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The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Com any into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be subscribed for and transferred. A commission of s (one-half) per cent. is allowed to applicants, and the Stock will ba inscribed in the Com pany's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th January and 15th July by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Cotn pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (X 30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (X 3,000,000) annually. 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BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. W. Farren, Vernon. David Fisher, J. Clarke: Miss Lydia Foote. At 9.15, the new burlesque TH P: CORSICAN BOTH ERS: Messrs. J Clarke, Marshall. Andrews, and Harlstone : Mesdames Julia St George, Berend, Breman, and C. Thorne. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tine ETENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. THEATRE-ROYAL, lIOLBORN. THIS EVENING, at 7 .30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Cowper, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. Coghlan, Mrs. HermatmVezin, Mrs. C. Horsman, &c. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EVENiNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. LONDON, TRURSDAY, JULY 8, 1869. The report of the Lords' Committee is to be brought up to-morrow. The Irish Church Bill, it is expected, will be read a third time in the Upper House on Monday, and the probability is that, within a week from to-day the Premier will move that the Peerd' amendments shall be considered. Thereupon it will be seen how far practicable it may be to secure the pasting of the bill in some reasonable shape this session by means of mutual concession; on the part of the Lords and Commons, on the part of the dominant Opposition in the llouse of Lords, and on the part of the dominant MinisteriAlists in the House of Commons. We do not believe for one, but that some rational compromise will be carried otit. We cannot for a moment anticipate that, at ttli.; advanced stage, matters will be brought to a dead lo The Bill will be passed. And, at the same tim e, cr will not be stultified by its being allowe in pass in a form altogether beyond recog nition. The amendments, as they now stand, place it beyond all recognition. These amendments, there- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1E69 fore, must, here and there, 1 e modified, and we may take it, as a matter of course, will be modified ac cordingly. If by no other means than by the postponement of the settlement of the delicate and undoubtedly most difficult problem yet requiring to be worked out, namely, that as to the distribution of the Surplus Funds resulting from the proposed realization of the property of the Irish Church Establishment—the most formidable of all obstacles to Legislation upon the matter at all this session may at once be removed. It is no doubt very undesirable, indeed, as Lord TAUNTON intimated on Tuesday evening, that a prize of several millions ster ling should be kept dangling for any lengthened period before rival claimants for its acquisition in Ireland. Granted that that is in truth in every way most undesirable. Nevertheless it would be yet more undesirable that all hope of Legis lation of any kind upon the subject of the Irish Church should be abandoned for another twelvemonth, and that the Lords and Commons, the Cabinet and the Country should waken, now, to the realisation of the fact that, solely through a dogged determination, here on the part of the Minis try, here on the part of their antagonists in the Upper House of Parliament, in no way to surrender to one another upon any one particular—the whole of this laborious session should proved to have been wasted, and the fair prospects opened up to Ireland baulked at the very moment of their anticipated realisation. Immeasurably preferrable to that would be postpone ment, not indefinitely, but until next session, until the spring of 1870, of the deliberate consideration of the whole question as to how the surplus funds of the Irish Church might be the most happily applied. Arrange for the dissestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland—arrange for its disendowment—but leave for separate consideration, some eight months hence, the chief matter now in dispute between the two great rival parties within the walls of the Legisla ture, between the Conservative Party still all powerful in the Lords, and the Liberal Party now supreme in the Commons under the Leadership of Mr. GLADSTONE. Upon the satisfactory settlement of that still remaining difficulty, very much indeed will depend. But, while that is undoubtedly the case, the settlement of it is not so urgent that it need be precipitated. It is a matter that admits very readily of postponement. It is precisely one of those points that may easily be held over for further consideration. There has been a good deal of ghastly joking as to the application of a considerable portion of the Surplus Funds of the Irish Church, as originally proposed by the Government scheme, for the benefit of lunatics in Ireland. With grim humour enough, Earl RUSSELL exclaimed upon that point that for any adequate benefit to accrue to Ireland in this parties lar—a whole province ought to go mad ! While, in a similar mood, Lord SALISBURY more recently inquire 1 whether lunacy was to be regarded as a luxury of the Irish peasantry ! Upon the other hand Ministers themselves have in a cer tain sense been nailing their colours to the mast, so to speak, as antagonists of the whole scheme, involved iu what is called" concurrent endowment"—that new phrase for what