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

PPUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times remarks that when the time shall 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 snore 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 be 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 touch natural ability, but he has unfortunately, become a ruler of men only late in. life. Hence his most striking peculiarities. He is a singular mixture of strength arel weakness. Hellas been in business from his youth, and is intimatelyacquain ted with its details, but has never had time to reflect on its princi• pies, 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 his own l sit with accepting what most people think. Ignorant of the history of the past, of the experi ence of contemporary nations, and*of the precious results of political study, he Is like a giant stronglimbed but un 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 auwisest 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 had been preparing for us, and propose beginning the whole affair de noro 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 .coepted when me 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 for a fine building. It is possible, perhaps, whatever the probabilities may be, to spend nearly the same amcunt 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 Loth, 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 Rosins- into a discussion upon the manners observed during its debates, the discussion of which, if it had no other result, slimed how difficult it is to lay down and toprocure the observance of any inflexible rule in such matters, and bow 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 Iledesdale, 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 Daily News declares that Lord Cairns is too stiff and formal for the smaller business of parliamentary leadership ; he bas not tho intuitive and penetrating sagacity which would make him equal to its greater exi gencies. On the first testing occasion ho 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 in off with the old Earl. Ire may acquire an influence over Lord Salisbury equal to his influence over Lord Derby. He is essentially a tamer of men. By. subduing Lord Salisbury he may heal the discord- of the Conservative party ; but lie will scarcely achieve this result on easier terms. The Herald examines the return moved for by Sir Thomas Bateson respecting agrarian crime in Ireland, and diStinctly chai-geOlr. Gladstone and' hiS colleagues, 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. of the "other agrarian outrages " com mitted in Ireland since the Ist of last December. To them and to him, and mostly to him, is due 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 as but for their policy and his would have been committed during the last eleven months. Ever since the spring of laSt year Ireland has bad the advantage of Mr. Gladstone's conciliatory programme, and this has been Ireland's reply. He has applied his soporific, and these ghastly nightmares—only unhappily too real--lave been the result. In plain language, Mr. Gladstone has played the part of an agent provocateur, and the result_ of. his provocations is to be read in the (his. tracting, and perturbing figures we have-cited. _lle has conjured up demons he will find it impossible to lay or to quell. He has 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 Ida own reawakene , l 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 of moderation which characterised the speeches of unionists like Mr. Newton, employers like Mr. Morley and Mr. Mundt:lLl, and members of Parliament like Mr. Hughes. In frank and manly words Mr. Morley told the unionists that Rome of their societies had been guilty of much folly, and hal done much mischief. It is importa,t that snch language should be spoken, and spoken in the face ,f the working people, by men who sympathise with their endeavours to repeal the legal dis, abilities horn which the operative class suffers. Already the trades unionists wield a mighty power, and to particular branches of industry they may do irreparable injury by insisting upon impracticable conditions. Strikes, sometimes be neces.ary. If, as Mr. are appaals to brute force, so are wars Let,teen nations; and .Len r:a3,:u fails to r q-oilitce its frrit-1 such appaal3 may lie unavoidable. But hitherto we have not giveo reas,)ii p!:.y. Mr. Mnndella stow I for. ward at Exeter Hall as the champion of the organised c:mciliation, which, thanks to his untiring efforts, has been practised - in - some manufacturing towns with signal success. ..~i:~ilt, .131:11 111.11 tiow that the shackles of the combination laws are about to te struck off the arms of labour, and that. the working classes will gain more freedom, it is more imperative than ever that, so far as possible, courts of conciliation shout(' do the work heretofore clumsily and cruelly dime by strikes. Such was the sentiment that animated the meet. hug of Wednesday night, and it cannot fail to excri.ls.! 9 caul ilifiueiite - 611 the del}' •atioxl 9f rarligilmit, THE JUDGE, THE COMMA AND Tile 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 : 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 Spinks: Did she live at Te.ttenharn ? Witness : Scotland, no ; you ought to know better than that.—The Judge : I shall be compelled to commit you. Don't fancy this place is an exhibition. Witness : All right, sir ; hot they want to rob me, the thieves.— Cross-examined by Mr. Gibbons.: Did you ever strike your sister ? Witness : What .?—The learned counsel repeated tile • question. Witness.; • ; God Almighty gtruck her.