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GOOD FRIDAY EVENING, March 26.—GRAND PER FORMANCE of Handel's Oratorio, "THE M ESSIA ."—Full Orchestra and chorus, numbering nearly 250 persons. A rtistes 3ldlle. Rose Hersee (of Her Majesty's Operaj, Miss Palmer, Mr. Reed Larwill, Mr. Maybrick, and the celebrated basso Herr Karl Formes. The St. Cecilia Choral Society MO Voices). The Orchestra will include th 3 most eminent Performers from both Opera Houses, the Sacred Harmonic Society, &c. Leader, Mr. Ca.rrodus. Solo Trumpet, Mr T. Harper. Conductor, Mr. C. J Hargitt. The management would specially refer to the fact that this will be the first appearance in Oratorio for many years of the renowned basso, Herr FORMES, and . his Farewell Perform ance, previous to retirement from the Lyric boards. Tickets may now be had at all the Libraries. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.'0, BROWN .1 N D THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David Fisher. 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Jocularity appears to be the Order of the Day in regard to the tone of discussion, among the principal speakers at least, in the debate on the Irish Church Bill in the House of Commons. Mr. BRIGHT, at any rate, has so far followed suit in the wake of Mr. Dis- RAELI that his speech is plentifully interspersed with parenthetical indications of the laughter it provoked. Again, too, Mr. BRIGHT, according to his odd wont, is Scriptural in his facatiousness. Just as he likened his now colleague's isolation upon the subject of Reform —Mr. LOWE'S isolation that is—to a retirement into a sort of a Political Cave of Adullam, he has the questionable temerity-, now, to compare the declaration made a year or two ago at a public dinner, by the noble lord the member for King's Lynn, to the mysterious handwriting upon the palace wall at Babylon, the awful inscription which it required the prophet of GOD to interpret at the Feast of BELSHAZZAR. Otherwise than in this one instance, however, the drollery in which Mr. BRIGIIT repeatedly indulged during the course of his singu larly varied and effective speech of last evening was in the best taste imaginable. And what is more— often as he was humorous, he was far more frequently earnest and even impassioned in his ad vocacy of the great measure, in the preparation of which he himself doubtless participated more largely than any of his colleagues, always excepting, of course, the First Minister of the Crown, himself, whose individual work, of course, the Bill mainly is. Speaking of the growth of the measure under the deliberations of the Cabinet of which he is a member, the President of the Board of Trade remarked imme diately before the close of . h wr is h a e d n d l re l s o s o t k o atht ethHisougrseeoaft " I can assure the Hou se measure —nsalnasdt,,,evseanidingh,e, 4,have looked at it much more than the majority of members, because I have seen it grow from line to line, and from clause to clause, and have watched its growth and completion with a great and increas ing interest—l say when 1 look at this mea sure, I look at it as tending to a more true and solid union between Ireland and Great Bri tain." Here it was that occurred one of the most telling points—one, it should be said, entirely, in fact quite obviously, unpremeditated, when he added, "I see it giving tranquillity to our people"— whereupon the there arose a l aug h f rom Opposition, answere by loud cheering from the Ministerialist —Mr. BRIGIIT, pausing for an instant, and fixing a stern look upon the occupants of the benches from which the laughter had come, said, under bis voice, but with all the em phasis of severity—" When you have a better remedy, I at least will fairly consideriit." A remark followed, as a matter of course on the Government side of the House, by loud cheering. Then came the two clos- T m SUN, LONDON, 541 URDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, in g sentences of his address. Firstly, " I say, I see tr anquillity given to our people, greater strength to the realm, and new lustre and new dignity added to the Crown." And lastly these impressive words— . " I dare claim for this bill the support of all thought ' ful and good people within the bounds of the British empire, and I cannot doubt that it will be accom panied by the blessing of the Supreme in its beneficent results ; for I believe it to be founded upon those principles of judtice and of mercy which are the glorious attributes of His eter nal reign." It was almost like calling down the benediction of Heaven upon the gigantic measure, then under the consideration of the Legislature. Upon the close of Mr. BRIGHT'S oration, the adjourn ment of the debate until Monday evening, was moved by no obscure, member of the House of Com tnons—by no less distinguished or ICES conscientious an antagonist of the Biil than the eminent juriscon suit, whose personal objection to it was the sole reason why he was not elevated to the Wool sack upon the inauguration, in December last, of Her MAJESTY'S present Government. What is particularly noticeable already about the debate, night after night, in the House of Commons, for and against the Irish Church Bill introduced to Parliament on the first instant, by the Prime Minis ter of England in one of his most elaborate ora tions, is this—that the opposition raised against the measure is, after all, little more than a show, than the merest make-believe and pretence. The Leaders of the Opposition know that nothing will come of it, that the Bill is safe to be passed through the House of Commons, what ever arguments they may adduce against it. Similarly, of course, the Leaders of the Government have the consciousness upon them that it is safe, and that therefore it really matters little or nothing what they may say about it. Hence all that familiar touch-and-go jocularity upon which we have already cemtnented as cha racterising the principal speeches delivered upon this intrinsically most grave and serious measure-- a jocularity, at any rate, serving the good purpose of enlivening this memorable and historical discus sion. WHEN the great champion of the sacred union of Church and State, finds in the threatened dissolution a subject for laughter, the end is not far off. We do not blame Mr. DisnitEm for being funny on Thurs day night. We think that to be funny was the wisest thing which he could do. A year ago he attempted the grand heroic style, and the failure was so complete that he prudently resolved he would never try it again. It is bettor for men to laugh with you than at you. So the clever member for Buckinghamshire, being no longer bound by the restraints of office, but enjoying the freedom of Opposition, made up his mind to abandon the impassioned appeals