was termedlast year "levelling up." It is peculiarly desirable will() such is the animus dis played, now on this side now on that, by the chief disputants in this controversy as to the appropriation of the surplus arising from the realization of the pro perty of the Irish Church Establishment—it is pecu liarly and especially desirable, as it seems to us, that seine reasonable interval should be allowed to elapse before a matter so very stingingly and angrily, or at any rate we will say, so very ironically and bitingly in dispute, should be forced on to some de finitive, and, as it seems to us, under the circum stances, really precipitate settlement. That point, at least, meaning the appropriation of the surplus, may not unreasonably be postponed—at any rate, until the next session of Pariament. THOSE persons who rejoiced at the wisdom which was shewn by the Upper House in its vote of June 18th will regret that this wisdom has been of such short duration. The Irish Church Bill sent back to the Commons will be no more the same measure as that which the Commons sent to the Lords than the Reform Bills passed in 1867-8 were the same measure as that which Mr. DISRAELI introduced two and a quarter years ago. But whereas the nation approved of the changes which the earlier measure underwent, it will, we have little doubt, strongly disapprove of those to which the bill now under consideration has been subjected. We believe that the Times, usually so skilful in ascertaining and following public feeling, has wholly deceived itself in the present instance. We believe that it has mistaken the wishes of a few influential noblemen, and perhaps of some aristocraticallyconnected members of the House of Commons, for the voice of the people, and that this mistake will very shortly become apparent. Mr. GLADSTONE is clearly of that opinion. He has lost no opportunity of assuring the country that he will observe the pledge which he made on the hustings in November, and that he will not appropriate any portion of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church to ecclesiastical purposes. He said this at the Mansion House; he has just said the same thing to a memorial of Walsall Nonconformists ; and he has through his colleagues made a similar announcement to the House of Lords. Thus doubly pledged he cannot retreat from his position unless the nation orders him to do so. That any such order will be given we believe is in the highest degree impossible. Consequently we shall shortly be in the middle of a grave constitutional crisis, the end of which it is impossible to foresee. We confess that we have no longer much hope that the Lords will shew the wisdom which they manifested at the outset. Lord SALISBURY has been told by the Times that he is the master of the situation, and the same journal has assured him that the nation has come round to the principle of concurrent endow ment. He for one thoroughly believes it. He is not accustomed to take his ideas of popular politics at first hand, and able man though he is, there are few men who so little understand his fellow countrymen as he. This being so, the Lords will probably insist upon the amend ments which they have carried, and the Govern ment will then throw up the measure, probably summon Parliament for an autumn session, when the original bill will be again passed through the Commons, and presented to the Lords endorsed with the popular approval manifested at monster meetings all over the kingdom. The Peers say privately they are prepared for an autumn session ; they even add that they will yield this point of concurrent endowment if it is clearly shewn that the nation does not desire it. It is unfortunate that they are not convinced of I this already. The very fact upon which the Times lays so much stress as an argument in favour of that scheme namely, that a large number of M.P.'s would support it if they were not afraid of their constituents—is a powerful argument against the possibility of its being ulti mately accepted. If the constituencies are opposed to it, and if the House of Commons, faithfully repre senting the constituencies, opposes it, even without . ;sfy them ? There is a further what stronger evidence can the Peers p os sibly require to sat disapproving it, GL A DSTONE, at all events,be eislolwvh objection to the Lorcls' to O ch o over r. i will e not n look. The deferring of the appropriation of the amendments m surplus funds would be to fall into the s ame error as proved fatal to the Liberal party thirty yea rs a g o. Many of our readers will remember the yearly bat tles that were fought over the Appropriation Clause, and how, at last, the Liberal party was disorganised and disgraced, until they reached that lowest depth of degradation which they attained under the fainéant Lord MELBOURNE. Mr. GLADSTONE would be false to the nation if he consented to the appropriation of six. the funds to the purpose of concurrent endowment without an express declaration from the nation in favour of it. He would bring ruin on his party if he exposed them to the same danger which proved their destruction a generation back. THE long-promised exposure of the doings of Welsh landlords at the last election was made in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Everybody knew that the appeal to the country on the Irish Church question had been vitiated, more than any preceding contest, by intimidation, but few persons except landowners and agents could have been prepared for the story told by Mr. RICHARD. Wales, like Scotland, is a country of political una nimity. The people are all Dissenters, ergo they are all Liberals, and on the Irish Church question their feeling is strongly in favour of Mr. GLAD STONE'S policy. Mr. RICHARD says—and we are happy to