--The Judge : I really shall corn o& yotu—Mr. Gibbons : Did you ever knock. some of your sister's teeth out? Witness (putting on a most nt scowl) : ; She struck herself. (Pointing to the counsel) That does you.'—The Judge: This is the last warning. You will find yourself in custody.—Witness: All right, my lord. 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 T.AW AND POLICE. THE NUISANCE OF HAMMER-BEATING.—A singular action bas 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 are within a few yards from the church. The plaintiffs alleged that a large steam hammer at the works of the defendanthas 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 shew 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 been instituted for the abatement of the " nuisance." THE BRITISH lIOIE FOR INCURABLES.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a case was tried in which the plaintiff, who was lately an inmate of the British Home for Incurable; 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 char ge 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 186 G, when she was dismissed without any explanation. The Lord Chief Justice expressed some surprise at the statement that the plaintiff bad 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. CO3IMSATION.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, a mechanic, named Burton, living at llacknall, 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 DEIVING.—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 which 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 he also censured the practice of putting omnibus possengers down in the middle of the street. Damages were agreed upon. TUE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT ALDER SUOT. Priv ate Thomas Kateley, Gth (Inniskilling) Dra goons, who was so frightfully injured at the cavalry field day at Aldershot on Monday, expired at half past seven on Tuesday evening. The body now awaits a coroner's inquest. THE DL kE 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. He much likes his new school, and is very popular among his companions. SERIOUS 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 7 - their removal, but the majority were broughtt 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 wounds bound up were conveyed to their homes. The injuries were mostly on their heads and legs. About twenty-five people in au injured condition were brought on to London Bridge. A NOVEL FENIAN OATII:—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 slationliouse, a collecting card for a memorial to a man named Farrel, who was shut at Tallaght, and a Fenian oath of a novel character were found - upon him. The card, as a stimulant to liberality, bore 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 the front !" The oath was intended for the members of a 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 neees. nary. After the usual wishes for the prosperity of Irelandand . 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 K eogh who hanged them, and that the hearthstone of hell might be their tomlutone." It was signed "Natalie Egan." Hughes was brought up on Wednesday before one of the magi strates and remanded. SINGULAit COLLOQUY VIVI A II ..Y(..—At the Batley Petty 'essions, on Wednesday, a man named Joe Ilinchcliffe, a publican's groom, was charged with having partaken too freely of alcohol on the previous Sa,turilay. When the case had been stibstantiato , l by a West Iti.iino police officer, the following friendly dialogue took place between his Worship and the " horsey " man :—The Mayor : Nab, Joe, tinirt here agean. Joe : Ha, I'm here agean.—The Mayor: What's ta bean doin' to get here agean? WLILL's ta bean gettin' druffen agcan forJue ? Joe : I wor partly fresh, at least that chap (point ing to the policeman who had proved the charge) sez soa.— The Mayor : Well, tha' out'nt ta get fresh, Joe. Joe : I L.no' I sudd'nt, but I canna' help it ; I'd hed nowt to ate, and I'd t: en a sop o' gin to keep me warm.—The Mayor : Tha' owt to get more to ate an' less to drink, Joe : I Frol by reights.—The Mayor : What's ta doite fur a liv in', Joe ? Joe : I's Lean dein' a bit o' grootnin' fur Joe Lister fur a bite o' summat to ate.—The Mayor: Tha' cud keep away fra them places, they've bean't ruin o' thee. .Toe : I sod ; I know they hev.—The Mayor : Well, Joe, 'spose I let thee off, will ta corn here onny moor? Joe: Nou, John, I winnot. (Immense laughter, and loud cries of " Silence" by Superintendent Airton and Inspector Weatherbill).—The Mayor: Well, then, I'se dismisathee, but if ta cums - here onny moor Ike recollect thee. The il yauthen_liberatzl.--Docikt.Y.U.2lllA THE -~~~.~:- 311SCELLANEOUS)VETVS. 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 found its way amongthe jeuncsse doree of Paris. The Pall Mall points out the meanness and the cruelty of this sport. It is worse even than the battue on the Ist of September, for the sportsman does not even expose himself to the chance of getting a wetting or wearying himself with a walk. Ile drives down in a faultless turn out, is dressed in faultless attire, .and then slays to his heart's con t e nt the b irds who have been taken froth 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. fair, presumably tenderhearted, are now becoming every week in larger numbers spectators' of the slaughter. There is some excuse for the Spanish ladies who assist at a bull fight., lie scene is, at least, exciting, there is room fOr courage and adroitness, and the loss of life is reduced to a mini mum. But here there is simple murder, murder of innocent birds incapnble of defending themselves against coronoted ex inisites in kid gloves. lIGNOUUS, The Owl states. that Mr. Panizzi, late chief officer of the British Museum, is about to be made a K.C.13. Everyone will rejoice that this gentleman has so far overcome his late dangerous illmss 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.