The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-24 00:00:00

Wl' OF TILE ; PUBLIC :TOUILYALS. The Times remarks that when the time stall arrive for the historian to describe the real working of our Constitu tion he will have to devote a chapter to the representatives of big towns. No class in the House of Commons has more distinctly marked characteristics, and no class has such a principle of increase within it, threatening to swallow up less distinctly marked varieties of members of Parliament. The representative of a big town has, indeed, something in common with the county member, but their differences are clear and un mistakable. The county member has generally been governing all his life. He is put in the commission of the peace as soon as he becomes of age ; he attends sessions, is a member of the financial committee, a visiting justice, perhaps a chairman, besides presiding at the board of guardians in his own neighbourhood. The town representative probably possesses as much natural ability, but he has unfortunately, become a ruler of men only late in life. .Hence his most striking peculiarities. He is a singular inixture of strength and weakness. He has been in business from his youth, and is intimately acquainted with its details, but has never had time to reflect on its princi ples, and blunders in and out of economic truth and error with happy innocence. He is a Liberal, of course, but has a very faint notion of the basis of Liberalism, and is con tent fur Lis own part with accepting what most people think. Ignorant of the history of the past, of the experi vce of coutemperary nations, and of the precious results of political study, be is like a giant stronglimbed Lut en trained to use his strength ; with good intentions, yet wanting the means to direct his efforts; possessing native sense, yet liable to be beguiled by the first catching phrase, the first plausible suggestion that arrests his notice. The Standard observes that there have been many dis putes as to which has been the uuwisest act of the present Government. There can be none .as to which has been the wisest. The Prime Minister performed it on Tuesday night when substantially he cancelled the scheme for fixing the law courts in Howard-street, and left the ques tion to. the adjudication of a select committee. To Mr. Lowe in his horror at the commissioners,. and all that concerned them, it seemed an infinitesimal thing to throw away everything that ten weary years bad been Preparing for us, and propose beginning the whole affair de novo on a worse site. We may accept the recantation of Tuesday night as the admission of the most competent of autho rities that the House is wiser than its present leaders. It amounts to a double testimony—as much now from Ministers as formerly from their censors—that Par liament cannot follow a wiser principle than the one it accepted when it declined to leave the erection of the new law courts to. the unassisted responsibility of the Govern ment of the day. The important point is, whether - the Embankment site, with. its two facades on the river and Strand, offers the better spot fur a fine building. It is possible, perhaps, whatever the probabilities may be, to spend nearly the same amount of money and timein either situation if we intend to be prodigal, and it is not much worth contesting, if the Strand be thrown open equally to both, what amount of superiority either may have as to facility of approach or proximity of situation. The real question will be found to be—Does the Embankment offer such an advantage as a building site that we may incur the large scale of expenditure and relinquish all the ad vantages of the old investment in order to secure it? Io the opinion of the Standard there is no such superiority. The Post observes that the House of Lords was on Tuesday night led by Lord Romilly into a discussion upon the manners observed during its debates, the discussion of which, if it had no other result, chewed how difficult it is to lay down and toprocure theobservance of any inflexible rule in such matters, and how necessary it is to allow a degree of latitude varying with varying circumstances. Lord Salisbury suggested that the Peers "should abate somewhat of that jealousy which they manifest with regard to the noble and learned lord on the woolsack, and should place in his hands the power of keeping order" throughout the House. Lord Redesdale, however, and the Lord Chancellor himself, both pointed out that the position of the Chancellor, who is neither elected by the members of the House over which he presides, nor can be assumed to be impartial as between them, precludes the grant to him of the same absolute authority as is exercised by the Speaker of the Commons. Finally, Lord Beauchamp cited an instance to shew that even the subordinate officers of the House whose peculiar duty it is supposed to be to keep order are themselves sometimes even greater offenders than either the Peers or the strangers. Thus, as it appears that there is no authority that can be trusted to rule, and no executive that could be trusted to enforce its decrees, it may be that it will be better to leave the matter much as it is left now, to the good sense and good taste of all those who are concerned; and we trust that the result will be that the Peers will indulge in less of the " general conversation," and the gallery in less of that " applause," which are so depre cated, though we confess we should look with greater complacency upon irregularity in the gallery than upon irregularity among the Peers themselves, for the one is never provoked but by a good, while the other arises from a bad, speech. The Lail y News declares that Lord Cairns is too stiff and formal fur the smaller business of parliamentary leadership ; lie has not the intuitive and penetrating sagacity which would make him equal to its greater exi gencies. On the first testing occasion he has been found signally wanting. He has neither judgment which his followers can trust, nor the eager impulse which sways them. Coldly to echo their passion, and to give logical shape to their prejudice, is his office. In other words, Lord Cairns is essentially a follower, and not a leader. There is only .one man in the House of Lords who can rule and lead the Conservative party, and he is the Marquis of Salisbury. His endowments present such a blending of extrinsic and personal gifts, of merits and of - faults, of qualities which place him on a level with his party and of qualities which give him ascendancy over it, as marks out its possessor as the natural representative and chief of Conservatism in the House of Lords. But while Mr. Disraeli is at the head of the party, Lord Salisbury would probably feel some scruple at assuming the second place, and acting in concert with and subordination to his old colleague, and his older and newer enemy. Mr.. Disraeli may be on with the young Marquis as soon as he is off with the old Earl. He may acquire an influence over Lord Salisbury equal to his influence over Lord Derby. He is essentially a tamer of men. • subduing Lord Salisbury he may heal the discord of the Conservative party; .hut he will scarcely achieve this result on easier terms. • The liercela examines the return moved for by Sir Thomas Tiateson respecting agrarian crime in Ireland, and distinctly charges Mr. Gladstone and his colleagnes, but Mr. Gladstone in the first place and chiefly, with these "excesses." To them and to him, and mostly to him, is due sixty per cent. ofthe "other agrarian outrages" com mitted in Ireland since the Ist of last December. To them and to him, and mostly to him, is duo one hundred and sixty per cent. of the threatening letters sent during the same period. And, finally, to them and to him, and mostly to him, is due nearly five hundred per cent. of the agrarian murders, or five times as many asbut for theirpoliey and his would have been committed during the last eleven monthS. Ever since the springof last year Ireland has had the advantage of Mr. Gladstone's conciliatory programme, and this has been Ireland's reply. lie has applied his soporific, and three ghastly nightmares—only unhappily too real—have been the result. In plain language, Mr. Gladstone Las played the part of an ayedit pwocateur, and the result of his provocations is to be real in the dis tracting and perturbing figures we have cited. Ile has conjured up demons he will find it impossible to lay. or to lie shaken the 'foundations of law, authority, reverence, and property ; being, in Burke's words, aptly quoted in the debate, an admirable architect