be able to confirm him—that education and political intelli gence have made great progress in the Principality in the last few years. If there ever was a time when the consciences of the people were confided to the keeping of their superiors in the social scale, when the humbler orders were content to have their political duty done by deputy, that time has for ever passed. In no part of Her MAJESTY'S dominions is the extension of political rights likely to have a better result than in Wales. But the owners of the land in many parts of the province have not been able to appreciate this progress. They still cling to the idea that the votes of electors are a species of real property, and they refuse to believe that freedom of political judgment is, in principle at least, as much the right of the British people as freedom of worship. It is an indisputable fact that all over Walee Liberal tenants were commanded by their landlords last November to vote for Con servative candidates, and were turned out of their holdings in great numbers on their refusal. The whole country was afflicted with this vice of intimi- dation. In Cardiganshire, all the tenants on several estates were ordered to vote for the candidate who, happily, was not returned. In Carmarthenshire, a landlord sent a notice containing his " instructions " to one tenant with a polite intimation that he was to pass it on to the rest. This was a Mr. LONG CROFT'S reply to a respectful memorial from the poor fellows entreating to be allowed to vote in accordance with their own consciences. In Merionethshire, one Conservative landlord has for several elections commanded the votes of 150 tenants, another of IGo—almost all Liberals. It is Leedless to multiply details. - Suffice it to say that Mr. RICHARD represented this plague to be general, and no member of the House of Commons felt him self in a position to contradict him. So far as the result was concerned, this terrorism did not prevent the Welsh from pronouncing against the Irish Church ; but that it was produc tive of widespread moral degradation there can be no doubt. It is not given to every man to resist the threat of being turned out of the home in which he is settled, and to expose his family to the mischances of another start in life. Accordingly very many gave way—the member for Merthyr Tydvil says " hun dreds." Those who maintained their right of free voting were mercilessly dealt with ; and, in fact, the remembrance of previous years prepared them for the consequences. But on former occasions an example or two was made out of a number of refractory tenants ; this time the business of eviction seems to have been carried on wholesale. In Cardiganshire forty-three tenants received notices to quit ; in Carmarthenshire twenty- These figures, however, do not represent the entire number. Many of these tenants had held their farms for many years, some of their families had tilled the soil for centuries ; but these considerations availed nothing. One case is given of a man, with ten children, whose eviction so weighed upon him that he died. His widow prayed that the notice to quit might be repealed in her favour, but her request was not noticed. Intimidation is, unfortunately, no new feature in connection with English elections; but never before have we met with aught like this. The defence to these charges was very meagre, and the need for comment is therefore small. One or two members, who were apparently rendered uncom fortable by Mr. IticHARD'S speech, attempted to tone down some of these facts ; but it is quite clear that intimidation was generally prac tised in Wales least. November, and that great distress was brought upon many electors who chose to vote according to their own judgment. Equally clear is the inference to be drawn from these facts. These proceedings are a disgrace to those who are guilty of them. Intimidation, like bribery, is apt to be lightly thought of in the Legislature, many of whose members largely profit by both vices; but the nation generally cannot rest satisfied with this state of things. Although territorial M.P.'s may find amusement in stories of electors being dragged off to the poll "with tears in their eyes; " the influence of this bondage on the national character cannot be too gravely considered. If ;the story of voters weeping because they were obliged to vote against their convictions be true, it is creditable to those who wept; and it is only to be feared that such a sense of shame will speedily evaporate if pro tection be not offered. The case in favour of secret voting has received new and powerful support. The Ballot has been called un-English, and as it is decidedly foreign to the interests of landowners, the objection seems well founded. But it will probably prevent a repetition of the tale told in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Further delay in accord- ing to what has come to be regarded as a boon will be inexcusable. The Octavia, screw unarmoured wooden frigate, 35 guns, 3,161 tons, 500 horse power, Capt. John H. J. Alexander, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yester day from the East Indies, and has received orders to proceed into Portsmouth harbour to be dis mantled and paid out of commission. She has brought home a number of naval officers, seamen, and marines, including 40 of the two latter classes from Ascension, and has experienced very fine weather during the whole voyage, with light winds and calms alternating. Bombay har bour was left on the 12th of March last, and the Mauritius reached on the 9th of April, wbere the frigate was coaled to 100 tons. Mau ritius was left on the 11th of March, and Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, reached on the 30th of April, where 270 tons of coal