-111r. 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 Hoine Office, whose chef d'auvre was the Reform Bill of 1867. The salary is £l,BOO a year, but should the new Com missioner be disestablished by the Bankruptcy Bill, he is to receive compensation only as registrar. THE 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 HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Members of Parliament of both Houses have been called to order. The - House 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 interruptions, he says, come chiefly froth the Conservative benches. Anyone, however, who has spent a night irt 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 fugleman 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 daughters instructions not to be restless when they come clown to the I I ouse, and let the peers restrain their impatience during a poor speech or a disagreeable argument, and, if need be, give 3 7.te Lord Chancellor power to insist on order. THE AILLIVAL OF THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. The Viceroy of Egypt has arrived in this c0t.:10,. and it is to be hoped will be treated with.l4o,l4l* - ' tality which his reception of •the P rince iii-AVAles deserves. His reception at Charing-cross station is hardly promising. When our Prince visited him, the whole of the Khedive's household was kept on the qui vire, so .that the Prince might be received immediately on his arrival. But on Tuesday night the Viceroy remained in his railway carriage for some time waiting for the Prince of Wales to welcome him. The state carriages were there, it is true, some Scots .FuSilier G rds happily arrived in time to form a line befora the train glided in, and the band was ready to strike up the Egyptian Hymn ; but the _picket wbidi Was to have cleared the way, and the Life Guards, were to have foul-fed the escort, did not come up to the station till the Viceroy was nearly at Buckingham Palace. A very unimposing procession of four state carriages, preceded by a single mounted police in spector, took the Viceroy to Buckingham Palace. .TIIE COTTON TRADE OF INDIA. On Tuesday a deputation from Blackburn waited upon the Secretary of State for India to urge upea the Government the importnnee of developing the cotton-producing resources of British India. Th e y also desired that the import duty might.be repealed to further the interests of British manufacturers. The Mayors of Manchester and .Bolton, and several of the Lancashire members, were among the deputa tion.. The Duke. of Argyll said, in reply- to the various statements that were made, that the Goveri ment had the question befora them, and they were - amtions 'to - promote the growth . of cotton. With regard to the tariff, the Government re'piircd the revenue that was obtained from all :mum's; and lie could not .gjVe an opimowon so vast a :- bject taxation without carefully looking into•the matter. TILE BANDA AND htRW En I'll 17 E :MONEY. The litigation about the Indian prize threatens to be renewed. There are certain prom sort' notes, amounting- to at least -.1.:1-1( . !,, whia were captured from the rebellious chiefs of during the Indian mutiny. The amount Tonxi!iii, these notes stand is c l a i me d b y G ener a Ge, , rgt Whitlock's force. The Government say that . CAsy are not prize money, they still belong to the from whom they were taken. THE GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHS BILL. . . We are able to announce that the GoNernment 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 beintroduced 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 - PeSt Office now Pr , a lies for the conveyance of otter 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 subject, the Morning Advertiser writes in its most agonised type— " That an understanding has been come to between the Government and the leading Conservative peers, that in committee on the Irish Church Bill, amendments will be introduced, having for their object to endow all religions 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 P ro t es t ant i sm 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 la men t a bl e and discreditable subserviency which the Nonconformist s and Scotch members skewed to id t ti he l i ia r y r e e o w n a c r e d r; e a d_ ri,, f o o li r te t o h u e s ir o r n e e c , re so au f c a r y to o s Ministers in the Comm ons w h en the endowm e nt of May nooth clauses .the 1ri..11 Ch urc h Bill were before t t l l l t e e y ln a . re Ti i i n is ch i v s 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 Dull in says jhat tie Masnootk clausjura)o struck, ours: . • 7 - SUN, LMIDON. :; - - - - - THURSDAY EVENING,- -J-UNE " 24, -1869. the bill, and that the change win De acceptea Dy Inc Government - -A statement which does not seem reconcileable with the announcement that the Government is prepared to accept concurrent endow ment. • PUBLIC OPINION AND THE BILL. Ministerial 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 Bonum 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 ad led, that the Government would, for the same reason, find it difficult to accept any such alteration. The Times and the Teeyraph, having already put out feelers on the s:lbject.are silent, waiting to hear what the country will say. The Morning Sior,which is the organ of the