to antiquated prejudices which no one more than himself despises, and, remembering the Horatian epigram about the value of ridicule, gave free vent to his natural disposition, threw the reins to fancy, and was as amusing as though he were answering Mr. - WHALLEY instead of pleading for a doomed establishment. The House expected quite another style of speech. Remembering the " foreign prince," the dangerous encroachments upon the tenure of the Crown, the conspiracy between the Ritualists and the destractives, and, above all, the fervid appeals in behalf of the above-mentioned " sacred union," members anticipated a speech full of fervour invective, passion, and fire. But Mr. DISRAELI is like a good singer. Encored, he will not repeat his song, but give another of a wholly different character. Ile felt that the high pitch of last year did not suit his voice, did not suit his face. It required all his bound lesss o nof Olympic laughter self-control a t s he o prevent appeared the an ex in plo character of a new Sir ROBERT INGLIS or Lord GEORGE GORDON. lie would not play that role again. He would take one in which he felt more at home. And so, trusting to his inexhaustible fertility of imagination and pungency of sarcasm, he came for ward, not as the great Protestant hero of these latter days, but as the polished, finished satirist, who makes it his object to ridicule the beliefs of others. How far the gentlemen who sat behind him approve this change of part it is not for us to say. It is conceivable, however, that they did not like it. They did not last November make fiery speeches, nor print hysterical placards illustrated with crown and bible and sceptre, in order to make the great controversy between light and darkness a tournament of rival wits. They looked for denunciations, and lo epigrams! for arguments, and lo jests ! They could not, of course, help laughing, for they are not Scotch men, and do not need trepanning to receive a joke. But reading over in the morning the brilliant witti cisms of the previous evening, they must have been painfully reminded of the comparison between certain kinds of laughter and the crackling of thorns under a pot. We do not mean to say that Mr. DISRAELI used no arguments. A speech of over two hours all jokes would be like a cake all sugar. It was neces sary to set off the wit by a little discussion, to give flavour to the rhetoric by an infusion of logic. But the leader of the Conservative party avoided the arguments most familiar to his followers. There was that most humourous picture of three sets of clergy, all discontented because all disendowed. There was the vision of perplexity, called up for Mr. GLADSTONE'S special advantage, the vision in which the Church would absolutely refuse to assist him in reorganising itself, and throw upon him the burden of looking after all the church fabrics and rectory houses and glebes. There was, however, with two exceptions, no resort to the old weapons. The duty of maintaining pure the light of the gospel in Ireland, the duty of maintaining Pro testant ascendancy in order to keep down Popish error, the duty of preserving the Act of Union, and all the other venerable engines of the Tory and Orange armouries were thrown aside. Mr. DISRAELI did so far condescend to the pre judices of his party as to argue in behalf of a State religion, though he carefully avoided enter ing upon the question as to how there could be any advantage from the State supporting a religion which the nation abjured. He also dwelt at some length upon what he called the policy of confiscation. It is on this point alone that it is necessary to com ment. All the rest was sparkling, brilliant, clever, but not intended for any purpose more serious than that of enabling the speaker to damage as far as possible the Ministerial proposal without committing himself to the defence of a position which he knew to be untenable. What is meant by confiscating the revenues of the Church ? In order to understand, we must have a definition of two terms, " Church " and " confisca tion." Mr. DISRAELI'S theory is that the Church is a definite permanent corporation, with rights of property as inalienable as those of any private pro prietor. It would be difficult for him to establish that theory. The Irish Church consists really of a number of corporations which, for the most part, have no rights of property beyond the lifetime of those who now hold it. This is proved by the fact that Parliament has dealt with this property in time past as it chose, has taken it from the Church of a large majority of the nation and handed it over to the Church of the small minority. What Parlia ment had power to do in the sixteenth century it has power to do in the nineteenth. Moreover, while the first transfer was essentially an unjust act, and accomplished in accordance with the policy of the time—the policy of coercing the Irish into loyalty— a re-transfer of the revenues to their original holders would be perfectly just. There are other circumstances which prevent this trans fer, although it is one which Mr. DisnAELI would, if we are to judge from his speech, like to make. Another course has to be adopted. If England will not sanction the diversion of the Church funds to Roman Catholic uses, it has no objection to their diversion to Irish uses. And here we come to what is called confiscation. It is no more confiscation than that change which occurs whenever the -Charity Commissioners order that the funds of a charity which can no longer fulfil the objects set forth in the trust shall be applied to objects having the nearest possible similarity to them. In fact, Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure even less deserves to be called confiscation than does the order of the Charity Commissioners. Had he pro posed to use the funds in purchasing railways and draining bogs, there would have been some ground for the charge; though even those uses would have been better than the handing over the Church ' property to private persons, as happened at the Reformation. But he does not propose that; he does not even propose to apply the Church funds to a purpose akin to those for which they were originally destined ; he proposes to apply them to one of those very pur poses themselves. The relief of the sick was as much one of the objects for which Church endow ments originated as the teaching of religion. It has been found that the funds are far too large for the second purpose, just because the great bulk of the people refuse to accept the teaching. It is therefore not only expedient, but strictly just and wholly in accordance with the original purpose, to apply the surplus to such religious uses as are available for the whole people. • 1869. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, March 19. •The rumours of war frequently do great injury, but in this instance they have produced at least one good effect. The French people some years ago discovered that foreign conquest does not necessarily imply domestic bliss, and they have accordingly received these rumours with a very unanimous protest against war. As I have previously remarked, the great majority of the candidates for the Corps Ldgislatif have decisively pronounced against war in their addresses to the electors. In this respect at least they represent to the letter the spirit of the nation at large. The Frenchman may love aggrandisement abroad as much as ever, but he is certainly not inclined to , pay such a heavy price for it. Recent expeditions, too, in search of glory have produced anything but a satisfactory result. There can be no doubt that public opinion is now generally on the side of peace. The Opposition journals— which are the only papers read by the masses—arc mostly against war, the Libertj being the chief and almost the only representative of the opposite policy. Now the Opposition papers are not only read by the bulk of the nation, but they represent it, and are fat too prudent to write against a sentiment which is at once popular and wise. They see that the bias of French thought is in the direction of internal reform, not foreign conquest, and almost unanimously are they engaged in fostering this feeling. The people and their organs are united in demanding better government, more liberal institutions, and an end of irresponsible rule. As one of them says : "Of all the conquests of which France would be most proud is that of recovering by wise modifications her constitutional liberties, of becoming mistress of her own destinies, of no longer being obliged to consult oracles, or, to speak prosaically, to guess riddles, in order to know if some months hence she is, yes or no, to undertake a war of extermination against all Germany." There can be little doubt that this fairly represents French public opinion. The war of the future will be a war against Imperialism. This is no vague general impression, but is the openly manifested spirit of the nation. It is rumoured that the unhappy Princess Charlotte is in a very critical state of health at present. Dr. Jenner has arrived from England in order to attend her. Amongst a great variety of unfounded political rumours one or two items of undoubted fact deserve attention. One of these is that the Chevalier Nigra is to be retained as the Ambassador at the Tuileries. The King of Italy has tele graphed to the Legation here that the reports of General Cialdini's appointment are utterly untrue. The second is that a marked change has of late come over Prince Napo leon. Formerly the ballast of the Empire, the great ad. vocate of peace, he is now observed to be on the most intimate terms with the war party. The fact may be of little significance, but it is eagerly noted. The most extraordinary project of a gathering of sove reigns and their consorts is seriously put forth ma positive fact by one of the journals here. The Viceroy of Egypt, lit is affirmed, is expected shortly. His - journey has been attributed to some projects of navy constructing, but, in reality, it has another objeit. Ismail Pacha, informed of the Empress Eug6nie's desire to be present at the inauguration of the Suez Canal, is coming over to invite her in person, and he will, according to this scheme, make a tour, inviting the sovereigns of the other leading States. "The affair has been arranged with the Prince and Princess of Wales, and hence it may concluded that Queen Victoria will also honour the ceremony with her presence. The war-ships which will accompany the Royal personages to this great international rendezvous will render it an imposing spectacle." Undoubtedly the assem blage will be imposing if it ever meets together. But I can hardly bring myself to believe that the Queen of England, who cannot undergo the fatigue of opening Parliament, is likely to find herself equal to opening the Suez Canal. The explosion at the Sorbonne is still the topic of the hour. Thousands of people visit the scene daily. The number of deaths has been increased by two : one a girl whose ribs were broken by one of the flying fragments, the other a woman who was crushed by the fall of a beam. One incident which occurred during the first moments of the disaster shews that even a catastrophe of this kind does not always induce human nature to display only its better feelings. One of the tenants of the house had in a portfolio different securities of the value of £2,000. Ire was absent at the moment, his wife, child, and a servant girl being alone in the apartment. These persons were all saved from the windows by ladders. The mother carried the infant in her arms, and entrusted the portfolio to the woman. The latter in her descent, how over, dropped the treasure, and on looking for it after reaching the ground found,that it had disappeared. The collection of pictures kept by M. Delessert is being sold by auction. They are fetching enormous prices, for indeed the collection was one of the finest ever got together by a single amateur. It includes one real Raphael which is, of course, deemed the gem of the collection, though there are many finer pictures. "A Dutch In terior," by Hooghe, fetched £6,000, and "A Fish Market," by Teniers, rather more. The sum realised the first two days approached £55,000. The British Medical Journal states that by special order of the French Minister of Instruction Miss Garrett, licentiate of the Apothecaries' Societies of London, has been admitted to and successfully passsed the first of the series of five examinations for the degree of doctor of medicine, without being compelled, as usual, to reside and attend tho courses. Three other ladies are being educated in the medi cal schools of Paris. A severe contest is anticipated at Blackburn when the now writ is issued. Mr. J. G. Potter, the defeated Liberal candidate at the late election, will bo again in the field, having probably for his colleague Mr. John Morley, editor of the K rtnightly Review, and Mr. N.J. K. Shuttloworth, who contested North-East Lancashire in November. The Conservative candidates will most likely be the sons of the late members, Messrs. Hornby and Feilden. The Pall Mall Gazette ssys Captain Ifozier, it is said, will offer himself to the constituency on Liberal Conservative principles. At the Manchester Assizes on Thursday Mr. Justice Lush and a special jury were engaged the whole of the day in a case in which Mr. Thomas Sagar, an ironfounder at Burnley, sought to recover compensation from the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, for injuries received by him in August, 1865, when travelling to