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Yesterday the Irish Church Bill passed triumph antly through Committee. On reaching its final clause, seeing •tbat the number of that clause was Sixty-three, it may be said to have attained its Grand Climacteric. The passing of that, as slightly amended, was naturally enough the signal for cheering on the side of the Government. But, when that was a:Tomplishal, the Committee had still to lharkbick to several clauses the con sideration of which had been postponed, and to one or two almost of what might be called an in tercalary character—such as an entirely new clause added to or interpolate 1 in the Bill in lieu of clause 35, which had area ly been negatived ; or, quite strictly speaking intercalary, such as the half dozen financial clauses introduced, in sequence, yes tcrtlity on the proposition of the Prime Minis ter immediately after clause 56 in the Bill as originally constructed. When these, however, and other proposed new clauses had in time been seve rally dealt with, the labour of the Committee was LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, THE SUN, accomplished, the -Bill was fairly passtq - through it amid the heartiest acclamations—Mr. DODSON vacated his seat at the head of the Table, upon the other end of which the m Ice was replaced by the Sergeant-at- Arms, the House resuming, and the chair being reoccu pied in due form by Mr. SPEAKER. All this, of course, is referred te, with dissatisfaction, by the opponents of the measure, as work done by the " tyrant majority:, But, in the name of common sense, it may naturally be asked, what is really implied by so absurd an expression ? Words like these, being merely words expressive at once of anger and of helplessness, are, in themselves, it is true, hardly deserving of se rious c3nsideration. They are intrinsically in their significance—some might rather say perhaps in their insignificance—simply frivolous : being (as they are) so much " sound and fury, signifying nothing." But, even when estimated thus accurately, they are worth sweeping out of view, as utterly valueless, if only to the end, that they may be deprived of the chance of exciting in one single mind a moment's serious misapprehension. To talk thus on the left hand of Mr. SPEAKER of the "tyrant majority"is about as ab surd as to talk on the right hand of Mr. SPEAKER about the "miserable minority." The latter phrase—which, as we all know, has recently been audible in the House of Commons—is simply indicative of the irri tation of the Liberal Party, of the Party actually in power, and invested with the responsibility of Go vernment—is simply indicative of • the irritation, of that now certainly dominant Party, at the useless impediments placed in the way of legislative pro ceedings the ultimate triumph of which no one for an instant can seriously doubt. Precisely in the same way, that other invidious phrase, the phrase previously referred to as hav ing been more than once recently applied to the political antagonists confronting them in such vastly superior numbers, by the more galled and wounded members of the almost helpless Opposition, the imputation thrown out against the Ministerialists of being a "tyrant majority," is just as obviously indicative of the ang, r aed irritation awakened among the more impulsive and impetuous of the Conservatives. The expressions thus employed are in themselves, of course, simply ridiculous. The minority is in no way, in the sense in which the word has been applied to them, a " miserable minority." While, the majority, it is a perfect outrage to right reason anl common sense to talk of, as a "tyrant majority." A majority so large is not necessarily, by reason of its overwhelming prepon derance, tyrannical. And, certainly, judging it by its acts, estimating its character from this very measure of the Irish Church Bill—a Bill that may be con sidered in the light of a crucial test as to the cha racter not only of the Ministry introducing it but of the enormous majority of the House who are the supporters at once of the 8.11 and of the Government —the Liberal Party, the Party now iu power, cannot be said to have shown themselves, in any way, towards their political antagonists, despotic or domineering. In the very structure of the bill itself, in the manner of its introduction, in the mole and in the mood in which it has been conducted, heretofore, through its several stages towards its intended transformation in the end into an enactment, there is nowhere visible any disposition eithcv on the part of its projectors or of its promoters to ride rough-shod over the conscientiously maintained opinions of their opponents. Whatever may be wittily said about the respecting of vested interests be ing the common places of confiscation iu this matter of thedisestablishing and d isendowing of thelrishCh arch, it cannot but be admitted, even by the more impas sioned antagonists of the measure, that vested inte rests have throughout been earnestly considered in all the complications and intricacies of its most elaborate adjustment. Su:nmiug our whole argument up within the compass of a single sentence, we would here add, that in no invidious sense whatever can the phrase of a " miserable majority" be applied to her MAJESTY'S Opposition —any more than that other equally insolent phrase of a " tyrant majority" can be regarded as in any way applicable to the serried ranks of the supporters of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment. • THE great Maynooth debate suggests several con siderations. The first is one of unmitigated satisfac tion that this is the last discussion which the House of Commons will have to endure upon a subject which has given bigotry and uncharitableness the opportunity of an annual demonstration for a whole generation. We are not so sanguine as to think that ,MT. NEWDEG ATE and Mr. WHALLEY will henceforth be silent, nor fin _l their occupation gone. Gentlemen of their imaginative tempera ment, who believe that every twentieth person is a Jesuit in