of ruin. The cheers of his friends, and the excitement of power, may for a time buoy him up in his work of iconoclasm ; but the time will come when, even if his own reawakened judgment have not already pronounced against him, his tory will visit his insane career with the severest con demnation. The Telegraph says that twenty years ago such a meet ing as that which was held in Exeter Hall on Wednesday, to support the Trades Union Bill which is now before Parliament, would have been almost a social and political impossibility. At that time masters stood aloof from their workmen. Each class regarded the other as its natural enemy. Nothing was more marked than the tone cf moderation which characterised the speeches of unionists like Mr. Newton, employers like Mr. Morley and Mr. Mundella, and members of Pat-Ha:lie:lt like .114% Hughes. In frank and manly words Mr. Morley told the unionists that some of their societies had been guilty of much fully, and had done much mischief. It is important that such language should be spoken, and spoken in the face of the working people, by men who s ympathise with their endeavours to repeal the legal dis abilities from which 'the operative class suffers. Already the trades unionists wield a mighty power, and to particeble branelnel of industry they may do irreparable injury by insisting upon impracticable conditions. Strikes, we admit, may sometimes be necessary. If, as Mr. Morley says, they are appeals to brute force, so are wars betseen nations; and when reason fails to produce its fruits such appeals may be unavoidable. But hitherto we have not given reason fair play. Mr. Mundella stood for ward at Exeter Hall as the champion of the organised conciliation, which, thanks to his untiring efforts, has beer. practised in some manufacturing towns with signal success. Now that the shackles of the combination laws are about to he struck off the arms of labour, and that the working classes will gain more freedom, it is more imperative that ever that, so far as possible, courts of conciliation should do the work heretofore clumsily and cruelly done by Sueh was the sentiment that animated the meet mg of Wetinesday night, and it cannot fail to eA.er, ise a 1.- influenee'on the del;' atiors of Parliament. THE JUDGE. THE COUNSEL, AND Til2 WITNESS. In the Probate Court on Wednesday rather an amusing scene was witnessed. The will of one Eleanor Gearing was in dispute, and her brother, John Jones, who was a legatee, was examined as a witness. From the first it was evident that some merriment would arise from his evidence, and the result was fully equal to the anticipations. The witness answered most of the questions put to him in a most impertinent and contemptuous manner, and was thrice threatened with committal by Lord Penzance. The following are some of the questions and answers : 2 - Dr. Spinks : Was your sister fond of drink ? Witness : No more than you are. How do I know ?—The Judge : Answer the question.--Witness (bowing to his lordship) : I'll answer you, but they want to rob me.—Dr. Spinks: Where did your sister live? Witness: You'd better find out. It won't do tocatch me.—Dr. Spinks: Did she live at Tottenham ? Witness : Scotland, no ; you ought to know better than that.—The Judge : I shah be compelled to commit you. Don't fancy this place is an exhibition.— Witness: All right, sir ; but they want to rob me, the thieves.—Cross-examined by Mr. Gibbons : Did you ever strike your sister ? Witness : What ?—The learned counsel repeated the question. Witness : No; God Almighty struck her.--The JUdge : I - really shall cons tnit you.—Mr. CiLbons : Did you ever knock some of yiur sister's teeth cot? Witness (putting on a most maliznant scowl) : No; She struck herself. (Pointing to the counsel) That does y4u.— The Judge: This is the last warning. You will find - yourself •in custody.—Witness: All right, my lord. I'll answer, but they must not try it on with me.—He was then further examined, and con ducted himself- in a most unbecoming manner ; but, for tunately, he had Lord Penzance, and not some of the other judges, presiding over the court. Of course the wit ness's conduct evoked much laughter 7 :AJV AND POLICE. THE - . NUISANCE OF 11A3ESIER-BEATING.—A singular action has just been before Vice-Chancellor James. The plaintiffs were clergymen and others connected with or interested in a Roman Catholic Church in Granby-row, • Manchester, and the defendant was Mr. Joseph Whit worth, the well-known gun manufacturer, whose works aro within a few yards from the church. The plaintiffs alleged that a large steam hammer at the works of the defendant has occasioned great annoyance to the plaintiffs and the con gregation, and interfered with the church services and the schools. Evidence was called on behalf of Mr.Whitworth to show that there was no foundation for the complaint, but ultimately it was arranged that the hours during which the hammer is to work shall be limited, so as to lessen the annoyance, if any, pending an action which has Leen instituted for the abatement of the " nuisance." THE BRITISH Horn FOR iNCURAELES.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a case was tried in which the plaintiff, who ivas lately an inmate of the British Home for Incurables, charged the managers with a libel upon her contained in a resolution of dismissal. Miss Hoare, the plaintiff, is the granddaughter of Sir George Rook, who took Gibraltar, and is 68 years of years of age. She was admitted an inmate of the Home in December 1865, her friends having bought her into the institution. She was elected by a majority of 100 over the other candidates. After she had been in the hospital a few months she was suspended for a month on a charge of speaking ill of the matron, but was subsequently acquitted. She complained that she was subjected to great annoyance and neglected by the matron. She remained in the Home until December 1866, when she was dismissed without any explanation. The Lord Chief Justice expressed some surprise at the statement that the plaintiff had been bought into the institution. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, for the defendant, said there was no such thing as a sale of votes. The plaintiff, in cross-examination, admitted that she had in former years brought actions against the Royal Naval Benevolent Society. against Captain Dickson, and against the editor of a nautical newspaper. The Lord Chief Justice left to the jury the question whether the defen dants had acted honestly, and the jury found a verdict for them. RAILWAY COMFENSATION.—III the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, a mechaniz, named Burton, living at Hacknall, near Nottingham, sued the Midland Railway Company for compensation for damages sustained in a collision near Mansfield, in December last. The plaintiff, who had not shewn any serious symptoms of ill-health until some time after the accident, Lad already received £lO from the company, in the belief that his injuries were of a temporary character. The jury returned a verdict for 2750. RECKLESS DRIVING.—In the Court of Queen's Bench a case arising from reckless driving has been tried. The plaintiff was the conductor of an omnibus, and was knocked off the vehicle by a van vhich drove close by. He was seriously injured. The Lord Chief Justice commented upon the danger of riding in the London streets, owing to the reckless driving of vans, and be also censured the practice of putting omnibus possengers dawn in the middle of the street. Damages were agreed upon. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT ALDER bROT.--PrivaLe 1 howas Katelcy, Gth (Inniskillinl 4 ) Dra goons, who was so frightfully injured at the cavalry field day at Aldershot ou Monday, expired at half past seven on 'rueiiclay evening. The body now awaits a coroner's inquest. THE DUKE OF GENOA.