Nonconformist Radicals, has not yet spoken. being perhaps, induced to maintain silence by the known affection which Mr. Bright has for the proposal of giving parsonages to the Roman Catholic clergy. The Tally News, however, 'Teal s out in the pl:liiiest 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 secretary 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 land." "A Protestant Liberal M.P." condemns Mr. Hamilton's proposal to solve 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 tne gieues 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 unfrir 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. AUCHDEACON DENISON ON THE SECOND BEADING. The union between Church and State is gone for ever. Lord Salisbury and the 13ishop of St. David's cut its throat on June 19; 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. His- (the Archdeacon's) great voca tion has been taken from him. " Church and Queen" w:11 have in the future no meaning at public dinners. The prayer for the High Court of Parliament will be but a mockery. The blow has fallen, moreover, from the fault of Churchmen, 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 CET:RCII PROSPECTS. . Mr. Maclionoehie, incumbent of St. Alban's, Hol born, has issued his usual annual address to his parishioners. It is unusually long, and occupies twelve octavo pages. Referring to the prospects of the Church, he asks : " Well, what are 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 Romans? . TA it to swarm off into a 'Free `Clturclt,.a kind of cave, : coyise the political slang of the day? Is`itteluiOdity and trim, anil meet the wishes of those who would leave us a bit of the husk 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 stripped of goods and position—to be inhibited, suspended, deprived, and even ezcommnnicated, if the worst come to the worst — rather than falter for a moment in speaking the truth." The offertory for the year was Ripito. A NEW POLITICAL ORGANISATION. The Daily News states that the Reform Club has just established a political committee, consisting of fifty M.P.'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 lops 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 was a most excellent one—not judging on the merits of the debate itself, but arguing that to adtnit such a th e ory 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 o f th e 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 Corks escapade, and is . ..engaged in inquiring how fartheHouSe of Commons has the power to examine witnesses on oath at the bar. Sir Erskine-May, in" giving evidence, stated that as early-as 1614 the subjectwas mooted,' and a bill was brought.in,.bnt 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 parliamentary and municipal elections ; and the evidence given 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. Mn. SMALLEY AND TFIE UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL IN LOMON.—The London correspondent of the Tribune, in his letter of May 2, thus frankly acknowledges the errors into which he fell regarding Mr. Morse: —" In my letter of April 17, printed May 3, I criticised the re nomination of Mr. Morse to the London Consulate, object icg to it mainly because Mr. Morse had been a Johnson man. I charged him with that on what I thought credible testimony, but lam satisfied I was wrong. Mr. Morse came to me yesterday in a frank way, which f cannot but respect, and assured me that ho had sympathised with Con gress throughout in its struggle with President Johnson on Reconstruction, and had approved his impeachment ; dis senting strongly on that point from his friend, Mr. Fessen detal 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. He desire; it to be understood, also, that the London Consulate is by no means the lucrative post it is supposed to be, that he has 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 Trenholm and Prioleau cases, Mr. Morse still believes he was right, and that if the Department bad sus tained him instead of annulling his agreements, we should have gained much more than we are now likely to get from the pending suits. But itis not necessary to go into a dis cussion about that. My criticism was really based upon what I srpposed to be Mr. horse's Johnsonisin • -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 Mr. Morse an apology, which he dces not ask for, but which I make with a great deal m re . pleasure than I did the original charge." 11ARVARD!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 but 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. Hoping that your May races may have resulted in such a manner as to have decided you to select a four .oar, -r-I remain, sir, yours very truly, ALDEN P. LORING, Captain, IL V. B. 0.-13osto, June a, TilE AMERICAN PRESS. The Nation, of June 3, in an article on " Euro pean 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 Btink of England rate of disoiunt, 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 Sectuities of any kind, one per cent. per annum. "Efforts, to a limited extent successful, have teen made to induce England, France, and Germany to ii nd their sur plus accumulations to Spain,- Italy, Russia, Turkey, and who knows what other poor hopelessly bankrupt states: There are even men—and men of ability and iullue%ce, 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 iu American securities. In truth, the advance in the Bank of England rate has rot yet produced the effect an ticipated float it in advancing the rate of interest else where. Ou the coutiary, 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 - rot oven, 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 iseveryl.kelihood that the demand will con tinue. As long as Europe cannot find sate,profita ble employ ment 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 States at six per cent. interest, nothing that batiks and Governments can do will prevent all money from coming here 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 say—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 some 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." 