disguise, and that a man may be one without knowing it, are sure to find plentiful occa - sions for airing their favourite horror. They will find it in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, and in the waters under the earth. They will discern Popery in the rig of a ship, in the cut of a uniform, in the SPEAKER'S wig. But in all such matters as those they are harmlessly ridiculous; in the matter of the Maynooth Grant they had the power to inflict a certain amount of mischief, because they had a few followers. That these are much fewer than was supposed, is our second consideration. Early in the session, the Conservative wirepullers thought that they could seriously damage the Government by getting up an alliance between the Scotch anti-Papists and the Opposition. Mr. AYTO UN was the instrument used by the clever agent of the Carlton. But it was soon found that the thing would not work. The Scotch M.P.'s, Free- Kirk-men though they might be, intensely opposed to Romanism though they are, absolutely refused to do an act of injustice which would have involved the strainig at a is gnat and the swallowing of a came l . F or —this ourthird consideration—the objection raised n by such men as Sir GEORG E JENKIN SON wasaltogether absurd. That irrepressible baronet and even astute men like Mr. DISRAELI do not object to compen sating Maynooth, but object only to compensating it out - of the Irish Church revenues. They would have paid the necessary money out of the Consolidated Fund, but, as Mr. Low TITER said, they would rather shovel the Church money into St. George's Channel than give a penny of it to the famous college. The Scotch members are far too shrewd and thrifty to be led astray by such extravagance as this. They are not altogether free from prejudice, for Mr. M'LAREN declared that if they had been asked to compensate Maynooth out of the National Ex chequer, there would have been an agitation from the Tweed to John o' Groat's House. But they were quite willing that the Roman Catholics should, as well as the Presbyterians, have their fair share in the revenues of the Irish Church. As a matter of fact, there is in principle very little difference between the two proposals. stlt The ll : crtleilri sterling Irish scCol intoi that.e ve even isuuerst o b h e ea c e o ny m d, s e a h n e a fi t tin i t o d n l a s l p tn r I m i h e ou r i t :t me surely b e un i mportant, s y if we compensate asMaaynon% sum poek e o t r r o u o t u t o o f f t t h h e e e Consolidatedother. A ea F i u a n u d e c t n o f v e o n n i e - e a th tter out of of prtihnis o r of ciple, ence, we take the funds which seem most appro priate, the funds which have been used for ecclesias tical purposes heretofore and apply them to the same purposes for the future. The argument which was ezilfully raised, and which brings us to our fourth consideration, that we are relieving the English taxpayer at the expense of Ireland, has at first sight more weight. But it will not stand examination. The grant to Maynooth was a niggardly act of justice performed by the British nation towards the great bulk of - the Irish people, in the hope that we might thereby bribe them into allowing the PiOtestant - --- Established Church. This and the Regium Donum to the Presbyterians were buttresses erected by Anglicans in order to support the tottering fabric of that Church. In other words, English taxpayers were called upon to pay so much a year in order to maintain the ascendancy of the Irish clergy and the Irish landlords. It was but fair that when that object was abandoned the English people should be relieved from the charge which it involved. If the Irish Church revenues are to be for the Irish people, they had no reason to expect, and it is clear that they did not expect, that Englishmen would have to continue the payment imposed upon them under the old system. These arguments were too clear and strong to be resisted. Thus it came to pass that the House, by almost the largest majority of the whole session, negatived Sir GEORGE JEN KINSON'S amendment. Mr. AYTOUN'S was simply a matter of detail, and it allowed of wider diver gence of opinion. The amount voted to Maynooth is no doubt large, the gift may be called even bountiful, but it must, before being censured, be considered in re lation to the other pecuniary arrangements of this bill. The Protestant Episcopalians get nine millions sterling, including the compensation for life interests; the Presbyterians get £70,4000; the Roman Catholics, who are about five times as numerous as the others put together, get £365,000. That is, nearly five millions of people get about a third of a million sterling, and three-quarters of a million of people get nine and three quarter millions sterling. And yet men like Mr. AYTOUN protest against the extravagance of the first gift, and the House is called upon to spend several hours in haggling over the " nicely calculated less and more" of a few thousand pounds. Mr. GLADSTONE reduced the matter to an absurdity when he shelved that the total amount at issue between him and Mr. AYTOUN was only £60,000. The House took a practical view of the matter, and gave Ministers the substantial Majority of 107. Thus ends this weary and T shabby quarrel so , far as the House of Commons is concerned. Mn. IIOuSMAN'S defence of Caves is more clever than accurate. When he appeals to the example of the Liberal leaders, to that of Lord RUSSELL, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. COBDEN, and Mr. LOWE, he forgets that, with the exception of the last, they set up the standard of rebellion because the ostensible Liberal leader had deserted his own colours. The China War of 1857 was a flagrant outrage, not only upon the rights of nations, but upon the principles of Liberalism. The Conspiracy to Murder Bill was, per haps, not so clear a departure from those principles, but it was, at least, fairly open to hostile criticism. The truth is, Lord PALMERSTON attempted to rule nominally as a Liberal Minister by the aid of Con servative measures. To this Lord