—The young Duke of Genoa, who is an inmate of Mr. Matthew Arnold's house at Harrow, has besides a house and a suite in London; he comes up to London every Saturday afternoon, accompanied by one of his suite, in order to attend to his religious duties, and to attend mass at some Roman Catholic chapel, on Sunday, returning to Harrow the same evening or early on Monday morning. He is reported to be a fine, tall, handsome youth, and he is beginning to speak English fluently. lie much likes hia new school, and is very popular among his companions. SEItIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —On Wednesday night, about half-past eleven, a very serious accident occurred at the New•cross station of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. A train, full of passengers, mostly licensed victuallers and their friends, was returning from the Crystal Palace, where a festival and dinner had been held in behalf of their schools, and while the train was motionless, and tickets were being collected, a goods train ran into it with much violence. A great number of the passengers were thrown down and against one another, and many serious injuries were sustained ; but at present no loss of life is reported. Some of the injured people were left at New-cross, their injuries being too great to allow of their removal, but the majority were brought on to London Bridge'. • On their arrival it was deemed necessary that three persons - Should be conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, but the remainder having had their weunds bound up were conveyed to their homes. The' injuries were mostly on their heads and legs. About twenty-five people in an injured condition were brought on to Lonan Bridge. A NOVEL FENIAN OATH:—A man named Hughes, lately a porter in one of the large mercantile houses, was arrested for having, while drunk, avowed himself a Fenian, and threatened to blow up the house of his landlord (a policeman). Wh.n he was searched at the station-house, a collecting card for a memorial to a man flamed Farrel, uho was shot at Tallaght, and a Fenian oath of a novel character were found upon him. The card, as a stimulant to liberality, Lore what purported to be the last words of the slain hero, who was stated to have fallen while exclaiming to his companions, "On, men ! On to thin front!" The oath was intended for the niembersof Fenian' Sisterhood, and pledged the recipient, in anypart of the world, and even on the field of battle, to perform all feminine offices for the soldiers of liberty ; to wash, mend, make, and cook for them, and to dress their wounds if neces sary. After the usual wishes for the prosperity of Ireland and the success of the cause, and the peculiarly feminine aspira. tion for a walk in the green fields with the Fenian boys, and " time to talk," the precious document concluded with the expression of a hope that the devil might pursue " Nagle who betrayed them, and Judge Keogh who hanged them, and that the hearthstone of hell might be their tombstone." It was signed "Naunie Egan." Hughes was brought vp on. Wednesday before one of the magi strates and remanded. SINGULAR COLLOQUY _ WITH A MAYOR.--At the Batley Petty V essions, on Wtdntalay, a man named Joe llincheliffe, a publican's groom, was charged with having partaken too freely of alcohol on the previous Saturday. When the case bad been substantiated by a West Riding police officer, the following friendly dialogue took place between his Wm - ship and the ." horsey" man : —The Mayor : Nab, Joe, tha'rt here agean. Joe : Ha, I'm here agean.—The Mayor : What's to beau doin' to get here agean ? What's ta bean gettin' druffen agean for Joe? Joe : I wor partly fresh, at least that chap (point-. ing to the policeman who had proved the charge) sez soa.— Tho Mayor : Well, tha' out'ut ta get fresh, Joe. Joe : I kno' I sudd-nt, but I canno' help it ; I'd lied nowt to ate, and I'd to en a sup o' gin to keep me warm.—The Mayor: Tha' owt to get more to ate an' less to drink, Joe. Joe : I sud by reights.—The Mayor : What's ta fur a Joe ? Joe : I's bean doin' a bit 0' groomin' fur Joe Lister fur a bite o' summat to ate.—The Mayor: Thal sud keep away fra them places, they've bean't ruin o' thee. Joe: I sod ; I know they hee.---The Mayor : Well, Joe, 'spose I let thee off, will ta cum here onny moor? Joe: Nut, John, I winuot. (Immense laughter, and loud cries of " Silence" by Superintendent Airton and Inspector Weatherbill).—The Mayor : Well, then, Fee dismiss.thee, tut if ta corns here onny mcor I'se recollect thee. The Waitllen CitiOCIP. 111ISC'ELLAYEOUS NETVS. PIGEON SHOOTING. We rejoice to see that the Pall Mall Gazette has taken up a subject to which we have repeatedly called attention. In one of its most cleverly sar castic articles, our able contemporary describes this " sport," which, once confined to a few sporting men of the lowest class, is now adopted by the highest class of the community, is spreading among all classes, and has foundits wayamongthe jeunesse doreeof Paris. The Pall Mall points out the meanness and the cruelty of this sport. It is worse even than the battue on the lst of September, for the sportsman does not even expose himself to the chance of getting a wetting or wearying . himself with a walk. Ire drives down in a faultless turn out, is dressed in faultless attire, and then slays to his heart's content the birds who have been taken from the cots where their young are left to die for want of the parent bird. But the saddest thing of all is that our high-born ladies, young, fair, presumably tenderhearted, are now beconSing every week in larger numbers spectators of - the slaughter. There is some excuse for the Spanish ladies who assist at a bull fight. The scene is, at least, exciting, there is room for courage and adroitness, and the loss of life is reduced to a mini mum. lint here there is simple murder, murder of innocent birds inettp,ble of defending themselves against coroneted ex plisitcs in kid gloves. HONOUR S. The Owl states. that Mr. Panizzi, late chief officer of the British Museum, is about to be made a Everyone will rejoice that this gentleman has so far overcome his late dangerous illness as to receive this distinction.—lt is stated also that Mr. Tite, M.P. for Bath, is to be knighted, for what par ticular reason is not stated. It is so many years since the Royal Exchange was built that it can. hardly be as architect of that not very successful edifice the hon. member is about to be raised from the rank of esquire. Nor is the Metropolitan Board of Works so much in favour that its parliamentary representative should be dignified.—Mr. Theodore Thring, who has just succeeded Mr. Perry as Com missioner of Bankruptcy at Liverpool, is the brother of Mr. Thring the draftsman to the Home Office, whose chef d'crurre was the Reform Bill of 1867. The salary is I-1,800 a year, but should the new Com missioner be disestablished by the Bankruptcy Bill, he is to receive compensation only as registrar. TUE- NEW LAW COURTS. The overtures for the purchase of the seven acres of ground known as the Carey-street site have been suspended until the select committee, just granted, has decided where the New Law Courts shall be built. The London and North-Western Railway are desirous of purchasing the site, in order that they may be placed in the same position as some of the other great railway companies, and have a station close to the Strand. ORDER IN THE ROUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Members of Parliament of both Ilouses have been called to order. The Tlouse of Commons has been warned not to howl down speakers with whom they do not agree; the Peers have been requested not to talk down members whom they do not care to hear. Thus the two great public meetings of the country have been told to behave themselves. Some members of the House of Commons are much grieved at being lectured in this way. One of them writes to the Telegraph contending that the order of the Lower House is admirable. Still he admits that now and again unseemly cries are raised, but these interrupti ons , h e says , come chiefly from the Conservative benches. Anyone, however, who has spent a night in the House of Commons will remember how continually the sharp, quick cry of " Order, order," has had to come from the Speaker, and how when a dull orator has been giving his opinions to the House it has been difficult to catch his words because of the loud talking going on upon all sides. To keep the behaviour within bounds the Speaker is given authority over the Commoners; but the Peers preserve their own order. There is no chairman properly so called. The Lord Chancellor is so in a sense. He presides, but each member is respon sible for the maintenance of judicial quiet. The sense of responsibility does not, on great occasions, keep the Lords more orderly than the Commons. Another element of noise is added by the number of non-members of the House. There are the peeresses in the gallery, the sons of peers on the steps of the Throne, and the strangers in the uncomfortable gallery allotted to them. The ladies, it is complained, were fidgety; and a learned professor, a high ecclesiastic, who has no connection with the House is said to have acted as ftigleman during the late debates, leading the cheers and the groans. No wonder their lord ships complained : but the