were taken on board, the ship refitted and provisioned, and short leave ashore given to the crew. On the Bth of May the Octavia resumed her voyage towards England, arriving at St. Helena on the 20th of May, receiving on board there a quantity of naval stores, and sailing again on the following day, calling in at Ascension on the 25th, and receiving on board a number of men waiting there a passage to Eng land. Sierra Leone was reached on the 3d of June, and Kroomen discharged there, the frigate sailing again on the 4th, and making St. Vincent's on the 12th, where coals to 156 tons were taken on board. St. Michael's was looked in at on the 25th for fresh provisions, and left again on the 27th. The sailing Indianian Sun Mendel, Commander J. T. Murdoch, 1,033 tons, belonging to Means. Coupland Brothers, of Liverpool, arrived at Spit head on Tuesday evening from Bombay with the following military officers and troops on board :—Captain H. F. Hutton, 23d Infantry, in command ; Lieut. Lloyd, 23,1 Infantry ; Lieutenant Stourton, Bth ditto; Lieut. Hughes, Ist battalioni Ist Royals; AsAst.-Surgeon Howard, R.A., in medical charge ; 100 time-expired and invalided soldiers, 11 soldiers' wives, and 19 children. Eight soldiers, one woman, and two children. died on the voyage. The Sam Mendel sailed from Bombay on the 25th March last, and called in at St. Helena on the 19th of May. Both the Sam Mendel and the Alumbagh disem I arked their troops yesterday after noon at Spithead into Government steamers, and afterwards sailed for London. DuNviLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion' Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, [Ad YClasc.nent SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times says that the Irish Church Bill must become • law this session. The Irish Church Bill must destroy Protestant supremacy and establish religious equality in Ireland. Further, it must not attempt to set up a multi plicity of establishments instead of cne establishment to link the nation in chains of compact with many creeds in the attempt to disencumber Church and State of their existing alliance. The task before Parliament is to observe these conditions of action, and subject to them, and to them alone, to devise what is best for the whole nation. The shape the bill will finally assume will be determined by considerations of public policy, and by nothing else. Judged by this criterion, there can he no doubt that the best solution of the differences between the two Houses of Parliament is to be found in the suggestion of the Duke of Cleveland, that the first trust of the surplus funds of the Establishment shall be to pro vide residences for the clergy of the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches. Are we, as Englishmen, entitled to object to the destination of Irish property according to Irish views? Shall we do whole-right or merely half right ? Shall we flatter ourselves that the wrongs of three hundred years are redressed by a recantation which stops short at partial justice? Such a conclusion would be a mere delusion. We may attempt to beguile our reason by such a fancied settlement, but it cannot and will not last. If we would place the ecclesiastical property of Ireland on a permanent footing, we must make up our minds to recognise facts, to apply so much of the surplus as may be necessary for the purpose to supplying homesteads for the ministers of religion of the whole people. The Standard says there cannot be a doubt that the country has altered its opinion a good deal lately as to the Irish Church Bill, and it is impossible to deny that it is the House of Lords who have given shape and consistency to that vague idea of " concurrent endowments " which was in many men's minds. But if the Lords have been able to do so much, it is not only a remarkable proof of the influence which they exercise over public opinion— au influence which those who now praise the Upper House were but the other day ready to deny--hut it is surely a strong argument against the whole basis of Mr. Gladstone's policy. If the majority of the Lords required any justification for their course in postponing the appropriation of the surplus, they would find it in this sudden growth of opinion in favour of concurrent endowments. It is clear that the framers of the Irish Church Bill are not in accord with public sentiment as to some of the radical principles of their policy. It is manifest that, in one important point, they have mistaken or overlooked the bent of public opinion. It is admitted that we are still in process of learning what should be done with the property of religious establish. ments ; that our progress is rapid, and some of our results very different from those which had been calculated. All these are reasons against any legislation at all upon the Irish Church question. They are at least special reasons why we should not snake a final disposition of the surplus property of the Church until public opinion has com pleted its education on that point. We have made such startling and unexpected progress in liberality in the matter of " concurrent endowments " that it is not very unreasonable to suggest that with more light, a calmer temper, and a freer discussion, we may advance in other directions not thought of by the authors of the Irish Church Bill, and be able to find a remedy at last for Irish discontent, without disturbing the rights of property or interfering with the Protestant religion in Ireland. The Post thinks that the arrangement between the Government and the Telegraphs is on the point of being braught to a satisfactory conclusion. Clauses are to be inserted in the new bill giving the Government a mono poly of the telegraphic business. The policy of this course has been