RUSSELL, Mr. G LADSTONE, Mr. ERIGHT, r.nd Mr. COBDEN would not assent. The result of their opposition was the Willis's Rooms compact, one of the con ditions whereof was the introduction of a Liberal Reform Bill. That condition was fulfilled. How did Mr. IlonsmAN meet ity Let HANsARD's Debates for 1860 declare. He took the part which was assumed by Mr. LOWE in 1866 under precisely similar circumstances. He was left out of the Cabinet of 1859, as Mr. LowE was of the Cabinet of 1803, and he took his revenge upon Lord PALMERSTON and Lord RUSSELL, as Mr. LOWE took his upon Lord RUSSELL and Mr. GLADSTONE. Both bills were defeated; Mr. HonsmArr was one of those who accomplished both defeats. To compare his conduct with that of Lord RUSSELL, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. COBDEN is, therefore, absurd. They formed a Cave in order to advance, he formed one in order to retard, Liberal principles. Nor was it only with regard to Reform that Mr. HonsmAN was found on the side of the Conservatives. He was one of the strongest promoters of the panic of 1859 ; he is, more perhaps than any other leadingpolitician except Lord PALMERSTON, responsible for the scandalous and wasteful outLiy upon our useless fortifications. At the same time he vied with Mr. DISRAELI him self in pu Iting every conceivable obstacle in the way of the great me :sure which has tended to make our fortifications needless—the Commercial Treaty with France. Mr. lIonsNrAN calls himself a Liberal. Was he a Liberal when he attempted to get up a war with France instead of a treaty ? But Mr. HonsmAN is a Liberal now. We do not doubt it. Liberalism is predominant, triumphant. It was not so in Lord PALMERSTON'S time. But " the times change and we with them," and Mr. Hon SMAN, the opponent of the £6 franchise in 1860, of the £7 franchise in 1866, has, now that his Conservativeallies have given him household suffrage, nothing further to say upon that point save that he is a Liberal. In one thing we do Mr. Hon SMAN the justice to say that be has been always consistent— in his hatred of the Church. We have compared him to Mr. LowE, and he resembles that Minister in his ecclesiastical antipathies as well as in his distrust of the working classes. Mr. HousmAN's antagonism to the Church and the clerical order is vehement, bitter, unappeasable. They must expect no mercy from him. Ile supports the Irish Church Bill as we do, but from a very different motive. We consider it an act of national justice; he sees in it a stab in the side of the Church, a staggering blow at the clergy. His speech on Thursday night revealed the keenness of his hatred. He is altogether a man of too violent feelings. They override his judgment, they make him prejudiced where he ought to be dispassionate, they blind him when he ought to be discriminating. He is a clever man, but we have small confidence in him. LATEST INTELL MENCE (RECrER's TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, May 7. The negotiations for tha formation of a new Cabinet continue. To-day conferences havo been held between General Menabrea, Signors Ferraris, Mondini, and Count Ponza di San Martino. Sig nor Minghetti and Signor Correnti are also men tioned as probable members of the new Cabinet. Baron Knbeck has li.ft for Naples to present the Order of the Golden Fleece to Prince Humbert. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 7. According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report, the receipts of cotton have been 21,500 bales, and total since the Ist of September, and taken by American spinners direct. Shipments to England 25,000 ; to France, 3,000 ; to the Continent, 5,000 ; and since the Ist of September, 1,250,000 bales. Stock, 1,260,000. Market flat. Middling upland, 1071 ; cost and freight per steamer. PLYMOUTII, May 8. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Ho'satin, from New York, has arrived here with 27 passengers for this port, 50 for Cherbourg, 208 for Hamburg, 45 sacks of m ills for Plymouth, 8 fo: Cherbourg, 21 for Hamburgh, $lO,OOO in specie for Cherbourg, and $2,000 for Hamburg. C [-lINA. SHANGHAI, Arril 11G. A despatch from Sir Rutherford Alcock, regard ing the right of Europeans to reside in the interior of China, has been published. Sir Rutherford ex prcsiies his inability to press upon the attention of the Chinese Government. S-7 MS DA Y. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. May B.—Sales ;probably 6,000 bales. The mai ket quiet; unchanged. MAY 8, 1869. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. FRIDAY, May 7. The electoral campaign presents an aspect of monotonous activity. Both sides are working hard to win, and that is about all that can be said. Doubts arc expressed in some quarters as to whether the Opposition is doing all that it might to oppose a strong front to the overpowering cur rent of Government influence ; but with the exception of a little dissension, which might well be amended, it does not seem to me that the Liberals could do much more. Meetings are ',held by the score, electoral cir culars, manifestoes, and signs in general mock the weary Parisian at every step, and the papers are nothing but a budget of electoral horrors. Many of the Liberal party are sacrificing time and money in the interests of their country. Many of them work *ith no desire beyond that of a sincere wish to aid the great cause of liberty ; and let all honour be given to such men. But if it were not for a little squabbling we should get almost as dull and as melancholy as you seemed to do before the memorable day when the Conservative party of Britain was utterly defeatedin the boroughs. These little quarrels keep us alive. The row about M. Emile 011ivier, for instance, is very entertaining, except perhaps that we have too much of it. I need hardly enter into detail as to the cause of this quarrel. M. Emile 011ivier's esca pade with the Emperor—the famous " Le 19 Janvier" affair—has lost him the confidence of the Paris Republicans, The Siecle opposed him, and the Liberta furiously fought his battle in its