steps to prevent a recur rence of the disorder may easily be taken. Let officials be ordered to keep strangers quiet, let each nobleman give his wife and drin;hters instructions not to be restless when they come down to the House, and let the peers restrain their impatience during a poor speech or a d!sarfreeable arpment, and, if need be, give 41 4 ,3 Lord Chancellor power to insist on orti THE AILZIV.II. OF THE V:CEPOY OF EGYPT. The Viceroy of Egypt has arrived in th7s country, and it is to be hoped frill be treated w:th the hospi taiity which his reception of the. Prince 'pf deserves. His re.l..eption at Charing-cross Alltion: is, hardly promising. When our Prince v:site I him, whole of the Khedive's household was kept on the qui vice, so that the Prince might be received itninedi.itely on his arrival. But on Tuesday n'ght the Viceroy remained in his raiLvay carriage_ for some time waiting for the Prince of Wales to welcome him. The state carriages were there, it is true, - some Fleets • Fusilier Guards happily arrived in time to form a line before the train glided in, and the band Was.ready to Strike up the Egyptian Hymn ; but . the picket Which was to have cleared the way, and the Life Guards, who were to have formed the escort, did not come up to the station till the Viceroy was nearly at Buckingham Palace. A very unimposing procession of foar state carriages, preceded by a single mounted police in spector, took the Viceroy to Puol,inghain Palace. THE COTTON TRADE OF INDIA. On Tuesday a deputation from Blackburn waited upon the Secretary of State for India to urge upon the Government the importance of developing the cotton -producing resources of British IMILL. Tl.ey also desired that the import duty might be repealed to further the. interests of Jh:tish maaufactunrs. The Mayors of Manchester and Bolton, and several of the Lancishire members, were amon.; the deputa tion. The Duke of Argyll said, in re:dy to the various statements that _wer e made, that t'!,e Goveru ment.had the rints'.ion beforz them, and they were anxious. to promote the growth of cotton. With regard to the tariff, the Government re4Wred the revenue that was obtained from all sources, and he could not give an opinion on so v :3t a .vab;cet, taxation without carefully - looking into the matter. THE DANDA AND - KINWEE - PRIZE SION The litigation about the Indian prize rm- i ,noy threatens t o b e reneired. 'There are certain prott :s sory notes, amounting to at least 5.:1-10,000, were captured front the rebellious chiefs of Eirwce during the Indian mutiny. The amount for which these notes stand is claimed by Cieneral Sic george Whitlock's_ force. The Government sty titat' they are not prize money, they still belong to the ckiefs from whom they were tak en . THE GOVEfINMENT TrE.I.EIIIIAPII4 BILL. • We are able to announce that the Government haS at last made up its mind to deal with the pur chase of the telegraphs. The money bill has been pre pared, and will shortly be introduced by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. It is understood that Mr. Lowe-will claim for the Government a monopoly in the transmission of news similar to that which the Pcst Office now 1) , -. 11 ‘13 for the conveyance of eater s. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. The Owl states that a number of amendments to the Irish Church Bill are under the consideration of the Conservative peers who voted in the minority of the second reading of the bill, and that they will be laid upon the table to-day or to-morrow by Lord Cairns. The same paper declares that there is a general feeling in the House of Lords in favour of introducing amendments in the bill, embodying the principle of concurrent endowment. Lord Russell's extraordinary amendments are given in another column. With reference to this sub ect, the 2lforning Advertiser writes in its most agonised type— " Tha t an understanding has been come to between the Government and the leading Conservative peers, that in cotntnittee on the Irish Church Bill, amendments will be introduced, having for their object to endow all religious in Ireland. The Church of England, the Church of Rome, and P res b yterianism will thus be equally established and equally paid by the State. And what is more—not only will amendments to this effect be introduced into the bill in the Lords, but they will be carried too, unless the Protestantism of the United Kingdom be at once thoroughly aroused, and put forth all its power to resist so monstrous a measure. This appalling state of things arises from the lamentable and discreditable subserviency which the Nonconformists and Scotch members shelved to Ministers in the Commons when the endowment of May nooth clauses of the Irish Church Bill were hero - re them. This is their reward—a righteous one, so f ar as they are_ individually concerned—for their recreancy to their principles." The Dublin Freeman, one of the best-informed of the Irish journals (its proprietor, Sir John Gray, is M.P. for Kilkenny) says that the utmost secrecy is observed on both sides both as to what will be proposed and as to what Mr. Gladstone will accept. " The glebe houses and glebe lands will be claimed for the unendowed Church, and the old confis cated lands of Catholic chiefs, given by James and his successors for the maintenance of those who hunted the priest with bloodhounds, will form a portion of the modest demands." The Dub/in ilf/27 sass that. the Islaygooth clause be eLtzuck_sut a The bill, and that the-arrange win De acceptea oy tne Government-4 statement which does not seem reconcileable with the announcement that the Government is prepared to accept concurrent endow ment. PUBLIC OPINION AND THE BILL. Miniaterial journals, like the Morning Post, point out that should the Lords insist upon concurrent endowment, they will be as much negativing the principle of the bill as if they had thrown the bill out on a second reading. " Whether concurrent endowment is preferable to universal disendowment is a point on which men may differ, and on which, probably, much may be said. But it is difficult to understand how the question can be raised in committee on the present measure with out jeopardising it. The difficulty with which Protestants are induced to reconcile themselves to the appropriation of a portion of the revenues of. the Church to the extinction of the Regium Ilonum and Maynooth Grant augurs ill, however, for the success of any scheme which has for its object the partial endowment, out of the same revenues, of the Roman Catholic clergy." To this, it may be added, that the Government would, for the same reason, find it difficult to accept any such alteration. The Times and the Te!egraph, having already put out feelers on the subject. are silent, waiting to hear what the country will say. The Morniny Sior,which is the organ of the Nonconformist Radicals, has not yet spoken, being perhaps, induced to inaintain silence by the known affection which Mr..=Bright has for the proposal of giving parsonages to the Roman Catholic clergy. 'rho Daily News, however, speaks out in the plainest manner. Referring to Lord Grey's proposal, and shewing that it is much the same as Pitt's, our con temporary says that " Mr. Pitt would have been a madman if he had advocated in the beginning of the nineteenth century a measure such as that which is now before the House of Lords. Mr. Gladstone would scarcely have been more sane if he had revived Mr. Pitt's plan a year ago." • Mr. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, who may be taken as a prominent representative of Nonconformist Radi calism, writes to the seeretary of the Reform League in Leeds : " The division of Saturday morning was a great victory; but now will come the difficulty of knowing what concessions to make to the friends of the Irish Church. " I believe it will be prudent to concede something, but not so as to destroy the very object of the bill, which was the doing of Justice and the acting on principles of religious equality in Ire la n I." " A Protestant Liberal M.P." condemns Mr. Hamilton's proposal to solvb the Irish ecclesiastical problem by giving glebes and land to each denomina tion, the endowment being vested in laymen exclu sively. The " Protestant Liberal " believes it would be a fatal mistake to attempt such an endowment for the Roman Catholics without placing it under the direction of the hierarchy of their Church. The Liberal Irish members would approve, he thinks, of the glebes being given to the clergy of all denomina tions, but they could not sanction the proposal if it were made in a form which the Catholics must, from the nature of their organisation and discipline, refuse. The gift of glebes to the Catholics would, he holds, be an inestimable blessing to Ireland. Mr. Pim's proposal to this effect was rejected by the Liberal party from the sense that it would be unfair to press it on the Scotch and Nonconformist members, but if the Lords send down an amendment embodying the principle, it will, in this writer's opinion, be ro longer open to this objection. It is evident that this scheme has gained ground with members of different parties since it was first suggested. ARCHDEACON DENISON ON THE SECOND READING. The union between Church and State is gone for ever. Lord Salisbury:and the Bishop of St. David's cut its throat on June.l9 ; and Archdeacon Denison is left lamenting. The venerable Archdeacon of Taunton's lament over the decline and fall of the State Church is very pathetic indeed. It is pitched perhaps in rather too high a key, but it is very " touching," notwithstanding. The Archbishops (he cries) have, with a want of courage most deplor able, rung the knell of Church and State. Conser vatism has slain itself with its own sword; surren dering one post after another, it has died by its own hand. llis (the Archdeacon's) great voca tion has been taken from him. " Church and Queen" will ]rave in the future no meaning at public dinners. The prayer for the high Court of Parliament will be but a mocl:ery. The blow 1r.3 fallen, moreover, from the fault of Churchthen; and is likely to be repeated in the case of the Church of England ere long. The Arch deacon does not thus cry without a certain amount of bitterness. He characterises the Conservative party as " hybrid," declares that nothing can reclaim them, and counsels the withdrawal from influencing legislation which leads invariably against the Church of England for the Church of Rome, or for no religion at all. MR. MACKONOCIIIE ON curncit PROSPECTS. Mr. Mackonochie, incumbent of St. Alban's, Hol born, has issued his trual e.nnual address to his parishioneis. It is vnu.sually long, and occupies twelve octavo pages. Referring to the prospects of the Church, he asks : " Well, whakare we going to do? What do we think that those with whom we think and act, the great Catholic body in the Church of England, are going to do? Is it to turn llomans? Is it to swarm off into a Free Churell,'a hind of 'cave,' tonse the politicaJslangef theday? .k : itAiimodify and trim, 4 . 04 meet tho wishes of those who 14iii41.cnA 7 e . tis a bit oflitUsk of our position if we would give up the kernel? To all' these questions lam sure you will answer emphatically. No. We do not court loss, but we must be ready, God helping us, to be st r ipp e d o f goods and position—to be inhibited, suspended, deprived, and even excommunicated, it the worst come to the worst rather than falter for a moment in speaking the truth." The offertory for the year was £l,(00. A NEW POLITICAL ORGANISATION. The Daily News states that the Reform Club has just estiblishecl a political committee, consisting of fifty M.l'.'s, from every part of the kingdom, and representing every shade of Liberalism, from that of the aristocratic Whig to that of advanced Radicalism, in order to act as arbitrators in all elections at which rival Liberal candidates are started, and so prevent the loss which the party often suffers through divi sions. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The Rev. James E. Thorold Rogers, the late Pro fessor of Political Economy at Oxford, does not love the House of Lords. In a most extreme letter to the Star he sneers at the idea that the Irish Church debate in the House W{ S a most exce ll en t one —not judging on the merits of the debate itself, but arguing that to admit such a theory would be to acknowledge that there is something in the peerage, or that the House of Commons is not the better Chamber, being elective. Mr. Rogers goes on to denounce the Upper House in fervid, language, and suggests that the passage of a bill through the Lower Chamber on two successive occasions should make it law, or that a veto of two-thirds of the Upper House should be required to reject a measure. SELECT COMMITTEES. Two select committees of Parliament are sitting at this moment. One (of which Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Henley are members) arose out of the mad Mayor of Cork's escapade, and is engaged in inquiring how fartheifouse of Commons has the power to e:: amine witnesses on oath at the bar. Sir Ersliine May, in giving evidence, stated that as early . as 1014 the subject was mooted, and a bill was brought in, but was not proceeded with ; and that on account of their jealousy of each other neither House of Parliament had for the last two and a half centuries asserted any new privilege. The other committee is inquiring into the mode of conducting pa rl iam tta ry and municipal elections ; and the evidence giyen before it in favour of the Ballot is so strong, .that some of the Conservative members are inclined to make trial of it at first in municipal contests. ME. SMALLEY AND TIDE UNITED STATES CONSuL GENERAL IX LoNnos.-4-The London correspondent of the Tribune, in his letter of May 22, thus frankly acknowledges the errors into which he fell regarding Mr. Morse:- 01 In my letter of April 17, printed May 3, I criticised the re nomination of Mr. Morse to the London Consulate, object ing to it mainly because Mr. Morse had been a Johnson man. I charged him with that on what I thought credible testimony, but 1 tun satisfied I was wrong. Mr. Morse came to me yesterd ay i n a f ran k way, w hi c h I cann ot but respect, and assured me that he had sympathised with Con gress throughout in its struggle with President Johnson on Reconstruction, and had approved his impeachment ; dis vnting strongly on that point from his friend, Mr. Fessen den. I say this at his request, and, for my own part, I ac cept Mr. Morse's statement as a conclusive refutation of the 'reports in which I had put faith: lie desires it to be understood, a'so, th at t h e L on d on C onsu l a t e i s b y no moans the lucrativ e post it i s suppose d t o b e , th a t h e h as not made money in it, and that ho does not now own an interest in any vessel under a foreign flag. As for his con duct in'the TrenholnrAnd Priolea.o cases, Mr. Morse still believes he was right, and that if the Department had sus tained him instead of annulling his agreements, we should have gained =Atmore than me aro now likely to get from the pending suits. But it is not necessary to go into a dis cussion about that. My criticism was really based upon what I supposed to be Mr. fforse's Johnsonism -in other words, upon faithlessness to the Republican party, by whose President he has just been reappointed. As I was mistaken about that, I owe mi.. Morse an apology, which he rices - not ask for, but which I make with a great deal na ro pleasure than I did the, original charge." HARVARD'S REPLY TO CAMBRIDGE.—" John 11. D. Goldie, Esq., President C. U B. C., Cambridge, Eng land. Sir,—Your letter reached us some time ago, and would have been answered sooner bat that some delay has Leen caused by a change of officers in our club. But we hope that you have construed our silence into consent, as we shall be only too glad to grant you the favour re quested. loping that your May races may have resulted in such a manner as to have decided you to select a four oar, —I remain , sir; yours very truly, A LDEN F. Lola:N., Captain, IL. V. C.