Manchester. The engine of the train in which he was a passenger broke down, and an engine that was following dashed into the disabled train, the plaintiff receiving injuries, followed by paralysis, which, it is feared, will shortly prove fatal. The damages were laid at £lO,OOO, and the jury awarded £4,000. Mr. Beecroft, late member for the borough of Leeclit, died in London on Thursday, after a short illness. Mr. Beecroft was first returned to Parliament in June, 1857, and ho re tained his seat until the dissolution last year. He thcn re signed rather than go through the fatigue of a contest, and the result justifies the step he then took. Mr. Beecroft was a Conservative in politics, but he was highly esteemed by all parties in the borough. Ho was born in 1809, and was married in 1842 to the daughter of Mr. George Beaumont, of Halifax, who survives him. He was a West Riding ma gistrate, and a deputy lieutenant of the same division of the county. A very singular instance of the occasional absurdity of the Engliislt poor law has just occurred at Birmingham. A working man named Simpson, who had emigrated to the United States, sent for his wifeand eight children, who were being supported by the parish, paying their passage from Liverpool to New York. The guardians pa'd their expenses from Birmingham to Liverpool, amounting to £B, thereby relieving the ratepayers from a continu ous and indefinite expense, and bonefitting the family. Tho auditor, however, disallowed the charge, and the Poor-law Board refused to sanction it. The Board of guardians requested the chairman not to pay the money, and accordingly a distraint has been levied on his goods for the disputed sum. Dr. Petermann, the originator of the first German expedition to the north pole, announces, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that a second expedition is to leave Bremer haven in the first week of June. The expedition will consist of two ships, milled the Greenland and tho Germania. The object of this expedition, as of the former one, is to investi gate the polar regions along the coast of East Greenland north of the 75th degree of north latitude. It is to be provided with a strong scientific staff, and to pass the winter in the Arctic regions, so as to return by October, 1870. The Greenland is to serve as a transport, and also to keep up the communication with Europe, and will return this winter, having the Germania, to pursue its journey alone. The `surrey coroner has just held an inquiry at Ber mondsey res., ecting the death of Annie Burden, a dress miller, aged 23 years, who, it was alleged, was on Monday night wilfully drowned by Icing bushed into the Thames. Eliza Frewen, a young wOrnan, said she used to meet de ceased every evening. On Monday she was in the company of Harry Kent. There was a young woman named Eliza beth Smith with her. Coroner : Was the deceased a re spectable gir ? Witness : Yes ; she did not speak of Harry Kent as her sweetheart. Th:sy left me and Elizabeth Smith at eleven Ccl ek at night. They wont towards Dockhead. The deceased was not addicted to drink. On Monday night Harry Kent gave her drink. Harry Kent is a lightertnan. Kent led her away from the direction of her home on Mon day night towards the river. The coroner's officer said that a man had, at two in the morning, heard a man near the river cry out, " Annie, Annie, where aro you ?" Coroner (to Kent): I shall ask you no questions; but I shall bind you aver in recognizancee to appear at the next sitting of the ,:curt. If you do not come forward I shall issue a warrant for your arrost. The 99r9UorA42k_i 9.4 tJ,Q jowl MR. DISRAEL I'S SPEECH.. The Globe, speaking of Mr. Disraeli's speech, says of it: " Under many stimulating—under some unquestionably depressing circumstances, Mr. Disraeli opened the oppo sition to Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill. The right hon. gentleman had a splendid- audience, but the great Liberal majority, in view of which he had deemed it his duty to retire from office, now stood before him ; and, Although he was quite conscious that false issrtes had been raised, and that the bearings of the question were wig ply misapprehended, he was at the same time obviously conscious that, so far as the second reading of the bill was concerned, the judgment of the House was predetermined. His speech therefore, was framed, not so much with the object of controlling results, as of expounding and vindicating principles—not for the purposes of conflict, but of protest—not to command the majority on a division, but to leave to all time a testimony in support of views which, essentislly true and reasonable, were being impetuously sacrificed to the exigencies of party interest." The Express says : " Mr. Disraeli's grand parliamen tary display on Thursday eveninrcan only be described as phantasmagoric. It was one of those performances of a magic lantern and a white sheet which are apt to shake the nerves of a childish audience so agreeably, and to send them home full of a fearful joy to dream of all sorts of fantastic and horrible appari tions. One cannot help fancying that the most honest and devoted of his Tory followers must have directly felt in his heart of hearts that he was being made fun of, and that his dearest prejudices were being solemnly burlesqued." VIRGINIA. The account of a week's visit to Virginia by a recent traveller, given by the New York Round Table, does not convey a very favourable impression of the state of the country. The search for gold has been the ruin of the place, and the new men coming in from the North find it almost impossible to improve the land. Many of the com panies recently established have acted in so improvident a manner that confidence is well-nigh destroyed, and negroes and whites agree in looking upon Northern promises with suspicion. Almost every trace of war has disappeared near Fredericksburg, and the old Southern homes are being replaced by Yankee-looking houses. In Fredericksburg itself little change can be seen ; but business is not in a thriving condition. Some Northern men have been on the look-out for land, but the land owners are exorbitant in their prices, and at times unwill ing to sell at all. At Richmond great dissatisfaction is expressed that the North does not send more capital to reinstate the place. The men are quite willing, it is said, to meet the Northern men and do business with them, but the woman keep back, influenced by a kind of social league, which is hardly likely to last much longer. It is the opinion of one who holds an important place near the general in command that the Virginians are the Chinese of America. They regard every change as most injurious, and discourage all efforts to educate the negroes. The houses in Richmond are not in a flourishing