questioned, and public opinion does not seem to have pronounced itself decidedly upon it. But, in fact, monopoly is the essence of the scheme. Without it the proposed arrangement could not be carried out. The monopoly, if granted to the Government, will leave science and art free as air to apply electricity to anything whatever save the transmission of messages. Furthermore, it is said that as the Post Office has been converted into a great tax-collecting piece of machinery, so may the new telegraphic system, if protected, be a monopoly. It might be supposed from the way in which the matter is spoken of that the Post Office is guilty of a heinous offence in assisting to lighten the public burdens by paying in some millions a year into the Exchequer. Surely if the public receive every reasonable facility in the matter of letter-carrying, and at the same time are relieved from taxation in some shape or form equal to a fourpenny income tax, they have little cause to grumble or to sigh after luxurious improvements. Why, too, for the matter of that, should not a revenue be derived from the Telegraphs ? If the Government can, by a jucrcious concentration of forces now frittered away, give the public greatly increased and reasonable facilities in the transmission of messages at reduced rates, and if at the same time, by good management, it can relieve the tax payer, why, in the name of common sense and practical statesmanship, should it not be done? Where is the harm ? What danger lurks in the system ? Are not the tran,ac tions directed by the Government, and for the sole and Lest benefit of the public ? If the department should be inordinately rapacious, at the worst, it is not for itself, but for the public advantage ; and the public have the remedy in their own hands. If no better arguments adverse to Government monopoly in the case of the telegraphs can be adduced, its advocates need have little fear of carrying their point in Parliament. The Daily Nova declares that the country gentlemen of Wales are desirous of creating a Welsh Church question, and of completing the analogy with the state of things over the water by associating with the Church question a land question. The statement which Mr. Henry Richard made on Tuesday night in the House of Commons as to the political oppression exercised by Welsh landlords during the late general election, brought down upon him some censure, which, in the absence of contradic tion, was real eulogy. Mr. Richard will, in truth, he the best friend the Welsh landlords ever had, if his warning leads them to hesitate in the course on which they have entered. The member for Merthyr Tydvil enumerated sixty-nine cases in the two counties of Carmarthen and Carnarvon alone of Nonconformist tenants ejected from their farms on account of their votes aCtlie general election by landlords who were members of the Established Church. The member for Cardiganshire—for there are two Richards in the field— referred to similar instances. But South and Mid-Wales do not stand alone in this matter. In Carnarvonshire that exemplary nobleman Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, Grand Chamberlain, brought all the weight of his property, not to speak of his character, to bear upon the issue at stake, by a circular, in which he warned his tenants not to vote against the wishes of their landlord. An end must be put to these things. A tenant-farmer ejected from his holding .is in a very different position from that of an artisan dismissed from work. The land, naturally limited in quantity, is by special laws converted artificially into a yet more strict monopoly. The Welsh landlords appear to think that their tenants hold their lands on the condi- tion, not of military, but of political service. They owe not relief or escuage, but their votes. The practical answer to this doctrine is the Ballot. If it fail, landlord. wrong may need to be met by tenant-right. The Star thinks that the second reading of the Trades Unions Bill is, at all events, a sufficient admission that the violent and indiscriminate antipathy to workmen's combi nations, which broke out in the press and elsewhere a couple of years ago, is now spent. It is almost incredible that within so short a time public opinion should have gone right round, and that writers and politicians, who, before the royal commission, were for breaking up the trade societies, are now forced to admit the impossibility of rejecting pointblank what many of them unac countably consider an extreme measure. For some reasons, it is, perhaps, a pity that a division did not test the exact amount of the good-will to the bill, and disclose the quarters where hostility to its very moderate and equitable principles will have to be overcome. But, of course, a division was out of the question, after Mr. Forster's declaration that the Government would support the bill if there were any oppo- sition to the second reading. And the spirit in which the Home Secretary spoke is proof enough of the conscious ness of the Government that the matter presses urgently for a solution. Mr. Henley was sagacious in his percep tion of the danger which attends such a question being ,eft unsettled, and there was something still more honour- able than sagacity in his remarks upon the cruelty and injustice of the law hanging like a millstone round the necks of the workmen, so long as they can be robbed with impunity. We may wish, with Mr. Henley, that no time had been lost, not even the interval between now and next ;ession. But the tone of the debate was on the whole promising ; and the workmen's case is so strong, and, moreover, they have already made such way in public .Spinion, that they may well afford to wait a few months The Times?, in referring to the case. of