—Bnito, June a, TdE_AMERICAN PRESS. The Nation, of June 3, in an article on " Euro ean Finance and American Securities," accounts for the English Limited Liability fever as a wild, insane attempt to invent a use for the glut of gold accumulated in England and France by the substi tution of a paper for a metallic currency in the United States, whereby all the coin circulating there found its way to Europe. From the break-down of the vain attempt to force employment for money to the present there has been a surfeit of unemployed capital, consequently the rate of interest has ruled lower for a longer period that: ever before known. If the rate be Four per cent. in London, and Six per cent. in New York, English capitalists will invest in America, which really means in Five- Twenty Bonds, and the same holds for other coun tries ; hence the large sums advanced as loans to Foreign Governments, which led to the late rise in tle Bank of England rate of disc ,unt, and the pro posed bill of the North German Parliament, pre pared by the Finance Committee to tax all capital invested in loans to Foreign Governments, or in Foreign Securities of any kind, one per cent. per annum. "Efforts, to a limited extent successful, have been made to induce England, France, and Germany to lend their sur plus accumulations to Spain, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and who krows what other poor hopelessly bankrupt states. There are even men—and men of ability and influence, too—who are at this very day using such international quarrels as the Alabama controversy to cheat Englishmen and Germans into the belief that Turkey, and Spain, and the Pope of Rome are better and safer creditors than the United States. But Englishmen and Germans, who have visited this country, or who have friends and relatives and correspondents here, know better ; and hence neither the efforts of the press nor the action of the Bank have so far materially interfered with the steady progress of invest ment in American securities. In truth, the advance iu the Bank of England rate has not yet produced the effect an ticipated from it in advancing the rate of interest else where. On the contrary, outside of the Bank, money seems obtainable almost as cheaply as before ; and what ever influence the change has made on other securities, it has not even, combined with the Alabama controversy and with the recent ten per cent. rise in gold, depressed the price of American bonds more than one or two per cent. Within the last two weeks large orders for our bonds have again been received both from Germany and from Eng land, and there is every 1 kelihood that the demand will con tinue. As long as Europe cannot find safe,profitable employ insnt for its money accumulations, so long will its money accumulations tend to seek employment here. As long as money can find safe employment in the United Stbles at six per cent. interest, nothing that banks and Governments can do will prevent all money from coming hero that can not be employed at home at as good a profit. What has prevented the even more rapid and more extensive em ployment of foreign capital here is fear that the essential element of safety is wanting. That element of safety— whatever selfish politicians and over- impatient journalists may says- has been furnished, to the satisfaction of Euro pean capitalists, by the Administration of General Grant; and the unexpectedly favourable showing of our national accounts is bearing out the anticipations of his warmest admirers. In spite of the extraordinary and unnatural recent advance in the price of gold, in spite of sonic of Secretary Boutwell's measures which we cannot but con sider injudicious, the capitalists of Europe are beginning to regard our financial future with growing confidence. They are beginning to recognize dimly that a large drain of specie from Europe to this country will and must set in so soon as our people are resolved upon returning to a specie currency. It is against this inevitable drain that the North German Government and the leaders of finance in England aro instinctively arming themselves." The same paper discusses the Harvard and Ox ford Boat Race, giving the crews as follows :--- HARVARD.—Stroke, W. H. Simmons, aged 20, sft.ll4in. height, 1741bs racing weight ; S. W. Rice, aged 26, Lit,. 111 in. height., 1651bs racing weight; 3. G.. Bass, aged 23, sft. 101 in. height, 1641bs racing weight; Bow, A. P. Loring, aged 25, sft. 111 in. height, 1581bs racing weight. The Harvard coxswain is not yet selected, but will pro bably weigh about 100. Oxronn.—Stroko, S. Darbishire (Balliol), 1601bs racing weight, March, 1869; 2. Z. C. Tinn6 (University), 1881bs racing weight, March, 1869; 3. A. C. Yarborough (Lin coln), 1661bs racing weight, March, 1869 ; Bow, W. D. Benson (Balliol), 160-ilbs racing weight, March, 1E69 ; D. A. Neilson (St. John's), cox., 1101bs racing weight, March, 1869. There is nothing by which the test of merit can be accurately decided. Harvard will carry a cox swainunheard of for nearly three college genera tions, for all the boats of late years have been Made with a steering apparatus, which the bow oar manages with his feet. A college four oar is almost an unknom n bait on American waters, and where the Americans pull six oars the English pull eight. H award turns a stale i 4 the middle of the race course, while Oxford pulls straight. " (rower r, there aro one or two facts well authenti cattd, which serve to show the Harvard crew need not dread that overwhe'ming defeat which is predicted for it by the conservative at d despondent. ' The Ilenly course' coases nearer being au exact mile in !ength than any ether in England. The Henley time' made by an eight-oar over this course has the reputation of being the best time male in the country. Now an average of some nine or ten years of this time shows sm. 50sec. as the best Eng list. eight-oar time on a mile course. Last year the Har vard crew, in their race w;th Yale at Worcester, made the first mile in a three-mile course in sm. 30sec. In o'her words, an American six oar has done better than the ave rage English eight. It is true that the Henley time is made against a current, but it is a very sluggish one, run ning not more than half a mile an hour, and it is also true that the American time of 5.30, though made on dead water, was made on a long course on which no crew would dare to use all their power for the first mile." Tn style Harvard will equal and probably excel Oxford. The old Harvard long stroke has been changed, and the system now aims to bring the strength of the crew to bear upon that part of the stroke upon which force most tells. By the style at present practised the men bend well forward, seize the water with the oar, and then pull till their backs slant a little back of a perpendicular, and then repeat this movement, the body passing through an angle of about 50 deg. " The four men wLo pull every evening on the Charles look beautiful in a boat, and the same can hardly bo said of the four Englishmen as they appear in a photograph of the Oxford eight which beat Cambridge last March. Tinne looks too heavy even for a man of his enormous weight, and while Darbishire looks finely and Benson prettily, Yarbothugh, beyond all doubt, looks a positively ugly oar. On the other hand, Simmons and Loring are, in the opi nion of all competent critics, lovely,' and Rice and Bass are, in appearance, better than Yarborough and Tinn6. Of courso it is to be thought of, that, in speaking of the Englishmen, we speak of men whom we have not seen in the flesh." Harvard has the advantage in age ; Simmons and Loring have pulled in eight or nine races ; while English rowing has deteriorated of late, American rowing has much improved, and the Harvard can not fail to be a much !ighter boat than the Oxford ship," the English, according to the Nation, hav ing failed to acquire the art of turning out light boats. Hence America may hope for suc:css, but if Harvard is beaten, the Nation says, " We must include the damages to our feelings in the Alabama claims, and try again." The New York 7ribune and Times keep up the discussion on Secretary Boutwell's financial policy. The 7imes maintains that it is unwise to strip the Treasury of gold ; that in doing so resumption of specie payment is indefinitely delayed ; that the debt cannot be funded at a lower rate of interest until after specie payment has been resumed : _ - " The holders of a six-per-cent. security will not volun tarily exchange it for one bearing four per cent.; and, be fore the Secretary can compel the exchange, he must be in a position to make redemption in coin the alternative. The higher the premium on the present bonds be forced, the less inclined will their holders be to surrender them for a less valuable bond. A certain coercion is indispen sable ; and coercion is impracticable so long as the Trea sury is not prepared to redeem outstanding securities at par in coin." The Tribune replies : " If the revenue is made to considerably exceed the ex penditures, and if every dollar of surplus is promptly ap plied to the purchase or payment of debt, making bonds scarcer and scarcer and gold abundant in the market, it is not possible that we should not march steadily and surely on to resumption. That effected, and bonds still growing scarcer daily, while most of them either already are or very soon will be redeemable at the Government's option, there can be no difficulty in reducing the rate of interest. All that will really be needed is the floating of an American °ousel at a fraction above par." On notifying the holders of bonds which have run their five years that they are to be paid off either in coin or Consols, selling