condition, and Virginia carries out the idea of having been the martyr of the war, both in the appearance she presents and in the attitude she assumes. A week's visit to the Old Dominion will be sufficient to spew the traveller the chief points of interest, and will convince him that Northern men cannot get the South reconstructed by staying at home ; they must examine the question on the ground, and answer it if they cal. It was rumoured in Liverpool on Thursday that a young clerk in the employ of A cotton-broking firm in that town had abszondcd with a large amount of money. The young man, who has been missing since Tuesday last, is respectably connected. On Tuesday ho was sent with £l,OOO to pay an account, and ho has not since been heard of. We learn from Aberdeen that Mr. Fronde was on Friday installed as Rector of St. Andrew's University. Principal Tulloch p r esided, and in th e name of the Senatus conferred on the eminent historian the degree of LL.D. Mr. Froude delivered a suitable address to the students. A WOMAN CAPTAIN.--The ship Chieftain has arrived at New York from Calcutta. When five weeks out the captain (Maguire) was prostrated by fever, and his wife taking command brought the vess e l sa f e l y t o por t. r Mrs. Maguire, it is said, has sailed with he r h us b an d f or Several v y e e r a a r l s y , e a a n rs d knowsago, h w every ilei n opeand spar aboard commandship. of a brig, Capt a in Maguire with his crew were taken sick, and Mrs. Maguire navigated the vessel to port with scarcely any assistance. Professor Fawcett addressed his constituents the other night at Brighton, and, taking up the subject cf the Irish Church, he said: " Supposing the Lords threw out the bill, which he believed they would, he would recom mend Mr. Gladstone to advise the Queen to dissolve the House. If the Commons again passed it, and the Lords still p:osed it, if be were Mr. Gla Istone he would have another election. This course would increase the majority in the Commons and the country in its favour, and the Lords would see that they were pursuing an unconstitu tional course, and their resistance would be as futile and feeble as that of the weakest child attempting to stem the flow of a mountain torrent." THE RENTING OF PEWS IN HOUSES OP WORSHIP. —The Bishop of North Carolina recently spoke at - New York on the subject as follows : - --"Whatever tends to erect barriers between class and class, and to hinder the diffusion of religious truth among men, is opposite to the purposes of God and hinders the salvation of mankind; and these serious consequences seem to flow very certainly from the practice so prevalent among us of dividing the house of God into compartments, and then renting these to him who will pay most for them, and thereby making Mammon the porter to stand at the the door of the temple of God to open and shut as he is or is not propitiated by those who desire to come in ; for this is incontrovertibly the effect of the pew system. It gives the right of entrance into the sanctuary of God to the man with a purse ; but to hi m w ho, like the Apostles, is constrai ne d to say ` S il ver an d gold have I none,' its reply i s , th en ' I know you no t ; depart from me.' If you ha ve no money, you h ave no place in this house of God. For You there are no sacraments, no ministry, no worship. What, th e n, is its effect? That the gospel becomes one of the luxur i es o f the rich, and not the bread of lif e to hungry sou l s . What, then, follows ? That a Church—by which I mean a society of Christians—consistently acti ng on this system must estrange itself from the mass of the people and abandon them to religious ignorance and insensibility." REMARKABLE CASE OF SOMNOLENCE.—It is reported from Paris that a young man is now sleeping in the madhouse at Bicetre, and has slept soundly on for six months without waking. He was first admitted as an insane patient, seven months ago ; he had been a careful, bores'. painstaking clerk, and had saved up EGO by con stant thrift. Ile sallied forth with his money one day, and threw it into a mud-cart. He was then removed to Bi é e, fell asleep shortly after his admission, and has never since woke up. They have stripped him, flogged him with nettles, tickled the soles of his feet, administered medicines still stronger than their flagellations, but still he sleeps on, in a persistent somnolency, which the editor of the Gaulois, who has seen and shaken the sleeper, maintains he has never known to have been produced by the perusal of the Pat, t or of any other official journal. Nutriment is administered to the sleeper by means of a tube inserted in the nostrils. The doctors believe the sleep to be feigned, that it is all part and parcel of his insanity, and that he is a very wide-awake Young fellow ; but if his torpor be feigned, he must indeed be a most accomplished and per wicring actor, _ IVAPIIII7I TR0.211 THE STARS. The Daily New; has an article on the warmth rrom the stars. "It would scarcely be thought by most persons (says our contemporary) that the stars supply the earth with an appreciable amount of heat. Even on the darkest and clearest night, when the whole heavens seem lit up by a multitude of sparkling orbs, the idea of heat is not suggested by their splendour. It will, therefore, seem surprising to many that men of science should assign no inconsiderable portion of our terrestrial heat supply to those distant twinkling lamps. It is not many years since Professor Hopkins, of Cambridge, went even farther, and expressed his belief that if the earth's atmo sphere were but increased some 13,000 yards in height, so as to have an increased power of retaining the warmth poured upon it from outer space, we might do without the sun altogether so far as our heat supply is concerned. As a glass-house collects the sun's heat, and renders it avail able duri, , the time that the sun is below the horizon, so he held that the additional layer of air would serve to garner the warmth of the stara in quantities sufficient for all our requirements. But until lately all these views, however plausible they might have seemed, had not been founded upon facts actually observed. It has been reserved for these days in which discoveries of the most une:cpected kind are daily rewarding the labours of our physicists, to see that established as a cbrtainty which had before been founded merely upon considerations of prolethility. Mr. Huggins, the physicist and astronomer, has just published the results of a series of inquiries addressed to the actual measurement of the heat which we receive from the leading brilliants of the nocturnal sky. The instrument called the galvanometer, which has been made more or less familiar to many of us by the researches and 'lectures of Mr. Tyndall, was