Mr. Grenville \lurrav, attaches little weight to his disavowal of the authorship of certain articles produced in court and alleged to be in his handwriting. }le admitted that he might possibly be mistaken in asserting that be had not written this or that particular article. Coupling this confession with the hesitating way in which, on one occaion at least, Mr. Murray gave his evidence, we have little doubt ourselves that this " possibility of mistake" was actually realised, and such was, we believe, the impression produced on all disinte rested persons in court. Very few could have left it with out feeling that, setting aside for a moment the question whether Lord Carington acted lawfully or wisely, he had at least received such provocation as might have driven a much older man to still stronger measures. .ord Carington seems to us to have bad fair grounds for believing that Mr. Murray wrote the article complained of, or at least was intimately connected with, and, to a certain extent, responsible for, the journal in which it appeared. It, indeed, transpired in the course of the evidence—in addition to the other suspicions we have already mentioned—that Mr. Murray had recently been living in the same chambers with the registeredproprietor of the journal, who is his own son. We do not for a moment wish to imply that all these facts justify Lord Carington's conduct, but they cer tainly leave little room for surprise at it when we consider his age, inexperience of the world, and the difficulty of obtaining reparation for a grossly indecent outrage on his father's memory in any legal way. It is not, therefore, from any sort of sympathy with the prose cutor that we condemn the treatment to which he was sub jected on Wednesday in court. On the contrary, it is rather because we have so little sympathy with his share in this scandal that we object to see him placed somewhat in the position of a martyr, just as we have before oh. jected to the notoriety given to the journal with which he is alleged to be connected through Lord Carington's igno• ranee of the world. THE DISPOSAL OF THE SURPLUS. An analysis of the division-list on Lord Cairns's amend ment for the postponement of the disposal of the surplus shews that a large number of Liberal peers supported the Conservative leader. The majority included the Arch bishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin ; and the Bishops of Bangor, Derry, Ely, Gloucester and Bristol, Hereford, Lichfield, London, Roches. ter, St.. David's, and 'Tam. The Bishop of Oxford was the only member of the Episcopal Bench who supported the Government. Some of the most prominent Liberals who voted with the Opposi tion were the Dukes of Cleveland and Grafton, Earls Cowley and Grey, and Lords Somerhill (the Marquis of Clanricarde) and Stanley of Alderley. Lord Shaftesbury and the Earl of Denbigh went into the lobby with the minority ; Earl Russell did not vote. The four peers created by Mr. Gladstone—Lords Hatherley, Lawrence, Penzance, and Dunning—voted with the Government. THE DIVISION. According to the Pall Mall Gazette the Lords have hand somely repaid themselves for their self-denial in reading the Irish Church Bill a second time. They have so changed the measure that when it gets back to the Commons its own parents will hardly know it. From first to last the alterations have been strictly homogeneous Their single object has been to secure as much public money as; possible for the Irish Church. It is quite im possible that the Government should accept amendments avowedly framed on this principle. Our contemporary is of opinion that it would be better to withdraw the bill alto gether than to build what is designed to be the final settle ment of this great question on a foundation of sand. The Globe says :—" The Irish Church Bill has now passed through committee ; and in the language of the Times, the transformation of the Ministerial scheme' is completed by the vote of last night. The gravity of the impending crisis can scarcely be exaggerated. On the ono side we have the House of .Lords pledged to support amendments which materially alter the character of the bill ; on the other, we have the ,Minister and the House of Commons pledged to the maintenance of that measure in its full integrity. We await the result, if not without anxiety, yet with con fidence in that good sense and that genuine love of justice which has seldom been fonnd wanting either to the House of Commons or the British nation when prejudice has been loosened by inquiry and reason Las triumphed over justice." The Nonconformist is of opinion that "it is quite certain that neither the Government nor the House of Commons will consent to a re• endowment of the Irish Church. It is equally certain th; t the country will stand by them in resisting tho changes made by • the House of Lords in this direction. They sin so flagrantly against the prineiple of religious equality, and will so en tirely defeat the traoqui.ising effect of the measure in Ireland, that to allow of their being passed, lest the measure should bo wrecked, would be nothing less than a stultification of the entire policy endorsed by the consti tuencies at the General Election. There is little fear, therefore, that this attempt at barefaced plunder will bo successful. The bill may bo thrown' out by the Lords if the Commons disagree with them—but this much is tolerably sure, that no field of battle between the two houses could have been selected more disadvanta geously for the Lords, or for the Established Church. Our belief is, however, that in any serious quarrel on this point, the Upper House will sco it expedient ultimately to give way, and that the bill, unchanged in any of is subtantial features, will eventually become law." The Guardian