at a market price slightly over their par value, they will choose the Consols ; but if not, others will buy them, furnishing the coin to redeem the bonds. The 7 imes considers— " The gradual appreciation cf the currency to be the true criterion of an approach to specie payments. Tell us what the national currency is worth, and thorn will be no difficulty is determining the improvement or dedine of the public credit, without reference to the price of bonds. Judged by this standard Mr. Boutwell's measures have not been a success. The currency is more depreciated than when he began his work, and this single fact outweighs columns of partizan praise." The 7 ribune answers that Mr. Boutwell has more gold now on hand than when he took over the office, the sales not equalling the accommodation. g , It happens to be a time of year when we have little produce to export and many imports to pay for, so that there is an extraordinary demand for gold or bonds to send abroad, and this tends strongly to raise the premium on gold. Whenever the Secretary shall begin in earnest the work of investing his surplus gold in national obliga tions, he will very soon make gold bulls as scarce as hen's teeth, and the premium on coin will find a down grade steeper than any incline on the Pacific Railroad. Just wait till he gives the bulls three or four weekly doses of tea millions each, and are what their operation will be. As yet, the mere anticipation of what he may do hls lowered the premium at least five per cent.; let him really do, and it will go down by the run. Be patient." The Round Table, June 5, writes on " Mr. Sum- Der'S R idical Blunder." Mr. Sumner spouted de fiance, exciting surprise, dissent, and grave dis pleusure among the English Radicals, endangering the sentimental alliance between them, the effect being a rise in gold and a fall in bonds. The Round Table hopes it will open the eyes of the English of the Spectator way of thinking to the real feelings of the Republican party The truth is that the Americans of the Radical stamp, for the most part, hate England so cordially and so com prehensively thatthey cannot find itin their hearts to discri minate to any great extent between English friends or foes. Most people who read and like the Tribune would, if they could, cut off communication with England altogether. They dislike the Spectator and Daily News about as much as they loathe the Times and Saturday Review. None of them appreciate our glorious country, and the mawkish toleration and patronage of one class is as offensive to them as the open aversion of the other. They would burn every ship, refuse admission to every bale of goods, shut their debts to everything English, in fact. unless it be current literature, which they can appropriate at pleasure, and so fill up their magazines and journals without cost, to the great encouragement of American authors and im provement of American literature." The Round Table then goes on to show that the Democrats are at least fair and judicial in their mode of treating international questions, conclud ing thus : "Meanwhile, it should afford intelligent Englishmen some satisfaction to know that the philippic in question was born of a supposed political necessity, and was manu factured for home rather than for foreign consumption. Had General Grant been made President without the aid of the Radical faction, it might not have been thought necessary to take the wind out of his sails by a heavy bid fur popular prejudice, or to forestall the chance of disas trous consequences to that faction in the possible event of the hero of Richmond going over to the Democrats." In another article the Round Table laughs heartily at the ridiculous alarm Mr. Sumner's performance caused in England : " His speech was merely a pyrotechnic display, intended to glare and dazzle our sensation-loving public, and amuse them with its lurid flame and pungent smell of gunpowder. And it perfectly succeeded. The cunning workman, anxi ous only for effect, rammed into his rocket case a double charge of inflammable materials, and it ascended with a terrible fizz, scattering aloft a bright shower of harmless spangles. Au open-mouthed public gazed enraptured, and smiling editors, laughiug.in their sleeves, patted the youth ful pyrotechnist on the back, and called it a capital per formance." Whether England paid or refused to entertain the claims, America has not, and rover had, the least intention of going to war, which she knows would be financial ruin and political chaos : "We understand now exactly what war means. We know its horrors, its uncertainties, its bitter truths ; and while we shall faithfully uphold our flag and enforce our rights, we do not intend to plunge into another struggle to please a bilious newspaper correspondent or an ambi tious pyrotechnist." The Springfield Republican conaiders— " The correspondence about the Johnson-Clarendon treaty just published in Enghind is quite as damaging to Mr. Seward's reputation for frankness and plain dealing as his course in the St. Thomas matter was. He seems to have thought that he could persuade England and the United States into a treaty whereby both would be dis appointed ; and to this disingenuous scheme Lord Stanley seems to have consented. As Mr. Seward can .scarcely have been ignorant of the real temper of the Senato and the American people, this project seems all the more ex traordinary ; but, as we suggested some time ago, it may be that President Johnson himself directed the matter and left his Secretary of State no alternative. Even in that case the attitude of sir. Seward is not very dignified or honest." The letter of the Lairds it thinks proves beyond ques tion the complicity of the English Government, and 1113 liabilityof the English. Commentingon the sup pression of Mr. Sumner's speech, it says, if this speech ha I not become a d.tily ohket of attack in the Engli,li papers, they might have been excused for itsotnistiion, eon3ideli;ig its length. But under the circumstances, they were in honour bound to publish it, and by neglecting this duty they trifled with the confidence of their readers, and incurred the suspicion of a desire to misrepresent, by pas sionate inferences, a State paper which they sud denly suppressed, so as to prevent the public from forming its own opinions. It thus- alludes to our report of the 531 anniversary of the British Peace Society, upholding the interpretation of the speech there given by the Rev. C. 11. A. Fall "Mr. Dall was quite correct, and we are glad there was an American in London to tell the people so, and a jour nal candid enough to agree with him." The Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser says, that the talk of that city among the politicians is to the effect that the Republican .State Convention of Pennsylvania, which meets in Philadelphia on the 27th inst., will be asked to de clare itself on the Alabama claims question. The persons moving in . the matter are said to support the views of Mr. Sumner. The Free-Trader remarks : "The ' British Gold' argument has the nine lives of a cat. When Mr. Marshall, the Treasurer of the League, made it known that £5 was the only sum ever received from a Britisher, we thought we bad killed this false assertion. But it seems we were mistaken. The Tribune now sees ' British Gold' concealed under the * subscriptions to the League marked cash.' For its further enlightenment we would state that these items, in the subscription list published by the Tri bune, are mostly composed of a number of t wo dollar contributions received by the publisher of the Free- Trader, as subscriptions to this paper. lle handed them to the treasurer as cash,' in order to save mak ing numerous separate entries on our books. The sum paid in by the Liverpool, Lond,m, and Globe in surance Company was for advertisements in the free-Trader; and the League has never received a cent from that company as a contribution. We bad thought the ingenuity of the upholders of the British gold' argument had reached its greatest development when it broached the ' cash item' theory, but in this also, it seems, we were mistaken. A correspondent of the Tribune makes it known that two of the officers of the League are interested in foreign trade,and actuallyhave a brother-in-law who is English, and a banker besides. The correspondent says that ' where our treasure is there are our hearts also.' Now it is natural to suppose that this English banker is possessed of the affections of his Ameri can brothers-iu-law ; this being admitted, it is only necessary to transpose two words of