columns. Vituperation of an advanced time —" fool," " madman,"and, other polite expressions—distinguished the dispute between the two papers, which was killed at length by its own fury. But the Liberte has not succeeded in converting the Republicans, who are opposing M. 011ivier with a hot and strong man of the name of Bancel. M. 011ivier does not object to the Empire, provided liberty were granted by the ruler ; M. Bancel goes in for a general "chaw up" of the Empire and everything in it. His theory is that the Emperor has no right to occupy the throne of France; that France, indeed, ought not to ha vo a throne at all, but ought to be a republic. No measure of liberty, no degree of national prosperity, can reconcile M. Bancel to Imperial institu tions. Let the Emperor grant a constitution as liberal as that of England, and the Republicans will still stri te to overturn him. M. 011ivier has just addressed a challenge to M. Bancel, requesting him to fight out his opinions on a public platform. The one would argue liberty under the Empire ; the other would argue that liberty is not possible under the Empire. But M. Baucel declines this chal lenge, urging that a debate on a fixed issue would not be an electoral meeting, and that, moreover, M. 011ivier can learn and combat his opinions by attending any of the numerous me , ,) ,4:s which he holds. Perhaps M. Bancel is right, I.osy.iyhow he would be no match for the elo quent, though not very wise, 011ivier in an oratorical battle. A shocking story of domestic life was told the day be fore yesterday in the first chamber of the Seine Civil Tribunal. The case was one of demand for separation de corps—the only form of divorce known in France— brought by Madame de Turenne against her husband, Count Raymond de Turenne. Madame de Turenne was the widow of a rich Jew. She married Count Raymond for the sake of his title, and Count Raymond—it is the old story—married her for the sake of her money. M. Allegri, father of Madame de Turenne, saw but too well the motive of the young Count, and at first opposed the marriage ; but he gave way to the wilies of his daughter. The niarriage took place, the young Jewess became Madame de Turenne, and gave up to her husband a fortune of £2,000 a year and the most colossal expectations. The Count soon re vealed his real disposition. In order to marry the Jewess he had to obtain a dispensation from the Pope, and in his application he in no wise concealed the motives which led him to the union. Greta et sola occa.sio ad reparandum fortunam suam. "It is the only sure chance of repairing my fortune." This well-beloved son of the Church gave the Pope to understand that, after the death of the father-in-law,the daughter might be brought into the true fold ;moreover, all'his children, Le said, should he brought up Catholics. Count Raymond was an officer of the Pon tifical Zouaves, and Rome therefore could refuse him nothing. Besides, would it not be spoiling the Egyptians to take away a fortune. from the Jews, and bring it into the Catholic Church? The dis pensation was granted. But Count Raymond was clearly not born for marriage. He seemed to have no opinion of women save that they were destined by nature to alleviate the ennui of man. The habits of his military career were strictly preserved at the domestic hearth. Ile ignored utterly the delicacy and refinement requisi • •te in social intercourse with the gentler sex. The day after his marriage he entertained his wife with certain piquant scenes from his lively career, the narra tion of At hich would have discredited the lowest Paris wine-shop. He entered into details respecting tome love affairs which were still going on. His life throughout was a faithful continuation of this beginning. Ire carried on an intrigue with the governess of his children. lle engaged a young girl of 18 to give them lessons in German, and addressed enthu siastic declarations to Ler in his wife's drawing-room. It is quite time that such a marriage was dissolved. Madame de Turenr.e might have commenced the suit much sooner. The case is still going on. The tastes of modern Paris are exemplified by a drama now being performed at the Francais. All Paris is wild about this piece. And yet its plot is such that, in the language of the reporters, it is "unfit for publication." A cave scene similar to that between Dido and .;Eneas, a girl falling in love with her mother's unlawful lover, and the betrayal of the mother to the husband by the daughter, are some of the incidents in this hideous conglomeration. It draws immense audiences, and is greeted with frantic applause. • • 1.• CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times says that the triumph of the Government has, indeed, been complete. " Call no man happy before his death" was, however, the warning of the wise of old, and in this hour of their prosperity it may be fitly declared that the maintenance for the future of such an unchequered course of success as has attended the progress of the Irish Church Bill is neither to be expected nor desired. It may, however, be urged with much truth that the complete accord which has been manifested between the Government and the majority of the House of Commons is of the Lightest importance in its bearing upon the reception of the bill by the House of Lords. There is only one way in which a bill thus matured can be received by the House of Lords. If we are bound to say thus much, we do so with no desire to wound their dignity or to disparage their power. The most resolute members of the House repeatedly declared last year, when opposing the Suspensory Bill, that the delibe rate will of the people, deliberately recorded in the House of Commons, must prevail. The condition is now fulfilled, and we have the most assured confidence that the Peers will maintain their self-respect by bowing to an autho rity the rightful supremacy of which they have already confessed. The Daily News finds cause for satisfaction in the pas sage of the Irish Church Bill through its most trying stage. Three weeks is a very short