at Gayton Lodge, Wimbledon common, the Lady Jane Taylor, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BLARESLY—GARDNER—On the sth inst., at Christ Churcb, Battersea, Frederick William, eldest son of Frederick Blakesly, of Hampton, to Adeline, second daughter of John Gardner, of Sutton, Surrey. HAMILTON— SIMEON—On the sth inst., at the British Em bassy, Paris, Henry C. Hamilton, Esq., to Letitia,. daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Charles Simeon. DEATHS. BYAM—On the sth inst., at Westwood, Southampton, Sir William Byam, aged 77. CLINTON—On the 4th inst., at Heanton Satehville, North Devon, the Lady Clinton, aged 34. HALLAM On the 3d inst., at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Jno• Hallam, Esq., J.P., aged 57. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SHE Mee N 0.112, Strand in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Bliddlesex.-. 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