the text and make it read that ' where our hearts are there is our treasure also ;' and it follows, of course, that these two Americans give ' British gold' to the League when they subscribe to its funds. . . . It will be gratifying to all our friends to know that the re ceipts of the League nearly equals its expenditure, and that we have a nest-egg of $25,000 in our trea sury. During the hot summer months public meet ings in towns are impracticable ; but we promise our supporters to inaugurate a Free-Trade campaign during the coming autumn that will remind them of a general election contest." The New York World of June 17 says that the Republicans have given up the intention of making Mr Sumner's speech their war-cry for the elections. The Imperialist, in a scathing article, repudiates James Gordon Bennett and the lleraid. Tie lleraid has been exercising its wit at the expense of the Imperialist, which does not appear to like it, and so it thus replies : "All who have watched the career of Mr. Bennett are aware how persistently lie has abused the infancy of every great movement, except in cases where he could better smother by seeming favour, and w ith what unvarying re gularity he has, in after days of prosperity, fawned, and grovelled, and demanded consideration for his services as nurse, if not as parent. Nov, knowing as we do that the tastes of the owner of the 'Jerald are strongly monarchi cal, opposed not only to Republicanism, but to that Free Empire to which we are Poilatipgi but which he cannot comprehend, we can have no doubt that before long be will attempt to take our powerful and growing movement under his protecting wing and cluita it as his own. We desire to repudiate him in advance. We want none of his assistance, believing that it would be detrimental to our great and noble cause." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, CRAMAM, AND DOVER. This company's bill came before a committee of the House of Lords yesterday. The committee 'con sisted of Lord Lifford, chairman ; the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lords Bolton, Dunsany,• and Scarsdale. Mr. Venables, Q.U., and Mr. Bound appeared in support of the bill. Mr. Merewether, Q.C., Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Sargood, Mr. Ilerbert Saunders, Mr. Fitzjames Stephens, Mr. Littler, Mr. Brilge, Mr. Boult, Mr. Hem ming, Mr. Ferrers, Mr. Everitt, and Mr. Gadsden appeared in support of petitions against the Bill. Mr. Hope Scot, Mr. Denison, Mr. Rolwell, Mr. Fry, and Mr. Littler also appeared to watch the bill on behalt of various petitioners who bad opposed the bill in the house of Commons, but who are satisfied with it in its present state, and desirous that it may be passed without alteration. Mr. VEXABLES, Q.C., opened the case for the promoters, and said that the bill might be described, in the language of Lord Justice Giffard, as intended to cut a knot which it was impossible to untie. It was the main object of the bill to remove from the Court of Chancery the liti gation which had been so long in progress, and to refer the various points at issue to the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Cairnn as arbitrators, conferring upon them ample and unusual powers, inasmuch as it was proposed that the arbitrator should determine what was fit, just, and expedient for the interests of of all parties, irrespective of what might be legal. The arbitrators would be able to sit daily, and would have no other judicial business before them to create delay, and if they were appointed as proposed, they could effect what could not be done by the Court of Chancery. The learned counsel narrated the course of litigation and legislation on the affairs of the company during the years 1866, 1867, and 1868, and urged that the Board of Directors were the only parties who had power to represent the com pany in promoting the bill. The great question of priority with reference to the different classes of claims upon the company had already been before the Court of Chancery, and the arbitrators would avail themselves of the proceedings of that Court without going over the same ground again. M' Venables proceeded so state that out of £16,000, 000 of shares and debenture capital, only £33,000 worth of share capital and £55,000 worth of de benture capital were represented by the petitioners against the bill. The directors had the support of one half of the debenture capital, and the petitions against the bill were very few. After going minutely through the clauses of the bill and explaining them to the committee, Mr. Venables stated the purport of the several petitions, which were 15 in number' Among the petitioners were the Sevenoaks, Ma id ; stone, and Tunbridge Railway ; Lord Sondes, Lord Harris, and others, formerly directors of the com pany ; the Credit Foncier ; the Liverpool, London , and Globe Assurance Company ; Mr. Harrison, claiming to represent the Metropolitan Extension shareholders; Mr. Hartridge and another, claiming to represent the shareholders in the general ander' taking ; Mr. Gardiner and others, trustees of the rolling stock; Messrs. Lucas, the contractors, tk''. The petitions of Mr. Hartridge and Mr. Gar diner alone opposed the preamble. The other petitions applied for clauses to protect par ticular interests, while the Western Extension shareholders, certain mortgagees, the Kent Coast Railway Company, the General Credit Com pany, and the Imperial Mercantile Credit Com pany petitioned that the bill might be passed with out alteration. The l ear n e d counse l sa id he hoped to satisfy their lordships that it would be to the interest of all parties to adopt the bill in order to cut the knot and terminate litigation. • Mr. Hodgkinson, the chairman of the company, was then examined generally, by Mr. Venables, on the history and position of the comi - any, and cross examined by Mr. Bridge, Mr. Littler, and Mr. Sergeant Sargood, on behalf of several petitioners . The committee then adjourned till this day. RAILWAY ITEMS.—The passenger travel on Cie Pacific Railway continnes very heavy. Pullman is ru r-1 , - uing two and sometimes three palace sleeping cars on ea rn train, which are al ways full.—The question having been rais rd whether the Baltimore and Ohio Piailway 0311 P tni was liable under the revenue laws to make return of the interest p ,id by them to the City of Baltimore, on a debt due by them to that city, the Attorney-General has written Lb long opinion adverse t) the claim of the Revenue Bureau, in the c.ise.—Of the 33,000 shares into which the stock et the Hartford and New Haven Railroa 1 is divided, Cosi mod ve Vanderbilt owns .5,033. The r. 20.1 estate own d by the corporation is set down at 6131,497, more thin ha' of which is held in the limits of Massachusetts, theeol only six of its 74} miles of line are in that State. NAVAL ITEMS.—Despatches have been reeetv • ed at Washington from Rear-Admiral Turner, commanding' the Pacific Squadron, dated Valparaiso, May 1. The raw hattan was at that port, having recently returned from Talcaltuana. The Dakota was on the way to Cegil imb° from Callao. The Nyack was at Callao. The liearssrge sailed from Talcahuana on the 17th of April for the 3 1 " r: quesas, Society, Friendly, and Fejee Islands, Australia and Now Zealand, and thence back to the South America', coast. The Tuscarora arrived at Valparaiso on the 2d e l l April from Callao. She was preparing to sail for the G s of Mexico to join the North Atlantic Squadron. The Ole ward was at Valparaiso. The ironclads of the Un ite d States are being called into service both on the Alla °to and Pacific coasts. Orders bad been received at San Fra n : cisco to put the ironclads Monadnock and Camane hel° readiness for immediate use. At the same time the '' ". " „ c i hongo has been put out of commission and officers ord ered East. pog [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—Desirable session. —Without health no amount of wealth, no of pleasure, are of the slightest value. 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ELLIOT—On the 23d last., at Gatton-point, Red-hill, Will. Elliot, M.D., aged 72. JOSSELYN— On the 22d inst., at Sproughton, near Ipswich, John JossQlyu, Esq., aged 66. KELSALL —On the 21st inst., Robert Krlsall, Esq., late of Deeplish Hall, Rochdale, aged 40. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDB,EWS, of No. 112, str.md, Printer, at Tun Sus Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Alicidle 6 e r-- Thuroday, June 24, 18e3. a , - __« *LIN; LONDON,_ THURSDAY EVENING, JUNO 24, - 1869. _.... iii a-4 II .., J .., • ... • '