made use of by Mr. Huggins in these investigations. The instrument was fixed to Mr. Huggins's large refractor, so that the image of a star formed by the 8-inch object•glass might fall upon the surface of the ther mopile. It will give some token of the care required in researches of the sort to mention that the apparatus had to be left attached to the telescope for hours, sometimes for days, until the needle whose motion marks the action of heat had come to perfect rest. When the time came for making an observation, the shutter of the dome which covers the telescope was opened, and the telescope was turned upon a part of the sky near to some bright star, but not actually upon the star. Then the needle was watched to determine whether the change of position had produced any effect. If in four or five minutes no signs of change were shewn, the telescope was moves over the small distance necessary to bring the image of the star directly on the face of the pole. Almost always the needle began to move as soon as the image of the star fell upon it. The telescope was then moved slightly away again from the star; the needle was then seen to return to its place. In this way from twelve to twenty observations would be made upon the same star, so that no doubt might remain as to the motion of the needle being really due to the star's heat. In this way it was found that the bright Arcturus moved the needle three degrees in about a quarter of an hour. So did Regulus, the leading brilliant of Leo, the constella tion at present adorned by the splendour of ruddy Mars. Pollux gave a deflection of 1 degree ; but, singularly enough, his twin brother Castor produced no effect at all upon the needle. The splendid Sirius gave a deflection of only two degrees ; but as this star is always low down, and. so shines through a greater proportion of the denser atmospheric strata, it is not suprising that its heat should not be proportioned to its brilliancy." MR. ROEBUCK AND HIS LATE CON STITUENTS. The kanqueting room of the Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, was crowded on Friday, on the occasion of the presentation to Mr. Roebuck, the late member for the borough, of an ele gantly bound volume containing a highly complimentary address, and he was asked at the same time to accept, on the part of his daughter, Miss Roebuck, the sum of £3,000 invested in Three per Cent. Consols. Mr. Mark Firth, Master Cutler, occupied the chair, and the presentation was made by Mr. Alderman Fisher. Mr. ROEBUCK, on mounting a table to address the meet ing, was hailed with loud and oft-repeated cheers. " There are times," said he, "when emotion chokes utterance, and I at once confess that at the present moment that is my case. I have received such a warm reception, I have received so much eulogy—which I do assure you is to me very rare— that lam overcome. It is a new phase in my life, and this day is to me a great day. Well, sir, I feel myself now as if, in going along the journey of life, I approached pretty near to its end. I have arrived at a bill top from which turning round I look backward. To every mar. that sort of retrospect is a bitter thing—hopes disap pointed, wishes unfulfiiled, motives misinterpreted, calumny used. But still, in every desert they say there is an oasis, and I, looking back, see that bright spot in my career, my connection with Sheffield. That has been a bright spot, not simply by my act, but by yours. I came among you with a perfectly candid, explicit statement of what I intended to do—namely, to follow the dictates of my own conscience. That has been my rule through life ; and how have you responded to it? Why, for twenty years you did what the world, I have heard, calls bear ing with me.' People say you bore my eccentricities. I told the truth ; you bore with me in that. That was rather an honour to you. I truckled to neither party in the State, I was therefore hated by both. I have not changed through twenty years of political life. My views probably have been expanded by expe• rience, but is there anything wrong in that? I have not gained by my actions. I have never allowed personal interests to triumph. Dry life has been dedicated to my country. I have gained nothing for myself. I hope I have won aname—but what is in a name ? In a few short years I shall disappear. The chances are that my name will be forgotten. In this rush and hurry of the world, in the great mass of the people who come before the world's eyes, there are ten th ousan d chances to one that I shall be forgotten. But until Ido die I shall have the cheering spirit within me that through my life I have done my duty, and, doing my duty have won the applause and, I believe, the support of the best thinking of my countrymen. I may say, sir, that lam r : ccused of befog an egotist. I want to know on this occasion upon what I am to talk, if Ido not talk about myself ? Mr. Roebuck then went on to justify his conduct with his constituents. I brought a trained intellect to a business that required a trained in. tellect. I brought, as I have often heard it said, a fear less spirit. I feared nothing. I had no other expectation than the good approval of my countrymen if I did right. Well, then, I believe upon the whole, taken as whole, that my life has been a success. Though a defeated candidate I believe yet that I represent the thinking part of Sheffield. My mind is now attuned, I must say it, to a much calmer way of thinking. lam very happy, and I am very well. And although I have lost the seat for Sheffield, I do not think I have been degraded in the eyes of my fellow -countrymen. There are bright times in every man's life. However humble a man may be, there are times in which his heart bounds and springs, and he says to himself lam a man.' Well, that is exactly my present condition. I feel that though I have suffered defeat, yet this i s a glorious reward for a life spent in your service." Mr. Roebuck concluded by saying that he was hardly so great a man as he had been drawn by the speakers who had eulogised him. Referring again to his defeat, he said : " When last year I contributed a humble part, but still I did contribute, to bring into the electoral body of Sheffield something like 10,000 or 12,000 persons I struck a nail into my own coffin. The very men for whom I struggled, the very men who got a power they never had before, used that power against me. I believe that as time goes on, and they become more learned as voters, they will find out that they made a mistake. The time will come when they will say, That old man was not so bad a fellow as we thought him.' " A report that the South Warwickshire election petition would be withdrawn is authoritatively contradicted by the Birmingham Gazette. MAGISTRATES' CLERKS. —The office