time in which to have passed through committee a bill of sixty-three clauses, involving at once contested principles of the greatest magnitude, and details of the most minute and complex character. It is scarcely saying too much to affirm that in the hands of any other person than Mr. Gladstone this achievement would have been impossible. The progress of the Irish Church Bill has been of a very diffe rent character from that of the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1868. In the passage of those measures principles were dropped at every stage. In its final form the Reform legislation of 1867-8 was something of which its authors, at starting, had never dreamt. Its identity was gone. The Irish Church Bill is not merely in fundamental prin ciples, but in every linFoita,nt detail, what it was when Mr. Gladstone first laid it on the table of the House. The Standard declares that the end is not yet, but it is close at hand. There will be a battle on the report, and another on the third reading, and thenceforward the fate of the measure will rest with the Upper House. In the Commons the Conservative party have been boriio down by sheer weight of numbers; but they have fought their cause with undeniable gallantry, and have made it respected, if not successful. In the Lords they will renew the struggle under more favourable conditions. The Telegraph says that with almost unexpectel promptitude the Irish Church Bill has actually passed through committee. In pugilistic phrase, the "sponge was thrown up" on Thursday, after the Maynooth clause. of the bill had been carried by overwhelming majorities : and not a single division interrupted the course o' the debate. For the rapidity with which the measure has been advanced in the later stages. special thanks are due to the Scottish membere, who, although tempted by fervent appeals to the religion: prejudices of their countrymen, refused to vote against the compensation apportioned to Maynooth. With the Maynooth clauses ended the real debate on the bill ; and, although the report of the committee will involve another discussion, the measure is now out of all danger so far as the House of Commons is concerned. Virtually the bill has already passed through the Lower House, and in two or three weeks it will challenge the judgment of the Peers. BARBARITIES AT SEA. A sad tale of barbarities at sea is told by some New York p a p ers . Th e vesse l i n w hi c h they were co mmitted is an American vessel, the captain being called Robinson, The ship sailed from Queenstown, England, on the 20th or 22nd of March. Captain Robinson, who is from Boston, is a m an o f me di um h e i g ht, age d a bout 30 years. The crew, on arriving at New York, immediately laid a statement of their case before the authorities. Robert M'Donald, aged 22 years, has two front teeth knocked outby brass knuckles, holes in his head from being kicked, and various cuts and bruises on his body, inflicted with brass knuckles, kicks, &c. James Brown, aged 32, has a hole in his head ni ade with an axe handle, and his hands paralysed from being hung up to the " gallows" by his wrists for three-quarters of an hour at a time. He also has bruises on his body, and a portion of his hair torn out. Charles H. Tuttle, aged 22, has three gashes on the head made by the brass knuckles, and a hole through the under lip inflicted with a pointed instrument. Donald M`Kee, aged 26, has his nose broken and three cuts on the head, inflicted with a piece of grating while standing at the wheel. Edward Williams, aged 24, has a wound on the right eye inflicted with a piece of iron grating, hair pulled out, bruises in the face from being kicked, and other injuries made with clubs, belaying pins, &e. Richard Konkie, 22, has bruises on his face from being kicked, and others on his back made with an axe handle, also portions of his hair pulled out. James Blundell, aged 30, born at Manchester, has his body horribly bruised, and was laid up, unable to move, for fourteen days. His hair has been pulled out. Frederick Jensen, aged 25, has wounds inflicted with the brass knuckles, and bruises on nearly every part of the body, and was prostrated for several days, unable to. move. He was beaten so many times that he cannot tell the number. These indignities, they say, were inflicted by the captain and mate, while in a -state of beastly intoxication. A threatening notice of a novel form Is mentioned in the Clonmel Chronicle. The constabulary have found chalked up inside a gentleman's demesne, near Cashel, a no tice declaring that the writer would ere long "meet" the owner of the estate, who bad just evicted some persons for non-payment of rent. The Western Daily Press says :—" Viscount Cole, son of the Earl of Enniskillen, and Sir Frederick Johnstone are the co-respondents in the proceedings which Sir Charles Mor daunt has commenced in the Divorce Court. No damages are claimed by the petitioner. Adultery is denied on the part of the respondent and co-respondents.' The Derby Board of Guardians have sent a peti tion to th© House of Commons on the licensing system. They allege that in consequence of the drinking usages of society rates and taxes have become an intolerable burden, and urge the House to pass "some well-devised measure dealing eff,:c lively with the evils of the licensing system." Fenianism, if we may believe the accounts from Ireland, shows signs of revival. On Wednesday, at Skeen, county Sligo, a ter ant farmer named John Ross was charged with being in possession of Fenian documents of an extra ordinary description, oontaining an entirely new version of the Fenian oath, also a Fenian catechism. The prisoner was remanded to Sligo gaol, bail being refused. Shortly after the disclosure of the Mazzinian con spiracy in Milan, a remarkable discovery was made by the Papal Custom-house officers at Cepiano. They wereexamin ing the train from Neplcs as usual when their attention was excited by five large cases directed to the Archbishop of Florence. The cases were marked outside "Sacred utensils." The police suspected something wrong, and a telegraphic message was sent to the archbishop. The prelate replied that ho knew nothing about the cases, which wore then opened, and found to contain improved rifles. They were seized, and Will be 14E144 _ over t() tho 1411411 Government. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Reriew asks what is to be done with tha Irish land question? And, in order to answer this, we must first ask, whether we are to legislate in a panic or not ? Many speakers, especially in the Lords, during the debate of last week, seemed to have been possessed by the idea that there was some one definite course which was startling and strong and unusual, but which, if the Government could but resolve to take it, would put down all these murders at once. This was, we believe, a mere dream. None of those who advocated recourse to a gigantic remedy gave the slightest clue to what they meant, and the obvious conclusion is that they meant nothing. There is this difference between dealing with the Irish Church and the Irish land. If it is right or wise to touch the Irish Church at all, it must be wise and right to deal with it in a sweeping and severe measure which goes to the root of the matter at once. But with regard to the Irish land everything is a question of degree. There are no grand principles which explain everything, Experience, and not logic, alone must spew what compensations ace to be given, and whether anything and what can be done to increase in a legitimate manner the number of Irish pro prietors. A supporter of Mr. Gladstone closed the dis cussion last week by saying that a Government which had dealt so widely and comprehensively with the Church might be trusted to do the same with the land. But the hopes thus raised may be falsified ; not that the Govern ment will not have done as much as could be fair'y expected, but because there may be nothing possible to do with regard to the Irish land, except to introduce ten tative, imperfect, and unheroic measures. The Govern ment can but do its best, but it may turn out that this best will be pronounced by eager Ministerialists to be rather disappointing. The Spectator says that the root of all this trouble in Cork is the root of all other trouble in Ireland, the per verse habit of applying English ideas of government and administration to a people of different tendencies, who, under widely different circumstances, are seeking very different ends. 'To a country_ distracted with historical, religious, and agrarian feuds, which, more than any country in the world, requires scientific administration— administration from above, by men intent only on justice —we apply a system under which every magistrate is either a partisan, or, what is nearly as bad, is suspected of partisanship, under which he must be either a member or a distrusted class, or one elected by a populace so divided amongst themselves by impassable chasms of feel in; and opinion that the passport to their favour is party violence. In the rural districts, where the grand contest is between peasant and landlord, we confine the bench to landlords ; and in the cities, where the populace live on the verge of civil war, we confide the magistracy to their nomi nees. The passport to civic office is, in an Irish city, to be Orange or Fenian, and then we wonder because the suc cessful candidates display Orange or Fenian proclivities ; do not, in a single year of office, manifest qualities rare even in the best judges, and, above all, freedom from the parti sanship through which alone the coveted positions can be made secure. We abuse the Americans for their folly in making the judiciary elective, and then leave a population like that of Cork to elect an officer who is, in their own eyes, at all events, and for the cases they care about, a judge, and improve the position by seating by his side men who, if they were all Hales or Somers, would be con sidered by a populace which detests their class unjust judges. It is the French, or at all events the Indian, system which Ireland requires, in Ulster as well as in Cork, and we give it the one which of all others is furthest in principles and action from that ideal. Even when ascendancy has been abandoned and the tenure reformed, this great blunder will still remain to be corrected before we shall have in Ireland a people contented with and con fident in the law. The Examine). and London Review says that a curious variety of answers would seem to have been given in reply to the Duke of Somerset's question, whether any arrange ment has been made to replace the three right rev. prelates in the southern counties, who for some time have been incapacitated from active service in the field against the Arch-enemy. The Primate, warned by the fate that has -pome upon the easy-going Church in Ireland, promises a bill to make provision for compelling the crutch to give place to the crozier. Fired with the zeal of competition, Lord Lyttelton offers his Grace the use of any of the clauses in the bill which he found it impracticable to carry. Ire would give anything to see some of his addled eggs hatched into chickens, or, let us say, doves—for that is the most appropriate fowl. He thinks they might yet come out if only put carefully under the episcopal wing. Our Most Reverend Lord of Canterbury does not seem as grateful as he might be for the offer ; but he reads a letter from his brother of Winchester to prove that, dividing the Apostolate into three parts—taking care only to keep the real thing one and undivided—you may do all the duties of a bishop by deputy, and keep all the stipend to yourself. The Winchester faith is this. There is an archdeacon for the confirmations, a colonial bishop for the consecrations, and a chaplain for the correspondence ; but there are not three archdeacons, or three chaplains, o: three p)or cousins of a bishop without pay, but one fine old bishop who receives all the money, and by the affluence and effluence of whose indefeasible right all goes well for the souls of the faithful. With a cruel candour, the