'llle same paper discusses the Harvard and Ox ford Boat Race, giving the crews as follows : HARvAnD.—Stroko, W. H. Simmons, aged 20, sft. lliin. height, 1741bs racing weight ; 2. S. W. Rice, aged 26, t•ft. 11in. height, 1651bs racing weight; 3. G. Bass, aged 23, sft. lqin. height, 161Ibs 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. OXFORD.—Stroke, S. Darbishire (Balliol), 1601bs racing weight, March, 1869; 2. Z. C. Tinne (University), 1881bs racing weight, March, 1869; 3. A. C. Yarborough (Lin coln), 1661bs racing weight, March, 1869 ; Bow, W. D. Benson (Balliol), 16011bs racing weight, March, 1869 ; D. A. Neilson (St. John's), cox., 1101bs racing weight, March, 1869. There is notLiog by which the test of merit can he accurately decided. Harvard will carry a cox swain—unheard 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 unknown boat on American waters, and where the Americans pull six oars the English pull eight. Harvard turns a stake in the middle of the race course, while Oxford pulls straight. " ❑:owever, there are ono or two facts well authenti cated, which serve to show the Harvard crew need not dread that overwhe'ming defeat which is predicted for it by the conservative aLd despondent. 'The Healy course' comes nearer being an exact. mile in length than any other in England. The Henley time' made by an eight-oar over this course has the reputation of being the best time made 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 with Yale at Worcester, made the first mile in a three-mile course in sm. 30sec. In other words, an American six oar has done better than the aye -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 who pull every evening ou the Charles look beautiful in a boat, and the same can hardly be said of the four Englishmen as they appear in a photograph of tLe Oxford eight which beat Cambridge last March. Tinne looks too heavy even for a man of his cannons weight, and while Darbishire looks finely and Benson prettily, Yarborough, 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 a nd Bass are, in appearance, better than Yarborough and Tina. Of course 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 lighter boat than the Oxford " ship," the English, according to the Nation, bay ing failed to acquire the art of turning out, light boats. Hence America may hope for sueless, 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 Tribune and Times keep up the discussion on Secretary Boutwell's financial policy. The limes 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-por-cent. security will not volun tarily exchange it for 'one baring 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 surre n d er th en ; for a less valuable bond. A certain coercion is indispen sable ; and coercion is impracticable so long as the Tree sury is nut prepared to redeem outstandi ng secur i t i es 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 cot possible that we should not march steadily and surely ou to resumption. That effected, and bonds still growing scarcer daily, while most of them either already are or very soon will bo 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 Consol 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 intes considers— " The gradual appreciation of the currency to be the true criterion of an approach to specie payments. Tell us what the national currency is worth, and there will be no difficulty in determiaiog the improvement or deoliue 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 !lribune answers that Mr. Boutwell has more gold now on hand than when he took over the office, the sales not equalling the accommodation. "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 ten millions each, and see what their operation will be. As yet, the were anticipation of what ho may do his 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 ner's Radical Blunder." Mr. Sumner spouted de fiance, exciting surprise, dissent, and grave dis pleasure 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 Sptali ir 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 that they cannot find it in 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 gocds, shut their doors 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 for 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." I❑ 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, laughing 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 Lever bad, the least intention of going to war, which she knows would be financial ruin and political chaos : "Wo 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 considers— 'The correspondence about the Johnson-Clareudon treaty just published in England is quite as damaging to Mr. Seward's reputation for frankness and plain dealing as his course in the St. Thomas matter was. Ho 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 Senate 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 Mr. Seward is not very dignifiod or honest." The letter of the Lairds it thinks proves beyond ques tion the complicity of the English Government, and the liabilityof the English. Commentingou the sup pression of Mr. Sumner's speech, it says, if this speech bad not become a daily