of clerk to the Liverpool borough magistrates is now vacant, and among the applicants are several gentlemen who are not lawyers. At a meeting of the Liverpool Law Society, it has been resolved—'' That, without any disparagement to the non professional candidates for the office of clerk to the borough magistrates, this society is of opinion that such office ought to be filled by an attorney, not only as a guarantee of legal attainments and social standing, but also because attorneys as officers of the courts of law are amenable to a summary jurisdiction in ease of misconduct." THE DONEGAL MuRDER. —The Daily Erivess publishes the following- particulars, the first which have yet appeared, of the recent outrage in Donegal :—" On Friday night last two of Lord Leitrim's bailiffs were riding on one horse in the neighbourhood of Pallyheirnan Cottage. Three shots were fired at them from the roadside. The first shot took effect, and dismounted one of the men, named Murphy, who was seated behind his companion, and, in the act of falling, dragged down the foremost rider with him. The horse galloped off riderless, which, it is supposed, led the assassins to believe that they had killed both. Murphy is the only man woundel ; the other escaped completely. Three slug:: were lodged in Murphy's head, but his life is not in danger. A gun was left at the scene of the outrage not discharged. On Sunday night another outrage was committed on Lord Leitrim's property hcyond Kilmacrenan. A house was fired into, and several slogs lodged in tia wall mad bedstead, whereon the inmates were aleeping.', ENGLAND BEYOND SEAS. One hundred and one year; ago the two British Secre taries of State, who until then had divided the world between them, were joined by a third. He was styled Secretary for the Colonial or American Department. Ominously enough it was in 1768 also that General Gates went to Boston. Nine years later he had captured the British army under Cornwallis ; fourteen years later the "Colonial or American" Department was superseded, fur our chief colonies had established their independence. For twelve years after that date, until 1794, the affairs of the colonies as well as of Ireland were entrusted to the Home Secretary, The great war broke out, the war in which colonies changed hands as rapidly as railway shares change hands to-day, and the colonies were then, appro priately enough, transferred to the newly-appointed Minister of War. Under his jurisdiction they remained all through that 23 years' battle of the giants which ended at Waterloo, and through the 39 years' peace which fol lowed. In 1854 we again had a continental war on hand, and by that time our colonies had so greatly increased that it was found absolutely necessary to separate two offices which had been held jointly until then, only because the post of Minister of War had long been extremely easy. It was because Czar Nicholas threatened to give the sick man at Constantinople his quietus that our colonies attained for the first time since 1782 the dignity of a separate depart ment of State. There is little fear that they will lose that dignity so long as they remain connected with the mother country. The post of Secretary for the Colonies is new one of those most coveted by rising politicians. Earl Granville, for instance, has scorned the luxurious delights of such ornamental posts as the " Privy Seal " and the Presidency of the Council, preferring to pass laborious days in Downing-street, whence he may rule the ten million subjects of Queen Victoria who inhabit England beyond seas. There are forty-eight colonies under the Crown. They lie scattered through every degree of latitude and longi tude, through every zone, from the Falkland Islands in the far South to the frozen regions of British North America within the arctic circle. They are of every age, constitution, and physical configuration. There is New• foundland, which we have held for three centuries. There is Queensland, which we have settled within ten years. There is Gibraltar with its strict military rule, and Victoria with a constitution more democratic than that of the United States. There are the snow wastes Of Labrador and the " cinder-heap" of Aden ; the spice groves of Ceylon, and the fur-trapper's run in the Hud• son's Bay Territory ; there is the rock-fortress of Malta, and there are the inexhaustibly fertile plantations of Jamaica; the continent of Australia, and the rabbit-warren of Heligoland. There are colonies which have been settled peaceably, colonies which have been ceded 137 treaty, colonies which have capitulated in war. There are colonies for planters and colonies for convicts; colonies for sheep-breeders and colonies for soldiers There are colonies in which the governor has to be content with a modest £5OO a year, and colonies in which he e njoys the income, and much more than the influence of, an English archbishop. All these peoples and nations and languages are governed in a two-fold way ;by themselves and by the mother country ; by governors and councils and assemblies, and by a Secretary of State, a Government department, and Parliament. The 48 colonies may be arranged in six groups : Europe, which includes Gibraltar, Malta, and Heligoland ; Asia , which comprises Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Straits Settle' meats, and Labuan ; Africa, by which we include the settlements on the West Coast, the Cape, and Natal, an d the islands of St. Helena and Mauritius ; America, whi ch , comprehends Bermuda, British G u i ana , an d th e F e liciano Islands, in addition to that great dominion which stretches from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island ; the Wes t Indies, by which are meant not only the islands, but also Honduras; and Australia, which consists of Australia proper and New Zealand. This division is not Oar' ried out in the Colonial Office. In that establish' ment there are eight departments; but four n i these are concerned with finance, registries, Pavii" . mentary papers, and similar matters. The rest divide the colonies among them. The West Indies have * department to themselves ; Europe and a part of Af ricib t. , go together. The E as t ern d epar t ment i nc l u d es no t on ly the Asiatic colonies, but Mauritius and British Columbia' The most formidable group of colonies is that which is PI under the supervision of the " North American an d Australian" department. While the Secretary of State and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary change with the Ministry, there are two permanent Under-Secretaries, with . out whom the work would be badly done. Sir Frederic Rogers, Bart., has filled his present post since 1 860 ' Previously to that he had a distinguished Career. He took a double first at Oxford, and carried