Archbishop adds that he cannot say he thinks this version of episcopal responsibility and duty quite satisfactory. We 6110Uhl think not. The Duke of Cleve land, with his characteristic good sense, warned the Government that the public would not be satisfied with any bill which facilitated or encouraged the delegation of episcopal duties to subordinate dignitaries. If the Augurs expect to be believed in, they must look and act as if they were, or, at least, as if they thought they were, indis pensable to the safety of the State. Commissions in the army are no longer given by anticipation to young hopefuls in the nursery ; and commanders in the Church can no longer be suffered to toddle about at watering-places or to doze in easy chairs. The Church is on its trial. Though not drA en out of Paradise, the fences of its Elysian field of sunny torpor are broken down. Nonconformity, Popery, and incredulity are pressing rpuncl, on_every side ; and if Om wlics claim prelatical - - pretensions would maint a i n th e i r or d er , they must give o f the notion of appropriating the profits and privileges ' their office while they do their duty by deputy. The John, Bull remarks : When we last week dr eg attention to the land question in Ireland as looming in the distance, we did n o t ca l cu l a t e on it s actual pre sence amongst us. At the moment, however, when our 1 33 Pd was passing through the p ress , the second and har dl Y second member of her Maje s ty' s G overnm ent annou nced to an astonished House o f C ommons th a t he had alre nc l bill prepared for the settlem e nt o f th e l a nd questiont c3 , that next session it w o uld be p resse d by all the power ei• the majority of those wh o comm a n d th e votes of the . Lower House of Parliament. lie has never been r eticent on this point, and his bill will no doubt be more or less 3/1 embodiment of that idea. He would co mpel the non.reei: dent landowners of Ireland—that is, almost all Eng lis i, men who have Irish property—to sell their estates, an by some machinery not yet d ec l are d, h e wou ld vest W es i estates, broken up into small p , r t: o n s , in the pr esent tenantry. Whether he contempl a t es a lik e measure w ''' b reference to England, and wo u ld con p e l I r i s h landow nets to part with their Thigh h estates, we hay yet to learn' Nor does he inform us wh e th er :-_icottisli landlords who 1114‘t. English property, or Engli s h l an d owners w ho possese Se3 ,, tish estates, are to be dealt with the same as Irishland lot t What does concern us is the fact that a law can not made which will be confined in its operations to ire 131 1 ,4 The principle when adopted by th e H ouse o f Parlial nem e will be applied to other cases than that for which it 'l il t been invented. Such a bill, f or i ns t ance , a s Mr. 13/i5 , 1 : has shadowed forth strikes at the r o o t o f all preP et '; Already the bare suspicion of the possibility of such proposal has introduced distrust int o a ll the rela tions ~„, between man and man. The John Bull further attri bute, the series of catastrophes in Ireland to the r e cent measu r e Parliament, and says that it is not always that ev e n„ connected by sequence can be fairly linked in relationelllr one to the other, but in the present instance it is il:(1A,P1 Bible for any thoughtful man to disbeli e ve that the Ike Church Disendowment Bill is the parent of the mu rder s which disgrace Ireland, and have carried sorrow into the bosom of peaceful and confiding families. What mor e may expect to result from this fatal source we dare indicate. THE PRINCE AND 'THE PRINCESS of WALES. .‘^ i A correspondent writes from Athens to the Times g i of n f an account of the visit of th e P r i nce an d th e Princes s " Wales to Greece. THE ATHENS OF TO-DAY. Athens has certainly improved very much since toe period of the "occupation" during the war with Eus sis : What the increase in the populati o n m a y b e I ca nnot but in streets and in houses Athens is enlarged at beautified. Nevertheless, it is a c ity w hich is i t: a mistletoe on a ruined oak—it clings to, and gr e i ei from, decay. Take away the Acropolis and the Teal ', l - 0 of Jupiter and Theseus, and what have you but gl eri tr °- it bites and memories that ha ant them? I cannot but was a mistake to build up the new city round the gran d , t c eo monuments of a civilisation which is not dead, hu t / ( i every day of our lives. The present new buildings h ill j e j . the reconstruction of the old, and forbid or impede e%, 1 1,..a rations. Still, there they are, " with gas and water on." The Palace of the King stands in a fine Posit i°ll :l a slope of Mount LycabeCu3, and rears a br( fl e % ° o marble, quarried f ro m P en t e li cus , towards the city' , ' t which it is separated by a broad stretch of shrubbery lawn open to the public, prettily laid out and P 1311 `,,, The eastern side of the palace abuts on a c hara' fr e r, and extensive garden, also open to the p eo pl e , a nd O ce frequented in the afternoon. All th e wa ll s of the Pa' l3 , o and the internal courts are o f fi ne mar bl e , and the ts: c l magnificent state rooms, worthy of Imperial banquet s %,1 balls, are supported on rich columns of the same mater;il with gilded capitals. The views from the windows on sides are extremely beautiful and interesting. The r ° ,l o B of the palace are large, l o fty,- and well furnished ; tP- ia of the King and Qu ee n a re e l egan t, r i c h, an d cornfortab''' All the appointments are ver y goo d, an d there is excellent library, where a learned and cosmopolitan Pr Dr. Koppen, f a mili ar w ith many l an d s an d wall lade guages, works away in old-world volumes, and shr °- himself in the dust of the Middle Ages. VISIT TO THE ACROFOLIS. ,1 14 1 / OH the 19th of Ap r il, w h en th e roya l par ty arrive''', e t was damp and gloomy, but on th e 20th, the We l tr being finer, they visited the Acrop o lis. The royal car riages, preceded by an outrider in light blue and silvertol a white horse, passed from the portico with the . 