object of attack in the English papers, they might have been excused for its omission, considering 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 sad delay suppressed, so as to prevent the public from forming its own opinions. It thus alludes to our report of the 53d anniversary of the British Peace Society, upholding the interpretation of the speech there given by the Rev. C. 11. A. Dill : " 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 had 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 two dollar contributions received by the publisher of the Free- Trader, as subscriptions to this paper. Ile 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, London, 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 B: itish 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-in-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 ace 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 Ilera1(1. Tte Herald 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 aro aware how persistently he has a:,used the infancy of every great movement, except in cases where he could better smother by seeming favour, and with what unvarying re gularity he has, in after days of prosperity, fawned, and grovelled, and demanded consideration' for his ser v i ces as nurse, if not parent. sow, knowing as we do th a t t h e as tastes of the owner of the Herald are strongly monarchi cal, opposed not only to Eepublicanism, but to th a t F ree Empire to which we are pointing, but Which ha 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 claim 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, CHATHAM, 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.C., and Mr. Round appeared in support of the bill. Mr. Merewether, Q.C., Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Sargoodt Mr. Herbert Saunders, Mr. Fitzjames Stephens, Mr. Littler, Mr. Bridge, Mr. Boult, Mr. Hem ming, Mr. Ferrers, Mr. Everitt, and Mr. Gadsden appeared in support of petitions against the Bill. Mr. Hope Scott, Mr. Denison, Mr. Rodwell, Mr. Fry, and Mr. Littler also appeared to watch the bill on behalt of various petitioners who had opposed the bill in the House of Commons, but who are satisfied with it it its present state, and desirous that it may be passed without alteration. Mr. VENABLES, Q.C., opened the case for the promoters, and said that the bill might be described, in the language of Lord Justice Gifford, 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 iu progress, and to refer the various points at issue to the MarqUis of Salisbury and Lord Cairno 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 ju iicial 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 golf% over the same ground again. M r • Venables proceeded so state that out of i 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 the in to the committee, Mr. Venables stated the purport of the several petitions, which were 15 in number' Among the petitioners were the Sevenoaks, Maid stone, and Tunbridge Railway ; Lord Sondes, Lo rd Harris, and others, formerly directors of the com pany ; the Credit Fonder ; 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 unier taking ; Mr. Gardiner and others, trustees of the rolling stock ; Messrs. Lucas, the contractors, So' 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 Cot Railway Company, the General Credit Co al ' pony, and the Imperial Mercantile Credit Com pany petitioned that the bill might be passed with out alteration. The learned counsel said 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 company, and cross examined by Mr. Bridge, Mr. Littler, and M r. Sergeant Sargood, on behalf of several petitioner s. The committee then adjourned till this day. RAILWAY ITEalS.—The passenger travel on t ile Pacific Rai way coutinties very heavy. Pullman is r ill , ning two and sometimes three pal ace s l ee pi ng cars on 1- , A train, which are always full.—The question having be en raised whether the Baltimore and Ohio Railway G3: 0 1 3 tal was liable under the revenue laws to make return of O a interest p rid by them to the City of Baltimore, ou a debt due by them to that city, the Attorney-General has writ leu6 long opinion adverse to the claim of the Revenu ) Bur° 3- in the case.—Of the 33,000 shares into which the stock (, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad is divided, COnl modore Vanderbilt owns 5,033. The real estate own d more thln zo, by f the corporation is set down at $131,497, of which is held in the limits of M assac h use tts, til° ll ° h only six of its 74} miles of lin e a re i n that State. • NAVAL ITEMS.--Despatches have been rece iv ed at Washington from Rear-Ad m i ra l T u rner, conamandinS the Pacific Squadron, dated V a lp ara i so , May 1. The rod; hattan was at that port, having recently returned 111)0' Talcahuana. The Dakota was on the way to Cogg in ' „ from Callao. The i'Vyack was at- Callao. The ICears a * - i r sailed from Talcahuana, on the 17th of April for th elr quesas, Society, Friendly, and Fejee Islands, Amara 13 and New Zealand, and thence back to the South 2 l 0 1 coast. The Tuscarora arrived at Valparaiso on the 2d , f April from Callao. She was preparing to sail for the Ott' of Mexico to join the North Atlantic Squadron. Th e Os :i ward was at Valparaiso. The ironclads of the -unite States are being called into service both on the Ath ititia and Pacific coasts. Orders had been received at San Fran' cisco to put the ironclads Monadnock and Canzo 4he j. ll . readiness for immediate use. At the same time the ,'"a bongo has been put out of Commission and offic)rs o rder' East. 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