off v arious scholarships and fellowships. After being called to t he bar, he was appointed Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies' a commissioner on the Colonial Land and Emigration, Board, and an assistant-commissioner for the sale et encumbered estates in the West Indies. Sir Frederi c/ Rogers was also for some years a journalist. Ills colleague' Sir F. Sandford, is also an Oxonian, and a first clasarnsr . He was appointed examiner at the Privy Council Office in 1848, assistant-secretary in 1854 ; was knighted for 1,15 services as secretary to the Commissioners for the Exhlb r tion of 1862, and was promoted to his present post at the end °f lastyear. But, though holdi ng th e mos t res p ons ibl e positions next to that of the Secretary of State, they are but novic e* in the civil service compared with three other gentlemen- Mr. Gordon Gairdner, the'chief clerk, Mr. Henry Taller' and Sir George Barrow, th e e ld es t sen i or c l er k s , have be en in the office for nearly half a century, the two first hal entered in 1824, and th e thi r d i n 1825. M r . Taylor , known outside official circles as one of our most e ccerci plished poets and essayists. Official life has not dest royed the imagination of the author of " Philip van Artevelde,o nor the fine critical power of the author of " Notes onl 3o ° lce. ,„ These gentlemen have for colleagues more than a score of; sistant clerks, jenior clerks,and assistant junior clerks. e or are also supplement ar y c l er k s, copy i sts, an d o ther tel l ee officials, making th a t o t a l personne l o f t h e C o l o nial °T. r, about 70 in numb e r. Th ere i s a t P ar k- street, WestrainP; ; a sort of succurs a l e t o th e chief office in D ow ning-str eet it is occupied by th e C o l on i a l L an d an d E m i gra tion U t 7 oo missioners, 11 in number. Beside, there are 15 ernigr o s d , officers, stationed at the p r i nc ip a l p or t s o f the kine , e Their duties are scarc e ly so h eavy as th e y m i g ht b the only colonies whi c h p romo t e i mm i gra tion fron United Kingdom by mean s o f th e i r p u bli c funds ar e l toria, the Cape of Good H o p e , N a t a l, N ew Zealand , Wi th Tasmania. One might h ave ex p ec t e d th a t Canada' its boundless unoccupied t err it or y, wou ld have attractions to that capital w hi c h s h e so greatly an The political relations b e t ween th e co lonies dt e mother country vary greatly in the degree of closelia- The colonies are of three kinds. There are first the er c i colonies, in which th e C rown h as th e en tire control er; legislation, and the administration is carried on LT °fli h c : under the uperl ision of the Home Government Su c ' s t - h r : Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Heligoland, and inanY ; la - W cr e o s w t n l r n e d s i t a s n up l o s n lan co d n s q ; ue a s n t d or h c er e e ssi t o h n e . authority ( I f w e othe r which that authority Crown coloni es in • statute. Such are Jamaica, British Columbia, West ancl Australia, the various 'West African settlements, vin the Falkland Islands. The se condgreat di/41°- • titutions, comprises colonies possessing representative ins but not r • esponsible government, and in which the vie has G no more than a veto upon legislation, but the ", s eo laws retains the control of public officers. In of are made by the governor with the concurrence cu. There ar e uxe,rono n n. of two legi s l a ti ve b o di es, o f w hi c h one , a t least, is reP reBs are Wive. In th e C a p e o f G oo d H o p e both bodies uct elective ; Barbadoes, Grenada, Tobago, Bah amas ' i' t he Bermuda the Council is nominated by the Cr 3syn ' f t he Assembly is elected. In Natal, Honduras, and dy West Indian I s l an d s th ere i s a s i n gle Chamber, Pilo nominated, partly e l ec t e d. Th e third principal c . 0 . 4° comprises those colonies whi c h possess representativeh.lcb stitntions and a responsible government, and iu the Crown has only a ve t o on l eg i s lation, and the ° t any Government has no control over p ublic offi 6 cer excel ) the Governor. Thi s c l ass i s made up o f our P ril2 colonies, those in British North America, and those Australia. l i t empire v e h d a has takengreet impetus long to under i r8 0 : theco lonistseu thitoo u tterli Tod regardless of the • theirrd wereown were buccaneers , the and th T e i 3wes were crfoierns dt _iv ors i rights of the aborigines. of less _ soon found that other powers would be as regard their rights, such as they were, and it became necessarl l'ou, place themselves under the authority and the protectionnf' the Crown. To that lawless age succeeded the Age grog'• Chatheanuggill regular fighting, the great wars were cap• when colonies g s ettle turgid and re-captured until the Treaty of 181' est possession soldiers, l w ,no s i O t es h e s u r Raleigh,a c l colo n ial ni a their destination. To that period belong the two lest minions of our colonies, the two which together COlatiot7. half of our colonial population—the Canticles and C e Y _ 0 'The great Australian colonies, which bid fair to surpnbe the rest in a very few years, belong to the third itge: the age of peace and labour, the ago not of the spear an sword, but of the pruning-book and the plougl'. • in It need scarcely be said that there is no proporto bas the colonies between area and population. Ceylon _, ulation; an area of only 24,700 square miles, and ap p ° OTC? 2,000,000, Queensland has an area of 6781 0 °gill is te Pile° , and a population of less than 90,000. But theg o o nave held Ceylon three-quarters of a century ; we er Bloreof settled Queensland only ' ten years. c e ylons large as is the total population in u na. ill there aro but some 3,000 - Xuroveans ; 0 ` - 7.1 011 Queensland nearly the whole of the inhabitants aroxleig own rate. It remains only to be said that the 01 P, o g ogee! more or less in governing this oinerlterbl. which the sun never sets, would le 5 a vorY 01 — „; ri otil • army, >L''ortnnatel~•, the duty of Inathan coy" 11 paying hOla for the most of the D r iti t thP 46, fall uPou the ovorbarcloted 1--- _ is r, • ''' -•---- ---- ---- Co Count, New £l,OOl £5OO, shut. Indi ditto Cent., 13; d. The Italian and 11 80 ex i have : 13onds 12i ; Rail and G don, i IVeste] doniau are T. followi Great Great WTestei South politan Bright 1161 Unit Twenti the I.& main NI for the i cent., m per cent year 181 the year taking years. At the Bank of director: Glared per aim The c the Atla than for to the .2 financial Americ u the shar company, and said meeting i nary shat reduction ideratior decided u At the Equitable that 3,08 twelve nal £16,293 i been add( amounts The rei Which has 2s. 61 pe A mee . Messrs. The stat( £26,000, wade. 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