65 1 ,01 honours of a guard, with pr e sent e d arms an d a flourl s "ho trumpets, and so through streets lined with peoPle (% ; j ege bowed and took of their hats very generally as the Of' went by), till they emerged on the open ground go t ascended to the arch before the Propyhea, where they b o out and walked over into the interior and stood befe ll , the Parthenon. Dr.Koppen, charged with multitud e ° 0 information, and ready to let it off iu any languag e ' sl oe ready to illustrate every stone with a story fro'', 0 earliest period to the present tim e ; an d, wan dering ' t° e li the Parthenon to the Erectheum, the tourists sati llte li: at their will on the P e l aeg i c roc k s, l oo k e d d ow n ° l3t a spot where Demosthenes thund ere d aga i ns t Philil ), where St. Paul prea c hed o f "th e U n k nown God, s- 01 admired all that th e rage o f h ea the n T ur k an d Chr ti et e has left of statu ar y an d t em pl es . I n t h e eve ning t 'oo was a State banquet in the Palace, to which al l ; diplomatic body were invited, an d a t w hi c h the ° I LI Ministers and the Patriarch and th e m os t distingu is id men in Athens were present. All the guests were i 1 1 0.4 uniform, and the effect of the scene in the noble 1.00 0 very striking, for nowhere could the eye rest iel gredter variety of colour, set off by the picturesque h and of the attendants, and by a mixture of Oriental European finery. 1 siogtOt ILLUMINATIONS. That night there was, after dinner, a very Qe tf spectacle. We had a very beautiful illumination of a' t fine pile of public buildi ngs an d a di s pl ay o f firewor ics ; the city folk who could not get tickets of admission inner show. lam not quite sure that the Acropolief,, fair subject for blue lights, red li g ht s , gree n lights, Pd wcrks, and dazzling displays a la C r emorne ° • 11 - 0 6 Rwherville ; but, at any rate, it is a ve r yt. sight to see, and if the proprieties and unities ceo dishevelled it was to some purpose that tili t3 ' nf ich most venerable and sacred locality in the classical was for once turned into a fairy t rans f or mation e ce- , 1 6 "No one is hurt." Athens was plea se d, an d so must I:11 been all who beheld, as we did, an ex hibition of gilt great skill, turning to the best accou n t i n its waY ; g ilt admirable collection of architectural beauties. The 11)0 was calm, the sky clear, and a moon in the third cP l '" Wbe 4 cast from her high throne her own g l or i o us light O the fiery rockets and the devices of the pyrotechn ist° out. „tech° The Town Council of Darli ng t on h a ve ac l° T; by a majority of 9 to 3, a petition t o P ar li a ment ir" 6. of the Permissive Bill. F S t '' EVANGELIC ZEAL. —At the church s 9 l ui er Anne's, Manchester, of whi c h th e R ev . J am es Bar s' the notorious Church Associationist, is vicar, it 09 announced by advertisement that the usual WO W- 0° to morningservice would n o t t a k e pl ace , b ecau se thereordi an evening service on Ascension Day.-"C” Times. . Ail ANOTHER COLONIAL KNIGHTHOOD.—Tne*" „A 0/ announcement in the Ga ze tt e th at anot h er Pr u i , 133 : 3 0 0 colonial p o liti c i an h as rece i ved a knighthood. The„ool3 is now conferr e d upon M r. T erence Aubrey .leol President of the L eg i s l a ti ve C ouncil of New Sou th " n - vid Mr. L. H. B a yl e y an d M r. F. Lloyd, of the 1311i61/ Civil Service, have been appointed Judges o f th e Court of Judicature in that Presidency. Li ce' PRINCE. ARTHIIR.—His Royal Hightles s Ide tenant Prince Arthur, whose leave of absence 'f r° „"j o , lj , military duties extends to th e I s t o f J u ly, rejoi n ' will Friday the Royal A r till er y a t W oo l w i c h, w here , l ' e a t t c7 remain for a short tim e , an d th en accompan y the u% the Scotland. The Prin ce h as resume d hi s res idence 1 t Ranger's House, Greenwich Park, and was Press - 0 0 : Parade on Friday, and a pp eare d t o b e i n th e enicci ii ci' the most robust h ea lth an d exce ll ent spirits. Tile' return to 'Woolwich was unexpected. 11 41 ; MEMORIAL TO LORD PALMERSTON.—Th e S f ° l)°' r ampton Town Cou nc il h ave d ec id e d t h at t h es tatue 0 ' r the Palmerston should be erected in the public pack s e e :;ori i i entrance to the tow n . Th e insciption on the di e " will be as follows:—" Palmerston, K.G , born 1 - 78 ' 411 0 1865. Erected by public subscription. .Frederick Ve' d , to mayor." It was stated that an effort was being 133 „ P o cit ° induce the Prince of Wales to inaugurate the statu e ; D icis pay a visit t o th e B ath and West of Englan d Show , will be held at Southampton the first week in THE PRINCE OF WALES AS A F RE EMAS O S v . aje d Lerant Times o b serves t h a t d ur i ng t h e P r ince of / a the recent visit t o C ons tantinople, the fact was verilie I , e li his Royal Highness had become a brother, though ; tha t not yet joined an English lodge. It is understoo Tod, the Prince will do so soon after his return to -3 l ao teff and that th en h e w ill accept the o ff i ce of Grand I ‘ i 'odg eti t: or the positi on o f pa t ron o f t h e or d er . various lette under th e E ng li s h cons tit ut i on h ave receive d %do , ° oti from the ac ti ng secre t ary o f t h e Di s t r i c t Gran d rive: 13 i a tioo Turkey, st a ti ng th a t " B rot h er the Wales" h a d d es i re d hi m to commun i c ate the gr a a son t it had aff or d e d hi m t o l earn t h e progress of c3for itO in this empire, and to express his good wishes fat a l : continued prosperity, a ddi ng that in vvhAteve ievi Position he mi g ht b e pl ace d h e s hould alwaYs i „ t , 0 0 a r e ha ve interest the proceedings of the craft in that that it would have afforded him much Pleasure had o‘'i had an opportunity of meeting the brethren if uv o the r been prevented by his numerous en circustances, engageme nts too COIIE count, New a Bills £ lii Indli ditto 5 Cent., 5 per ( Under , Fore being yester c only, a Cents., dull at A. f lig ' R I i in Westo 'lima a it was Were 1 policies total I.( claims The Guara - n • issued to dat( £626. 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