says:—" We should have said, up to last night, that the passing of the Irish Church Bill, with amendments, was an event which might be reckoned on with some confidence. But the vote which, by a large ma jority, including all sections of Opposition, all the bishops present except the Bishop of Oxford (who voted with the Government), and the body of independent Whigs, has thrown overboard all the clauses relating to the disposal of the surplus and shelved that question altogether, Las so materially altered the whole state of affairs that we can express that confidence no longer. . . . We cannot forget that one of the points on which the Prime Minister laid chief stress, when be introduced the bill, was that it should be a complete and final settlement of the whole question. But a measure which leaves a surplus of millions to be disposed of hereafter as Parliament may think fit is not such a settlement of it." THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES AT KING'S LYNN. On Wednesday the Prince and the Princess of 'Wales inaugurated the King's Lynn new docks. The scheme of constructing a new dock had been for a long time under consideration, and in June 1865 active proceedings were commenced by the incorporation of a company, with an authorised capital of £BB,OOO, to be raised £66,000 by stock or shares, and £22,000 by debentures. Possession of the ground was obtained in October 1867, and in March 1868 the foundation•stone of the site was laid by Mrs. Jarvis, the wife of Mr. L. W. Jarvis, the chairman of the company. Since then the works have been actively carried on by Mr. Laurence, the contractor, from the plans prepared by Mr. Brunlees, C.E., and on the 19th ult. the dock walls, basin, and lock were finished, and the tidal water admitted through the coffer dam, the whole of the works having been completed in about fifteen months. The proceedings commenced with the inevitable address from the Town Council. Next the Royal party proceeded to the Grammar School, where the Prince bestowed the gold medal, which he gives annually to the best pupil. The Prince, in acknowledging the municipal address, said it was peculiarly gratifying to him to visit Lynn on an occasion like the present, for the revolutions of time and science would have had the same effect upon King's Lynn as upon any other com mercial port but for the energies of its inhabitants. "I fervently pray," said his Royal Highness in conclusion, " that the dock which we are about to open this day may, under the fostering auspices of a beneficent Providence, open out new sources of wealth and commerce, shedding the blessings which are derived from them on your town, and contributing one more item to the prosperity of our beloved country." The reply was read by the Prince with much clearness and emphasis. After the grammar-school proceedings had been gone through, a trip was made in an iron twin-screw steamer, Mary, from which the Prince landed on the docks. On reaching the landing stage or jetty, their Royal Highnesses landed, and from the platform of the jetty the Prince said, in a loud voice, " I declare this dock now open. Henceforth it will be known as the Alexandra Dock." Loud cheering followed, and the volunteer band in attendance struck up the air, " God bless the Prince of Wales." This concluded the simple ceremonial of Inauguration. The banquet concluded the evening's proceedings. To tt were invited about 120 guests, including the Earl of Leicester, Lord-Lieutenant of N or f o lk , Lord Standy, ALP., Lord and Lady S on d es, Si r W. Bagge, M. P. , and Lady Bagge, Mr. Douglas Brown, Q. C., Recorder of Lynn, the Hon. R. Bourke, M.P., Lie utenant-Colonelßlack, Chief Constable of Norfolk, the Hon. T.D. Grey, ALP., &c., &c. — The Prince of Wales, in responding to the toast of his health, expressed the pleasure which he and the Princess had derived from their stay in this part of England during the last six years, and assured the meeting that they should always feel the deepest interest in the welfare of Lynn. The Prince subsequently proposed, " Prosperity to the Lynn Dock, coupled nMI the name of Mr. Jarvis." His Royal Highness expressed his hope that the dock would be the means of restoring to Lynn its ancient commercial prosperity, and highly eulogised the services which Mr. Jarvis had rendered in connection with the undertaking. —Mr. Jarvis responded, and several other toasts followed. —The Prince and the Princess left about Bp. m. for Sandring ham, where they will stay a short time at the residence of General Knollys. Professor Syme, on account of ill-health, is about to resign the chair of clinical surgery in the University of Edinburgh. Ile has held the appointment since 1833. THE MONAGHAN MURDER. —At the Louth Assizes, on Wednesday, McKenna, a Roman Catholic, who was charged with the murder of James Clarke, at Monaghan, on the polling-day for that county, and whose trial was sent to Louth, it being alleged he could not get a fair trial at Monaghan, was acquitted, the jury having returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. d/royil* HER MA JESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 7. Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, went out yesterday afternoon. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High- LICa3C3 Prince Leopold aul Princess Beatrice, wcut out this morning. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, July 7. The North German Lloyd steamship Hansa arrived here at 1 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES, Gold closed at 1352-; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 135 g. ; the lowest, 134. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 1885 llBf. IC " 1867 ll4. 10-40 64 Illinois 143. Erie 2Bl. Cotton—Mid. upland 34fc. Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, 100 c. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, July 8. An Imperial ukase has been issued sanctioning the foundation of an Imperial University at War saw, which is to replace the Warsaw College. The curriculum of study will embrace the four faculties. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, July 8. The Independence Beige of to-day announces that the final obstacles to the settlement of the Franco- Belgian Railway question were removed yesterday, and that it has reason to believe that the arrange ment arrived at by the commissioners does not in clude the Grand Luxemburg line. ST. NAZAIRE, July 8. The Transatlantic Company's steamer France has arrived here with 192 passengers. Her dates are—Vera Cruz, June 13 ; Havannah, _l7th ; and St. Thomas, 23d. FRANCE. BOUP.SE, July 7.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : per Cont. End of month_ 3 per Cent End of month 7l 271 Credit llobilier End of month — Credit Fonder ICIO -- End of month — RAILWAY _ Bank Shares 2900 Ital'an Fives 54 70 End of month — Ottoman Loan 325 Do. Debt 44 Spanish Threes 30 24 Rome Debt 2l 75 Deferred — -- -s• Cash. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6o7k Western Eastern , . Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman.. 50 7561. 527} 53 72 THE EXCURSION SEASON-SOUTHEND. The favourable change in the weather has given quite an impetus to the excursion traffic on the various lines of railway. Paris and back is a great attraction, but the shorter distances of course secure the patronage of the million. The South-Western carry immense num bers to Richmond, and Hampton-court, the Great Western conveys nearly the whole of Cockneydom to Windsor, but amongst the most attractive runs out and home, Lone certainly is more charming than the trip to Southend, via the London and Tilbury Railway. From the moment the train leaves the station the journey is ono continued and unbroken line of beautiful rural scenery until the excursionist arrive within a few miles or so of his destination, when wood , laud and meadows give place to marine views, with ves sels of the Royal Navy at anchor. Southend is a very pretty place, and taken in conjunction with its extraordinary long pier for promenade, it is just the place to go to for relaxation and pleasure. The thousands that now visit the place are all very carefully looked after by Mr. Louth, the traffic manager, through whose perfect arrangements the trains are despatched with commend able regularity. Owing to his judicious management no confusion is ever occasioned, rnd this fact alone is quite sufficient to induce people to go to Southend instead of other places, where the struggle for seats for the return journey is a perfect disgrace. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. WESTMINSTER. SINGULAR CASE UNDER THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT. —A respectable-looking woman, between 50 andooyears of age, applied for a protection order under the Matrimo nial Causes Act. Applicant said that she was married last August, and lived with her husband until last November, when he suddenly deserted her. He had done nothing whatever since towards her support. Mr. Arnold—What is your husband ? Applicant—A farmer. Mr. Arnold—Then he only lived with you four or five months ? Applicant—That's all ; and while he was with me he never contributed towards my support. He did nothing. I had only known him three months before 1 married him. Mr. Arnold —Did you have any quarrel with him before he left you? Applicant—No. Mr. Arnold—Did you know that he was about to leave you? Applicant—No ; I did not. _ _ Mr. Arnold—Have you heard of him since ? Applicant—Yes. I have heard that he was going to America. In answer to further questions, applicant said that she carried on business as a dressmaker, and wanted her earn ings protected. An order was granted. T HAMES. PAVING RATE DEFAULTERS.—SeveraI house owners in the district, governed by the Poplar District Board of Works were summoned for paving rates assessed by the Board. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, prosecuted in each case. Mr. Edgar Haynes was summoned for £6 Bs. 9d., Mr Edgar Herbert Haynes, £6 Bs. ld.; Mr. Charles Edwin Hughes, £6 is. 2d.; Mr. Thomas Blocken, £l3 19s. 4d.; and Mr. William Horrocks, £l6 15s. 10d. All the property assessed is in Glacus-street, Bromley, and Mr. Parker, surveyor, and Mr. Barth, solicitor and clerk to the Board of Works for the Poplar District proved that the de fendants' property was rated, and that other house owners who had been assessed paid their rates cheerfully. Mr. Charles Young said the property in the Poplar dis trict had been vastly improved by the new paving. Mr. Benson said the defendants must pay the amounts claimed, with 235. costs in each case. Some of the defendants asked for time, another com plained of the costs. Mr. Benson said he had no doubt that Mr. Barth, the clerk of the board, would afford a few days time. raving ratepayers could dispense with costs by paying their rates like other people before they wore summoned. It would be very unfair to make other ratepayers who had paid their rates when demanded and without summonses pay costs for defaulters. 1111:S. GLADSTONE'S CONVALESCENT llOME.—Th iej useful institution has been honoured by her Majesty's approval, and aided by a Royal donation of Ll.OO towards its funds. Her Majesty has also evinced her kindly int ( ' rest in the objects of the institution by presenting for the , use of the inmates of the Home a copy of her "Journal, with an autograph inscription. M ILI TA R Y EDUCATION COMMISSION. —A meeting of the Commission was held on Tuesday. 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